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Was unclear whether she was talking about the rumour or the published story about the young model from the 90s. I assumed the latter tbh, but given that they made the decision not to bother covering it, it was hard to tell.

Trump is a fan of Hitler, says "he did a lot of good things". He says he needs his generals to be more like Hitler's generals. His former Chief of Staff, a West Point graduate, has broken cover to go on the record with this information, describing Trump as a fascist. Harris says she agrees and that these people should be listened to. Sopel's interpretation: the Dems STILL aren't getting their messaging right. Later in the episode, Maitlis chuckles while she announces that "there's a story about him groping another young girl, and we're not even covering it because we've heard it all before." These are meant to be the cream of the crop of British journalists.

Does Nazi George Osborne deserve praise?!

The start of the News Agents tonight. They play a clip of Harris on Anderson Cooper, agreeing that Trump is a fascist and saying that the people that have worked with him previously should be listened to and believe. Maitlis: what does this tell us about the state of the race? Sopel: it tells us that Kamala Harris still hasn't worked out how to land a blow on Donald Trump. I don't know how that is his interpretation, but there we have it.

Whoa. Let's see your accreditation, beauty school dropout. This is on a par with impersonating an officer of the law.

There'll be a new religion springs up when he dies. Absolute mongs claiming he visited them and told them what America needs next, etc.

He represents the lollipop guild.

Milan weren't offering him anything, were they?

No end product.

Not if that was the only offer on the table. Which seems weird for the world's best.

All the world's best end up in Turkey via Saudi.

Harder to claim a deep fake if the donor or the donor's daughter is prepared to say he did it.

No. The question to the last point is why is Sopel claiming that Trump is an incredible political performer who knows exactly what to say. He isn't. Following the debate, the News Agents wondered aloud whether Trump said the "they're eating the dogs" line in the debate because he wanted America to be focused on that, rather than the fact he lost the debate. So. During a debate which he hadn't yet lost, the genius political performer dropped in the sort of batshit line that falls out of his gob at every rally, but it wasn't because he's a mentally ill fascist, it's because he's a genius political performer who knew exactly what to say to distract from Harris winning a debate that was still ongoing. Wtf are they on about. It's embarrassing man. The media does not know how to cover this man. It hasn't from the start. And that is a big part of the reason why the American public aren't getting the message on him.

I think if there's video of him groping a young lass, that makes a difference. Not to 40% of the country who'll still vote for him, but enough to swing the election.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/donald-trump-accuser-stacey-williams-jeffrey-epstein Is this it?

Links mofo!

You've completely misunderstood my point. Of course it's ridiculous that Trump can talk about Palmer's knob and nobody care. But they'll spend 20 minutes of an episode talking about whether Harris is doing enough to convince the electorate about her economic plans, then play Trump's Arnold Palmer clip and have a good giggle. And then wonder out loud about the double standard in the way the two are treated, having just demonstrated the double standard in full effect. Sopel will spend 5 minutes an episode talking about what an incredible political performer Trump is, and how he has this nose for what to say when, when the truth is he can say whatever he likes and his base will lap it up.

Posted from the hot tub.

That poor young lass in that other video btw. The world hands people some awful awful shit to deal with.

The wife watched the other one last night. Her review. "He seems like a really nice lad. Still looks like a total scummer, but he seems a lovely kid." Hard to argue with it.

I'm afraid I don't know what to think about this after the joke post you made a couple of months back that your wife had died. So. IF. And it's a fucking HUGE IF. If this is true then I couldn't be happier for you and I hope you all have a lovely day. But if this is another joke where I'm missing the punchline, then I'm afraid the boy who cried wolf can ram it up his shit pipe!

The stuff with him talking about Arnold Palmer's knob was incredible. I'm fucking sick of listening to once serious commentators wondering aloud why Trump is treated differently to any other candidate, and then seconds later giggling away about his latest nonsense, seemingly oblivious to the answer that they're providing to their own question. I'm talking about Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel, who talk a good game about not wanting Trump to win, but I think they secretly realise that they're down a podcast if Harris wins.

Nice to see that Giuliani has been ordered by a judge to turn over all of his valuables to the two election workers that he defamed in the aftermath of the 2020 election. These include his New York apartment (last in the market for around 5m dollars), his classic Mercedes, and a number of very expensive watches. Obviously it's less nice that the man directing him to do all of it appears to still have a 50:50 shot at being president again, but at least that little rat Giuliani is facing some consequences.

I'm clinging on to something my main man Alex Andreou was talking about. He's been looking into the polling data and, in the US there isn't any regulation of pollsters. There's no commission or council that looks at methodologies, so anyone can put any shite out. And that's what's been happening. Trump favourable organisations pumping out polls, and pumping out multiple a week in some instances, all of which get factored into polling averages and show a tightening of the race. There is a concept of poll ratings over there, and he reckons if you look at the A+ rated ones, they all still give Harris a fairly comfortable lead. The ones that are all flooding in now giving Trump the lead have garbage ratings. The obvious incentive for these companies/Trump to do this is a) they get looked upon favourably by their weird little hero, and b) if she wins, theyll use the polls as a means of calling the result into question. I'm hoping there's something to what he's saying. If not, honestly the average American can just fuck off. Everything that bloke has done and they STILL take the "yeah but I personally might be marginally better off if he's president, so there goes my vote."

Away and shite. This is just an extension of the guitar/music gear habit I've had since I was about 14. A lifelong hobby, not like your 5 minute affairs!