Labour Leader Keir Starmer’s speech, in which he suggested his party deserved to lose the 2019 election under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, has been ridiculed online as being self-defeating and full of “meaningless platitudes.” “When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to,” Starmer said during a Tuesday press conference. He added that his fellow Labour officials should ask themselves “what [were they] doing” for it to come to this. The opposition leader then lamented the losing streak his party is currently on, having lost four general elections in a row. Starmer also tried to pitch himself and Labour to […]
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Protests in Wisconsin’s city of Kenosha, sparked by a video of a white police officer shooting a black man, Jacob Blake, saw violence, looting, arson, as well as two murders and one injured. To help curb unrest, the White House helped the state to deploy some 1,000 National Guard troops and 200 federal agents. Covering protests that rocked the city of Kenosha in Wisconsin, CNN rolled out a chyron saying ““FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING”. The reporter who went live from Kenosha said that the protests were “largely peaceful” but became violent at night, while standing in front […]
The fact they are even considering a pardon for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden shows how low the Republican party has sunk under Donald Trump, believes Susan Rice, former national security advisor in the Obama administration. The possibility that criminal charges against Snowden may be dropped was floated by the US president this week. The idea triggered an outpouring of public support, including from such senior US officials as Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky. There were also some strongly negative reactions, with one of the loudest objections coming from Susan Rice, the former national security advisor under Barack Obama. “I. Just. Can’t. […]
A piece on how the Biden and Harris ticket sticks it to the Democrats has drawn an outpouring of mockery after describing the duo’s foreign policy platform as ‘muscular liberalism’. A Washington Post column penned by political commentator Josh Rogin heaped praise on Joe Biden’s Vice President pick, Kamala Harris. Together they would usher a “return to the way world politics used to work, with a strong America leading a strong multilateral system,” he argued. Once they take the White House, the centrist dream team would firmly oppose the vision of the likes of Bernie Sanders, who want “smaller defense budgets, […]
The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin was shredded online for quipping that it was time for a “bunker inspection” after the Secret Service rushed the president out of a press briefing, seemingly elated that he might be in danger. Following President Trump’s abrupt evacuation from a White House presser on Monday, the Post’s self-ordained “conservative” columnist casually tweeted “Bunker inspection time?” While the brief scare was later said to be triggered by an armed suspect near the White House, who was shot by Secret Service agents, Rubin’s tweet was inundated with a flood of criticism, many seeing it as a highly inappropriate […]
A trans activist’s attempt to shame a grocery store manager over not enforcing a Covid-19 mask mandate has epically backfired, with critics labeling the complainer a “super Karen.” “I was just threatened w/assault at @kroger in Louisville because I asked another customer to wear a mask, and she refused,” Danielle Muscato tweeted. Muscato said a manager was informed of the confrontation and talked to the non-mask wearing customer, but “refused to do anything more.” Muscato then posted an image of the store manager, named him, and attempted to shame him. “His name is Andy, and he does not want Twitter to […]
US Democratic Party Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was blasted on Twitter for proposing that police officers be swapped with mental health staff at schools. Many argued online that the idea would make the schools even less safe. Omar tweeted that “over-policing doesn’t make them safer – it criminalizes Black and brown students.” Along with fellow Representative Ayanna Pressley, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Murphy, she proposed a bill to replace police officers at schools with mental health professionals. Over-policing our schools doesn’t make them safer — it criminalizes Black and brown students. That’s why I just introduced legislation with @AyannaPressley, @ewarren, and […]
UK House of Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg has come under fire after insisting the now-defunct virtual Parliament was “no longer necessary.” Now the MPs may have to form endless ‘social distancing’ queues to cast their votes. “Westminster has been the seat of our democracy for centuries. It will take more than the coronavirus to change that,” said Rees-Mogg, writing for the PoliticsHome website on Monday. Insisting that “If Parliament is to deliver on the people’s priorities, it must sit physically,” he argued that the “virtual Parliament” that has seen the majority of MPs take part in House of Commons debates from […]
Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein is being lambasted for apparent double standards after attacking Tara Reade, the former Joe Biden staffer who alleges the Democrat presidential candidate sexually assaulted her. The Californian politician unequivocally supported Christine Blasey Ford when she accused then Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in 2018. However, now that it’s a Democrat facing the charges, Feinstein’s singing an entirely different tune. Discussing Reade’s claims, which date back to 1993, Feinstein questioned why she waited 27 years to make them public. Also on rt.com Documents don’t forget: Leaked 1996 court file shows Biden accuser Tara Reade told […]