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  • Originally posted by Monaco_Totty View Post
    Cheers WS, appreciated. ��
    You gotta smile, to make sure the world smiles with you.

    Stunning photo, your new "status" obviously agrees with you, Congrats.

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    • WTF - again an occasion where we agree.

      PS the please don?t reference was simply everyone gets what you are saying irrespective of whether they agree but there ain?t an awful lot any of us can do about it so suspect most would like to concentrate on Leeds and the run in

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      • Originally posted by hopelesslyoptimistic View Post
        WTF - again an occasion where we agree.

        PS the please don?t reference was simply everyone gets what you are saying irrespective of whether they agree but there ain?t an awful lot any of us can do about it so suspect most would like to concentrate on Leeds and the run in
        Well I suppose that we agree is something. Fact is, as you say, individually there's not much to be done, but collectively? Bankrupting Tesla by dumping stock and either selling or not buying Skums cars? Very possible. Mass movements either under a political party banner or perhaps more telling, simply the people coming together to oppose autocracy and technocratic dictatorship, we can but hope.

        The chimp needs to be taught that the phrase "of the people, by the people, for the people" still has meaning and it doesn't refer to those who have their tongues furthest up the chimps a55hole.

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        • Originally posted by hopelesslyoptimistic View Post
          WTF - again an occasion where we agree.

          PS the please don?t reference was simply everyone gets what you are saying irrespective of whether they agree but there ain?t an awful lot any of us can do about it so suspect most would like to concentrate on Leeds and the run in
          I vote we concentrate on the run in.
          It’s far more important than the end of the world.
          Maybe the Rev will even get his leg over the Aldi check out counter.

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          • Originally posted by Billyni View Post
            I vote we concentrate on the run in.
            It’s far more important than the end of the world.
            Maybe the Rev will even get his leg over the Aldi check out counter.
            Not wanting to dull the enthusiasm, really and honestly, for what the football goes may deliver, but Shankly wasn't correct, football isn't life or death, the future of Ukraine and the rest of Europe (including these little offshore rocks) is, as per the thread title.

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            • Should be "football gods"!

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              • Originally posted by hopelesslyoptimistic View Post
                WTF - again an occasion where we agree.

                PS the please don?t reference was simply everyone gets what you are saying irrespective of whether they agree but there ain?t an awful lot any of us can do about it so suspect most would like to concentrate on Leeds and the run in
                Acknowledgement of a wrong isn't anywhere near enough, and from the days of the founding fathers that has been true.

                Resistance against oppression, domestic or foreign, is a fundamental REQUIREMENT of all those who see the people's interests being made subservient to the state. Is here anything more blatant to the states oppression of the people than the chimps delegation of responsibility to the Skum and his juvenile cohorts?

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                • [QUOTE=Monaco_Totty;40680834]Cheers WS, appreciated. 👍
                  You gotta smile, to make sure the world smiles with you.
                  Same from me keep punching the lows as the highs are worth it.
                  Just don't make the kid support Leeds if you don't want them to get grumpy and miserable like us

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                  • Originally posted by WTF11 View Post
                    Stunning photo, your new "status" obviously agrees with you, Congrats.
                    Totty, you have us all agreeing with WTF today 😀, it?s all going Pete Tong on here

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                    • Originally posted by WTF11 View Post
                      Acknowledgement of a wrong isn't anywhere near enough, and from the days of the founding fathers that has been true.

                      Resistance against oppression, domestic or foreign, is a fundamental REQUIREMENT of all those who see the people's interests being made subservient to the state. Is here anything more blatant to the states oppression of the people than the chimps delegation of responsibility to the Skum and his juvenile cohorts?
                      Last 25 years here have so many examples of shocking behaviour that it seems a little hard to throw stones when our own house is made of glass.

                      Iraq War
                      Blair
                      Brown
                      Campbell and the dead scientist
                      Expenses scandal
                      Covid
                      Whether your agree with the principle or not how Brexit happened
                      Johnson
                      Truss
                      Starmer
                      Reeves
                      Farage
                      Rotherham grooming scandal
                      Miliband (how can you be a lapsed Leeds fan - ffs)
                      HS2
                      Successful governments of all persuasions not taking decision to secure energy supply and replace power stations
                      An unwillingness to tackle the adult social care and health iceberg
                      The Scottish lot
                      The Welsh lot


                      The list could go on and on and on and on - many find Trump inappropriate and far worse but he isn?t exactly unique in that when you look closer to home or beyond

                      There is starting to be a unifying reaction to Trump too - look at what Mark Carney is doing

                      Maybe the world will ask the US to pay up for the true cost of its folly in Iraq and for funding the gain of function research which most now believe to COVID

                      What is sad is that when we were younger there was much more of a divide between left and right and their politics but both sides could still debate like adults and treat each other with respect - today - not so much.

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                      • Originally posted by hopelesslyoptimistic View Post
                        Last 25 years here have so many examples of shocking behaviour that it seems a little hard to throw stones when our own house is made of glass.

                        Iraq War
                        Blair
                        Brown
                        Campbell and the dead scientist
                        Expenses scandal
                        Covid
                        Whether your agree with the principle or not how Brexit happened
                        Johnson
                        Truss
                        Starmer
                        Reeves
                        Farage
                        Rotherham grooming scandal
                        Miliband (how can you be a lapsed Leeds fan - ffs)
                        HS2
                        Successful governments of all persuasions not taking decision to secure energy supply and replace power stations
                        An unwillingness to tackle the adult social care and health iceberg
                        The Scottish lot
                        The Welsh lot


                        The list could go on and on and on and on - many find Trump inappropriate and far worse but he isn?t exactly unique in that when you look closer to home or beyond

                        There is starting to be a unifying reaction to Trump too - look at what Mark Carney is doing

                        Maybe the world will ask the US to pay up for the true cost of its folly in Iraq and for funding the gain of function research which most now believe to COVID

                        What is sad is that when we were younger there was much more of a divide between left and right and their politics but both sides could still debate like adults and treat each other with respect - today - not so much.
                        I knew agreement couldn't last long.

                        All of the matters you refer to are/were bad, that much is without doubt. However none threatened the world in the way that the current US "administration" is. Even if the COVID conspiracy theorists are correct, the virus was an accidental by-product, not the wanton destruction of livelihoods, international relationships forged over hundreds of years and the likely annexation of a modern, 20th century European nation by a totalitarian anti-democratic despot, etc etc etc, all because the chimp has an ego that can never be satisfied and nowhere near the intellectual capability required to handle the responsibility it now has. It IS unique in having the ability and the intent to use what the American electorate foolishly gave it, the White House.
                        Last edited by WTF11; 28-03-2025, 04:37 PM.

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                        • Originally posted by whitestomper45 View Post
                          Totty, you have us all agreeing with WTF today 😀, it?s all going Pete Tong on here
                          'Rough seas make stronger sailors' - WS 👍

                          Although it looks like normal services resumed between H & WTF looking at the thread.
                          So better 'batten down the hatches' again, got me sou'wester on for any stormy waters coming my way in case.😃

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                          • Originally posted by WTF11 View Post
                            I knew agreement couldn't last long.

                            All of the matters you refer to are/were bad, that much is without doubt. However none threatened the world in the way that the current US "administration" is. Even if the COVID conspiracy theorists are correct, the virus was an accidental by-product, not the wanton destruction of livelihoods, international relationships forged over hundreds of years and the likely annexation of a modern, 20th century European nation by a totalitarian anti-democratic despot, etc etc etc, all because the chimp has an ego that can never be satisfied and nowhere near the intellectual capability required to handle the responsibility it now has. It IS unique in having the ability and the intent to use what the American electorate foolishly gave it, the White House.
                            Not trying to compare them or score them just a general comment on how useless all of them can be and that then removes to a large degree the validity of criticism that would otherwise be reasonable and thus why it is futile getting so worked up about it - any hooooo to misquote Daniel

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                            • Wonderful news on the addition to be, Totty. You've worked hard at everything you have taken on, so hope it all pans out well for you. ��

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                              • Originally posted by hopelesslyoptimistic View Post
                                Not trying to compare them or score them just a general comment on how useless all of them can be and that then removes to a large degree the validity of criticism that would otherwise be reasonable and thus why it is futile getting so worked up about it - any hooooo to misquote Daniel
                                Again, we agree on the generally useless nature of a great many of the supposedly great and good. Where we differ is not just on the need, but the duty to criticise and hold them ALL to account. Without such, chimps like the one currently infesting the White House will run free and unopposed (as they do in Russia, North Korea and other dictatorships), we have monumentally horrific evidence of what that can lead to.

                                Government should fear it's electorate, not the other way round.

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