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aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
Found about $16 MILLION of WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE right here!
See fraud? It's time to expose it.
Report fraud, waste, and abuse to the federal government 📲 America.gov/fraud
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
The real question you should ask is...
How much of this is inflation, and how much is extra profits for greedy bastards.
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
Wow, the US truly has the most incompetent president in history.
Just listening to how clueless this man is, it’s no wonder we have been humiliated in Iran.
Trump: “The Russians had a thousand tanks riding up a concrete highway. They would have been in Ukraine in four hours, going maximum tank speed, which is 48 miles an hour, to be exact. Nothing to stop them. The war would have been over in one day. And this very stupid general - I have no idea who he is. I doubt he’s still with us. I doubt he’s still living. He decided to hang a right onto the farmland and then take a left and go up to Kyiv, rather than staying on the highway - the concrete highway, perfectly good highway - where they were doing very nicely. It would have been three and a half, four hours, and the whole war would have ended. He ended up getting stuck in the mud.”
Does he understand that Ukrainian troops destroyed all the bridges and cut off the retreat points, so the only option left was to go off the highway? I mean, if you have the IQ of a 10-year-old child, you should be able to get it.
I am honestly shocked at the basic level of ignorance. And this is the man who is in charge of the US Army.
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
So Trump and Musk are lying?
Former US Secretary of State Pompeo - “There have been multiple offers to end the war in Ukraine. Every time, Putin has rejected them and Zelenskyy has said yes.”
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
I spend a lot of time, perhaps too much, thinking about the lost architecture of Britain.
Crystal Palace was the most tremendous loss of the modern era, yet it's rare to see any pictures of it. When built in 1851, it was the largest building in the world and three times the size of St Paul's Cathedral.
What's more, that immense ironwork and 293,000 glass panels went up in just 190 days for the World's Fair. Almost 1 million square feet of glass. An extraordinary feat.
It was razed in a fire in the 1930s and never rebuilt.
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
Wales is not England, nor a region of it.
Our institutions are different.
Our communities are different.
Our geography is different.
Where power can sit as closely to the people it affects, it should.
That’s the case I’ll be setting out tonight.
The First Minister will today call on Andy Burnham to agree a new ‘partnership for growth’ when the two leaders meet at the National Economic Council later this month wp.me/p8Mk4U-1vtG
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
That’s great, Mr. Trump. I’d like to report a theft.
A man inside our government illegally spent nearly $22 million in taxpayer dollars on bogus campaign ads praising himself. He now resides on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Taxpayers want to know when they’ll get their money back.
Trump announces "fraud whistleblower incentive program" -- "All Americans will now be able to go to fraud dot gov and report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities ... if you turn somebody in and you find $1 billion, we're giving a commission of 1%. That's a lot of money"
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
Watch as Labour House Jock Chris Murray demands the SNP allow new nuclear power plants in Scotland claiming France started pursuing nuclear 15 years ago and now has lower bills.
France began ramping up its nuclear programme over FIFTY years ago, not 15, using public cash because it had no alternative. The country had no oil, no gas and her coal resources were virtually exhausted. Source pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline…
If the UK tried this today energy prices would skyrocket in the short to medium term. Moreover, France never solved the proble of nuclear waste which requires costly storage and processing. Where would Chris Murray store nuclear waste?
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
We are past the point of political disagreement. We are witnessing a catastrophic collision between unchecked narcissism and obvious neurological decay. It is the most dangerous intersection in American history: a man with the absolute power of the Presidency and the absolute cognitive failure of a person no longer tethered to reality.
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
With McGills making noises against taking the Scottish bus network into public control the following information puts it in context.
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
With Trump's removal of Starlink, Russians are now hunting cars full of people in Kyiv, using jet drones for which Ukraine's interceptors no longer function to stop.
Three people murdered an hour ago in southern Kyiv, with six others injured, three of which are children.
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
You’re the Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, not the Trade Secretary.
You can’t sign a trade deal with Taiwan or anyone else, that’s reserved to Westminster.
You signed a non-binding MOU and rebranded it a “landmark trade agreement” for the gullible.
Classic Reform: inflate a photo-op into a lie and hope the lazy and uninformed never check. Disgusting
This morning, I signed a landmark trade agreement with Tainan in Taiwan, strengthening ties between our regions and creating new opportunities for trade, investment and innovation.
Greater Lincolnshire has a huge amount to offer, and this agreement is another step towards showing the world what we do best. 🇹🇼 🇬🇧
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
UK mayors cannot sign binding international trade agreements (reserved for central UK government); official descriptions refer to this as a non-binding MOU for local cooperation, not a landmark trade deal.
greaterlincolnshire-cca.gov.uk/news/article/6…
citp.ac.uk/publications/t…
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
There may be greater wastes of money than a £1m for a late Queen memorial in Scotland; but can't think of one.
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
UK govt can get information about your bank accounts if you receive universal credit, pension credit, employment support allowance.
You won't be told. Court order not needed. You can't appeal.
No financial privacy for old, poor, sick, unfortunate.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
Flooding in Lunel, southern France, after torrential overnight rain. The town opened a crisis cell at midnight, 23 people had to be taken in and 24 streets are closed.
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
In case you were wondering if Larry Ellison would use his partial ownership of TIKTok to shut down the exposure of his billionaire buddies and their weirdness, corruption and grifting … wonder no more. TikTok just shut down the media page of the world renowned, Oscar winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary film “MUSK”. The comprehensive documentary on all things Elon. It’s more f&@&’d then you can imagine. The best thing any of us can do now is to go see it! It will blow your mind. Billionaire broke mind virus. Hear it from the people who have known Elon over the years. #BrokeMindVirus
aitchbee an cailleach 🏴 retweeted
'Scotlands not a colony, it’s got a treaty'
So did Ireland.
'Scotlands not a colony it sends MPs to Westminster'
Until 1922, so did Ireland.
'Scotlands not a colony it had a PM at Westminster.
So did Ireland (Wellington)
'But Ireland suffered famine'
So did Scotland.
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