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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #1965 on: August 11, 2022, 01:27:38 am »

Putin has hubris but unless he is senile, he is still the ex-KGB director he was before and he would not allow his own pride to be used against him by people close to him, and he is going to verify information through other sources.
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The propaganda-pundits started both the "yes-man bubble" and "Ukraine isn't a country" chants. The "yes-man bubble" is anti-Russian propaganda and "Ukraine isn't a country" is pro-Russian. Both are intended to denigrate their enemy so they don't feel empathy for them during a war.
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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #1966 on: August 24, 2022, 04:35:58 pm »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3034088.stm

Someone who used to work at the BBC must be out there buying lottery tickets.
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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #1967 on: September 08, 2022, 09:27:08 am »

https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1567804138511126531

Tories present polling puts them at losing 185 seats, bringing them down to 180

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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #1968 on: September 08, 2022, 10:25:55 am »

There’s years until another GE though.
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« Reply #1969 on: September 08, 2022, 10:43:26 am »

Too early to tell. I mean, starting lower than Boris doesn't help (or means far too many Johnsonites, still, not yet sure she is the True Heir).

But we've yet to see if she's got some Bolivian Marching Powder ready to hand out to everyone who wants it. Though the current direction and nature of the 'economic support', that she declares she wants to implement, doesn't bode well for a sudden spurt of mass-appeal to help get the traditional honeymoon-period off to a good start.

Not comfortable for her. Not sure it's so uncomfortable that it'll cut short the current two more years of waiting before party v. party support gets nationally tested. A long time in politics, etc. (Ninjaed!)
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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #1970 on: September 08, 2022, 10:52:58 am »

Apparently something's up with Queen Elizabeth?
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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #1971 on: September 08, 2022, 11:04:49 am »

Plot twist: the announcement comes out that it's Charles who has passed.
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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #1972 on: September 08, 2022, 11:06:28 am »

Apparently something's up with Queen Elizabeth?
Apparently she's currently under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle on the advice of her doctors, with the rest of the Royal Family currently gathering there. Just got to wait and see what happens.
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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #1973 on: September 08, 2022, 11:08:10 am »

Oh yeah, I'm expecting she'll die. If not today, within the week.

I'm not being flippant, but I don't really know her so, frankly, I don't care too much. Also she did sort of interfere in a few instances with the legal process (Pressuring ministers when laws would result in her losing out on money, basically) when she's supposed to be a figurehead, which didn't exactly endear me towards her. Before that I viewed her with a sort of benign benevolence.

Although it's an amazing move to show how little you agree with the current government. You meet its leader and die.
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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #1974 on: September 08, 2022, 11:10:08 am »

BBC and the like have gotten all of their presenters in black tie and have cancelled all programing for the evening. There's already gonna be an announcement in like 1 hour. Operation London Bridge seems to be a go.

This would all be very silly if the queen was merely having some indigestion or something
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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #1975 on: September 08, 2022, 11:13:56 am »

As soon as a doctor says they'll make you "comfortable" you know the time is short.
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« Reply #1976 on: September 08, 2022, 11:45:41 am »

From my own experience of "quick, to the bedside!" calls, I'm not making a definitive call on this, even with all the Queen's children in otherwise unscheduled attendance. I have the BBC currently blaring in my ears, like I might on any slow news day too, and they're certainly are far from dismissing the potential seriousness, but (knock on wood) it's more an arse-covering ("...dear Editor, why oh why didn't the BBC immediately cancel everything else being broadcast... Yours faithfully, Major General Reginald Fotherington-Fotherington-Fanshaw-Haugh (Mrs), Tunbridge Wells") given the various possibilities.

(Yes, royal physicians probably are very careful to be more accurate about their important patient, but they also don't want to be so hesitant that close family (also pretty bloody important) might not actually be called 'in time'. Remembering the final midnight rush to the hospital I once made (after prior night-time rushes for the same individual) that resolved just that little bit too 'late' (as far as such things mattered)... I think there's a similar balance, but may be tilted towards caution.)


Holding off posting this a little, as various live news reports come in (seemingly air-time filling, no real new information) just in case. Obviously I risk finding myself immediately superceded by true news at any moment, though. Hindsight will make fools of most of us, eventually, no doubt.
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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #1978 on: September 08, 2022, 12:37:24 pm »

A sad day... but to this casual observer, a good life.  We should honor her 96 years!
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« Reply #1979 on: September 08, 2022, 12:40:04 pm »

Hindsight will make fools of most of us, eventually, no doubt.

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