Apart from the fact that Jeremy Clarksons articles have always been way over the top and not to be taken seriously.
Do you mean not to take him seriously when he jumps onto the Kirk bandwagon for attention, or when he throws red meat to S*n readers over public sector workers, or both? I'm getting the same vibe here as when Trump or Bullshit Barbie, his spokeswoman, makes a completely provable, palpably false statement, and then they and his supporters say it was a joke, and that only true believers can see the genius in their wind-ups.
I see the same BS from the left and the right and it all needs to stop or we are heading for oblivion. Two wrongs don’t make a right and all that jazz. I ****ing hate where the world is heading too and don’t for a second think that it is not the extremists on both sides of the argument.
It's the echo chambers people live in these days with media customized to their own political beliefs. With "pick your own reality" on the Internet when it comes to what news you read and the echo chambers it ferments people become more and more extreme and the center is becoming more vacated. There's always two sides to every story but people are increasingly just reading one. I'd love to have a nice centrist politician I could vote for.
Before she swung 100% behind Trump and contradicted everything she said in the primaries, had I been a Republican, I'd have voted for Nikki Hayley in a heartbeat. She'd have crushed Biden, and beaten Harris by even more of the pitifully small popular vote margin than Trump did, imo. I don't agree with her on most issues, but at least she doesn't claim black is white and white is black. But, as said, it's a testimony of how the US is that everything she said about him in the primaries has come true, but she still rocked behind his presidency - hoping for a job - as soon as he became the presidential candidate.
I lived in the state where she was governor. She's not a centrist, she WAS old school right wing. Economic right wing, not the authoritarian right wing of trump. Probably more centrist socially that most in the party now. My main criticism of her was too much of an ideologue. For example. She tried to refuse South Carolina receiving some federal funding for hospitals (despite us paying federal taxes)... I can understand if it was paying less taxes as that's a right wing ideal.... But we still kept paying taxes it's just the money never came back to our state as a "principle of the matter"... I found that kinda silly. But yes, she was one of the best presidential hopefuls. I liked her predecessor more Mark Sandford. He was actually quite centrist despite being Republican. He was well liked by everyone. For a long time he was seen as a future presidential candidate due to his across-thr-board favourable opinions... Until he got caught having an affair with an Argentinian woman whilst pretending to be hiking in the mountains... Ah those were the days when a mild scandal and a politician would resign.
There again. Trump's biggest fan Lindsay Graham used to be a centrist... Many Republicans didn't used to like him called him a RINO (Republican in name only)... Then when he lost to Trump he changed and became deranged far right because that was his way of keeping his seat. I remember voting for him back when he was a centrist.
One of the vilest, flesh-creeping, prick that God ever put on Earth. If this is the final nail in Starmer's political coffin, then I'll shed no tears. And if it takes McSweeney down as well, then all the better. ironic that he was specifically chosen to be the man with the character and skills to be most aligned to Trump - and, in fairness, he was.
