Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

[Beadle]

Nik - It is truly a glorious day.

[Nik Hasta]

Nik - It is truly a glorious day.

The ferret is leaving the henhouse.

Cans for days mate.

Hope he gets hit by a bus.

[master of read]

Shawn Michaels and GOD vs. Vince and Shane McMahon at Backlash 2006

i know of the match.

i mean the way you said vince's name. sounded like broken matt.

[Cleric of Hell’s Brigade]

The ferret is leaving the henhouse.

Cans for days mate.

Hope he gets hit by a bus.

Johnson’s gone?

[Nik Hasta]

Johnson’s gone?

Not quite.

Johnson's adviser, known rat bastard and toxic malignant political influence Dominic Cummings, basically the UK equivalent of Steve Bannon except a bit more successful at staying in with the administration, has been fired. It was said he would leave by the end of the year but he was spotted leaving with the contents of his desk this afternoon.

Far too late to prevent the damage he's done but bloody good he's gone.

[Jcogginsa]

Apparently there is a hostage situation at Ubisoft Montreal

[Beadle]

Not quite.

Johnson's adviser, known rat bastard and toxic malignant political influence Dominic Cummings, basically the UK equivalent of Steve Bannon except a bit more successful at staying in with the administration, has been fired. It was said he would leave by the end of the year but he was spotted leaving with the contents of his desk this afternoon.

Far too late to prevent the damage he's done but bloody good he's gone.

To give context:

This is the toxic arsehole who engineered Brexit, a feat he achieved largely by lying to the country about a mysteriously-absent extra £350M per week that would be freed up and given to the NHS if we left the EU. There’s a very good TV movie about it, where Benedict Cumberbatch plays Cummings.

This is the guy David Cameron famously described as “a career psychopath”.

This is the Machiavellian shitbag who’s completely unelected but basically runs government, and bullies cabinet ministers.

This is the breathtakingly arrogant, shameless turd who, at a time when the government was holding daily press briefings solely aimed at persuading the country to obey COVID lockdown measures, came into 10 Downing Street after his wife had become ill and he was supposed to be self-isolating. And then he decided to actually do that self-isolation, not at home but by driving his family hundreds of miles to a cottage on his father’s land. And then, when he’d decided to return to London, following his illness he was concerned about whether he could see properly to drive, so to test it he drove around 30 miles to a tourist attraction and walked round it mixing with the public... just (apparently) to prove his eyesight was OK to manage the longer drive. And then, after days of pressure was piled on the government to fire Cummings for completely undermining the government message, he held a press briefing to tell everyone all of this that he held in the garden of 10 Downing Street; something that’s only ever been reserved for Prime Ministers before now, let alone an unelected advisor; where he basically told the country he didn’t regret his decisions at all, just the bad press.

So yeah, he’s not the most popular guy in the country, and the only person who’ll regret him going is Boris, who refused to fire Dominic Cummings over the COVID crap and just kept telling the country to stop going on about it. Meaning either: a) Boris is incapable of running the country without Cummings (and some would also say ‘with’); b) Boris can’t control his party back-bench MPs without Cummings; or c) Boris is scared of Cummings for what Cummings either knows or could do. All of which means that, much like Boris’ suits, he is ill-fitted for the role he’s been given.

[bruceleegreyhulk]

[Nik Hasta]

To give context:

This is the toxic arsehole who engineered Brexit, a feat he achieved largely by lying to the country about a mysteriously-absent extra £350M per week that would be freed up and given to the NHS if we left the EU. There’s a very good TV movie about it, where Benedict Cumberbatch plays Cummings.

This is the guy David Cameron famously described as “a career psychopath”.

This is the Machiavellian shitbag who’s completely unelected but basically runs government, and bullies cabinet ministers.

This is the breathtakingly arrogant, shameless turd who, at a time when the government was holding daily press briefings solely aimed at persuading the country to obey COVID lockdown measures, came into 10 Downing Street after his wife had become ill and he was supposed to be self-isolating. And then he decided to actually do that self-isolation, not at home but by driving his family hundreds of miles to a cottage on his father’s land. And then, when he’d decided to return to London, following his illness he was concerned about whether he could see properly to drive, so to test it he drove around 30 miles to a tourist attraction and walked round it mixing with the public... just (apparently) to prove his eyesight was OK to manage the longer drive. And then, after days of pressure was piled on the government to fire Cummings for completely undermining the government message, he held a press briefing to tell everyone all of this that he held in the garden of 10 Downing Street; something that’s only ever been reserved for Prime Ministers before now, let alone an unelected advisor; where he basically told the country he didn’t regret his decisions at all, just the bad press.

So yeah, he’s not the most popular guy in the country, and the only person who’ll regret him going is Boris, who refused to fire Dominic Cummings over the COVID crap and just kept telling the country to stop going on about it. Meaning either: a) Boris is incapable of running the country without Cummings (and some would also say ‘with’); b) Boris can’t control his party back-bench MPs without Cummings; or c) Boris is scared of Cummings for what Cummings either knows or could do. All of which means that, much like Boris’ suits, he is ill-fitted for the role he’s been given.

See, here was me being brief to avoid being political in Downtown, haha.

I also completely endorse my fellow Englishman's testimony above. Please Beadle, tell us how you really feel?

Also, I will note that the trip to the tourist attraction, for eyesight purposes, also was a local beauty spot with his wife and it just so happened it was the her birthday.

As commentors said at the time - fucking hmmmmmmmmmmmm...??!?!?!?!?

Super glad he's gone. Our government is still a mess but this is a very significant step in the right direction.

[master of read]

it's a shame james passed before this.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

See, here was me being brief to avoid being political in Downtown, haha.

I also completely endorse my fellow Englishman's testimony above. Please Beadle, tell us how you really feel?

Also, I will note that the trip to the tourist attraction, for eyesight purposes, also was a local beauty spot with his wife and it just so happened it was the her birthday.

As commentors said at the time - fucking hmmmmmmmmmmmm...??!?!?!?!?

Super glad he's gone. Our government is still a mess but this is a very significant step in the right direction.

Meanwhile, in one of the voter fraud cases (Arizona), a witness admitted to being a business partner of one of the Trump Campaign's lawyer. So, yanno.

Things going smoothly over here, lol.

[Nik Hasta]

Meanwhile, in one of the voter fraud cases (Arizona), a witness admitted to being a business partner of one of the Trump Campaign's lawyer. So, yanno.

Things going smoothly over here, lol.

I imagine that January cannot come quick enough haha.

The legal aspects have been very amusing to watch play out tho.

You'd think they would have... y'know... had better cases and so on?

[master of read]

Meanwhile, in one of the voter fraud cases (Arizona), a witness admitted to being a business partner of one of the Trump Campaign's lawyer. So, yanno.

Things going smoothly over here, lol.

i bet you one of these day, trump is gonna claim he witnessed the fraud himself. just like he witnessed those muslims cheering on 9/11.

[Iron_Twister]

Well, finally my job went into it's personal circle of hell once a year....Holiday music.

Uggghhhhh....Expect my brain to be mush the next few months.

[Len Ikari145]

i bet you one of these day, trump is gonna claim he witnessed the fraud himself. just like he witnessed those muslims cheering on 9/11.

I'm just hoping to see if SS will literally have to drag that orange fop out of the White House if he refuses to leave on Inauguration.