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#Appeasement

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

To get a trade deal with "America First", we'll be expected to give up so much, and for what?
An America trade deal will NEVER replace what we had with Europe, and we lose our democracy, our culture for what?!

Starmer and his team are Quisling, and the British are being sold down the river...

Ministers have been unsuccessful so far in their efforts to sign an economic deal with the US by offering concessions on taxes for big tech firms and lower taxes on meat and fish imports. By Wednesday morning, No 10 had conceded that the UK would not be exempt from the wave of tariffs, which Trump later ~ announced in the White House Rose Garden in an act of political theatre and unabashed projection of his power on the world stage.
#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS#Quisling
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

Here's an example of Gilead's money and power attacking our native culture and laws and nobody in Westminster wants to do anything about it because we are to become Gilead's vassal.

Not even a 51st State, just a whipping boy like Puerto Rico

And that's the dream Starmer has for us.

ADF UK’s income was more than £1.3m in the year up to June last year, according to records filed to Companies House on Friday. It included “ADF support” of £1,119,975. The organisation held discussions with a delegation from the US state department, which visited the UK last month before the release of a statement in which the US voiced concern about “freedom of expression in the UK”.
#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS#Trump
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

“It’s a #Vichy moment in American #history,” Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, told me... “Like I have a restaurant & if I #collaborate with the Nazis & don’t let any Jews eat here, then the guys who wash dishes will still have jobs. As you know, that slope is very slippery. #Appeasement doesn’t end well.”
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"when you engage in the #collaboration, you actually encourage them to do even worse stuff.”
prospect.org/blogs-and-newslet

Text from article: ROTH’S VICHY ANALOGY IS EXACT. In 1940, the French hoped to preserve part of “free France” by making a separate peace with the Nazis and setting up a puppet regime under Marshal Philippe Pétain based in Vichy, while the Germans occupied and ruled northern France. The arrangement lasted only until the Gestapo decided otherwise in 1942 and “free France” fell increasingly under direct Nazi rule. Preserving a Columbia that is partly free is the same sort of fantasy. The rest of Columbia is free only until Trump decides to escalate his demands and seize more territory. Wesleyan has the same kinds of federal funding streams at risk as larger universities: research grants from NIH and NSF, as well as Pell grants to students and the federal student loan program. I asked Roth if speaking out puts all of these at risk. “Of course, I think about that,” Roth said. “And then I think that’s the classic collaborationist dilemma, right? You know, you collaborate with authoritarians who you know are in the wrong, in order to keep them from doing worse stuff. And I think when you do that, when you engage in the collaboration, you actually encourage them to do even worse stuff.”
#Trump#GOP#Fascism
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Nonilex

And from WSJ (ok that’s 3 sources)

The agreement comes as #Trump’s attacks on higher #education has led to lost #jobs & #grants & instilled much anxiety.

#ColumbiaUniversity banned #FaceMasks & agreed to hire 3 dozen campus #police officers who will have the power to #arrest #students.

It also appointed a new Snr ViceProvost w/authority over the dept of #MiddleEast, South #Asian & #African Studies & the Center for #Palestine Studies.

#WTF #law #appeasement #FreeSpeech
wsj.com/us-news/education/colu

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

Kinda wish the UK's Travel Advisory on the US was a bit more than "if you break any laws, of which there are many, it's probably your own fault for not doing as you are told"

Reminder Becky Burke (who is safely back in the UK now) was disappeared for the crime of "doing the dishes at a house she was staying at"

#BeckyBurke#US#UKPOL
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack

⬆️ >> #Appeasement, Thy Names are Chuck #Schumer and Neville #Chamberlain

"Schumer argued that #Democrats would ultimately lose a #shutdown #fight."

So why bother to #fightBack at all?

via @newrepublic

#Pelosi has issued a statement against following #Schumer's lead.

Congress has the “false choice between a shutdown or a blank check,” Pelosi wrote. “Neither is a good option. But this false choice some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable."

newrepublic.com/post/192787/na

The New Republic · Nancy Pelosi Sets Her Sights on Chuck Schumer After Shutdown SurrenderThe former House speaker is attacking Senate Democrats thinking about voting for the government funding bill.
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