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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp last week

A MEASURED PROPOSAL:

Donald J. Trump is suing the BBC for reporting on him—they edited down an interview of his and made him feel bad.

It is NOT SAFE to report on Donald J. Trump.

So I suggest that for safety all news channels should replace every mention of him with the Hypnotoad:

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The Hypnotoad, from Futurama: a spectacularly ugly batrachian, crouching with alternately pulsing red-rimmed eye pupils, in front of a psychedelic colour-burst of light (like the intro sequence from Doctor Who)
The Hypnotoad, from Futurama: a spectacularly ugly batrachian, crouching with alternately pulsing red-rimmed eye pupils, in front of a psychedelic colour-burst of light (like the intro sequence from Doctor Who)
JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cstross

#DonaldJTrump is *threatening to* sue, not yet suing, over editing of xyr speech at the start of the "Save America March", not over editing an interview.

And:

Damn it, Panorama! Didn't you bloody read my StackExchange answer?

I went through that very speech word by word to research it. *And* I had to endure a speech by Rudy Giuliani as well.

https://law.stackexchange.com/a/60042/18361

#BBCNews #Panorama #USPolitics

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JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@cstross

Erm …

… bomb the ships in the Caribbean that are transporting "supplies" to "migrants". Because the fake U.N. "illegal migrant organization" has steered its hurricane into the Gulf of America.

https://caribbean.un.org/en/304056-iom-mobilizes-early-response-jamaica-ahead-hurricane-melissa

It's bound to be madder than that, though.

Maybe one of those Trumpist shops will sell mugs with an offensive "Trump sends the hurricane" slogan, or something.

Aaaaargh!

#DonaldJTrump #fascism #HurricaneMelissa

the Caribbean

IOM Mobilizes Early Response for Jamaica Ahead of Hurricane Melissa

Kingston, Jamaica – 26 October 2025. In anticipation of Hurricane Melissa’s direct impact on Jamaica, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is coordinating an early response to support national efforts and provide relief and protection to vulnerable communities which could be impacted.
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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Trying to predict the next week's news cycle, all I have to do is ask myself, "how could Trump/Project 2025 make the effects of Hurricane Melissa worse?"
https://journa.host/@WeatherGoddess/115452254681466820

JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@cstross

Erm …

… bomb the ships in the Caribbean that are transporting "supplies" to "migrants". Because the fake U.N. "illegal migrant organization" has steered its hurricane into the Gulf of America.

https://caribbean.un.org/en/304056-iom-mobilizes-early-response-jamaica-ahead-hurricane-melissa

It's bound to be madder than that, though.

Maybe one of those Trumpist shops will sell mugs with an offensive "Trump sends the hurricane" slogan, or something.

Aaaaargh!

#DonaldJTrump #fascism #HurricaneMelissa

the Caribbean

IOM Mobilizes Early Response for Jamaica Ahead of Hurricane Melissa

Kingston, Jamaica – 26 October 2025. In anticipation of Hurricane Melissa’s direct impact on Jamaica, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is coordinating an early response to support national efforts and provide relief and protection to vulnerable communities which could be impacted.
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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@JdeBP it's always DARVO with the right. Always.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@cstross

True, but the hypocrisy and self-contradiction is interesting. #DonaldJTrump went after Bolton's book on the grounds that every conversation with the POTUS is classified, but this is the same Trump that says that he can declassify things in his head and has declassified a bigly amount of stuff that way so it's alright to hoard documents.

I wonder whether the current bunch are so stupid that they've never cracked a history book to see what happens to them soon.

#USPolitics

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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

DEVELOPING: FBI Raids John Bolton’s House

In a dawn operation, FBI agents descended on the home of Trump’s former national security advisor.

(Yup, Trump has got the FBI working on his enemies list. We're only 3-12 months away from the show trials starting. (I think they'll be timed for maximum distraction potential—likely around the November 2026 mid-term elections.))
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/developing-the-fbi-is-at-john-boltons?triedRedirect=true

JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@cstross

And of course we get to see the brazen chutzpah of #DonaldJTrump accusing someone else of hoarding classified documents.

#USPolitics#MarALago

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