A concerned human of the world who is wondering what the hell is happening!
London, England
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Susan Bates retweeted
Now would be a good time to remind everyone of these Trump facts, because apparently some people still need the refresher.
Please meet the President of the United States:
Flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times. Just friends, I guess.
Pleaded the Fifth more than 400 times in a single deposition. Nothing says “innocent” like refusing to answer a single question about your own business.
34 felony convictions. A record most people would call disqualifying. And 91 criminal charges.
Accused of sexual misconduct or assault by at least 26 women. But sure, tell me again how he’s a great guy.
6 corporate bankruptcies. The self proclaimed greatest businessman alive somehow keeps running out of money.
5 draft deferments. Funny how the toughest guy in the room never actually showed up for duty.
4 criminal indictments. Not two. Not three. Four.
2 impeachments. A club of exactly one president.
2 of his own companies convicted of criminal tax fraud. Convicted. Not accused. Convicted.
1 fake university shut down. 1 fake charity shut down.
Even his charity was a grift.
Paid 25 million dollars to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuit because scamming people who believed in you costs money eventually.
Ordered to pay 5 million dollars in the first E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, then hit with 83.3 million more in the second.
A jury said it twice so nobody could pretend it was a fluke.
Ordered to pay 2 million dollars for looting his own so called charity.
Stealing from a charity with his own name on it.
Found liable for business fraud and originally slapped with a penalty topping 450 million dollars, later thrown out on appeal while the fraud finding itself stuck to him anyway.
First president in modern history to increase the deficit every single year of a full term. Fiscal responsibility, apparently, was always just a talking point.
Kept the debt to GDP ratio above 100 percent for his entire first term.
Presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow Jones history at the time. So much for the guy who claimed to be a genius with money.
Set the record for the longest government shutdown in US history in his first term at 35 days, then couldn’t resist beating his own miserable record in his second term with a 43 day shutdown, followed by yet another shutdown just months later. Encore nobody asked for.
Added roughly 2.25 trillion dollars to the national debt in his first year back in office alone, pushing the debt past 39 trillion dollars.
Somebody remind me who the party of fiscal discipline is again.
Pushed through the largest defense budget increase since World War Two while the debt kept climbing anyway.
Purged more than 300,000 federal employees in his first year back.
Efficient, if your goal is chaos.
Pardoned nearly 1,600 January 6 Capitol rioters.
At least 40 of those pardoned rioters have already been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since walking free. Shocking absolutely nobody.
His family’s crypto ventures, including a meme coin and World Liberty Financial, pulled in more than 1.4 billion dollars in disclosed earnings while he sat in the Oval Office.
Draining the swamp was apparently code for filling his own pockets.
Sent the National Guard into American cities at a cost of nearly 500 million taxpayer dollars in 2025 alone.
His own tariffs are projected to cost the average American household more than 2,500 dollars this year.
You’re paying for this. Not China. You.
No more foreign wars. Peace deal with Russia and Ukraine on Day One.
None of this is a conspiracy theory, a rumor, or something you saw in a group chat.
It is the actual, documented record, sitting in plain sight for anyone willing to look.
So the next time someone tells you to relax and give him a chance, ask them how many more indictments, judgments, and shutdown records he needs to rack up before that chance runs out.
Credit: Charles Curtis Rone
Susan Bates retweeted
My controversial but accurate Left Wing opinion.
We shouldn't pay to renationalise anything, nor should we pay their debts.
They have stolen more than enough already.
Susan Bates retweeted
🔴Britain has a patriotism problem. And it involves the very rich:
By @SangitaMyska
Ex-Prince Andrew passed confidential trade documents to Epstein.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe offshores his wealth to avoid paying billions in tax.
Peter Mandelson is investigated for passing market sensitive information to Epstein.
Remember, while the powerful get us fighting each other we forget to focus on them.
Britain has a patriotism problem. And it involves the very rich:
Ex-Prince Andrew passed confidential trade documents Epstein
Sir Jim Ratcliffe offshores his wealth to avoid paying billions in tax.
Peter Mandelson is investigated for passing market sensitive information to Epstein
Remember, while the powerful get us fighting each other we forget to focus on them.
Susan Bates retweeted
"Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water."
Well done Andy Burnham @andyburnham
There are ultimately just two answers to Thames Water, put the company into Special Administration and restructure - refinance it or give in to the demands of the New York vulture capitalists exposing tax payers and bill payers to yet more decades of exploitation.
The latter of course is unacceptable.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Susan Bates retweeted
Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water.
Here are some
Enforce laws.
Prosecute execs for harming health, environment.
Cancel licence to operate.
Put TW into special administration.
Nationalise at knockdown price.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Susan Bates retweeted
Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system.
So … let me get this straight:
* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year
The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m
* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary
Meanwhile there are...
* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!
All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...
THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.
Something needs to change.
Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....
Susan Bates retweeted
Generally a fan, but I fundamentally disagree with Canadian Prime Minister @MarkJCarney 's suggestion that British taxpayers should compensate Canadian investors if Thames Water is nationalised
Thames Water has accumulated approximately £18.5 billion in debt, while customers have endured rising bills, sewage pollution and years of inadequate infrastructure investment. Meanwhile, previous shareholders extracted billions in dividends.
Why should British taxpayers now be expected to protect private investors from the consequences of this failed financial model?
Investors are entitled to profits and interest, but investments carry risks. They cannot expect to enjoy financial returns when times are good and have the British public absorb their losses when things go wrong.
And there's a remarkable contradiction here. Canada's own water and sewage infrastructure is overwhelmingly publicly owned, operated by municipalities in cities including Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa.
If public ownership is appropriate for Canadians, why shouldn't the British public enjoy the same protection?
Indeed, shouldn't Britain be investigating whether previous owners and investors should compensate the public for excessive financial extraction, regulatory failures and the costs of repairing neglected infrastructure? Where wrongdoing or unlawful distributions occurred, recovery should be pursued.
Legitimate creditors have legal rights, but that does not entitle them to guaranteed repayment at taxpayers' expense.
Mr Carney should explain why Canadian financial interests deserve protection while British households are expected to shoulder the consequences of decades of debt accumulation and infrastructure failures.
The profits were privatised. The debts and consequences must not now be socialised.
Susan Bates retweeted
🆘 This is Sir James Eadie QC, the Government’s own barrister, in the Court of Appeal in 2019.
Listen carefully to what he says.
Theresa May was, he told the court, “entirely well aware” of the “notorious” facts surrounding the referendum: the Electoral Commission findings, police investigations, ICO work and parliamentary scrutiny.
And then this:
“It’s perfectly obvious that the PM has decided to carry on.”
🔥 That is the heart of it.
The referendum was advisory. Serious unlawful conduct had already been established around the campaign. The PM knew the findings and proceeded anyway.
At the same time, Parliament had authorised the Article 50 notification, but had never expressly enacted the separate Article 50(1) decision to withdraw. That was the issue raised in my own Webster judicial review.
The courts refused permission in both Webster and Wilson. Now, years later, we are being told that Russia also interfered in the 2016 referendum.
That is why this can no longer be brushed aside as old Brexit litigation.
We need a statutory public inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005.
We need the documents, the intelligence assessments, the Cabinet record, the legal advice, the witnesses under oath, and the full Article 50 decision-making trail.
Because the question is now very simple:
What did the Government know, when did it know it, and on what basis was Britain actually taken out of the European Union?
@JMPSimor @mrjamesob @mikegalsworthy @andyburnham
Susan Bates retweeted
For the first time, the British government has acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum.
So who did BBC Newsnight invite on to discuss what happened? Sergei Markov, Putin’s former spokesman.
Par for the course, says Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla…
Susan Bates retweeted
Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills.
Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits.
Household energy debt £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
We can't afford privatisation.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq0l…
Susan Bates retweeted
I seem to have upset the @SuellaBraverman fan club - so let me be clear.
This women sows hate, lies and division. She is wrong.
She does not represent the vast majority of Britons.
RT if you agree
P.s. multiculturalism is great.
Susan Bates retweeted
Here's the short answer.
Social Care would be affordable if it was Nationalised.
So would Energy.
And Water.
And Housing.
And so on.
The problem, no profit for billionaires.
But that would be THEIR problem.
Susan Bates retweeted
UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year.
The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts.
Profiteering, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model.
How many have politicians on payroll?
gmb.org.uk/news/%C2%A317-bil…
Susan Bates retweeted
Meanwhile, you send an “implicit threat” to Clive Lewis, a sitting MP, because he opposes any Palantir presence in our public services - as do millions of UK citizens. We don’t want the same “intelligence” used in ICE & Israeli terrorist ops. You are a dark, nasty sellout.
Susan Bates retweeted
Everybody sees it, like clockwork all the billionaires have decided the problem isn't them.
It's not their tax dodging, their profiteering, their destruction of every Public Service for profit.
No it's the Triple Pension Lock.
That is the scam of the week.
Susan Bates retweeted
"Around 1/3 of our bills are going to servicing debt & dividend payouts...there’s no way that inviting US hedge funds into our water system will make bills go down.
“People want to see Andy Burnham pick a fight, like he did with the bus companies”.
We Own It in Big Issue: vist.ly/5jhgy
Susan Bates retweeted
In the last 50 years, pensions have been cut, benefits have been cut, wages have been cut, free milk at school cut, Free University cut, University grants cut, Social Housing cut, Unemployment benefit cut.
Everything has been cut and each time it is cut something else needs to be cut.
But always Billionaires take more and never get taxed.
Cut billionaires, CUT THEM HARD.
Susan Bates retweeted
Those on the inflatable showing a dingy being stabbed whilst at least one emergency worker was still aboaed could well be in serious trouble
Susan Bates retweeted
Five Police Forces have stopped using Palantir after they found its software made no improvement at all.
In fact it was often worse than useless flagging false positives.
Get Palantir out of the UK and out of the NHS.
It is fascist AI slop.
