Obstrepero

Israeli elections finely balanced as the Genocide Party and the Extermination Party race for the finish line with the Batshit Crazy Mass-Murder Party coming in a distant third.

For Israel's propaganda machine it came down to a simple choice. Plan A. Make the world love Israel. Plan B. Make the world hate Muslims. They went for Plan B. It was easier.

There might be hope for Serbia after all. Milošević's chief propagandist, ultra-Right genocide apologist Aleksandar Vučić, has been kicked out of power after a decade. By a bunch of students.

This is the night the fascists' clocks go back to where they came from.

You'll never get an answer from Trump if you ask what book he found influential. Trump will deflect because he's never read a book in his life. So why don't the White House journalists play him by asking questions about the physics of golf ball design? His pretend MIT brain would never shut up.

I'd send Russell Brand to jail just for being Russell Brand. Could we make that a crime, maybe?

Not a great look, is it? Catholic bishops praying over a child rapist.

I must have been about 19 when I bought this little volume in a secondhand bookshop. If the soldiers came, it would probably be the one book I'd sew into the lining of my jacket before taking to the hills with my dog and shotgun. If I had a dog. Or a shotgun.

If you want to know how neutral Ireland is, don't waste your time asking anyone in Dublin. All decisions about Irish neutrality will be made in Moscow.

I just love Gary Oldman's accent in Slow Horses, and today I read that it's how he grew up speaking, although he adds a little tweak here and there. It's South London, but as they say, Cockney adjacent.

This bingo joke is a bit worn out but one thing nobody had on their card was Trump sharing his homo-erotic fantasies with the MAGA cult. What the fuck is that all about?

What exactly is wrong with reminding people - including grandparents - not to intrude in a child's personal space without asking?

Creedo on the radio just compared Brandon Flowers to Neil Diamond, and you know what? He's right.

If somebody like Katie Zachariah actually got a law degree from Pepperdine University, you really would have to question their admission standards.

How many Zachariahs in a Scaramucci?

Ukraine took out the Russian data centres and now my friends are missing. I wonder where FukDaLibs142857 and Brexit4Evva294317 could have gone.

Russia lost data centers - MAGA lost its best and brightest.

UK Green Party declares Zionism racist. BBC news channels immediately spin the lie that Zionism was created to provide shelter to Jewish refugees escaping the Nazis.

Americans have an irritating tendency to describe bad things as un-American. It doesn't seem to cross their minds that 95% of humanity is un-American.

Here's a secret the Orange Order doesn't want you to know. When they're sure nobody's listening, they sing The Sash to the tune of Ghost Riders in the Sky. Yippie yi yay Yippie yi yo The sash my father wore.

In America, if they fail to kill you the first time they put you on a ventilator to keep you alive so they can kill you when you get better.

English rural customs are under attack like never before. First they came for fox hunting and now even traditional diesel thieves peacefully going about their nocturnal business are hounded by the ultra-woke police. Urban lefty liberals are trampling all over the ordinary country folk. #Fairford

If you were a farmer who spotted dodgy lads in vans and you wanted a rapid response from the police, would you call and say a) there are men hanging around my farm, or b) people are acting suspiciously near the RAF base and some of them look Middle-Eastern?

Apparently Trump was working closely with "Scotland Yard" to track a bunch of diesel thieves robbing farms in Gloucestershire. Truly, this man will never sleep until we're all safe.

And now the Israeli thugs are issuing death threats against the people of Ireland. The world's most moral genocidaires.

Football nerds might know the answer to this. Was last night the first time that a former Irish government minister sat with the opposing team’s travelling contingent and cheered for the opposition?

Craven as ever, two top FAI executives sat at the press conference and left Heimir Hallgrímsson on his own to cope with aggressive political grilling from Israeli journalists, including a question about a match against Nazi Germany 90 years ago.

Garvaghy Road parade. That old settler mentality never goes away.

Useful tip: Annoy Ed Sheeran by calling him Ned Sheehan.

Failing to grasp that the Kennedy Center is a memorial, Trump wants his name in it. That's like wanting your name on somebody else's headstone.

Remind you of anything?

Wasn't it a good thing the Nazis' power to silence their critics didn't have the same worldwide reach as Israel?

A government rep assured listeners to RTÉ this morning that increased public transport prices would go towards providing transport infrastructure. It comes as a great comfort to those who live west of the Shannon that their higher bus fares will help Dublin to get more trains. @mcculld.bsky.social

"Christian" is a strange name to give a child, isn't it? Christian Bale. Slater. Dior. You never hear of anyone called Scientologist Murphy or Hindu McGonagle. Mormon Browne. Jew Jackson. The name is Bond. Muslim Bond.

€22 billion for Metrolink. Still, it could be worse. Imagine if Ireland had other regions besides Dublin that needed transport infrastructure.

Who'd have thought an organisation founded by J Edgar Hoover would be into bestiality? #KashPatel #FBI

Following Beoga's decision to pull out of the Loop Tour, Ed Sheeran has announced a new band lineup. Kid Rock Gene Simmons Pink Boy George Ted Nugent Toby Keith Morrissey.

Ironically, given his longstanding support for Israel, Leonard Cohen once wrote the following lyric: "There is no decent place to stand In a massacre."

It's impossible to imagine Ed Sheeran being neutral on rape, child trafficking or slavery. Could it be because no secret cabal of rape apologists, child traffickers or slave traders ever threatened to cancel his shows?

If you're neutral on genocide, you're pro-genocide.

Trump has now transferred his mighty intellect to defending AI against - wait for it - the people developing AI.

Unionists are often depicted as intransigent, and it's easy to see why. But it's hard to demand flexibility on a united Ireland when so many people in the south won't even compromise on having a new flag and anthem. It seems to me that what they really want is not unity but absorption.