Johnson to be next PM

[Jimmy Higgins]

So while Brexit is burning on the back of the stove, Boris Johnson is looking to assume the helm of the Conservative Party after winning around two-thirds of the vote in the Conservative Party election. The selection of Johnson was not surprising as he was long suspected of being the go to man to execute Brexit by the party that didn't support Brexit in the first place.

Boris Johnson, once Mayor of London, has been pro-Brexit all the way. He went as far as lying all the time about how great it'd be for Britain. However, once reality stepped in and May wasn't getting a sweetheart deal from the EU, Boris quit her regime and began rerunning a pro-Brexit campaign.

Now in charge of the UK, Boris will be in a position of put up or shut up. Big mouths usually have issues with enacting major policies. Of other note, with Johnson being the head of the Conservatives in the UK, Corbyn is no longer the biggest douche in charge of a major party in the UK.

 

[Keith&Co.]

So will Trump talk up how well he gets on with Boris, or will he keep talking about how May should have taken his advice?

 

[Sarpedon]

Trump seems to take people's support for granted, and lashes out at anyone who seems not to be supporting him. And, of course, he never misses an opportunity to bash a powerful woman. So it will mostly be May he talks about.

In other news, I heard a bonkers soundbite on the news, from an unidentified Conservative person, who, among other things said "We Conservatives know the human heart, and our methods of dealing with it are superior. The people turn to us time and again!" Sure sounded super-villainish.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So will Trump talk up how well he gets on with Boris, or will he keep talking about how May should have taken his advice?

Had only May listened to Trump and followed his lead and just added tariffs against the EU.

 

[ideologyhunter]

I just saw Boris J. on TV for the first time. Trump Pool: How long before the Pres. is calling him Captain Kangaroo?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Trump seems to take people's support for granted, and lashes out at anyone who seems not to be supporting him. And, of course, he never misses an opportunity to bash a powerful woman. So it will mostly be May he talks about.

In other news, I heard a bonkers soundbite on the news, from an unidentified Conservative person, who, among other things said "We Conservatives know the human heart, and our methods of dealing with it are superior. The people turn to us time and again!" Sure sounded super-villainish.

Was that "unidentified" comment in jest?

No one party, no one person has a monopoly on wisdom. But if you look at the history of the last 200 years of this party's existence, you will see that it is we conservatives who have had the best insights, I think, into human nature. And...the best instincts into how to manage the jostling sets of instincts in the human heart.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, except conservatives.

It gets worse, much worse.

And today, at this pivotal moment in our history, we again have to reconcile two sets of instincts. Two noble sets of instincts. Between the deep desire for friendship and free trade and mutual support and security and defense between Britain and our European partners; and the simultaneous desire, equally deep and heartfelt, for democratic self-government in this country. And of course as some people say, they're irreconcilable. And it just can't be done.

And indeed I read in my Financial Times this morning -- devoted reader I am...I read in the Financial Times this morning that no incoming leader has ever faced such a daunting set of circumstances, it said.

First off:
1) WHAT THE FUCK?! I agree with Sarpedon's "super-villianish" remark.

2) Well, we need to see to our needs and be nice, but fuck, it just isn't easy, so fuck it!

3) Trumpesque comment on FT?

4) Such a daunting set of circumstance?!? Umm... Churchill?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I just saw Boris J. on TV for the first time. Trump Pool: How long before the Pres. is calling him Captain Kangaroo?

Seeing they are puppets of the same puppeteer... probably not.

 

[Angry Floof]

I just saw Boris J. on TV for the first time. Trump Pool: How long before the Pres. is calling him Captain Kangaroo?

Seeing they are puppets of the same puppeteer... probably not.

It'll be similar to Kim Jong Un, I think. One day they're "in love" because they're the same species of buffoon, and the next they're insulting each other, also because they're the same species of buffoon.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I just saw Boris J. on TV for the first time. Trump Pool: How long before the Pres. is calling him Captain Kangaroo?

Seeing they are puppets of the same puppeteer... probably not.

It'll be similar to Kim Jong Un, I think. One day they're "in love" because they're the same species of buffoon, and the next they're insulting each other, also because they're the same species of buffoon.

Kim Jong Un isn't a buffoon.

 

[Angry Floof]

It'll be similar to Kim Jong Un, I think. One day they're "in love" because they're the same species of buffoon, and the next they're insulting each other, also because they're the same species of buffoon.

Kim Jong Un isn't a buffoon.

Why do you say that? I know he's cruel and dangerously evil, and so "buffoon" might seem dismissive of that, but he is also a spoiled, stupid child.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It'll be similar to Kim Jong Un, I think. One day they're "in love" because they're the same species of buffoon, and the next they're insulting each other, also because they're the same species of buffoon.

Kim Jong Un isn't a buffoon.

Why do you say that? I know he's cruel and dangerously evil, and so "buffoon" might seem dismissive of that, but he is also a spoiled, stupid child.

He is a well educated inheritor of the North Korean dynasty. There is little evidence suggesting that Kim Jong Un doesn't know what he is doing. I do ponder who holds the most power in North Korea, but Kim Jong Un continues a national role his grandfather started, and has continued to play the same game efficiently. He played Trump like a tuba, a big fat stupid tuba. It wasn't the other way around.

I think it is careless to dismiss adversaries as idiots.

 

[Angry Floof]

Why do you say that? I know he's cruel and dangerously evil, and so "buffoon" might seem dismissive of that, but he is also a spoiled, stupid child.

He is a well educated inheritor of the North Korean dynasty. There is little evidence suggesting that Kim Jong Un doesn't know what he is doing. I do ponder who holds the most power in North Korea, but Kim Jong Un continues a national role his grandfather started, and has continued to play the same game efficiently. He played Trump like a tuba, a big fat stupid tuba. It wasn't the other way around.

I think it is careless to dismiss adversaries as idiots.

I'm definitely not dismissing him, but yes, it's true that he is far and away more knowledgeable and aware of the world than Trump. So are Putin and Johnson, for that matter.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Why do you say that? I know he's cruel and dangerously evil, and so "buffoon" might seem dismissive of that, but he is also a spoiled, stupid child.

He is a well educated inheritor of the North Korean dynasty. There is little evidence suggesting that Kim Jong Un doesn't know what he is doing. I do ponder who holds the most power in North Korea, but Kim Jong Un continues a national role his grandfather started, and has continued to play the same game efficiently. He played Trump like a tuba, a big fat stupid tuba. It wasn't the other way around.

I think it is careless to dismiss adversaries as idiots.

Also, he's the world's best golfer, a perfect shot with a rifle and I believe he holds at least three Olympic records.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Why do you say that? I know he's cruel and dangerously evil, and so "buffoon" might seem dismissive of that, but he is also a spoiled, stupid child.

He is a well educated inheritor of the North Korean dynasty. There is little evidence suggesting that Kim Jong Un doesn't know what he is doing. I do ponder who holds the most power in North Korea, but Kim Jong Un continues a national role his grandfather started, and has continued to play the same game efficiently. He played Trump like a tuba, a big fat stupid tuba. It wasn't the other way around.

I think it is careless to dismiss adversaries as idiots.

I'm definitely not dismissing him, but yes, it's true that he is far and away more knowledgeable and aware of the world than Trump. So are Putin and Johnson, for that matter.

Is Boris Johnson more aware?

 

[Angry Floof]

I'm definitely not dismissing him, but yes, it's true that he is far and away more knowledgeable and aware of the world than Trump. So are Putin and Johnson, for that matter.

Is Boris Johnson more aware?

Than Trump? Good question.

 

[Jayjay]

UK/EU relations were going to be fucked no matter who is the prime minister. At least Johnson is "hair bros" with Trump and can get along with US as long as the idiot is in charge. I don't see this as a necessarily worst choice of a PM.

 

[Derec]

So come next election, UK will likely have a choice between Boris Johnson and "Comrade" Jeremy Corbyn. Boris is at this point the lesser of two evils.

 

[Patooka]

Calling Boris Johnson the next Trump seems a pretty lazy comparison. For one thing Johnson has spent most of his career fucking things up in the public sector. He gets along with his siblings. And unlike Trump, who can rely upon Republicans to consistently crawl up his rectum even after the fucking canary dies, Johnson is already shedding cabinet support. There is a sentiment that Johnson will be the shortest serving Prime minister, which I suspect will only increase considering his Leroy Jenkins approach to Brexit.

 

[TSwizzle]

So come next election, UK will likely have a choice between Boris Johnson and "Comrade" Jeremy Corbyn. Boris is at this point the lesser of two evils.

What a sorry state of affairs. If anything, it could help push Scotland toward independence.

 

[Sarpedon]

Was that "unidentified" comment in jest?

Sorry, I failed to identify the speaker. I was listening to it on the radio, so it was not apparent who was speaking, and I don't listen to British politics enough to be able to tell who's who by voice. I honestly assumed it was Farage, given how demented it sounded. Also, frankly I imagined Boris to have a deeper voice. It is always so weird when big men have these high pitched, nervous voices. I guess it makes sense that they would include a clip of the man himself.

I generally prefer to read my news, so I sometimes am unfamiliar with the sounds of people's voices, and sometimes even their faces.