Irony of the #Brexit vote is poor/working class whites convinced to vote #Leave through xenophobia will be the ones who suffer the most.
— #RIPBassemMasri 🙏 (@Delo_Taylor) June 24, 2016
Poor folks voting for #Brexit is the equivalent of a Turkey voting for Thanksgiving. White Nationalists can never be accused of rationality.
— #RIPBassemMasri 🙏 (@Delo_Taylor) June 24, 2016
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The trolls who are on here bragging about how you "beat the Globalists" should know that Globalization happens with or without you. #Brexit
— #RIPBassemMasri 🙏 (@Delo_Taylor) June 24, 2016
Similar to folks here in the US who wanna "Make America Great Again" (go backwards) while the rest of the world leaves them behind. #Brexit
— #RIPBassemMasri 🙏 (@Delo_Taylor) June 24, 2016
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Watching the reactions of white racists/nationalists on Twitter feels almost like you're watching a car crash in slow motion. #Brexit
— #RIPBassemMasri 🙏 (@Delo_Taylor) June 24, 2016
My only question is now that they got their way who will #Brexit folks have left to blame once their conditions don't improve but worsen?
— #RIPBassemMasri 🙏 (@Delo_Taylor) June 24, 2016
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Politicians who use fear/hate to advance their agendas usually reap the benefits. People who vote against their own interests don't. #Brexit
— #RIPBassemMasri 🙏 (@Delo_Taylor) June 24, 2016
Predictably, after 17 million people vote #Leave, Nigel Farage basically admits the #Brexit campaign was a sham. https://t.co/5HYnSkWOdS
— #RIPBassemMasri 🙏 (@Delo_Taylor) June 24, 2016
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This is a superb comment on the Financial Times. Sums it up perfectly. pic.twitter.com/5i1uzWxUzi
— Liam Canning (@LiamPaulCanning) June 24, 2016
A Leave voter on the BBC:
— Adam Sweeney (@AdamWSweeney) June 24, 2016
"I thought remain would win. I didn't think my vote would mean anything. I'm quite worried now."
Great. Thanks.
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Woman on Radio 4 who voted Leave. "I'm pleased. Don't think it'll effect us cause we're elderly. For the young people I'm not sure."
— Game of Throw-ins (@GameofThrowIns) June 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/MazMHussain/status/746196149816569857
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Scotland voted remain you incompressible jizztrumpet https://t.co/5irQhKxV3h
— TechnicallyRon (On all the platforms) (@TechnicallyRon) June 24, 2016
This is everything. @realDonaldTrump #Brexit pic.twitter.com/0NfdEvbYlr
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) June 24, 2016
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To anyone watching from the US - not a single person I know was voting Leave, and that still happened. Don't let it happen with Trump.
— Claire Greenway (@clairegreenway) June 24, 2016
#BREAKING EU chiefs say Britain must start exit process 'as soon as possible'
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 24, 2016
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Time for real talk. Economists favor more integration, not for the economic gains, but because it fosters peace, which is more valuable.
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 24, 2016
Christiane Amanpour explains how Brexit was fueled by "demagoguery, anti-immigration, xenophobia" https://t.co/dSuqoz2xsm
— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 24, 2016
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I don't get all these people expressing Bregrets NOW. What did they think they were doing when they voted?
— Lisa Tozzi (@lisatozzi) June 24, 2016
Waking up to a pound collapse and econ doom, Brits now frantically Googling to figure out what they've done. https://t.co/CLG93FsNJO
— Mkay (@JoyAnnReid) June 24, 2016
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Nigel Farage is a scumbag
We're not often classier in America, but we usually give it at least 12 hours before doing a 180 on our worst lies. https://t.co/KhlrIFebUC
— man it’s a hot zone, (@Mobute) June 24, 2016
I'm already struggling with the smugness of Nigel Farage! We have not 'got our Country back' we have set it back, many many many years!
— Russ Haworth - Family Business Adviser (@RussHaworth) June 24, 2016
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Brexiteers like the cheating man shocked he can't stay in the spare room for 2 years while he sorts himself out. https://t.co/Xvjfr6ifPv
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 24, 2016
Congratulations exiters. Reverse is across and down, easy on the clutch.
— Hugh Laurie (@hughlaurie) June 24, 2016
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I can't get my head around what's happening in Britain.I'm so sorry to the youth of Britain. I fear you've been let down today x
— James Corden (@JKCorden) June 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/Ted_Scheinman/status/746182764500647936
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https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/746123611245846529
We must learn from brexit: Elderly xenophobes will lie to pollsters to hide their racist views, then vote for destructive policies anyway.
— anildash.com (@anildash) June 24, 2016
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You have to admire Leave Brits. They were so worried about immigrants ruining their economy than they preempted it by doing it themselves.
— Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيّم (@emile_hokayem) June 24, 2016
The Obama Diary 
Hi!
Congrats Dudette on first….wish I had a gold trophy or star emogi 😦
Thanks jojo! Guess I’ll have to gift myself!
🏆🎖🍾😄
Hate has proven more powerful than self-preservation
Chips!!! Hi Honey! Missed you! Love you! ❤️❤️❤️
Oh I didn’t read the tagline. Thanks for the new post Nerdy! Excellent selection of tweets.
https://twitter.com/pzf/status/746404718549811200
They can leave as soon as they give us back all federal property within their borders, especially military and scientific assets.
“…When it comes to the movement of players from Europe to the PL, it would now mean that theoretically players from outside Great Britain would have to apply for a work permit to do so. Just like current non-EU or European Economic Area (EEA) players have to.Of course, there are certain guidelines players from non-EU countries have to meet to play in the PL (such as play in a certain amount of national team games over a certain time period which you can find here via the English Football Association) to keep a certain standard of play. For example a non-EU player from a nation ranked inside FIFA’s top 10 has to have played at least 30 percent of national team games in the two years prior to applying for a work permit to be able to play professionally in the UK. The lower ranked his national team, the higher percentage of games he has to play. The likes of N’Golo Kante, Dimitri Payet and Anthony Martial, who all arrived in the PL last summer, would not have been able to gain a work permit to play in the UK if it wasn’t for their EU passport….
….The numbers below show the new work permit laws passed in March 2015 by the FA with regards to the FIFA ranking of the players nation and the percentage of games he must play to gain the work permit.
FIFA 1-10: 30% and above
FIFA 11-20: 45% and above
FIFA 21-30: 60% and above
FIFA 31-50: 75% and above
Last season 432 EU players were registered in the PL and although they will all likely be able to remain in the UK after this landmark vote, it is believed any new players from Europe will have to go through the work permit process. However, it has been calculated by the BBC that up to 100 players in the PL to do not meet the current work permit guidelines (plus another 332 if you count the English Championship and Scottish Championship) and therefore could be ineligible to play in the UK…..continued”
Well, now they can give those jobs back to deserving British players, right? What’s the problem?
Affects younger European kids that play club & semi-pro soccer the most…won’t be able to play in the “Major Leagues” i.e. Premiere League to try to make a name for themselves…similar analogy would be if you took away NCAA football and tried to get drafted into the NFL
“Another area which could be impacted is youth players moving freely within the EU when aged 16-18. Under FIFA rules, no players can cross borders under the age of the 18 but in the EU that was not the case. In the past the likes of Cesc Fabregas and Hector Bellerin joined Arsenal from Barcelona under the age of 18, while Manchester United signed Adnan Januzaj and Timothy Fosu-Mensah in similar circumstances. Labor laws between the EU and the UK will become very complicated going forward and politicians believe the UK’s full exit from the EU may not be rubber-stamped for at least two years and probably a lot longer than that. Of course, bilateral trade agreements with individual EU countries could also be set up by the UK to help ease the red-tape for EU citizens looking to work in the UK in the future. In short, this will be a long process but it will certainly have an impact on the ability of European players moving to the UK in the future.”
Oh well. Sux to be British.
https://twitter.com/Edgecliffe/status/746198746623414272
David, dude, you had one job, and that one job was to not wreck Europe. And at a pizza joint of all places, pizza joints are for first dates and where you hook up with your side-chick. Pizza joints aren’t places you go to when you’re planning the fate of your nation.
So, where’s the photo of all those guys taking off their shirts? Asking for a friend
Here is a small sample for your *friend 🙂
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/06/best-cavaliers-parade-moments
Et tu, lovelyplains? Within five minutes of DF’s request you were able to locate and disseminate these photos. Something tells me this isn’t your first rodeo.
I tried promising not to post anymore tweets about the Lebron yesterday for the sake of TOD GSW Warrior fans….but I thought I could get away with a link on request 😕
Hmmmphhh.
Blame, DF! ….it was my duty as a BT 😎
duty duty duty……what about honor?
It was an honor to be asked to do this important research 😕
LOLz
My friend takes the blame…Thank you LP…you are exonerated:)
Thank you, LP:) One happy “friend”
Gotta share a little family gossip:
My brother just bought a new place and it turns out his next door neighbor is Living History & UNC Basketball Royalty!
Okay well I think it’s kinda cool. Anyhoo.
You are just too cute and I think it’s kinda cool as well 🙂
Thank you Kind Friend! 😘
Wow! Charlie Scott is LEGEND! So cool – can I come visit? 😉
LOL! Guess I should’ve thought this through! Soon I will have created a platoon of potential stalkers. Lil Bro and Mr. Scott are gonna have me banished!
https://twitter.com/ArsalaiH/status/746404002284343296
Thanks, as always, NW. Love and light to Chips today.
J.K. Rowling’s Tweet in your collection up top is perfect!
Hate and suspicion have a high price…Bet you its higher than they are willing to pay…
West Virginia Flooding
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/746420918394621952
I do think calmer heads will prevail and that Brits have learned a ‘civics lesson’ they are likely not to forget, ever …… back to work ….
https://twitter.com/Muhahami/status/746417920201363456
Great toon Dudette!
PERFECT!
Ha Ha 🙂 Great minds think alike, Huh Dudette?
Always 😀
Just saw this on Al Giordano’s timeline:
https://twitter.com/biancatesfaye1/status/746394668485742593
PHUCK.OUTTA.HERE.
UK Independence Party Leader Admits His Bold Brexit Claim Was a “Mistake”
Nigel Farage backs away from the Leave campaign’s signature pledge to spend £350 million of European Union money on the National Health Service.
INAE OHJUN. 24, 2016 9:29 AM
As Britain awoke on Friday to the news that it had voted in favor of withdrawing from the European Union, voters were introduced to their new reality with a stunning admission from Nigel Farage, the pro-Brexit advocate who leads the U.K. Independence Party. Farage said that the Vote Leave campaign’s signature pledge—that leaving the European Union would allow for £350 million to be spent on the U.K.’s National Health Service—was a “mistake.”
Farage’s mea culpa was made during an appearance on Good Morning Britain, where he was asked if he could continue supporting that promise after the campaign to extract the United Kingdom from the European Union had succeeded.
“No I can’t, and I would have never made that claim,” Farage said. “It was one of the mistakes I think the ‘leave’ campaign made”
Oh, ok, no problem. So basically this phucker just said “my bad”?
It’s the GOP with the “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” slogan. They lied!
That excuse of a
human being is full of BS!!!
If you haven’t called your Reps and Senators yet to thank them and encourage them to keep fighting…
This is SICK.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a60478/michelle-obama-little-girls-advice/
http://www.zakgriffler.com/#!better/m96at
Adorable 😍
Folk getting ready to party in the neighborhood ….
https://twitter.com/StWalker98117/status/746443303185321985
bbl ….
This half wit is dumb as shit. Dumbdumbdumbdumbdumb. Seems to be proud of it, too.
Former half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) published a bizarre online harangue that began, “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. The UK knew — it was that time. And now is that time in the USA. The Brexit referendum is akin to our own Declaration of Independence. May that refreshed spirit of sovereignty spread over the pond to America’s shores!”
What in the world is she talking about? Sloppy nonsense, through and through.
As always. She’s an ignorant mess.
Look at that face. That megawatt smile that lights rooms….Love.Love.Love.
I’m hearing Michelle’s voice when she was talking to Oprah: mmmmmm mmmmm mmm
🙂 🙂 I’d like to see for myself….
https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/746442334447886336
LOL! Can we redo 2014 Congressional votes?
Second that! LOL!
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/24/chart-shows-biggest-lesson-democrats-learn-brexit-vote.html
The lesson for Democrats from Brexit is that younger voters have to turn out to vote. If the electorate is dominated by an older demographic, Donald Trump odds of winning will increase. Younger voters did not want to leave the EU, but since they didn’t show up at the polls in large enough numbers, they are now going to be harmed by a potentially disastrous result that was determined by the older generations.
The principle behind both Brexit and US elections is the same. When younger voters don’t show up in large enough numbers, conservatives win. Donald Trump may be a self-destructive fool, but if the electorate is small enough, old enough, and white enough, he could win the White House in November.
Which is why we must all vote in record numbers! To assure that these racist, bigoted, fearmongers get no where near the WH…
Exactly
HRC staff is on point!
Sigh! 🙄
What a dreadful day!!! I can not believe that the UK has voted to leave the EU. What a backward movement. Most of my son’s friends (age 15) wanted in as did a lot of people my age however there was so much scare mongering in the rw press and on TV. My parents age group mostly voted out stating that they knew Britain before the EU and we were OK. What people of their generation tend to forget, however is that it is a different world now and being part of the EU benefits us all, especially the younger generation. I voted IN mainly for my son’s future and also because I believe that we are stronger and safer in the EU, a small country no matter how strong will not do as well alone as it would in a larger organization such as the EU. In fact I feel so strongly that this decision will impact my son’s future adversely that my husband and I are seriously considering a move to the ROI. Being of Irish descent myself and my husband’s family are also Irish it is something we have been thinking about for a while, this vote has given us the kick up the ass we needed to actively look into the idea rather than just dream.
Sorry for the long rant and being somewhat off topic but I feel VERY strongly about this.
I love the MSNBC tweet re Trump in Scotland with the Mexican flag, it’s a classic.
Oh, Sam….I’m so sad this happened this way….ignorance and fear. Powerful tools of the propaganda…. There will be lots of issues from this…hope that you decide well…for you and your son. High price to pay for lies and fear. Good luck….keep posting:)
It’s a tough decision to make but something we have been considering for a long time. Whatever we do our son’s future is paramount.
I will be commenting more here now that I am back online. I have been without a computer forever and have missed you guys. It’s good to be back even if the circumstances here in the UK could be better.
I am so sorry Sam. Why do the people that are now in their mid-late 60’s who received so many benefits from the “greatest generation” who fought WWII and generations before them, not try to do better for their kids when voting? I hear so many say they don’t care because i’ll be dead before it affects me. Well all those “Reagan Democrats” who voted for lower taxes, kids are reaping what they sowed. The kids have so much personal debit from education that many can’t finish or even go to college. All those affirmative action haters whose mothers got a lot of the benefits are complaining because they’re kids can’t afford college. I just don’t know what is wrong with this world and the hate behind it all.
That is so true jojothecat. I cant understand why the older generation voted for something so obviously against the interests of the young especially as my parents who voted out are in all other ways intelligent and compassionate. I expect it from xenophobic bigots but am at a loss to comprehend the thought process of those like my parents.
Sam I see it in my own mother who was never like that when she was younger. My mom was so nice and compassionate to lesbian neighbors we had back in the 60’s. My mom was the only neighbor who made friends with them. They didn’t live there very long I believe because they were not accepted by the neighborhood. I used to baby sit a child they took in who was badly abused by its mother who they befriended. Today my mom is in her 80’s, super religious and is so racist against everyone even her own race and hates gay people now. I pray I don’t become like that when I am older.
Your mom sounds like such a wonderful person when she was younger and I’m sure she still is deep down. I wish I could understand what happens to some people as they age. I am sure you won’t be the same. You sound like such a caring person.
Thanks Sam, you too. I wish your family the best in whatever decision you make. Wish you could come to the USA, but with these gun nuts in Congress, your family wouldn’t be safe here. Praying that things calm down and the people and leaders do what’s right for their countrymen/women.
Josh Marshall did a good job of connecting the dots between Trump and Brexit.
Put simply, Trumpism and the greater arc of rightist politics in the US in recent years seems to follow this pattern. A declining but still very large fraction of the population which feels that it is losing power, wealth and something between ethnic familiarity and dominance to rising segments of the society. To map this on to the specifics of US society this pits a one group that is both older and whiter against another that is generally younger and less white.
Two points are worth recognizing about this deep social and political cleavage. First, this rebellion on the right is based not on strength but on weakness, the loss of power, control, demographic dominance, privilege. Second, in key respects it is an accurate perception of the change overtaking America…
The future electorate of the UK wanted to remain in Europe. This makes me suspect that for all the differences there is some elemental similarity in play between here and the UK.
I think that there is a similarity between trump and ukip. They are both misguided on the topic of race and immigration (and that is putting it mildly) and their followers are like a flock of sheep,or maybe a better analogy would be like a bunch of rats following the pied piper because they like the sound of the song he is singing, unaware if the fate that awaits them. Why can’t these people just wake the f@#k up and smell the coffee before it is too late. Elections have consequences. It is too late for us where the referendum is concerned but it is not too late for the presidential election. The thought of Trump getting in is unthinkable.
I ment of not if!
I’m just shocked….
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sec-lawsuit-chris-faulkner-fraud-decadent-lifestyle
Those millions in investor funds allegedly went towards Faulkner’s personal expenses, including international travel, cars, jewelry and opulent meals. The SEC charged that the fracking mogul even obtained what he referred to as a “whore card”—an American Express used exclusively for these “salacious” purchases—to shield his personal spending and expense reimbursements from the rest of the company.
Faulkner allegedly used that card to charge more than $1 million in personal travel, expenses for personal escorts and nights out on the town, according to the suit. In one four-day period in July 2014, the SEC alleged, he spent nearly $40,000 at a single Dallas gentleman’s club.
The unusually media-friendly oil and gas CEO was known for his frequent appearances on cable news, but he’d also emerged as a major conservative donor during his tenure at Breitling. The Texas Observer reported that he gave almost $300,000 to state candidates, putting $87,500 towards Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s (R) campaign and $100,000 towards Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton’s bid.
Hypocrite.
h/t Juanita Jean…somethings never change.
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Thanks LP! You too! 😊