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Liz Truss leaves stage over ‘I crashed the economy’ lettuce banner | Liz
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(URL) https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/14/liz-truss-le... (https://www.theguardian.com)
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|u/jalanajak - 1 month
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|The lettuce outlasted her again.
|u/Ehldas - 1 month
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|"Best three out of five?" "Oh, *fuck off*."
|u/tigerclawwwwwwwwwwww - 1 month
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|Wild, somebody just posted a picture of Death on another sub. It’s
|like three posts up my feed
|u/Ehldas - 1 month
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|"You have sunk my battleship!"
|u/Joint-User - 1 month
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|"They Melvined me!"
|u/MonkeyNugetz - 1 month
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|“Ted… Don’t fear the reaper!”
|u/DonKiddic - 1 month
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|"I HERD ZAT!"
|u/snowflake37wao - 1 month
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|La laa la la laaah Romeo n Juliet forever in eternity
|u/frumiouscumberbatch - 1 month
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|I, too, am terribly old.
|u/Fox_Kurama - 1 month
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|But a battleship requires being hit by lettuce 4 times to sink.
|u/Starfox-sf - 1 month
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|The cooler head prevailed (assuming the lettuce was kept in a fridge).
|u/KingBretwald - 1 month
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|What makes the joke even MORE funny is that no, it was not kept in a
|fridge. It was livestreamed sitting on a table and STILL outlasted
|Truss as PM.
|u/BareNakedSole - 1 month
|
|Seriously…she was PM for 49 days. A disastrous 49 days. Where does she
|get the balls to think her opinion on fucking anything carries weight?
|u/FarawayFairways - 1 month
|
|It's unbelievable She's clearly ill She's has to be the worst case
|of Dunning Kruger in history. The upside of this latest appearance
|though is that she's predicting Trump wins in November. If anything
|is going to sink him, Truss's judgement will What I think is
|disturbing though is that 113 of her colleagues voted for her as
|leader. I mean, not only are these people out and living in amongst
|us, some of them must still be MP's
|u/-SaC - 1 month
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|A gloriously large number were told to get tae fuck in the recent
|election.
|u/whufc76 - 1 month
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|Aye
|u/donutgiraffe - 1 month
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|As an American, I don't think most Americans would know who Truss
|even is, much less care about her opinion. And that goes doubly
|for anyone who would be willing to vote for Trump.
|u/obeytheturtles - 1 month
|
|I went to visit some relatives in the UK that winter and made
|sure to come prepared with a solid 5 minutes of Liz Truss jokes
|to show them how cultured and worldly I am.
|u/JayR_97 - 1 month
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|Im convinced getting ousted so quick must have mentally broke her.
|u/suomikim - 1 month
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|i hadn't realized there was a reverse side to Dunning Kruger... i
|used to do strategy and analysis work... and when my bosses would
|praise my work, I'd be confused and annoyed. since i figured that
|anything that i was able to do, they could get any random person
|off the street and get the same or better quality product. one of
|the things that i worked on (with another person) was strategic
|planning for dealing with pandemics. the impetus was the then
|current bird flu pandemic... so we were developing a strategy to
|deal with the \*next one\*. (you can develop an operational plan
|to deal with a current situation... but not a strategy.
|obviously) anyway, a decade or so later when Covid came out... I
|waited for my old government to roll out a plan based on the
|strategy we wrote. unfortunately, due to politics, they... only
|seemed to have used parts of it to develop their strategy... and
|more or less made things up as they went along. most countries
|did... no better. Sweden did much worse. Overall, I wound up
|with a rather dim view of whatever idiots had wrote the plans and
|strategies in each country, and even less for those who executed
|(or failed to execute such plans). my... earlier belief that any
|random idiot could write a good Pandemic strategy/plan/operation
|plan was... quite wrong.
|u/Starfox-sf - 1 month
|
|Take the worst part of your work, combine it with other people’s
|worst parts, and et voila, you have the final “plan”. That’s how
|it usually works, right?
|u/suomikim - 1 month
|
|plans are developed from strategic documents. and then actual
|operational plans from the "middle" plans. there... might be
|a thing where from strategy to operations the... abilities of
|the people working on it are of a different quantum... and
|some of the people at the political level putting in their
|fingers never read any of the strategy documents (really a
|prerequisite for a politician trying to insert themselves into
|things). But yeah, i remember once being in the room where an
|operations plan was being written and I wanted to kms while
|they were arguing something stupid. it \*did\* feel like they
|were putting together the worst ideas of the various people in
|the room. most of the people outranked me, but at a certain
|point of them arguing, i said that i had enough, and that they
|needed a break to refocus. while they... probably talked guy
|stuff, i wrote the section from scratch (took an hour or so),
|and when we reconvened put my proposed rewrite on the screen.
|It wasn't great (in my opinion it was quite mediocre as I had
|focused on only part of the thing as my own responsibility of
|the group project). but what it wasn't was dog poop. So they
|just did silent nod, and approved it as written. So yeah...
|at the level closest to execution, the process is... less than
|one might desire. sometimes a lot less.
|u/cxmmxc - 1 month
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|I hope you leave your analyses alone of that sprinkling of
|ellipses and dramatic pauses.
|u/Gommel_Nox - 1 month
|
|With a nonsensical sentence like that, you aren’t exactly the
|best person to criticize another for poor grammar decisions…
|Did you mean to say “I hope you leave the sprinkling of
|ellipses and dramatic pauses out of your analyses?” If
|you’re going to be a pedantic asshole grammar cop, I’m going
|to be a pedantic asshole grammar internal affairs detective.
|u/EmperorOfNipples - 1 month
|
|Here's hoping we get someone moderate like Tugandhat, Stride or
|Cleverly as leader. An effective opposition is important in
|parliament.
|u/Money-Application-61 - 1 month
|
|Right Like thank god we found out that she supports Donald Trump
|Tf?
|u/Locke66 - 1 month
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|>Where does she get the balls to think her opinion on fucking
|anything carries weight? I think she just completely fails to
|understand that her entire political career stemmed from being the
|IEA's representative in Parliament. She's always had people come to
|her as the gatekeeper in order to get access to their resources and
|she was treated seriously because PM's wanted to keep the right wing
|faction on side. She was very much a tool and now she's been
|discarded.
|u/600lbpregnantdwarf - 1 month
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|“Cos” playing as a PM
|u/Starfox-sf - 1 month
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|It would’ve been shorter had the other Liz not hit the throne in the
|sky the day after meeting this one.
|u/Njorls_Saga - 1 month
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|To be fair, I wouldn’t want to romaine on stage either after that.
|u/scorpyo72 - 1 month
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|Leaf her alone. She's just arugula person.
|u/Arryu - 1 month
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|Butterheads a little empty.
|u/NecessaryMoons - 1 month
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|That kind of chicory would upset anyone. She was probably
|cress-fallen. Who would spring something like that on a person?
|Would you romaine on stage after such a stunt? I’d have
|absolutely wilted. You can bet someone was beet-en when this
|story leek-ed. *end scene*
|u/TapTapReboot - 1 month
|
|Maybe she'll go retire onto an iceberg
|u/pixelpoet_nz - 1 month
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|I've heard far more saladacious rumours than that
|u/Hallonbat - 1 month
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|Lettuce not sink to name-calling.
|u/SambaLando - 1 month
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|Lettuce
|u/ReggimusPrime - 1 month
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|We cos do better, but here we are.
|u/billy_twice - 1 month
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|And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
|u/gregorydgraham - 1 month
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|I don’t know why she’s still hanging around, i’d’ve been outta
|there like a rocket
|u/postsshortcomments - 1 month
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|Clearly. Definitely not a Caesar.
|u/wombatlegs - 1 month
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|'Cos it is embarrassing.
|u/Deep_Macaron8480 - 1 month
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|Aahhh, that was gooood!
|u/privateuser169 - 1 month
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|A Gem, you might say.
|u/HumanBeing7396 - 1 month
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|It’s just the tip of the iceberg.
|u/klingers - 1 month
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|That's just the tip of the iceberg.
|u/sleepyrabb1t - 1 month
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|Just the tip of the iceberg for lettuce puns.
|u/druscarlet - 1 month
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|What is the significance of the lettuce? I’m from the US and while I
|know she was briefly PM our own politics has taken my attention away
|from the rest of the world.
|u/Beavers4beer - 1 month
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|The lettuce is because someone wanted to see which would last
|longer. The head of lettuce, or Truss as PM. The lettuce lasted
|longer.
|u/NegaDeath - 1 month
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|Ah, so it's a time unit. Like Mooch time.
|u/TangerineSorry8463 - 1 month
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|Yeah but ours is actually funny
|u/DanDierdorf - 1 month
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|Oh come on, one Scaramucci is funny, esp. at the time. Yes,
|a lettuce is even funnier. BUT, derivative.
|u/PhaseThreeProfit - 1 month
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|Looks like we need another revolution to overthrow tyranny
|here... (For the record, they're both funny *and* ours was
|first.)
|u/brooklynlad - 1 month
|
|Lizz Truss = Lettuce (sounds similar, but the lettuce is more
|intelligent and in an experiment with a news media lasted longer
|than her in her position as prime minister).
|u/paradroid78 - 1 month
|
|Given the lettuce won, shouldn't that be Liz Truss **<**
|Lettuce?
|u/CDNChaoZ - 1 month
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|Unlike Liz Truss, Lettuce at least holds water.
|u/miradotheblack - 1 month
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|Daamn
|u/zoqfotpik - 1 month
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|Doesn't that mean the lettuce becomes the prime minister? I
|dunno, I'm not sufficiently British.
|u/FreakingScience - 1 month
|
|Despite the overregulation of accessibility in the UK, lettuce
|is not qualified to hold public office as it can't complete
|the ordainment ritual which is kicked off with the toss and
|catching of a processional replica known as a Steel of Avalon,
|which must be thrown to the inaugurant from a lake which
|contains at least a pint of water from the catcher's home
|region, poured from a sheep's bladder. The problem isn't that
|lettuce has no arms with which to catch the sword, because
|that's absurd. It's that an archaic 400 year old English law
|from the Anglo-Spanish war prevents a non-native public
|official from gaining or losing that office over Spanish (or
|Dutch) waters, and most British lettuce is imported from
|Spain.
|u/JaymesMarkham2nd - 1 month
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|I am willing to believe this without further question.
|Tally-ho!
|u/brooklynlad - 1 month
|
|Straight to the House of Lords... Lord Lettuce!
|u/TheWastelandWizard - 1 month
|
|Cockney rhyming slang is getting out of hand, but damn is it
|funny.
|u/fresh-dork - 1 month
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|and then she did up a bio about presiding over two monarchs. omg
|u/Vio_ - 1 month
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|I'm in the US too, but followed it quite avidly. A newspaper writer
|basically joked "A head of lettuce will outlast Liz Truss's time as
|PM." So the paper live streamed a head of lettuce as part of the
|joke, and the lettuce won. It was one of those "this is why the
|internet was created" parties
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOVG\_I8mUXI
|u/Mcpoyles_milk - 1 month
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|The picture being flipped down at the end is hialrious
|u/druscarlet - 1 month
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|That is hilarious.
|u/deprevino - 1 month
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|Don't worry, that's why she is over there. Noone who had to
|experience her politics firsthand would listen to a word. Her whole
|performance relies on an audience understanding she is someone
|'important' but nothing more.
|u/lebowskimoney - 1 month
|
|Because the economist said that a head of lettuce has lasted longer
|than Liz Truss. The comparison stuck.
|u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ - 1 month
|
|Lol, it was The Daily Star, not The Economist. And it was a
|prediction, not "had lasted".
|u/druscarlet - 1 month
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|Thanks.
|u/MattieShoes - 1 month
|
|Now that you know the head of lettuce story, enjoy the [David
|Cameron rap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YBumQHPAeU)
|u/druscarlet - 1 month
|
|Just looked it up on YouTube - well done. We are just recently
|starting to have some fun in mocking the orange traitor and his
|‘hillbilly’ side kick. We’ve always mocked him but now he’s losing
|it and it’s a lot more fun. Harris-Walz!! You guys took
|Benedict Arnold, and chance you want DonOld?
|u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488 - 1 month
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|🥬 pray
|u/subhumanprimate - 1 month
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|I'm not sure she understands the term free speech
|u/AfraidAdhesiveness25 - 1 month
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|Wouldnt she be better just laughing that off saying proudly "and so I
|did!"?
|u/ShroedingersCatgirl - 1 month
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|I'd say call the burn unit but she's probably chard by now
|u/j4k3b - 1 month
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|They had bet on polymarket where they ran a head of lettuce vs Biden
|dropping out. Lettuce won.
|u/MondeyMondey - 1 month
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|She’s never gonna live the lettuce thing down and it’s too late for her
|to embrace it now. A sad existence.
|u/CorvidCuriosity - 1 month
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|It's her fault for trying to still be relevant. She should take the
|hint and disappear into the annals of history and tricky jeopardy
|questions. "This person was the prime minister of the UK when Queen
|Elizabeth II died." is going to be a killer Final Jeopardy question in
|a few years.
|u/MondeyMondey - 1 month
|
|I think to do that she’d have to admit to herself she just isn’t
|very smart and no one needs to hear her ideas, but she’s not gonna
|be capable of accepting that, so she’s gonna have to keep trying to
|be venerated by history.
|u/firestorm19 - 1 month
|
|She has been deflecting responsibility for crashing the economy
|with her budget that she did not get reviewed. The crazy thing is
|that while she lost her seat in the last election two months ago,
|her economics is still seen as viable by party members. Her
|administration should be jobless after that brutal hit to
|retirement pensions, but they still find their way on interviews
|and book tours.
|u/paradroid78 - 1 month
|
|>crashing the economy with her budget that she did not get
|reviewed Real ~~developers~~ PM's test in production.
|u/musefrog - 1 month
|
|It's okay, this is reddit, you can just say prod.
|u/Falsus - 1 month
|
|As usual it is much easier to blame the front figure than the
|people in the back. Liz Truss was an insanely crap leader who
|only got the job because no one else really wanted it but even
|then it isn't like she was a total ruler who couldn't be
|opposed. The people who backed her is to blame also.
|u/PeonSanders - 1 month
|
|The people who backed her were blamed... by her.
|u/Prydefalcn - 1 month
|
|Most people still don't understand (not consciously, at least)
|that economics is an ideologically-driven field of study. It's
|worse than politics because people generally understand that
|politics is a partisan affair.
|u/C0wabungaaa - 1 month
|
|That used to be perfectly normal, economics being tied to
|political ideology. That was perfectly understood in the 18th
|and 19th century, even during a part of the 20th century.
|Economics was as much a philosophical endeavour as it was a
|practical tool. But then a bunch of mid-century weirdos came
|along and were like "No see it's not political or ideological
|at all it's an exact science. Trust me bro see we have
|**numbers** woah aren't they cleeeaaan and peeeerfect? Just
|trust me bro here look at that **graph** woah it goes up just
|trust me it's great." And we've been slowly transitioning into
|a wrecked world ever since. My most frustrating thing about
|the history of economics as a science, human or exact, is just
|how much it confidently posits an image of human nature,
|practically as fact, and then builds its entire thesis around
|that. And this without absolutely zero real knowledge about
|how people actually operate. It's the worst. Economics
|shouldn't just be understood as ideology-driven, it should
|also be understood as fundamentally tied to psychology and
|sociology.
|u/HeadFund - 1 month
|
|Her book is titled "10 years to save the west" so she's clearly
|not overburdened by realism
|u/Nai-Oxi-Isos-DenXero - 1 month
|
|Funny how these types of fantastical claims are always 10 years,
|eh? Lunar colonies? 10 years. Manned mars mission? 10 years.
|Cancer cure? 10 years. Nuclear fusion? 10 years. Islamic
|caliphate in Europe? 10 years These things have all been "10
|years away" for at least 30 years now.
|u/LeRoienJaune - 1 month
|
|According to various press articles, Iran has been "only two
|years away" from building a nuclear bomb. Only two years
|away.... for the past twenty years.
|u/space253 - 1 month
|
|Just like we have been 50 years from running out of oil since
|1980.
|u/Reginault - 1 month
|
|We were nearing peak oil, but technology advanced to damage
|the earth more and better extract oil. It's not a myth,
|there's no magical fountain in the ground making new oil.
|u/gigamegaultra - 1 month
|
|Remember when y2k didn't happen? I don't because I wasn't
|capable of relevant thought. It didn't happen because a
|monumental task force of people went along and unfucked the
|issue. Everyone went 'huh okay'. Same thing with oil. For
|better or worse.
|u/nekonight - 1 month
|
|Being a good politician doesn't require the person to be smart
|just have the people skills and know the right people. They can be
|as dumb as a doorknob if they know the right people. They like to
|view themselves as better than the average pleb they rule over
|though.
|u/Fireantstirfry - 1 month
|
|Generally though to lead a Western nation you have had to be
|smart. They've been every mixture of shitty to good people, but
|nearly always smart. Hell even GWB who was berated for his less
|than ideal verbiage, I'd argue was a clever man. Liz Truss is a
|bizarre anomaly to me though in that she's not only a shitty
|person, she's also clearly and irredeemably stupid. I don't know
|how it happened that she became PM...but there it is. 
|u/Abigail716 - 1 month
|
|GWB is actually pretty smart. The problem with him was that he
|was too easily manipulated by bad people. This made him a bad
|president since he was unable to push forward his own ideas
|and control the people that works underneath him. Especially
|Dick Cheney who had way too much influence, he was incredibly
|powerful yet he had no business ever working in the
|government, let alone as the vice president.
|u/manquistador - 1 month
|
|What makes you think Junior didn't support what his
|underlings were doing?
|u/More_Court8749 - 1 month
|
|In this case what she had was a bunch of Tory party members who
|were idiots believe an idiot when she came up with unworkable
|tax plans.
|u/MondeyMondey - 1 month
|
|Why’s it always gotta be America? Get really into Serbian
|politics or something. There’s a world out there.
|u/radicallyhip - 1 month
|
|If every far-right lunatic and pseudo-libertarian weirdo would do
|that, the world would actually work. But these are the people
|whom have been duped into thinking that the world's corporations
|and businesses are actually the good guys and that governments
|that regulate them work against the people, so I'm not sure that
|they have that sort of self-awareness.
|u/JustADutchRudder - 1 month
|
|"Queen Lizzy 2, met this woman and decide to die instead of meet her
|again."
|u/Perudur1984 - 1 month
|
|LiZ Truss literally convinced the Queen it was time to depart this
|mortal coil because Britain was beyond saving.
|u/A_swarm_of_wasps - 1 month
|
|I actually think the Queen just didn't want Boris speaking at
|her funeral.
|u/ReallyJustAMagpie - 1 month
|
|Giggle. Yep, this crazy will do.
|u/HeadFund - 1 month
|
|Lol remember when Liz asked her lawyers if she had the power to
|kick Bojo out of office? She's probably spinning in her grave...
|u/MainFrosting8206 - 1 month
|
|"At least she's not Boris."
|u/nagrom7 - 1 month
|
|*There's only enough room up here for one Liz*
|u/ChinaCatProphet - 1 month
|
|LIZ TRUSS KILLED THE QUEEN!
|u/obeytheturtles - 1 month
|
|YOU CALL THAT A KNIFE?!
|u/UberDaftie - 1 month
|
|I am of the view that she should be sectioned under the mental
|health act. I'm not saying this as a cruel joke - there is
|something seriously off-kilter with her perception of herself and
|her perception of the world that goes beyond having a "different
|opinion". She genuinely needs medical help.
|u/Firm-Spinach-3601 - 1 month
|
|Politics is the last refuge of the fixed delusion
|u/UberDaftie - 1 month
|
|In a past career, I once met a client who believed he was a
|banana. Every morning, he would get a mirror and a banana and
|arrange them in such a way that he could look into the mirror
|and insist to onlookers that this was proof that he was a
|banana. Liz Truss reminds me of this client.
|u/CometWatcher67 - 1 month
|
|Seems to be quite a bit of that going around! *See: Elon Musk,
|USA politics.* *(Ronald Reagan emptied most Mental Hospitals in
|the 1980s. Many of us suspect those patients got together and had
|babies, which explains why we have 'people' like Marjorie Taylor
|Green and Lauren Boebert in our actual government).*
|u/FarawayFairways - 1 month
|
|Her Whitehall nickname was "two stops from Dagenham" ....
|Barking
|u/bwoah07_gp2 - 1 month
|
|After watching compilations of the way she acts and speaks, I
|agree. Something is totally off about her. She's far from a good
|public speaker, something politicians should be able to grasp even
|the basics of.
|u/dlanod - 1 month
|
|"Was it iceberg or cos that was the prime minister of the UK when
|Queen Elizabeth II died?"
|u/changyang1230 - 1 month
|
|Also known as “maybe a minor Royal” as per Australian TV presenter
|during the queen’s funeral.
|https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2022/sep/19/australian-
|presenters-struggle-to-identify-liz-truss-minor-royal-video
|u/Electrical_Ingenuity - 1 month
|
|I know! Prime Minister Romaine Iceburg!
|u/HoidToTheMoon - 1 month
|
|>It's her fault for trying to still be relevant Not even that. She
|*STILL* thinks her opinion is worth a shit and is actively pushing
|other right wing losers like herself and Trump.
|u/gregorydgraham - 1 month
|
|“Liz Truss killed the Queen” is how it’s usually phrased
|u/PyroIsSpai - 1 month
|
|She won’t leave because she wants back into office.
|u/xX609s-hartXx - 1 month
|
|Oh, oooh... Was it, Liz... Liz Lettuce?
|u/epiquinnz - 1 month
|
|2022, the year that UK had three Prime Ministers and two monarchs.
|u/nicetrylaocheREALLY - 1 month
|
|That was the genius—and I hesitate to use the word—of Boris Johnson. 
|He was such an obviously ridiculous figure already that I can't
|imagine him getting visibly upset over being compared to a vegetable.
|I suspect he would have laughed at it and carried right on, stripping
|the image of its power.  Truss, on the other hand, is trying to be a
|Very Serious Person. So she's almost unbelievably easy to wind up and
|dismiss.
|u/KeaAware - 1 month
|
|Yes! In nz, during covid, our health minister mixed up his terms and
|advised people to "spread their legs" rather than "stretch their
|legs" once a day under lockdown. The media had a field day, the
|minister embraced in (went into the next press conference with it
|printed on a mug that he conspicuously drank out of), and he went on
|to become prime minister. That's how you do it.
|u/bg-j38 - 1 month
|
|Extra points if someone from the press asked him how he was
|spending his time during lockdown and he said something like
|“following my own advice of course”.
|u/mqee - 1 month
|
|That's such a different scenario tho. The health minister had a
|very minor slip of the tongue, the lettuce was an abject failure,
|implementing the brain-dead "tax, borrow, and spend" fiscal policy
|that "conservatives" are so famous for, and she was rightly given
|the boot.
|u/Darkone539 - 1 month
|
|Boris would have made it round 2 or something lol
|u/Electromotivation - 1 month
|
|He would have said he at least has a better haircut than the
|lettuce.
|u/MondeyMondey - 1 month
|
|Yeah exactly. Same with someone like Trump, which is why they can
|just steamroll through attempts to deflate them.
|u/USeaMoose - 1 month
|
|Eh, Trump does steamroll through attempts to deflate him, but not
|by laughing at it and carrying on. Trump can't laugh at something
|that is insulting him. He ignores it, or he attributes it to the
|deep state and the "fake new media" being out to get him. Trump
|would not embrace the humor of him misspeaking. He can barely even
|admit to ever making a mistake. He can't chuckle at a picture of a
|vegetable meant to mock him, he would play dumb about it until it
|is pointed out, then he would get angry and attack back. Boris
|Johnson portrayed himself as a harmless goofball. With his messy
|hair, and general attitude. Trump wants himself to be portrayed as
|nothing less than a "stable genius". The best at everything. With
|the biggest crowds, the best ideas... everything. Boris and Trump
|did seem similar in some ways, this is just not one of them.
|Frankly, Trump would be an easier pill to swallow if he had the
|ability to laugh at himself even just a little bit. Honestly, I'm
|not sure how much different Trump would have acted here. Would he
|really allow himself to be filmed talking with a backdrop that was
|making fun of him? I'd expect Trump to delay the start of the
|event until his people took down the backdrop. Instead she
|stormed out of the event, which is obviously a stupid move on a
|whole other level.
|u/nicetrylaocheREALLY - 1 month
|
|All true, particularly the last bit. Please "don't put in the
|newspaper that I got mad" energy.
|u/MondeyMondey - 1 month
|
|Yeah you’re right, I just meant in the sense that they’re so
|transparently weird that satire kinda bounces off em. Like yeah
|Trump is an orange psychopath, we know, it isn’t piercing. I
|will say he is generally pretty composed and doesn’t lose it
|publicly as far as I can remember.
|u/BirdsAndTheBeeGees1 - 1 month
|
|>He was such an obviously ridiculous figure already that I can't
|imagine him getting visibly upset over being compared to a
|vegetable. I suspect he would have laughed at it and carried right
|on, stripping the image of its power.  He wore poorly fitting suits
|and got bad haircuts so people wouldn't take him as serious. Dude
|knew how to play a part.
|u/nicetrylaocheREALLY - 1 month
|
|Yep. It was honestly pretty clever and extremely counter-
|intuitive, as most professionals naturally try to make themselves
|look as competent as they possibly can.
|u/atomicxblue - 1 month
|
|If I were her, I would have avoided wearing green dresses. It just
|made the banner that much more perfect.
|u/Rymundo88 - 1 month
|
|It'll Romaine with her for the rest of her life.
|u/individual_throwaway - 1 month
|
|This is getting radicchiolous.
|u/TheGRS - 1 month
|
|I understand why she decided to leaf
|u/MockTurt13 - 1 month
|
|...endive she stays she's just gonna wilt anyway
|u/iameveryoneelse - 1 month
|
|Lettuce move past this already.
|u/deformedfishface - 1 month
|
|Oh leaf it out.
|u/Porzingod06 - 1 month
|
|“Attacking free speech” by exercising their right to free speech
|u/Constant-Plant-9378 - 1 month
|
|Liz Truss' Lettuce == JD Vance's Couch
|u/Solelegendary62 - 1 month
|
|I don’t get the lettuce joke
|u/MondeyMondey - 1 month
|
|When she was Prime Minister and clearly not going to last very long
|in the job, The Daily Star (English tabloid barely-newspaper) set up
|a livestream of a lettuce to see if it went rotten before Truss left
|office. The lettuce won.
|u/Solelegendary62 - 1 month
|
|I can’t imagine anything more embarrassing for a political care
|failure than that
|u/sns2017 - 1 month
|
|And her name sounds like lettuce.
|u/Philias2 - 1 month
|
|No, not really.
|u/Cueball61 - 1 month
|
|All she had to do was say “I’m never going to escape that thing” and
|keep going tbh I don’t think May, BoJo, Cameron or Sunak would have
|walked off - better to laugh it off and keep going really. It’s just
|another example of why she was a terrible pick for PM.
|u/obeytheturtles - 1 month
|
|In any other world I would legitimately feel bad for her because she
|was clearly made into the Tory scapegoat, but it was her own blind
|ambition which put her in that position. I mean, nobody is born a
|Tory. It takes decades of hostile indifference to the plight of your
|fellow man to even get the card.
|u/ElevenSleven - 1 month
|
|She lettuce down.
|u/GERRROONNNNIIMMOOOO - 1 month
|
|She even dressed like a lettuce for this event!
|u/darling_lycosidae - 1 month
|
|The absolute best part.
|u/Key_Banana6462 - 1 month
|
|Bringing a whole new meaning to cos-play
|u/suomikim - 1 month
|
|i wouldn't have otherwise noticed... thanks kind internet stranger :)
|u/scootunit - 1 month
|
|She trussed herself up in a salad dress and complained about the
|dressing down.
|u/Alundra828 - 1 month
|
|lmao "that's not funny" *au contraire, Truss*
|u/IsmaelRetzinsky - 1 month
|
|The slow, steady descent was perfect.
|u/VagueSoul - 1 month
|
|The only thing missing was a sad puff of confetti.
|u/TheSpatulaOfLove - 1 month
|
|Needed to play the ‘Jaws’ theme for added effect.
|u/redwingcherokee - 1 month
|
|the debbie downer trombone
|u/Melokhy - 1 month
|
|Exactly this haha! "that's not funny" and my brain be like "I'm gonna
|have to disagree with you" xD
|u/babbitts2ndbutthole - 1 month
|
|Saying it wasn't funny made it even funnier.
|u/royrogerer - 1 month
|
|To be honest I agree with her. There's nothing funny about crashing
|economy.
|u/bertaderb - 1 month
|
|It wasn’t even that funny to me until she got all disapproving
|schoolmarm. THEN it was comedy.
|u/lyingliar - 1 month
|
|It's very funny.
|u/Just_the_nicest_guy - 1 month
|
|>Moments later, as the host told her he had “no idea where that’s come
|from”, some members of the audience laughed, before she muttered:
|“That’s not funny,” ripping the microphone from her dress and walking
|off. >... >On X, Truss said: "What happened last night was not funny.
|Far-left activists disrupted the event, which then had to be stopped for
|security reasons. This is done to intimidate people and suppress free
|speech." LMAO. [The banner with a picture of googly-eyed lettuce was
|intimidating and the silence coming from it was so deafening that I
|couldn't continue speaking. And I stormed off in a huff *for security
|reasons*.] She is so pathetic.
|u/Ok-Blackberry-3534 - 1 month
|
|You suppressed your free speech, Liz.
|u/JebryathHS - 1 month
|
|"I was at an event, on a stage, with a microphone, being SILENCED by
|a tiny prank in the background"
|u/MoarVespenegas - 1 month
|
|"These people should not be allowed to express their thoughts
|about me, in the interest of free speech!"
|u/YoureWrongBro911 - 1 month
|
|Unironically reactionary conservatism in a nutshell
|u/Tacitus111 - 1 month
|
|“You don’t understand! They poked fun at me! This was supposed to be
|a safe space!” -Snowflake former PM of Great Britain
|u/InflamedLiver - 1 month
|
|"Security reasons" sounds like the only thing being insecure was Liz
|u/Rymundo88 - 1 month
|
|>Far-left activists disrupted the event "We're Ceasar-ing the means
|of production!"
|u/ChefCano - 1 month
|
|Considering the type of lettuce, it's more of a wedge issue
|u/PaveWacket - 1 month
|
|Tax cuts were the iceberg to her titanic.
|u/OKImHere - 1 month
|
|What can you expect? She voted Leave, not Romaine
|u/peretonea - 1 month
|
|I've always seen her as leafier.
|u/cyrogem - 1 month
|
|It's not about what actually happened with the appropriate response,
|it's about drumming up the right into backing her against the
|"ExTrEmIsT lEfT"
|u/stemroach101 - 1 month
|
|>she muttered: “That’s not funny,” It kind of is
|u/Rumpullpus - 1 month
|
|It's not funny. It's hilarious
|u/Argented - 1 month
|
|If this is what the 'far left' has for activism in the UK, the UK
|doesn't have a problem with the far left. She actually would have
|been briefed on the valid 'far left' threats in the UK... and includes
|that with people pulling off elaborate pranks. what a victim. A
|real far left threat might have been a remote control dangerous thing
|not a lettuce banner.
|u/Eelroots - 1 month
|
|For insecurity reasons /s
|u/GameDesignerMan - 1 month
|
|What's the hypothetical political center between lettuce meme and
|ultra-nationalism? I'm thinking mango with a pencil mustache but I'm
|not entirely convinced.
|u/fireyoutothesun - 1 month
|
|Damn lady, you sound soft as hell
|u/drs_ape_brains - 1 month
|
|Softer than a month old head of lettuce.
|u/paradroid78 - 1 month
|
|>What happened last night was not funny Audience response (panto
|style): Oh yes it was!
|u/andy_cap-hunter - 1 month
|
|The truth hurts
|u/_NadirZenith_ - 1 month
|
|Truss also hurts
|u/andy_cap-hunter - 1 month
|
|Should have listened to public enemy, cant truss it!
|u/kittenfordinner - 1 month
|
|do you mean on twitter? X is the universal sign for a variable, on X
|platform, could mean any platform
|u/Emotional-Chef-7601 - 1 month
|
|I don't think people who complain about free speech understand what
|free speech is. That prank was the essence of free speech.
|u/ZDTreefur - 1 month
|
|Since when do you need to be far left to make lettuce memes?
|u/Enraiha - 1 month
|
|People that resonate with Right wing ideology are often pathetic
|people with no real ability other than to pathologically lie.
|u/BoomerHomer - 1 month
|
|No, Lis Truss supressed her speech when someone made use of free
|speech and Liz Truss snowflake little feelings got hurt. Don't know
|what's the fuss, Liz Truss even dressed appropriately for the
|occasion.
|u/namelesone - 1 month
|
|Well, I guess it's not funny to the person being ridiculed, so I don't
|completely blame her for reacting that way. If you never learnt to
|laugh at yourself, you're going to be offended. Too late now, but
|she should take that as a lesson to be prepared for some clever
|comebacks in the future. She would have earned people's respect if she
|went along with it. She was even dressed for the part. 🤷‍♀️
|u/Aritra319 - 1 month
|
|“Intimidate people”? Like, is she so paranoid to think whoever did
|this soaked the banner in poison or something?
|u/tryingtolearn_1234 - 1 month
|
|Objectively that’s very funny. Unfortunately for her after years of
|Tory mismanagement the NHS doesn’t have the facilities to treat a burn
|that sick.
|u/Ehldas - 1 month
|
|Lettuce just appreciate the awesomeness of this.
|u/jarredmars1 - 1 month
|
|What really sent me was how slow it unrolled. I thought it was gunna
|drop down but the slow descent killed me.
|u/Sdn61387 - 1 month
|
|Wait for the banner, Morty. They love the slow banner. Really gets
|their dicks hard when they see this banner just slowly extending
|down.
|u/jarredmars1 - 1 month
|
|“Peace among worlds Rick ”
|u/Ehldas - 1 month
|
|"They're filming me live under this aren't they... fuckity *fuck*."
|<exit stage left>
|u/tossitlikeadwarf - 1 month
|
|She couldn't romaine on stage after that.
|u/shaidyn - 1 month
|
|She just had to get up and leaf.
|u/duxpdx - 1 month
|
|She had to get ahead of the situation.
|u/Loose_Loquat9584 - 1 month
|
|Why did she leave? Just cos.
|u/doctor6 - 1 month
|
|It's just the tip of the iceberg
|u/pedanticPandaPoo - 1 month
|
|What a little gem! This is just the tip of the iceberg. Butter put on
|a bibb cos this is gonna get messy.
|u/Al-dutaur-balanzan - 1 month
|
|Big Lettuce paid the banner
|u/Heavens10000whores - 1 month
|
|“I think the average American is not doing well …” Here’s an idea. Why
|not ask some questions and find out? Not one level headed person would
|trust anything this ~~lettuce~~ person thinks
|u/ffdfawtreteraffds - 1 month
|
|Preceded by: “I support Trump and I want him to win,” Another loser
|heard from....
|u/zizou00 - 1 month
|
|and followed by: "We can’t be truly free without free speech. Good
|for Elon Musk and X for standing up to these bullies." Twitter,
|famously a bastion of free speech now, where they'll ban you for
|taking the piss out of Musk. She's so desperate to become a right-
|wing puppet, it's kind of embarrassing.
|u/kr00t0n - 1 month
|
|Right-wing pick-me girl. I get Firecracker (from The Boys) vibes
|from her.
|u/obeytheturtles - 1 month
|
|Normally I hate the term "pick me" but this is a perfect usage
|of the term.
|u/saint_david - 1 month
|
|How the fuck was she ever PM
|u/Xander707 - 1 month
|
|How the fuck was Trump ever president?
|u/Shatari - 1 month
|
|If she wants him to win then maybe she shouldn't be vocalizing her
|support for him. She poisons things just by associating with them,
|and Trump is doing that just fine on his own right now...
|u/IFoundTheCowLevel - 1 month
|
|Hey,.. I can weigh in on this! I used to live in the UK and moved to
|the US when the UK voted to leave. I started in the US with almost
|nothing after working my ass off in the UK for 10 years, Thanks UK!!
|Since I left, I now own 2 cars, a house, and a boat. I have a very
|comfortable amount in my current account, I max out my 401k every
|month, have a separate stock portfolio, and go on international
|holidays fairly frequently (the last 2 I travelled business class). I
|guess people in the UK must be really well off after brexit by
|comparison.
|u/Akavenn - 1 month
|
|Did you have dual citizenship ? What do you work in ? Asking because
|I’m also thinking of moving to the US.
|u/IFoundTheCowLevel - 1 month
|
|I have UK citizenship, and another country, but a greencard in US
|(soon will have citizenship). I work in tech.
|u/OKImHere - 1 month
|
|The question you have to ask yourself is... do you like money?
|u/thrawske - 1 month
|
|If you're not from the UK you might not get this, but even our
|conservatives hate Donald Trump. I can't quite put into words the
|absolute skin-crawling creepiness exuded by people who are somehow
|British yet support Donald Trump. Liz Truss personifies that type of
|deeply unhinged weirdo. Thankfully, it's extremely rare to encounter
|one of these people in the UK, because even our hardline right-wingers
|aren't *that* fucking weird.
|u/Naruhodonno - 1 month
|
|as an American, the only thing I remember about UK politics is Andrew
|Neil is comparably a liberal (left-wing progressive) according to Ben
|Shapiro and apparently that is very funny
|u/Rymundo88 - 1 month
|
|He's very much a gobshite is Andrew Neil, but seeing just how stupid
|and impotent the American grifters like Shapiro are laid bare by him
|was quite the watch.
|u/kog - 1 month
|
|Was that the reporter who basically took Shapiro apart by asking
|him extremely simple questions about his beliefs and not letting
|Shapiro start talking like an auctioneer and not answer?
|u/Rymundo88 - 1 month
|
|That's the one. I'll give Neil his dues, he understands and is
|well versed and learned in debates, so he knows when someone is
|trying to gish-gallop him and shuts it down. But he didn't even
|get to get to that point, Shapiro shit his pants well before and
|lost his rag to what anyone viewing in the UK would see as the
|softest of softball questions *and still* threw his toys out of
|the pram. If Shapiro was British, the embarrassment of that
|interaction would have caused him to hang his head in shame and
|remove himself from any public interaction, yet it seems the
|Yanks have no such abilities
|u/other_vagina_guy - 1 month
|
|Dual citizen here. I can explain that.  You know how reality
|TV shows get people on who are kinda dumb or weird? We yanks
|pick our conservative pundits the same way. The worse behaved
|they are, the more money the news makes on advertising. This
|is how we got Trump in the first place.
|u/kog - 1 month
|
|In the US, Ben can just flee the room and go back to the
|Republican Cinematic Universe where they pretend he answered
|the questions and probably even say he won the exchange.
|u/kilgore_trout1 - 1 month
|
|The incredible irony of this is that Andrew Neil is one of the most
|classically right wing / conservative voices in the Uk for the last
|40 years - he’s Rupert Murdoch’s right hand man in the UK. The
|Shapiro interview is incredible - and for a brief moment, this card
|carrying liberal was cheering Andrew Neil on lol
|u/I_Groped_SandyCheeks - 1 month
|
|So like pre-Trump era republicans?
|u/kilgore_trout1 - 1 month
|
|Yes, I’d say so. Marginally more bonkers than Romney, marginally
|less bonkers than Bush jnr.
|u/joethesaint - 1 month
|
|Say what you like about Neil but he's very good at what he does.
|And he did a perfect job that day of highlighting the difference
|between being an *actual* good debater, and just being overly
|verbose so that some people mistake you for being a good debater.
|u/TheGRS - 1 month
|
|Oh my gosh I forgot about that interview. I’ll have to watch it
|again. That was maybe the best own goal I’ve ever seen in an
|interview.
|u/HussingtonHat - 1 month
|
|He's a grade A wanker. Old school Tory pompous Public school
|blowhard who loves a good judge of those he has bo concept of their
|day to day plight. General tosspot. That being said he has good
|qualities from a professional standpoint. Ges a pretty good hack.
|Chases people in interviews and seems to actually ask some questions
|rather than open the floor to soundbites, which is nice. He's a
|knob, but he does have the odd respectable quality (doesn't much
|make up for him being a knob but hey its better than notjing).
|u/Rammsteinman - 1 month
|
|In Canada it's the same. What kind of stupid wears a MAGA hat I a
|different country, to support an individual and motto that goes
|against your own country?
|u/fizzlefist - 1 month
|
|It never ceases to amaze me when I hear about people flying the
|Confederate flag in Canada. Like, what the shit?
|u/doiveo - 1 month
|
|Make Alberta Great Again
|u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA - 1 month
|
|Alberta, and its batshit premier, apparently. Edit: not the
|premier, one of her MLAs: Devin Dreeshen.
|u/therealhairykrishna - 1 month
|
|Even she's only supporting him for purely mercenary reasons. Her
|career in politics is dead. Normally ex PM's do pretty well out of
|speaking engagements but no UK company is paying Truss. So she has to
|try and get it on the Trump grift.
|u/Puzzleheaded_Town_20 - 1 month
|
|I almost felt sorry for her when reading the headline. Then I read
|her remarks that she is still a fervent supporter of the wannabe
|fascist who tried to stage a coup and end our democracy, and my
|enthusiasm wilted.
|u/normie_sama - 1 month
|
|>my enthusiasm wilted Like a lettuce?
|u/Aleucard - 1 month
|
|Everyone in that social circle is only in it for mercenary reasons.
|They'd drink human baby blood if they thought it'd make them money
|or be amusing.
|u/beaniemonk - 1 month
|
|So given what you said, when she goes off the rails about "far left
|activists" intimidating her and suppressing her free speech, does that
|bullshit even resonate with anyone there? It would here, but only with
|the unhinged weirdos. In the UK is she pretty much screaming into a
|void?
|u/nid0 - 1 month
|
|In terms of how well her message resonates, I feel it's worth
|pointing out the event she was at was being held [here.](https://www
|.google.com/maps/@52.4580193,1.564157,0a,90y,52.36h,97.08t/data=!3m4
|!1e1!3m2!1s9lKxQN58R1_XcZmb9gIkkA!2e0) This is a venue in a small
|rural town that holds 120 seated people at a push, and by the look
|of the video it was probably mostly empty. She's trying to hawk her
|book that has seemingly sold literally low thousands of copies,
|likely mostly in the US, for which she got paid an advance of
|£1,500. That number is not a typo.
|u/thrawske - 1 month
|
|It probably resonates with some people who spend too much time on
|YouTube overdosing on US politics. As a working class person,
|politics comes up a lot and I'd say the closest thing to "anger
|about the far left" is anger about disruption from environmentalists
|who might block a road or something. Most Brits don't really think
|of themselves in terms of right or left in my experience. They think
|in terms of individual issues, or at the most, party loyalty, but
|even that isn't that common outside of some very specific places.
|u/joethesaint - 1 month
|
|> In the UK is she pretty much screaming into a void? You can find
|her crowd in the depths of Twitter comments, but I'm yet to meet any
|in the wild.
|u/beaniemonk - 1 month
|
|So in other words, bots.
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|u/ThreeDeathSpirits - 1 month
|
|Sadly, Nigel Farage and his 4m fuckwit voters rather prove this
|hopeful assumption very wrong.
|u/thrawske - 1 month
|
|I almost wrote about Farage in my first post, but I know quite a few
|Reform types, and they are totally, blissfully unaware of Farage's
|involvement in Trumpian politics in the US. I've found that when
|you actually tell them about Farage's love of Trump, they quite
|visibly recoil or start making excuses or say it's not true.
|u/firestorm19 - 1 month
|
|Farage was on the campaign tour in the US trying to ride Trumpian
|coattails, priming himself as UK Trump. Americans never heard of
|him and aren't interested in him. He almost missed the last
|elections because he was essentially touring the grift scene in
|the US.
|u/redditisapiecofshit - 1 month
|
|In the clip when she says 'I support Donald Trump' half the crowd
|sounded like they went "Weoh! Huh?" While a few of them cheered.
|u/CX52J - 1 month
|
|I used to feel slightly sorry for her. But any British politician
|who actively supports trump and by extension his views on abortion can
|get well and truly f*cked.
|u/thrawske - 1 month
|
|Oh, absolutely. An abortion is up to the woman in question first
|and foremost; then with input from her doctor, and anyone in her
|life who she chooses to solicit input from, and nobody else.
|Certainly not the government. Imagine being a "small government"
|type and thinking that the government should interfere with your
|personal health decisions. Hypocritical and insanely authoritarian.
|u/doiveo - 1 month
|
|He has absolutely no view on that topic outside how it can be
|leveraged for personal gain.
|u/redditknees - 1 month
|
|I find an odd satisfaction in your comment.
|u/bertaderb - 1 month
|
|I showed this story to my NeverTrump Republican (and BoJo fan 😔😭)
|friend and even he was like “What’s she doing talking up Trump? Do
|Trump voters know who Liz Truss is??” Which… fair lmao.
|u/CaptainReynoldshere1 - 1 month
|
|Not surprising that someone who only lasted 49 days in their job would
|support Trump.
|u/freshhorsemanure - 1 month
|
|Eh I have met plenty of dumbass conservatives in the UK that like
|Trump. They do tend to be more of the Farage bootlicker conspiracy nut
|types though
|u/terminbee - 1 month
|
|How tf did she get elected? I thought only we were dumb enough for
|Trump.
|u/thrawske - 1 month
|
|The British public never voted for her to become Prime Minsiter.
|She was initially elected as an MP when she was a relative unkown in
|2010, in a Tory safe seat that had until this year been represented
|by a conservative MP for 60 years. She gained a bit of fame due
|to a bizarre, stilted performance about cheese almost 10 years ago.
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YxhIq6t6Fk Then she was largely
|forgotten, until Boris Johnson resigned and a few thousand weirdo
|Tory party members elected her head of the party. Because of that,
|she became Prime Minister without the public voting for her to hold
|that position. She did not last long, because obviously she's an
|idiot and a creep and the public hated her.
|u/avocadosconstant - 1 month
|
|She actually supported Remain, *until* the referendum result.
|Then she switched to a passionate Brexiter. Truss has
|absolutely no convictions or principles. She switches and turns
|toward whatever is the most politically convenient. She only
|believes in one thing, and that’s herself.
|u/CX52J - 1 month
|
|The public have never voted for a prime minister. Only their
|local MP.
|u/thrawske - 1 month
|
|That's an extremely tired argument that doesn't reflect how
|people actually approach the ballot box.
|u/CX52J - 1 month
|
|That seems like an overly simplistic view which isn’t
|representative of reality. The leader of the party directly
|impacts how the entire party is perceived but the policies are
|the primary factor people are voting for. Which is why many
|towns remain strongholds for 50+ years. If it was the person
|people were primarily voting for then these strongholds would
|sway. Kier could haves died a few days before the election
|and Labour still would have won.
|u/Low-Expression555 - 1 month
|
|That’s not how it works here, we don’t necessarily elect a Prime
|Minister. We elect people to be MPs, and the PM’s party has a
|degree of authority in choosing one of the MPs to be a PM without a
|general election
|u/FireMaker125 - 1 month
|
|We never elected her, the Tory MPs did after Johnson resigned. In
|this country, we elect MPs who then nominate a PM (the leader of the
|party). Her predecessor Boris Johnson resigned and she was elected
|to succeed him. She didn’t last long because the Queen died shortly
|afterwards, she crashed the economy with her stupid policies and
|everyone hated her.
|u/Plaineswalker - 1 month
|
|But why lettuce?
|u/Worried_Jackfruit717 - 1 month
|
|Someone ran an experiment to see what'd last longer, her time as PM
|or a lettuce. The lettuce won.
|u/PrinsHamlet - 1 month
|
|To be fair one would have to point out that your conservatives did
|manage to build the UK version of the wall - or rather caused Brexit
|by ineptitude and exacerbated its effects by stupidity, a plot where
|Liz' insane economic plan ranks high up there by for ever incurring a
|"moron tax" on loans to the UK because nobody trusts your donkeys in
|charge not to pull off stupid stunts like that again. So yeah,
|they're fucking weird too!
|u/ashoka_akira - 1 month
|
|As a Canadian who knows Canadians who’d love to give trump a handy, I
|totally get it.
|u/d3k3d - 1 month
|
|> She said the prank was “not funny”. In a statement on X, Truss called
|Led By Donkeys “far-left activists” who used the stunt as a means to
|“intimidate people and suppress free speech”. I mean neither is ruining
|the economy but you didn't support that for laughs. You did it for greed
|and and phony ultranationalism. Also it WAS funny. The amount of
|cognitive dissonance on display could put a Trump voter to shame.
|u/DJ33 - 1 month
|
|Whoever set this up is a hero.  Legitimately, this is how these idiots
|should be dealt with. Mockery and ridicule. That's what used to happen
|when you said *batshit insane nonsense* all day and completely ignored
|reality. Sensible people would mock you, then go back to ignoring you.
|Now that they've figured out all they've got to do is take their batshit
|insane nonsense and bend it five degrees in a direction that makes some
|small subset of people angry and/or scared, they just keep going. Once
|they find an audience, nobody slows them down. They don't have to appeal
|to *reality,* they only have to appeal to *their base.*
|u/PapaGilbatron - 1 month
|
|Yup, a very weird base.
|u/sexy__zombie - 1 month
|
|I want to see a banner reveal at JD Vance's rally. Just a photo of a
|sofa. Nothing else.
|u/Kindly_Climate4567 - 1 month
|
|> Whoever set this up is a hero. Led by Donkeys. Their donation
|page is [here](https://donate.ledbydonkeys.org/)
|u/Own_Thing_4364 - 1 month
|
|Based on the headline, I felt kind of bad for her. Then i started
|reading the article: >Truss was expressing her support for Donald Trump
|before she was pranked. “I support Trump and I want him to win,” she
|said before the audience applauded her. “It’s what I was saying a bit
|about incumbents. I think the average American is not doing well …
|Good, fuck her.
|u/tweda4 - 1 month
|
|Why does anyone feel sorry for this stupid pos? She fucked up the
|British economy because she's an arrogant moron. She was then
|immediately fired, but decided to keep the golden parachute she got
|for being PM for a fortnight. What the hell is there to feel sorry
|for?
|u/Own_Thing_4364 - 1 month
|
|I didn't say I felt sorry for her, I said I felt kind of bad for
|her, BASED ON THE HEADLINE.
|u/tweda4 - 1 month
|
|The only thing I felt bad about when reading the headline is that
|it didn't say "hit with stick". I'm guessing you're not a Brit,
|is the more practical reason for having a moment of sympathy for
|her.
|u/firechaox - 1 month
|
|She called the centre of finance in the UK a bunch of communists just
|because they didn’t support her batshit insane plan
|u/Ma1nta1n3r - 1 month
|
|That was HI-LARIOUS! (Especially her reaction!) The biggest joke,
|however is that she considers this an attack on free speech, making her
|either the stupidest politician alive, after Trump, or the least self-
|aware (again, after trump). Regardless, it's apparent she intensely
|dislikes being confronted with her embarrassingly short and shameful
|tenure as PM. (Especially when it's hanging above her and she can't
|pretend it didn't happen.) Edit: Just watched it again and I don't know
|how the audience wasn't laughing their asses off!
|u/CheesyLala - 1 month
|
|She is clearly in some serious denial. Imagine striving all your life
|to reach the pinnacle of your ambitions, then getting there and
|fucking it up so spectacularly that you had to be removed just 7 weeks
|later (and would have been a lot less had it not been for the whole
|Queen thing). I just don't think her brain is able to process how
|badly she fucked it, so now she has gone all alt-right conspiracy-nut
|blaming anyone and everyone other than herself. I genuinely think if
|she didn't do that she would probably have the most spectacular
|breakdown.
|u/ttbnz - 1 month
|
|So long, farewell, bye bye!
|u/BigGingerYeti - 1 month
|
|They made her rage quit. She is wrong, it is very funny.
|u/YouKilledChurch - 1 month
|
|You know she sees that fucking head of lettuce in her nightmares
|u/wendiiiii - 1 month
|
|God I hope so
|u/Mr_fusi0n - 1 month
|
|The big question is why would anyone in Beccles want to go see her talk
|about Trump?
|u/JarJarBingChilling - 1 month
|
|So this is why she whined about freeze peach today and was brown nosing
|Muskrat on twitter…
|u/LeonGwinnett - 1 month
|
|The speed of this reveal... impeccable. Rest of World has a lot of
|ground to make up on the Brits after their offering here.
|u/userousnameous - 1 month
|
|I love the reaction.."it's intimidation and against free speech
|durhurr". No..its laughing at you when you attempt to rewrite history
|of your dipshit antics with your dipshit book. The post should be done
|in neon and attached to her future gravestone.
|u/BoodaSRK - 1 month
|
|Thin-skinned, narcissistic cowards. The 21st Century has been defined by
|them thus far. 😢
|u/therascalking0000 - 1 month
|
|Truss called Led By Donkeys “far-left activists” who used the stunt as a
|means to “intimidate people and suppress free speech”. Lady, the banner
|is free speech.
|u/Primalmalice - 1 month
|
|This was local to me, so proud of the hilarious people who pulled this
|off
|u/EpixA - 1 month
|
|It honestly baffles me that Liz Truss would ever wear the color green
|for a public speaking event. She looks like a lettuce. 
|u/ZincLloyd - 1 month
|
|As she ran from the building, Liz was heard screaming, “CURSE YOU,
|WOKENESS!”
|u/whichwitch9 - 1 month
|
|Guys. Just Leaf her alone.
|u/laika_rocket - 1 month
|
|Lettuce please move on.
|u/Worried_Jackfruit717 - 1 month
|
|Romaine calm.
|u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_8079 - 1 month
|
|It's the economy stupid
|u/giraffepimp - 1 month
|
|Incredible. Fucking farce that woman still has a job in politics. She
|needs to be cleaning toilets
|u/tweda4 - 1 month
|
|Well she's at least a *former* MP now that her constituency kicked her
|out. Still both infuriating and kind of baffling that literally
|anyone wants to associate with such a complete fucking failure, but
|apparently that's modern politics for you.
|u/giraffepimp - 1 month
|
|She’s probably getting paid something silly like £5k to sit there
|and give her thoughts on trump / politics.
|u/Hour_Landscape_286 - 1 month
|
|washing lettuce maybe
|u/TyhmensAndSaperstein - 1 month
|
|> Far-left activists disrupted the event, which then had to be stopped
|for security reasons. Ripping off your mic and walking off the stage is
|"security reasons"?
|u/CrunchTrapSupreme - 1 month
|
|As an AV person, this line made me cringe
|u/xaqaria - 1 month
|
|"Would we see the same reaction if the activists were far-right?” No,
|because they would have set the venue on fire instead of lowering a
|banner with lettuce on it.
|u/crash_over-ride - 1 month
|
|I need to agree with Liz here, that wasn't funny. That was really
|fucking funny.
|u/FaxOnFaxOff - 1 month
|
|Anyone else worried that Truss' politics seems to have lurched hard
|right since her debarcle as PM? It's either a huge act to carve out a
|lucrative persona and new career esp in the US (noting that now she is
|also no longer an MP after losing her seat in the recent GE) or else she
|hid her true political leaning and made it all the way to PM. Truss was
|once a centralist Liberal Democrat!
|u/MarkNutt25 - 1 month
|
|Nobody to the left of George W. Bush wants anything to do with her.
|Where else could she go, but into the waiting arms of the alt-right?
|u/FireMaker125 - 1 month
|
|It’s a grift. She’s trying to stay relevant because literally everyone
|hates her here. She was possibly the worst PM we got during the
|Tories’ time leading the country, which is an achievement considering
|she was up against Cameron, May, Johnson and Sunak.
|u/Hugh_Jankles - 1 month
|
|She's bitching and moaning about free speech because this happened. The
|irony is, THIS is exactly what free speech is. If she didn't like the
|banner, she should have done better. There was a reason she barely
|lasted in office. And then she starts talking about US politics and
|suggesting her opinion means anything? Warning Americans of the
|horrors of not getting Trump in office? It's laughable. Especially
|coming from this dumpster fire of a person.
|u/Responsible-Leg1372 - 1 month
|
|An utter failure, pledging support for another utter failure.
|u/poxtart - 1 month
|
|And she tried to spin this as an "attack on free speech" - I mean sure,
|if you don't care about the truth, just say anything you like, Liz!
|u/Interesting-End6344 - 1 month
|
|She says this was an attack on free speech? Sod off with that, it looks
|like they used their speech very freely to me.
|u/bigheaddoug - 1 month
|
|I absolutely love a good prank and this is definitely top-shelf. I’m
|amazed they pulled it off. I doff my cap to you, merry prankster(s).
|u/tandoori_taco_cat - 1 month
|
|>'attacks on free speech in Britain and Europe' Being made fun of is
|not an attack on free speech. She should have laughed at the banner and
|carried on.
|u/Caladeutschian - 1 month
|
|AND it is free speech to silently make such a comment. I don't know
|what she is complaining about. Or maybe she only wants her free
|speech.
|u/Bakedfresh420 - 1 month
|
|Idiot who crashed her own economy and embarrassed herself and her
|country supports Trump…yup that checks out
|u/failstante - 1 month
|
|Help! Help! I'm being suppressed! She said as she <checks notes>
|tantrums off the stage. 
|u/Odd_Ninja5801 - 1 month
|
|This is how you deal with right wing nutjobs that take themselves
|entirely too seriously. You point and laugh, and watch how badly they
|react to being mocked. Then you tell yourself, and anyone else who will
|listen, just how dangerous it is to put people like this into positions
|of power. Then you point to how much damage her short reign did. We
|need to keep pointing and laughing.
|u/poorbeans - 1 month
|
|No, Liz. That is funny. Fucking funny a head of lettuce outlasted you
|again.
|u/tutamtumikia - 1 month
|
|Imagine having thinner skin than lettuce.
|u/samcrut - 1 month
|
|Well, she is right. When she crashed the economy, it wasn't funny. The
|banner on the other hand is deliciously funny.
|u/fsactual - 1 month
|
|The inability to laugh at themselves really is conservative kryptonite,
|isn't it?
|u/prancing_moose - 1 month
|
|Liz Truss - the poster person of “I don’t understand economics”. Yes
|Liz, it was funny. It was very funny. 🤣
|u/VagueSoul - 1 month
|
|She claims the event had to be stopped for “security reasons”. Bullshit.
|She got pissy over the prank and refused to continue. The only security
|threat was the one to her ego.
|u/ernieishereagain - 1 month
|
|She's a fucking idiot.  I have proof of this on my pension graph.
|u/AA-WallLizard - 1 month
|
|Not gonna lie, that’s pretty funny
|u/BoratKazak - 1 month
|
|She couldn't bare to romaine on stage after such a humiliation
|u/alang - 1 month
|
|>Former PM says ‘that’s not funny’ when remote-controlled banner is
|unfurled behind her at event in Suffolk And if there's anyone you want
|to take advice from on what's funny and what's not it's a Tory PM.
|u/Prior_Industry - 1 month
|
|Show that it annoyed you, it's only going to keep happening more.
|u/Hour_Landscape_286 - 1 month
|
|she thought she was some kind of caesar. she needed a good dressing
|down. was only a matter of time until her career hit an iceberg.
|u/HeadFund - 1 month
|
|Lol I saw a picture of this and thought it was fake. She's a snowflake
|(and the banner is 100% true)
|u/famousevan - 1 month
|
|I thought there was no way it was real as well. I went and looked up
|the video and it was magnificent.
|u/Suspicious-Appeal386 - 1 month
|
|Could have simply ignored the banner and continued the conversation.
|Could have laughed at it and simply carried on. But no, she stood up
|and walked away and now complaining about Far Left censorship. These
|people are the worst .
|u/ArmsForPeace84 - 1 month
|
|Next Monday's headline: **Liz Truss walks out of Sunday services during
|'Come Let Us Adore Him' worship song** Former PM says "they didn't have
|to keep repeating it like that," after the popular spiritual hymn was
|performed by the congregation
|u/anevilpotatoe - 1 month
|
|You don't get to claim your Free-Speech-is-being-trampled-on card when
|you can't handle what you've doled out and fucked over a Country on.
|u/InMyLiverpoolHome - 1 month
|
|Being outlasted by a lettuce for a second time is just about the worst
|thing she could have done
|u/S0_Crates - 1 month
|
|>She said the prank was “not funny”. In a statement on X, Truss called
|Led By Donkeys “far-left activists” who used the stunt as a means to
|“intimidate people and suppress free speech”. That's the right for
|you. Gets made fun of, or called out on something, and they make some
|absurdist statement. How TF does that banner indicate the desire to
|suppress free speech?
|u/gera_moises - 1 month
|
|She's 0-2 against the lettuce
|u/rlbond86 - 1 month
|
|Felt bad for her until I read the article. Now I feel bad for the
|lettuce, nobody deserves to be compared to this woman.
|u/Anxious_Plum_5818 - 1 month
|
|Crashing the economy isn't funny either.
|u/Vinyl_Acid - 1 month
|
|it's funny to me, Liz, you fucking daft cunt
|u/dijicaek - 1 month
|
|>The former prime minister has previously criticised the Daily Star’s
|lettuce joke, saying it was not “particularly funny”, noting in June: “I
|just think it’s puerile.” If she supports Trump, shouldn't puerile be
|right up her alley?
|u/harrisarah - 1 month
|
|You deserve it and more, Truss, for supporting Trump and Musk. Freaking
|psycho. Not to mention for crashing the economy lol
|u/Al-dutaur-balanzan - 1 month
|
|Coming from the side that constantly berates liberal snowflakes, she is
|very much a snowflake
|u/Smart_Contract7575 - 1 month
|
|Can someone explain the joke behind this? As a non British person, I
|don't understand this.
|u/Infobomb - 1 month
|
|Liz Truss was a British Prime Minister who made absolutely disastrous
|decisions and had to resign after a few weeks, the shortest ever term
|for a PM. When she was in trouble, journalists predicted correctly
|that she wouldn't outlast a lettuce, and one tabloid newspaper set up
|a live stream of a lettuce. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz\_Truss\
|_lettuce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce)
|u/PineBNorth85 - 1 month
|
|Ha. Called it an attack on free speech? My god. 
|u/jai151 - 1 month
|
|“She went on to criticise the British media, claiming it was “known
|throughout the world for being particularly vociferous” and it is not
|“particularly deferential to politicians”.“ Sounds like a ringing
|endorsement of British media to me
|u/SchrodingersTIKTOK - 1 month
|
|I hope Nigel Farage gets equal treatment.
|u/benryves - 1 month
|
|You're in luck, the same people behind this banner unfurled one during
|one of his speeches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBoDiuN2WoY
|u/Nada_Shredinski - 1 month
|
|It is objectively funny Liz
|u/prophet1012 - 1 month
|
|Call👏🏾 Them👏🏾 Out👏🏾! I’m all here for it! Enough is enough already!
|u/Cantora - 1 month
|
|I can't wait to hear what John Oliver has to say about this
|u/not-a-spoon - 1 month
|
|It's a little funny though.
|u/TheSpatulaOfLove - 1 month
|
|I love British humor. It’s so soft and spongy when you first bite into
|it…until the razor blade cuts your mouth and sends you to the intensive
|care unit.
|u/FarceFactory - 1 month
|
|She called the stunt a “far-left attempt at suppression of free speech”
|which it is absolutely truly absurd to say that exercising free speech
|is trying to suppress it, but reprimanding and punishing free speech is
|not
|u/cannabisized - 1 month
|
|wearing green was a horrible choice....
|u/strgazr_63 - 1 month
|
|We Americans are so very grateful to have a woman of such great caliber
|that she transformed the UK government and economy into a slobbering
|mess in only 45 days! That was quite a feat.
|u/Kassssler - 1 month
|
|The fucked up thing is her plan was truly ridiculous and the kind of
|bullshit you'd expect from populisy anti intellectual dictators in
|shitfuckistan. "Lets cut taxes, but also increase spending! Whats the
|worse that could happen"
|u/fievrejaune - 1 month
|
|Truss’ kamikaze disastrous mini-budget cost the UK economy between
|£45 to £65 billion pounds, but it’s the immigrants who are going to
|steal your jobs. Tory Brexit Bullshit is a renewable resource.
|u/fievrejaune - 1 month
|
|Stage appearance lasted longer than her tenure as PM.
|u/rustoeki - 1 month
|
|Thinner skin than 45 day old lettuce leaf.
|u/Arcterion - 1 month
|
|>This is done to intimidate people and suppress free speech. lmao
|u/Dinkelberh - 1 month
|
|She's complaining about this being 'intimidation' to prevent her 'free
|speech' - in what world is the level of criticism that is 'you performed
|poorly in office' considered 'intimidation'? Outrageous that she would
|claim they shouldn't have the right to criticism of her politics through
|the justification of it being anti-free speech - I can't be the only one
|who sees how weird that is?
|u/EzeakioDarmey - 1 month
|
|Maybe someone who couldn't last 2 months in office shouldn't be
|discussing politics at all, let alone other countries.
|u/dd97483 - 1 month
|
|F her and her f ing party. She is the ultimate Dumbass.
|u/Tomahawk72 - 1 month
|
|Thats hilarious
|u/obeytheturtles - 1 month
|
|How are Tories this fucking cringe?
|u/Crit-D - 1 month
|
|I love how a banner about a head of lettuce in the background is
|"intimidating and suppressing free speech".
|u/ffdfawtreteraffds - 1 month
|
|Such a fool.
|u/marcozumaro - 1 month
|
|She's wrong. It's funny because it's true
|u/momoenthusiastic - 1 month
|
|OOTL. what is the gag with the lettuce?
|u/JadedIdealist - 1 month
|
|[Here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce)
|u/momoenthusiastic - 1 month
|
|lol. This is gold.  Edit: also, there’s betting on the lettuce
|which is so British. lol 
|u/waffle299 - 1 month
|
|Weird.
|u/oandakid718 - 1 month
|
|As an American, I wonder why we can’t have a laugh about our politicians
|in the same manner. The culture is so removed…
|u/jolie_j - 1 month
|
|Did you know that in the UK trump means fart?
|u/schadkehnfreude - 1 month
|
|She's such a fucking soft snowflake that I'm reminded that snowflakes
|are the main ingredient in icebergs.  Which are in turn also a type of
|lettuce, so that all tracks.
|u/midtnrn - 1 month
|
|This is so stupid I’m gonna have to conduct multiple viability tests
|just to be sure.
|u/OiVeyM8 - 1 month
|
|I'm here for the petty.
|u/Unbr3akableSwrd - 1 month
|
|Article says that she walked out… by herself… how is that free speech
|suppression/intimidation?
|u/Bitch_Posse - 1 month
|
|You’d think her humiliation was already complete. But no, these types
|just keep sticking their hand in the blender.
|u/Agreeable_Ad9844 - 1 month
|
|Love this for her
|u/Eastern-Reindeer6838 - 1 month
|
|Such an uninformed and stupid politician. Well okay, she's not as
|devious as BJ.
|u/Professional-End2722 - 1 month
|
|Truss has a really shitty attitude. She has no grace in defeat. Although
|I am a Labour voter it’s easy to see Sunak has much more class than her.
|The way the power transition happened is a lesson many other governments
|could learn. It would not have been that gracious under Lettuce Liz.
|u/adymck11 - 1 month
|
|Conservatives are good at politics, but shit at government
|u/zorniy2 - 1 month
|
|Meanwhile, Teresa May sips a cup of tea like Kermit.
|u/hoxxxxx - 1 month
|
|i wonder what kind of grift she's even trying to do here. isn't she
|thought of as one of the worst PMs in modern history? like by both sides
|of the aisle? lol
|u/uhhuhubetcha - 1 month
|
|She said "that isn't funny" as she left. Come on now, no need to lie.
|That is clearly funny. Especially how slowly it was lowered as she was
|talking like a slow reveal. & taking your ball & going home isn't going
|to do her any favors... as long as it continues to get to her, it won't
|go away.
|u/OliverOyl - 1 month
|
|I feel like this is what eating the rich looks like in 2024 generally
|lol, I am here for it!
|u/whooo_me - 1 month
|
|It's almost like a tongue-twister. "Lettuce leaves? Liz Leaves! Lettuce
|leaves? Liz leaves!"
|u/Zedrackis - 1 month
|
|> Liz Truss left the stage abruptly at an event to promote her own book
|Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, write
|books. Conservatives write a lot of books.
|u/Kaaski - 1 month
|
|Is she known for dressing like a head of cabbage, or was that just
|lucky?
|u/Affectionate_Fan_650 - 1 month
|
|"She went on to criticise the British media, claiming it was “known
|throughout the world for being particularly vociferous” and it is not
|“particularly deferential to politicians”." Yes, Journalism 101: Leave
|politicians with no challenge and booster at the least.
|u/Ronaldis - 1 month
|
|Man that gave me a laugh. That was a missed opportunity IMHO. I would
|have owned it, twisted it around, made it mine and continue with the
|“chat”. Wimp!
|u/HoidToTheMoon - 1 month
|
|>“What happened last night was not funny. Far-left activists disrupted
|the event, which then had to be stopped for security reasons. This is
|done to intimidate people and suppress free speech. The security
|reasons being that she had to go cuddle her security blankie
|u/ElectricTzar - 1 month
|
|She said “that’s not funny.” Which might help explain why she only
|lasted 45 days as Minister for Comedy.
|u/zyzzogeton - 1 month
|
|She has been worried about "Attacks on Free Speech" like this... so what
|is she proposing? Censoring them? Brilliant.
|u/alfienoakes - 1 month
|
|Is she so delusional to think that anything she says is of value?
|u/Garchompisbestboi - 1 month
|
|It truly warms my heart that people are not only bullying this stupid
|woman but apparently when she gets bullied it is considered to be "world
|news". She's going to be spending the rest of her life living in shame.
|u/BimbleKitty - 1 month
|
|Unfortunately she has no shame and takes no responsibility
|u/ThunderRoad_44 - 1 month
|
|Lettuce Liz
|u/arnoldtheinstructor - 1 month
|
|It's crazy how predictable this lot are. Ousted from position of power?
|Just go on a Conservative-event spree as a speaker. None of the people
|at those events gives a shit that you lasted just 49 days as Prime
|Minister as long as you're promoting talking points they believe in.
|How can you even take her seriously as a speaker?
|u/itsl8erthanyouthink - 1 month
|
|One thing that I actually do appreciate about Trump is that he functions
|as a societal litmus test. I learned of a word while watching reruns of
|*The West Wing* and its shibboleth. >shibboleth: a word or saying used
|by adherents of a party, sect, or belief and usually regarded by others
|as empty of real meaning Someone can easily say “I don’t support Trump”
|and they could be lying in order to save face with friends, family and
|colleagues. But, when they openly say, “I support Trump” they are
|admitting to the world the type of person they are. In some instances I
|could see a child lying to their parent about supporting Trump just to
|prevent a lecture, but in open conversation there’s little to no benefit
|to admitting this stance, so it’s likelihood of being true is almost
|perfect. I find this level of quick receiving of knowledge about a
|person to be very effective in telling me whether I want to continue in
|a relationship with them. Before, I’d get a feeling a person might be an
|asshole, but maybe it’s just a bad day. Sometimes they are fine. With
|someone willingly saying they are Trump supporter I am no longer in
|doubt as to whether they are good person that has the occasional bad
|day. Now I know this person is a perpetual asshole and I no longer have
|to think whether I won’t to continue communicating with them. It’s a
|quick and easy way to filter out people that might otherwise be tricked
|into thinking they can be trusted. So, for that, I appreciate Trump
|functioning as an asshole litmus test
|u/wongrich - 1 month
|
|Led by Donkeys is a great political party name lol
|u/aceofspades1217 - 1 month
|
|Thought they were referring to the podcast Lions Led By Donkeys although
|I wouldn’t put it past trashfuture to do it especially since Liz Truss
|was anti trans as well
|u/Complex_Professor412 - 1 month
|
|Reminds me of the HMS Titanic
|u/spacebread98 - 1 month
|
|Jd Vance
|u/thelaughingmagician- - 1 month
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|I either forgot or completely missed this when it happened, so I had to
|google it. Found out that, fun fact, there is a wikipedia page
|specifically for Liz Truss Lettuce
|u/bouchdon85 - 1 month
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|Im American and I only remember her "pork markets" speech and how she
|looked waiting for applause. Wats the deal with the lettuce and truss.
|u/bloodandsunshine - 1 month
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|Why doesnt she just do some popular and profitable things for a while to
|change the narrative? Weird to double down on sucking.
|u/New-Border8172 - 1 month
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|But I thought she's not a quitter.
|u/HussingtonHat - 1 month
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|Liz.....you'll only get speaking engagements if you embrace the whole
|"total shithouse of a PM" gimmick. No ones paying to hear you talk about
|how to do shit well.
|u/James-K-Polka - 1 month
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|At least when James Acaster got cabbaged, he got a comedy bit out of it.
|u/gmotelet - 1 month
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|Loving the ad placement on here https://postimg.cc/9DCj4LLH
|https://postimg.cc/8jhSP2Bb
|u/Agent0fChaoZ - 1 month
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|At least it wasn't a 'you killed Her Majesty' banner.
|u/Mix1009 - 1 month
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|I’m a bit OOTL. I remember her being generally awful, but what does the
|lettuce have to do with it?
|u/Agadtobote - 1 month
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|There was a bet to see how can last longer, her or a lettuce.
|u/AroraCorealis - 1 month
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|the only thing i remember about her is her ranting about british pears
|or something
|u/YakitoriMonster - 1 month
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|Our senior politicians seem to lack a thick skin and a sense of humour
|these days. It was a harmless prank and I don’t blame her for still
|being sore about what happened when she was PM but she could have
|handled this better.
|u/JustCopyingOthers - 1 month
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|What's more disturbing is that she blamed the prank on “far-left
|activists” who used the stunt as a means to “intimidate people and
|suppress free speech” I can understand that she wants to move on and
|there's little to be gained by continuing to bring it up, but she just
|perpetuates her situation with statements like that.
|u/TXTCLA55 - 1 month
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|Ah come on Liz, you said you were a fighter right? Although you said
|that and then resigned the next day.
|u/count023 - 1 month
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|Beats the "I Highlanders Liz Ii" banner I would have gone with
|u/PrincipleInteresting - 1 month
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|I thought it was funny.
|u/Paulskenesstan42069 - 1 month
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|Big Truss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XBsof8qKx4
|u/GiveIt2MeBigDaddy - 1 month
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|I would love to know the reason why the queen chose her.
|u/SlyScorpion - 1 month
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|Because it's a ceremonial formality. The monarch can't really reject a
|PM without causing a constitutional crisis AFAIK.
|u/highrouleur - 1 month
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|Even before the banner dropped, she sounded quite drunk when talking
|u/Agadtobote - 1 month
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|The economy was already crashing before she took the job.
|u/showmiaface - 1 month
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|That was GLORIOUS!
|u/jakegh - 1 month
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|Best part is her dress looks rather lettuce-esque. If I were Truss I
|wouldn't even wear green on St. Patrick's day.
|u/smoochiegotgot - 1 month
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|Sometimes I just LOVE people. You hilarious fuckers get me through the
|day 🙂
|u/Wolpfack - 1 month
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|So, they are trying to 'intimidate people and suppress free speech,'
|Liz? Mmmmkay. Show us where they stopped you from babbling. What a
|twit she is.
|u/hirespeed - 1 month
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|I don’t have a dog in the fight for or against her politically, but this
|is funny. Ya gotta laugh, or it will sink you, lady.
|u/niceguybadboy - 1 month
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|The joke was cabbage, not lettuce.
|u/Violator604bc - 1 month
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|She was the best-looking female prime minister. She was definitely not
|as good as Lord palmerston.
|u/CoachBrooks - 1 month
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|just double checking and I truly don't mean to be crude, but... Can I
|make out the Lizz's clam from that camera angle
|u/Leo_Ascendent - 1 month
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|Would the left act the same if the right did it? Sure, if it was just a
|banner. They usually show up with guns though, so....
|u/poxtart - 1 month
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|The right generally do not have the wit to do something like this. As
|you alluded, the right would rather just threaten and bully people.
|u/RedofPaw - 1 month
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|The right do show up with guns. Indeed it was a registered Republican
|gun lover who shot at trump. But then again, ridicule, calling out
|how weird they are, seems to be doing a good job against republicans
|so I say ridicule is the correct approach.
|u/Slaan - 1 month
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|And you see no difference in a prank vs showing up with guns?
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