Donald Trump is finally scheduled to visit Britain.

Just make sure there are no protesters. I hate protesters.

Courtesy of The Guardian: 

Donald Trump will make a “working visit” to the UK on Friday 13 July, the UK and US have both confirmed, with the US president set to meet the Queen during the trip. 

The visit, which will take place immediately after a Nato summit in Brussels, will include bilateral talks with Theresa May, according to Britain’s ambassador to the US.

It will not, however, be the full state visit the US president was promised when May visited Washington last year, meaning he will not be honoured with an official banquet at Buckingham Palace or a carriage procession up the Mall. 

Downing Street has insisted the invitation for a full state visit still stands, but there is no timetable for it to take place.

May invited Trump for a state visit when she became the first world leader to meet the president in the White House in January last year.

It was downgraded to a “working trip” after huge public opposition to the visit and MPs said Trump should not be given the opportunity to address parliament. He has clashed publicly with London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, who has said the president’s visit would result in mass peaceful protests and that Trump’s values were the polar opposite of Londoners’. 

I can only imagine how badly Trump will embarrass America when he visits the Queen.

There are already mass protests planned: 

Jeremy Corbyn-backing activist and commentator Owen Jones took to Facebook to urge Britons to join mass demonstrations against the visit. 

Writing on the 'Protest Trump's Visit' Facebook group - which has over 100,000 people interested in it, he wrote: 'It's official; Donald Trump is visiting the UK on 13th July. 

'Everyone out on the streets! Invite everyone you know to this event.'

Police have been bracing themselves for what could be the biggest protests the country has seen. 

So apparently this will go off like every other event planned by the Trump White House. 

The day after the Stormy Daniels interview Donald Trump kicks 60 Russian officials out of the country. Because you know that's not obvious.

Look I may have to kick out a couple of Russians to save face here. If that's okay with you of course.

Courtesy of NPR: 

President Trump ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian officials from the United States and ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in the Seattle, the White House announced Monday. 

The move follows the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in the English city of Salisbury on March 4.

The officials and their families have been given seven days to leave the U.S. Of the 60 officers being expelled, 48 are members of the Russian embassy and 12 are officers from Russia's mission to the United Nations in New York. 

The consulate in Seattle is being shuttered due to its proximity to a U.S. submarine base and Boeing's operations there, a senior administration official said. Russia has been given the deadline of April 2 for its closure. 

"The United States takes this action in conjunction with our NATO allies, and partners around the world in response with Russia's use of a military grade chemical weapon on the soil of the United Kingdom — the latest in its ongoing pattern of destabilizing activities around the world," the official said. 

Please, is anybody buying this? 

Skripal was poisoned 22 days ago, during which time the White House refused to identify Russia as the culprit behind the attack. 

And now the day after the world learns that being spanked with a magazine makes the president respect you more, we are kicking out Russians willy nilly.

I have seen some clumsy attempts to divert media attention before, but this may be the most pathetic.

Cambridge Analytica is under siege. And that's good news.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

British investigators on Friday night searched the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the data-analytics company that harvested data from 50 million Facebook users to develop psychological profiles on behalf of political campaigns, including that of President Trump. 

About 20 investigators from Britain’s data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office, descended on the company’s offices on New Oxford Street after obtaining a search warrant from the High Court. 

“We are pleased with the decision of the judge, and the warrant is now being executed,” the office of the information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, said in a statement. “This is just one part of a larger investigation into the use of personal data and analytics for political purposes. As you will expect, we will now need to collect, assess and consider the evidence before coming to any conclusions.” 

Last Saturday, the same day The New York Times and The Observer of London published a detailed look at the company’s use of Facebook data, Ms. Denham’s office announced an investigation into “the circumstances in which Facebook data may have been illegally acquired and used.”

What is that passage in the Bible about reaping what you sow again?

If that were not enough bad news for Cambridge Analytica, they are also on Robert Mueller's radar.

Courtesy of the AP:

Special counsel Robert Mueller is scrutinizing the connections between President Donald Trump’s campaign and the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, which has come under fierce criticism over reports that it swiped the data of more than 50 million Facebook users to sway elections. 

Mueller’s investigators have asked former campaign officials about the Trump campaign’s data operations, particularly about how it collected and utilized voter data in battleground states, according to a person with direct knowledge of the line of inquiry but not authorized to discuss it publicly. 

The investigators have also asked some of Trump’s data team, which included analysts at the Republican National Committee, about its relationship with Cambridge Analytica, according to two former campaign officials. The campaign paid the firm just under $6 million for its work in 2016, according to federal records.

And there is plenty to go after here, as this company had connections not just to the Trump campaign, but also past and current members of the Trump Administration.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

In an interview with the New York Times, Wylie says that Bolton’s PAC was alarmed by polling trends showing that more and more Americans viewed war unfavorably — and it wanted to construct an advertising campaign aimed at reversing those views. 

“The Bolton PAC was obsessed with how America was becoming limp wristed and spineless and it wanted research and messaging for national security issues,” said Wylie, a data expert who was a key figure in the founding of Cambridge Analytica. “That really meant making people more militaristic in their worldview. That’s what they said they wanted, anyway.” 

Bolton’s PAC hired Cambridge Analytica months after it was founded in 2014, and the firm’s work with Bolton’s group became an example that it used to pitch potential clients about the value of its data harvesting model. 

Emails viewed by the Times suggest that former Trump political strategist Steve Bannon had some role in setting up contacts between Bolton and Cambridge Analytica, as an email from a Cambridge Analytica employee sent to Bolton specifically mentioned Bannon in its subject header.

 I am guessing that Cambridge is out of the data analysis business for the time being at least.

And this is a warning shot to any others who may want to adopt their business model. 

The leader of a far right British group, who Donald Trump retweeted, has been found guilty of hate crimes.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

The leader of a far-right British political group who was retweeted by President Trump has been found guilty of hate crimes. 

Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, was found guilty on three counts of religiously aggravated harassment, BBC News reported Wednesday. Britain First leader Paul Golding was found guilty on one count. 

Fransen and Golding were found guilty for posting videos during a gang rape trial, where three Muslim men and a teenager were convicted. They filmed themselves targeting people they believed were connected to that case and released the videos on social media and the party's website.

Oh, well they seem nice.

And their Islamophobic points of view earned them a fan in America:

Trump sparked controversy in November after he retweeted a video from Fransen that purported to show Muslims carrying out acts of violence against people and smashing a statue of the Virgin Mary. 

British Prime Minister Theresa May criticized Trump for the tweet, and London's mayor urged authorities to cancel a planned visit.

Boy not only does Trump hire the very best people to work in the White House but he makes the very best online friends as well. 

Pro-Trump protesters attempted to make a citizen's arrest of outspoken London Mayor Sadiq Khan yesterday.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail: 

This is the dramatic moment a group of far-right Trump supporters tried to arrest Sadiq Khan while quoting the Magna Carta. 

The men stormed the Fabian Society conference in London moments after the mayor took to the stage and accused him of 'subverting the English constitution'. 

Mr Khan's speech had to be suspended for several minutes as the demonstrators from a group called the White Pendragons were escorted out by police. 

The chaos appeared to have been sparked by Mr Khan's comments about the US President's decision to cancel his UK visit. 

Mr Trump claimed he pulled out of opening the new American embassy in London because he disagreed with the decision to sell off the old building for 'peanuts'. 

But Mr Khan said it was clear that Mr Trump had 'got the message that many Londoners' did not want him here. 

As the London Mayor started to speak at today's event, the protesters stood up and shouted that they were making a 'citizen's arrest'. 

I am assuming that these idiots are much like our own "sovereign citizens" who think they have the right to open carry automatic weapons into police stations, and don't have to own a driver's license to drive.

Nice to see that Trump supporters in other countries are just as ignorant and ridiculous as the ones in this country.

Donald Trump cancels his visit to London.

Courtesy of The Guardian: 

Donald Trump has cancelled a visit to Britain next month to open the new US embassy in London, amid fears of mass protests.

The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, said Trump had “got the message” that many Londoners staunchly opposed his policies and actions. 

“It appears that President Trump got the message from the many Londoners who love and admire America and Americans but find his policies and actions the polar opposite of our city’s values of inclusion, diversity and tolerance,” Khan said on Friday. 

“His visit next month would without doubt have been met by mass peaceful protests. This just reinforces what a mistake it was for Theresa May to rush and extend an invitation of a state visit in the first place.”

But Trump wants everybody to know that he is not cancelling the trip due to the protests, but rather he is making a protest of his own. 

Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2018

Oh yeah, that's it.

Not the possibility of being humiliated by the protesters and embarrassed by the British reporters.

Seriously?

The European response to Michael Wolff's book has been outright shock.

Tomorrow's front page: Trump’s mental health questioned by top aide #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/mE0d6NkM0S

— The Times of London (@thetimes) January 4, 2018

Courtesy of WaPo: 

European commentary on President Trump is rarely flattering, but the cascading revelations alleged in Michael Wolff’s tell-all book “Fire and Fury,” drew an especially fierce response from a horrified continent. 

“Is Trump still sane?” asked the Friday lead headline on the site of Germany’s most respected conservative paper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The piece was published under the topic “mental health.” 

Meanwhile, British readers woke up to the Times of London's main front page headline that also wondered about the president’s stability: “Trump’s mental health questioned by top aide.” 

“Donald Trump’s right-hand man openly questioned his fitness to serve and predicted that he would resign to avoid being removed by his own cabinet, according to a book that the US president tried to block yesterday,” wrote the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Times of London.

For its part, France’s paper of record, Le Monde, just described the book as “haunting.” 

Trump has never been too popular in Western Europe, with approval ratings in many countries hovering in the single or lower double digits. But even though disagreement with Trump has almost become the norm here, some of Friday’s public responses to Wolff’s book still appeared unprecedented.

Let's face it, Donald Trump was NEVER going to gain any real credibility in Europe.

Those people have first hand knowledge of dealing with thin skinned megalomaniacs.

But I think that this book by Michael Wolff is going to make even those who have seemed more open to negotiating with Trump, like Britain's Theresa May, think twice about dealing with a man deemed stupid or even mentally ill by his closest subordinates.

In other words the world likely no longer sees America as having a functional leader, and there is no way that is good for our country.

British government begs Prince Harry not to invite Barack Obama to his wedding for fer of angering the orange tyrant in the White House.

Courtesy of The Sun: 

Harry and fiancée Meghan Markle have told aides they want the former US president and wife Michelle at their big day on May 19.

The 33-year-old prince has become good friends with the Obamas since bonding with them during the Invictus Games. 

But Britain’s relations with Trump’s White House have sunk to their lowest ebb since his election last year.

There are deep fears among senior Foreign Office and No10 officials that another perceived national snub will make it impossible for Theresa May to meaningfully engage with Trump. 

A senior government source said: “Harry has made it clear he wants the Obamas at the wedding, so it’s causing a lot of nervousness. 

“Trump could react very badly if the Obamas get to a Royal wedding before he has had a chance to meet the Queen.

“Conversations are ongoing about and ministers will eventually have to decide. If the PM lays down the law, Harry will just have to suck it up.” 

As the wedding is not a state occasion, the Government only have a consultative role in its organization and heads of state will not be invited.

First off can you believe you just read that?

Quite literally the British government is trying to dissuade a prince from inviting a personal friend to his own wedding, because it might anger the sitting president of the United States and may negatively impact foreign relations with our country.

That is literally insane.

Of course the thing is that Prince Harry is well known for breaking the rules, so I imagine that Brits will have a hard time convincing him to make a decision like this.

And he absolutely SHOULD NOT!

This is HIS goddamn wedding, Obama is HIS goddamn friend, and this should be NOBODY'S goddamn business.

I still think that Harry and Meghan should make Obama part of their wedding party, and send a huge "fuck you" to Tangerine Hitler.

Twitter has shut down account of Muslim bashing British woman who Donald Trump retweeted in November.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

A far-right British activist who gained prominence after President Trump retweeted her anti-Muslim tweets in November had her Twitter account suspended on Monday as part of the social network’s effort to crack down on hate speech. 

Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of far-right British group Britain First, saw her account suspended as part of a Twitter-wide crackdown on hate gorups. 

In November, President Trump retweeted three videos from Fransen's account that purported to show Muslims committing acts of violence. 

Fransen’s account, along with others connected to Britain First, now appear to be suspended. 

Trump’s retweets prompted lawmakers in the U.S. and U.K. to speak out against Trump and Britain First, with several British lawmakers calling for his state visit to the country to be canceled. 

After the Dutch Embassy disputed the veracity of one of the videos Trump retweeted, the White House defended Trump's actions, saying that it "doesn't matter" if the videos are real or not because the "threat is real."

Sure Twitter shuts down this racist, fake news spewing POS, but yet it allows this one to keep right on spreading misinformation.

Wow, more than 90% of Fake News Media coverage of me is negative, with numerous forced retractions of untrue stories. Hence my use of Social Media, the only way to get the truth out. Much of Mainstream Meadia has become a joke! @foxandfriends

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2017

Doesn't seem fair really. 

London borough passes a motion saying that Donald Trump is simply not welcome in their area of the city.

Donald Trump is not welcome here.

Courtesy of The Independent:  

A London council has called on the Government to revoke its state visit invitation to the “bigoted” US President after he shared messages from a far-right group. 

A motion passed by the Royal Borough of Greenwich vowed that Donald Trump “would not be welcome” in the area if the engagement goes ahead. 

Councillors said they were alarmed by Donald Trump’s decision to retweet Islamophobic posts by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First.“

Council further notes with sadness the President’s bigoted attitude towards women and ethnic minorities which has resulted in examples of division and hatred within the US,” it continued. 

“As such, Council calls upon the Government to abandon plans to invite Donald Trump on a state visit to the UK.” 

Councillors said the huge security costs of the trip should be paid instead to charities that “promote peace and understanding”, such as the Jo Cox Foundation.

There's Donald Trump "Making America Great Again." 

I swear this is like the rest of the world's reaction to George W. Bush's stupidity and warmongering, only on steroids.

Former British Prime Minister says that Trump's attack on the media, and use of term "fake news," is dangerous.

Courtesy of Politico:

Former British Prime Minister David Cameron called out Donald Trump’s attacks on the media, saying his use of term “fake news” was “dangerous.” 

Giving Transparency International UK’s annual lecture in London on Wednesday evening, Cameron said attacks on journalists were “bad news for the fight against corruption.” 

He then turned his attention to the U.S. president, saying: “When Donald Trump uses the term ‘fake news’ to describe CNN and the BBC, that is not just a questionable political tactic. It’s actually dangerous.”

“Of course broadcasters make mistakes and it’s right they correct them,” Cameron said. “But what is being attempted here goes far beyond that. It’s an attempt to question the whole legitimacy of organizations that have an important role in our democracy. 

“Let me put it like this. President Trump: ‘Fake news’ is not broadcasters criticizing you, it’s Russian bots and trolls targeting your democracy … pumping out untrue stories day after day, night after night.”

This is how the world sees the current Commander-in-Chief, as a thin skinned buffoon.

And they are correct to do so.

Outspoken Brits don't want Franklin Graham and other American hate mongering Evangelical ministers anywhere near them.

Courtesy of HuffPo:  

Several British pastors and politicians are voicing concerns about a controversial American evangelist’s plans to preach in the U.K. next year. 

Franklin Graham, a prominent evangelical pastor who has made blatantly homophobic and Islamophobic statements in the past, is scheduled to headline the Lancashire Festival of Hope in Blackpool in September 2018. Graham’s three-day event — similar to the “crusades” once led by his famous father, Billy Graham — is reportedly taking place with the blessing of more than 300 church leaders and members in England. 

But not all residents of the area are enthused about Graham coming to town. Some have urged the U.K.’s home secretary Amber Rudd to ban the preacher from entering the country altogether, the Guardian reports. 

Nina Parker, the pastor of a church in Blackpool, told HuffPost in an email that she’s worried that Graham’s visit could embolden those who are prejudiced toward Muslims and queer people to express that hate. 

“It will give oxygen to those who hate as they will be aware of hatred being expressed by a man of high status in the Church,” Parker wrote to HuffPost. “It will portray a Trump style, hard line, hate filled version of Christianity devoid of understanding of and acceptance of ordinary people. It will destroy the reputation of Christianity in this region as it will be assumed that this man speaks for all. It will bring Christians into disrepute.”

Parker has more than 60,000 signatures on a petition to block Graham and his merry band of trouble makers from poisoning the UK with their hate speech. 

Personally I wish we could start a petition here in America to kick Franklin Graham and his toxic crew of evangelicals the hell out of this country.

But it wouldn't help.

Even if they left they would be quickly replaced by more just like them, some perhaps even worse.

You know it seems these days that all America exports anymore is stupidity, racism, and intolerance.

I guess that's what MAGA really means.

So Donald Trump spent the morning retweeting a British fascist once convicted of verbally abusing a Muslim woman, in order to inflame his base.

VIDEO: Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches! pic.twitter.com/11LgbfFJDq

— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 28, 2017

VIDEO: Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary! pic.twitter.com/qhkrfQrtjV

— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 29, 2017

VIDEO: Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death! pic.twitter.com/XxtlxNNSiP

— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 29, 2017

The thing about that last video is that you KNOW that if fundamentalist Christians could get away with throwing gay people off of roof tops that it would actually be raining men in no time.

These videos are of course supposed to anger and upset you, and indeed they are terrible.

However for every video of a Muslim doing something terrible, you can be sure that there is one of a Jew, Christian, or Hindu doing something equally appalling.

Simply put people do terrible things for a variety of reasons, religion being only one of them.

However more to the point is the fact that Donald Trump is not just retweeting a supporter, he is retweeting a convicted fascist.

Courtesy of The Independent:

The deputy leader of Britain First has been found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment afer she hurled abuse at a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. 

Jayda Fransen, 30, was fined nearly £2,000 for wearing a political uniform and shouting at Sumayyah Sharpe during a "Christian patrol" of Bury Park in Luton, on Saturday 23 January. 

Fransen admitted telling Ms Sharpe that Muslim men force women to cover up to avoid being raped "because they cannot control their sexual urges", adding "that's why they are coming into my country raping women across the continent".

Ms Sharpe was with her four young children at the time.

I certainly have no warm feelings concerning Islam, nor any other organized religion, and rapists deserve the harshest of punishments under the law, but this woman was with her children and doing no harm to anybody.

To verbally assault her in a public place, in front of her babies, is unconscionable.

And I can all but guarantee you that now with the man in the White House retweeting all of this, that we will see soon more of that kind of behavior on our own streets as well.

Methinks that something is coming soon, and the tangerine tinted Hitler does not want us talking about it.

A photograph of British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson standing with the elusive Russian "Professor" shows up on social media. Uh oh.

Update: I did some extra digging. The Olga account in question liked a pic of a certain man in London. That certain man was at an event attended by Mifsud and Boris Johnson two weeks ago where this pic was taken. Isn't that Mifsud on the left with the British foreign secretary? pic.twitter.com/fTNJSnwPLp

— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) November 11, 2017

Yep, that's who that is alright.

Courtesy of Politico: 

A photograph has emerged of British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson with the “London professor” whose alleged high-level Kremlin contacts have led to him featuring in the FBI’s investigation into links between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia. 

It will add to questions about the possibility of attempted Russian influence at the heart of the British government. 

The picture, which was posted on Facebook shows Johnson, wine glass in hand, standing with Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese academic and a businessman, Prasenjit Kumar Singh. It is alleged that Mifsud was a key link between Russia and the Trump campaign.

You may remember that this is the same "Professor" who supposedly compromised George Papadopoulos while he was working with the Trump campaign, by tempting him with access to those fabled Hillary emails.

You may also remember that this "Professor" is now missing.

New evidence has recently come to light that the Russians used Twitter to influence the pro-Brexit vote that Boris Johnson promoted as well, and there is substantial evidence that they also interfered in a variety of other ways.

So could compromising Boris Johnson be one of those "other ways?"

Could be. 

Of course it could also just be a coincidence that Boris Johnson is photographed hanging out with the same Russian operative who interfered in the 2016 American presidential campaign.

You know just like all of those "coincidences" where folks on the Trump campaign all seemed to have worked independently to get their hands on those non-existent Hillary emails.

Donald Trump's visit to the UK has been downgraded.

Courtesy of The Independent:  

Donald Trump’s planned state visit to the UK in 2018 has been downgraded to a “working visit”, likely forming part of a multi-country tour, it has been reported. 

It means the billionaire will not be a guest of the Queen, as was previously envisaged. 

Theresa May’s offer of a state visit to the first-term President was greeted with the threat of mass protests by opponents. 

Mr Trump’s visit will now take place without the glitz and pomp of a full state visit, the Evening Standard reported.

It seems only fair that this visit be downgraded.

After all thanks to Donald Trump the presidency has been downgraded as well. 

Donald Trump responds to news of a possible terrorist attack in London by suggesting the internet be "cut off" and pushing for tougher travel ban.

So this happened this morning.

Courtesy of NBC News: 

A device that triggered a rush-hour fire aboard a subway train in the British capital was being investigated as terrorism Friday, police said. 

Authorities confirmed 22 people had been injured at Parsons Green Tube station in southwest London. None of their wounds — mostly superficial burns — were considered serious or life-threatening. 

Investigators were examining the remains of an improvised explosive device.

Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing, said the detonation was being treated as a "terrorist incident."

The investigation is currently at the evidence gathering stage and the British police are being tight lipped as they do their jobs.

However that did not stop our Twitler-in-Chief from jumping in with his opinions.

Another attack in London by a loser terrorist.These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2017

Loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner.The internet is their main recruitment tool which we must cut off & use better!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2017

Wait, cutting off the internet? Cutting it off for who?

The travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific-but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2017

Remember Trump as this point has NO idea who carried out this attack, including whether they were a British citizen or not.

We have made more progress in the last nine months against ISIS than the Obama Administration has made in 8 years.Must be proactive & nasty!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2017

Also completely untrue.

According to some news sources it appears that Trump is jumping to hasty conclusions and even perhaps sharing information that the authorities are keeping close to the vest.

Courtesy of The Independent: 

The tweet came after another message in which he appeared to suggest that the attacker had been known to police, despite Scotland Yard not having said so. "These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard," he posted in a preceding message. 

Donald Trump has a history of jumping to false conclusions and stepping all over investigations.

He is essentially guilty of doing the very thing that he accuses the media of doing, trying to be first with the story despite not having gathered sufficient evidence.

Number of people that now identify as having no religion is over 50% in Britain.

Courtesy of The Friendly Atheist:  

A survey from the National Centre for Social Research, just released today, finds that a record number of British people have no religious affiliation at all. 53% of people said they didn’t belong to any organized religion, which is up 5% from just a year ago. 

Researchers with the British Social Attitudes survey asked participants, “Do you regard yourself as belonging to any particular religion?” If they said yes, they were asked which one. That phrasing makes a difference. If researchers had offered a multiple choice list of religions, with “No religion” as an option, it’s possible many people would have responded with the religion of their youth despite no longer practicing it. But when asked up front if they’re religious, it’s much easier to honestly say no. 

Since 1983, when this survey began, the number has grown pretty steadily with only a few slight dips in between. And the rise of the Nones is commensurate with the decline of the Church of England. 

What is even more exciting is that a full 71% of folks aged 18-24 now identify as non-religious, so the future looks bright indeed.

It is still my firm opinion that religion itself is an outdated and antiquated idea which no longer serves any real purpose except to dumb down the populace and convince them to vote for idiotic things like Donald Trump and Brexit.

My goal is to live long enough to see the majority of the world identify at non-religious before I die.

So what do you think, do I need to live to be a hundred or a hundred and fifty?

Fox News pulled off the air in Britain. They could not find an audience dumb enough to watch apparently.

Courtesy of CNN:

Rupert Murdoch and his sons are pulling Fox News off the air in Britain. The network's parent company, 21st Century Fox, has announced that the controversial news channel will no longer be broadcast in the U.K. after failing to attract an audience. 

The network has also become a lightning rod for critics seeking to spoil the Murdochs' planned $15 billion takeover of Sky, the top pay TV provider in the U.K. 

"Fox News is focused on the U.S. market and designed for a U.S. audience and, accordingly, it averages only a few thousand viewers across the day in the U.K.," 21st Century Fox said in a statement. 

"We have concluded that it is not in our commercial interest to continue providing Fox News in the U.K.," it added.

Yes a cable news station designed to attract the most ignorant viewers in the country, fill their empty heads with lies and conspiracy theories, and then send them to the polls to vote for the most corrupt politicians imaginable.

Apparently that is a model which does not work outside of America.

Gee lucky us.

So I guess Britain will not have to deal with shit like this.

Watch Jesse Watters get duped by the fake shark photo on national television pic.twitter.com/sbDLuavvzS

— Eric Koch (@EricDKoch) August 29, 2017

This, this is why we have Donald Trump.

New study finds that the reason that Brexit passed is because Britain is full of uneducated morons. They needed a study for that?

Courtesy of The Independent:  

Britain would have likely voted to remain in the European Union were its population educated to a slightly higher level, a new study has found. 

Researchers at the University of Leicester say that had just 3 per cent more of the population gone to university, the UK would probably not be leaving the EU. 

The researchers looked at reasons why people voted Leave and found that whether someone had been to university or accessed other higher education was the “predominant factor” in how they voted.

The level of higher education in an area was far more important than age, gender, the number of immigrants, or income in predicting the way an area voted, the researchers found. 

Age and gender were both significant but not as important as education level, the researchers found. Income and number of immigrants in an area were not found to be a significant factor in how people voted.

You know just back about seven or eight months ago this would be the part where I would point and laugh, "Ha ha England your country is full of  idiots."

But then this happened.

Yep, no pointing and laughing for us.

Just another opportunity to reinforce the importance of improving our educational systems and in helping our children gain access to colleges and universities.

Remember, dumb people vote for dumb policies and even dumber politicians. 

New information confirms that Donald Trump begged Prime Minister May to make the press behave before he would agree to visit England.

"So when do you think the British press will like me?" "How do you say 'never' in Trump-speak?"

Courtesy of The Sun: 

The US President made his shameless plea in a private conversation with Theresa May to plan his state visit — now postponed until next year. 

A transcript of the chat, seen by senior diplomats, reveals his touchiness. 

Mr Trump says: “I haven’t had great coverage out there lately, Theresa.” 

She replies awkwardly: “Well, you know what the British press are like.” 

He replies: “I still want to come, but I’m in no rush. 

“So, if you can fix it for me, it would make things a lot easier. 

“When I know I’m going to get a better reception, I’ll come and not before.”

A source said: “He seemed to think the PM would be able to smooth the path for him to get a warm welcome. 

“But she tried to explain she has no power to dictate how newspapers and media might decide to cover his visit. 

“After all, we are not North Korea.

“He said he would not agree a date until people support him coming.”

Apparently Downing Street refused comment for this story. 

Which of course means it's true.

Remember when we first heard about this back in June?

At the time it was refuted as "fake news."

Does not appear to be so fake now does it?

Remind me again Right Wingers, who's the "snowflake?"

P.S. Isn't The Sun owned by Rupert Murdoch?