Also, anyone extrapolating from current polling data to likely GE performance in 2029 is a fool.

Oh come, blessed aneurysm…

That’s why he styles his hair that way!

Or they’re self-serving lines of bullshit to enable them to keep hoarding wealth.

Here you go: Imagine the greediest, most self-serving asshole you’ve ever met. Now imagine that asshole backed with an absurdly large pile of money.

When Thomas More wrote Utopia, he chose a title that meant “Nowhere.” In that sense, the author of the article is correct.

No. Because he’s a narcissist, he thinks he can lie to anyone and get them to believe it.

There’s little evidence that he actually believes in anything but his own superiority and enitlement.

Without Trump, Putin’s options will be significantly diminished too.

Having grown up in a poor working-class area, the only spontaneous self-organization I ever witnessed was the formation of gangs. It’s not just the toffs. It’s just that their privilege lets them get away with it more often.

Unlikely that he was that focused on the upper class. The author was the headmaster of a boy’s C of E grammar school. Based on his other work, I’d say he had a pessimistic view of human nature in general.

So, not a journalist, just another propagandist pig.

He’s not transactional with dictators, fascists and/or grifters.

I really don’t see anyone in the UK pardoning him for this.

Farage would.

They paying-out part is in their Loss Control departments. That’s how they see you and your problems.

Never forget their names. Never forgive.

Labour should ban that immediately.

Trust fund?

Anyone know how to hotwire a steamroller?

No, people who were already selfish get more conservative the wealthier they get.

Also, people who started out narcissistic, greedy and/or status-seeking pursue wealth more diligently than those who are decent, well-adjusted human beings. So there’s some self-selection going on. Another way of putting that is that capitalism disporportionately rewards sociopathy. Dark Triad personality traits confer a selective advantage in a capitalist system.

I was in the same boat (though I made some changes a few years ago that reduced my income in order to improve my quality of life). There’s a huge gap between a houshold income of $200k/year and the life of billionaires, for whom $200k isn’t even the interest on the interest.