• spyd3r@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sure would be nice to have a functional, sane, and reality based conservative party in the US, not this circus sideshow they call the Republican party.

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      1 year ago

      The DNC just got the sitting President of the United States to not file to put his name on the New Hampshire primary ballot, immediately after sending 50 billion dollars to fund the genocide of Palestine.

      I dont disagree with you, but I think you should stop using words like “Republican” and “Democrat” and just speak in terms of “The Party”, because they are all the same damn organization and all of them are astoundingly stupid and incompetent

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      1 year ago

      I love it so much I need to share the context for those who don’t know.

      Last year, there was a mix up in UK conservative leadership, and on 6 September 2022 Liz Truss became Prime Minister.

      On 14 October 2022, The Star (a British tabloid) began live-streaming a head of iceberg lettuce in response to an article from The Economist which stated Truss’ tenure as Prime Minister had “the shelf life of a lettuce.”

      Despite many MANY interviews boldly stating “I am not a quitter”, Truss resigned on 20 October 2022. Obviously the lettuce had not yet even begun to wilt.

      Since then, she has shared in interviews that it was humiliating to be compared to a lettuce.

      She has also been back in the news recently. After a long hiatus, she came back to UK government to push a budget, which passed, and promptly tanked the UK economy even further than it has already been tanked in near-to-moderate history by Brexit.

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        1 year ago

        Where is everyone finding month-long lettuce? I get lettuce from the grocer and from my CSA. Fridge and sometimes with their root/stem in a bit of water and it wilts in days. Maybe I should just be leaving it on the counter…

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          1 year ago

          I recalled it being a month long lettuce, but looking it up, she was in office for just under 2 months, the actual lettuce stream lasted 6 days before she resigned.

          So the lettuce cheated a little, but still definitely should not have actually outlived her term in office.