Retired ex-journalist, ex-broadcaster, ex-catholic, ex-hausted. Views ex-clusively my own. Mr Denmore is the pen name of writer Jim Parker.

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Joined March 2009
Hey @NBN_Australia - is there anyone accountable there? Your website says no outages in my area, yet there was a technician here yesterday laying cables. And internet has been out since. ISP has done reset but no change. Your chatbot is useless.
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If you’re looking for me, I’m ex-X. Find me here - @mrdenmore.bsky.social
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🧵Donald Trump’s victory is an inflection point for the America, the West, and the planet. It has been enabled by a network of billionaires, think tanks and lobbying groups that believe, as does the Russian Government, that democracy must be destroyed /1 bylinetimes.com/2024/11/08/t…
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American voters fucked around — and now they're about to find out. As Steve Bannon admitted post election, Trump will implement the fascist manifesto Project 2025. The U.S. is about to become as cruel, barbaric, medieval and sadistic as any authortarian country in the world. 🥺👇
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Seems the right song for this moment. youtu.be/GdcSGxXJ8vM
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We knew Americans en masse were stupid. But THAT stupid?? What a truly f&$&ed country. What a truly f&£^ed world.
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On such days the immortal words in 2002 of former Whitehall permanent secretary Sir Richard Mottram re-echo down the ages: “We're all fucked. I'm fucked. You're fucked. We're all completely fucked.”
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I’m travelling in beautiful Japan. With ‘Brand USA’ destroyed, Australia could learn from the Japanese who have a humble, collective, earth-respecting, quiet culture that honours nature, beauty and human dignity.
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If Donald Trump is elected: The struggle against climate change is over. Women will lose the right to control their own bodies. We'll have no shot at raising the minimum wage. Humanitarian aid will not reach starving people in Gaza. Do not sit this election out.
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Mr Denmore retweeted
Why are billionaires lining up behind Republicans? Because their wealth has doubled since the GOP enacted Trump's tax cuts for the rich. They want even more tax breaks, of course. But they also know that the more Trump tears down democracy, the safer the oligarchy becomes.
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TRUMP: My political opponents should face a firing squad. HARRIS: Here’s my sixteen-point plan to directly target middle class families and help them succeed. NEW YORK TIMES: Both candidates trade barbs in the final week of the race.
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Mr Denmore retweeted
Why would the world’s richest man be f*cked if Donald Trump loses?
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How can any decent Republican vote for a man who is essentially saying @LizCheney should be taken out and shot. The guy is unhinged and dangerous and serious about the idea of dictatorship.
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As this presidential campaign comes to an end, let me say a few words to the folks who have not yet decided who they'll vote for – or who have decided to sit the election out:
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I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org
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Applies equally to the ABC.
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Who wins from a Trump victory, the inevitable US debt default and the implosion of the US dollar? Apart from Putin, of course, watch Musk, Thiel and the Crypto Bros. This thread by US investigative journalist @davetroy lays it all out. Everything else is theatre.
1/Uncomfortable truth: the election won't fix this. The gambit being waged by Musk, Putin, and friends is designed to destroy the United States. And that WILL happen unless we quickly arrest its progress. Here is what we need to do to block their plan.
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