given that usually the campaign for a general election is theoretically a 60-day affair (iirc) either they’d need to get it done unusually quickly & act pretty smartish thereafter whatever the outcome...which is presumably what Boris is looking to attempt...

I’m not sure that’s the likeliest outcome...but I admire your optimism...

that “see you” finish shows more class than I've ever seen out of her act...

well, although sadly I am as yet unaffiliated with NPR it's true no one is about to mistake me for Michael Caine...& according to Wikipedia Shapiro was apparently based in London for at least a while...so I guess I follow you even if you're pretty wide of the mark...

so you think you know what I’m talking about despite not having any idea what you yourself are talking about...?

it might surprise you to know that context is important...for example none of the things pictured in that second link seem particularly offensive at least in part because you associate them with their intended use...

or...& I’m just spitballing here...he finds the reception bewildering given they have Boris in charge & are busy committing their own act of egregious political self-harm...

I’d be a lot more persuaded by that train of thought if it weren’t common practice by some people to discuss business on the golf course...

he might have the ghost of a point about folk in London staying off the street...what with the tube accomodating something like 5 million individual journeys a day...& then there’s the Overground...& the buses...& all those Boris bikes...& cars paying that congestion charge...& still the odd pedestrian last time I…

Boris Johnson is not OK...& don't believe anyone who tells you different...

Every word from President Donald J. Trump’s mouth is doubleplus good.

when it comes to the degree of reluctance with which the grifter-in-chief will let go the reins of power I find my feelings on any given day fall on a spectrum that might sometimes veer into the kind of territory you describe but more usually tend towards the view that the only thing about being president he truly…

once people have mailed in early postal votes there may be traffic issues but I'm thinking you might want to get that cabin booked now before air b'n'b institute uber-style surge pricing...

fwiw there’s an account called Dr Emilio Lizardo that’s had some troll pulling that on them with dismaying regularity for months (if not longer) on a serial basis...it would seem that if you report the account to the tech folk at kinja there’s someone who’ll eventually remove the account & make all their posts…

harsh...but fair...

a televised boiler-room sounds about right...I don’t watch it as a general rule but when the grifter-in-chief seems to be trying to use “foreign policy” as a glorified pump'n'dump routine the fact that his favorite fake news brand thinks that's appropriate is less surprising than it should be...

I’m not sure about the very definition but I know the first time I came to the states & saw people start in on yelling at (& even shoving) a policeman with a gun who was trying to get a busker to move from the spot they’d picked it was hard to get my head around...

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things

I don’t claim to be a particularly gifted student of history...but as far as I can tell pretty much everybody has been scared of one thing or another since approximately forever...though I take your point...

with regard to the “background checks wouldn’t have helped” thing...I’m ashamed to say I forget which of these god-awful events it related to but there was definitely at least one time when, had the flag in one system (O want to say Air Force) been applied to the civilian equivalent the shooter in question would at…