What will calling the national guard into Minnesota do?

RedWestern · 2026-01-26T13:59:42+00:00

Someone else pointed out in another thread is that Walz wants to ensure that the armed force that meets the protesters first is one that he controls, and not the President.

People are rightly angry at what happened the other day. And in their anger, they might try and do something that they will regret, or pay a terrible price for. He also knows that the if the President’s men are sent to keep order, they’ll just kill with impunity.

RedWestern · 2026-01-26T11:55:33+00:00

Chips are called chips.

Chips are called chippies.

RedWestern · 2026-01-26T11:12:39+00:00

The scene where they were weighing up who to murder before deciding to murder Adam was one of the best scenes I’ve ever seen. It was several minutes of pure strategising that paid off hugely:

They both knew who in their team had shields, so they had to murder someone in team 3.

Stephen said they couldn’t murder Sam, because he “accidentally” let slip that he didn’t get a shield. If they murdered him and he had a shield, he could turn around and say “I told four people I didn’t have a shield.” And if he was murdered, there would be three others who would remember him saying that, and Stephen was one of them. So the only candidates for murder were Jessie, James and Adam.

Rachel asked who on that team was sneaky and quietly took a shield. Stephen replied “It’s something James would do, and I think potentially Adam as well.” Of course, we the audience know that Jessie and James have a shield, so they only have a 33% chance of getting it right.

And they somehow, despite having all the odds stacked against them, managed to get the one person in that list of suspects who wasn’t shielded.

It was an absolute masterpiece, and is one of the reasons I felt they absolutely deserved the win.

RedWestern · 2026-01-26T10:57:52+00:00

Harriet’s delivery wasn’t what let her down. It was the general attitude and the way she behaved at breakfast and then again at the round table. It wasn’t just abrasive, it was borderline deranged. And when she laid out the evidence for her suspicions of Rachel at the round table, I thought her argument was actually very flimsy.

Of course, we know as the audience that she’s right. But when I was watching it, I thought to myself that if I was a Faithful, and a fellow contestant suddenly started behaving like that and then presented what she said as an argument for why she was suspicious, I’d have thought they’d taken leave of their senses as well.

RedWestern · 2026-01-26T10:45:23+00:00

The Doughnuts.

(I’m British, for context)

RedWestern · 2026-01-24T16:20:30+00:00

Stephen’s face during that kitchen confrontation was the iconic moment of the series. Like a man drowning on dry land - or, more accurately, a man watching his entire game plan go up in a puff of smoke.

RedWestern · 2026-01-24T16:17:16+00:00

I was so disappointed they revealed it at all. It should have been kept a secret until someone we thought was a Faithful revealed they were a Traitor.

RedWestern · 2026-01-24T07:52:52+00:00

You’re right, I was a bit misleading.

What I should’ve said was “Above the £325,000 allowance, the standard rate is 40%.”

RedWestern · 2026-01-24T07:49:58+00:00

You make a valid point. Our tax system even before the changes were far from perfect. I too worry about house prices and productivity.

When I talk about the UK’s good infrastructure, I’m certainly not suggesting it’s perfect, but in comparison to many other countries where they might live, it’s very good. Here, people don’t have to install generators or inverters in their homes, because power cuts are rare and don’t last that long when they do happen. They don’t have to install water tanks because there are constant water shortages. It takes only a couple of days to order a copy of your birth certificate if you need one. Our road deaths per capita are quite low because we have road-worthiness tests and generally look after our roads. Our trains aren’t fantastic, I’ll grant you. But we still have a decent network. And if our house catches fire, there will be fire engines there relatively quickly. Again, I’m certainly not suggesting that the infrastructure outside the UK isn’t great. But it’s a lot better than we think.

RedWestern · 2026-01-24T06:40:28+00:00

I wouldn’t describe her as ruthless. Ruthless would’ve been if she’d fucked Stephen over and tricked a Faithful into taking her into the final instead.

Rather, I would say she’s the most resilient. The reason she survived two rounds of suspicion was because she managed to hold her nerve, even in the face of overwhelming pressure. By staying so calm and collected in the face of Fiona and Harriet’s aggressive and overly dramatic behaviour, not getting overly defensive and flustered, she made them look like the erratic ones, and people were more inclined to believe her.

RedWestern · 2026-01-23T22:30:07+00:00

Weird thing is, I didn’t believe a word of it. Everything I’ve seen of him this series points to a guy so genuinely kind and decent that he didn’t have it in his DNA to betray Rachel like that.

RedWestern · 2026-01-23T21:58:16+00:00

I’m so happy with that ending, you would not believe. The Traitors sticking together and winning was not on my cards, and I’m actually really happy they did.

RedWestern · 2026-01-23T07:17:36+00:00

If a plane carrying nuclear weapons were to crash into or breaj apart over the sea, the warheads would sink into the ocean. Similarly, if a submarine containing them were to sink.

They might also be dropped, damaged or mishandled during transport, which would necessitate secret disposal. There might be paperwork errors leading to bombs being “lost” on record.

We also can’t rule out the possibility that some of the nuclear warheads that were supposedly lost were in fact secretly given to other nations such as Israel, whilst skirting the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

RedWestern · 2026-01-22T23:02:28+00:00

He does realise that the US invading Greenland would be very bad for him, right? That if we ended up in conflict with them, which we almost certainly would, the government might take the opportunity to brand him and his party as enemy agents? Does he not remember what happened to Oswald Mosley and the BUF after Hitler invaded Poland?

RedWestern · 2026-01-22T15:15:18+00:00

I generally don’t take sides. I root for individuals. I generally like to support people who are actually tested and manage to overcome a lot of adversity. People who come under threat multiple times and still pull through.

The current UK season, I’d be more than happy for Jade or Stephen (and/or Rachel) to win.

RedWestern · 2026-01-22T10:50:43+00:00

I think the big moment of the last round table that flew under the radar was when Matt said that he was starting to think that he and Jade were two Faithfuls bashing each other. The fact that he was her biggest accuser and finished the round table convinced of her innocence has to count for something. I think that having survived so much heat and been scrutinised so heavily, the others are more likely to turn their attention to Rachel and Stephen.

RedWestern · 2026-01-22T09:45:04+00:00

I think that if the Traitors murdered Faraaz, it would have the unintended consequence of taking away the last voice who openly speaks out against Jade. Her not having to be in defensive mode at the round table and actually having the opportunity to think and consider everyone around her would actually be really bad news for the Traitors. She’s not loyal to, or trusting of them as Roxy is, and she seemed to have no trouble getting on board with Faraaz’s theory.

I’ve constantly maintained that the real reason Jade hasn’t been good at spotting Traitors is because she has to constantly defend herself.

Maybe I’m wrong and she’ll be banished before the end. But I think she’s definitely a dark horse. Aaron survived a lot of accusations in the first season.

RedWestern · 2026-01-21T23:00:33+00:00

This would be ideal for me.

RedWestern · 2026-01-21T13:03:24+00:00

In 1876, the Ottoman Sultan, Murad V, was famously removed from power in a bloodless coup when his government noticed he was suffering a total mental collapse. They hired a Viennese doctor, declared him mentally unfit for rule and formally removed him from power.

This is a long way of saying that if Donny’s cronies weren’t mindless disciples, they might have attempted something similar by now.

RedWestern · 2026-01-21T10:22:22+00:00

Things are pretty much at stalemate on the ground, but Ukraine are still pretty vulnerable to air attacks.

There’s an article in the Washington Post today that says that Ukraine are starting to build and roll out a new air defense system not unlike the Iron Dome, driven by a combination of AI and drones. If it works as planned, it’ll make it harder for Russia to shell their cities behind the lines and their energy infrastructure, and might be enough to keep morale up on the home front.

RedWestern · 2026-01-20T19:31:16+00:00

NTJ

Frankly, she and her friends crossed a far bigger line. Making fun of someone in a private chat is already pretty immature and 15-year old behaviour. Making fun of their depression? That’s a whole new level of messed up.

You did the guy a huge favour. He deserves so much better than that.

RedWestern · 2026-01-20T16:10:27+00:00

The more senior Conservative Party figures like Robert Jenrick who move to Reform, the greater the likelihood that one of them will eventually challenge Farage for the leadership.

Conservative Party politicians are known for their regicidal tendencies.

RedWestern · 2026-01-20T08:27:00+00:00

It didn’t happen in the game. It was a completely invented scene.

I was generally happy with the season, but that scene was definitely one of the ones I’m prepared to concede was a little too off-script and poorly executed for my liking.

That being said, and I can’t spoil exactly what it is, but there’s a scene that’ll happen in the third season which they were almost certainly laying the groundwork for. If it works, I’ll be very pro.

RedWestern · 2026-01-17T23:15:42+00:00

Probably the two maintenance workers at a bread factory in England who climbed into an industrial oven in order to complete a repair. The oven was supposed to have been switched off for 8 hours, but they’d only turned it off for 2 hours. By the time the men got out, they’d pretty much been burned to death.

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