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I have this little unofficial stupidity contest going in my head between U.S. politics and U.K. politics, usually I feel like the U.S. is wayyyy dumber but Brexit put some strong numbers on the board for the U.K.
Not sure how the U.K. is going to come back from this though, basically the U.K. did a giant faceplant onto pavement with Brexit thinking there was no way the U.S. could top that and then the U.S. just says hold my beer and exits the entire global economy in exchange for enshrining the 1% as the lamest gods imaginable within a desperately poor U.S. populace.
Polls are showing that Nigel Farage's far-right Reform party may win a majority government at the next election with as little as 28% of the vote. The UK can still come back and prove itself extremely stupid.
True, every time I think the U.K. has dealt a decisive blow of self immolation in the struggle to reign supreme in stupidity over the U.S., the U.S. stages a miraculous comeback and jumps into the lead and vice versa, it is like a never ending Dragon Ball Z episode where the characters exclusively punch themselves in the face.