Mastodawn

Good morning and a very happy Thatcher Day to you all! It's been 13 years today and she's still dead. 🎉

I often wonder who's been worse for the UK overall, Thatcher or the parade of self serving kleptocrats of more recent years. Farage and Johnson caused untold damage between them, and Farage may yet cause much more, but, honestly, they're just natural byproducts of Thatcher's project. She was the root cause, and all these sneering clowns who followed her are just minor characters in her play. She may be dead but the wounds she left us still bleed.

Let's make today the day when we grab a stake and check on her grave, just to be sure.

Always two there are: a master and an apprentice.

@bodil 🔥🔥🔥

@bodil So much bad shit really started with Reagan and Thatcher...

@ainmosni All the bad shit, really.

@bodil Well, much of it was scattered around before, they packaged it all up, made it more effective, and modernised it.

@bodil Oh they did manage to have genocide, Jim Crow and nuking the shit out of places all without Reagan. To name just a few, in case anyone was wondering whether the Other Capitalist Party was better. #notallshit
@ainmosni

Viraptor 11h ago

Martin Rust 3h ago

@viraptor @ainmosni @bodil Nope, start with #Goldwater, the one who wanted to succeed #Eisenhower who was the last decent Republican 🇺🇸 president. And continue with #Nixon.

Large Format Projectionist 6h ago

@ainmosni @bodil

Oh goodness gracious no. They don’t start much at all. The US was destined to get to its neoliberal nirvana.

@BenHM3 @bodil I don't disagree with that, actually, but bad shit got streamlined, modernised, and better sold with those two. Granted, it most likely would have happened without them, but maybe a bit later.

tribactam 8h ago

@bodil root cause analysis = yes it was her.

@bodil yeah, I mean don't get me wrong I disagree with pretty much everything Thatcher stood for, but at least she did stand for something, and quite probably believed she was ‘doing the right thing’ even as it needlessly shattered community after community for generations.

These others? It's all just greed and grift.

Matthew Walton 5h ago

@zbrown @bodil a more honest kind of evil...

Jon PENNYCOOK 4h ago

@bodil My Dad, who is definitely not a fan, said he respected Thatcher because she stood for what she believed in. Most of the rest since have stood for whatever the Sun and the Mail have on their front page (and more recently, whatever people complain about on Facebook or Twitter)

@jonpsp It's the ones with a vision you really need to watch out for.

Muss das sein.13h ago

@bodil well. There we go. There is at least one thing that isn’t bad.

craignicol 12h ago

@bodil @otfrom I still love that I found out because someone posted "The Witch Is Dead" on the social playlist site I was using, and nobody needed any context.

@craignicol @otfrom The Wizard of Oz got a lot of playtime that day.

craignicol 12h ago

@bodil @otfrom true. I responded with this one though

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QdNxEczuQXg

George Square Thatcher Death Party

Mogwai

YouTube Music

craignicol 12h ago

@bodil @otfrom she's been out of power for 35 years but we still live in Thatcher's Britain. Labour had a chance to stem the bleeding, but they elected Blair instead

🩷 Stella 12h ago

@bodil this is how national holidays get born I imagine

MegatronicThronBanks 11h ago

@bodil Can't blame the evil kankerous mud slut shit stain for the entire Tory party or the members of the UK public fucking stupid enough to vote them in. Be fair.

@megatronicthronbanks We can blame her for everything.

Gentleman Programmer 11h ago

@bodil Happy Ding Dong Day to all who celebrate
#dingdong #thatcher

https://youtu.be/8vXR5gjRMPk?si=Rpm6LXT8qnkz4Gdf

Klaus Nomi - Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

YouTube

Fardels Bear 6h ago

Donald Trump will need his own song, and of course the right artist(s) to sing it. Has to be representative of the many people Trump has demonized, murdered, persecuted and insulted. We need to have it ready to go on that great day.

@riggbeck @sjjh Makes me think of this song which has been mysteriously trending on Youtube for the past several months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkhzVw0yBs

When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take)

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C. de Valois 2h ago

@riggbeck
I caught myself singing this chorus recently, due to the current events:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DkyzFjTMSjU

The Day After You - The Blow Monkeys (feat. Curtis Mayfield)

which was written about Thatcher. I think it got even more radio play after the BBC had banned it. It's from this album https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Was_Only_a_Grocer%27s_Daughter (and that's what she was)

As for a post-Drumpf song, I reckon audio of toilets flushing ought to be enough.

#TheBlowMonkeys #Thatcher

The Blow Monkeys - The Day After You

YouTube

@sjjh @bodil 💥

gbsills 10h ago

@bodil Sadly neo-liberalism lives on.

Leo Schuldiner🤘🏼10h ago

@bodil beautiful! You made my day, being 6.50 am over here! Thank you!

gunstick 9h ago

@bodil when is Trump day?

Ross of Ottawa 9h ago

@gunstick @bodil going to need a bigger font (and bigger champagne bottles).

BeeCycling 7h ago

@gunstick @bodil I have the awful feeling that he'll live to 95, powered by pure spite.

Jon Wilson 8h ago

@bodil https://youtu.be/K-BZIWSI5UQ

Elvis Costello - Tramp The Dirt Down

YouTube

@bodil there is a speech by a labour mp and actress that is worth watching today https://youtu.be/BRqdQMlIiYc?si=iTYHjB0oDDt_VT-f

Glenda Jackson: Late ex-MP delivers immense anti-Thatcher speech days after Thatcher's death

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@mattrose Brings a tear to the eye, to see a Labour politician with a spine. They don't have a lot of those anymore.

Ruled by thieves 8h ago

@bodil One of the greatest days in British history. Took the milk from 5yo kids as Education Secy. What a total c**t, entertained a genocidal monster as PM, had tiffin with Augusto Pinochet n No10. Best buddies. #ThatcherTheMilkSnatcher

TomWilsonYEG 8h ago

Beware the March of Trumps …

Ruled by thieves 8h ago

@bodil She also planned to bomb Dundalk. Her and Trump would be best friends, guaranteed

I always refer to her as - Myopic Maggie.

@bodil
May her grave never be dry.

Worth mentioning though without direction - she'd just have been another mid-tier apparatchik.

RE: https://plasmatrap.com/notes/9lzb71uqet76ddph

@bodil I've learned so much revised *real* history from you lot, directly, than I ever learned from MSM. We just knew she was a leader. We did not know how hated she was.

@kimlockhartga @bodil

We utterly detested her. The first female PM this country got and it had to be a nasty one.

@grb090423 @kimlockhartga The first, and the second, and, uh, I still don't know what to make of Liz Truss.

@bodil @kimlockhartga

All nasty and all, funnily enough, bloody Tories!

🤦‍♀️😖

As for Truss... 🥬

@bodil la prima premier donna e nera d'Inghilterra

kat donegan 🇵🇸✊7h ago

@bodil as is my tradition to mark this momentous occasion, here is glasgow activist & legend, cathy rutherford, with her beautiful eulogy for maggot thatcher.
https://youtu.be/DUlj48Rvp1c

A Scottish Woman Reacts to the death of Margaret Thatcher

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@bodil obligatory https://youtu.be/ILvd5buCEnU

MARGARET THATCHER IS DEAD (A Bruno Powroznik classic)

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Matt Hardy 3.11 for Workgroups 7h ago

@bodil In so much as she remains dead we must give thanks to those brave souls who stuffed her mouth with garlic, chopped off her head and in particular drove a stake through her heart. The latter being a feat of admirable precision given the minuscule target area. To think now how proud I was of progressive Britain in 1979 to have elected a woman.

Manc AvGeek 6h ago

@bodil *spit*

@mancavgeek @bodil Save it for her grave!!!

Manc AvGeek 1h ago

@sjcooke66 That's what the contents of my bladder are for!

Looking forward to remembering Trump in the same way!

Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑6h ago

I'm really looking forward to celebrating [Unalive] Trump Day. No doubt, so is most of the world.

Joscelyn Transpiring 6h ago

@bodil Are we sure she's still dead? Wouldn't put it past that monster, let's go make sure that corpse is still in the ground. 🤭

I wish USians had the sense to celebrate similarly when Reagan finally kicked the bucket. Maybe we should start celebrating?

Eggs now in different baskets.5h ago

@JoscelynTransient @bodil You mean she might be out there somewhere still rocking with Elvis?

Joscelyn Transpiring 3h ago

@the_wub @bodil if there is one thing Thatcher never did, it was “rock” 😂

@JoscelynTransient @the_wub I think even she would agree to that.