In the Sunday Times, Phyllis Akalin profiles the extraordinary story of Kacper Surdy, a 20 year-old Durham University student who has unexpectedly become a go-to resource for Washington’s top policymakers, despite never having set foot in America. Here’s an excerpt:
In the past year senators, members of Congress, harried aides and political reporters have all turned to Surdy’s @Ringwiss Twitter/X account to help them through confusing legislative thickets. They use it because the account has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Congress’s arcane procedural rules, which can baffle even veteran politicos.
In the most powerful city on Earth, there is great advantage to be gained by those who are able to manipulate the complex rules of Capitol Hill. Yet as the account rose to prominence, Ringwiss’s true identity remained a mystery, its profile picture an image of Homer Simpson eating a doughnut.
Then, last weekend, it emerged that this guru was not a professor of politics, nor a fiendishly clever AI, but an economics student from Peterborough. An article on the Politico website revealed that Surdy was the brain behind Ringwiss.
Washington was stunned. “I don’t believe what I just read. I must still be asleep and dreaming,” said Eric Columbus, a congressional lawyer for Nancy Pelosi and counsel to President Biden on the Senate judiciary committee. …
Since being unmasked Surdy has been approached by political science professors from American universities, offering support in applying for master’s and PhDs, and his follower count has quadrupled to nearly 16,000. “I thought it would be quite funny to reveal who I am – and it was,” he says. “Since the article was published, I’ve had a few members of Congress follow me. It’s nice that they are taking an interest in these things – finally.” …
Surdy’s fascination with U.S. politics was sparked by the 2020 election. But while most of us were transfixed by Donald Trump’s verbal pyrotechnics, it was the procedural rules that got him hooked. “I just got so interested in all the technical stuff, I found it so fascinating,” he says. “I’ve never looked back since.”
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Kurdistan, eh? So I wonder why he couldn’t just go live in majority Muslim Turkey, for instance…Well you know what they say: when men flee war they take the women and children with them, when men go to war they leave the women and children at home. So let’s see how many men, women and kids arrive in the UK shall we? Maybe we can place bets on the percentage splits…<FFS!>
I also believe the Great Replacement is no theory. Look how the Democrats took legal action against Texas when they tried to protect their boarders. That new US film Civil War or whatever it’s called may be a prophecy.
That could depend on the result. The Globalists are working with the Communists in the French elections. In a way, that is in a nutshell what has been going on in the West for a while now. The only point of contention is…..is the Great Reset more communist or stakeholder capitalist/fascist.
Hmm, the Turkish government has had a real downer on Kurds for some time – but that’s not the only safe country he’s been in on the way to the French coast.
I don’t keep up to speed with which Muslims live where and who’s hating on who, but if richer Muslim countries are not taking in migrants then why not? Are they all like, ”No, you’re not coming in. Remember your objective is to colonize the West, so off you go all the way to Europe. But to be more specific, aim for the UK.” LOL
Literally, that’s how I can imagine it going behind the scenes.
Also, call me radical, but I believe charity begins at home, and as long as you’re stepping over British rough sleepers in doorways, or they’re the ones filling up the homeless shelters or sitting in moldy flats risking poor health, then these are the very people who should be prioritized when it comes to housing. Not foreigners fresh off the boats, who for some insane reason get to queue-jump the natives.
Mind, I’m not sure this is the way it works in reality, for all migrants anyway. For instance, I don’t know how long migrants have to stay on that barge or in old RAF barracks before they get permanent housing. But it’s just basic common sense, you don’t allow more and more people into a country if you’ve nowhere suitable to put them. They’re creating digs for asylum seekers in the most inappropriate places, such as on school premises or right next door to school buildings. Desperation or what? But entirely unsuitable. One example from a local resident;
“Now this is the thing, we’ve had an asylum seeker jailed for the rape of a wigan woman on a night out, immigrants surrounding the neighbouring high school caught filming young girls partaking in PE lessons & harassing/surrounding a young 12 yr old girl & more recently a mass brawl involving a gang of immigrants stabbing each other in our local park.
“Every empty building is being converted into a HMO with one located directly in between a primary & a high school.
“I think our concern is justified yet Nandy is trying to silence us, her recent comment, I fear, echoes the post from Naz Shah like & reposted an @X post saying, “we need to shut up for the sake of diversity”.
Another example. Good comments if you can see them. Just how well vetted are these people? And surely it’s still better than a tent in Calais? They have complete freedom and are given phones and taken on bus trips, so maybe not a 4 star hotel but hardly a ”prison”.
“They’re creating digs for asylum seekers in the most inappropriate places, such as on school premises or right next door to school buildings. Desperation or what? But entirely unsuitable.”
This strategy is deliberate Mogs. The intention is to undermine local morale. There is no desperation in what is going on.
Allegedly these people have travelled halfway across the world and spent time in a tent in France but when they invade this country taxpayers are raped in order to provide them with four star accommodation plus a mobile ‘phone, plus beer money.
The authorities are determined to antagonise local people.
What we know these days is that cock-ups don’t happen, everything is planned.
If you look up the origins of this song in Google it is described as urban legend and no mention is made of the migrant rapes in Finland or that this extraordinary response came from Finland. Funny that. Fortunately Paul Joseph Watson provides an excellent reminder.
Then you have leaders of our armed services not wanting to hire ‘stupid white men’ while calling for more ethnic and gender diversity and less security checks.
“With 34% of the vote Labour gets 64% of parliamentary seats because reasons. This means it doesn’t have to listen to anybody at all for the next five years. Although it will certainly be listening to a bunch of parasitic oligarchs because that is who governments actually serve and always listen to.
The so-called UK government, which is really just a relatively minor “enabling” partner in the global public-private partnership, has absolutely no legitimate democratic mandate at all.
Which is yet another reason, in a very long list of excellent reasons, to ignore it completely”
Ron Smith
1 year ago
““We are calling him ‘Party Krekaran’ because we have heard that this guy is really helpful to the refugees.”
Aye and a tyrant to ordinary working British people no doubt!
Starmer is keen to get the security forces involved. I bet all the foreign spies will be quite pleased to see our spy-catchers diverted, and I bet our spy-catchers will be delighted to be taking on third class criminals as opposed to top level agents.
Ron Smith
1 year ago
“ “I have heard your anger, your disappointment, and I take responsibility”.
Now I’m off to Davos to celebrate, and I might even get a Gong!
“Amir, 23, a bean-seller from Kurdistan, said migrants had given Sir Keir a nickname that roughly translates as a man who works for refugees or workers.” Correct. He does not represent the interests of any GB nationals. Most of the Civil Service work for ‘refugees’ and are not interested in UK nationals, especially as great effort has been applied to delegitimize the British by describing them as immigrants to their own lands. Remember when a previous head of the Border Force, Paul Lincoln, made a speech to mark his departure as Director General of the Border Force anddescribed ‘bloody borders’ as ‘just such a pain in the bloody a***’.
Mr Lincoln ended his speech by quoting lines from rock star Shane MacGowan, of The Pogues, saying: ‘People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the bloody thing. It’s all bloody crap.’
We are not a NATION now. ——We are a REGION. ——-A Region of the Global Community. Our Government is not a government anymore, they are just local administrators. ———-RIP Great Britain
Have you been to London or Bradford or Wolverhampton lately? ——-It’s over mate. I like your spirit. But you are fighting a losing battle. Europe is SLEEPWALKING.
Sleepwalking yes but is it over? No! Those pushing all this would have us believe it is all over so that we don’t put up a fight. There were far worse and precarious predicaments between 1939 and 1945 while the will to fight against tyranny was persistent and resolute.
Good luck ——There are maybe 15 million people you don’t want in your country and the number is increasing by maybe 0.5 million per year plus the children all being born. ——It is OVER.
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Like they weren’t coming in droves anyway under the LGBT Tories. I’m sure they’ll come in even more droves under the technocrat commie Starmer.
Only bad weather seems to stop these scumbags.
Kurdistan, eh? So I wonder why he couldn’t just go live in majority Muslim Turkey, for instance…Well you know what they say: when men flee war they take the women and children with them, when men go to war they leave the women and children at home. So let’s see how many men, women and kids arrive in the UK shall we? Maybe we can place bets on the percentage splits…<FFS!>
https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1809557920071262610
I have been referring to the illegals as an invading army for at least two years Mogs.
I also believe the Great Replacement is no theory. Look how the Democrats took legal action against Texas when they tried to protect their boarders. That new US film Civil War or whatever it’s called may be a prophecy.
So have millions of other people, for decades, so stop with the preening.
https://x.com/lizarosen0000/status/1809557205617627308?s=48&t=z-QEFmo-T7EyF1VraAWbsg
The muzzies are going to invade Paris tomorrow.
“Ally avabarrow”
Or whatever they scream.
That could depend on the result. The Globalists are working with the Communists in the French elections. In a way, that is in a nutshell what has been going on in the West for a while now. The only point of contention is…..is the Great Reset more communist or stakeholder capitalist/fascist.
Control by control freaks.
It’s ‘Alan’s Snack Bar’.
Ally Alan’s Snack Bar?
Correct me if I have got that wrong.
I’ve always heard “Aloha Snackbar.”
How very Hawaiian.
AH yes!!!! But the Aloha Snackbar near me serves boozw!!!
Hmm, the Turkish government has had a real downer on Kurds for some time – but that’s not the only safe country he’s been in on the way to the French coast.
I don’t keep up to speed with which Muslims live where and who’s hating on who, but if richer Muslim countries are not taking in migrants then why not? Are they all like, ”No, you’re not coming in. Remember your objective is to colonize the West, so off you go all the way to Europe. But to be more specific, aim for the UK.” LOL
Literally, that’s how I can imagine it going behind the scenes.
Also, call me radical, but I believe charity begins at home, and as long as you’re stepping over British rough sleepers in doorways, or they’re the ones filling up the homeless shelters or sitting in moldy flats risking poor health, then these are the very people who should be prioritized when it comes to housing. Not foreigners fresh off the boats, who for some insane reason get to queue-jump the natives.
Mind, I’m not sure this is the way it works in reality, for all migrants anyway. For instance, I don’t know how long migrants have to stay on that barge or in old RAF barracks before they get permanent housing. But it’s just basic common sense, you don’t allow more and more people into a country if you’ve nowhere suitable to put them. They’re creating digs for asylum seekers in the most inappropriate places, such as on school premises or right next door to school buildings. Desperation or what? But entirely unsuitable. One example from a local resident;
“Now this is the thing, we’ve had an asylum seeker jailed for the rape of a wigan woman on a night out, immigrants surrounding the neighbouring high school caught filming young girls partaking in PE lessons & harassing/surrounding a young 12 yr old girl & more recently a mass brawl involving a gang of immigrants stabbing each other in our local park.
“Every empty building is being converted into a HMO with one located directly in between a primary & a high school.
“I think our concern is justified yet Nandy is trying to silence us, her recent comment, I fear, echoes the post from Naz Shah like & reposted an @X
post saying, “we need to shut up for the sake of diversity”.
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1809509524451021074
Another example. Good comments if you can see them. Just how well vetted are these people? And surely it’s still better than a tent in Calais? They have complete freedom and are given phones and taken on bus trips, so maybe not a 4 star hotel but hardly a ”prison”.
https://x.com/AntiNarrativeUK/status/1809549353247203826
“They’re creating digs for asylum seekers in the most inappropriate places, such as on school premises or right next door to school buildings. Desperation or what? But entirely unsuitable.”
This strategy is deliberate Mogs. The intention is to undermine local morale. There is no desperation in what is going on.
Allegedly these people have travelled halfway across the world and spent time in a tent in France but when they invade this country taxpayers are raped in order to provide them with four star accommodation plus a mobile ‘phone, plus beer money.
The authorities are determined to antagonise local people.
What we know these days is that cock-ups don’t happen, everything is planned.
4 years till the next General Election? It took N a z i Germany about 2 years to conquer over 20 countries.
Finland had (has) a problem with migrants raping Finnish women and this was one of the solutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc5lUbNlTtY
“Stop, don’t touch me there, this is my no-no square”
If you look up the origins of this song in Google it is described as urban legend and no mention is made of the migrant rapes in Finland or that this extraordinary response came from Finland. Funny that. Fortunately Paul Joseph Watson provides an excellent reminder.
And this terrible outrage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icUW-YTgo-g
An Unspeakable Outrage
Then you have leaders of our armed services not wanting to hire ‘stupid white men’ while calling for more ethnic and gender diversity and less security checks.
“Amir, 23, a bean-seller from Kurdistan,”
Here’s a young man with the skills this country definitely needs.
What an asset. Are there any more? Such a useful, transferable skill.
Not sure if that should be taken seriously or if it was a bean curd joke.
😀 😀 😀
Beans…Makes me go all funny!
I LOL’d at “…a bean-seller from Kurdistan.”
I mean let’s have it right, we never hear of ‘rapist from Kurdistan’ or ‘kiddy fiddler from Kurdistan, ‘ do we?
“Labour will make sure we have strong national security, secure borders, and economic stability.”
Taken directly from Labour’s “Mission Statement.”
F. me that didn’t last long did it?
https://labour.org.uk/change/mission-driven-government/
It’s Labour.
Strong national security – lockdowns
Secure borders – others can enter, you can’t leave
Economic stability – the super wealthy remain super wealthy
Thanks. Silly me.👍
Just typos:
…strong notional security, secure boarders, and economic stabbing ability.”
Thanks. Love it.
I somehow doubt they were delaying crossing the channel for anything other than seeing which way the wind was blowing. Literally, not figuratively.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/07/06/the-british-government/
Iain Davis at Off-G with a pithy and acerbic write-up of Thursday’s “election.”
Short read.
“With 34% of the vote Labour gets 64% of parliamentary seats because reasons. This means it doesn’t have to listen to anybody at all for the next five years. Although it will certainly be listening to a bunch of parasitic oligarchs because that is who governments actually serve and always listen to.
The so-called UK government, which is really just a relatively minor “enabling” partner in the global public-private partnership, has absolutely no legitimate democratic mandate at all.
Which is yet another reason, in a very long list of excellent reasons, to ignore it completely”
““We are calling him ‘Party Krekaran’ because we have heard that this guy is really helpful to the refugees.”
Aye and a tyrant to ordinary working British people no doubt!
Starmer is keen to get the security forces involved. I bet all the foreign spies will be quite pleased to see our spy-catchers diverted, and I bet our spy-catchers will be delighted to be taking on third class criminals as opposed to top level agents.
“ “I have heard your anger, your disappointment, and I take responsibility”.
Now I’m off to Davos to celebrate, and I might even get a Gong!
A very reasonable summary.
“Amir, 23, a bean-seller from Kurdistan, said migrants had given Sir Keir a nickname that roughly translates as a man who works for refugees or workers.”
Correct. He does not represent the interests of any GB nationals. Most of the Civil Service work for ‘refugees’ and are not interested in UK nationals, especially as great effort has been applied to delegitimize the British by describing them as immigrants to their own lands.
Remember when a previous head of the Border Force, Paul Lincoln, made a speech to mark his departure as Director General of the Border Force and described ‘bloody borders’ as ‘just such a pain in the bloody a***’.
Mr Lincoln ended his speech by quoting lines from rock star Shane MacGowan, of The Pogues, saying: ‘People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the bloody thing. It’s all bloody crap.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCJhIg2QbUE
Gad Saad talking with Tommy Robinson
We are not a NATION now. ——We are a REGION. ——-A Region of the Global Community. Our Government is not a government anymore, they are just local administrators. ———-RIP Great Britain
Not yet – And it’s not over until the person who has a cervix and of a large persuasion sings.
Have you been to London or Bradford or Wolverhampton lately? ——-It’s over mate. I like your spirit. But you are fighting a losing battle. Europe is SLEEPWALKING.
Sleepwalking yes but is it over? No! Those pushing all this would have us believe it is all over so that we don’t put up a fight. There were far worse and precarious predicaments between 1939 and 1945 while the will to fight against tyranny was persistent and resolute.
Good luck ——There are maybe 15 million people you don’t want in your country and the number is increasing by maybe 0.5 million per year plus the children all being born. ——It is OVER.