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🚨WTF: JD Vance just declared war on our European allies while campaigning in Budapest, Hungary, for Putin’s favorite anti-democratic thug. Viktor Orbán. Is it now official policy of the U.S. to undermine our allies and side with Putin’s buddies? JD Vance is an embarrassment.

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“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response: A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

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This is the definition of a MUST see. At 9pm on @Channel4, for the next 3 days, the human cost of our profit-crazed water industry will be brutally exposed. You will be shocked, heartbroken & outraged by the inhumanity & injustice of this #DirtyBusiness theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

This is the definition of a MUST see. At 9pm on @Channel4, for the next 3 days, the human cost of our profit-crazed water indus

Since most of my fellow Europeans haven’t had the time or stomach to fully acquaint themselves with who’s who in Trump’s up and coming American Reich, I’ve taken it upon myself to create a short guide to the main cartoon villains and abominations of this administration.🧵

REP JAMIE RASKIN: "You can let her filibuster all day long, but not on our watch, not on our time. No way. And I told you about that, attorney general, before you started." AG BONDI: "You don't tell me anything you washed-up loser lawyer — not even a lawyer."

There’s something v wrong when someone with authority touts their opinion as fact.Lord Krebs, you say swift bricks don’t work & that swifts only nest higher than houses & only with open access.Err, have you been living under a rock?Our home is their home. ⁦@ZacGoldsmith⁩

@RBKingston Do you find it acceptable that trees are damaged during every mow by the contractor? Here is the result of a recent cut at #GreenLaneRecreationGround, which has no doubt shortened their longevity.

This is how an autocracy is born.

If the Planning and Infrastructure bill is a ‘pay to trash’. What will happen to the #Kingsmeadow #Slowworms

Upon review, Vance's stunt is even worse than imagined. It was a product of ineptitude: Z went into a detailed recap of Russia reneging on agreements (to underscore the need for guarantees-b4-ceasefire). Vance (a DEI admit at Yale Law) is overwhelmed and /1

It is sadly & grimly predictable that despite campaigning strongly on river health & making lots of promises, the government is choosing to pursue legal action against a group of river guardians from @FishLegal_ who believe that each river should have an actual plan for what needs to be done to restore it to health. The government’s plea that it is too much admin to make plans is a lame excuse: the fact is that moving beyond vague promises & lengthy future deadlines means they will have to commit to actually doing something, which they clearly don’t want to do. t.co/YV5RrwxsXH

Awful scenes in North Devon, sent in by a supporter. About a dozen foxes just dumped in a wooded area, trying to ascertain who may have done this and why.

Trump's win shows us who we really are: This article by professor Aaron W. Hughey is one of the most powerful and accurate post-election indictments of America you'll ever read. 😳👇

Former Tory MP Nadine Dorries has now been on #PoliticsLive, #Newsnight and #BBCLauraK in the past few days Why is the BBC insistent on platforming one of the worst MPs to ever (dis)grace parliament?

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UK export of millions of endangered eels to Russia attacked as ‘bonkers’ - The Guardian. There are no words for stupidities of this sort. Close the fishery. It's a nothing. Why when this species is nationally on its knees is this allowed by government ? apple.news/AEhIeQzUSSA2dG…

BREAKING: Jen Psaki just delivered the strongest differences between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. While Trump relishes in fear and frustration, Kamala Harris is inspiring a hope filled joy. Retweet so all Americans see this.