Gregg
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@JoJoFromJerz She‘s just being moved „Trump says he’ll make Noem a “Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,” a new security initiative that he said would focus on the Western Hemisphere“ opb.org/article/2026/0…
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Really just need a hole to get my frustration out on rn 😈
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The attack in LA, the targeting of the Nova exhibit in NYC and the ripping down of posters of hostages are all part of a coordinated effort and it is linked to Oct. 7. Oct. 7 was the main attack, but it was immediately followed by coordinated extremist activism in the West targeting Jews.
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim@academic_la
The main excuse people have given for the attack on innocent Jews yesterday at a synagogue was that they were selling "stolen land." Let's unpack that, shall we? Israel is NOT stolen land. But let's say it was. Why target a synagogue for that? All of the United States is on land stolen from Native Americans. Why are there no demonstrations in front of real estate agencies where thousands of acres of stolen land are sold daily? Why only a synagogue? We all know the answer.
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A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
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.”
-Nate White
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@hagler_m Kids! I'm old enough ... I don't like this game.
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@CalltoActivism Was this before or after Boobert let the woman cop a feel? 🤔
“No, it’s true. With my Groupon and my 50% off coupon, I got these for $299!”
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PSA: The Qrackhead caucus doesn’t WANT a debt ceiling deal.
Gaetz, Gosar, Greene, Biggs, Boebert, Clay what’s his Fuck, Comer, Massie, Jordan…
They WANT a default.
Default would nullify veterans’ benefits, erase millions of jobs, trigger a recession, freeze retirement accounts, increase borrowing costs, and devalue the dollar.
And that’s just SOME of it.
They KNOW all of that.
And they want it.
To “hurt” Biden they’ll hurt Americans.
We saw what they did with the Speaker vote. These are terrorists.
Their ENTIRE mission is to dismantle democracy.
To tear down institutions.
To create CHAOS.
They still want to pull off Jan 6th, only now it’s from the inside out.
The sooner every REASONABLE American understands this fact, the fucking better.
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