Chris Parker
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Chris Parker
@chrisparkerdrum
https://t.co/b0ZunQbVwh
Katılım Ağustos 2014
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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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@Yano_Akiko It was wonderful and healing to perform with you again! So grateful, thank you!
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1ヶ月間の日本でのツアー。全て終了しました。飛ばしまくり、弾きまくったあげく、初秋のニューヨークに帰ります。沢山の方々に来ていただいたこと、友達の笑顔を見れたこと、何より、わたしもバンドもスタッフもみんな健康で過ごせたことに、心から感謝したいです。またねー！
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@guccykun Thanks so much for coming to the BlueNote Tokyo and listening! It’s our pleasure to share our music with you!
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How exciting and cool musicians they are! I’ve been waiting for seeing you for three years. Thank you for giving me a happiest time! @Yano_Akiko @chrisparkerdrum @Willbassboy @BlueNoteTokyo #twinglish #英語学習 #英語日記
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Celebrating forty-five years of Japanese singer-songwriter Taeko Ohnuki’s adulated sophomore album Sunshower, released on this day in 1977.✨
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Coming to Osaka&Tokyo soon!Cant wait to share our music with you!
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Give Duke Ellington the Pulitzer Prize He Was Denied in 1965 - Sign the Petition! chng.it/S8Vdztrx via @Change
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Break dance during the break on a Hubei construction site🕺🕺🕺
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皆さん、こんにちは！
今晩は #国際宇宙ステーション (ISS)を見るのに丁度よい日です。
5/31(火) 19:31（東北～近畿エリア中心）
5/31(火) 21:07
6/1(水) 20:19
晴れていたら、ぜひ空を見上げてみて下さいね🛰️
#きぼうを見よう
lookup.kibo.space/forecast/20220…
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@AdamKinzinger @CawthornforNC And yet there he is along with MTG, Boebert, Gaetz, Goehmert. What does that say about Republican voters?
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I just want to say to close out this evening: @CawthornforNC does not belong in Congress, and is an embarrassment not just to his district, but to the country. Vote this clown out, America we can do better than these disasterous leaders.
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