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Trump’s America
Want to watch something sad? Here's Paul McCartney singing Let it Be and Hey Jude at the White House. Toward the end, a huge slew of musicians ---- Emmylou Harris, Stevie Wonder, just an incredible diversity ---- join Paul in Hey Jude and Obama himself gets up there with them, as does Michelle, Sasha, Malia etc .... Just sheer, innocent joy. Can you imagine this happening in the culturally dead Trump White House?
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Trump’s America
Who are the plaintext people? Do they live in Plainview, Texas?
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Trump’s America
“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 sniveling 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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Trump’s America
- Trump’s America
I remember toilet paper shortages during Trump's first term. People fighting over eggs at Costo? Epic: https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1887580268061438176- Trump’s America
- The coup thread. Fuck the traitors to the Constitution.
And in doing so became the establishment version of the Republican party.- Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
LOL. I get a notification saying that futureman has quoted me in a post. But I have futureman on ignore. Whatever it is futureman said I'm sure I vehemently disagree, so screw you, futureman.- New Surly Embed Card - test thread and comments/requests
This X thing has me so confused.- Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
I've got no idea what's going on with Twitter. I keep clicking on what looks like X/Twitter posts and it turns out they are screenshots (?) of tweets, so nothing happens. Then I try to post a Tweet and get a message that something on X is broken. Maybe I'm missing something, but I feel like there's no point in posting a screenshot of a tweet.- LSU in trouble?
What if there's still hundreds of thousands of dollars in the account?- Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Make no mistake: my idiocy is based on my inferior genetic makeup, an inferior education, a substandard IQ, and approximately 127,000 beers consumed over several decades. My idiocy is experienced.- Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Per Suchomel, Texas is at the top or near the top of the leader board for Flower Mound Marcus OL Drew Evers. His HUDL highlights are a pancake factory advertisement. https://www.hudl.com/video/3/18255945/670c5340430c1120e2bc59f0- Post a pic that makes you lol
- Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
- Rodney Terry has been fired
Is it too late for John Wooden? Wouldn't hurt to ask.- The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
- The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
- The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
After watching my friend Daniel die of Covid, in just eight days, before the vaccine was developed, I think you're pretty fucking stupid.- The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
I don't know how to embed Twitter links anymore but there's an utterly classic example of a former Tx. elected official named John Basham who is a huge Trump supporter and who is pleading with Trump and Ted Cruz to help him because his wife is a nurse and was recently hired by the VA, their home is packed up, they have spent thousands of dollars to move their family from Fort Worth to Waco and now the VA has rescinded the offer to his wife. The responses are brutal and hilarious but I'll be damned if I'm going to sit here and copy/save/paste them here. But it's pretty much the ultimate FAFO/leopards eating faces tweet. He should have thought of this before voting for Trump.- John Fetterman - saving America with sweatshirts and Umbros
He's a spammer/troll/bot. 37k tweets since "he" got his twitter account in Dec. 2023.- Post a pic that makes you lol
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Once you see it you'll never be able to unsee it.- Political Cartoons - The Politics Thread.
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