elle monte

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier" Mother Theresa #resist 🌊🌊🌊🌊 #cryptp #jewel #DFK 💎

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

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

[elle monte @88_monte]

#GoodByeTwitter 👋🏼

[Humphreee Go-Kart @HumphreeeGoKart]

@cbouzy Apparently Elmo was texting with his ex in March about buying and "deleting" Twitter.

[elle monte @88_monte]

so long tweeps… it’s been profound 🙏🏼❤️ #RIPTwitter

[Bletelsnort @NoRevLimits]

Question: why do Americans teach their children “no one is above the law” when a felon like Donald J Trump thumbs his nose at Justice and runs again for President? The system is broken! Or did it never work right in the first place?😡 Trump for 6 consecutive sentences in prison

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

PEOPLE OF GEORGIA. You don’t have to believe political opponents, media, or others. This is Herschel Walker, his son and his ex-wife in their own words. 48 clips in less than 4 minutes. This is the man Donald Trump chose to represent you in the US Senate for the next 6 years.

[Ben Wexler @mrbenwexler]

So we fired him, he stole a ton of sensitive shit on the way out of the office, we caught him… and now he’s re-applying for the job?

[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette @PittsburghPG]

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[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Biden at his best. Please retweet and let’s help bring this home for John Fetterman.

[Michael Moore @MMFlint]

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth 32: This is how the Republican Members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted in the past 2 yrs. Please share this w/everyone—especially those still on the fence about voting. It’s all u need to know. 8 days til #Roevember!
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I just bought $7,366 in #Powerball tickets for tonight’s $1 billion drawing for our #lotterypool. If we win, $1,000 for each retweet of this pic.

[elle monte @88_monte]

@Mollyploofkins

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

It seems as though Trump’s tax returns are better protected by the federal government than top secret nuclear documents.

[elle monte @88_monte]

@Venmo manifesting🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 and will pay it forward!

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

The federal deficit has come down both years that President Biden has been in office.

The federal deficit went up every single year that Donald Trump was President.

[Jon “Bowzer” Bauman @JonBowzerBauman]

I probably shouldn’t play favorites among our many endorsees ⁦⁦@SSWorks⁩. But there is no better candidate for any office anywhere in America than The Chief, ⁦@valdemings⁩. I got to intro her today at a spectacular event in The Villages, FL, of all places!

[Professor Peter Arenella @arenella1]

Can you imagine working 16-18 hrs every day including mot of your weekends while you partner and kids complain about never seeing you. Becoming a ghost to your family for an extended period of time because you believe your work is a necessary component of the effort to save our