Franco Amurri

I’m still calling it Twitter, tweeting, tweets, etc. you can’t rebrand something that is part of a worldwide culture.

[Kobe Bryant Stories & Motivation @kobehighlight]

Kobe would've loved this. Luka Doncic is a Laker. 💜

[Franco Amurri @Amurri]

@MagicJohnson If you hadn't given away Ivica Zubac for a sandwich, now we'd have a center... what was that about?

[Franco Amurri @Amurri]

@robreiner Repeat after me until November… (great mantra, bravo @robreiner 👏🏻♥️🤍💙)

[Franco Amurri @Amurri]

@elonmuskADO No

[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

[Franco Amurri @Amurri]

@CordeiroRick 36

[Franco Amurri @Amurri]

Wtf https://t.co/jLa7XS5nxB

[Franco Amurri @Amurri]

Ore 8, donna al volante si ferma in mezzo alla strada e comincia a truccarsi. Non parcheggia: rimane con la macchina in mezzo alla strada, 5 minuti. #levatelapatente #mentecattapatentata #follia #poveraroma #demenza #nuovibarbari #comunediroma #poliziamunicipale #spqr #vergogna

[Otaking 🇵🇸 @TheOtaking]

Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Paprika...) about how he was plagiarized by Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan…)

[Repubblica @repubblica]

Quando basta dire scusa https://t.co/YsCVrPZXGR @concitadeg #invececoncita

[Eric Idle @EricIdle]

So in case it all falls apart, you have all been magnificent and have improved my view of humanity. If Elton Musks me off I will find you somewhere just as unexpectedly as I did on PythOnline…
Looking on the Bright Side and all that. Heartfelt thanks from a very ex Python….

[Mira Sorvino @MiraSorvino]

Thank you @JimCameron besides being the most brilliant filmmaker you are a hero in my book-thank you for standing up for my genius director @RealGDT as I did years ago and confronting the bullying convicted rapist monster Harvey Weinstein. https://t.co/UYuZgl2gun

[Concita De Gregorio @concitadeg]

Molto felice, si parte

[Seth Lazar @sethlazar]

Watch as Sydney/Bing threatens me then deletes its message

[Franco Amurri @Amurri]

@604Now Any tip, I agree (should never be zero tip) but who decides what is a low tip? What is a minimum acceptable tip, 5% of the order?

[sadahmz @Sterophie5]

@ActuFoot_ Quoiqu’on en dise Francesco Totti est le seul vrai numéro 10 de cet image il allié vision du jeu et qualité de passe et surtout jouépour les autres pas pour lui

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Morocco fans right now

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

My name is Stacey Abrams and I intend to be the next governor of the great state of Georgia.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

It turns out women enjoy having human rights, and we vote.