Arlene Ball

70 year old wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, friend to many. Ex Mormon.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

When I cast my vote for President Biden, I wasn't expecting much. I just wanted trump out of office.

I knew he was old.
I knew he had a stutter.
I knew he had a rep for "gaffes."
I didn't care. Just wanted trump gone.

Four years later, things are different.
I wasn't expecting that President Biden would be the most legislatively successful President in my lifetime.

I wasn't expecting him to help expand NATO.
I wasn't expecting him to lower insulin & inhalers.
I wasn't expecting him to create & recover 15m jobs.
I wasn't expecting him to bring manufacturing back.
I wasn't expecting him to forgive student debt.

But he did ALL those things, and more.
He surpassed my expectations by a lot.
And he has more planned for 2025-2028.

He's not a master orator,
He doesn't move so smoothly
But neither did FDR from his wheelchair.

Meanwhile, trump is STILL a threat.
He wants to be a dictator.
He wants to stay out of prison.
He wants revenge on his enemies.
He wants to take away from the poor and middle class and give to the ultra wealthy.
His Project 2025 will enable a national abortion ban to criminalize women seeking safe and legal abortions.
His Project 2025 will take away the rights of our LGBTQ family and friends.
His Project 2025 will transform the government into a loyalty pledge, not to America but to him ALONE.
We might never have another free election.

THAT is what is at stake in this election.

We can continue to progress with Biden policies, or we can let trump destroy democracy as we know it.

If you're looking for someone who's young and athletic, go watch a fucking movie.

I'll take the old guy who needs a nap while saving democracy over the old guy trying to overthrow democracy who needs a legal team.

[Arlene Ball @ArleneBall16]

@NobleRingleader @Bridget_OShea I guess I would qualify as mild. But it doesn’t feel mild. I can put on a good show but I’m barely functioning. It’s heartbreaking to me that I can’t be fully present for those I love so much. I started to go downhill after my son’s suicide in 1991. It’s been a slow descent.

[Arlene Ball @ArleneBall16]

@Barry_McCock69_ @gopher_marc @EndWokeness 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Arlene Ball @ArleneBall16]

@gopher_marc @EndWokeness Derek Chauvin is a murderer!!

[Arlene Ball @ArleneBall16]

@EndWokeness You go straight to hell. Did he deserve to die? No! The police killed him.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

If Trump is convicted in Manhattan, then every single attack ad put forth by the Biden campaign should start with "Convicted felon Donald Trump."

Make people who are considering voting for Trump have to rationalize to themselves that they are voting for a convicted felon. Force them to.

Would you hire a convicted felon to teach your kids, or run your company? No? Then why the heck would you hire one to run the country you supposedly love?

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

The woman telling Crockett to “calm down” is Rep Anna Paulina Luna

A fraud who has lied about her entire biography

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Donald Trump is slammed with scandalous news as it leaks that he asked oil industry executives for a truly staggering $1 billion in campaign cash — proving that Republicans are owned by Big Oil.

And it gets even worse...

According to an individual with knowledge of the meeting, the legally embattled and financially floundering Trump met with oil execs at Mar-a-Lago last month.

Trump reportedly told the corrupt oligarchs that donating to him would be a great "deal" because he'd be able to give them tax cuts and slash regulations for them — endangering innocent Americans to boost corporate profits.

These people are destroying the planet and Trump wants to help them do it. A vote for Trump is a vote to curse future generations to a poisoned, dying Earth.

Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa slammed trump for "selling out working families to Big Oil for campaign checks."

"Trump isn’t fighting for what’s best for American families, cheaper energy, or our climate — he only cares about winning this election and will sell out working families to special interests to do it," added Moussa.

Now you know why Trump is constantly attacking electric vehicles, windmills, and solar panels. He has a vested interested in sabotaging green energy, and destroying our future in the process.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Big Oil should be banished from our politics for good — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: https://t.co/HnJzSKj4Hp

[Charles B @ChuckieB111]

@RpsAgainstTrump

[Vanessa Besteda @nostatusquono]

@RpsAgainstTrump I’m sure Wharton wants to quash the rumor that Trump was the most intelligent student 😂

It says nothing good about Wharton.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Last night, Trump reposted a meme with a fake quote by his former Wharton professor calling Trump "the smartest student I ever had."

Here’s what Professor Kelly actually said about Trump: “‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!’” 

Kelly also said that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything, that he was arrogant and he wasn’t there to learn.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

In the wee hours of the morning, while Joe Biden was likely sleeping soundly in the White House, a drug-addled septuagenarian heap of Diet Coke, hamberder grease, spray tan and sociopathy sat alone in his gilded golf motel rage-posting on his failing social media app about a swanky, celebrity-filled, black-tie dinner in Washington D.C. which he did not attend and likely was not invited to.

Clinging to his phone for dear life with his wee-lil hands, watching the clips over and over again, the mocking laughter of a roomful of famous and fabulous people he shall forever rue for refusing to capitulate to his awfulness, battering and bruising his eggshell-fragile ego on a never-ending loop.

Unable to bear the humiliation of being the butt of their jokes and the object of their scorn, he retreated to the usual sanctuary of his digital realm to lash out in a desperate attempt to regain a semblance of control.

With each keystroke of his fun-sized fingers, his rage burned hotter and hotter, as his addlepated mind was pounded over and over again by a deluge of simultaneous self-pity, self-righteousness and self-loathing.

In his twisted reality, he was a martyr, the righteous avenger striking back against the injustice of his perceived persecution.

Desperate for validation and vindication from the invisible audience of his faceless, faithful worshippers, he hammered the ALL CAPS keys demanding adulation and adoration even in the depths of his despair.

Alone in his room, a laughingstock and a loser, illuminated by the glow of his safe-space smartphone as he angrily tapped away, tortured by collective ridicule, consumed by fury and desperate for the revenge he knew deep down, he will never, ever have.

Sad.

[Arlene Ball @ArleneBall16]

@krassenstein Really really sad

[Arlene Ball @ArleneBall16]

@cturnbull1968 @mtgreenee @brianglenntv I have had a similar thought.

[White Fang @RWhiteFang]

@OccupyDemocrats You really can’t make this stuff up (although she does).

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Donald Trump's hack lawyer Alina Habba appears on Fox News to defend his falling asleep in court twice in the past few days — and her reason is absurd.

"I just have a second but you know there are two reports both days of him falling asleep in court, any reaction to that?" asked the host. "Is he tired? Has he just been running around a lot or any thoughts on that?"

"If anything he's probably brutally bored," said Habba.

We'll see how bored he is when he's convicted in the hush money trial.

The truth, of course, is that Trump is old, exhausted, and increasingly psychologically defeated. His legal problems are worsening, his finances are in tatters, and his poll numbers are tanking.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Trump should throw in the towel — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: https://t.co/HnJzSKj4Hp

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Nate White, 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.”

[Arlene Ball @ArleneBall16]

@DonaldJTrumpJr Says the man who said ON TELEVISION the biggest thing he had in common with his daughter is sex! “Grab ‘em by the pussy,” indeed. You horrible maggot.

[Arlene Ball @ArleneBall16]

@WarlordDilley @DonaldJTrumpJr It’s bullshit.