Christian H Johansen

En sedat herre.

[Christian H Johansen @ChrHJohansen]

https://t.co/lAK2m2PQBP

[Hilde Eliassen Restad @hilderestad]

Norwegians googling to see if @GovTimWalz has Norwegian heritage (it's been too long since Walter Mondale...)

[Jonathan Lacôte @JonathanLacote]

👇Claude Monet, 1878. #JO2024👇

[Marius Sæther Flå @mariusfla]

De visste det nok ikke sjøl, men KLM tok VAR på kornet for flere tiår siden.

[John Christian Elden @jcelden]

Skal bli spennende å se om det ennå er håp for storesøster over there og resten av verden…

[Christian H Johansen @ChrHJohansen]

@MariusHelgaa Moa

[Christian H Johansen @ChrHJohansen]

@einardag

[Christian H Johansen @ChrHJohansen]

@Edvartsen Burde politianmeldes 😡😡😡

[Jonas Adnan Giæver @CheGiaevara]

Jeg har offisielt gitt opp VAR.

Dette her går ikke. Hva skal vi med det, dersom ikke dette er rødt kort?

[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

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

These are the scenes that the Kremlin 🇷🇺 did their utmost to prevent. It requires courage by citizens to go there and show their emotions - they are certain to have been recorded by the regime security service. https://t.co/fmeqhHrxrx

[Dr Wasim Zahid @WasimZahid]

Massakrert i matkø

Beretningene som kom ut av Gaza igår er helt uvirkelige. Sultne og desperate palestinere stod i kø for å få tak i litt mat for seg selv og sine familier, da israelske styrker åpnet ild mot folkemassen. 104 mennesker ble drept, 750 såret.

(Tråd)

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."

"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.

So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?

He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!

When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.

He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"

- George Clooney

actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

[Pelham @Resist_05]

If you think the bible gave you the right to kill over 15,000 children, destroy an entire country and steal their land… then you clearly read the book wrong…🇵🇸💔

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

If you’re having a bad day. Here’s a bat eating a banana.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Cameraman sacrificed his job for this

[Dr Wasim Zahid @WasimZahid]

En historie om overlevelse: 13 år gammel gutt på Gaza har mistet begge foreldrene, og har nå ansvar for 7 søsken. Den yngste er bare en baby på noen måneder. Hjerteskjærende. https://t.co/1eVY2KGBP1

[Dr Wasim Zahid @WasimZahid]

Befolkningen på Gaza er i ferd med å sulte ihjel. 2 millioner mennesker. Israel hindrer innførsel av nødhjelp. Dette er en krigsforbrytelse og en humanitær katastrofe. Og verden lar det skje…

[Mímir Kristjánsson @mimirk]

Det er virkelig skammelig at regjeringen ikke løfter en finger for å hjelpe den 102 år gamle krigsseileren Oscar Anderson med å beholde sykehjemsplassen sin i England.

Hvis det er én gruppe staten virkelig skylder noe, så er det krigsseilerne.

https://t.co/Z0cY4m6VSY

[Terje Helland @terjehelland]

"Hver gang vi møtes" med Mari Boine i sentrum, får meg til å føle meg stolt for at vi har deres kultur og perspektiv som en del vår nasjonale identitet.
Tenk at samene for ikke lenge siden skammet seg av å si de var samer og vi koloniserte dem og nedverdiget dem på det aller verste. @hvergangvimotes @MariBoine

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

One of the most American moments in history