Livingston Keithley

At present I am a sojourner in civilized life.

[Stephen Daisley @JournoStephen]

Imagine growing up in absolute dirt poverty in east Tennessee, daughter of a tobacco farmer, going to school wearing rags your mother stitched into a coat, and when you die the British royal family has its military band play your up-the-workers country-pop anthem in tribute.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Look, was LIV Golf successful? No.

Did it bolster the reputations of everybody involved? Also, no.

But was it fun? Once again, no.

[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

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[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

@DoorDash your driver ran off with my $80 order of sushi, I tried calling him multiple times and messaged him with no response. Your best offer is to refund me on $19 in delivery fees?!? YOU STILL OWE ME $61 for your employee’s theft!!

[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

I am amazed at the deafening silence. Where are all those people who previously chanted “lock her up?”

[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

What a cowardly response from the press secretary for the chief executive. Reporter asked a legit question, and rather than answer it straight, she decides it’s better to insult him. Typical. https://t.co/ailNgptu9l

[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

When will our Congress wake up, and realize that Putin and @elonmusk are controlling Trump and @realDonaldTrump is going to push us off a cliff just to please them??

[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

Couldn’t agree more.

[Rob Witwer @robwitwer]

The antisemitism we saw in DC today has no place in the United States. I don’t have many clear memories of my grandfather, but I do remember how much he hated the Nazis he fought against in North Africa. And even as a kid, he told me what they did in the camps in Europe. Americans who spread hatred of Jews dishonor the sacrifice of Americans like him who fought the Nazis.

[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

@robwitwer Is this a trick question? While I conceptually agree with the moral principle of your post, logically if one of these categories were successful in their effort, then we would never know of their activities because they were successful in whitewashing said activities.

[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

@Hoyatexas Iron Eagle.

[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

@Hoyatexas @kdzwierzynski @MichaelLKatz @thesarahkelly @leighmunsil @LeighGiangreco @GKroegs He lost the game and is now lecturing the press corps about asking weak questions?!? WTF

[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

https://t.co/bwfrbocdvu @elonmusk what a coward.

[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

@shootermcgavin 💯 you didn’t say which club I have to use 😏

[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

@KwameSpearman Didn’t you also interview for support and funding from the same organization?

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

What NFL coaches would be doing if they weren’t NFL coaches…

(@Morning_Blitz)

[Rev. Terrance D. Carroll, Esq. @speakercarroll]

All these words but not a single word condemning Hamas’ attack or the role Hamas has played refusing to distribute humanitarian aide to the nearly 5 million Palestinians they claim to govern but yet don’t make any real attempt at governing. 🧵1/3

[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

[Vic Vela @VicVela1]

Pac-12 defensive coordinators after watching the #CUBuffs today

[Livingston Keithley @ColoMasala]

By his own tortured logic, the AL AG could be held liable in CO for criminal conspiracy to violate CO’s open access laws. @AGSteveMarshall would you like to come skiing in Vail with me? 😉 https://t.co/HBXuvPZRIN