HadouKen

views expressed are my own .. at least momentarily.

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@teslaenergy It hardly ever works in Australia. Maybe 1 in 10 storms at best..

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

In 2024, audible is the new challenger to the humble gym membership as the hardest thing to cancel.

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@JustStop_Oil @ST0NEHENGE This is such a fail. No one will listen to your worthy message if you're damaging ancient relics with disregard. You make it easy through your actions for folks to brand you as deluded extremists. I hope those involved learn from this mistake, potentially from prison.

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@SwizzleSister @GrogsGamut Bless the 'temporary government' that ever has the fortitude .. ; )

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@SenatorRennick @KosSamaras 'environment destroyed by renewables' ... A contender for dumbest phrase expressed publicly this year @SenatorRennick ?

[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

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@realmoonthemoon @simonahac I enjoyed this.

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@simonahac @DavidBlackie9 @DarylTractor @RealMarkLatham @ScottMorrisonMP Another similarity between the two is their seeming unemployability post political career. I mean .. how could you possibly want either representing your company in any capacity? Sky News janitor maybe?

[Nat Martin @NatMartin30]

Honestly, just fucking mankad Stuart Broad at Headingley and let’s become a republic. Go all in

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@DrVicFielding Every time Sam Weidamen gets the ball the crowd boo "weeeeeeed" .. it's a tradition from the super-mullet Wayne Weidman who used to play for the crows. So not booing; weeding. ; )

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@Telstra Hmm.. Basterds inc. had the same logo 🤔

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

Hey @elonmusk why is this setting not 'always on' ?

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@JunktimeAFLPod Denver Dragons?

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@JonDeeOz @Alcoa @IngridStitt this is deplorable and on your watch.

[JON DEE (JonDee.com). NowOnBlueSkySocial @JonDeeOz]

Is this a record for the most koalas killed by a single company at a single site?

US company ⁦@Alcoa⁩ has euthanised 152 koalas in a private forest near their facility in Victoria.

Words totally fail me. Why aren’t we doing more to protect koalas? https://t.co/5OdTeL2rfv

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@DavidShoebridge I would like to see all companies taxed appropriately .. with public funds supporting those organisations based on charitable activity not necessarily making carbs or Christian rock music. We don't use public funds to subsidise Kellogg's or Keith Urban!

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@BJafari Why not try a pixel? There's a lot of Samsung in the Samsung phones. Not necessarily a bad thing but also not necessarily the best representation of Android.

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@sydneyswans @scg So good. Best seats in the house for a true fan. 💕

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@jamesrob Awesome incentive to maintain hope. Who doesn't want a 🐢?

[HadouKen @Ken_Rankins]

@sydneyswans I would love to see the scg do something to acknowledge Kenny's presence .. maybe a plaque in front of the seat or something.