*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
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 or female – 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 most 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.
There is an absolute slew of media seeking to make the far right acceptable. This ranges from Donald Trump supporters denying the rule of law and protesting the safe conviction of their leader. This includes Boris Johnson supporting such voices. This includes... 1/11
Calling out Govt corruption doesn’t make someone “hard left”
Calling out for climate change action doesn’t make someone part of the “eco-mob”
Calling out the need to treat minorities with respect doesn’t make someone “woke”
…but using any of these labels does make you a prick
Once again your regular reminder that the entire refugee boats problem for the UK could be fixed within 24 hours if the UK government would accept the offer from France to open a processing centre on French soil.
They want the boats to come, they want the gammons angry & scared.
Dear @Telegraph & @DailyMailUK,
For the last 13 years, you have enabled the Tories' devastating assault on our healthcare, serving as lead cheerleaders for policies that have harmed our patients, our colleagues, and our NHS. You have poisoned the country's minds for far too long, and now that you are attacking our colleagues, we've had enough.
2/3 of the public still firmly support us striking NHS workers — not the corrupt govt you so readily defend — and now that you are losing the battle of public opinion, you are desperately going after my colleagues to find any way to smear us. We're not going to tolerate it any longer.
While successive Tory governments dismantled and destroyed NHS services, you did your job of manufacturing consent for their harmful policies from Austerity 1.0 and 2.0 to the 2012 and 2022 health care bills — pieces of legislation that faced near universal opposition from health experts and all of the Royal Colleges — and you enabled those policies to succeed, because what you do isn't journalism for the public good, it's propaganda for the government's wealthy friends.
You then manufacture outrage with myths about NHS managers, immigrants, and NHS funding, never questioning those in govt who intentionally defunded and dismantled the formerly #1 ranked healthcare system of this great country in order to drive more people into private healthcare.
Alongside Tory govt ministers, your publications bear significant responsibility for the NHS crisis we now face. With your cheerleading, patients are now suffering on the longest GP, A&E, cancer, and outpatient waiting lists in NHS history at 7.4 million people long. 500 patients are now dying every single week due to preventable delays accessing NHS emergency care — with over 13,000 dead patients thus far in 2023 alone — all because of Tory policy failures that you championed and you enabled.
We are now suffering through the worst crisis in NHS history — one that your newspapers helped engineer — and because you are so morally bankrupt, even with alarming staff suicide rates, your editors think it's okay to attack my burnt out frontline NHS colleagues, defending billionaires instead of doing real reporting that is in the public interest of our patients.
You could elucidate to your readers why those 13,000 people are dead, or where the billions stolen from the public purse during COVID can be found, or how no one can see an NHS dentist, or how our mental health crisis has let down a generation of children and families, or how the govt still hasn't fixed the broken social care system, or you could investigate how many A&E departments have been closed in the last decade, or how many beds have been shut, or you could look at how much NHS funding goes into the pockets of private companies and never reaches patients, or how govt policy in a dozen other areas has harmed public health, but no, you choose to attack my friend Holly and our colleagues to try and find any way to discredit us.
Holly Turner has more integrity in her little toe than you've got among your entire staff — and certainly among your editorial boards — and we won't sit by and watch as you attack her for sport.
And so to the editors of the Telegraph and Daily Mail: We are not afraid of you. You are mouthpieces for a govt that will go down as one of the most corrupt in our lifetimes and your influence is waning rapidly. It's time to keep Holly's name out of your mouth. It's time to stop cheering the arsonists who are burning down our NHS, and it's especially time for you to stop gaslighting the public into believing that their neighbourhood looks better on fire.
You have never been on the side of patients and you never will be. And no one in the UK who wants reliable and honest information about NHS policy should trust anything that's written in your newspapers.
We fight for our patients. You fight for our billionaires. I think the public knows who to trust.
#SOSNHS #PayRestoration #NHS75
So the first thing we learn from the Covid Inquiry is that we diverted so many resources towards shooting ourselves in the foot with Brexit that we shot ourselves in the other foot with Covid.
#CovidInquiry
Chiffre record GB. Plus de 2x plus d'immigrés depuis le Brexit
Quitter l'UE pour "reprendre le contrôle" est un vaste mensonge. Ils attirent des migrants car ils ne veulent ni former ni payer leurs propres travailleurs
En plus ils ont perdu leur propre droit de vivre dans l'UE
Immigration into Britain hit a new high, according to new data. The figures have stirred tensions in the country’s government, which has promised both to stem arrivals and to revive a sluggish economy hampered by labor shortages.
https://t.co/UEVBx5VY4x
ChatGPT est mort. ☠️
J'ai condensé pour toi 140 outils IA qui vont te faciliter grandement la vie.
Tu les auras TOUS au meme endroit.
RT & Commente "Notion" et je t'envoie le lien directe en MP. 👇