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[Rose Durrant @Ro39313Rose]

@RichardAngwin Hell no

[Rose Durrant @Ro39313Rose]

@Suzierizzo1 TRASH

[Rose Durrant @Ro39313Rose]

@Suzierizzo1 Hero!!

[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

[🇺🇸 BLUE VANGUARD 🇨🇦 @Thomasstjames3]

@CalltoActivism The remarkable thing isn’t that someone managed to describe Trump this accurately.

It’s that after all these years, the man keeps providing new material.

He may be the first person in history whose character assassination requires no exaggeration—just observation.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

CNN did concede however that he is the absolute BEST at being a demented, psychopathic, diaper wearing, child sodomizing, booger-eating, ding-batted, motherfucking “president” in U.S. history.

So, Trump’s got that going for him.

[Chez Claudette - LLB(Hons) ⚖🗽🌹💙 @Claudette966]

Happy Monday and the end of a mournful August. Let's hope and pray 🙏 - that September will bring us less tragedy, and more peace ✌ and love in our life 💙 💕 💞.

HELLO SEPTEMBER 🌎

[liza s @Eanderhorn]

@1drcole No

[Mary Paulos @msGrassharp]

@1drcole Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution explains that the States have the primary authority over election administration, the "times, places, and manner of holding elections.”

[MrBULLIE @RDTrains]

@1drcole A modern democracy should be making it easier to vote. The Trump Administration is doing the exact opposite. The are trying to prevent voting by making it harder because that is the only way they can win.

[Rose Durrant @Ro39313Rose]

@1drcole NO!!

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

When the man who investigated Trump firsthand — before Republicans refused to let us see and hear everything he found — says the danger is “greater than anything he has seen in his lifetime,” we should LISTEN.

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith didn’t mince words:

“I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I’ve seen in my lifetime.”

This isn’t coming from a political commentator or a random pundit. It’s coming from the prosecutor who spent years examining the evidence against Trump, reviewing classified documents, interviewing witnesses, and seeing how power was used behind the scenes.

Whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, or independent, the rule of law is supposed to be the foundation of our democracy. It means NO ONE is above the law, no matter how wealthy, powerful, or politically connected they are.

And, ask yourself, what’s the harm in seeing the FACTS⁉️

If Trump didn’t do anything wrong, he shouldn’t have anything to worry about, right?

When someone with Jack Smith’s experience warns that the threat is unprecedented, it shouldn’t be dismissed because of politics.

It should prompt every American to ask what’s happening to the institutions that are supposed to protect our democracy.

📸: Really American

[Dorothy Eubanks @DorothyEubank16]

What Trump doesn’t want you to know..

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

From every sane American…

Canada, we apologize. 🇨🇦

[J @jasonllevin]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961]

Raw Story: Trump has sparked a “financial crisis” within the Navy after pillaging money earmarked for service member payrolls to cover costs for the Iran war.

This is some bullshit right here!
#VoteBlueToStopTrump #VoteOutEveryRepublican #VoteBlue2026

[Janice Gindel @jgindel]

Yesssssssssss!!!

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO THIS COUNTRY?

People can't afford groceries, gas, housing or healthcare. American troops are fighting and dying in Trump's war with Iran. Families are struggling. And Trump is playing some deranged WAR OF THE ROSES with CANADA over tariffs — one of our closest allies and trading partners.

And THIS is what we're doing? RENAMING LAKE ONTARIO?

Trump declares an international lake shared with another sovereign country “Lake America” — and GOOGLE FUCKING MAPS obediently changes it for American users. Canada still sees Lake Ontario. Much of the rest of the world gets both names. Americans get Trump's alternate reality.

WHY THE FUCK IS @googlemaps PARTICIPATING IN THIS?

Trump cannot rename Canada's part of Lake Ontario. He cannot order Canada to call it Lake America. Yet one of the most powerful information companies on Earth is helping turn one man's political stunt into the “geography” Americans see.

And then the media turns the spectacle into headline news while PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY SUFFERING.

We have an affordability crisis. A healthcare crisis. Americans are being sent into harm's way. And the President is spending his time renaming lakes to piss off Canada while Google changes the map and the press feeds the spectacle.

STOP TREATING PROPAGANDA AS GEOGRAPHY.

STOP TREATING MADNESS AS NORMAL POLITICS.

We have REAL fucking problems.

WHAT. THE. FUCK. ARE. WE. DOING?

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[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

I detect no lies…