Steve Patrick

Convinced what my kid calls weird is actually funny.

[Steve Patrick @SteveStPatrick]

Sad #SiriusXM programmers. You seem to think half of the rotation should include solo instrumentals and sonatas on #SymphonyHall, #SiriusXMPops, and #SymphonyHallJustMusic. Create a chamber music channel and be far more creative with the other 3 channels.

[Steve Patrick @SteveStPatrick]

@colincowherd And Riley’s wins per year at USC? 8.67. What’s your point, Coward?

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Dear price of eggs Trump voters,

Not only aren’t they any cheaper, there’s a shortage because of the raging Bird Flu we’re not getting any public information about because the food safety & public health agencies responsible for that shit have basically been shut down.

Bravo.

[Steve Patrick @SteveStPatrick]

#HeyNext At what point does a “micro-giving” campaign become a “small” “medium” or “large” campaign?

[Steve Patrick @SteveStPatrick]

@believeonjesus @dhookstead Hypocrite

[Steve Patrick @SteveStPatrick]

@_Kodacrome @krassenstein No. The state department of education governs their own state’s curriculum.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Genuine feedback on this please.

Why would this make one think that voting Republican is for the best?

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

This speech by Judge Matthew Barrett today in sentencing Tina Peters to 9 years for tampering with voter data was brilliant. What struck me most was that it almost word for word applies to Trump. Worth a listen.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Fifth Avenue Freeze-Out

[Michael J. Stern @MichaelJStern1]

Facts matter.

[Courtney Howard @Lulamaybelle]

As we all grieve the immense loss of actor James Earl Jones (Star Wars, The Lion King), I wanted to celebrate one his funnier milestones, reading Letterman’s best Top Ten List, reciting commercial jingles with his spectacular, powerful, booming voice. #RIPJamesEarlJones

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Dear Trump supporters, this is what you are teaching your children to think is presidential. 😳

[umichvoter @umichvoter]

🚨 WE HAVE A NEW EDIT

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

You are on the wrong side if...

- You attack a kid with learning disabilities for crying, out of Love for his father, but idolize Kyle Rittenhouse who cried as he testified about the people he killed.

- Books in schools scare you more than AR-15s in classrooms.

- You're more concerned about a woman aborting a fetus conceived through rape than you are about a rapist being elected president.

- You fear that a random immigrant might be a criminal or rapist, yet you vote for a criminal and rapist.

- You fear teachers more than you fear deranged individuals getting their hands on assault rifles.

- Censorship by a private company worries you more than schools imposing religion on your kids.

- You care more about the gender someone identifies with than their happiness and well-being.

[Steve Patrick @SteveStPatrick]

@mitchellreports is an American treasure. #MSNBC producers need to work a lot harder to protect her legacy. Help reduce the amount of stuttering, stammering, cringy slow talking, and mic mouth noise. We all slow down as we age, but you can do a much better job helping her.

[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

[Steve Patrick @SteveStPatrick]

You going for Tubbs or Crockett tonight, Kyle? #HeyNext