T. Layton

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

First president in 28 years to not serve a second term.

First president in 45 years not to release any of his tax returns.

First president in 89 years to lose the presidency, the House and the Senate in a single term.

First president in 102 years to allow more than 120,000 Americans to die in a single virus outbreak.

First president in 129 years to lose the popular vote twice.

First president in 152 years to boycott his successors inauguration.

First president ever to fail to hit a 50% approval rating at any point during their presidency.

First president ever to be elected with the help of a foreign nation.

First president ever to be impeached twice.

First president ever to have a member of their own party vote for conviction in an impeachment trial.

First president ever to have an arrest warrant issued against him by a foreign nation.

First president ever to refuse to concede defeat.

First president to be banned from social media.

First president to refuse to ensure the peaceful transfer of power.

First president to have their home searched for official national security documents.

First former president found liable of sexual abuse, defamation & business fraud.

First former president criminally indicted (also the second, third and fourth).

First former president with a mugshot.

First former president to await a jury’s verdict as the defendant in a criminal trial.

So many firsts, so much winning.

He must be sick of it.

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

Just to recap:

Donald Trump is a felon

He joins his campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, national security advisor, foreign policy advisor, political consultant, and personal lawyer as felons.

[angry buni 🤬 @theangriestbuni]

This.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

God willing, I'll be turning 56 next month.

I have no patience for Republicans who want to increase the Social Security age, keeping it out of reach so that I'll die working without collecting the benefits I worked my whole fucking life for.

That's what's at stake in November. You want to save your Social Security benefits?

VOTE BLUE.
PASS IT ON.

[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

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

everyone should retweet this as many times as humanly and technologically possible

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Ya know, I feel like if I worked at a bank and I planned to rob that bank & I sent an armed mob to do the robbing & they failed but everyone knew it was me who planned it & then I got fired, that I wouldn’t be able to work at that bank or any bank ever again.
But what do I know.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Be alarmed, and vote accordingly.

https://t.co/Ios6f8bI4e

[Michael Little @Michael_Little_]

The border we need to secure is between church and state.

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

Imagine if instead of worrying about men transitioning to women or women transitioning to men we paid more attention to republicans transitioning into nazis? 🤔

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Nick Offerman slams homophobic comments against his #TheLastOfUs episode

"When homophobic hate comes my way and says, ‘Why did you have to make it a gay story?’ We say, ‘Because you ask questions like that. It’s not a gay story it’s a love story, you asshole”

[T. Layton @TLayton4]

@rickygervais @LouisaCorr @goldenglobes 🤜🤛

[Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem]

Let me roll it to you:
1. Trump lost the 2020 election.
2. Trump lied about losing.
3. Trump lost in court 60 times appealing his loss.
4. Trump has been indicted in 4 different jurisdictions.
5. . . . for 91 felonies.
6. Trump lied about having classified documents.
7. Trump owes nearly $500 million from civil court decisions against him
8. Trump was impeached twice.
9. Trump is a con man.
10. Trump has been adjudicated a rapist and a fraud in civil court.

. . . It ain't a witch hunt. It's not the deep state. It's Donald Trump - who caused all of this by his own actions.
He won't even denounce Putin for Alexei Navalny's death.

Exhausted? Please. He's just getting started. If you're exhausted now, imagine what another four years of Trump in the WH would be like.

https://t.co/wQPtcyax6P

[T. Layton @TLayton4]

@saladandgo You have no idea how happy that makes us!!!! #saladandgo for the win.
Now…. When you say “future”…….

[T. Layton @TLayton4]

Dear @saladandgo
Redding, Ca. needs you. Desperately.
Please send your veggie tornado our way. 🫶🏻