Andrew Gilbert

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@CalltoActivism Sounds like a plan 👍 if you do the crime and all that..

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@AFC_Chlo Rift Valley 🇰🇪

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@Arsenalnewschan 🇰🇪

[Paul Merson @PaulMerse]

Looking to follow a few people back, give this a RT and will follow some of you great people 👍🏼

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@Arsenal 🇰🇪

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@EricTrump Typical lie that comes out of the corrupt Trump family everytime they open their mouth. The sooner you are all in prison the better

[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

[Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv @BandyXLee1]

4 indictments, 91 charges, 2 impeachments, 1 act of sedition, and threatening civil war. 26 women alleging sexual assault. 1.13 million Americans dead from Covid. And he is the front runner of the Republican Party. This is why I call it a collective psychosis.

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@NoContextBrits Twat

[Phil T 💙 @pipcell]

Best gig of the festival @sparksofficial

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@PalmerReport And the UK's BBC reporting is up there with the worst. Forever giving Trump quotes and airtime rather than reporting the actual reality

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@RepAndyBiggsAZ To stop you going going down too. I think you mean I fall with ex President Trump you loser

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@PalmerReport Does the BBC reporter @awzurcher really have any clue what is going on? His latest headline is 'Ron Desatis 2024: Can he really beat Donald Trump in Republican race?' The British public are being badly misled and have been for ages when it comes to their reporting

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@Arsenal Nairobi, 🇰🇪

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@stephpgold Has been an amazing season but I agree those 2 points dropped at Liverpool, made even worse by the following two has killed us. So proud of the club though ❤❤

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@The_Hex_Blog @TheGunnersPub My very first visit to Highbury as a 16 year old travelling down on my own from the Midlands. Remember it so well. Happy memories ❤

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@Arsenalnewschan 🇰🇪

[Andrew Gilbert @andysg1963]

@thedavidseaman @Arsenal @ManCity Expat in Diani, Kenya Coast, 22.50 pm here. Nervous but fingers are crossed