ted kenniston

Dad, Husband, Trivia Geek, Badger, and firm believer in the Oxford, Comma...oh, and cool af

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@jerseymikes if I use the app to order from Jersey mikes and Jersey Mike’s delivery service(@doordash) screws up the order, it’s on Mikes to fix it, not DoorDash. I didn’t order from @doordash, I ordered from @jerseymikes. Don’t ask me to reach out to Doordash. You get me food!

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@jimmyjohns 1:24pm.

And I can tell you it has not been delivered. Even after 2 calls.

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@JasonLaCanfora My Lulu and I send our deepest condolences

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@ESPNCaddie have the lifeguards been alerted for trouble at Royal Portrush this week?

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*Simon

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@MarcSterne at an early family Christmas and my mom bought one of her grandnieces a copy of Salty the Sea Cat. I didn’t know she had purchased it. Is this a @davidaldridgeddc moment?

[Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza]

Trump has played a TON of defense in the debate so far:

* January 6
* Abortion
* Crowd Size
* Project 2025
* His wealth

Now ask yourself where Harris has to play defense.

Exactly.

Now you know who is winning.

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@beachblond52 “Sir” alert

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@mjfree Me

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@AllisonWeather is there a place to watch the primetime Olympic coverage other than wlwt? Double boxing is very inadequate. I get that people need to be informed, but this is relentless.

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@AllisonWeather @WLWT Can we watch the Olympic primetime broadcast somewhere other than WLWT? Double boxing is not even remotely good enough.

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Hello all

[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

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@joncoopertweets Yes

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@Skyline_Chili 🫴

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@ESPNMadison Buddy Melges, Eric Heiden, Bart Starr, Hank Aaron

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@katiekenniston Hunter and Sawyer

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Is anyone surprised? At all?

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

SICK, SICK, SICK: “Aides said [Donald Trump] talked about Ivanka Trump's breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led (former Chief of Staff) John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter," former Trump official Miles Taylor writes in a new book. 🤮

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@kenbroo did I here you are an @ThisShowStinks fan? LaCheeserie if you are. If not, than that was total gibberish. Not the first time.

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@JohnGumm all the folks who quit/retired from @Local12 had courage. The coincidence that a Sinclair owned company had long and rambling interruptions during the Tonys is reprehensible.