Bill Costin

Musician, composer of 1992 Arctic Winter Games Theme Song. Followed by @yokoono and @Nancysinatra. I still got it!

[Bill Costin @BillCostin]

@GodsBurnt @MarkJCarney Tim Hortons is American owned

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Hey Trump voters.

Hate to break it to you - but here’s what actually happened on Tuesday.

Watch. Bernie explained it 20 years ago.

[Bill Costin @BillCostin]

@RealGilbertACP @Franksantopadre @RealGilbert Barton J. Reed

[Bill Costin @BillCostin]

@ClassicShowbiz Time to skip a generation!

[Bill Costin @BillCostin]

@christyclarkbc And you need to stay home.

[Bill Costin @BillCostin]

@Gorda1Nicole @realdarylhall What did they tell him?

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Cat calculating the jump.. 😅

[Bill Costin @BillCostin]

@pulmyears I worked there in 1986/87. When did you work there?

[Bill Costin @BillCostin]

@merry123459 23

[Jazz Memes @JazzMemes]

6 Herbie Hancock Albums Everyone Needs 🙌

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Stephen King pens it best.

[Richie @RDRembert]

Pharrell hit it on the head. 99.9% of this shit DOESN’T matter

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This is why Trump and Musk want you focused on made-up cannibalistic satanic child sex-trafficking rings, or supposed crime waves when crime is actually plummeting, or even on the idiotic notion that Joe Biden is on drugs.

So you won't think about *this*.

[Peter Erskine @petererskine]

Happy Birthday to the swingin’est bass player I know, the one and only Chuck Berghofer. From “Lumpy Gravy” to “These Boots…” to the Barney Miller TV show theme, plus all of the Pat Williams and Seth MacFarlane albums we’ve done together, Chuck has done & continues to do it all.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

THIS IS ONE of the funniest sketches of alllllll time

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Sorry but watching astronauts sped up on the moon will never get old

[Bill Costin @BillCostin]

@Locati0ns I would say the internet is using US! Not the other way 'round.

[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

[Cherisse Osei @Cherissedrums]

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