David Ashforth

ex-various things

[B i L A L 🇹🇷🍉 @TlFnCu1907]

🇮🇹 İtalya Başkanı Meloni ;

"Biz kimsenin Uşağı değiliz,80 yıldır güvenliğimizi Abd'ye havale ettik,Karşılıksız sandık ama yanılmışız,Özgürlük pahalı olabilir ama Abd'nin kuklası olmaktan iyidir"

Avrupa ülkeleri Abd'siz bir NATO ayağı inşa etmeli..

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Here’s Fuckface going full Hitler, calling the press the “enemy of the people” because he’s a miserable fucking failure & gets all butthurt if anyone asks a real question. But the child-raping sack of shit’s got it all wrong. HE is the enemy of the people.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

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 or female – 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 most 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.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Britain has gotten poorer over the last decade. Brexit didn't work.

Disposable income has fallen more than in other European countries and certainly more than in the US.

They cut their nose off despite their economic face, a populist, nationalist, emotional decision, and now they're stuck because you can't get the same deal with the EU you once had.

People are done with both parties and they want to throw the bums out.

Now Farage is rising. I've met him and think he’s a con.

Go read his economic proposals — some of them are hate-based, some are tribally based.

Farage's broader economic proposals are populist noise that will make the country weaker and hurt the very people supporting him.

[David Ashforth @davidjashforth]

@0ivankaTrump1 There’s stiff competition but he has to be odds-on favourite.

[David Ashforth @davidjashforth]

@Mikeggibbs The contrast between Carney’s competence-to put it mildly- and Trump’s incompetence- to put it mildly- is striking.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine resigned and openly accused Trump of aligning with Putin.

Respect to Bridget Brink — a brave and honest woman.

[Simon Holt @SimonHolt3]

Why, when trying to study form, on the new @racingpost racecard are the runners displayed in random order - not alphabetical order, not in racecard order? And is it too late to return to the previous, excellent, cards?

[David Ashforth @davidjashforth]

@paulfetton @MACCA1313 Thankyou

[David Ashforth @davidjashforth]

@_lauren_young just to say that I'm a great admirer of your riding. You are very accomplished and it's hard to imagine there being a better 5lb claimer. I hope you have a great career.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Bolton: Trump called Xi "King" and "the greatest leader in Chinese history."

Trump thinks he's friends with Xi and Putin. I guarantee that's not how they see Trump — they both see him as an easy mark.

[United Canada 🇨🇦 @UnitedCanucks26]

Take that Trump. Canada's leader isn't a kiss ass. We decide our future as Canadians. 🇨🇦
• Who’s with @MarkJCarney on this? ❤️ Retweet in solidarity with Canada standing its ground! #Canada

[David Ashforth @davidjashforth]

A few ill-judged rides in the 6.15 at Hexham.

[tengri_spirit 🇨🇦🇰🇿🇺🇦 @tengri_spirit]

Вдумайтесь. Посол Америки в Украине ушла в отставку и открыто обвинила Трампа в заключении союза с Путиным.

Респект Бриджет Бринк. Смелая и честная женщина

[David Ashforth @davidjashforth]

@RuaTrindade It's a long time ago (most things are nowadays) and as the elderly often do, I think about the past. I hope you are enjoying life. I think I'd like to see Sue McMullen again before it's too late and I thought you would probably still be in touch with her.

[David Ashforth @davidjashforth]

@LizWebsterSBF @Kingkennyl Brexit - the ludicrous notion that it would be beneficial to make trading with our major trading partner more difficult and costly.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 Mark Carney just nailed it:

Countries that rushed into dodgy deals with the US under Trump got deals “not worth the paper they were written on.”

Sound familiar, Brexit Britain?

We ditched the stable EU single market for the fantasy 🦄 of brilliant US trade deals… and ended up with higher costs, bureaucracy, and now Trump tariffs.

Time to stop the tantrum and do a proper reset with our biggest trading partner.

[David Ashforth @davidjashforth]

@seandw14 @JumpsLeft You always liked a challenge. It’s inspirational. I’m not going to cut mine until there’s some to cut.

[Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 @sikorskiradek]

I wish some men had her balls.