eva chambers

An enthusiastic Canadian following closely contemporary politics.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨🚨🚨 I'm posting this video every day so we NEVER forget what insurrectionist Donald Trump did on J6

Instead of accepting defeat and honoring the peaceful transfer of power, Trump unleashed a deadly mob on the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to stay in power

THIS is what an insurrection looks like 👇👇👇

[Tweets of Dogs @TweeetsOfDogs]

Two shelter dogs became best friends and refused to be separated. Now they share the same forever home and endless cuddles. ❤️

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Trump insulted us again and he doubled down on how the US doesn’t need anything from us.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Who is with her? ✋

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Eighty year old dementia ridden, bigoted Trump, wearing makeup, a ton of hairspray, lifts and a diaper or two, slanders Talarico calling him a transgender and a disaster. All the while being interviewed by his daughter-in-law like in a banana republic.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is what Trump's done to the people's house:

A third of it is rubble.

Another third is a cage match.

What a metaphor.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

*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.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

The Oval Office looks like the junkyard from Sanford and Son

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

I support the First Amendment and Jimmy Kimmel!

Who’s with me? ✋

[eva chambers @evamarcela]

@Dainallves No!!!

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Jimmy Kimmel: “Stephen Miller is so racist. The reason he went bald is because his hair was black.”

[eva chambers @evamarcela]

@Julius_Kim Absolutely!🇨🇦

[rika fuhrman @rikafrlty]

@AnnieForTruth Melania , this is corrosive !😤

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Mary Trump is correct!

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Trump:
“I’m not a rapist I didn’t rape anybody. I’m not a pedophile.”

O’Donnell:
“Oh, do you think he was referring to you?”

Fucking priceless.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Melania Trump says Jimmy Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our county.

I stand with Jimmy against Melania Trump!

Who is with me? 👍

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

Trump called O’Donnell ‘horrible,’ cut her off with ‘excuse me,’ told her ‘you should be ashamed of yourself,’ & said ‘you’re a disgrace.’

This is textbook verbal & emotional abuse rooted in misogyny, using power to belittle women.

If you were her, how would you have responded?

[LateNighter @latenightercom]

Jon Stewart on The Daily Show: "We're so f*cked in this country right now we can't even pull off a dinner that shouldn't have existed in the first place. 'Hey, let's celebrate the first amendment with the administration that's doing everything it can to destroy it.'"

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

I can't believe we're even having this conversation: In the last ten years, NOBODY has engaged in more violent political rhetoric than Donald Trump.