Fran Pharis

Ethan's mom. Architect. Dog lover. Lover of life.

[Fran Pharis @frandinsky]

I’m seeing a lot of red being passed off as maroon in boutiques around here. I think we need to come to a consensus on what is #truemaroon

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

I am deeply disturbed by the shooting in Utah. Doug and I send our prayers to Charlie Kirk and his family.

Let me be clear: Political violence has no place in America. I condemn this act, and we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence.

[Fran Pharis @frandinsky]

RETIRE 👏🏼 THE 👏🏼 CAMO 👏🏼 HATS 👏🏼 @HailStateBB

[Fran Pharis @frandinsky]

#GoodGrief on @netflix was even better than I thought it would be. It’s so easy to watch @danjlevy in any role, or just living life, and all the new actors I was introduced to made me smile. Tears and smiles, 10/10.

[Fran Pharis @frandinsky]

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[Mississippi State Football @HailStateFB]

A year ago we lost too soon a college football icon, a coaching legend, and an even better person.

Rest in peace, Coach Leach 🏴‍☠️

[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

[Taylor Vance @taylorcvance]

Wild way to end fundraising for the 2023 MS election cycle:

Democrat Brandon Presley has outraised Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, one of the most notable MS fundraisers in modern years, by more than $5 million to date in the 2023 election cycle.

[Fran Pharis @frandinsky]

The best day!

[Hail State Stool @HailStateStool]

On this day in 2014…

#3 Mississippi State beat #2 Auburn to become the #1 team in the country for the first time in school history

Time flies https://t.co/u7pdJCT5PT

[Fran Pharis @frandinsky]

I remember those burgers well 😋

[Starkville in the 70’s @Starkville70s]

Many of you have ask about Christy’s Hamburgers. Started in 1982 when it was originally called Bulldog and Shake. 10¢ Coke nights, greasy brown bags,etc…. I miss this place.

[Fran Pharis @frandinsky]

Men are idiots. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

Jason Aldean shot this at the site where a white lynch mob strung Henry Choate up at the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., after dragging his body through the streets with a car in 1927.

That's where Aldean chose to sing about murdering people who don't respect police.

[Fran Pharis @frandinsky]

I really didn't need another reason to not like Jason Aldean but WOW... that new song is tone deaf in more ways than one.

[Mississippi State Alumni @MSStateAlumni]

Who remembers the book store in the Union? 📚

[Mississippi Today @MSTODAYnews]

The latest from Marshall Ramsey: Fire!
https://t.co/Ja00kcGzgP

[rafa @abstrctellis]

— a very much needed thread of jason sudeikis singing

[Fran Pharis @frandinsky]

🥲🥲🥲

[𝕋𝔼𝔾𝔸™ 🌍 @Tegadeyforyou]

Jackie Chan and his daughter crying while watching some of his old movie scenes is the most wholesome thing you’ll watch today.

Thanks for our childhood legend ❤️

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

If you’re ever wondering why the next 40 years are sucking, remember a former game show host indicted for felony espionage appointed one third of the Supreme Court