Good Counsel

[✭ 🅑🅤🅑🅑🅐 ✭ @BubbatheOG]

I hope y’all understand the assignment. 👍🏽

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

These are the most horrifying 30 seconds I’ve ever seen in my life.

Vote Kamala Harris.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump: “Christians, get out and vote! Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine! You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians! I’m a Christian”

[Good Counsel @good_counsel]

@KamalaHQ So by the logic of @JDVance, the much-maligned “welfare mom” with 5 kids should have 5 times the voting power of a childless white tech bro? (Since she has 5x the investment in the future).

[Good Counsel @good_counsel]

This is been around for a while, for a reason. It’s a classic.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve 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

[Good Counsel @good_counsel]

@RippledTipples @ReallyAmerican1 @RippledTipples has nailed it! Strong family resemblance!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The next time you hear Republicans in Congress complaining about increasing IRS enforcement, remember that the richest 1 percent of Americans evade as much as $163 billion in taxes each year.

[Good Counsel @good_counsel]

*Before you’re born. Once you’re born, you’re on your own.
** Unless you’re a billionaire, then you get special tax breaks and pay a fraction of the rates paid by others.

[House Republicans @HouseGOP]

Following two years of Far Left one-party Democrat rule, there is now a House majority that stands for LIFE.

[Good Counsel @good_counsel]

@JimmyKimmelLive @IAMGUILLERMO @blackforager Great episode! Bring foraging girl back soon!

[Ben Wikler @benwikler]

Break out the crudite

[TODAY @TODAYshow]

Texas is sending public school students home with DNA kits designed to help their parents identify their children "in case of an emergency."

After the Uvalde shooting, many parents now feel even more anxious about sending their children to school. https://t.co/0vzrAGvnhM

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

Stop hitting on people who are paid to be nice to you

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

#TrumpIsNotLikeYou

The greatest lie Donald Trump ever told was convincing tens of millions of hard working Americans that he was "just like them." This video destroys that lie.

Watch: #TrumpIsNotLikeYou

[Sarah Reese Jones @PoliticusSarah]

Damning footage of Roger Stone makes it clear that stealing the election and violence was the goal and that Stone was in contact with Trump. #January6thCommitteeHearings

[StandForBetter.org @StandForBetter]

📺 NEW Video:

Trump Lost, yet he decided to hatch a coup with the help of Mark Meadows, Roger Stone, Rudy Giuliani, and others. Liz Cheney lays it out. I am never voting for a Republican.

Retweet this video: #TrumpsCoupPlaybook

#January6thCommitteeHearings
#Jan6thHearings

[𝕏partacu𝕩 parody ( @[email protected]) @AugustPamplona]

@mackio_ Also, did he just call for "3 more units"? That means he called 3 more cars for this?

They feel free to use 4 cars to arrest 2 mostly compliant people; & then some folk act shocked that the possibility of police departments being grossly overfunded should be considered at all?

[Janey Godley @JaneyGodley]

200 year old Wisteria tree in Japan