Dave Hornsey

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@meg_maclaren Must have been so frustrating. So close but not quite. Still, you are in great form. Keep it going and good luck for the rest of the season.

[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.

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@sentdefender Or removing the enriched uranium?

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@bdsams Is there a Getting Started guide?

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@jonsopel Oratory right up there with Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@simongerman600 Yes. Exactly. How poorly positioned are the Democrats that they were beaten in the '24 election by Trump.

Even worse, I can see the same thing happening in the UK.

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@tomwarren Yes, but you need to put 3 of the new ones together like that to make KitKat the size it used to be. I hate shrinkflation.

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

This is the single most inspiring corporate memo I have ever read. 👏 👏 👏

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Below is a note I shared with the NASA workforce outlining today’s Ignition event and how America will deliver the golden age of space exploration.

🧵

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@meg_maclaren Great result. Really pleased to see you coming back to form. Keep going!

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@Daniel_Rubino I really want to switch to ARM, but I use Lightroom Classic almost every day - all my photos are managed through LrC. Adobe don't (yet?) have a native ARM version.

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@MrAndrewCotter Great result for Eddie. So pleased for him.

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@sarahzimm Sitting on the sofa with a cup of tea knowing that I'll be seeing you in London next week is better! 👍

Also, please, please, please can we have While My Guitar Gently Weeps in the set list? 🤞

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@SkySportsGolf I don't think Seve ever cheated.

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@DPWorldTour @EmiratesGC Please not Patrick cheating Reed to win. Anyone but him.

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@jonsopel As usual, Farage is wrong.

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@meg_maclaren @LETgolf 👏👏👏

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@LUFC @LottieWoad Leeds fan? Oh yes! MOT

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@STRIKINGMATCHES I have tickets to see you in London in March. Please, please, please put that in your set list. 🤞

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@StickAFive @iaincartergolf @MrAndrewCotter Absolutely not just you. Great stuff by Eddie. So pleased for him.

[Dave Hornsey @HaccasDave]

@CJHandmer @wapodavenport Because @SciGuySpace has already done 2 books on exactly that!