Joe Furnari

INFJ songwriter/guitarist of The Jenny Pilots & The Susan Rumors #ChooseYourVision #MementoMori

[#Randy @RandyResist]

Truth.

[Joe Furnari @joefurnari]

"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.

Same direction. Completely different energy."

-@JamesClear

[Jenny Pilots @JennyPilots]

Cool news: Our 2 new songs were selected to be a part of a Music Blog from The UK. This week “The Sweet and The Sad” is being featured and next week will be the other song 'Final Reel'. https://t.co/LNXPgARAGQ

[Joe Furnari @joefurnari]

@ToadWetSprocket Toad the wet sprocket is the best thing to ever exist and you should definitely do that for your garden.

Wut. 🤔

[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

[Joe Furnari @joefurnari]

@Huckberry $300? What is it made of gold?

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@Danny_Clinch Love the worn out grain on the Tele! And the pose! Beautiful

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@Lighty99 I see 2 tabs on the top of my feed - For You and Following. When you click Following does it stick across sessions? It could be defaulting back to For You

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@JesseJacksonDFW The words of my kids’ preschool teacher: you get what you get and you don’t get upset!

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@WoodardColin The most insightful American history book ever written! Explains so much about the attitudes in different regions of the country.

[Joe Furnari @joefurnari]

@CountingCrows Daylight Fading

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@ThatEricAlper (Down to) The Letter https://t.co/EJJpIzOQeW

[Joe Furnari @joefurnari]

@BruceTourNews Question: Streets of Fire… studio version… second half of third verse… what the hell you singing?

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The most powerful paradoxes of life:

[Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers @tompetty]

Experience The Fillmore with 4 hours of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers performing their favorite covers and powerful renditions of the hits, like this performance of “Jammin’ Me”.

[Joe Furnari @joefurnari]

@Springsteenday @springsteen Little Things That Count. Also: Don’t Look Back, Janey Needs A Shooter, Maria’s Bed, Take’em As They Come, Outside Looking In, Sundown, You’ll Be Coming Down, Preacher’s Daughter

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1995, 14 wolves were released in Yellowstone National Park. No one expected the miracle that the wolves would bring

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[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The 12 Laws of Karma everyone should know:

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

I am sick and tired of trickle-down economics. It has never worked.

We're building an economy from the bottom up and middle out.

[Joe Furnari @joefurnari]

@victimsrightsNY Wut