Jody Fristoe

Be Beautifully Broken

[🇨🇦CoffeyTimeNews🇨🇦 @CoffeyTimeNews]

The number of people that go bankrupt every year from medical bills:

Canada - 0
Australia- 0
France - 0
Sweden - 0
Norway - 0
Spain - 0
Denmark - 0
Portugal - 0
UK - 0
Japan - 0
Finland - 0
Iceland - 0
Germany - 0

United States - 326,000

Nobody wants to be the 51st state.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Yes, the cashier at Walmart should be able to afford rent and groceries with their paycheck.

Yes, the person with cancer and $3 in their bank account should be able to treat their cancer without going into debt.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

60,000 Americans die unnecessarily every year because they can't afford to see a doctor.

1 out of 4 cancer patients in this country go bankrupt or lose their home.

Insane. Cruel. Wrong.

We need a health care system that works for all of us.

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

.@KamalaHarris: "No, baby - you're not gonna die."

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a remarkable moment, Vice President Kamala Harris just demolished individuals protesting at her rally tonight. This is what true leadership looks like, and the crowd had her back. Retweet so all Americans see this Presidential moment. https://t.co/SQ9DPVG36s

[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

[KC Current @thekccurrent]

Setting the standard for investment in women’s sports.

@cpkcstadium | #KCBABY

[Jody Fristoe @jojofrito]

Be Useful! This seems like very good all-around life advice 💛

[The View @TheView]

Arnold @Schwarzenegger tells us how he wants to help others emulate his extreme success with his new book 'Be Useful' and reveals the phrase that's inspired by his father that gets him out of bed every morning. https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

We are sending our children to school every day with the tacit understanding that they may be slaughtered in order to feed the multi-billion dollar beast that is the gun industry.

We don't have to live like this. Children should never die like this.

Covenant School

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

#HennethingIsPossible

[Acyn @Acyn]

Wow

[Rachel Lenzi 💁🏻‍♀️😎💥 @rachelmlenzi]

.@SPARKSFOOTBALL alum Jody Fortson with the TD for the Chiefs. @bufnewspreptalk
💥⬇️

[Reuters @Reuters]

Artists from Ukraine and the U.S. are transforming a heap of burnt-out cars destroyed in the early days of Russia's war in Ukraine with brilliant sunflowers https://t.co/3d4XnH2BRS

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

People do not need to abandon their faith to believe women should have the ability to make decisions about their own bodies without government interference.

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

I meant it

[Noah Verrier @NoahVerrier]

My oil painting of Taco Bell

[David 🇨🇦 @HalfbeardCanada]

@grahamwalker @GrammarDomin8rx

[Nick Geidner @ngeidner]

I wonder what @DollyParton would have spent $43 billion dollars on.