Kavinho

Random rubbish and other sensical musings

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Nigel Farage launched Reform because he didn't get peerage from Boris Johnson.

Nadine Dorris joined Reform because Rishi Sunak blocked her from having a seat in the Lords.

Nadhim Zahawi joined Reform because Kemi Badenoch didn't give him a peerage.

[Kavinho @Kavinho10]

@MumbrianSpinner Love these! Where in the country are you?

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: We need to talk about Russia. So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage. My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty & this tweet has been doing rounds today.

Now imagine my investigation into Russian interference hadn’t been crushed by lawfare, my news org had doubled down & carried on & govt had opened an inquiry as MPs demanded.

😢

[Kavinho @Kavinho10]

@The5KGuy @TAFKAB2 @flushingitgolf And that tone is set by your President

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The new black (black dye is cheaper) British passport sums up Brexit perfectly, made by a French Company in Poland and shipped from Germany.

That's your sovereignty.

[Kavinho @Kavinho10]

@doufous @RichardSearling Would you walk it though... ?!

[Kavinho @Kavinho10]

@Beezus_777 @STARFORCEHH From a bio that says "Grace, Mercy and Peace" as your first 4 words.....

You choose to suggest putting someone to death...?

Take a look at yourself and your own values

[Kavinho @Kavinho10]

@Outerpeace3 @AlScottDouglas @offtheballbbc You are League of Ireland level already.

I cite Europe, and Shamrock Rovers finishing well above the team that finished 3rd last year.

[Kavinho @Kavinho10]

@Gearoidmuar @ThatEricAlper Masterpiece. By the Temptations

[Schrödinger's Litter Box @Brewjew308]

🧵 One of the things that genuinely pisses me off regularly is the absolute non-coverage of the fact that everything the Biden administration has had to deal with for 4 years are specific, unambiguous examples of Donald Trump's intentional sabotage of this country.
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[Kavinho @Kavinho10]

@LeithLtn When can one expect to hear the outcome of the consultation?

[Kavinho @Kavinho10]

@ThatEricAlper The Castle

[Kavinho @Kavinho10]

@pastry_face @Socket1Sophie Surely you mean his partner in telly..?

[Kavinho @Kavinho10]

@Rumblingrockies @suzieonasoapbox @mmpadellan @Brando_Garrett2 He touched his ear after the bullet shot, & looked at his bloodless fingers before getting on to the ground.

[dragonfly51 @dragonfly5110]

@politvidchannel Trump vacationed & golfed for over 25% of his presidency- & overcharged the govt for his own profit $1.5 billion !

[peter hurst @phurstclass]

@mrjamesob In the UK Bannon would probably get a seat in the Lords.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Council letter tells a 56-year-old woman due to be evicted on 1 May that she should be able to "function reasonably well" if she ends up on the streets.

This is terrible.

And the govt is set to criminalize rough sleeping.

What has the country become?
https://t.co/M40qK1GZZ3

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Nate White, 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.”

[Kavinho @Kavinho10]

@SlavaUkraini380 @rugbyworldcup 80k, 50k 3 more 40k+
No different from Japans numbers

Stadia are fine for rugby wc crowds