peter b. thomsen

Journalist, strategist, communication manager, digital nerd, news predator, consumer of politics, media, music, culture and cuisine.

[peter b. thomsen @killerteddypbt]

@LeifBrus @clausmat1 Det mest bemærkelsesværdige ved updaten fra Denys Davydov i går var hans hårde kritik af Zelenskyj - for at fjerne Federov og for at se gennem fingre med korruption i hæren. Davydov sagde at Zelenskyj burde gå.
Begge parter har store problemer med baglandet og rekrutteringen.

[peter b. thomsen @killerteddypbt]

Genindfør Sankt Hans som national helligdag & fridag. I stedet for Storebededag. Fejring af midtsommer omkring bål - og julens fejring af vintersolhverv - er de ældste kulturelle traditioner vi har. National familiepolitik #dkpol @FH_danmark #storebededag
https://t.co/IFbRnNpgmQ

[peter b. thomsen @killerteddypbt]

@tv2breaking Det er en bizar opvisning i narcisisme, når hele verden skal høre på, at USA’s præsident føler sig forurettet over, at han skal følge højesterets “politisk korrekte” love. Skræmmende at høre på hans nedværdigelse af Højesteret og hans melding om, at landet ville være bedre uden

[peter b. thomsen @killerteddypbt]

@TheSaviour By the way - our king is a trained and former active naval special forces operative with the nickname Pingo.
Normally he stays out of politics…

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨BREAKING: Republicans are panicking and blowing up JD Vance’s phone because the THIRD Republican; Ron Johnson, just voted NO on Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill.

That’s 53 Republicans – 3 defections = 50.

They’re one vote away from total collapse.

[Ditte Gottlieb Bredahl @ditte_bredahl]

Ekspertgruppen vil i fremtidens beskæftigelsesindsats spare astronomiske 3 mia. kroner ved at tage rettigheder fra de ledige - bl.a. unge lediges ret til uddannelse, en mentor mm. Vildt dårlig idé, mener alle andre end ekspertgruppen #dkpol @hkkommunal
https://t.co/McX0cfLLjl

[Rinaldo Mogyorosy @RMogyorosy]

Putin hat auch diese Wahl gewonnen.

[Margrethe Vestager @vestager]

Today is a huge win for European citizens and tax justice.

👉In its final judgment, @EUCourtPress confirms @EU_Commission 2016 decision: Ireland granted illegal aid to @Apple.

Ireland now has to release up to 13 billion euros of unpaid taxes.

[peter b. thomsen @killerteddypbt]

@elonmusk @elonmusk - You are to rich to act like a political player. If you keep on, we should realize, that “your (awkward) policy” is part of your products, before we buy them🙁 #Kamala4President2024

[peter b. thomsen @killerteddypbt]

@BarackObama @KamalaHarris …and we are going to have fun with this to, aren’t we?❤️❤️❤️

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Donald Trump said he was going to stand up to Big Pharma and lower the cost of prescription drugs—instead, he bowed down.

President @JoeBiden and I took on Big Pharma and have capped the cost of insulin for seniors at $35 a month.

The contrast is clear.

[Claus Mathiesen @clausmat1]

Overraskende beskeden dansk medieopmærksomhed på udviklingen i Georgien. Den kan vise sig afgørende ikke bare for Georgien selv, men også for Armenien og Aserbajdjan.
Og dermed også for Rusland, som kan miste historisk, strategisk fodfæste Sydkaukasus.

[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

[Ditte Gottlieb Bredahl @ditte_bredahl]

Nej til tvang - ja til attraktive arb.pladser og udd.muligheder. Der er jo ingen fornuftige mennesker der vil finde sig i at blive dårligt behandlet, heller ikke for fædrelandets skyld. @regeringDK
#dkpol #ligestilling #værnepligt #rekruttering @Soldaterne @BirgitteBaad

[peter b. thomsen @killerteddypbt]

Joe Biden 8. marts 2024:
“WallStreet didn’t build America. The middle class build America, and unions build the middle class”. Inspiration til #dkpol

[peter b. thomsen @killerteddypbt]

En af verdens helte og modigste mennesker er død - dræbt af et brutalt regime, vi aldrig kan blive venner med

[Edgars Rinkēvičs @edgarsrinkevics]

Whatever your thoughts about Alexey @Navalny as the politician, he was just brutally murdered by the Kremlin. That’s a fact and that is something one should know about the true nature of Russia’s current regime. My condolences to the family and friends.

[Pelle Dragsted @pelledragsted]

Det er så kynisk og trist😢

[peter b. thomsen @killerteddypbt]

Men i øvrigt har jeg kun foragt til overs for, at de to tidligere tillader sig at fastholde deres mandater med de konsekvenser, det kan få for en hel nation. Det er ligeså disproportionalt som Paludans tosserier #dkpol

[Amalie Bremer @amaliebremer]

Sorry, men det her er årets retweet 🚌🤡

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: New reports indicate, largely because of the Biden Administration’s focus on revitalizing manufacturing in America, China’s economy size has slipped to 64% of the size of the U.S. economy. For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. economy is outpacing China’s economy.

[Michael Reiter @reiterberlin]

Vilde billeder fra lufthavnen Tel Aviv. Kansler Scholz’ entourage søger dækning under raketangreb.