Rich Julien

and now for something completely different.....

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Know someone who is still considering voting for Trump in November? Show them this.

[Rich Julien @rjulien]

@JeffCrusey Don't conflate your inability to explain clearly and concisely with complexity or difficulty of the topic

[Rich Julien @rjulien]

I don't care what your politics are - Register. Vote. Many sacrificed to defend that right for you.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today is National Voter Registration Day! Take a few minutes to visit https://t.co/V3uLF7XRqt and make sure you’re registered and have a plan to vote. Then check in with your friends and family and make sure they’re registered, too. Let’s get it done.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today is National Voter Registration Day! Take a few minutes to visit https://t.co/V3uLF7XRqt and make sure you’re registered and have a plan to vote. Then check in with your friends and family and make sure they’re registered, too. Let’s get it done.

[Rich Julien @rjulien]

@JoshuaBaer @VP @KamalaHarris Did you just hit "Accept all cookies"?

[Rich Julien @rjulien]

@JeffCrusey Jeff - do not try to adjust the score.......it always comes out the same!

[Rich Julien @rjulien]

@JeffCrusey Jeff, you will be a Top-notch Mentor!
I will also be mentoring, but not so exalted a mentor.....

[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.”

[Rich Julien @rjulien]

@mouthofmorrison Even more apparent, it may be"easy" to get into space, but getting into space AND successfully transitioning to operations AND sustaining those operations is just as difficult as it has always been - and it is massively more cluttered and dangerous an environment

[Rich Julien @rjulien]

@JeffCrusey "No nooky for the naughty" would change the calculus......

[Rich Julien @rjulien]

@JeffCrusey

[Rich Julien @rjulien]

@mintz4assembly @JeffCrusey The best place to stop on HWY 101 from LA to SF.

[Rich Julien @rjulien]

@JeffCrusey Kickstarter?

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Can we get 500 retweets on this new video humiliating Trump and the Republican Party as quickly as possible

[Republicans for Ukraine @GOP4Ukraine]

NEW AD: The next Speaker of the House must support Ukraine.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump is hit with devastating news as over 20,000 Nevada Christians sign a petition demanding that Las Vegas cancel plans to hold a pro-Trump rally featuring Eric Trump, Alex Jones, Roseanne Barr and Michael Flynn on public property.

But it gets even worse for Trump…

The Christian leaders who launched the petition didn’t mince words in a brutal takedown, declaring that Trump and his “Reawaken America Tour” are “some of the worst examples of Christian nationalism today,” and that the “toxic” event promotes “antisemitism” and “political violence.”

But they didn’t stop there, declaring that, “Every ReAwaken America event is a toxic, two-day parade of pro-Trump preachers, MAGA celebrities, and QAnon conspiracy theorists mixing election denial, violent rhetoric, and deadly COVID-19 misinformation with baptisms and praise music — all in Jesus’ name. An event that promotes antisemitism, lies, and even outright political violence should never be welcome on public property. Let’s speak out together now and ask North Las Vegas Mayor Pamela Goynes-Brown to revoke ReAwaken America’s permits and decline to rent them public facilities.”

The group concluded its takedown by declaring that “toxic nationalism has no place in a publicly owned venue,” and that the First Amendment “doesn’t protect the incitement of political violence nor obligate taxpayers to platform hate speech like antisemitism.”

You can read and sign the petition here: https://t.co/v8iGksoIYI

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Las Vegas MUST cancel the upcoming Trumper rally — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new Twitter competitor that is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: https://t.co/HnJzSKj4Hp

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Friday night Tequila tweet: We don’t always get what we want. We don’t always get to vote for someone we really believe in, someone we’re crazy for, or someone who inspires us. Joe Biden too old for you? Not progressive enough for you? Tough shit. In 2020, Donald Trump tried to end our democracy. He must NEVER get elected again. Therefore, our ONLY job right now is to defeat Trump/Trumpism & defend democracy. THAT’S IT. And Biden is the only person in the game right now who can do that. So quit whining about Biden. Quit pushing a 3rd party. NOT NOW. Instead, respectfully, grow the fuck up, do your job, & defend our democracy.

[Marty Taylor @marty_taylorr]

Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn are attacking Barbie. Ron DeSantis is attacking Disney. The Republican party has declared war on Green M&M's. Miller Lite beer, Chick- Fil-A, the list goes on and on. Do ya notice a common thread ? It has become so easy to trigger a Republican. They see "woke" ironically even in their sleep. I used to try and imagine what a Republican world view looked like. But it is just too hard. I do not look at a Barbie movie and see a vast Chinese conspiracy. I do not think candy is "too sexy". Actually. I have never looked at a piece of candy and thought about sex. But in GOP Land. Everything is either too gay ,sexy or woke. What make a group of people lose their grip on reality like these Republicans? These are elected Senators and a Governor who is running for President. And all they are promising America is they will ban Disney, candy and movies about a doll. That is the promise of todays Republican Party. God help us all if we do not defeat all three of these useless Republicans in 2023 and all of their Republican friends. America has very real problems that needs fixed. And all the Republicans promise is this utter nonsense. It gets worse every day. I gotta run. I think my Snickers bar is flirting with me. #DemVoice1

[Rich Julien @rjulien]

@JeffCrusey You must have aimed too high.....