Rob van Mil

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[Rob van Mil @robvanmil]

De beste omschrijving van deze internationale idioot ever!!

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

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.

[Rob van Mil @robvanmil]

Mensen van over de hele wereld steunen bisschop Budde nu ze wordt aangevallen door Trump. Teken dit en retweet #HaveMercy #BishopBudde https://t.co/vg9SlckHZq

[Rob van Mil @robvanmil]

We kunnen niet meer wachten, fossiel moet de wereld uit. Teken het burgerinitiatief en roep de Tweede Kamer op om zich actief in te zetten voor een bindend verdrag! #AfscheidVanFossiel https://t.co/V1i1UqLvYU

[Rob van Mil @robvanmil]

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[Rob van Mil @robvanmil]

🔴 Urgent -- Alexej #Navalny is overleden. Ik heb zojuist deze brief ondertekend als eerbetoon aan zijn moed in de strijd tegen tirannie. Klik hier om mee te doen: https://t.co/1oongUWgFN

[Rob van Mil @robvanmil]

Goede analyse, maar hoe verder …?

[Roel Maalderink @RoelMaalderink]

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[Rob van Mil @robvanmil]

Dit is mooi als het niet zo heel erg triest zou zijn. Waar is het gezond verstand van de medemens?

[Roel Maalderink @RoelMaalderink]

Zijn megastallen en de bio-industrie nog van deze tijd? #plakshot

[Derksauer @derksauer]

‘Nederland is te vol. Met dieren’. @decorrespondent legt het nog eens uit.

[Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl @MarionKoopmans]

Raak!!! De politieke versie van “ dan had je maar niet zo’n kort rokje moeten dragen”

[Dasha @Dasha_Navalnaya]

Two years ago today my dad returned to Moscow to fight for a democratic, free and beautiful Russia. Today we are launching a campaign to free him. Join now! Say no to war! Free Alexey Navalny!

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[Anne Mulder @a_mulder]

Na de vreugdevuren wordt het strand schoongemaakt. Een speciale magneet haalt de spijkers van de afgebrande pallets uit het zand

[Julian Dutton @JulianDutton1]

Elsie Allcock, 104, born 1918 in the upstairs room of the house she still lives in, in Huthwaite, Notts. Father rented house from 1902 for seven shillings & sixpence (41p) a week. In 1960 she bought it for £250.

[Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ @chrissteinplays]

Russia... it still produced the single greatest dashcam video ever made

[Rob van Mil @robvanmil]

@HenryLootens @Deltion Leer ze vooral helder en simpel communiceren. De wijze waarop installateurs in het algemeen aan consumenten uitleggen wat ze gaan doen en hoe het systeem werkt, is bedroevend.

[Derksauer @derksauer]

Waarom de veestapel drastisch omlaag moet. Uitstekend stuk: Een kwart van Nederland is voor koeien, en die grazen het kapot - Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek https://t.co/5iV9Kwg76A

[Rob van Mil @robvanmil]

Zo enorm eens met deze column en ook zo enorm klaar met die boeren. Het kabinet is democratisch gekozen en het stikstofbeleid is democratisch tot stand gekomen. Over een paar jaar mag je weer kiezen.

[Margreet Bosma @margreetbosma.bsky.social @margreetbosma1]

Ik tweet ‘m toch maar weer een keer.

[Rob van Mil @robvanmil]

@Bosw8terJanneke afkomstig uit 'Stranger things' :-)

[Feyenoord Rotterdam @Feyenoord]

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