Rune Fuglsang

Humanist. Offentlig leder. Afrika-entusiast. Tanzania-elsker. Uforløst forfatterdrømmer. Gammel far og usentimental husbond.

[Mads Dalgaard Madsen @dalgaard_mads]

VALGETS VIGTIGSTE SVINGSTAT: NEBRASKA (?!)

De seneste målinger viser, at det her er et af de tætteste præsidentvalg nogensinde

Netop derfor er det nu tid til en af valgets vigtigste historier, som ikke har fået nok opmærksomhed

En historie der tager os til Omaha, Nebraska

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

This video sums up the MAGA Republican governing philosophy perfectly.

Please watch & share.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Guys, @realDonaldTrump won’t like you sharing this video at all!!!

[Rune Fuglsang @runefuglsang]

Super input til debatten!

[Amalie Bremer @amaliebremer]

En tråd om kvinder, køn og sport 🧵
Som sportsfan går jeg helt grundlæggende op i to ting. Her i ikke-prioriteret rækkefølge:
1) Alle skal kunne dyrke sport. Også transpersoner, intersex, ALLE.
2) Sportens inderste kerne er fairness. Der skal konkurreres på lige vilkår. 1/11

[Victoria Brownworth @VABVOX]

Trump keeps comparing himself to Jesus, so here's #SNL's take on that from Holy Week last year. Y'all could use a laugh, given this awful day. Be sure to watch the entire clip. It's stellar.

[Rune Fuglsang @runefuglsang]

Ytringsfrihed vs opfordring til vold?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Donald Trump's dinner guest at Mar-a-Lago Nick Fuentes says that when the America First movement takes power, all non-Christians will be executed: "They must be absolutely annihilated when we take power."

[Emil Nielsen @emilnielsen]

Et billede, der siger mere end tusind ord 📸

Bruxelles. Landbrugsindustrien, som protesterer mod den grønne omstilling.

Den mest destruktive politiske bevægelse i nyere tid.

[Rune Fuglsang @runefuglsang]

Exactly this

[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

[Jacob Paul @JacobPaul432]

Very detailed sworn witness testimony of Trump raping a 13 yo aspiring model four separate times, and all at Epstein’s New York place. The case was dropped after the attorney for the Jane Doe bringing the suit said she feared for her and her family’s life after she received death threats, we can only assume from Trump. He’s an evil man.

https://t.co/3R8RzjGp4c

[Marlene Wind @MwiWind]

After 14 years of Orban rule Hungary is the #EU poorest and most corrupt 🤔

[Marlene Wind @MwiWind]

Please listen: “Europe may soon be facing three autocracies - Russia China and the United States” 👇 @anneapplebaum

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Apparently being ridiculed on stage at the Oscars wasn’t enough punishment for Donald, so over the weekend, he defamed E. Jean Carroll yet again.

Attorney Robbie Kaplan says all options are on the table.

It gets even worse for Donald:

Not only did he idiotically repeat his previous claims that E. Jean Carroll made up her story at a campaign rally in Georgia, he did so again on CNBC.

According to attorney George Conway, Donald’s decision to choose CNBC as the place to defame Carroll was a “highly significant” mistake.

Donald’s defamatory comments in Georgia would have required E. Jean Carroll to file a in Georgia.

But by defaming her on Squawk CNBC, which is “anchored in Manhattan,” Carroll could bring a new case back to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who presided over both previous trials, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

If Carroll does bring another case, it will probably be a slam dunk.

More below. 👇

[Alexander Holm @AlexanderDDT]

Netop som man ikke troede det kunne blive mere råddent: Minkindustrien bestemmer selv kompensationen.. Til minkindustrien.

Hvor langt vil I tage den @Spolitik, @moderaterne_dk & @venstredk? Hvor meget skal vi lade dem tømme danskernes lommer? @Zetland

https://t.co/M5iiXDXuUs

[Alexander Holm @AlexanderDDT]

Er der egentlig nogen grænse for hvor stor erstatningen til minkavlerne må vokse sig @regeringDK? Den er ved at overstige 30.000.000.000 kroner. Kommer der et tidspunkt, hvor I siger, "så, nu må det ikke blive dyrere for danskerne at kompensere en underskudsforretning"?

[Marlene Wind @MwiWind]

Why is noone talking about the alliance between world autocrats like Orban -Trump - Putin? Amazing how passive and even ‘understanding’ western commentators and politicians have been towards Orbans double games - a man who will soon be running the EU as head of the @EUCouncil 🤔

[Leslie Jones 🦋 @Lesdoggg]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Faith comparisons by size

📹 VGraphs
https://t.co/RY3morhat4

[Frida Ghitis @FridaGhitis]

Alabama woman has something to say to her Senator, Katie Britt, after her GOP rebuttal speech to Biden’s State of the Union.
Watch this:
https://t.co/RaH4m2Hj8D

[Heather Thomas @HeatherThomasAF]

This. Every word of this!👇👇👇

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

Hey @KatieBrittforAL why did you lie about the cartel gang rape during your #SOTUResponse ? This guy has receipts that it happened during GW Bush’s presidency, and that it didn’t happen in the US. You need to answer for this.