theMaskedNurse

Independent. Believer in common sense. Blessed to have the greatest job ever.

[theMaskedNurse @Tracern1]

👏👏THIS👏👏

[Ryan Scott @ryan_scott]

Fox News did to our parents what they thought video games would do to us.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

HOLY SH*T... WINNER!! 🏆🏆🏆

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

Epic moment 🔥

🇺🇸 Rubio at 5:00 PM — “No president has ever done this. Trump got Iran to the table on nukes. They might even give them up. Historic.”

🇺🇸 Obama at 6:00 PM — “Already did it 12 years ago without firing missiles. Removed 96% of their enriched uranium. Didn’t need to kill a bunch of people or close the Strait of Hormuz like your boss.” 🔥👏

[Impeach Trump a 3rd Time! @Christo12919382]

Seriously: Sad, but true!!

[amante2 @AmeliaBee7]

Difference between America and Canada in a nutshell

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[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.

Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.

Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.

People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.

Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.

He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.

That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.

There is a name for it.

So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.

The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.

And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.

Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.

And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.

Just another joke at our expense.

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

NPR: You were pardoned by your father...

Hunter Biden: Yes, thank God.

NPR: Did that open the door for President Trump to pardon some of his supporters including J6 gang?

Hunter Biden: That is an insane argument. Do I think that my father pardoning me opened the door for Donald Trump to pardon people that engaged in an insurrection, beat police officers, have gone back to commit crimes including sexually abusing children. I don't think the two are the same thing.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

[Twisted Sister @ZenArchist_]

@CNN Just leaving this here...

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

this was the most important Oscar speech of the night tbh

"Mr. Nobody Against Putin is about how you lose your country. What we saw when working with this footage is that you lose it through countless small, little acts of complicity: when we act complicit when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don't say anything when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it, we all face a moral choice. But luckily even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

You either get the concept of free speech or you don't. Sadly, many people don't anymore.

[Christy ✨ @WillowMantis]

Poor Donald! 😂😂😂

[Elizabeth Booker Houston @booker_squared]

JD Vance is blaming immigrants for fentanyl, and he brought up his mom's addiction.

Baby, your mama stole drugs at her nursing job in a hospital in Ohio. No immigrant had a part in that. The trash is in your home. No need to blame the border. #VPDebate

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Powerful.
https://t.co/XJttc5T3ZJ

[Acyn @Acyn]

Obama: Here is a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago. There's the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with crowd sizes

[KOMO News @komonews]

Students at a New York City medical school will never have to worry about tuition thanks to a $1 billion donation from a former professor:

https://t.co/J7K2G4ahwP

[theMaskedNurse @Tracern1]

The cable is out at VA in Seattle. Comcast won't fix it until Monday. Patients are very unhappy missing playoff games. #Comcastsucks #FixItComcast

[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

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

I wouldn’t necessarily advise you to break into and rob the Wells Fargo Bank branch at 1260 West Prince Road, Tucson, Arizona 85705, at the corner of North Crescent Manor Drive, right next to the taqueria, on Tuesday, August 15, at 2:45 a.m., but here’s a memorandum with detailed instructions on how to jimmy open the side alleyway door and where to place the explosive charges to blow open the safe once you get inside. Good luck.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

I'm not going to wish Mitch McConnell ill. But I am going to point out a man who has worked tirelessly to deny affordable health insurance to tens of millions of Americans will now receive the best medical care in the world on the taxpayers' dime.

[Chip Franklin.com @chipfranklin]

Moms for Liberty?
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