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I have several British friends and relatives and this made me laugh and I picture the saying it...Shakespeare of Shi t....
Someone on Quora asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote this magnificent 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 ****. 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.Comment
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[QUOTE=Unregistered;2428406]Again no substance! Fuktard Why are you on a Soccer site? You don’t have to be smart to ask or answer the question...Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
WHY R U ON A SOCCER SITE TALKING POLITICS? This is so easier to ask.
Fuktard Fuktard Fuktard Fuktard please explain!Comment
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The Brits are idiots! Too nice, lazy and generous. The Arabs will control the British Govt in 10 years because they are stupid.Comment
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The judge that just ruled on Manafort lying and will sentence him will also be responsible for Stone's case. Too freaking funny.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...nafort-in-jailComment
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[QUOTE=Unregistered;2428331]Stay on the Mass thread ... more action for ya .... seems like it’s a good job fa ya.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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I won’t reprint that long winded load of chit
All coming from the land of soccer hooligans- see I brought soccer into it for Fuktard boy
The brits like David? Funny coming from one of the biggest colonial powers in world history
Were you David or Goliath during the revolution? Were you secretly rooting for us?
You are a pretentious people who hold onto birthright hierarchy- we don’t- we fight for what we want and in our world you can move both up and down the social ladder
We don’t care if you don’t like our president you wankers got Theresa May and a little Brexit problem
That’s funny chit, right thereComment
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You’re was wasting your time. Both will be pardoned. Trump wins yet again.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Anyone know what this bumbling Obama wannabe terriorist is taking about?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
https://nypost.com/2019/02/13/ilhan-...oy-at-hearing/
Dems must be proud of their freshman classComment
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Hmmm... pardoning bank fraud and money laundering ...Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Wouldn’t be the first president to do it. Remember whitewater?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...y_Bill_Clinton
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...y_Barack_ObamaComment
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The new green deal......ha ha ha. Perfect timing. Shows it is a fantasy. How are Liberal dems and thier socialist friends going to spin this complete failure on the eve of princess AOC’s unveiling of her signature pipe dream?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
This money should be paid back. Then we can use it to finish the wall
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/cali...-under-the-busComment
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This is crimminal.....slowing down the work to a pace that would take 100 years to complete so you don’t have to return taxpayer money. This jerk off thinks he is giving back to trump, so he finds a way to make his theft legalOriginally posted by Unregistered View Post
Newsom acknowledged Tuesday that if the state abandoned the project, it could be forced to give back billions of dollars to the federal government.
"I am not interested in sending $3.5 billion in federal funding that was allocated to this project back to Donald Trump," Newsom said. "Nor am I interested in repeating the same old mistakes."
An audit last year faulted California's High-Speed Rail Authority for "flawed decision making and poor contract management." A business plan released in early 2018 showed its projected baseline cost soared by up to 20 percent from two years earlier and indicated the cost could rise to nearly $100 billion.
The governor ordered "new transparency measures" on the rail project and said the state will "hold contractors and consultants accountable."
Newsom, who took office Jan. 7, has been outspoken against Trump for everything from immigration to climate change. He has also blasted the Republican president for threatening to withhold federal funds to the state for wildfire relief.Comment
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Actually that freshman Dem is more knowledgeable than you, she’s not happy about Abrams past, he wasent honest back in the 80s and was found to be guilty and pardoned- id grill his Azzzz too.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
And Going back to her earlier comment on Jewish influenced money in Congress - FYI.. every White Supremacists & more than half the mid western & half the southerners feel the same way.Comment
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CAPITULATION imminent....but we will call it a WALL anyway....
What a great deal maker .... turn down $20 Billion... turn down $5 Billion ... accept $1.375 Billion....
Did someone say Mexico was picking up the bill?Comment
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