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02-13-2019, 12:23 AM
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers
I'm sorry, Qatar *unknowingly* bailed out the most high profile distressed commercial real estate investment in America? Can Qatar credibly argue that it's been in a coma for the last two years?
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Jed Shugerman @jedshug
Qatar now says it "unwittingly" bailed out Jared Kushner and his 666 5th Ave. disaster.
Excuse me?
Many of us have been explaining for a year how Qatar has been bailing out Kushner. The question is why Qatar is admitting it now but spinning desperately... What news is coming? 1/ (link: https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1095068322004111360) twitter.com/Reuters/status…
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02-13-2019, 12:31 PM
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Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN
Hi @realDonaldTrump-
You have trafficked in hate your whole life—against Jews, Muslims, Indigenous, immigrants, black people and more. I learned from people impacted by my words. When will you?
TIME @TIME
President Trump says Rep. Omar's apology for Israel tweets was 'lame' http://mag.time.com/4FnfEgv
5:57 AM - 13 Feb 2019
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02-15-2019, 07:20 AM
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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 humor 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 sniveling 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 most 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 clumps 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.”
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02-15-2019, 07:35 AM
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Articulate and witty for sure.
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02-15-2019, 11:55 AM
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Articulate and witty for sure.
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...and 'spot on' as they say across the pond.
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02-15-2019, 11:11 AM
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Ann Coulter: National Emergency Designed ‘for Trump to Scam the Stupidest People in His Base’
She's talking about you, Whell!
For once, I agree with this wingnut on something, lol.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ann-co...le-in-his-base
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02-15-2019, 02:24 PM
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Ugly Sarah interviewed by special counsel's office
She lies with every breath, so little doubt she would have lied under oath.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/15/polit...ler/index.html
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02-15-2019, 04:24 PM
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Yeh, but God told her to lie.
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02-16-2019, 01:30 PM
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So what's the first thing Donny does after declaring his fake "emergency"? Head for the bunkers, take charge, call out the troops, like a real emergency? Nope. He flies down to Mar-A-Lago for vacation.
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02-17-2019, 12:43 PM
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I don't always declare a National Emergency, but when I do I go golfing.
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