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When trump dies, she will write a tell all book. It will have chapters about the sexual things he did to her as a child. His supporters will think that’s great. It will justify the things they have done to their children and siblings!
A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump:
“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 honor 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 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 clump fulls 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
(British Journalist)
A friend of mine was a mechanic at Acura Boston for 20 odd years. Last year he quit because all the problems with the electronics.
He took a night maintenance job at a soup company until he retires in a few years. No pressure compared to fixing junk cars.
AMAT is in the process of purchasing a massive piece of property in a neighboring city. Massive!
I have no idea what that means but you can be sure that it’s a good thing for them. Someone above my pay grade can figure that out.
But the magats still bitch
Yesterday we paid $2.89 for gas in Danvers, ma.
Joke Of The Day
Three guys were taking a playing lesson with the club pro.
The first guy tees off and hits a snap hook and then asks the pro what he did wrong.
The pro replies that he has a problem with loft.
The second guy hits a huge slice and inquires as to his problem. The pro says “loft.”
The third guy tops the ball and also asks what his problem is and the pro again says “loft.”
One of them says to the pro, “We all hit bad shots, but they were completely different. How could loft be the problem with all of us?”
The pro responds, “Loft… L.O.F.T. Lack Of Freaking Talent.”
Good point!
My wife walks with our female doctor neighbor three days a week. She told my wife that 9 out of 10 ED patients are MAGA men.
That kind of explains why they are so angry and hate women.
All of trump's court cases should be televised! Every American should be able to see how corrupt the former president is and not get it from RW spin. But, I'm not sure if that's best. Knowing how violent his supporters are, that might be dangerous. Anybody in that court house could be a target of his crazy magat supporters!
If they are televised, the jury should never be video or photographed.
Very disappointed in Cathy Woods. Big on Crypto? At one time I thought she was okay but not any more!
Before diaper don, flying the American flag was patriotic. Now, it’s supporting the treasonous asshole diaper don
I agree but he should have said nothing
It was Comey that put asshole dump in the White House.
I had a wonderful nurse practitioner at Dana farber in Boston. She and my wife made all the decisions for me. My oncologist agreed with everything they decided. Being self employed we had purchased insurance that covered everything
When I had cancer two places I my spine I was taking 12/20 mg of MS- Contin . They tried Oxy on me but I didn’t know where I was most the time.
After 6 cycles of chemo it was reduced to 8 and after a while 6. By then the pain finally became tolerable
Finally went cold turkey after a number of years
6 months ago a friend of mine had both knees done at the VA here in MA. He spend two weeks there in rehab. At the time he regretted have both done but now he’s thrilled that he did.
He said going down stairs were the most difficult.
Good to have you back. You were missed!
Not a peep from the crazies
We’ve been married 53 years and I don’t know what I would do without her. Sounds like you have a great life so being married isn’t necessary
Work boots and jeans aren’t bad either
I have been retired for several years so my wife supports me. She’s good looking too!
My wife wears work boots. They cost $150
Funny
I was hoping the trolls would chime in!
So how is the Durham investigation going?
It shocks me that a sensitive guy like him is a republican.
Who on the right is worth anything?
Serious question.
My parents had one. That sucker could burn rubber for a mile. Being a motor head I did it whenever I use it. Which wasn’t often because I had my own car. A 1965 Chevrolet malibu.
They gave it to a needy nephew who totaled it months later.
Desertdrifter, this guy Hap is definitely a nazi. As a kid he was rooting for the germans to win.
Not funny at all. Just too fucking stupid
You know it!
The question should be, how could an asshole like trump receive 74 M votes? Do we really have that many stupid fucking people in this country?
Or, someone on the right cheated.
Sounds like a baseball bat injury to me
And he hates their guts! He wouldn’t let people like this use the rest room in any of his properties let alone shake their hand
They have to go back to pre-tea party to be viable and taken serious
The more a republican lies, the more their voters love them. We raised our kids to not lie. What a mistake
All republicans are fucking hypocrites!
North of Boston is crazy. My home town has so much traffic we hate to leave the house.
We have to meet a friend in Arlington tomorrow AM. 128 will be bumper to pumper. We will take 114 to 495 to 3
Here in the NE the roads are bumper to pumper like never before. Restaurants are packed and we are enjoying life. Depending on the situation, we wear a mask.
When Abbott said it could have been worst, he meant it could have been an all white private school