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William Moran retweeted
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
William Moran retweeted
Joe Palka of Saline High School named the Detroit Lions High School Football Coach of the Week detroitlions.com/news/joe-pa…
@Coach_Palka!!! Congratulations!
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As we start to host and attend fall sports, please be mindful that Hornets should be good sports. Cheer positively for our teams and not against the opponent or officials! @Nation_Hornets @SECMichigan
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ALT A graphic features an illustrated pad of paper lying on a background of blue with white lines. A yellow pencil, a blue & pink eraser, and five brightly-colored crayons lie next to the pad at different positions. Text on the paper reads, "Mill Creek Middle school Orientation/Open House Schedule: Grades 7-8: AUGUST 29 - New Student Orientation - 12:00-1:00pm; AUGUST 29 - All Student Orientation - 3:30-5:00pm; AUGUST 29 - Back 2 School Bash - 4:00-6:00pm; SEPTEMBER 6 - Curriculum Night - 6:30-8:30pm. For more information, go to dexterschools.org/district/calendar and choose the "Back-To-School Calendar" link." A yellow splash of color across the top right corner of the paper highlights text reading, "Welcome aboard!" The Dexter Community Schools logo is located in the top right corner of the graphic.
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Day #1 of link crew leader training at SHS! Excited to get this day going- thanks for being early (on time) student leaders- we appreciate you! @TheresaStager @deneenm12 @JamesRafko
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Please see the announcement regarding retirement of Eric Swager from the Chelsea School District.
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@SpencerJCox sounds like what the @GOP used to be, and what America should always be. Regardless of Red or Blue, when #POTUS succeeds, #America succeeds!
🚨🚨 #PrinciplesFirst alert:
Gov. @SpencerJCox (R-UT) defends his decision to welcome President Biden to the state.
Such an important message for the country. Listen.
William Moran retweeted
Florida schools are now using rightwing PragerU videos to teach children that climate change isn't real and the evils of slavery are exaggerated. I've been sounding the alarm about this far-right "university" for years.
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🔒 Get ready for the new school year! Y5-12 student passwords reset on 8/11. No impact on Y5-3rd graders. Grades 6-12, grab your updated passwords during schedule pick-ups from 8/14. AH School students pick up schedules 8/28. All families, check your email for passwords on 8/18.
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We are excited to announce that the SEC Conference will allow for FREE ADMISSION for all senior citizens (age 62+) to all REGULAR SEASON SEC ATHLETIC EVENTS. Please note this DOES NOT apply to any MHSAA postseason events or self funded sports. Please see the image for details.
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This is the power of CTE! School year ended Friday yet CTE students are already counting down the days that remain until they return to authentic, empowering CTE opportunities #Only79MoreDays! #CTE
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To everyone who believes that the Trump indictment is "selective prosecution," I want to explain something.
As William Barr and others scathingly attack Trump, the argument Republicans are making is that Hillary Clinton used bleachbit, Bill Clinton had a sock drawer, and Joe Biden took documents too.
They argue that none of them were prosecuted for their actions while Trump has been prosecuted for his.
Let me review:
Trump's Case:
Trump is accused of taking top-secret documents, US Nuclear Documents, extremely sensitive military documents, defense documents, and more from the White House without notifying anyone. He took these documents to an unsecured location after he left office. He was subpoenaed for these documents by the US government but did not turn them over after receiving a court order to do so. His attorneys lied to the courts, saying they had searched and found no more. Meanwhile, he is accused of having an aide move the documents to a storage room after receiving the subpoena and then not allowing the FBI to search boxes in that storage room when they came to gather the documents he was subpoenaed for. He also apparently shared these documents with others who didn't have clearances while admitting that they were still classified. The indictment outlines that the government believes they have clear evidence of these actions.
Hillary's Case:
Hillary Clinton used a private email server without approval to conduct work as U.S. Secretary of State. This likely violated the Freedom of Information Act and national security legislation. However, many other individuals in office have done the same thing. For example, Ivanka Trump used a private email server to conduct official US business, and Jared Kushner used WhatsApp to privately conduct US business without allowing the rest of the government to gain access to what he was discussing. Nikki Haley sent multiple classified emails over unclassified systems. All of these actions would likely violate the same Freedom of Information Act law. None of them were prosecuted, but there is no evidence that any of them ignored a subpoena or took part in a cover-up. A third party did delete some of Hillary's emails a year after she had requested. She had requested the deletion well prior to the subpoena, and there is no evidence that she had any contact with that third party after the subpoena. Under an immunity deal, that third party said that Hillary did not know or ask them to delete the emails after the subpoena was issued. Whether or not that is true is up to us to have opinions on, but there was no evidence for the government to prove a crime.
Joe Biden's Case:
Joe Biden discovered documents in his home and office. He notified the FBI about the documents and freely allowed them to search wherever they wanted for more documents. There is no evidence that the public has seen that shows intent. Intent is a requirement to show that someone violated the Espionage Act. Biden would have had to knowingly keep documents from the government that he knew he was not allowed to have in order to violate the act. If there is/was evidence of this, then he could and should be charged with a crime when he leaves office. A special counsel is still investigating it.
Bill Clinton's Case:
Bill Clinton kept voice recordings between himself and a historian in his sock drawer. Upon leaving the White House, he took the tapes with him, claiming they were "personal records" rather than "Presidential Records." NARA and the government agreed that they were classified as "personal records" and never attempted to claim them. Judicial Watch tried to obtain them but could not because they were not "Presidential Records." There was absolutely no crime there, and no potential crime there. This doesn't mean that if these recordings had top-secret information on them, the government couldn't ask for them back.
So while there seems to be blatant evidence of obstruction and withholding classified documents on Trump's behalf, this is not the case thus far with the others.
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Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
