• crapwittyname@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    …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.

    -Nate White, on why British people don’t like Donald Trump

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      3 months ago

      To be honest, as a brit, when he first started running the first time I thought he was a ( literal) joke candidate. Like a US comedian that did absurd characters along the lines of Sacha Baron Cohen.

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        As did many of us. It’s still hard to believe those four years were real, but it seems like we’re still recovering from some unfortunate overdose of some drug we still don’t understand

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          This is the GOP throwing a fit in their death throes. Either take down the country in their fit or their party dies forever. It was fitting they chose this child to throw their tantrum for them