Chris Doherty @CDoherty2016

@ThePhDPlace You should check out the UK.....nowhere near those numbers

So true 🤣

@mmpadellan Hi

Irish legend

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

Beautiful letter in today’s Telegraph.

I haven’t done this for a while but it’s so important, so here goes! If you oppose NHS privatisation please will you RT this? I need to know who to follow back next (it’ll be you!) Ju 💙

A favour everyone. I’m doing all I can to hold this piece of crap Government to account but it seems Twitter has taken as much of a dislike to my films & reports as the Government. If you think more should be watching my content than GB news please RT this & keep following

BORIS JOHNSON Well done Yorkshire. 👏 🔴This image of Boris Johnson partying is made up of people who stayed home to save lives. RETWEET if you want Johnson to resign. #Partygate

BREAKING: @kent_police sign listing rape and domestic abuse as "non-emergency enquiries" has been taken down after sparking outrage. But it is too late. The utter institutional disregard for women's lives and bodies has been exposed once more. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

@LakotaMan1 @RonFilipkowski I thought he was spraying his deodorant initially..

Dedicating #InternationalWomensDay to the brave women of Iran. The Supreme Leader has asked protesters not to demonstrate for 24 hours because he doesn’t want them to spoil Iran’s International Women’s Day celebrations. #IranRevoIution #MahsaAmini‌

In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 60.5% lower than men's. The pay gap is 13.7 percentage points wider than the previous year.

Wizz Air @wizzair

3 years ago

Celebrating International Women's Day in great company on our flight from Budapest to Charleroi today. We are extremely grateful for all our talented WIZZ women for their hard work and dedication, they never fail to amaze us 💐

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We’re trying to get as many followers as Rishi Sunak so we can show the government just how many people are prepared to fight for the NHS. Please can you help by following us and retweeting this message?

Waterford Whisper gets it in one. @jacindaardern 🇳🇿

@MadScientistFF Cool pops

If you think the government should be treating the situation in the NHS as a national crisis, please retweet this. Let’s send ministers a message 💙

Please email us at [email protected], or DM us here, with further examples of unsafe departments and staffing - we are actively tackling this issue and will hold MPs to account.

FY23 🩺 @EmergencyMedDr

4 years ago

Harrowing words from a senior emergency medicine doctor showing the despair at not being able to provide the level of care every doctor hopes to for their patients. Every doctor, nurse & HCW can empathise with this right now. Shared w/ permission. Pls RT to get this out there.

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