Actually, yes he is bombastic, and puts that in the process with negotiations.
Sometimes it even works! At the end of the day, its not personality that we
serfs live and die upon, but rather public policies. I hold that the
Starmer-Soros-Schwab-WEF-Macon-Obama- policies have worked very, aggressively
badly. In real life, planet earth. Just as Britons tend to think differently
than yanks, Comrade Xi, Putin, and the Ayatollahs think differently than both
of us. For pragmatic reasons, I'd have sided with the previous boys IF these
were good for the middle class. Sadly they weren't.
So, for most of us, its substance over style. One can be extremely charming as
all UK PM's ever is, but either accomplish zero (not the worst option) or force
things to go sideways. For me, to quote the late, humor writer PJ O'Rourke,
"I'm an American, I want to solve problems with technology, not politics." An
imaginary example of this might be 3D printing. If we could print all we needed
via 3D printing (Or nanotech), then the disparities supposedly provided by
socialislm, would never be needed. Because, if we print all we need, cheap, who
needs a government?
Also, because I never miss an opportunity to promote technology as useful to us
primates, I will end this convo with today's vid by physicist Sabine
Hossenfelder regarding a somewhat improved hypothesis on why black holes are
suitable for quantum computing. Older idea, new take.
Ciao!This Physicist Says Black Holes are Quantum Computers
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On Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 03:14:38 PM EDT, PGC <[email protected]>
wrote:
Here is why neither Trump, Spudmitch, forearm etc. lack qualities that British
people traditionally value and why they perhaps never will acquire them, no
matter how hard they try to fake them. Regardless even of how much they win.
On this point, I agree with the viral post making the rounds and don't care
about authenticity.
"“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."
Class doesn't imply "being rich". As Trump and Musk demonstrate, you can be
classless while wealthy and vice versa. If you have some measure of it, you're
core is untouched by the multiverse: I can criticize the inefficiency of
democracy, the elitism of progressive forces around the world, their corruption
through special interests, their failure to genuinely expand freedoms, to
confuse their expansion with the overreach of schooling people on their
morality and be politically active against those tendencies (instead of merely
whining online). But I can - at the same time - point towards a key trait of
authoritarianism: the loss of the ability to distinguish what's funny from what
is political ideology.
E.g. I can joke "against my Team" as Spudmitch would describe it: “I recycle
religiously, feel guilty for owning a gas stove, and spend more time
researching oat milk brands than calling my own mother.” or "To stay up on long
drives, I listen to Trump speeches." I'm saying "you have to find this funny"
but it could be funny because it’s rooted in truth—it gently mocks genuine
tendencies, and the audience laughs not just at others, but with themselves.
There's vulnerability in humor, and it invites connection rather than masking
an agenda. The joke lands even for conservatives because it’s not loaded with
contempt. It doesn't seek to harm or dominate. Because fun doesn't need to
"score points for a team".
On Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 2:18:04 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:
Because he knew it woulds piss you and yours off JC. You know the old saying,
Fuck em if they can't take a joke. You get to zing, and he his team gets to
zing back. Like the sign in the bars of the 19th century displayed,"This ain't
no Sunday school."
On Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 07:56:02 AM EDT, John Clark <[email protected]>
wrote: Donald Trump posted this picture on his truth social account without
comment, but then he really didn't need to comment because the picture told us
everything we need to know about where his mindset is.
John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolisdr5
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