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Horn Under a Bad Sign

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  1. I honestly think Nancy Mace is mentally ill: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/nancy-mace-rape-accusation.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
  2. Because billionaires don't have enough money and because the United States isn't polluted enough, Wyoming Republicans are demanding that they be allowed to sell off Grand Tetons National Park and other public lands in Wyoming. https://substack.com/home/post/p-156327637
  3. I thought Muledick was the name of the subdirectory. So it should be format c:\gregdavis\muledick
  4. Want to watch something sad? Here's Paul McCartney singing Let it Be and Hey Jude at the White House. Toward the end, a huge slew of musicians ---- Emmylou Harris, Stevie Wonder, just an incredible diversity ---- join Paul in Hey Jude and Obama himself gets up there with them, as does Michelle, Sasha, Malia etc .... Just sheer, innocent joy. Can you imagine this happening in the culturally dead Trump White House?
  5. Who are the plaintext people? Do they live in Plainview, Texas?
  6. “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response: "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 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 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."
  7. I remember toilet paper shortages during Trump's first term. People fighting over eggs at Costo? Epic: https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1887580268061438176
  8. And in doing so became the establishment version of the Republican party.
  9. LOL. I get a notification saying that futureman has quoted me in a post. But I have futureman on ignore. Whatever it is futureman said I'm sure I vehemently disagree, so screw you, futureman.
  10. I've got no idea what's going on with Twitter. I keep clicking on what looks like X/Twitter posts and it turns out they are screenshots (?) of tweets, so nothing happens. Then I try to post a Tweet and get a message that something on X is broken. Maybe I'm missing something, but I feel like there's no point in posting a screenshot of a tweet.
  11. What if there's still hundreds of thousands of dollars in the account?
  12. Make no mistake: my idiocy is based on my inferior genetic makeup, an inferior education, a substandard IQ, and approximately 127,000 beers consumed over several decades. My idiocy is experienced.
  13. Per Suchomel, Texas is at the top or near the top of the leader board for Flower Mound Marcus OL Drew Evers. His HUDL highlights are a pancake factory advertisement. https://www.hudl.com/video/3/18255945/670c5340430c1120e2bc59f0
  14. Okay, Grok, create a 1946 panel van. Grok: Okay, here you go.
  15. Is it too late for John Wooden? Wouldn't hurt to ask.
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