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    Default Why Do So Many Brits Not Like Trump?

    No one can do a put down like a Brit. This has been rampaging through the Innerwebs like a wildfire of hilarity. Enjoy!

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    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 bully's 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.
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    Dang, it actually posted!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Dang, it actually posted!
    I'm not getting anything posted, but here we go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jade Dragon View Post
    I'm not getting anything posted, but here we go.
    I see you!

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    Above all, we mostly say how we like Americans. And then THIS!

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    Quote Originally Posted by iolo View Post
    Above all, we mostly say how we like Americans. And then THIS!
    LOL. Well, at least you're not hating on all of us. ;~)

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    First the good news:





    On the other hand:


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    The Brits believe whatever the BBC and Guardian tell them to.
    The anti-Trumper's new mantra:

    “B-b-but muh White supremacy”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heff View Post
    The Brits believe whatever the BBC and Guardian tell them to.
    Okay, who do the Germans, French and Spanish believe?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    Okay, who do the Germans, French and Spanish believe?
    Infowars the source of all truth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    First the good news:





    On the other hand:

    So basically the ones that have dealt with him on a more regular basis, seem to see how incompetent, and focused on himself he is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    First the good news:





    On the other hand:

    Two pictures, 2000 words, eh? Thanks, Tranquilus, for this eye-opening post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heff View Post
    The Brits believe whatever the BBC and Guardian tell them to.
    I see. Just like American Rightwingers believe everything Fox, Limbaugh, and Breitbart instruct them on?

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    The rest of the world gets their view from typical Trump-hating media sources.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    The rest of the world gets their view from typical Trump-hating media sources.
    Why would the media in the rest of the world hate Trump?

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