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📌I have been alive long enough to see presidents shot dead in the street; civil rights leaders gunned down in their hotel rooms; horrible, horrible wars started on the wretched basis of disgusting lies ... but of all the things I have seen in my long life nothing…
My dad died this morning.
When he was given his death sentence last month (pancreatic cancer), first thing he said was this:
"But I have so many books left to read ...😪"
He was a damn good guy.
📌BREAKING: Kate Cox, who was forced out of Texas to deal with the horror and heartbreak of a nonviable pregnancy, has accepted first lady Jill Biden’s invitation to be a guest at the State of the Union address.
📌BREAKING: Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, a Democrat running for reelection in Arizona against an election denier endorsed by Trump, announced Monday he's received the backing of 40 GOP and Independent leaders, including John McCain's top staffers.
📌Just now at Hilton in Charleston, WV:
ME: “Please turn off FOX.”
FRONT DESK: “Why, sir?”
ME: “Because as a Navy vet, and print veteran, anti-America propaganda offends me.”
FRONT DESK: “Yes, sir.”
📌Plane was badly delayed yesterday. Was chatting with a flight attendant while we waited. Politics came up. She said, "Trump's not taking my f*cking rights away, and I guarantee everybody on our crew agrees."
I said amen, and handed her my biz card. Then she boarded.
📌When I…
📌IF I SEE ONE MORE GODDAM MEMBER OF THE MEDIA APPLAUD TRUMP FOR ALMOST ACTING LIKE A FUCKING HALF-DECENT HUMAN BEING FOR 30 MINUTES OUT OF HIS ENTIRE, MISERABLE, RACIST, PATHETIC, ABUSIVE, FUCKING LIFETIME, I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL START TYPING IN BIGGER FUCKING LETTERS.
#TuesdayRant
📌BREAKING: Two of the largest Black church groups in Georgia are formally uniting for the first time to mobilize Black voters ahead of the November presidential election.
📌BECAUSE: Black voters understand the threat to our Democracy, and are the TRUE patriots in this country.
📌Biden should address the nation tonight and say this:
"Now that there is a very real possibility I have unlimited powers, and can do whatever I want, I will be using these powers to appoint a brand new Supreme Court, and thank the former justices for their duty."
🇺🇸 I am a U.S. Navy veteran and was the Managing Editor of Stars & Stripes, the editorially independent newspaper that serves our troops and their families overseas.
🇺🇸 I am voting Democratic across the board because I support Americans who defend our country, not attack it.
📌Joe Biden is increasing border security, actually got Mexico to pay for it, and for the life me I don't why this isn't the leading story literally everywhere.
📌BREAKING: Sen. Josh Hawley watches proceedings from gallery, his feet up on the chair in front of him ...
📌Let me tell you something: I didn't serve my country ... MILLIONS OF US ... didn't serve our country so two-bit punks like this can use OUR Senate to disgrace it.
🖊️A lot (TOO MUCH) has been made of Joe Biden's age, so I wanted to share this with you.
🖊️It is from author Marilynne Robinson, a beautiful writer, who said this in an interview this weekend in the NYT.
🖊️It is lovely. It is brilliant. And it should be shared:
"Frankly, I’m…
🇺🇸 For the first time in many, many years, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is being governed by Liberals tonight.
And the women in this state are safer for it.
🇺🇸 Cheers, everybody. We fought hard up here, and we won.
📌Just heard John Mellencamp say, Jack, in "Jack and Diane" was written as a black dude. They were an interracial couple.
Dang.
📌Thing is, the music producers didn't like it, so it didn't come up. John was asked why.
He said, "Because this country is racist as hell."
🇺🇸 I served in the U.S. Navy and I can tell you for a fact this country has given me more than I could ever give it.
🇺🇸So when I heard President Biden give his impassioned speech today defending our troops and our Democracy, I said to myself this a man who truly, truly gets it.
My kid sister died early this morning.
She was my one constant in a life that started in a broken house.
She grew into a woman who was a force for good, and determined to make sure others got the things she didn't.
She was a singular power, and I will always be in awe of her.
📌You know that Keith Richards is one of the grittiest R&R guitar players of all time. But did you know that in 1989 The Rolling Stones were looking for a venue for a pay-for-view concert, when their manager suggested Atlantic City and a Trump venue?
Richards reaction? "We’re…
📌Just heard at United Airline gate: “We take this pandemic very seriously. Failure to wear a mask will result in a ban from this airline for life.”
📌They just earned a steady customer for life.
✈️
Caught on tape:
📌“We fought to seat the (fake) electors. The Trump campaign asked us to do that,” former Michigan Republican Party co-chairwoman Meshawn Maddock
📌This woman is in deep, deep trouble tonight.
📌LISTEN TO ME, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, AND LISTEN GOOD:
-You are to STOP embarrassing yourselves, and all of us who worked in the press IMMEDIATELY.
-You are to START covering Donald Trump the way he should be covered IMMEDIATELY.
-You are to frame what is at stake in this election…
📌UPDATE: Mandela Barnes is clobbering Ron Johnson in this Wisconsin debate.
📌Johnson says Barnes is soft on crime. Barnes fires back: “Let’s talk about the 140 officers Trump left behind during an insurrection you supported."
📌BREAKING: More than two dozen right-wing figures released an open letter today urging more Republicans to oppose McCarthy. Among them are GINNI THOMAS, the wife of the Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, who helped lead efforts to overthrow our government.
📌 BREAKING: A top Russian official flying to Moscow faced a dramatic rebuff when Sweden denied his official government plane permission to enter its airspace.
Finland also denied his flight permission.
🇺🇦 The anti-war coalition is winning! 🇺🇦
🎄 Wishing President Joe a Merry Christmas Eve. This is a decidedly good and honest dude, who wakes up each day with all of America's best interests in mind. Minimal bullshit, maximum effort. Breath of fresh air ...
-Cheers, my good man.
🇺🇸 How about a quick shot of something called "good news" today, patriots?
🇺🇸 Here in snowy Wisconsin, we have been the most gerrymandered state in the union. Despite this being a decidedly purple state, Republicans had huge advantages in the state legislature -- about 66%-34%.…
📌UPDATE: The Washington Post just changed their lead headline this morning. They dumped the shoddy phrasing suggests he'd disregard to this:
Trump SAYS he’d disregard NATO treaty, urge Russian attacks on U.S. allies
📌NOTE: THIS is what happens when we stay engaged, people.
🇺🇸 I LOATHE the negativity I am seeing on this site. This is EXACTLY what Musk and his anti-American GOP wants.
🇺🇸 I'm an old man and a Navy vet and I am about to head out in the wind & rain and canvass to get Democrats to the polls here in Wisconsin.
🇺🇸 Buck it up, people.
📌DeSantis rounding up human beings, and shipping them off like they are lesser-than, while Republicans laugh about it, is why people need to start reading about what happened in 1930s and '40s Germany.
📌These Republicans are just disgusting, man ...
📌You can be both sympathetic toward Dianne Feinstein and thankful for her public service, while also being absolutely furious she won't retire for the good of her country.
I am one of these people.
📌This is from Maureen Dowd today in the NYT:
"So we’re stuck with two narcissistic, circa-80 pols in a race most of us don’t want."
📌Dowd just casually equated Biden with the loud-mouth Trump as a narcissist.
📌Please shut the door behind you, Maureen, your lights are out.
🇺🇸I was the managing editor of Stars and Stripes newspaper from 2001 until 2009.
🇺🇸I worked at five newspapers during my journalism career and have always told people the most important paper in the world, is S&S. It was also one of the very best things about America.
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🇺🇸I am a proud veteran & retired managing editor of Stars and Stripes newspaper.
🇺🇸Trump is a draft-dodger, who ignored the murder of our troops, belittles them & tried to kill the troops' newspaper.
🇺🇸Joe Biden stands with America & our troops.
#FreePress
#VetsAgainstTrump
📌Can we discuss this once more, please.
📌I have made light of Traitor Trump's repulsive Christmas message twice this morning with humor, but after discussing it with my brother, want to apologize for that.
📌What I should have been pointing out is that if President Biden…
Please RT this:
📌The National Archives and Records Administration, which preserves and maintains records after a president leaves office, confirmed on Friday afternoon that President Obama DID NOT keep classified documents as is being alleged by Traitor Trump.
🇺🇸 My wife was using the head and picking up supplies. When she returned she said, "What was with THAT guy?"
🇺🇸 When I told her, she said, "Well, yer lucky the idiot didn't get his gun out and shoot you."
🇺🇸 Helluva country we live in these days ...
🇺🇸 Peace, people.
I live in Dane County
#Wisconsin
Here's how we voted (during a pandemic):
📌159,734 for the Liberal Justice
📌36,426 for the Conservative Justice
✊🏼Let me tell you something:
@JoeBiden
is going to beat
#KingTrump
like a drum in this state.
✊🏼We're just getting started up here.
📌NOTE: That we are actually celebrating Brittany Watts will not be charged after a miscarriage is the best example yet of how far back in time the repulsive Republican Party is trying to drag women.
📌Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife worked to overthrow our government with his full consent and knowledge. Why in the hell THAT is not being talked about on the Hill everyday is astonishing.
📌Trump shook down election officials, threatened poll workers, had a war room at the Willard Hotel, called for a riot, did nothing while our Capitol was attacked and recently is reciting Nazi propaganda … and we’re wondering if Colorado did the right thing???
Give me a break.
🗞️BREAKING: The New York Times is calling the disgusting story Katie Britt told in her SOTU response "misleading."
🗞️IT WAS A DAMN LIE. And it was INTENDED to hurt Joe Biden.
🗞️My God, with this f*cking newspaper.
Via NYT just now:
📌At a barbershop in Orangeburg, S.C., Rep. Dean Phillips addressed a crowd of pretty skeptical Black voters this afternoon: “I know that most of you are going to vote for Joe Biden,” he said.
📌“All of us!!!” one woman replied.
#DropOutDean
📌BREAKING: Gas prices are falling significantly, the stock market is surging, the job market is red-hot, pay is up, the vaccination rate is climbing, and Vice President Harris hasn’t defended a president who attacked our democracy and wanted her dead.
📌PROGRAMMING ALERT: We interrupt this never-ending episode of The Queen, to let you know Russia has confirmed the loss of almost ALL of the Kharkiv Region. This is truly amazing. Trump's buddy, Putin, is officially on the run ...
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📌Had Trump responded to Covid with even half the urgency he’s responding to Michelle Obama this morning, tens of thousands of Americans would still be alive.
📌I hate Joe Lieberman with every fiber of my being. He's a disingenuous, measly, little, bought-off pissant, who has spent the past 23 yrs. undermining Democrats and filling his creepy, deep pockets.
And he's doing it again with this despicable No Labels atrocity.
Fuck you, Joe.
📌On Jan. 5, 2021, Deputy Director of National Intelligence during the Trump WH, Susan Gordon, said Trump should NOT receive intelligence briefings after leaving office, calling his security profile "daunting" as "he was unusually vulnerable to bad actors with ill intent."
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🇺🇸Bottom line? I'm a veteran, and it is breaking my fucking heart watching what these goddam Republicans are doing to our country.
#VetsAgainstTrump
#ImpeachTrumpAgainNOW
📌You need to understand — I mean REALLY understand — what is going on in Wisconsin right now:
In April, we elected Janet Protasiewicz (pictured) to the Supreme Court by 11 points. This was a crushing landslide in an otherwise close swing state.
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📌Watching Kristen Welker get rolled by a lightweight like Elise Stefanik was embarrassing.
📌Mostly, it was dangerous.
📌Our media has no damn idea what it is up against: an anti-American terror group, which is actively trying to end our Democracy.
📌I'm not wrong about this.
📌Let me tell you something: Nancy Pelosi is an all-time GREAT. She took it to Traitor Trump and his revolting party, impeached the lousy bastard twice, passed landmark legislation, and has shown grace & incredible strength after the brutal MAGA attack on her husband.
I love her.
📌For those keeping score, Saudi Arabia now owns Twitter, the Republican Party, the PGA Tour, the 9/11 attackers, and the bone saw used to murder Jamal Khashoggi.
📌Imagine if we showed up like this to fight back against the six bought-off Supreme Court justices who believe the traitor who attacked us is above the law?
📌ABSURD FACT:
#RoeVWade
was passed in 1973. It wasn't until A YEAR LATER, that a law was passed to "allow" women to secure a credit card in their own name. The oppression of women throughout most of our country's history is appalling and MUST end.
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Start spreadin' the news
He’s leavin' today …
He’s no longer a part of it
New York, New York …
These little clown shoes
Are longing to stay …
Right in the heart of it
New York, New York …
He’s gonna wake up in a jail …
‘cause he’s a creep …
And…