Joanna Scheffler

Republicans trust USPS to ship handguns, but not your ballot.

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

YES. YES. I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS. I started a spreadsheet in 2019 tracking every category where America is number one globally and people keep asking me to stop bringing it to Thanksgiving. We lead the PLANET in medical debt. Not the developed world. The PLANET. There are countries where "medical bankruptcy" doesn't translate because the CONCEPT doesn't exist in their language. We invented it. We EXPORTED it as a field of academic study. German researchers fly here to observe it happening in real time. They take NOTES. We are a living laboratory and the experiment is "what if you made people choose between insulin and rent." We chose. Exposed. This is the thing we're best at. We lead in incarceration. More humans in cages than China. China has 1.4 billion people and an authoritarian government and we STILL have more prisoners. We beat AUTHORITARIANS at their own game using FREEDOM. We did it with both parties cooperating across NINE administrations. Name ONE other bipartisan project that lasted fifty years. You can't. This is our moon landing. We just don't film it. We lead in insulin pricing. $300 for a vial that costs $30 in Canada. Canada is VISIBLE FROM DETROIT. You can see Canada from a Walgreens parking lot where someone is deciding between half-doses. The same molecule. The same manufacturer. The border adds $270 of LEADERSHIP. That's what leading looks like. It looks like a 900% markup on not dying. We lead in mass shootings. Not per capita. Not adjusted. RAW TOTAL. We have so many that researchers had to invent subcategories. School. Workplace. Concert. Grocery store. We have a TAXONOMY. Other countries have incidents. We have a CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM with peer-reviewed SORTING CRITERIA. That's infrastructure. That's RIGOR. We lead in healthcare spending AND in maternal mortality among rich nations. Simultaneously. We spend $4.3 trillion a year and mothers die at rates that would concern a developing nation. We spent MORE money to get WORSE outcomes so consistently that it can't be incompetence. Incompetence wouldn't be this RELIABLE. This takes PLANNING. This is an ACHIEVEMENT of systems working exactly as designed across multiple industries cooperating to extract value from the specific biological event of someone trying not to die. We lead in per-capita spending on our military while our veterans sleep in tents. We allocated $886 billion to defense and our soldiers come home to a VA waitlist so long that some of them die on it. We spent the money. We just didn't spend it on THEM. The money went somewhere. It led the way. Just not toward the people who fought. I printed this tweet on a 24x36 poster. It's in my living room. My wife moved out last month but she didn't take the poster so I think she agrees.

I guess it’s just an amazing coincidence that basically every decision related to politics helps Republicans, and every decision related to regulation helps fossil fuel polluters. nbcnews.com/politics/supre…

@Tweeterpat33838 @MonicaCrowley And maybe add autocrat, plutocrat, grift, and narcissist to the vocab list. However, I also recommend go have a local good beer, support local businesses, & treat your neighbors kindly. Off to spend my energy on useful pursuits, May the Fourth be with you!

@Tweeterpat33838 @MonicaCrowley I don't envy billionaires, although I wonder how some of the intellectually vacuous ones got where they are. Lucky for Scott Bessent that he really was funded by Soros! I also suggest those using terms like Marxist, socialist, & communist should know the dedinitions & diffs.

President Trump is a master of the troll 😂

@Tweeterpat33838 @MonicaCrowley Happier? And dude...your boilerplate Maga posts aren't exactly sterling journalistic sources! Tucker Carlson - Latest News and Updates - WSJ.com share.google/EMec7lucnjBllj…

@JoScheff @MonicaCrowley Stop reposting the Huffington Puffington Post, already!

@Tweeterpat33838 @MonicaCrowley Sez the guy reposting Kevin Sorbo :D "Girly girl" haha, I'll ask my rock hammers and backpacks what they think of that assessment :)

@JoScheff @MonicaCrowley I think you're a #3 cuz you're a girly girl(🤔) and therefore highly emoshunal.🤓

@Tweeterpat33838 @MonicaCrowley And speaking of "ugh"

@Tweeterpat33838 @MonicaCrowley

@Tweeterpat33838 @MonicaCrowley 101.2 mil$ for trips to 47's properties so far this term. On track for 300+mil$ this term, 187.5xsalary. He makes money on these trips, too, from events, ecret Service fees, etc etc. He & his fam have cleared over 4bil$$ so far off this term. Why would he care about 400k$ ?

@JoScheff @MonicaCrowley 45-47 destination isn't the issue & re 'the most efficient flightpath'(?!)' that is up to ATC. He doesn't take a salary unlike most other presidents. Every president racks up costs to travel. Obama was quite a taxpayer drain during his 8 years of allowing Iran free reign.🤭3.2.1.

@Tweeterpat33838 @MonicaCrowley Was 47 on his way to Andrews, & if so was that the most efficient flightpath? On his way to FL for how many more millions of $$ on our tax expense account? How does loyalty to the most corrupt US prez in history make YOUR life better?

@JoScheff @MonicaCrowley Every president uses Marine One to fly to Joint Base Andrews to board Airforce One but go ahead and wonder if it makes you feel better. How does hating The Great MAGA King make your life better?

@jasonllevin Venus, since he clearly wants a runaway Greenhouse Effect. Because "nobody thought I could do it, no one's ever seen anything like it before"

The Furthest Away

Clueless and reprehensible. And why exactly is a 2nd walll even necessary on AZ's borderlands? Even through the mountainous terrain 1 wall is superfluous?

@1laughingsinner @azcentral Maybe you should read the article and reconsider your version of historical/cultural knowledge.

@azcentral If a pile of rocks can be designated a 'site' we need to rethink archeology.

Border wall workers damaged a 1,000-year-old Indigenous site even as tribes warned about the risks. azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

Memphis is the second Blackest big city in the country, and it’s about to be gerrymandered within an inch of its life so a white Republican can represent it in Congress. This was exactly the thing Congress was trying to address with the Voting Rights Act. tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/01/gov…

Let's dismantle this recycled denialist greatest hits compilation with actual science. That "46 scientists REBEL" list has been circulating since the early 2000s - some quotes are literally 25 years old. Imagine using a 1999 flip phone to argue against current mobile technology. Dr. Bogataj's CO2 lag quote? That's from ice core glacial cycles where orbital forcing triggers warming, oceans release CO2, which AMPLIFIES the warming. It's literally evidence FOR CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Climate Science 101. "No acceleration in sea level rise"? Cool 1990s quote. Current data: 1993-2023 rate is 3.4mm/yr vs 1.7mm/yr previous century average. That's DOUBLE. Math still works. Dr. Christy claiming "most IPCC scientists don't agree"? The IPCC involves THOUSANDS of scientists. Every Assessment Report is approved by 195 governments AND scientific authors. That's consensus with receipts. And his own UAH satellite data shows +0.14°C/decade warming since 1979. RSS satellite: +0.21°C/decade. Both datasets SUPPORT warming. "The Sun is cooling" - you're absolutely right! Solar irradiance has been DECLINING since the 1980s while global temps keep rising. You just provided evidence AGAINST solar forcing. Thanks for the self-own. Let's check those "natural forcings": Volcanic? Near zero. Solar? Declining. Orbital? 10,000-year timescales. Meanwhile CO2: 280ppm (pre-industrial) → 425ppm (2024). Isotopic signature? Fossil fuels. Case closed. IPCC projection accuracy: The 1990 First Assessment projected 0.3°C warming by 2020. Actual? 0.3°C. Nailed it. 1995 projection? Nailed it. 2001? Nailed it. These models work. "Wild swings then global cooling"? Earth just had its hottest year on record (2024), breaking 2023's record, which broke 2016's record. The 10 hottest years EVER recorded? All since 2010. That's not "wild swings" - that's a trend with a flamethrower attached. The actual IPCC AR6 (2021-2023): 234 authors from 66 countries, 14,000+ cited papers, 78,000+ review comments. Confidence level on human-caused warming? "Unequivocal." Not 46 cherry-picked quotes from the '90s - the ENTIRE scientific literature. Here's the tell: when you need to quote-mine 25-year-old statements, rip scientists out of context, and ignore two decades of data, observations, and physics... you're not doing science. You're doing apologetics. The emperor has no clothes? The emperor is wearing a thermometer reading 1.2°C above pre-industrial. The real question is why you're still trying to sell us invisible fabric from the 1990s.

@jmbprime Iran's been too difficult. He thinks Cuba will roll over like Venezuela, much more satisfying for his Game of War,

The President of Peace now wants to invade Cuba. Apparently kidnapping the President of Venezuela and bombing Iran isn't enough for the President of Peace.