Adam St. Paul 🦉

"You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it." - Buk

@SwannMarcus89 Webster, SD native!

Brock Lesnar might legitimately be one of the greatest athletes of all time and people don’t realize it because most of his career was in pro wrestling Lesnar was an NCAA wrestling champion who went on to dominate the WWE for a few years before getting bored and leaving. He then goes to the NFL - despite not playing football SINCE HIGH SCHOOL - and he makes the Vikings practice squad even though he was suffering from a serious groin injury suffered in a motorcycle accident. He winds up getting cut because of the injury and starts training MMA, never having even had an amateur fight. Two years later he wins the Heavyweight championship in his fourth fight ever He made an NFL practice squad while suffering from a groin injury after not playing football for 8 years and then goes into MMA and wins a UFC championship two years after he first started learning the sport. Absolutely mental.

@MeghanMcCain Ridiculous

I don’t want to hear one more fucking criticism of Trump’s new ballroom at the White House.

@MikeNellis There are tons of reasons for the right to coordinate messaging...a presidential ballroom? Seems desperate

Look at all these MAGA influencers tweeting in unison about Trump’s ballroom last night. Not an original thought among them. Hope the money is good, I guess.

This coordinated effort would honestly make sense for a number or causes important to the right. Deportations, trans athletes, gun rights after a mass shooting ect.... but a ballroom at the Whitehouse? A space only 1% of people will occupy? Seems desperate.

Ashley St. Clair confirmed the WH runs group chats telling these accounts what to post. Within minutes of shots fired tonight, before there was any news of casualties and before the President said this exact talking point, this was the chat in real time.

@hutchinson @mehdirhasan I agree with u most of the time Hutch, but I feel this one cuts both ways. Blue no matter who regardless of the race.

@mehdirhasan Blue no matter who is about voting in a general election and has nothing to do with national democrats being obligated to endorse mayoral candidates, in this case mayoral candidates outside of the state they serve in. This standard has never been a thing.

Here’s Booker pushing a ‘vote blue no matter who’ argument while hoping we all forget that he (hypocritically) refused to endorse his own party’s New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

@WorldWideWob Booo

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@itsmedanielfc @hutchinson As I said, the politics were different.

@StPaul81 @hutchinson There were a lot of "pro-life" Dems back then.

Republicans famously are in favor of massively expanding Medicaid and SNAP subsidies, repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, capping student loan payments, the Fair Sentencing Act, expanding Children’s Health Insurance Program, etc.

@itsmedanielfc @hutchinson They did have the vote in theory. Dems tend to be pro choice and a veto proof majority. I said the politics were different. Obama early on publicly said he did not want abortion to be a focus (wanted to focus on healthcare) and most people thought abortion was safe due to RvW

@StPaul81 @hutchinson They didn't have the votes to do so. You're doing the thing he's talking about.

@hutchinson Hindsight is 2020, and people mistakenly thought Roe V Wade had settled the issue, but with those majorities they really should have codified abortion protections into law.

Some thoughts. Take a walk with me: We really need to launch a massive, country-wide campaign of educating (reeducating?😬) voters about the importance and function of the Congress. It is not enough to have majorities if you want to pass bills. A party winning control of government does not mean that literally anything can be done. There are limits to power, and those limits are set by the constitution and the voters themselves by deciding which politicians will represent them in government. The parties are not monolithic. If you don’t have the votes to do a particular thing, that thing simply cannot be done. That doesn’t mean you should give up on said thing, but it may have to be a long term project if the votes aren’t there. It is way, way, wayyy too common that this or that commenter on social media assumes that winning the presidency and control of the Congress means you can do literally anything you want. We are seeing that limitation now with Trump. He has been harassing republicans to drop the filibuster since the first term. He wants them to do that now to pass the SAVE Act with a simple majority in the senate. They are saying no, but he doesn’t have the votes to pass it even if they did get rid of the filibuster. He cannot brute force them to do anything, even though he generally gets a lot of the stuff he asks for. Then again, so did Biden and Obama. Obama had a functional 60 vote majority in the Senate for ~90 days when the Senate was actually in session in his first term. This short window was due to Sen Franken taking months to be seated and Sen Kennedy dying. Obama did not run on something more sweeping like M4A but even if he had, the voters did not elect a Congress that would have passed such a bill. He did campaign on a public option but Sen Lieberman and a handful of other democrats (that the VOTERS elected) said absolutely not. The ACA was a Herculean task and it was frankly a miracle that it passed given how many times most thought it was dead and how contentious the negotiations were. It did draw inspiration from a model established by then Governor Romney of MA, but Romneycare was the result of *bipartisan* negotiations with a Democratic Party supermajority led legislature, and it was democrats who forced massive subsidies into that policy. So yes, the ACA’s general model was inspired by Romneycare, but it was democrats who forced massive subsidies into both Romneycare and the ACA. Republicans were broadly and definitely *not* in favor of these subsidies, so the idea that the ACA or even Romneycare were “Republican policies” is pretty ludicrous.

@VitoComedy I honestly relate to this. Saw it when I was a kid and loved it. It was only recently I learned it was panned when it came out.

It was super weird to grow up and find out critics hated this movie. As a kid, you assume it's a universally accepted masterpiece.

@PhilMackey @MikeCastellino @PhilMackey you said it yourself the stat is subjective...could JJ's poor play lead to situations where he needs to play hero ball more and he tends to do good in that situation?

In what way, Mike, am I moving the goalposts? I'm highlighting a fascinating, telling statistic. And I'm not ready to declare McCarthy a bust. That's it. It's possible you know ball more than me, as you're able to know at age 22 after 10 starts whether a 1st round pick QB has it

Look who's moving the goal posts now.........

Why is this in my following page? Not for you tab and I don't follow this person. No one retweeted it or liked it that I follow that I can see.

@jacobdotgov Trading for LaMar makes no sense to me. Why would KOC want a dual threat qb if he's not going to play to his strengths? LaMar is guna be less effective if hes forced to drop back 45 times a game and each route is 20 yards deep or more.

@LinkofSunshine Move Green Bay to F or I u follow!

Who I’m rooting for in the NFL playoffs (just off vibes)

@ChuckGrassley Sir, you are in the US senate. Have been for decades. I think you can do exactly what you're suggesting.

somebody shld tell Pres Trump u can buy gas for a few cents over $2

@jacobdotgov Man, you'd get down voted so hard on Vikings reddit!!!

@jacobdotgov Bernard Barrian!

@jacobdotgov Why not!?

@ContraPoints A humiliation ritual where the loser walks away with millions of dollars each, and a larger purse than the person humiliating them.

I think they’re just not that good at boxing