Carl Black

I'd forgotten that Kind of Blue (Miles Davis), while containing no words, contains the answer to every question in life.

@FullOfGraceUS @HunterBiden Because neither their wives nor Peter Thiel are putting out.

Why are these republican men so obsessed with sex? Everything they do, they associate with it. Their obsession with gays and trans people. Their celebration of child rape. Their multiple wives and mistresses, hookers and porn stars. But then they point the finger at the rest of us. I think they all have sex addictions. Which some may say is one of the worst addictions to have. The depravity and lows they hit just for their fix....wow

I don’t even know what to say anymore. Couches and now this.

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did. 250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur. A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before. An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of. The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock. A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor. A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support. Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him. $2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers. And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares. And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators? Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry. For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop? Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family? They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

Just saying… Overdose is the #1 cause of death for Americans 18 to 44. Not cancer. Not car crashes. Not guns. We’re burying a generation and blaming the dead.

@HunterBiden @u_s_first Have you seen the current one pretending to serve in that role? He looks twice your age.

@u_s_first No…I was a straight up crack head. Plus I’m 56. Man that sounds old.

Just saying… No Democrat has won the White House this century without a Biden on the ticket.

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis: Show us your laptop. Show us your iCloud. Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation. You won’t. You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out. That is not who we are. My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count. For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame. I no longer believe that. Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us. And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts. That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena. Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next. Life does not determine our character. It reveals it. Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next? We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day. So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop. You won’t. The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing. That is the only definition that matters.

@ChipotleTweets My “salad” contained no salad. There is no way to report this with the app. It’s the second time it’s happened at this location.

@ChipotleTweets I didn’t get points for either of my Extras today. Very disappointing.

#BiltAmbassador @BiltRewards

@AskLyft I’m still trying to resolve an issue with a rogue driver last month. Told it was taken care of, and nothing has changed. Support via the app just asks me to repeat myself over and over and won’t ever look up the history. Greatly appreciate your help.

#BiltAmbassador So, the shiny new @BiltRewards 2.0 card finally arrived the day after I earned the signup bonus 😂

@TravelFake And yet that won’t stop people like the guy I was in line with last month who told a fellow passenger that WN had stopped allowing any people in wheelchairs. “How could they do that?” “They just did.”

Southwest didn’t consider the unintended consequences of their new assigned seat policy. 😕

@_ZachGriff @JetBlue I was one of the 2,370 and 254. Sure would be nice if @JetBlue would finish sending out invites for the celebratory events that are apparently in only a few days.

I have 2,369 friends who also completed the @JetBlue 25-for-25 challenge. Not sure about you, but I figured JetBlue would get under 5,000 participants in the challenge. The vast majority of flyers earned the full 350k points. Other interesting stats below.

The current president of the United States of America just told the world that he’s going to invade another country because he wasn’t given a peace prize.

@TrashDiscourse @CoffeeNGrit Boomer entitlement problem is my new fave thing

@CoffeeNGrit You can tell how loud his TV was because of how loud he’s talking. He has a hearing problem and a boomer entitlement problem.

‘i’M a dIaMOnD mEmBEr’ Bro, no one cares about your ‘status’, they just want to sleep!

Barack Obama just surprised an entire aircraft full of veterans on Veterans Day.

These Democrats in the Senate betrayed the American people, and for what? Angus King Tim Kaine Catherine Cortez Masto John Fetterman Dick Durbin Maggie Hassan Jeanne Shaheen Jackie Rosen If American democracy fails to survive, it will be in large part bc of cowards like them.

@AskLyft Hi there. I got ghosted by your chat team. How do I get actual support?

@ChipotleTweets Yet again you got my order wrong, which is the norm. Your completely dysfunctional Pepper won’t do a thing. It’s so hard to justify ordering from you anymore.

@DoorDash_Help My Dasher let me know at the store that an item was out of stock. It was not on the receipt since of course it wasn’t there for purchase. I was still charged for it and denied a refund despite providing a photo of the items in the bag, the chat, and the receipt.

@eSquareDesign @luckytran Especially all of the folks who insist the only people who caught and/or died of Covid were vaccinated 🤦‍♂️

@luckytran Covid was just a few years ago and people still don’t remember

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.