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🚨IN VIRGINIA.. Abigail Spanberger was directly asked if she would work with President Trump on job creation if she was to win the election.
Her answer?
“You don’t work with the arsonist who burned down the building to rebuild it.”
So… No.
Oof.
@FoxNews I guess half the country is going to quit taking Tylenol and the other half is going to take extra Tylenol to spite the half that isn’t taking it.
President Trump shares a message on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“I ask all Americans to commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived & died. The values of free speech, citizenship, the rule of law & the patriotic devotion & love of God.”
I am heartbroken by the horrific and targeted murder of Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the attack on Senator John Hoffman and his wife.
Political violence has no place in our country. We must reject hate and lower the temperature, now.
My heart is with their families and the people of Minnesota.
I'm starting to see a worrying trend...
I haven't figured out exactly the best way to say it, but I'll try my best here.
I was fairly liberal up until the end of last year.
There was probably little anyone could have said to change my mind on some of the core issues of the day.
I thought people like @libsoftiktok, for example, were stoking racial division and was a bigot for just pointing out the double standard of news that was being buried.
I thought that... until it happened to me too.
The news buried the coverage of Hurricane Helene recovery for months and months.
The only reason I have a big following on this platform is because for nearly 6 months straight, I refused to let the stories of people in Western North Carolina die.
I chose to find the stories, talk to people, film the videos, write the stories, and post them.
I did it every single day, without fail.
It took awhile... but I learned a valuable lesson that I'm worried conservatives/MAGA/the Right is forgetting these days.
My mind wasn't changed from liberal to conservative because of retaliatory tactics.
Rarely does ANYONE change their mind on any issue because someone "taught them a lesson" or "dunked" on them.
Had conservatives done this to me during Hurricane Helene, I likely would have stayed entrenched in my own positions.
But that's NOT what happened.
So please listen to me when I say this: What changed my mind what consist, unwavering, unapologetic, acts of kindness combined with the justification and motivation of them.
For me, for a VERY VERY long time, just the thought of, "I am a fairly liberal person and lean Left on most issues" created a FALSE sense of comfort that I was a good, kind, and empathetic human.
That if I just SAID or even THOUGHT that I was "left" that I magically cared MORE about the plight of people who were hurting or marginalized more than any MAGA conservative.
I WAS WRONG.
I learned I was wrong because the people who stepped up to help didn't ask me my political views.
They didn't stomp on my throat when I said something they disagreed with.
They just delivered RVs to people who lost their homes, looked me dead in the eyes and said, "because no one else will..." and then explained, in detail, their conservative beliefs.
And they were exactly right.
What I'm trying to say, perhaps very poorly, is that the Left (and me up until recently) believes they have a monopoly on empathy and kindness so they attract people to their movement because people WANT TO BELIEVE they are good people...
...but don't want to do the HARD WORK of actually DOING good things, they just want to believe they are good by stint of identifying with "the good side..."
This was me, to a tee.
I demonized people solely based on their affiliation with one side, not based on their actions, not based on the merit of their ideas, and certainly not based in any sort of willingness to learn about how I could be wrong.
I see this happening, albeit not as often, by some on the Right and please, take it from me... if there's one way to lose someone who is on the brink of "waking up" it's to demonize them because of who they are without asking the tough questions of "what do you believe?"
I hope this made sense, in some small way.
This ought to be the final time we change our clocks!
Daylight Savings is a relic that disrupts our natural rhythms and serves no real purpose in the modern world.
We need to end this for good!
#MAHA
RFK JR: "There's no such thing as Republican children or Democratic children. These are our kids. 66% of them are damaged ... And all these Democrats are opposed to me for partisan issues. They used to be my friends, agreed with me on all the environmental issues I've been working on for my whole career. Now they're against me because anything that President Trump does, any decision he makes, has to be lampooned, derided, discredited, marginalized, vilified."
JUST IN: Billionaire Nicole Shanahan vows to fund primary challengers of 13 specific U.S. Senators who don't support RFK Jr's confirmation, calls them out by name.
Good.
"I will make it my personal mission that you lose your seats in the Senate if you vote against the future health of America's children."
"To senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Thom Tillis, James Lankford, Cory Booker, John Fetterman, Bernie Sanders, and Catherine Cortez Masto..."
"This is a bipartisan message and it comes directly from me. While Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won't if you vote against him."
"I will personally fund challengers to primary you in your next election, and I will enlist hundreds of thousands to join me."