Rosie Memos

@MadrasTrichy @EchoesofWarYT WOW!!!

@EchoesofWarYT @almostjingo Headline simply said “Ted Safe In Crash: Blonde In Car Dies”

A US senator killed a 28 year old woman, left her to drown, spent zero days in jail, and then served 40 more years in the Senate. 57 years ago tonight. Almost nobody remembers her name. 57 years ago tonight, July 18 1969, on a tiny island called Chappaquiddick that most Americans could not find on a map, the most infamous car accident in US history happened while the entire world was staring at the sky waiting for men to walk on the moon. Senator Ted Kennedy left a cottage party for the "Boiler Room Girls," the young women who had worked themselves to exhaustion on his brother Bobby's campaign the year before Bobby was shot, and he drove off with 28 year old Mary Jo Kopechne around 11:15 pm. He said he was taking her to the ferry. Instead the car went off the Dike Bridge, a narrow wooden bridge with no guardrail, and flipped upside down into the black tidal water of Poucha Pond. Kennedy got out. Mary Jo did not. And here is the part history never forgave: he did not knock on the lit up house just yards away that had a phone, he did not call police, he walked back to the party and then he went to bed. He reported it roughly 10 hours later, the next morning, only after two fishermen had already found the car and her body. The diver who pulled her out, John Farrar, said she had likely survived for a while inside an air pocket and might be alive today if anyone had simply called for help that night. Two days later Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, and so the greatest achievement in human history shared the front page with a drowned woman and a senator who waited until sunrise. The punishment for all of it: a guilty plea to leaving the scene, a two month suspended sentence, not a single day served. He kept his Senate seat for 40 more years until he died in 2009, one of the most powerful men in the country. Strip away the famous last name and you are left with something painfully simple. A young woman trusted the wrong man to drive her home, and he chose himself. Say her name tonight. Not his. Mary Jo Kopechne.

.@POTUS joins FIFA President Gianni Infantino on the field for the @FIFAWorldCup trophy ceremony 🏆

@scott_kuecher hmmm it's working on my laptop but not on my phone.

@almostjingo No

Is the app down?

@almostjingo @realDonaldTrump So true. We’ve received so many benefits this term. He’ll go down in history as the most productive and beloved world leader. The man is the definition of presidential even with his blunt and direct delivery. We appreciate that.

FLOTUS Melania 🇺🇸

The U.S., together with Mexico and Canada, just got the World Cup. Congratulations - a great deal of hard work!

The best part about @realDonaldTrump being at the World Cup Finale, and it being such a success, is he secured it in 2018 not even thinking he'd be a part of it! Sometimes stolen elections have good consequences.

Elmo made a new friend at the game!! ⚽ Mr. Tom Cruise!!!

@TheLastRefuge2 @iburnsteel Didn’t Trump secure it in his first term?

The Eastern Columbia art deco masterpiece that mogs the modern LA skyline was built in 9 months during the Great Depression. Down the street, the Graffiti Towers have been under construction for the last 11 years. Don’t let communists run your city.

@Floridagirl0850 I don’t think that but I think if you’re going to represent love and the world everyone should be represented.

Y'alls brains are cooked.

@cricketsnothome @PhillipAKennedy I like how Madonna’s was pre-recorded and she only walked out live for one line🤣

@PhillipAKennedy @almostjingo That’s the exact face I made when I saw Madonna and then muppets!

this halftime show

@KabukiNite @GlblCtzn I used to love PS22 I wonder if it’s still the same guy doing it.

@almostjingo @GlblCtzn

@GlblCtzn why aren’t white kids invited to the love party?

According to many paid partnerships I outta’see odyssey.

NOW: Marine One performs an epic flyover at the FIFA World Cup Final at MetLife Stadium with President Trump onboard. Historic!

@PhillipAKennedy He was hoping you’d think he was black.

@almostjingo Hey, I saw one!

Creepy ass half time show with no white kids?

@PhillipAKennedy @blonde4thewin Justin has been trying to be black his whole life, that’s probably why they let it pass.

@blonde4thewin it was nice of them to squeeze in a white kid