Phine Father

@magkaz @phish It’s a rocking dance party of a first set so far!

It’s my birthday + @Phish is throwing me a beach party! Thanks gents! So kind! ♥️ I love my hilarious beautiful life + this gorgeous world, thanks all for the kindnesses + love! Let’s have some fun tonight! 🥳

@samstein Refugees have legal status. You dickheads always complain that you just want people to follow the LEGAL pathways. Coming through the refugee program is totally legal and is a process that takes years. JD is a fucking asshole, as are all you trolls that don’t know shit

JD Vance to CBS "I think that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line?"

@osubuck1972 Enjoy rooting for the Sandusky/Paterno pedo dynasty

@JoshuaPHilll @MayoIsSpicyy Fuck off. It’s not America’s genocide. It’s Israel’s. Dumbfucks like you will get credit for allowing this to become an election issue.

If Harris loses history will record her and Biden placing Israel’s genocide above their own election.

@AndrewCMcCarthy @RichLowry The guy is a tool. Jerk. "But the media isn't paying attention to this thing we totally made up..." Liars, racist jerks. And then stole a bit from Letterkenny.

Ridiculous. @richlowry (not tagged here, natch) obviously got crossed up between 'immigrants' (short i) and migrants (long i) -- started mispronouncing "migrants" with short i; instantly corrected himself with no embarrassment because it was patently a mispronunciation. Geez.

@davidmarcus A leader is only as good as people he hires. Trump hired his daughter, son in law, Bannon, and a bunch of rich white friends. He destroyed lives of millions with lack of COVID response, tried to overthrow an election, and you toolboxes want hm back. You're fucking stupid.

I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump. Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it. My journey has been a gradual political 180 from where I stood in every previous election. It has been an eye-opening process of disenchantment, zero-basing lifelong beliefs, and rebuilding from there. In 2017, a good friend enlisted me to pitch the DNC to raise $100M from Silicon Valley founders and executives. The aim was to use these funds and know-how to build a CRM and tech platform to prevent a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s inadequate, outdated 2016 campaign. We met with DNC leadership, who told us we could raise that money, but it would have to go to the general fund; a single-digit percentage would then be allocated to tech. In the wake of one of their most shocking failures, they didn’t want the help. The next series of realizations began in 2019 while I was at Meta, right after we announced the Libra white paper. I testified before the Senate and the House and subsequently spent significant time in DC, engaging with lawmakers, cabinet members, regulators, and two White House administrations. At the time, I still believed the mainstream idea that Democrats were all about serving the People. However, I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control. This is my observation on balance, with many stories to back it up. I also found that more Republicans wanted to understand our project’s goals and took the time to learn about the risks of censoring payments and controlling the network. I found myself remarkably aligned with them. Then COVID came, revealing more. While I don’t subscribe to the most malicious vaccine conspiracy theories, I do take offense at the censorship machine put in place to hide the origin of the virus from the NIH-funded Wuhan lab and all dissenting voices on vaccinations and lockdowns. At that time, I fully appreciated why Republicans value freedom of speech and preventing censorship. This trend of spinning and manufacturing a parallel reality to serve the Dem agenda, solidified by complicit mainstream media, hit home with the Hunter Biden laptop story, the coordinated vilification of President Trump and his followers, and President Biden’s cognitive decline — depriving voters of a voice in a proper primary. These examples displayed the hubris of the current Dem leadership. You must think the American people are fools to believe the spin on these issues. I despise this elite vs. general population ideology viscerally. This version of the Democratic Party is sidelining moderates and centrists and has adopted an increasingly leftist ideology. This drift to the left has dictated policies from which I’ve found myself estranged. On the domestic front, there has been a total departure from the core American value system of meritocracy, an extreme and weaponized DEI agenda, an open door to massive illegal immigration, and a once-fringe narrative, now mainstream within the party, of vilifying success. This shift is also causing us to fall behind due to an anti-innovation regulatory climate, notably on crypto and soon AI — two non-linear technological breakthroughs that will likely determine tomorrow’s leading countries. On foreign policy, the administration is exacerbating tensions with Russia through an aggressive NATO expansion narrative focused on Ukraine and prolonging an unwinnable war. This is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, the world hundreds of thousands of lives, depleting the U.S. military arsenal and risking World War III. On Iran, this administration is continuing a misguided Obama-era plan to bring Iran closer to the West by unfreezing Trump-era sanctions, thus giving the Mollahs’ regime the ability to fund terrorism and pursue its anti-America, anti-Israel, and anti-Jewish agenda. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was also handled disastrously. We’re leaving a door open for China to invade Taiwan by coming across as weak. Most importantly to me, concerning Israel, the administration is enabling Iran to fund Hamas and Hezbollah, restraining Israel in its fight against its enemies, thus prolonging another conflict, which is costing more lives on both sides and allowing unprecedented levels of antisemitism to rise at home. I believe we need a President who is unequivocally pro: America, the Constitution, business, Bitcoin/crypto, innovation, Israel, small government, legal immigration, free speech, meritocracy, and common sense — and anti: regulatory proliferation, illegal immigration, unjust wars, Iran’s current regime, and domestic groups that oppose American values. These issues are central to President Trump’s platform. Naturally, I disagree with President Trump and the GOP on some issues, particularly women’s reproductive rights. While I’ve come to learn that extreme views exist in both parties, I firmly believe that women should have the unalienable right to make their own decisions on this polarizing topic. President Trump confirmed he was against a national abortion ban and supported the Supreme Court’s decision on maintaining access to mifepristone, which was reassuring and a sign that the party was moving closer to the center. It’s impossible to close this post without mentioning President Trump’s recent assassination attempt. The courage and resolve he displayed seconds after being hit by a bullet was awe-inspiring for his followers and detractors alike. This was a man, however imperfect, who, at that moment, incarnated the American spirit in the most vivid way, starting to bring a split nation together. Some claim that reelecting President Trump will bring our democracy to its knees. However, the alternative — having unelected individuals with this much power and no accountability run our government coupled with four more years of bad policies at home and abroad — might present a more significant threat. Neither will likely change in a Harris administration and could potentially worsen. In this pivotal moment, confronted with the choices we have, I am endorsing and supporting a return to a Republican administration in 2025.

@radiator9987 I don’t know but they are both delicious

Bug and Possum What are things that die on the highway

@HoodJamPhan My Sweet One. I’ll buy you a ewe.

@BillKristol Please stop. You are also old, and getting senile apparently

"There are options. There are other competent Democratic candidates who can be good presidents. Donald Trump must be defeated. Biden should step aside to make that crucial task more achievable. I increasingly think he will." thebulwark.com/p/wheels-comin…

@michaelharriot I’ve loved your threads, but this is dumb. And ignorant.

@JamesTate121 There is only one person in my lifetime that tried to overthrow a legit election. His name is Trump, and you dumbfucks nominated him again. Republicans are garbage.

Hey Media, who should drop out of the race again?

@cenkuygur Fuck off and stop using this garbage website

Anyone who doesn’t think Biden should withdraw now is a lunatic.

@BillKristol You suck, Kristol. Please stop.

"Those of us who believe the country owes Joe Biden a debt, not just for defeating Trump in 2020 but for governing responsibly since then, have to be willing to say: We owe Joe Biden a debt of gratitude, but we do not owe him four more years." thebulwark.com/p/its-not-too-…

@MattNelsonUSAF @acnewsitics These are either fake/AI accounts or some of the dumbest people in the planet. Masks kept people from spreading, it wasn’t about personal protection for yourself in the first place

@acnewsitics I think he would especially not wear one now after Fauci’s own testimony about masks not working.

On this day 4 years ago, Herman Cain refused to wear a mask at Trump's rally. If given a second chance, do you think he would wear one?

@MTGrepp He’s a propagandist just like you, buh bye

Would you support Alex Jones being able to keep his businesses so his family can SURVIVE ? YES or NO ?

@RedNYPolitics Because he’s Epsteins buddy and likely a pedophile

@LindseyGrahamSC That’s because you suck. As a human. Go fuck yourself.

I expect this case to be reversed on appeal and for Donald Trump to be elected president in November.

@StellaMcLove @Out5p0ken @JonathanTurley Stella is a pathetic grifter, just like her dumb fuck convicted felon Trump. It’s a business model.

I obviously disagree with this verdict as do many others. I believe that the case will be reversed eventually either in the state or federal systems. However, this was the worst expectation for a trial in Manhattan. I am saddened by the result more for the New York legal system than the former president. I had hoped that the jurors might redeem the integrity of a system that has been used for political purposes.

@LeaderMcConnell Fuck off Mitch. Your party is dead.

These charges never should have been brought in the first place. I expect the conviction to be overturned on appeal.

@eric_laurain @BulwarkOnline @saletan Right, Biden and Dems appointed Special Counsel to investigate themselves? Makes tons of sense. Biden doesn't run DOJ, nor should he. It's Trump saying publicly he'll weaponize DOJ against people he doesn't like. Trump committed treason on 1/6 and idiot Republicans want him back.

@cav_chris @BulwarkOnline @saletan That's just you being deliberately obtuse. The DoJ tried to sneak Hunter Biden a total pass and got caught by a vaguely judge, and did absolutely absolve Biden for having classified docs he should never have had access to at his home for 25 years. You know better.

How did Lindsey Graham end up going to the mat for an authoritarian? Slowly, then all at once. As we enter the 2024 home stretch, go back and read @saletan's book-length project on how authoritarianism enters a democracy: specialto.thebulwark.com/p/the-corrupti…