Jerry Wood

@SenMarkKelly Ain’t reading that essay. We know you’ll be back to disparaging and raging “war” on your political opponents in a day or two. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

I wanted to share a few things on my mind after the horrifying events at the White House Correspondents Dinner over this weekend. An attempt on the president’s life is an awful thing for our democracy. I’m thankful Secret Service and law enforcement responded as quickly as they did before this gunman made it any closer to the president, many of his cabinet members, the press corps, and everyone else in that room. Political violence is a growing problem in our country. It has led to violent acts against Americans and elected officials across the political spectrum. I refuse to accept that this is normal, or that we can’t do anything about it. We have serious disagreements as a country. Some of those disagreements are passionate and personal. For 250 years, we have solved those differences at the ballot box. It’s a big part of what’s great and unique about our form of government. That doesn’t mean we can’t be loud and clear when we think someone has a really bad idea, especially someone with power. That’s what a healthy democracy looks like. We all have the right to speak out about our government. We also all have a moral and patriotic obligation to condemn political violence, no matter if the target is President Donald Trump, State Legislator Melissa Hortman in Minnesota, Charlie Kirk, or anyone else. Here’s how we can turn this around. We talk to each other—in person, away from the social media algorithms that are designed to make us angry and divided. And that’s not just the job of elected officials. Frankly, Washington has a way of making this worse. These conversations start in our neighborhoods, in schools, and at the dinner table. The other thing that has stayed with me is hearing the stories from journalists who were in the room, lying on the ground, texting their loved ones, and fearing for their lives, not yet knowing that the attacker had been stopped. That same experience isn’t unfamiliar to a whole generation of Americans. Far too often, kids are the ones sending those texts to their parents as they hide on the ground in their classrooms during lockdowns because of report of an active shooter, or in the worst instances, a gunman down the hall from or in their classroom. I’ve talked to parents who lost their children to gun violence and will never fully recover, and to kids who are traumatized from losing their friends or witnessing something in a school hallway that I might have seen in war. I know something about that phone call that changes everything. I’ll never forget when my wife, Gabby’s, chief of staff called me on January 8th, 2011, to say Gabby had been shot in the head. That act of violence flipped our world upside down. A week ago, it was family members in Shreveport, Louisiana whose worlds were flipped upside down when eight children were murdered and two others were injured in a shocking act of domestic violence. This was the deadliest mass shooting since January 2024. Gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children and teens in America. The lax firearms laws that allow criminals, domestic abusers, and the dangerously mentally ill to get access to guns makes all of us less safe. It’s just wrong. I refuse to accept that this should be normal in America and can’t be changed. Since Gabby was shot, I’ve already seen change start to happen.  We know the steps we can take to strengthen gun laws while protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. If we do that, and we reject the forces that are trying to divide us, everyone, from the president to our kids, will be safer. These are challenging times, but we’re up for the challenge if we all work on it together.

@mehdirhasan If you think it’s offensive that a wife is speaking out against other influential people happily fantasizing on Live TV about another assassination attempt on her husband….you might be a fucking idiot. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

“People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening” The wife of the president is saying a comedian should be banned from TV, is calling on ABC to fire Kimmel for a joke she didn’t like. And the GOP have the nerve to say they support free speech!

@Scott_Wiener We don’t listen to lawmakers who write laws that protect statutory rapists. Idiot 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Trump threatened to genocide Iran & execute members of Congress. But that “rhetoric problem on the left.”

@davidaxelrod @presssecy @POTUS Just STFU already you F’ing swamp creature, normal people are tired of this BS. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

After blaming the wave of political violence over the past ten years on Democrats, @PressSecy calls on plants to set up additional, partisan piling on. Hope someone asks her about a decade of incendiary rhetoric from a @POTUS who calls his opponents "vermin" & "the enemy within."

@ChrisCillizza @chucktodd What else would you expect from these two p*ssies? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

"I'm not going to any more events where Trump is at them. I don't feel safe." --@chucktodd

@katieporterca We know what a woman is now? 🤡

The last time a woman was the Democratic nominee for Governor of California, I was still in college. A whole generation has passed since then. It's time for a new era of leadership.

@GolfGirl_Love @VigilantFox @EMastrro I’m not nearly in his tax bracket but do ok, and my Fed, Ca State, sales tax, mandatory fees and insurance eats up 55-60% of my income. Do the math sometime, it will make you sick. Politicians need more money to throw around to buy votes. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

@VigilantFox @EMastrro I highly doubt he paid 60% of his earnings. He has all the tax loopholes of any Rich American. I’m thinking more like 11 to 12 percent. So ridiculous!

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes. “Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.” “And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.” “The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.” “The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.” “How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?” “Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

Wherever my travels take me, I find that a majority of Americans agree (with each other, and with Democrats) on far more issues than the media or algorithms would lead us to believe.

@tedlieu No one is above the law right Ted? I thought you loved “discovery” in court cases you think can help you politically, is this not one of those??? Biased Hypocritical Idiot 🤡

This is one of the stupidest DOJ cases in history. Southern Poverty Law Center wasn’t paying the Klan, they were paying informants to who were helping to take down the Klan. Unless you believe white supremacists all of a sudden took over SPLC, this entire case makes no sense.

@RepTedLieu You pulling numbers out your ass about Trump, while ignoring the Biden Family’s grift the whole time you were on Capitol Hill speaks to the hypocritical clown you are. Idiot. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Trump and his family have made over $9 billion during his presidency. Their corruption is out of control.

@CAgovernor Whoever conducted that study is an absolute idiot who lies for political favors. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

More than two years since California raised the fast food minimum wage to $20 an hour, a new study reports NO JOB LOSS and MINIMAL COST INCREASES. Our commitment to both California workers and businesses powers the Golden State as the strongest economy in America.

@BernieSanders Did you ever do the math on what the Biden family did over the last two decades? Of course you didn’t you old ass hypocrite hack. Idiot.

The Trump family has made $4 billion off the presidency. Crypto: $3.02B Persian Gulf deals: $425.8M Qatari jet: $150M Legal fees/merch: $127.7M Mar-a-Lago: $125M Corporate deals: $91M Hanoi hotel: $40M Truth Social: $25M Don Jr: $19.6M Unprecedented kleptocracy.

@HouseDemocrats Mine went up 65% during Biden’s reign…you hypocrites didn’t say shit then. Idiots. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

FACT: Americans’ health insurance is up $1,500 compared to last year.

@cspan @RepJeffries All this guy does is get on camera and talk shit, does he ever actually lead? Idiot

.@RepJeffries: "If Donald Trump wants to debate me anytime, anyplace...I'd be happy to do it…I've got no doubts of what the outcome would be. It's extraordinary to me that Donald Trump keeps recycling these low IQ insults. This is from the dumbest president ever."

@grahamformaine Where do they find these clowns? Aren’t we better than this? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

We can't treat this Supreme Court as a functional constitutional body acting in good faith. It's a corrupt, far-right, partisan court, and we have to treat it as such. (And both Alito and Thomas should be impeached.)

@SheldonforRI @TomSteyer Clown car circle jerk goes round and round. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

I’ve endorsed @TomSteyer for governor of California. There’s nobody better than Tom to lower electricity costs and fight climate change.

@katieporterca @SteveHiltonx Katie Portly: Never gonna be Governor either 🤷🏻🤦‍♂️🤡

.@SteveHiltonx, the next governor won't solve homelessness by demonizing people living on the streets. Luckily you'll never be governor.

@SenSchumer You resign idiot….you’ve been in Washington for 100 years and it’s more disfunctional than ever. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Kash Patel must be fired or forced to resign NOW.

@MaryLTrump Like a lot of things, they may have started as an organization that wanted to help those that can’t help themselves, but became a corrupt greed induced political tool used by the left. But you know this already….idiot

Donald's DOJ is now going after the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization dedicated to taking down white supremacist groups like the KKK. That's how bad it is.

@tedlieu Too bad you weren’t this diligent with your fellow ass clown buddy Swalwell maybe a few women wouldn’t have had to be victims . Hypocrite idiot

House Judiciary Democrats are demanding that Kash Patel take the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. The American people deserve to know if the FBI Director is a raging alcoholic.