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I want to apologize for not responding to any of the 22 thousand comments my last post inspired. I’ve been filming all week and just noticed my observations about Jimmy Kimmel and a former plumber named Markwayne Mullin have gone viral. I've also noticed that many of the comments are from people who genuinely seem to believe that Jimmy wasn’t belittling plumbers at all, but was instead, simply trying to point out that Mullin is not qualified to lead the DHS. Here's a small smattering... Roger Bicknell... Mikey stop. Kimmel wasn't making fun of plumbers he was making fun of Mullin. Rebecca Piatt Gonzalez... Dearest Mike, it's not anything to do with his being a plumber. It's him NOT being skilled in Homeland Security. Patrick Wise... Being a plumber qualifies you to be a plumber. Period. The issue Jimmy and the rest of us at the adult table recognize is that jobs require certain training and experience and being a plumber does not qualify you to be Sec of DHS. Had Roger, Rebecca, Patrick and all the others who rushed to Jimmy’s Kimmel’s defense actually read what I had written, they would see that I did not suggest - even remotely - that a plumber was inherently qualified to hold a cabinet position. What I said was that being a plumber should not disqualify a person from holding such a position. Big difference. Doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, fireman, and university professors are no more or less qualified to run the DHS than plumbers, electricians, or carpenters – but should they all be dismissed as “unqualified” simply because they made a living in some other vocation? As I wrote in my original post, credentials and diplomas are great ways to bolster a person’s credibility, especially if we’re talking about mastering a specific skill. I think we can all agree that plumbers, accountants, mechanics, and surgeons should all have to prove themselves competent before hanging out a shingle. But what do their credentials and diplomas have to do with their actual competency? Are we not already surrounded by a legion of perfectly qualified experts who don't know what the hell they're doing? Moreover, what do credentials and experience have to do with wisdom, honesty, common sense, integrity, courage, the ability to lead, or any other virtue we’d like to have in our elected officials? There are plenty of legitimate reasons to question Mullin’s suitability for this role. But there’s no legitimate reason to disqualify him simply because he used to be a plumber. Just as there was no legitimate reason to dismiss AOC because she used to tend bar. As for the joke itself, here’s an honest question. If Senator Mullin was a retired doctor instead of a retired plumber, do you believe he would have would made the same joke? Roger, Rebecca, Patrick...be honest. Do you really think Jimmy would have said to his audience, "So, now we have a DOCTOR in charge of protecting us from terrorism? Hey – it worked for Dr. Suess – maybe it’ll work for Markwayne!" Personally, I don't. Not in a million years. Why? Because no one would have found it funny, that’s why. Even though doctors are no more “qualified” to protect us from terrorists than plumbers are, Jimmy knows that doctors are widely respected in society, and that plumbers are not. He knows that medical degrees and doctorates are aspirational credentials, whereas plumbing certificates are not. The entire premise of his joke was based on a personal bias that he knew his audience shared – a bias that presupposes plumbers are uneducated, one-dimensional workers who never made it to college, and are therefore "unqualified" to do anything but plumb. Jimmy is entitled to his opinion, along with anyone else who believes that Mullin is unqualified to lead the DHS. The Constitution, however, says otherwise, and so does the Senate. Likewise, reasonable people can disagree as to what is funny and what isn’t. Frankly, I couldn’t care less. What I do care about, is the extraordinary shortage of plumbers and electricians our country is facing, and the longstanding stigmas and stereotypes that continue to discourage people from considering a lucrative career in the skilled trades. Jimmy’s joke – and his audience’s reaction to it – is proof positive that those stigmas and stereotypes are alive and well. PS. We have a lot of money set aside to help train the next generation of plumbers. Apply for a scholarship at mikeroweworks.org Who knows? Could be the first step on your road to President..

@johnricard @AbigailShrier @JonHaidt Not if those phones are in pouches - he definitely inspired me to push hard to get them out of the school and the difference has been amazing! But hey you go on hating a man who cared enough to push for our kids to be away from the screens more..

Phones may be gone, but adjustments are made. Students can clone their phones on the laptops. Now iPads replace their phones. The screens got bigger. Students still enter the classroom and their first impulse is to seat themselves and crank open their laptop. One book was not the difference maker in policy setting. But I guess people got to self-promote.

Two years ago, almost 0 schools were interested in even considering going phone free. Now, whole school systems are phone free. The rest are scrambling to get on board We owe @JonHaidt a tremendous debt of gratitude. What he achieved - this quickly - is almost unimaginable.

@AbigailShrier @JonHaidt Agreed! He was the inspiration for our school district to go phone free over a year ago. I sit on our Board, bought everyone his book and then pushed till we got them out of our schools. It has been the best thing we ever did!

@JoeConchaTV @JoeConchaTV even if she did change it and didn’t know where her birth certificate was Sect 12 line 22 allows her to attest to citizenship…

The thing about this argument that no one is pointing out is that Mika never changed her name after her first or second marriage. So why would she need her birth certificate in the first place?

@BrandonStraka @ScarboroughNow section 12 line 22….maybe you should read the act, even if she can’t get a copy she can attest to citizenship

Joe Scarborough claims Mika could be removed from voter rolls under the SAVE Act due to missing "original birth certificate". That’s not true. MSNBC is pushing blatant disinformation to attack the legislation.

Did anyone offer to help the mom? As a parent my heart hurts for the parent of the crying baby bc they are FAR MORE stressed by that crying baby than any other passenger on the plane. That stress of course the baby senses making it more difficult to get them settled. Also calming babies is all trial and error- what works for one may not for the other, someone on that plane instead of hating on the mom could have said “this worked for my baby, do you want to try…” that’s better than just sitting there being mad a baby ..

Is there anything worse than a crying baby on a plane? I wish parents would control their children. It’s so disruptive. I refuse to believe a baby cries for 10 hours. At some point this is just bad parenting, right?

I literally just said this at our School Board meeting! We were discussing the fact that the iPads we bought in 2020 needed to be replaced for K and 1st grade - I was arguing that we shouldn’t and that the students learn more with pen to paper… I am still fighting as budget not final, got the phones out of the schools last year, this is my fight for our kids this year. I honestly was amazed by the pushback from some of the Admin.. 😢

There is a brain-to-pen-to-paper connection that is very real.

@Freyy_is YES!!!

dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it

Imagine being this brave. They knew what would happen. And they did it anyway. For freedom. We don’t understand this kind of courage. Bless these women.

She did it AGAIN!!!! Idk how @JenniferSey keeps doing it but she does. I’m definitely not crying over this one. My eyes just leak like this sometimes. Happy #InternationalWomensDay To all the women being forgotten about. Except by a few of us.

Love or hate @NancyMace and @laurenboebert they are 100% right to be mad about this one, we all should be!

@FranWalsh73 Question on this - if employers contribute $2500 can others contribute $5000 or is it $2500 employer - $2500 others?

Watch your benefits package in 2026. Employers can contribute up to $2,500/year to a dependent's Trump Account - completely tax-free to you as the employee. Major companies - Charles Schwab, Mastercard, JP Morgan, Chipotle, Uber - have already announced participation.

Two parents. Same income. Same kid's age. One opens a Trump Account before April 15. One assumes it's only for newborns. By retirement: One has $2.7M. One has $0. Most parents don't know this account was built for kids already born. Here's everything you need to know: ↓

@FranWalsh73 This is awesome - I already went in and signed up for the accounts and was wondering how much would be in there at 65 for each of them - appreciate this breakdown

Here's how starting age affects the outcome: 4-year-old today → ~$2.7M at 65 8-year-old today → ~$1.7M at 65 12-year-old today → ~$900K at 65 16-year-old today → ~$249K at 65 Every year you wait costs your child hundreds of thousands of dollars.

@RubinReport Ha! It was the first thing I said when I saw him - he is wearing a suit! ❤️

Fetterman wearing a suit! His conversion is almost complete!

Team USA just sang the best National Anthem you will ever hear at @11Miami

Frank Stephens pleads for the humanization of people with Down syndrome, “I am a man. See me as a human being not a birth defect, not a syndrome. I don’t need to be eradicated.”

1. You can hear the heartbreaking desperation in this dad’s voice — he wants to help his son so badly. This video is over three minutes long which means it won’t get recommended in Instagram’s algorithm. If you’re on Instagram, please go share it so more people can see it and become potential blood stem cell donors. Link to the video in the post below.

@mattvanswol Been saying this for YEARS!

I am personally a big proponent of making voting day a national day off for everyone so that they can vote in person. We have so many random, stupid holidays, the least we can do is give everyone off a day of work so that they can come and vote in person. What do you think?

Here’s what many don’t realize about the Declaration of Independence, says @Hillsdale professor Matthew Spalding: “We have a sense today that somehow [the signers] are just these dainty individuals, sitting around debating and wearing tricorn hats and wigs and writing with quill pens.” But nothing could be further from the truth, he says. Those who signed the Declaration were “literally giving up their lives [and] their fortunes—but not their sacred honor,” Spalding says. John Witherspoon lost his son to a cannonball at Germantown. Francis Lewis’s Long Island estate was bombarded and destroyed, and his wife Elizabeth was imprisoned in terribly harsh conditions until George Washington forced a prisoner exchange for her release. She never recovered. Robert Morris, one of the richest men in America and the revolution’s chief financier, put his own credit on the line—the equivalent of $32 million in today’s dollars—to keep the Continental Army supplied with what were called Morris notes. He later landed in debtors’ prison and died in obscurity, virtually penniless. The Declaration was signed by men who knew they might lose everything—and chose to sign anyway.

“Why didn’t Trump just do what Obama did? Which is go to the governors of individual states and say, ‘how many illegal immigrants do you have in prisons who’ve committed other crimes? We’re gonna deport them.’” @piersmorgan for the final time, two-thirds of the people Obama deported had no criminal record or only minor traffic violations. That’s per The New York Times. Moreover, Obama didn’t have to contend with sanctuary cities and states. He also didn’t have to contend with TDS. He was a cool black man who mostly got a free pass for anything and everything. He made mandatory for all fifty states a Bush-era program called Secure Communities, where within seconds ICE got the fingerprints of anyone arrested by state and local police. ICE then issued detainers for everyone they wanted (and it wasn’t just violent criminals), picked them up from the jails, and deported them. Please educate yourself. Americans voted for mass deportations—not just closing the border and working with the few governors who’ll actually cooperate with Trump.