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@HunterBiden If he would have stopped after the first 15 minutes, the speech would have been remembered as almost decent, even a little gracious. But after that it went downhill hard and fast.

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night. It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me. Sad and embarrassed and exhausted. Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one. People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room. Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old. He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second. That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed. There is a name for it. So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers. The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin. And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride. Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was. And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving. Just another joke at our expense.

@PirateJohnII Was that an Asian dude with his hair died to look Irish?

This has been doing the rounds for a month or so in my feed, at first I thought the dude had a weird energy, or was real drunk or something. Then I realised that he’s actually a hot blooded legend who loves a good fight, and is destined for Valhalla

@gelawdiwos14362 @Osinttechnical Because Russia has invaded and is attacking the people of a country. Ukraine is defending itself from an invader.

@Osinttechnical I wonder why no one asks this dude why he never posts Russian strikes

Donetsk Oblast, a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 Fulcrum drops a 500-pound JDAM-ER glide bomb into a Russian ammunition dump.

Starship Flight 13, the second flight of Starship V3, in slow motion. 🎥 @NASASpaceflight

@MorEdge_Insight Looks awesome and fun. Curious though, why does it seem like these Parks over there are always so empty

This is the Falcon’s Flight, officially the world's longest, tallest, AND fastest rollercoaster right now at Six Flags Qiddiya City in Saudi Arabia. Here's an awesome daytime POV that was filmed with permission from Six Flags. Top speed: 155.3 mph (250 km/h), making it the fastest coaster anywhere. Height: 534.8 ft (163 m), making it the tallest rollercoaster in the World. Elevation change: 640 ft (195 m), with a huge drop around 518–525 ft. Track length: 13,943.6 ft (2.6 miles) which almost 3 miles long. I’m Israeli so can’t ever go on this, but if this were in Israel, America or Europe, I’d go on this in a flash.

@BarbMcQuade Clarification: If you’re are a Republican living in a blue state, Trump just stole your tax $ - destined for approved public projects - because of your zip code and then gave it to his political allies. Overt corruption on a Constitutional scale.

@AlexandriaHoff @whca That was shocking. Definitely wasn't a trick right? He really guessed it?

I was too shocked to express how shocked I was. Yes, I completely chose to have an imaginary dinner with Jack Kerouac 🫨 Duh. IYKYK @whca

@TC13USA If he stopped 15 minutes in, he would have been applauded for being complimentary, mildly classy and even a bit funny. Then he talked for another 45 minutes. Very uncomfortable and unfunny.

Is it just me? I'm a die hard Trump supporter, but this speech is painful. I feel he had a chance to make good jokes and poke the press, but instead it seems like an endless ramble. I feel like it resembles a rally, except it doesn't work in this arena.

@WHLeavitt Relax

@bitswift_tech Yeah, random light taps on the brakes. Overall it feels better, no freak outs at blinking yellow lights and departure parking spot to parking spot at destination. Not perfect, but better for sure

First impressions of FSD v14 Lite: It sucks! Phantom braking is back big time. Maybe it impresses shareholders but clearly this is a regress.

@BulwarkOnline He could've stopped 15 minutes in and he would have been hailed as actually being complimentary and classy

Trump: "I want to personally congratulate CNN's Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award. It was all about me. It was a fake, she shouldn't get the award, it was a fake — but I didn't mind, I said, 'Kaitlan, congratulations.' But it was fake, there's no question about it. She's a young, attractive woman. She never smiles. I said, 'Kaitlan do you ever smile?' Smile. You have a nice position, you're at CNN fake news. You should be a happy person. So smile, Kaitlan, just smile."

@Ladydirosemarie @kingdom4mo Oh relax. It's a democracy. If he doesn't do a good job, support the next guy and vote in someone better. Everything doesn't have to be the end of the world.

@kingdom4mo This is the good old days of New York. What the hell happened? Now we have a communist piece of shit that has his tribe shitting in the streets of New York. How sad and that disgusting piece of shit wouldn’t acknowledge Italians I can’t wait until that whole city brings you down!

The exact moment a group of tough guys realized they walked into the wrong neighbourhood. That look in their eyes when the door locked says everything.🔥 Watch till end. 🎬A Bronx Tale (1993)

Elon Musk reveals that he believes he "got a little too involved in politics" during his interview with The Economist Here's a snippet of the interview: x.com/TheEconomist/s…

@KingMadTaz @Wheresthebeef95 @cutmovies7 Wrong, it's exaggerated BS to trigger people

@Wheresthebeef95 @cutmovies7 They definitely do act like this 99.9% of them are absolutely insufferable just like the ginger roommate.

When you're trying to make a good first impression, but the vibes are already completely mismatched. Ainsley Norris perfectly captures that awkward freshman year energy.

@littl_mama11 @DemocraticWins Ok, she could decide to switch then. Or her people will not vote for her if they disagree. This is the glorious mess that is democracy my friend.

@SinisterBoss @DemocraticWins Wrong. We elect them to represent the will of the people. She goes against what the constituents want every time. She needs to switch to the Democrat party because that's who she votes with.

BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, Senator Lisa Murkowski just announced she will vote no on Donald Trump’s SAVE Act. This will likely kill Donald Trump’s last hopes of passing the bill. Let’s go.

@SWhalebird @MOSSADil @grok How is Ukraine escalating? Did they invade Russia? Oh no, wait, that's right Russia has invaded Ukraine. Ukraine is just trying to get them out.

@MOSSADil @grok Is it already a world war if the war in Ukraine is constantly escalating and the war in Iran is affecting the whole world?

IRANIAN DRONE STRIKES ON TWO U.S. BASES IN KUWAIT The Iranian military says it launched large-scale kamikaze drone attacks in retaliation for U.S. strikes on Iranian territory. According to a statement carried by Iranian state media, the targets included: • A U.S. ammunition depot at Camp Udairi • Patriot and air-surveillance radar systems at Ali Al Salem Air Base There is no immediate U.S. confirmation of damage or casualties.

@sm07892485 @EchoesofWarYT Was Kennedy in shock? Also, why weren't there rails on a bridge? We were going to the moon but didn't have the sense to have rails on a bridge?

I remember her well. I worked with her in the boiler room along with staffers from the offices of Daniel Inouye, Ted Kennedy, Wayne Morse and George McGovern. She was a nice person. I was 20 years old and realized when this happened that there are rules for some and ignored by those with power. There are good men and women on Capitol Hill but not all.

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.

@littl_mama11 @DemocraticWins Traitorous? She literally explained her logic in a presentation. That's why we elect them, so they can each make independent judgements.

@DemocraticWins In a stupid move, Murkowski just put the last nail in the coffin of her career. Traitorous b****.

@goingtothevoid @AdamKinzinger I think he's just making the point that no matter what challenge our country is facing, it is better in the long run if our president and his people are telling the truth. Is that too much to ask?

@AdamKinzinger Would it kill you to not be a traitor for two fucking minutes while our men and women are fighting?! What’s wrong with you? Do you hate this country so much or are you being paid?

There’s a lot of ballistic missiles coming from a country that had them all destroyed a month ago. Maybe that’s why the administration should just start telling the truth. It works out better in the long run

@TheIntelFrog It's the USS Mason I think

Personnel with the St. John's County (FL) Fire Rescue Department responded to assist with evacuating a person suffering a medical emergency approximately 20 miles offshore from this unidentified US Navy Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer.