Iroh Gamgee

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but defending the raiding of a church and forcibly disrupting worship as exercise of the 1st Amendment is no different from defending shooting someone in the back as exercising the 2nd Amendment.

Never deleting this app.

@ChrisMurphyCT @grok was this a 100-0 vote?

We did! We passed a bill to fund the Secret Service and TSA and FEMA 100-0. If Speaker Johnson would just call it for a vote, it would pass. That’s the problem.

@ChrisMurphyCT @BasedMikeLee did you vote for this? Chris Murphy says you did and he’s super honest.

@patrickbetdavid @DeezLionsNuts @jimmykimmel Is he, though?

Hey @jimmykimmel, what is funny about this? Joking is one thing, but wishing death on the President by telling Melania “Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow”? That’s not comedy, that’s dangerous rhetoric. We’re better than this.

Who knew Obama dreamed of a second career as a ref?

@AutismCapital 2nd career as a ref?

The media trying to find the motive

@BarackObama Who is “we?” We who have eyes and read know the details. As do you.

Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.

@kylenabecker A normal leftist.

The WHCA shooter wasn't a "normal guy." He was a violent, radicalized extremist whose worldview was "normalized" by left-wing propaganda.

@JackPosobiec They still do.

Reminder as we go through all these assassinations over and over the media has told us for 10 years that MAGA is the violent side

@bungarsargon @kylenabecker One take-home is not to include NYT in any search.

Gunman's manifesto: "I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes." NYT: We may never know the motive of the gunman.

Or the resurgence. The normalization? Anyway, the reality.

'This Is A Both Sides Issue,' Says Side That Shot President Trump, Assassinated Charlie Kirk, Tried To Assassinate Kavanaugh, Tried To Shoot Trump Again, Shot Steve Scalise, Firebombed Governor Shapiro, Tried To Shoot Trump A Third Time, (cont'd) buff.ly/XUsOvZl

Don't worry, I'm sure we can peacefully adjudicate our differences through the liberal democratic process with this guy and the thousands of people who liked his tweet. We clearly want the same thing and can continue to live peacefully together.

Cole Allen is the Dunning-Kruger Assassin. Allen is not some random nut job from the fringes of society. He’s a very articulate graduate of Caltech, which means he has a high degree of native intelligence. He’s in the education profession. He is on BlueSky. He goes to No Kings protests. He’s your basic rank-and-file Democrat. But it’s that high native intellect that led him astray. The Dunning-Kruger Effect is, at its simplest level, people thinking they know more that they do. People who are high achievers in one area often mistakenly believe their native abilities make them experts in all areas. So you get a super-smart guy like Allen, he excels in one narrow area, and extrapolates that excellence into thinking he knows more than he does in other areas. He goes into Blue Sky, he goes to No Kings protests, and he is easily swayed into believing all of the insane, violent lies those sorts of intellectual cesspools foster. All of a sudden this computer science expert is a national political policy expert too, except that latter expertise is derived from insane propaganda. The man with the intellectual skill to write code is not smart enough to recognize when he himself has fallen prey to propaganda, so he KNOWS that Donald Trump is Hitler and must be stopped. And when you KNOW that someone is Hitler, what’s the right thing to do? That’s what is so scary at this very moment—the sheer number of ostensibly educated Democrats who KNOW so many things are “true" that are actually so very, very untrue. In many ways, Cole Allen is just an average Democrat, and like most average Democrats, he fell prey to credentialism and Dunning-Kruger. But Cole took it to the next level; let’s pray more do not.

@EndWokeness Where’s her mask???

This "journalist" was at WHCD tonight "Do it" refers to kiIIing Trump

@JackPosobiec If they succeed, it won’t end at Trump

Trump has had so many assassination attempts it's almost completely normalized at this point. The blood lust will never end. When will enough be enough?

@ChrisMurphyCT Wow. My understanding is that @BasedMikeLee and @tedcruz did not vote for this, for starters. 100-0? Starting to doubt your credibility and/or integrity

Good afternoon. Speaker Johnson was sent a bill to fund TSA, the Coast Guard and FEMA that passed the Senate 100-0. If he had simply called it for a vote it would passed easily. But he chose chaos. Because that’s what Trump wants. Only Johnson can clean up this mess.

@maziehirono What must your competition be like in Hawaii politics? 😬

Donald Trump is not, never will be, and has never been a king. #NoKings

@RepMarkPocan Unanimously? Interesting way to imply that nobody would have objected if they were present.

The long lines at airports now falls squarely on Speaker Johnson's shoulders. The Senate unanimously passed a bill to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard. But Speaker Johnson is refusing to let the House vote on it. If you miss your flight, remember, this shutdown is on him.

Hello Senator Thune, At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP. Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept. You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to. You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to. You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to. Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats. Let's be precise about what you did: 1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer. 2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM. 3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding. The precedent you set: You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins. But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered: • Voice vote to avoid accountability • Empty chamber to avoid debate • Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny • Immediate recess to avoid questions You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one. What you've actually accomplished: Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded. Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded. And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning. The question you should answer: Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM? Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record? You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like. Here's my message: We saw it anyway. Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome. Own it.