Rich Winters

@newt50 I was wondering when NY & Illinois & other states would start impounding buses engaged in human trafficking.

CBS-NEW YORK - In a stunning and unexpected move to stop Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from shipping busloads of migrants to New York City, Mayor Eric Adams filed suit against 17 charter bus companies used by the Lone Star state.  He wants the bus companies to reimburse the city for the hundreds of millions of dollars it has cost to shelter them.  The lawsuit targets 17 companies and seeks at least $708 million the city has spent on providing shelter and services to the asylum seekers.

@LindseyGrahamSC Lindsay, you investigated different allegations? If you found anything significant I haven’t heard you mention anything. Telling officials to “find votes” or “change certification vote” (w/o any specific evidence as to why) is not duty to challenge, which happens in courts.

There were numerous legal and factual concerns about the 2020 presidential election.   As the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with many others, I expressed concerns and investigated different allegations. The president has the right and duty, just like others involved in the process, to challenge the results. While I voted to certify the 2020 election, there were problems.   It is very unnerving to see the justice system try to criminalize a president for questioning and challenging an election.

@BidenHQ Before Roe was reversed, these decisions were not being made by unelected justices. The decision was in the hands of the people - people intimately involved & impacted. Now, post-Roe, random people with no knowledge of the circumstances can make those decisions. Can’t be better.

Q: Kate Cox was forbidden from having an abortion even though her doctor said it might jeopardize her fertility & the fetus was unlikely to survive. Do you disagree with that? Haley: I think overturning Roe v. Wade was the right thing and I appreciate that Texas banned abortion

@RepAndyBiggsAZ Would it have been ok if Biden spent more time on the golf course than on the southern border? Say, maybe roughly 21% of his time in office so far playing golf like DJT? Or maybe you would be happier if Biden went to Church only on Easter & Christmas, like DJT, instead of weekly?

Joe Biden has spent more time meeting with Zelenskyy this year than he has at our southern border. This is what America Last looks like.

@krassenstein I resent the idea that we are sleepwalking into a dictatorship. Anyone with any sense of history has been aware of that possibility for a while. Patriots are not “sleepwalking”, danger is due to unpatriotic GQP ignoring facts & greasing the path for TFG in their quest for power.

Do you agree with Republican Liz Cheney that we are "sleepwalking into a dictatorship? Cheney says of Trump: "He's told us what he will do. It's very easy to see the steps that he will take. … People who say, 'Well, if he's elected, it's not that dangerous because we have all of these checks and balances,' don't fully understand the extent to which the Republicans in Congress today have been co-opted. … One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States." "If you look at what Donald Trump is trying to do, he can't do it by himself. He has to have collaborators. And the story of Mike Johnson is a story of, of a collaborator and of someone who knew then – and knows now – that what he's doing and saying is wrong, but he's willing to do it in an effort to please Donald Trump. And that's what makes it dangerous."

@RpsAgainstTrump Rep Higgins: true American patriots want to see our democracy preserved. Fascists, falsely claiming to be patriots, want to stop Jack Smith who is working legally & within the parameters of the Constitution to bring to justice ANYONE who threatened the peaceful transfer of power.

“His days are numbered” GOP Rep. Clay Higgins warns Special Counsel Jack Smith: “I’ll just say that his days are numbered and American patriots are not gonna stand idly by”

@whitesox Stats of newly acquired Sox keystone combo: DeJong - 7 seasons .229/.299/.417 Lopez - 5 seasons .249/.312/.319 It gets even better looking at 2023 stats where they each underperformed their career numbers: DeJong .207/.258/.355 Lopez .231/.326/.307 2024 looking good!

Happy Thanksgiving, Sox fans! We hid some objects in this photo. See if you can find them while your Thanksgiving meal is cooking. 🧐

@MarkKassof @santossergio46 I agree with you Mark about Flowers & Leury, don’t think they belong. Also the 2 Adam’s need to be higher on the list. But #1 on the list has to be James “Big Game” Shields. For the nickname & the 16-35 5.31 ERA w/Sox & fact that they gave up Tatis Jr. to get him! 😢

Least favorite White Sox players of all time: 1 Dylan Covey 2 Tyler Flowers 3 Nick Swisher 4 Adam Laroche 5 Dallas Keuchel 6 James Shields 7 Leury Garcia 9 Omar Vizquel 10 Paul Dejong

@Tahoe_Lover @modernml @Acyn Tahoe Gal - so now do an experiment. Say “Happy Holidays” to your customers instead of “Merry Christmas”. See if they care or throw a hissy fit.

@modernml @Acyn I co-own a gas station/store. I say "Merry Christmas" to our customers instead of "Happy Holidays". Know what? They don't care. Not one of them has ever thrown a hissy fit over it.

“We say Merry Christmas not happy holidays… Kneeling for the anthem does not make you brave, it makes you a disrespectful little shit.. There are two genders. You get two choices”

@Acyn Nice to know that as governor, DeSantis doesn’t feel obligated to represent and provide for all of the people in his state. How very fascist of him.

DeSantis: I’m the only one running who has laid waste to the left in my state…

@Jim_Jordan Gym, what legislation have you proposed & had passed during your time in Congress to solve any problems your own citizens of Ohio, as well as those of US as a whole, face every single day? Since the answer is 0, I guess you are, by your definition, a Democrat.

Democrats: -Will clean up cities like San Francisco for a communist leader’s visit. -But ignore the problems their own citizens face every single day.

@Jim_Jordan No guns allowed at Trump rallies. So if you are an ex-president you can take away people’s 2nd amendment rights to keep you safe. But if you are a regular American, anywhere in the USA (ex. In a school, in a store, at a 4th of July parade) GOP says “good target”.

Democrat-run San Francisco has built security WALLS in the downtown area ahead of Chinese president Xi Jinping's visit with President Biden. So, if you’re a politician, you get walls to keep you safe. But if you’re a regular American in a border town, Democrats say “good luck!”

@kzeebee @NBCSWhiteSox @jasonbenetti 💯

@NBCSWhiteSox Seriously, I am more upset by this news than ANY of the player/FO news I’ve heard. This club does not care at all about its fans. Jason and Steve were the only reason to watch most of this awful season. I wish @jasonbenetti the very best as he moves on, but will miss him so much.

Beloved White Sox announcer Jason Benetti heading to Detroit Tigers trib.al/ZTHOmtI

@whitesox Absolutely no reason to watch a Sox game in 2024.

@RepMTG MYG, more Americans murdered in mass shootings than in car accidents of traffickers. A number of shootings have been in GA. Can find someone to impeach that would end the mass murders? How about reducing the salary of everyone in Congress to $1 until they solve the issue?

BREAKING: I just filed privileged Articles of Impeachment on Secretary Mayorkas. Yesterday, two Americans from my district in Dalton, GA were killed in a high-speed head-on collision at the hands of human traffickers smuggling illegal aliens into this country. They had 5 kids who will never get to say goodbye. The utter disregard for American life displayed by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas can no longer be ignored. The time for more hearings and phases is over. Americans are getting murdered just traveling to see their families. Lives have been lost forever. Everyone should care. This is not a political issue. That’s why I just introduced privileged Articles to IMPEACH Secretary Mayorkas.

@AccountableGOP #45, as a former president you are being protected, from physical danger. That is why secret service people surround you. However, in a country where no person is above the law, there is no cause to protect you from being held accountable for your own illegal actions.

Donald Trump on his indictments: “I was always of the opinion that a thing like this couldn’t happen. In other words, you protect your former presidents. It’s a terrible thing to go after a former president. Other than if you’re in a banana republic.”

@GOPoversight Remember when Congress couldn’t get the tax returns of a sitting president despite a law that says the Treasury “shall” provide those tax returns if requested? Is there a law that says Congress “shall” be entitled to loan docs between any US citizens not in elected office?

🚨Friday Night News Dump🚨 The White House today made clear to us that President Biden is refusing to hand over loan documents for any “loans” he provided to his brother, James Biden. We’ve exposed nearly a quarter of a million of dollars that James Biden sent to Joe Biden as “loan repayments” that were funded by laundered China money and influence peddling schemes. Is this what “the most transparent administration in history” is supposed to look like? We won’t be stopped by the President’s stonewalling. We’ll continue to follow the money, expose President Biden’s corruption, and deliver accountability.

@stavridisj Impressive resume for Adm Franchetti. Too bad here resume, and it would seem your’s as well, must serve as a pale comparison to “nobody is more military than Sen Tuberville”, despite his never having served in the military (and also his not knowing USA fought fascism in WWII) 😏

Asked on TV about the significance of a woman becoming CNO, I said it is a good thing but what really counts is that ADM Franchetti has been a destroyer capt., a commodore of a squadron of destroyers, commanded 2 carrier strike groups, and led 6th Fleet. Lots of combat experience

@stavridisj Vivek went to the Neville Chamberlin “Peace In Our Time” school of treaties. In sum: give away land of a democracy in the present for promises of no more land grabs in the future by authoritarian dictators who can’t be trusted. See “Munich 1938” to see how it works in real world.

For a guy supposed to be a financial deal-maker this would be a really bad deal. Appeases Putin without creating any way to enforce the "promise not to cooperate." Putin would rebuild his military & soon be back at the door of Kyiv, probably with help from Xi. Win-win for Putin.

@SpeakerMcCarthy MAGA in control of government is the problem. They have no ethics, no morals, no scruples, no honor, no compassion, and no plans other than to do whatever they must - legal or not - to stay in power. So yes, that is the problem.

I can tell you with clarity and conviction → Government isn’t the answer. Government is the problem.