Rebecca Bee

Follower of Christ, wife of Paul, mom of 3 boys & 1 lab-mix. Breast cancer thriver! In to: health, politics, integrity, faith, education, and puppy dogs!

[Rebecca Bee @BecccaBeeHealth]

@olcowhand @NewEmergingKing These kids will teach their parents and their peers and it should be a ripple effect

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@tyleraloevera @VP looks like this program for internet for poor kids is ripe for fraud.

[Rebecca Bee @BecccaBeeHealth]

@TipOfTheBanana Olive My Pickle!!

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@liz_churchill10 She’s one of the good ones, fighting the good fight. Thank you @LTCTheresaLong we have been cheering you on ever since you clanged the bell.

[Rebecca Bee @BecccaBeeHealth]

This is insane. Who can make public comment?! Only people who live in PA?! Please do this to save parental rights, bodily autonomy and more!

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

COVID 2.0: Pennsylvania lawmakers are sounding the alarm on a 502-page health code rewrite they say would hand Gov. Josh Shapiro's Department of Health sweeping new powers — including the ability to enter private homes, access medical records, and pull children from school for private questioning without parental consent.

Pennsylvania was the only state in the nation to strip its governor of emergency powers through a constitutional amendment after COVID. Now, critics say Shapiro is using a regulatory backdoor to reclaim those powers and then some.

The public comment window closes Monday. House Minority Leader Jesse Topper says every American should be paying attention: "We were one of the worst locked-down states in the entire nation. And we had one of the worst death rates from COVID… We don't want unelected bureaucrats making those decisions."

Full story here ⬇️ https://t.co/aSbhnpkWfq

[Rebecca Bee @BecccaBeeHealth]

@bmj_latest Yep we’ve been screaming this from the Twitterverse for years. Duh.

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@SusieWiles47 Best feeling ever!

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@FreddyLA7 Take a peanut butter and ‘nanner samwich to Graceland and see if you can find The King!!

[Rebecca Bee @BecccaBeeHealth]

My sister played this sport in high school in Miami and the T-shirt says it all. Underwater, no one can hear you scream! And the visual is people trying to drown each other group each other and rip each other’s bathing suits off. Those kids would wear three or four bathing suits cause they knew they wouldn’t make it all through the game.

[Rebecca Bee @BecccaBeeHealth]

@thefabiangarcia YET

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@RayMartin79059 @chadpbyrne What app do you use?

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@David_Khait @JudicialWatch

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@David_Khait Thank you for exposing this corruption!!

[Rebecca Bee @BecccaBeeHealth]

@DeepLeaksHQ I read a book about this years ago and just looked it up on Amazon. There were 17 choices! LOL! It is a thing!

[Rebecca Bee @BecccaBeeHealth]

@DrCarter96 @Nike @DICKS @32Degrees__ an opportunity for you here! I appreciate your perfectly priced quality clothes.

[Rebecca Bee @BecccaBeeHealth]

I so appreciate an intellectual takedown! @mikeroweworks , you are amazing! I so appreciate your mission and what you’re doing. I’m hoping someday it might help one of my three boys! I’ve got a future engineering technologies/robotics guy who will not be getting a four-year degree. Not sure how that fits in with your scholarships!

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

A man dressed like Captain America who calls himself “Chrisp LikeTheChicken” believes me to be a hypocrite. He writes…

"Mike - People don’t accuse you of hypocrisy because you don’t offer scholarships to four-year schools. You’re a hypocrite because you preach to be for the working-class while being funded by anti-union Koch bros. and regurgitate Republicans talking points while they’ve systematically dismantled the working class for the past 40+ years."

Hello there, Chrisp. Nice outfit! As a rule, I don’t debate with grown men who dress like super-heroes and hide behind a pseudonym, but since you’ve been so candid with your criticism, and since I’m trapped on another plane for the next few hours, I’ll bite.

First of all, let me assure you that many people do in fact, accuse me of hypocrisy because I have a four-year degree, but don't offer scholarships to four-year universities. I hear from these people every day, and they are very clear about the extent of their disappointment. Interestingly, many of those same people, also call me a hypocrite because I had a long and varied career in the entertainment industry before I launched mikeroweWORKS. They use the fact that I used to work as an actor, narrator, singer, and writer, to undermine any opinion I might have about education and workforce that they don't share. (He's just an actor! He sang in the Opera! What does he know?) These ad hominem attacks are very popular among those with no actual arguments to make, and easy to identify once you start looking for them. Consider those who tried to dismiss Ronald Reagan's ideas because he used to be an actor, or more recently, Markwayne Mullen's nomination to Secretary of Homeland Security, because he used to be a plumber. (I'm talking to you, Jimmy Kimmel.)

To your second point, I've never preached or claimed to speak for the "working class," especially as you define them. Like many others who favor the term, you imply that the "working class" is limited to those workers who are represented by unions. I don't share that view. Although I've been critical of some union policies in the past, and argued that not all unions are created equal, I have no issue with organized labor. In fact, I've worked closely with dozens of them, and featured them prominently on Dirty Jobs, Somebody's Gotta Do It, Returning the Favor, and other shows over the years. Most tellingly, many of the 3,500 people my foundation has assisted are members of a trade union today, and I’m very happy for them. But, like the workforce overall, most of my scholarship recipients do not join unions, for all kinds of reasons.

Fact is, Chrisp, the sum total of all workers in America who belong to a union – public and private sector combined - is barely 10%. Begging the obvious question...why would a guy who dresses up like Captain America want me to ignore 90% of the American workforce? And why for that matter, would a super-hero like you want me to reject financial assistance from companies, foundations, or individuals who employ so many hard working, highly skilled, well-compensated Americans? Does Captain America really want everyone to be in a union? If so, he should maybe consider changing his name.

As for Republican talking points, again, I would invite you to prove the accusation. Just because I happen to say something that might coincide with a conservative position, doesn’t mean I’m “regurgitating” anyone else’s talking points. I’ve been a registered Independent my whole life, and I’ve tried to limit my public comments to issues pertaining to workforce and education. But if you really find my opinions inconsistent with your own, and feel compelled to tell six million people why you think I’m a hypocrite with no actual proof, you might want to at least consider the possibility that your disappointment has less to do with me, and more to do with the narrowness of your own worldview. Is that possible, Chrisp? Is it possible that you think I’m a hypocrite simply because I don’t share your priorities?

I'll tell you what I think. (I know you didn't ask for my opinion, but I didn't ask for yours either, right?) I think your worldview is largely shaped by the eternal struggle between labor and management. I think you see one as the oppressor, and the other as the oppressed, and I think that perspective has made your world a very small place. Thus, my view of organized labor is just too nuanced for a super hero like you. Anything short of total fealty is a threat to your belief system. Because I don’t focus entirely on the 10% of the workforce that matters most to you, you see me as a threat. Because I might not vote the way you vote, you see me as a threat. Because I accept support from people you don't like, you see me as a threat. And because I have a large public platform, you see me as an even bigger threat.

The unfortunate part, is that you don't seem to care at all about the 3,500 hundred people my foundation has assisted, most of whom are making a pretty great living outside a union. And because you’re not alone in your apathy, fear, and paranoia, you’ve whipped up the courage to hide behind a pseudonym, dress up like an imaginary Avenger, and criticize anyone who falls short of your own beliefs and expectations. With respect, "Mr. LikeTheChicken," I think your name says it all...

Mike

[Rebecca Bee @BecccaBeeHealth]

@bethanyshondark @abigailmarone @TrumpAccounts @MichaelDell I was over there hitting refresh! Not in mine yet. We’re from Florida.

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@PauloSpitzbarth I love this so much!! They don’t get to change the meanings of words.

[Rebecca Bee @BecccaBeeHealth]

@RonDeSantis And thank you for it! The biggest expense is now room and board! I’m factoring in about $20,000 for that

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos , I’m asking you to look at this once through the eyes of the people wearing the uniform since you own @washingtonpost.

We volunteered and accepted the bargain. Missed birthdays, broken bodies, years away from our families, hostile fire, and the possibility that if we die, our families get roughly $500,000 in life insurance. In much of America today, that barely buys a house.

We know our lot and we’re not complaining about it.

But the job is hard enough without having to wonder whether an American newspaper is going to publish classified wartime command deliberations because its newsroom despises the administration and wants another cheap political scalp.

Fight the President, the Secretary, the Pentagon. Whatever, that’s politics.

But when the ammunition for that fight is information tied to ongoing operations and the private judgments of senior commanders, you’re spending our risk to buy your headline.

That’s the part WE need you to understand.

Murphy already gets a vote. So does the enemy. Exhaustion, bad intelligence, mechanical failure and plain rotten luck all get votes. We volunteered to face those things.

We did NOT volunteer to become collateral damage in the Washington Post’s feud with an administration it hates.

Your reporters will publish the piece, watch the engagement numbers, and go home.

Some American kid will still be standing watch when they do.

Jeff, give us a fucking chance. Come on man. You’ve got to clean house at that paper. The journalists are too blackpilled to be of any use anymore. In fact, they’re literally harming us.

Our brothers and sisters are in a worse situation now due to this reporting. Don’t agree with the combat operations, fine. But come on. Leaking an SDOB? That’s objectively insane behavior.

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