Betty Wallflower

Twitter introvert, mostly.

[Betty Wallflower @Betty2319]

@Storyaliz I like the Jane Austen adaptions, specifically: BBC’s Persuasion (1995) and Pride & Prejudice (actually a mini series) and Emma Thompson’s Sense & Sensibility

[Commentary Recommends @CommentaryRec]

July 14, @jpodhoretz recommends The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rose

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I hate this argument. Should you use your eulogy for a family member to talk about politics? How about class time in a math class? Or should a surgeon eat up a patient’s time at an appointment with a stemwinder about politics? Everyone has a right to offer their opinion, that doesn’t mean it’s appropriate in every situation. So the argument isn’t whether people have a right to offer their opinion. The issue is whether they’re being selfish by doing it at an inappropriate moment. Also, if all opinions are valid at any time, why bitch about Gervais offering his opinion? Unless of course we can actually judge opinions by content and context.

[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

Refusing to win is how you get a forever war. Iran has been waging jihad on the US since 1979, and they are currently getting a leg-up to do it for decades longer.

[Mike Coté @ratlpolicy]

I've realized over the past decade that nearly everyone, right and left, wants to have governance by One Weird Trick, instead of following our constitutional order.

But American governance isn't efficient. It's redundant & constrained. That protects us. People used to get that.

[John Ondrasik @johnondrasik]

This Independence Day, in coordination with the @USNavy, I am honored to perform my song "Superman" on the historic #USSNIMITZ for #Freedom250 to recognize and salute our Sailors, 9-11 heroes, @FDNY, NYPD, Gold Star families and all US Military. ❤️

God Bless our America! 🇺🇸

[Lahav Harkov @LahavHarkov]

It’s funny because the original Ben and Jerry would hate this. But they attempted to force the Israeli licensee to break Israeli law, the licensee sued, and now it still gets to use the Hebrew version of the logo and the original @benandjerrys recipes.

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

My eight-year-old just started asking me about the guillotine in detail. What is it? Who used it? Was it exported out of France? Eventually, I asked him where he’d learned that the guillotine even existed.

“Tom and Jerry.”

[Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 @HanShawnity]

My problem with the deal is not that Israel doesn't like it. I can stomach disagreements with Israel. What I can't stomach is capitulation and surrender to terrorists when we didn't have to. That is unbearable and unacceptable to me.

[Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. @neoavatara]

Trump caved and surrendered.

Those of you deluding yourself otherwise are living in an alternate reality just because living in the real world would be inconvenient to your pride.

[Betty Wallflower @Betty2319]

@ScotBertram Such a bizarre thing for family to include in the statement.

[Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 @HanShawnity]

I've seen bad foreign policy presidents before. I've never seen a good foreign policy president throw away his entire legacy to appease a terrorist regime that tried to assassinate him multiple times.

Seeing our president, especially Trump who has such a long list of foreign policy accomplishments, let Iran dictate the terms, tie the deal to Hezbollah, and get on his knees begging them to sign a deal is vomit inducing.

And he has nothing to gain.

It's incomprehensible.

I'd love to blame Vance and Witkoff, but Trump is their boss, and he knows better. It's shameful. It's humiliating.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

Told you. He’s going to let Iran do whatever it wants because he’s bored of the issue and wants to move on, whatever the precedent or real world outcome.

The “Art of the Deal” approach failed and he wants it swept away.

[Boo @IzaBooboo]

This week has been consumed with debates about the merits of killing a child with Down Syndrome and electing a Nazi-tattoo-bearing abusive degenerate liar.

Our culture is absolute trash.

[Betty Wallflower @Betty2319]

@JonahDispatch Oh no! Chester. 😢❤️

[National Review @NRO]

Freedom isn’t free and today of all days is a reason to remember the cost.

[Betty Wallflower @Betty2319]

@annbauerwriter Excellent choice! ❤️

[Betty Wallflower @Betty2319]

@caroljsroth He’s so creepy and weird.