Brett Pransky

Teacher. Writer. Husband. Dad. Seldom in that order. EP @ricksmithshow.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

Today the @GOP will disgrace America.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

Alphas gonna alpha, I guess.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Donald Trump's swearing-in will be moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda because of forecasted frigid temperatures. https://t.co/cDUSXInusx

[David DeWitt @DC_DeWitt]

New Editor Commentary: Does Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman hate public schools? I'm genuinely asking. He very well might not hate public schools. But as an observer, it really comes off like Matt Huffman hates public schools.
https://t.co/RlgKWnTApc

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@bulldog1205 @bsfarrington @UHC Well … we all know who this guy works for.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

Just in case anyone is confused about why CEOs are getting shot in the street.

[Brendan Farrington @bsfarrington]

I’m at a cancer treatment center getting my 27th dose of radiation. My doctor recommends 35. @UHC refuses to pay for more than 28. I’ve fought them for weeks to get full treatment approved. This is my Hail Mary to hopefully get them to reconsider.

[Rick Smith @RickSmithShow]

If it's good for our kids.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The out of touch billionaire running the incoming Trump Administration announced last night that he enthusiastically supports the neo-Nazi party in Germany.

WTF.

NONE OF THIS IS OK, EVERYONE.

NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL.

[Maxwell Alejandro Frost @MaxwellFrostFL]

And just like that, Republican Unelected Co-President Elon Musk has killed the bill to keep the government from shutting down on Friday. All he had to do was make a few social media posts.

Trump said he’d empower working people, all he’s done is empower the ultra wealthy.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@ohiogop @ChairmanAlex I gotta ask - do you guys laugh as hard writing the “lead Ohio forward” stuff as we laugh reading it?

I mean, we laugh pretty hard.

[Rick Smith @RickSmithShow]

How can you not love @SenSherrodBrown

Your voice will be greatly missed in the US Senate.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@CREWcrew They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm. Just sayin'.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@FITFUNFREE @AaronParnas Any paradigm shift we attempt will be bought and co-opted by the wealth class.

Taking about it is like talking about unicorns. They'd be lovely to have around, but they just ain't real.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@FITFUNFREE @AaronParnas You are absolutely right.

It's a quandary. The system will never change on its own, but changing it means knowingly doing wrong. How much wrong can we tolerate to get the specific ends we must have?

I have no idea.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@FITFUNFREE @AaronParnas Talking about the necessity of a thing that can never happen is futile. We need to talk about what can happen, and how. I'd rather direct action be less violent, but fixing this through the means we have available is legislative masturbation, and everyone in power knows it.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@FITFUNFREE @AaronParnas This is all good stuff ... but none of it will ever happen using conventional or political means. Do you see us ever amassing the power necessary to move our political system against the wealth class?

Never going to happen.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@FITFUNFREE @AaronParnas On this we agree.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@FITFUNFREE @AaronParnas I wonder if you stay on the high ground if your insurance company sent you home to die when they had the ability, but not the will, to save you.

Happens to hundreds every day. That's why there's little outrage over this crime. Murdering a murderer is still murder, but only just.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@FITFUNFREE @AaronParnas It's called utilitarian calculus. What is the greatest good for the most people?

Again, I don't agree with the crime. But I do understand that conditions exist in which this can happen, and ignoring those conditions to clutch pearls over the outcome is a bit ... too simple.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@FITFUNFREE @AaronParnas Last thing:

"there isn't a person alive having dealt w an insurance company (of any kind) that's not been frustrated beyond understanding"

What about the thousands upon thousands of people the insurance companies killed? Can't really ask about their frustrations now, can we?

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@FITFUNFREE @AaronParnas There is the game we would like to play, and then there is the game that exists. We need to play the game that exists.

[Brett Pransky @BrettPransky]

@FITFUNFREE @AaronParnas Why not?

I'm not asking to be a smart ass. Really think about it. That CEO kills hundreds of people every week, maybe every day. Killing him is wrong, but the math is the math.

I don't condone. But I don't condemn. He was wrong, but he probably saved lives.