Past_my_bedtime

Part bionic. Constitutional conservative. Virginian by birth & by choice, mom, healthcare analyst, Basset Hound aficionado. Ha/Ha

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

“AI is the revenge of the mediocre”

https://t.co/toDy9YYKVE

[Jon Elder @BlackLabelAdvsr]

The World Cup has transformed the United States into the world’s most overwhelming Discovery Channel special.

And the visitors are not coping.
In the absolute best way possible.

Here’s what they’re uncovering:

Public restrooms you can actually use without paying.

Water that shows up at the table for free.

Unlimited refills on coffee, soda, and sweet tea.

Chips and salsa arriving before you even ask.

Warm bread served with dinner, no extra charge.

Ice in every drink like it’s a basic human right.

Air conditioning that’s standard everywhere—not a climate crime.

Parking right next to the building you’re visiting.

Drive-thrus that deliver food straight to your car.

Ranch dressing available by the jug.

Tex-Mex that defies description and demands to be experienced.

Dentists who actually fix things.

And Buc-ee’s… which simply breaks language.

Then they discovered American grocery stores.
Five colossal ones within a single mile, each the size of an airplane hangar.
A single refrigerated aisle offering every cut of beef, pork, lamb, veal, and poultry known to humanity—at 10 a.m. on a random Tuesday.

The Germans stood motionless in the meat section for nearly an hour.

Silent.

Rebooting.

Suddenly, the lack of passenger trains makes perfect sense.

Why bother with trains when the roads are wide enough for the vehicles we actually drive, parking lots stretch like small nations, and decent airports dot every city worth going to?

The Germans are now smuggling ranch dressing home by the bottle.

The Dutch tasted queso and temporarily forgot how to form sentences.

The Japanese are documenting H-E-B like it’s the Sistine Chapel.

The Czechs have been spotted openly weeping with joy in West, Texas.

Welcome to America. 🇺🇸

The greatest country on Earth.

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

@RepYassAnsari C’mon you don’t even believe that

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

@aravosis @AustinFranco123 @EinhornGabe MAGA wouldn’t come within 100 yards of this kid. I kinda feel bad for him 10 years from now.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

@SteveGuest @ScottJenningsKY If Elon never existed, who would have his trillion dollars? Nobody, because it wouldn’t exist either.

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

@WilsonNetNews @Jalter_Says @SireRottweiler I do. So where’s your cutoff? If I’m worth $999 million I’m rich but $1B adds the definite article? Do you index this to inflation?

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

@WilsonNetNews @Jalter_Says @SireRottweiler What does this even mean? What is the difference?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Saving LA - Phase III

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

@TeamTalaricoHQ @jamestalarico That’s awesome. Where can I vote for your dad?

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

@PolitiBunny

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

@jamestalarico Why does the screen shot look like it was taken 15 years ago from an iPod?

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

@danger_echo @mrssmith2018 @RobProvince You mean like running a cabinet meeting?

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

@AGJayJones Amateur font 🙄

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

@realsashastone If she said “pick-me” with that stupid giggle inflection one more time I was gonna hurl my phone across the room.

[Pat Stedman | Dating & Relationship Coach for Men @Pat_Stedman]

On January 6th I followed the crowd into the Capitol and shouted. Police stood by the whole time, hanging out with us and sometimes directing us places.

At one point near the House Chambers I was walking downstairs when a trio of some special section, secret service looking men started pointing guns in my direction.

Confused and annoyed, I walked the other way and when I saw a normal police officer asked him why they were doing that.

He informed me a protestor (Ashli Babbit) had been killed, and advised me to leave the building.

I walked towards the exit and after a short rest on the bench I left.

I harmed nobody and damaged no property that day and complied with all police orders.

What I received for that was a pre-dawn raid at my parents house, where my 1 month post-partum wife and I were staying, on Biden's first day in office. His DOJ had signed the order to arrest me 3 hours after his inauguration.

In the subsequent weeks I received death threats online and harassing phone calls, something that would be ongoing for the next few years.

I was banned from Meta and Paypal. My wife and I were both debanked by PNC and banned from Airbnb. My wife was detained at the airport for hours with our newborn daughter.

I was charged with 4 misdemeanors and the 1512 unconstitutional felony. The government offered to drop the misdemeanors if I pled to the felony. The felony was a lie, so I refused and went to trial.

At trial the prosecution for 2 days straight was allowed to show footage to the jury of things that occurred around the Capitol I wasn't present for "for context." When we asked to put forward footage that contradicted the prosecution's "context" we were not allowed. They could show what they wanted, we could not.

Police officers were then put on the stand for the next 2 days who cried about their experiences. I had no idea who they were. They admitted they never saw me or interacted with me.

Nevertheless like every other J6er, I lost, and was sentenced to 4 years and $22k in fines and restitution. Yet even after the Supreme Court overturned the felony, the judge would not let me out until my misdemeanor sentences of a year were maxed out. Because she can't count she actually kept me in longer - to the extent she intervened at the last minute to make the prison release me on a Sunday, something that is against BOP rules. My family sat outside the prison gates the Friday before practically the whole day waiting in vain because of this pettiness.

But the government wasn't satisfied with their pound of flesh: after my release they took me back in for resentencing, to attempt to have me resentenced after the fact to my misdemeanors consecutively, so I'd be taken from my family again and have another 1.5 years behind bars. This time I won, as they had no legal precedent and it skirted on violating double jeopardy since I had served my full prison time. Even still, it cast a cloud over the holidays and cost me another 20k my family couldn't afford.

People ask whether prison was bad, and yeah of course prison sucked. It was a hard and violent place. I was present for a stabbing, and was lucky to avoid two fights and a race war.

But dealing with Biden's DOJ and the DC Judiciary was the real trauma - they would grind down your spirit by weaponizing the legal system and use the endless procedure to bankrupt you. I had nightmares for months after release that I had somehow been hit with new charges.

By the time I was pardoned by President Trump, I had spent literally every single day of Biden's presidency either in prison or under some form of supervision. I had incurred over $300k in legal fees and over $1 million in lost business.

It was a reign of terror, and yet it was a mere foreshadowing of what they had planned for anyone else who opposed them under Kamala. The country should never forget it.

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

@Reuters No one believes this

[Past_my_bedtime @DWMethy]

@SenAdamSchiff You can’t turn it off, can you? Cruelty & deviousness have become your identity. I can’t believe you were always like this, but over time you’ve exemplified Jeremiah 17:9- “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked…” No one is righteous - remember that 😔

[DeVory Darkins @devorydarkins]

There's a tell in political statements like this one. The structure is always: brief sympathy, then "but let's be clear," then the real insult.

Either you want to attack her or you don't being in between is as weak as you can be politically and says more about Adam Schiff the person versus Adam Schiff the politician.