Daniel Bustillo

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

@davehydesports Thank you Dave! Those of us who grew up on your coverage of our favorite hometown teams were lucky to have you.

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

Bain is instant culture for a team with a persistent culture problem. Passing on him is the most Dolphins thing ever. The rot continues…

[Rob Slater @RobSlater10]

Reuben Bain looks like he’d put on a helmet and pads right now and kill everyone in that stadium. The Dolphins looked at him and said no that’s not a guy we want to establish a new culture. Caleb Downs? No, not him either.

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

@SiClancy We need him for both his play on the field and his culture impact. He’s walking culture. Always prefer trading down to trading up but I’d.l be thrilled if they went and got him

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

@flasportsbuzz …and the squandering of the Jimmy window where a championship was possible

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

@SiClancy @wpgfishfan @KyleCrabbs @Alf_Arteaga @OmarKelly @schadjoe @PoupartNFL

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

@WillManso We need to send in the defense

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

(Warning: long rant)

My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.

I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.

Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.

And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.

Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.

Here are the facts:

Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.

Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.

Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.

These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.

Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:

These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.

These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.

When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.

They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.

And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.

When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”

They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.

And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.

When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.

And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.

For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.

In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.

In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.

> “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)

> “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)

> “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)

> “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)

In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.

> “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)

> “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)

All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.

You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.

Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.

If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

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[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

12ft Alligator with a 18ft+ invasive python

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

I remember walking out of The Falls with my mom after seeing this as a kindergartener and thinking it looked just like the mall where Doc and Marty drove the Delorean. Amazing luck to see one of the best movies ever that young

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

BACK TO THE FUTURE was released 40 years ago today. One of the most beloved movies of the 1980s, and the film that made Michael J. Fox a movie star, the behind the scenes story is pretty heavy…

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[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

@Rainmaker1973 It won’t work here

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

The 1977 CBS NFL Today intro is fucking spectacular. The plays get progressively more illegal and fucked up to the point I was half expecting some guy to just get murdered on the field. It’s like a Naked Gun bit. Do yourself a favor and watch this.

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

@ugmonk Just did San Sebastian with 2 the same age and it was awesome. 2 different kind of beaches (one with no waves, one where you can take surf lessons). Hikes nearby, in fact you can walk to hikes from the city. Everything walkable, and you'll never run out of great food options.

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

USA!!!

[USA Basketball @usabasketball]

A night we'll never forget.

🗣️ @KDTrey5 on the comeback win over 🇷🇸 Serbia

🇺🇸 #USABMNT #Paris2024 #Basketball

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

I have cleaned & enhanced for you the oldest verified photograph of London, taken 185 years ago, in September 1839. This is a daguerreotype photograph, taken at Trafalgar Square, looking past the equestrian statue of King Charles into Whitehall and Parliament Street beyond. The photographer was Monsieur de St Croix, who had travelled to London from Paris to promote the newfangled photographic process patented by Louis Daguerre 3 months previously. This image pushes back the photographic record of London to its very beginning and - if you look closely - you can see the ghostly blur of Londoners and the stage-coach traffic, lost to the daguerreotype's long exposure.

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

@SahilBloom @thesamparr All his books are awesome! Devil in the White City is my favorite.

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

@thesamparr The Killer Angels

dramatic and personal story of the generals on both sides of the civil war as they fight the battle of gettysburg

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

whoooaaaaa

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

OMG! Another dashcam video from the M7.4 earthquake in Taiwan. 😱👀

[Daniel Bustillo @DanBustillo]

wow man this is great, I hope this isn't some kind of fake AI clip

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

South Carolina Rep finally SNAPS in chamber, PERFECTLY lifts veil of political corruption in middle of lion's den in two minutes🔥

“I will ALWAYS fall back on the common sense of my constituents FAR MORE than I will EVER listen to you unelected bureaucrats and other representatives in here who have been here for far too long!"

[INVESTMENT HULK @INVESTMENTSHULK]

PALMER LUCKY IS SO FUCKING BASED