Forrest Smith

Retired News Manager, WUFT, Gainesville, Florida. Calling out grammar mistakes I come across. Fact checking freely performed.

[Forrest Smith @ForrestHimself]

@FaceTheNation @CBSNews Hmm. My social security was taxed.

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TWEEPS: Florida voters are being cut out completely as DeSantis pushes new maps designed to lock in power without a public vote. CA and VA trusted their voters. Florida won’t.

I need 1,000 fast RTs and replies using #StopIllegalFloridaMaps

Please and thank you! 🙏💪

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@JamesTate121 True

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Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

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@jdhughez @BeschlossDC He was inaugurated in January 1945, not 1944.

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@ogp2396 @donwinslow @kwelkernbc Trump would NEVER do a sit-down with Tim.

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@donwinslow @kwelkernbc You expected something different from her?

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@JamesTate121 Amen, sir!

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@atrupar Welker is a weak journalist at best.

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Ten years ago, the media in Alachua County would have reporters all over this. How far journalism has fallen.

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@jamiedupree I gave up on MTP years ago. Did Welker call him on it?

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@WCJB20 This was not on my post-Christmas bingo card.

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Haven't seen @gregolsen88 on a game in some time. His S-backing is bad as ever.

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@jhaskinscabrera @AlachuaChronic1 What solutions are @GainesvilleGov commissioners and @AlachuaCounty commissioners proposing?

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@GainesvilleSun Nagged?

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@will_backus1 You win a number of games, not an amount of games.

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@JudicialWatch @TomFitton His arms are shrinking.

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@WCJB20 Do they use clean instruments?

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@WCJB20 And your local viewers can help how?

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@ESPNGainesville Broadcasted?