Guy Smith

Husband, father, PaPa, Christian, retired educator

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

@OfficialFBOP I have a son at Edgefield FCI, Camp. Based on this directive he should have been released. He has been told by his case manager and others that they have no guidance on this. They also said they were not going to resubmit anyone who already has a halfway house release date.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Here is some truth: Putin invaded Ukraine. NATO is the most successful military alliance in history. Since 1945, American leadership has ensured freedom and security for ourselves and millions of others around the world. Together with our allies, we defeated the Soviet Union—an empire so evil it had to build gulags and walls to keep its own people in. Destroying America’s alliances and abandoning the cause of freedom is morally and strategically indefensible. Putin will pocket Trump’s naive concessions and demand much more. Appeasement makes a wider war more likely, not less.

@realDonaldTrump, @JDVance, and @elonmusk have made clear who they are. Only fools—or Kremlin tools—would abandon NATO, side with Russia, and demand Ukraine surrender in the face of Putin’s brutal aggression.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

Proud of my Congressman for this. The rest of the SC delegation needs to speak out.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

@RepJoeWilson @ZelenskyyUa Thank you for taking a stand and for standing with Ukraine.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

I basically agree, except I've been ashamed of the red tied one for quite a while.

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

Some have disappointed, some had bad policy, some made big mistakes. But I’ve never in my life been ashamed of American leaders. Until today.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

Unfortunately our President has no conscience.

[Russell Moore @drmoore]

In a country that had not, as the prophet Jeremiah put it, “forgotten how to blush,” this abomination would shock every conscience. We are long past that point. God have mercy.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

@MSNBC For goodness sake @elonmusk wear a tie and take off your hat in a Cabinet meeting in our White House. A 3rd grader would know better.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

@amyklobuchar Proud to say I voted for Sen. Klobuchar in the SC primary in 2020.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

My father, my father-in-law, and millions like them, risked their lives in WW2. My mother, and millions like her, worked and sacrificed here at home. These bastards make a mockery of their sacrifice, courage, and ideals while cloaking themselves in tawdry faux patriotism.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Steve Bannon does a NAZI salute at the end of his CPAC speech. Someone try and convince me that he didn’t.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

If I had to pick two people to NEVER let into Fr. Knox it would be trump and Musk.

[CSPAN @cspan]

President Trump on Air Force One: "We're going to go to Fort Knox, the fabled Fort Knox, to make sure the gold is there. If there gold isn't there, we're going to be very upset."

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

@atrupar Well... to steal a line from Gov. Walz, this is just weird.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

Great. What a leader and ally.
Now we’re going to need about 3 more Bidenesque presidents before the rest of the world trusts us again.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

"You should have never started it"

Trump just gave a press conference where he mocked Ukrainian President Zelensky while repeating the Kremlin lie that Ukraine started the war.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

I’m…no. Y’all just like to say that.

[Patrick Carroll @PatrickC1995]

I feel like a broken record, but this is where you end up when you haven't read Econ in One Lesson and have no concept of opportunity cost.

"Look the government did all these great things." Yes, obviously, but at what cost?

The private sector is, in fact, always better.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

Meanwhile my Senators fly to the Super Bowl and play golf with Trump.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

I've had the honor of knowing David Brooks for years. I admire him and have been deeply moved, informed, inspired, and bettered by his books and talks.

He was a Republican when I met him. I don't know his party affiliation now. What I do know is he has always been a man of virtue, objective reasoning, pragmatism, wisdom, and invaluable insights.

What he states here is painful and true.

I will continue to fight to stop this awful reality undermining good governance and causing such awful impact on dedicated public servants who are doing vital work for our safety, strength and national security.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Seven years ago today was the worst day of my life. On that day, a 19-year-old who never should’ve had access to a gun in the first place entered my high school with an AR-15 and took the lives of 17 students and faculty members and injured 17 others.

Since then, I’ve worked to get stronger gun laws passed across the country because I never want anyone else to hear the deafening cries of their classmates and family members after their friends have been stolen from them by the epidemic of preventable gun violence.

I’ll be honest, this work is soul-crushing. No one would choose to spend every day talking about the worst day of their life because they want to — but the reason people who’ve experienced this do this is because we feel we have no other choice. Like with all forms of activism, it is not voluntary, it is mandatory to organize for others survival.

Because despite the empty “thoughts and prayers” offered by too many of our leaders, this continues to happen on a regular basis. Thoughts and prayers aren’t enough on their own — they need to be paired with action.

Though this work is incredibly hard, it is working. President Biden created the first ever office of gun violence prevention which helped act like FEMA for instances of gun violence and mass shootings along with making sure the hundreds of millions allocated by congress to combat gun violence was actually used to fund violence intervention programs and enforce laws better. The other day I was talking with one of the former directors of gun violence prevention from that office, who told me in 2023 we saw the single largest one year reduction in gun homicides in US history of 12% and the data for 2024 are pointing to an additional 15% reduction. That means we cut gun homicides by nearly a third in just two years. That means thousands are alive right now who otherwise would not be. ⅓ is nowhere near enough but it’s a hell of a lot better than where we were headed. I spent many days of college in between classes on zoom calls with the white house working to create that office and had worked on the idea since introducing it with March For Our Lives in 2019. What keeps me going are my incredible family, friends, fellow survivors and knowing what we are doing is working, even if it doesn’t feel like it sometimes.

One day, I want to live in a world where no one ever has to experience the pain so many experienced that day in Parkland and every day in America. But until that day is a reality, we have to keep doing this work. It’s too important not to. Those in my generation who are part of the gun safety movement know that if we don’t have a government that will change gun laws then we’ll change who’s in government. That is the next phase that I am working on now with Leaders We Deserve we must bring the next generation of the movement into office to create the change our country so desperately needs.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

Your reminder that Mitch McConnell kneecapped Barrack Obama, stole two Supreme Court seats & voted not to impeach Trump, twice - so no, he doesn’t get a cookie for voting against Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard & Bobby Kennedy Jr.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

@ChadPergram It’s a little late to be taking stands now. Had you stood up to trump 4 years ago we wouldn’t be dealing with this. Now that you are out of power and pretty irrelevant it doesn’t matter.

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

Swamp 2.0
Who elected this guy??
Has trump lost it?

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

@ChrisTrainorSC Thank you, "My friend."

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1957]

I guess they didn't see that coming.

STEM event at Charleston all-girls private school canceled due to federal DEI ban https://t.co/tTKvZ30iDW via @postandcourier