Robert Hartye

Singer of Willie and Sinatra songs, quoter of movies, lover of music, salsa, snouted dogs, Pho, and family. Ad sales guy.

[Robert Hartye @HartyeRobert]

This might be the best post on this gravely unfortunate subject

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

There are narcissists, and there are malignant narcissists.
There are malignant narcissists, and there are injured malignant narcissists bent on retribution.
There are injured malignant narcissists bent on retribution and there are injured malignant narcissists bent on retribution who possess nuclear codes.
There are injured malignant narcissists bent on retribution who possess nuclear codes and then there is one injured malignant narcissist bent on retribution who possesses nuclear codes, who is owned by his disorders, with tons of insulation, amplification, and immunity, who protects pedophiles, consorts with war criminals, and weaponizes the apparatus against his opponents, and gets normalized every day in the media.
What could be more dangerous? Only one thing -
A malignant narcissist bent on retribution who possesses nuclear codes, is owned by his disorders, with tons of insulation, amplification, and immunity, who protects pedophiles, consorts with war criminals, and weaponizes the apparatus against his opponents, who get normalized every day in the media, AND who knows he is dying.

[Robert Hartye @HartyeRobert]

@EdKrassen Ossoff could go all the way. He has the presidential IT factor that we all need right now.

[Mindcite💥 @Mindcite_US]

“I didn’t like George W. Bush, but at least he knew how to work a chain saw, or ride a horse or shoot a shotgun.

This is a dying pedophile, with bitch tits, a pussy on his neck, who paints his face orange every day and shits in his pants.”

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“If you’re only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything. You become a crotchety misanthrope convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) Since major discoveries in the borderlines of science are rare, experience will tend to confirm your grumpiness.

But every now and then a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you’re too resolutely and uncompromisingly skeptical, you’re going to miss (or resent) the transforming discoveries in science, and either way you will be obstructing understanding and progress. Mere skepticism is not enough.”

— Carl Sagan

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

He jacked up prices with his tariffs.
He started an Iran War that raised them more.
He continues to hide trump-Epstein files.
He hired an anti-vaxx loon who caused Measles to run rampant, and gave us diarrhea lettuce.
He turned our nice neighbor, Canada, against us.
He ran the debt up to $40 trillion dollars.
He screwed America's farmers and cattle ranchers.

And now you know HOW he bankrupted casinos; he is a f*cking moron without a clue.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Obama left office with an Iran nuclear deal and the Strait of Hormuz OPEN.

Trump tore up that deal with no nuclear agreement to replace it.

Iran then expanded its nuclear program.

Now, 171 days after Trump launched his war with Iran, the Strait gravitates between crippled and closed, oil and food costs are skyrocketing — and his latest deadline for a NEW nuclear deal expires TODAY with no deal in site. Great work, Jared!

So after the bombs, deaths and economic damage:
What exactly did Trump get that was worth a war—and is it better than the nuclear deal he destroyed?
https://t.co/98U5mZa75U

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

Printer? I Hardly Know Her!

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: When you step back and consider it, the situation is absurd. Tech titans dig bunkers and warn us the new intelligence they’re training could lead to mass joblessness or human extinction, while our Congress debates ballrooms and youth sports.

We’ve amassed enough firepower to end the world 1,000 times over, but we can’t summon the will to guarantee health care and pre-K. I say all this to say, but it’s the crushing weakness of our politics, against the unmet needs of our people and the massive stakes of our times, that’s shaking our faith in the future.

But Atlanta, I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become.

When Eva is old enough to ask me why I let this happen. I'm determined to answer truthfully, that I didn’t

[HOUmanitarian ™ @HOUmanitarian]

@dutchessprim Gurus at the peak of Mt. Stupid.
They deter you from finding the way.

[😼 @dutchessprim]

No notes 👇🏼

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

HOLY SH*T... WINNER!! 🏆🏆🏆

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“No matter what the universe has in store, it cannot take away from the fact that you were born. You’ll have some joy and some pain, and all the other experiences that make up what it’s like to be a tiny part of a grand cosmos. No matter what happens next, you were here. And even when any record of our individual lives is lost to the ages, that won’t detract from the fact that we were. We lived. We were part of the enormity. All the great and terrible parts of being alive, the shocking sublime beauty and heartbreak, the monotony, the interior thoughts, the shared pain and pleasure. It really happened. All of it. On this little world that orbits a yellow star out in the great vastness. And that alone is cause for celebration.”

― Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Jen Psaki delivered a blistering critique of @karolineleavitt’s tenure as Trump’s press secretary: defend the indefensible, repeat Trump’s falsehoods, and when reporters press too hard, attack the questioner instead of answering the question. Psaki ran through examples ranging from claims about damage to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, to the ballooning cost of Trump’s ballroom, to explanations for the bandages on Trump’s hand—arguing that Leavitt has repeatedly treated protecting Trump personally as more important than giving the public straight answers.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This anti-Ken Paxton video is going viral, for good reason.

@jamestalarico is gonna win Texas!

[Ethical American @AmericanEthical]

100% correct.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Q: You’ve been Republicans for most of your voting lives. Who’s voting for James Talarico?

Republican moms: *all raise their hands*

“I like him. He was a middle school teacher in a public school in Texas, and they started cutting all his funding and he said, ‘Well, if I can’t change my school, then I’m gonna need to change my state.’ And that’s so becoming of a leader.

I want a middle school teacher who’s like, hey, this is broken. Somebody needs to fix it. Why not me?”

“This is not what I signed up for. Give me somebody who’s not extremist. I don’t care what party they are. I’m going to vote for whoever is the most common sense and who I think would be the most likely to protect my kids.”

“You’re never going to vote for a candidate that thinks exactly like you… You need to get on the bus that’s driving closest to where you want to end up. Talarico, I find him to be pretty moderate, and I think that is telling of what’s happening in the state of Texas. The Republicans should be worried.”

[Robert Hartye @HartyeRobert]

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[Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats]

After 11 years of being Governor, Greg Abbott suddenly has plans to make Texas more affordable.

Never trust an arsonist to put out the fire.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Hinojosa: What I wish the press would cover, and what I wish people understood, is that it’s all about corruption. At least in Texas, we’re paying into a system that is working against us. The legislation I see getting passed in the Texas House—the only legislation we get to vote on that comes before us—is pushed by moneyed interests. That is corrupt.

It’s the reason why people are turned off by government. It’s the reason why people are turned off by capitalism, because they’re experiencing the crony capitalism that we have in this country, and in Texas in a big way. Texas has become a pay-to-play state, and as a result, we have skyrocketing property taxes, yet we have over 150 whole school districts operating on a four-day week because they can’t afford to operate five days a week. Whole school districts.

We have over 150 schools shutting down. We have the highest uninsured rate in Texas—the most uninsured children in the country. We have the most people being disconnected from their electricity because they can’t afford to pay their bills. I mean, the list goes on and on.

That is Greg Abbott’s record. That’s why the polling shows people want change. They know Greg Abbott. They know he’s been there 12 years, and they will not elect him to another four. That’s the opportunity we have in this election.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico on Texas officially banning THC:

“This bill is insane.

Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. Texans will still use THC — but instead of getting it safely from a local small business, they’ll go back to getting it from the black market. From the drug cartels.

This ban is a gift to the cartels.

We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst. 

Instead of fully funding our schools, guaranteeing healthcare, or making childcare more affordable — this Legislature is focused on banning a product that gives people a little peace.

We’re making people’s lives harder, not easier.

I want to leave you with a quote: ‘It is time to end needless arrests and incarcerations of adults for small amounts of marijuana for personal use.’ That wasn’t a Democrat. That was President Donald Trump.

To my Republican colleagues, I’m asking you to oppose the cartels, stand with President Trump, and vote no on this insane bill.”

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

BOOM: WAKE UP PEOPLE: James Talarico stood before Texas and said the quiet part out loud: Trans people are 1%, undocumented people are 1%, Muslims are 1%—we’re focused on the wrong 1%.

Billionaires and their puppet politicians pick our pockets while dividing us. Texas is listening and rallying.

Dr. King wasn’t un-alived just for being Black—he was un-alived for uniting poor people of every color against the same 1% that still thinks they own us.

Our unity is the threat. Their division is the strategy.

Texas just chose the facts.