China is watching today's events closely, and they now know that if they so much as lift a finger toward Taiwan, Trump is going to respond harshly by signing a deal and giving them Thailand and Vietnam along with full sovereignty over the South China Sea.
They better be careful.
@fiercepatricks More like how can you defend your religionโs โviewโ of homosexuality when that word was added to your sacred historical, 2,000 years-old, book in 1946?
Ossoff: How amazing is it that the most powerful nation on Earth proclaims as its core values that all are created equal, with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, no matter how humble our beginnings, no matter our ancestry, no matter when we arrived on these shores?
And Atlanta, a wave is building, the kind of wave that comes once a generation, when people have been pushed too far, and they decide all at once, all together, that enough is enough.
So let's give them a united Georgia. Let's save the country again. Let's make sure they hear it all the way down at Mar-a-Lago, that Georgia will bow to no king.
They warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris weโd get a new deal with the Iranian regime worse than the JCPOA. I voted for Kamala, and they were right.
@SawyerMerritt@elonmusk Stop sucking up to him. Heโll never adopt you as his son. Taxing Billionaires is about closing the wealth gaps. No one needs that much monetary capital. That capital buys him influence. No one person should have that much political capital.
The White House was built to serve the American people.
Tonight it was used to promote a company the President owns stock in, sell subscriptions, promote corporate sponsors, push Trump crypto, and enrich the President and his family.
The founders warned us about kings enriching themselves from public office.
They did not fight a revolution for this.
@SawyerMerritt@TeslaLarry But who gives a fuck? There will be others who make rockets and EVs. They are already doing everything they can to eliminate their workforces through AI and Robotics. Tax this guy so much that he has to feel the pain that we do.
@MonetaryWonk@shrimpala Umm, isnโt Elonโs superpower raising money? I think you are underestimating how low he would go to make an extra zero in the net worth column.
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You wonโt.
You wonโt because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the cowardโs way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ainโt the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You wonโt.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.