Renaissance Man

Making my way in a post-truth world. Alternative facts are not facts, they are falsehoods.

[Renaissance Man @ManRenaisance]

@AWispOfVapor @Bgilly13 @AnnieAndrewsMD There is no correlation between cash bail and showing up to court for your trial. Absolutely we should keep people behind bars awaiting trial if they are a danger to themselves or others. No-cash bail already does that. Cash bail has turned into debtor’s prison.

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@losergambler @RSuff23 @kiiLkenny If it was consensual, you still can’t lock yourselves in a room and have sex on the property. Definitely grounds for expulsion from the Club. If she says it wasn’t consensual, that’s a serious crime.

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@ThisShallPass24 https://t.co/d2FAOWBJgz

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@Welcme2daPsyOps @Sjacobs2020 @kylegriffin1

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@KennyWalOU812 @BraddrofliT Because the EO is illegal

https://t.co/BqbxmYuRMy

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@TheHyland3r @annatonger No comment on OF or that Forbes article but for sure there’s an entire ecosystem of very successful high end escorts. I think you may have some Dunning-Kruger going on!

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@TheHyland3r @annatonger High end escorts have websites. Go check them out and decide if that’s true.

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@Acyn Uh-huh Sure

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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jill Biden just exposed the most painfully awkward limo ride of Melania Trump’s life.
In her new memoir “A View from the East Wing,” Jill writes about Inauguration Day 2025, when tradition required her to ride from the White House to the Capitol with Melania after the pre‑inauguration tea. It should have been a symbolic handoff between first ladies. Instead, she says, Melania sat “stone‑faced,” barely speaking, clearly furious over the FBI search of Mar‑a‑Lago for Trump’s hoard of classified documents.
Jill actually tries to show empathy: she notes that as first lady she had her own home searched by agents as part of the investigation, and that she knows “how distressing it was to have agents rummage through your underwear drawer.”
Melania, Jill writes, wasn’t having it. She blamed Joe personally, acting as if the normal chain of law‑enforcement and courts didn’t exist and the president himself had ordered a raid on her bedroom.
The tension was so thick that the inaugural committee didn’t dare put the two women alone together. Jill says they recruited Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s husband, John Bessler, as a human buffer and plopped him in the middle seat.
Bessler did what Midwestern dads do in impossible situations: he tried small talk. He asked about Barron’s studies at NYU. Melania, staring out the window, gave him a single word: “NYU.” Every attempt to shift the conversation back to something neutral — the weather, the ceremony — died in the air. In Jill’s telling, the presidents’ limo up ahead was probably tense too, but at least Joe and Trump were talking. In the first ladies’ car, it was just cold silence and one‑word answers all the way up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Jill uses the story to make a broader point: this wasn’t a one‑off. She writes that Melania declined her invitation to the traditional 2021 inauguration tea when Joe first took office, breaking a norm that has survived even the ugliest transitions.
Four years later, when the roles reversed and the Trumps came back to the White House, Melania still didn’t extend the same courtesy back. In every interaction Jill describes, Melania shows zero grace — even compared to other first ladies who have quietly swallowed humiliations and still showed up for the sake of the country.
And here’s the part that matters beyond the gossip. Trump has spent years telling his followers that the Mar‑a‑Lago search was a personal vendetta by “the Bidens,” not the result of him hiding boxes of classified nuclear and military documents in a ballroom, a bathroom, and a basement.
Melania apparently believes that narrative so deeply that she can’t even make small talk in a limo without seething. Jill, who knows firsthand what it’s like to have agents go through your things, points out the obvious subtext: it’s not the invasion of privacy Melania is truly angry about. It’s that her husband was finally treated like any other citizen who hoards national‑defense secrets and refuses to give them back.
We don’t often get honest, human‑level snapshots of what power feels like up close. This one matters because it captures the collision between entitlement and accountability.
Jill Biden is sitting there thinking about how to show a little solidarity over something painful that neither woman directly controlled. Melania Trump is sitting there convinced that nothing in her orbit — not an FBI warrant, not a criminal investigation, not even the peaceful transfer of power — should happen without her family’s permission, and furious at anyone who suggests otherwise. VIA~~~Josh Helfgott
In a few years, historians will write whole chapters about classified documents, indictments, and constitutional crises.
For now, it’s worth remembering this image: two first ladies in the back of a limousine, one trying to keep a fragile tradition alive, the other staring out the window, still unable to see that the law applies to her husband, too.

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@Dawidaltexian @CaseyDoe8 @GayBearRes It’s all about prioritizing one’s available resources

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@CaseyDoe8 @GayBearRes S*x workers enter the chat

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@Ken_Langdon @MichaelSocolow Then how do you know?

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@LamCran007 @royermattw Google is your friend

https://t.co/QdsvXhf0VF

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@naivebayesian @F1BigData I hate the zooming in. No we don’t want a super close up of a bunch of blurry logos. Don’t zoom at all and we can see the car moving around and really get a feel for the speed!

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@madbillofrights @jmhorp There was more housing produced because “people learned English”

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@IneffableJenna Wut?

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@docgreghousemd @LadyForProgress @EdGreenberger @ConservativaPol Can you show proof that the original was going to be filled with “woke nonsense” because Inhavemt seen that

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@DanicaTezares @alejandragold42 @Out5p0ken The people in that video did. That’s why Keith responded the way he did

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@ianmSC @leftcoastbabe @flameosumeet https://t.co/DZtBDx1H4k

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE detain U.S. citizen for "looking" Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.

Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.

Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

Only after fingerprinting him at the detention facility in Fort Snelling did someone check his ID.

The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited

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@DanicaTezares @alejandragold42 @Out5p0ken Fine but then don’t shoot birds at the band and call them traitors

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@falconturns @LongTimeHistory Google is your friend. ICE has detained hundreds of US Citizens, some for months, and has deported dozens. Working on a construction crew is not probable cause.