Rufus T. Firefly

Web Developer. Bass/guitar player and music lover #TheBeatles. Proud Liberal Democrat.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

It's amazing to me how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY TRULY want to avoid paying relatively small slivers of tax money to their government to benefit a common good like social safety services for far less fortunate countrymen within the same society that made them billionaires.

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

Y’all keep thinking this is ideological for me. It isn’t.

Our party has socialists, progressives, New Dems, Blue Dogs, moderates, and everything in between. I’ve worked with all of them.

Hell, I ran the House Democratic whip operation with 90 Progressives, 45 New Dems, and 45 Blue Dogs in a House where we had just a 15 seat majority. We cast more roll call votes and passed more legislation than any House in history because we understood that governing meant finding common ground.

That’s not my beef.

My question is simple: Are you working constructively to make the party better, or are you just there to piss all over it?

We already have one political party trying to defeat us. We can’t afford to spend all our time fighting a second front inside our own ranks.

If you’re on the team, be on the team. Push us. Challenge us. Make us better. But help us win.

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

Then you should stop taking Russian money laundered through Hungary & Turkey, having Russian assets as the intelligence chief, & aligning with Elon you lying fucksticks. Hope that helps.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Forgive me for this post. I am not conspiratorial, nor do I ever want to stare down that rabbit hole, let alone go into it. BUT - if a guy with massive power becomes so disordered and panicked that he can't emotionally endure ANY public perception of ANY fallibility on something as trivial as a refurbished reflecting pool, and would THEN go so far as to fabricate stories of vandalism, and THEN try to legitimize the fabrications themselves by harassing and detaining innocent citizens, wouldn't that same person be capable of fabricating the suicide of someone trapped in a prison cell who could implicate him in heinous crimes?

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

This is the stupidity we're talking about: She got an abortion after helping ban them. Blamed the democrats for the struggle she had to get one. And doesn't want interviews talking about it to be public.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

You're kind of right:

Instead of talking about how your boss turned the reflecting pool into the world's largest Petri dish, we should talking how he signed an instrument of surrender to Iran at Versailles.

Of course, the only reason why we're talking about the reflecting pool is because he was bragging about how he was fixing it.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"A healthy conservative movement would be able to concede error, rather than resorting to a choose-your-own-adventure ruse in which the war is Trump’s if we won and Vance’s if we lost. But the movement has decayed to the point that honest analysis is impossible, and prominent Republicans hardly bother to pretend otherwise."

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Sure, Biden was old but his policies were working on your behalf. Kamala would’ve done the same but you traded in sanity for a cosplay tough guy who was working for billionaires. Trump won’t ever give a sh*t about you, Epstein ties are all true. Wake up. Don’t get fooled again.

[Rufus T. Firefly @MapleRedC]

There's a difference between opting out and making a statement.

If players simply didn't want to participate, that's one thing. But writing Bible verses on their caps as a response to Pride Night wasn't neutral. It was a public message.

[Nate Elgin @nateelgin]

If @MLB had a Christianity night and all players were required to wear crosses, people would lose their minds and want to opt out.

Why can't Christians opt out of pride nights?

[Rufus T. Firefly @MapleRedC]

@nateelgin @MLB There's a difference between opting out and making a statement.

If players simply didn't want to participate, that's one thing. But writing Bible verses on their caps as a response to Pride Night wasn't neutral—it was a public message.

[Rufus T. Firefly @MapleRedC]

@nateelgin @richi_mil @MLB There's a difference between opting out and making a statement.

If players simply didn't want to participate, that's one thing. But writing Bible verses on their caps as a response to Pride Night wasn't neutral—it was a public message.

[Rufus T. Firefly @MapleRedC]

@nateelgin @MLB A Christianity Night would be centered on a specific religious belief. Pride Night isn't asking people to adopt a belief or convert to anything, it's recognizing LGBTQ fans and players and signaling that they're welcome.

Those aren't really the same thing.

[Rufus T. Firefly @MapleRedC]

@JonnyRoot_ @MLB I genuinely don’t understand this argument.

Inclusion of one group isn't discrimination against another.

[Rufus T. Firefly @MapleRedC]

Conway understands that competent, evidence-based government can't coexist with a president whose personal grievances and impulses dominate public life.

First things first.

2/2

[Rufus T. Firefly @MapleRedC]

Fellow Democrats: pay attention to what George Conway is saying.

Before we can achieve any of our policy priorities, we have to address the Trump problem.

1/2

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Hi @realDonaldTrump, we're at Walter Reed!

You don't remember that place?

No wonder they give you that test you brag about—it's for 𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖.

Anyway, you're never going to forget me—especially after I get to Congress.

https://t.co/G18wdPoVvp

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

People only hate Elon Musk because he comes from an emerald mining fortune made in apartheid South Africa, he buys ideas and pretends he’s an inventor, he’s a white supremacist, union-busting, abusive employer, he’s hoarding $1T in stolen wages, he makes us ashamed to be human,

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The media listens to what Trump says, and they react to it using normal benchmarks. But there's no normalcy here. They should know this by now.
Trump is NOT speaking tactically. He is speaking pathologically.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Ummm...a reporter trying to get the facts?

[Rufus T. Firefly @MapleRedC]

@LucifersTweetz You can see from the look on his face, he feels it. 🥳