Nick Francona

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

I wrote an op-ed for @GQMagazine on the @Indians name change and the real underlying issues. Please check it out.

“Quietly doing away with the name is the easy way out.”

Special thank you to GQ’s awesome editor @chrisgayomali and also @JackPMoore.

https://t.co/fqeeY9fF3z

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

If you’re going to insist on police having a warrior culture, perhaps go with less Punisher and more seppuku.

[police.law.news @policelawnews]

There is still a place for the “warrior” culture in policing. No one calls a social worker to kill a monster.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

Honoring military service and limiting it to a few hundred HOF baseball players is a very silly exercise.

Gehringer was a great player. Roughly a million Americans were killed or wounded in WWII. Gehringer coached the Naval Pre-Flight School baseball team. Get a grip.

[Bob Feller Act of Valor Award Foundation @ActofValorAward]

Charles "Charlie" Gehringer is next up in our Military Hall of Fame Military Spotlight Series. Gehringer was known to many as the "mechanical man" & served in the United States Navy.
https://t.co/FPgxVn9jSf

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

“Intense and in-your-face” is not a substitute for “batshit crazy, proudly racist and seditionist” unless your objective is to whitewash and normalize one of the worst human beings to ever hold office in this country, and that is a list with some serious competition.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, nicknamed MTG, isn’t afraid to share her opinions, no matter how intense and in-your-face they are. She sits down with Lesley Stahl this Sunday on 60 Minutes. https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

@robspinosa Pence is detestable in a way that makes everybody hate him. He’s not a true MAGA believer and everybody can see that, but he’s too weak to chart his own course. He will go down as one of the most cowardly, inept figures of this era, in my opinion.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

Given DOJ’s policy against indicting a sitting president, Pence’s position would mean it is acceptable to commit criminal violations of campaign finance laws so long as you win. The stupidest possible take.

[Ryan Struyk @ryanstruyk]

PENCE: "I think the unprecedented indictment of a former President of the United States on a campaign finance issue is an outrage."

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

No, motherfucker. Autocracies are born when people like you fellate autocrats and gaslight the public.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

If presidents think they will be chased into jail under thin pretexts as ex-presidents, they’ll try even harder to never leave office. This is how autocracies are born.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

Alternatively, one could simply support political leaders who don’t have a penchant for doing crimes.

[Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher]

Said this beginning with the raid at Mar-A-Lago:

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

@linusesq I’ve never heard of it happening. You’d think there’d be a mechanism in place for obviously mistaken incidents, but I’ve seen a few of those and they weren’t reversed.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

Perhaps Joe West being celebrated as the peak of umpiring success is going to have some consequences.

[Tim and Friends @timandfriends]

Homeplate umpire Randy Rosenberg ejects JT Realmuto for this 🤨

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

DeSantis’ inability to articulate anything close to a coherent position on Ukraine is way worse than simply offering up a misguided policy proposal.

The man is wholly devoid of any principle other than believing he should be in power.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

The analogy is based on a false comparison of WWII to the current situation.

You’re arguing to not put out the fire currently burning because a larger fire *might* erupt at some point in the future.

[Elbridge Colby @ElbridgeColby]

Actually the US prioritized Germany and Europe over Japan and Asia in WWII because Marshall et al recognized the former were more important - *despite* Pearl Harbor.

Our successful WWII strategic logic would counsel focusing on China and Asia - not Russia and Ukraine - today.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

You know it’s bad when this guy starts caping for you.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

@UticaEric Even Pence realizes there is no real constituency of ideological evangelicals politically opposed to Trump that amounts to anything meaningful. If it existed, Pence wouldn’t be so weak and hedging at every opportunity.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

Your entire premise about violence increasing during Ramadan is not supported by facts.

And you’re also a coward for trying to shield your bigotry behind your experience as a veteran in combat.

Racist ✅
Dumbass ✅
Coward ✅

Not a great combo, Tony.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

@mikemayer22 A better punishment would’ve been to force him to elaborate on air and basically cross examine him so he had to fully verbalize how much of a dumbass he is.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

When the best you can offer is some version of “Look, I was trying to be a sex pest and the racism was an accident,” you should put the shovel down and go sit in the corner by yourself.

[Chad Finn @GlobeChadFinn]

After an apology to open this morning’s Greg Hill Show — he said he meant to say Mila Kunis — Curtis announced said he has been suspended until next Wednesday.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

@dakaner I think DeSantis is extremely overrated. I’m not saying he’s not a serious candidate, but he doesn’t even handle pushback and confrontation with lightweights particularly well and there’s a decent chance he implodes under the spotlight.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

It’s incredibly funny that Ron DeSantis thought he figured out how to thread the needle in addressing Trump’s potential indictment only for Trump to immediately respond by suggesting DeSantis is a groomer and questioning his sexual orientation.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

@Razzball I am willing to concede that there are things he does that some might describe as “must-watch,” but certainly not for the reasons he has in mind.

[Nick Francona @NickFrancona]

This desire to “come at them with the strongest case on the biggest issue” is based on a fantasy world where jurisdictions don’t exist and laws are perfectly aligned with morality in every way.

If you can’t start from ground truths and reality, you’re part of the problem.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Trump is trying now to organize resistance to the reportedly pending indictment. He and his supporters proved on January 6, 2021, their readiness to use violence to defy the law. If you're coming at them, you want to come at them with the strongest case on the biggest issue. END