Mike Johnson: “If we lose the midterms, the Democrats will go after the president’s family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, and the rest of you who have committed crimes.”
I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.
1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.
2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.
3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.
4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.
5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.
6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.
7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.
The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.
@morethanmySLE Republican Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) took the 5th 75 times when he was deposed for committing the largest case of Medicare fraud in U.S history. He is also trying to end Medicare hoping it will get “spoiled” Americans back to work. "Spoiled" is his word, not mine.
The reflecting pool debacle is the perfect visual metaphor for the Trump Administration - superficial approaches to complex problems leading to worse outcomes than if he had done nothing.
THIS IS PERFECT!!!
STOP CALLING HIM SLEEPY JOE, YOU PATHETIC, DEMENTED BUFFOON, YOU CAN'T CLOSE UMBRELLAS OR CLASP A MEDAL.
YOU ARE DUMB, WITH A B! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@realDonaldTrump This is all he knows: branding. He is good with “marketing and branding”. He is terrible with “reality” because he see truth as optional.
This cost the taxpayers millions of dollars to feed Trump’s ego…unfortunately, Trump is very confidently stupid while thinking he knows everything about everything, and so this is what you get for your millions of taxpayer dollars.
It did not bring down prices on food or gas.
CNN aired a montage of Trump’s past claims that the U.S. was on the cusp of a deal with Iran, with Anderson Cooper noting that today’s announcement marks the 39th time he’s made a similar claim.
@harrypotte3wte Yes. And presidential historians agree. This being “X” there will be lots of users praising him…but for what? For being the most deceitful president we ever had and being the president who has turned the world against the USA? It’s baffling. Cultish behavior.
This is what Trump, an oligarch, thinks of the American worker. This is why every policy he promotes helps the most wealthy of us while hurting everyone else! He sees himself and other oligarchs as superior to 99% of Americans. We are like useless animals to him.
Trump may as well have called the rest of us peasants.
According to him, it wasn’t workers who built America. It was rich guys like him and his cabinet:
“These people built the country, not the complainers. The complainers didn’t build the country…. Whether it’s fishermen or farmers or anything else. Me. Guys like me, they built the country. And you know, I watch all these ingrates, they’re always complaining, complaining. They didn’t build anything, they couldn’t build anything.”
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 won’t.
You won’t 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 coward’s 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 ain’t 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 won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
He’s just another one of Trump’s many horrible appointments. It’s as if Trump’s goal with his appointments is to sabotage our constitutional democratic republic. I can’t think of any other explanation that makes sense. Trump has horribly divided us & now is tearing down America.
RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research.
Alzheimers.
One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today.
He's not interested.
He's a nasty piece of work.
This is pretty much a no-brainer. She will be remembered for being just as awful as her horrible husband. I’m pretty sure presidential historians will rank him as the worst president in history, and she will be right there with him as the worst First Lady in history.