Barry Ronk

I believe you're better than you realize. My job is to make you see what you can be. We won't need a rearview mirror, we're moving forward!

[Barry Ronk @Ronkonteeth]

The next time you’re tempted to defend keeping the names of traitors on military bases because of “history”(?); ask yourself how many Christian churches are named after Judas Iscariot and how many U.S. libraries are named for Benedict Arnold.

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

It’s tempting to compare Republican Senators to the Prussian politicians who ushered in Hitler.

But it’s unfair.

The Prussian politicians were more responsible. They faced a country in crisis, with hyper-inflation, rising Communist influence, breakdown in social order.

Republican Senators have no excuse. America is the envy of every Western democracy. Low unemployment, low inflation, booming economy. But Republicans allowed Trump to break them like China dolls.

These weak men and women -many I know, quite a few I helped elect - claimed they were strong on national security. Now Russia’s choice runs American intelligence.

They claimed they cared about families. Now a former heroin junkie who opposes the mandatory vaccines that have ended polio, whooping cough, measles, is running American health services.

They claimed they care about law and order but supported pardoning violent cop attackers and an FBI head who took the Fifth in confirmation hearings.

They say they support traditional values but have turned over their budget duties to a guy with an unknown number of kids with names like “Exa Dark Siderael” and “Techno Mechanicus” with an unknown number of women he didn’t marry, a man with a well reported recreational drug habit and appears to have shown up at a presidential inaugural stoned out of his mind.

Why did they surrender their Constitutional responsibilities to please a felon? It’s not complicated or novel. They are weak men and women with a desperate need to be accepted.

We had a Greatest Generation and now we have the Worst Generation of Republicans. They deserve no respect, only shame and scorn.

It was all a lie.

[Barry Ronk @Ronkonteeth]

@DelRey @mcuban @FortuneMagazine @ShinghiD @juokaz Nothing says Free Market Capitalism quite like tariffs and asking for government intervention. Late stage Capitalism would be hilarious were it not so deadly serious.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Yes, the American Right happily consumes a steady diet of lies to fit the narratives their online grifters create for them.

[Barry Ronk @Ronkonteeth]

@20th_Centurygal You spelled incinerator wrong…

[Barry Ronk @Ronkonteeth]

@mgsiegler 100% have not watched a single minute nor visited any websites that are “News” outlets since 11/8. Went to a community page to read of the two plane crashes. Much happier.

[Emily Calandrelli @TheSpaceGal]

Thank you to everyone who helped amplify this post. West Virginia University is now clarifying its stance university wide that it will continue to support heritage months 💗🙌🏼

Pressure works. Keep it up 🙂

Thank you @WestVirginiaU 👏🏻

https://t.co/1txNVlYEeA

[VoteVets @votevets]

🚨Killing USAID makes us LESS SAFE.

People will suffer and die if that funding disappears, and instability around the world will increase. American Troops could be put into harm’s way as a result, and it will benefit our adversaries.

It is blatantly, unequivocally unconstitutional.

[Barry Ronk @Ronkonteeth]

@HouseInSession More of “the people’s business” being done. Idiots.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Well said

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As I wrote in a guide to surviving demagoguery 8 years ago, if you favor Trump or some of his policies and support him in good faith, make a list of things now you would be disappointed if he did or did not do. Try to keep yourself honest if you can. Don’t join a cult.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

250 years ago today, Benjamin Franklin was sworn in as president. In his stirring inaugural address, his voice powered by the electricity he had invented, he invited his fellow Americans to, “ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”

He closed by inventing freedom and reminding us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I miss him so much.

[Barry Ronk @Ronkonteeth]

@culturaltutor Incoherent

[Barry Ronk @Ronkonteeth]

@20th_Centurygal In Living Color

[Richard Angwin @RichardAngwin]

There's a burn, then there's an AOC burn

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

It snowed. It’s not like there’s a violent mob outside beating up cops who are desperately trying to protect members of Congress inside.

[Chuck D @MrChuckD]

Yup

[Barry Ronk @Ronkonteeth]

@Tjeerd001 Plastic slipcovers a bowl of hard candy and skid marks from an incontinent Pekingese.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jeffries: Our position is that it is not acceptable to cut social security, cut medicare, cut medicaid, cut veterans' benefits, or cut nutritional assistance from children and families in order to pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires and wealthy corporations