Middle of the Road

Guitar playing, healthy-ish

[Covie @covie_93]

Republicans will release the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, audio tapes of Joe Biden's discussions with his ghostwriter, Ashley Biden's diary, Dr. Anthony Fauci's diary, but can't release the full epstein files.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Dr. Fauci!

[Middle of the Road @Sharont_213]

@Acyn But but …. He said day 1

[Middle of the Road @Sharont_213]

@katyperry @Acosta @WhiteHouse How about suing them then? Or are you not angry enough ?

[Rufio The Norse Whisperer supports Ukraine 🇺🇦 @RufioNorseman]

@BulwarkOnline

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Thursday that Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) five-week absence from Congress and lack of response to Gov. Andy Beshear's (D-KY) request for an update on his health "conveys a very disturbing inability to fulfill his duties."

"I understand that people have a right to medical privacy to deal with their issues, but we do not have the right to disappear from our jobs without explanation," she said. "I don't think any American has ever experienced the ability to just leave your job for over a month with no explanation to your employer."

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Don Lemon: Who else was also gay?

Hunter Biden: I'm already in enough lawsuits Don. Are you asking me if Josh Hawley is gay? Are you asking me if Stephen Miller is gay? Are you asking me if Speaker Johnson is gay?

[WTFGOP @doggintrump]

The CDC is saying the Cyclospora outbreak is from Taylor Farms

Then they keep bringing up Taco Bell

Not that I need to defend Taco Bell for colon blow food. But Taylor Farms sells to McDonalds, Chipotle, Walmart, Safeway, Kroger and a shit ton of places

So I don’t understand while Taco Bell, who pulled lettuce from their restaurants right away because they were trying to be responsible, is being made out to be the bad guy

[Carol @cesbrid]

@atrupar

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

[Middle of the Road @Sharont_213]

@StephenFleming I waited until I was 21 because I wasn’t sure I was ready to drive. And now with all the road rage and congestion why should any one not feeling ready be forced to learn instead of waiting. Are parents really so anxious to get their kids off their hands?

[Middle of the Road @Sharont_213]

@HalfwayPost Unlikely to be true but sure would be nice if it were

[Middle of the Road @Sharont_213]

@Acyn The level of enablement being given by the GOP is beyond disgusting.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Nichols: It’s almost like we have a relative in the room, and there’s something deeply wrong with him. And we’ve all agreed not to talk about it. But there is something deeply wrong with him.

His friends know it, his critics know it. His staff, I’m sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.

Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy.

You know, I spent years teaching students that when the president speaks, it’s policy, and you must pay attention when the president speaks because nobody can contradict him.

Now, you know, are we really cutting off all trade with Spain? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. It might have just been a stray electron, you know, careening around inside his brainpan. Who knows?

But this is really dangerous because in the middle of all this stuff—and we can laugh about, you know, the Islamic Republic of Japan and all of that—but he made several statements about an ongoing war that the United States is losing. And no one’s even trying to pretend that they can make any sense of it.

And I’ll just add one last thing that you just brought up.

If this were any other president, this would be a national crisis. I mean, Joe Biden got somebody’s name wrong, and it was headlines. The president gets all kinds of things wrong, completely, you know, is out to lunch at an important NATO summit, and, you know, it’s Wednesday.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

My July 5th Diatribe after Returning from Europe again:

The weirdest thing about leaving America is realizing how much of America is just a sales pitch.

You spend your whole life hearing “greatest country on Earth,” then you go overseas and see clean trains, safer streets, affordable medicine, cities where people can walk without playing Frogger with an SUV, and workers who take vacations without acting like they committed treason.

And then you come home.

You come home to potholes, medical debt, school shooting drills, $17 airport sandwiches, people living in tents under highways, politicians wearing flag pins (or worse, gun pins) while doing absolutely nothing for the people standing in food bank lines, and billionaires being treated like they’re the fragile ones.

And somehow we’re all supposed to stand there, hand over heart, and pretend this is normal.

I don’t hate America. I hate what America has been taught to tolerate.

I hate that we call basic things “radical.” Healthcare? Radical. Paid leave? Radical. Clean air? Radical. Kids not getting shot in math class? Somehow political.

Meanwhile, the loudest “patriots” are usually the same people telling struggling Americans to shut up, stop complaining, and be grateful.

Grateful for what? A flag doesn’t pay rent. A bald eagle doesn’t cover insulin. Fireworks don’t fix bridges. And chanting “USA” doesn’t make a broken system less broken.

America has incredible people. That’s the tragedy. The people are better than the system they’ve been forced to defend.

So no, I’m not going to call America the greatest country on Earth just because it has the best marketing department.

Real patriotism isn’t pretending the country is perfect.

Real patriotism is being angry that it isn’t, and blaming minorities and immigrants for your own piece of shit life that you created.

[Middle of the Road @Sharont_213]

@atrupar When will journalists start pushing back with facts, pictures etc ? Better yet - why even give these people a public platform to lie on

[QueenMother👸🏻 @QueenMother1976]

“I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone.
Every day, older patients call us confused.

They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link.
Some of them do not know what a portal is.

Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.

He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.

He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.

But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.

Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.

Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.

~Unknown

[Middle of the Road @Sharont_213]

@EricLDaugh The whole family doesn't get citizenship you arse

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is 3-Star Navy Admiral Nancy Lacore. Pete Hegseth fired her last year. She’s now running for Congress and has the chance to flip a GOP-held seat and deliver the majority for Democrats in November.

RETWEET if you support @NancyLacore as she runs to flip the House Blue!

[Middle of the Road @Sharont_213]

@PeteButtigieg I am so very sorry this happened to you, your husband and your family.