TabnShannon Phillips

Life is short...Live, Laugh, and Love!

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Requiring an ID and proof of citizenship to vote is common sense.

It’s time to pass the SAVE America Act. RT if you agree.

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Earthshine.

Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch captured this video of Earth outside the windows of the Orion spacecraft during the second flight day of the mission. Orion was roughly 33,800 miles (54,500 km) away from Earth when @Astro_Christina took this video.

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

I want to apologize for not responding to any of the 22 thousand comments my last post inspired. I’ve been filming all week and just noticed my observations about Jimmy Kimmel and a former plumber named Markwayne Mullin have gone viral. I've also noticed that many of the comments are from people who genuinely seem to believe that Jimmy wasn’t belittling plumbers at all, but was instead, simply trying to point out that Mullin is not qualified to lead the DHS. Here's a small smattering...

Roger Bicknell...
Mikey stop. Kimmel wasn't making fun of plumbers he was making fun of Mullin.

Rebecca Piatt Gonzalez...
Dearest Mike, it's not anything to do with his being a plumber. It's him NOT being skilled in Homeland Security.

Patrick Wise...
Being a plumber qualifies you to be a plumber. Period. The issue Jimmy and the rest of us at the adult table recognize is that jobs require certain training and experience and being a plumber does not qualify you to be Sec of DHS.

Had Roger, Rebecca, Patrick and all the others who rushed to Jimmy’s Kimmel’s defense actually read what I had written, they would see that I did not suggest - even remotely - that a plumber was inherently qualified to hold a cabinet position. What I said was that being a plumber should not disqualify a person from holding such a position. Big difference. Doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, fireman, and university professors are no more or less qualified to run the DHS than plumbers, electricians, or carpenters – but should they all be dismissed as “unqualified” simply because they made a living in some other vocation?

As I wrote in my original post, credentials and diplomas are great ways to bolster a person’s credibility, especially if we’re talking about mastering a specific skill. I think we can all agree that plumbers, accountants, mechanics, and surgeons should all have to prove themselves competent before hanging out a shingle. But what do their credentials and diplomas have to do with their actual competency? Are we not already surrounded by a legion of perfectly qualified experts who don't know what the hell they're doing? Moreover, what do credentials and experience have to do with wisdom, honesty, common sense, integrity, courage, the ability to lead, or any other virtue we’d like to have in our elected officials?

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to question Mullin’s suitability for this role. But there’s no legitimate reason to disqualify him simply because he used to be a plumber. Just as there was no legitimate reason to dismiss AOC because she used to tend bar. As for the joke itself, here’s an honest question. If Senator Mullin was a retired doctor instead of a retired plumber, do you believe he would have would made the same joke?

Roger, Rebecca, Patrick...be honest. Do you really think Jimmy would have said to his audience, "So, now we have a DOCTOR in charge of protecting us from terrorism? Hey – it worked for Dr. Suess – maybe it’ll work for Markwayne!"

Personally, I don't. Not in a million years. Why? Because no one would have found it funny, that’s why. Even though doctors are no more “qualified” to protect us from terrorists than plumbers are, Jimmy knows that doctors are widely respected in society, and that plumbers are not. He knows that medical degrees and doctorates are aspirational credentials, whereas plumbing certificates are not. The entire premise of his joke was based on a personal bias that he knew his audience shared – a bias that presupposes plumbers are uneducated, one-dimensional workers who never made it to college, and are therefore "unqualified" to do anything but plumb.

Jimmy is entitled to his opinion, along with anyone else who believes that Mullin is unqualified to lead the DHS. The Constitution, however, says otherwise, and so does the Senate. Likewise, reasonable people can disagree as to what is funny and what isn’t. Frankly, I couldn’t care less. What I do care about, is the extraordinary shortage of plumbers and electricians our country is facing, and the longstanding stigmas and stereotypes that continue to discourage people from considering a lucrative career in the skilled trades. Jimmy’s joke – and his audience’s reaction to it – is proof positive that those stigmas and stereotypes are alive and well.

PS. We have a lot of money set aside to help train the next generation of plumbers. Apply for a scholarship at https://t.co/vidLSYXCf6 Who knows? Could be the first step on your road to President..

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Speaker Johnson just MIC DROPPED every Democrat politician in America who opposes the SAVE America Act

"You need an ID to attend events of most Democrat politicians, and even the Democrat National Convention! Why would VOTING be any different?!" 🔥

"They CAN'T answer that question. So, they come up with all these crazy excuses!"

TIME TO PASS IT. Send it to Trump!

[🇨🇦 Jack @JackDan110]

WATCH : This is perfect.
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[TabnShannon Phillips @TabithaNShannon]

@RobertKennedyJr 🤣❤️🤣

[✨️Serenitee♡Sam✨️ @Serenitee_Sam]

Pure genius farming! 🌾🐓🙌

[TabnShannon Phillips @TabithaNShannon]

@matthewdmarsden @RepJayapal Thank you!!!! Couldn’t agree more!!

[TabnShannon Phillips @TabithaNShannon]

@elonmusk The healthcare system is in desperate need of this kind of assistance! Thank you Elon!!!!!!

[TabnShannon Phillips @TabithaNShannon]

@SenFettermanPA @JohnFetterman Praying for a speedy recovery!

[TabnShannon Phillips @TabithaNShannon]

@SaveAmericaNew A. Yes 100% Yes!
They should be the LAST to get paid. Call it a “public service”

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

“I just became an American citizen. I can call myself an American now. This is a huge achievement of my life.”

Congrats!! Special shoutout to all the immigrants who become U.S. citizens the legal way 🇺🇸🙏🏼

[TabnShannon Phillips @TabithaNShannon]

@dom_lucre Not at all! We ALL have the right to PROTECT ourselves.

[TabnShannon Phillips @TabithaNShannon]

@Matt_Pinner 100%

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Listen to this father.

We need to hold judges & DAs responsible for releasing vicious murderers on innocent victims.

https://t.co/tywRva8qvI

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

16 years later…Trump & RFK Jr. are saying exactly what Jim Carrey & Jenny McCarthy were BLASTED for.

MCCARTHY: I don't know what happened in 1990? There was no plague that was killing children that we had to triple the amount of vaccines. Let's be smart!

CARREY: What happened after 1989 that warranted 26 more vaccines? Are all of them absolutely necessary?

MCCARTHY: Greed. Greed!

KING: Because they wanna make money.

MCCARTHY: Of course!

CARREY: It's twice as many as anywhere else in 30 countries in the Western world. We give twice as many shots as any of those countries. Why is that?

KING: Well, what are you against? Don't vaccinate for this, but vaccinate for that?

MCCARTHY: Yes!

CARREY: I think we have to choose which ones are absolutely necessary.

KING: How do I know which one?

MCCARTHY: You should educate yourself. We want to empower parents to educate themselves. Do we need to have the chickenpox? Do we need the hepatitis B shot on the second day of life?

CARREY: I don't think we can afford to assume that the people who are charged with our public health any longer have our best interests at heart all the time.
Parents have to make their own decisions, educated decisions. They have to look at the information.

MCCARTHY: Space out the vaccines...delay them till after one...clean out the toxins that are in them. We don't NEED that many.

KING: Why would a doctor not want to know more about something that could save a life or prevent a disease? I don't understand.

CARREY: Uhhh...the AAP is financed by the drug companies?? Uhhh...Medical schools are financed by the drug companies? This is a HUGE business. Vaccines are the largest growing division of the pharmaceutical industry. $13 billion.

MCCARTHY: They control medical schools!

CARREY: What we're asking is for them to take a loss for the good of our children. That's a tough sell in a boardroom.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Erika Kirk forgives her husband’s assassin:

"Our savior said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. That man, that young man, I forgive him."

So incredibly powerful.
Pray for Erika 🙏🏻

[TabnShannon Phillips @TabithaNShannon]

@HelloRobbieRose @TPUSA God bless each and every one of you!!! 🙏

[Amiri King @AmiriKing]

Never in my life been affected so much by the passing of someone I have never even met.

Someone shared this with me and I really needed to see it.

Maybe you need to see it too.

[TabnShannon Phillips @TabithaNShannon]

@JDVance Wow! Beautifully said! 🙏