Rod

Just a Dad trying to be a better one every day

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@randy_nj Happy Birthday good sir!

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

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.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@Nunyabizzness00 @AdamSchefter @TheTimMcGraw @BradPaisley @mirandalambert @carrieunderwood @blakeshelton @lukebryan @kennychesney @ChrisStapleton @GeorgeStrait @zacbrownband @ericchurch Dolly, Kasey Musgrave, and the Chicks... That's who we need on stage

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

California’s wealth tax would cost Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang $8 Billion.

His response was simple: “I don’t mind paying taxes.”

“Once a year we get a bill, we pay it, and it’s big. I never once thought about it.

We love this country. That’s our way of giving back.”

[daz @MetamateDaz]

MacKenzie Scott divorced Jeff Bezos and got $36 billion in the divorce.

She has donated $26 billion to charity since then.

She’s now worth $42 billion, six billion MORE than when she started

TAX THE BILLIONAIRES. THEY’LL BE FINE.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@ATRightMovies

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@Aella_Girl @clairlemon Our Moms did not know how to properly prepare vegetables. I choked down unseasoned and boiled veggies. Then ate them prepped by a decent cook. It was mind blowing. Prep anything well and it shines. Prep it poorly and it is punishment to eat.

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@ATRightMovies

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@GermanNC22 @BlazeBrandMan @Tatelogg @EdKrassen Or realize that he staged the fucking Butler PA bullshit... And killed 2 people in the process..... And that he's a pedophile

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

#TheDownwardSpiral

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@RisiVincent @bonjourtoi2272 @krassenstein Yeah... All of our kids are front lines while the cunts who send them there are having the time of their lives.

Clearly you never listened to Fortunate Son by CCR you fucking fuck

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@ReggieWayne_17 2 (maybe 3 max) showers and then swap to a fresh one

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

For six months, we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good faith. We told them what we know, under oath.

They ignored all of it. They moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an exercise in distraction.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

So let’s stop the games.

If you want this fight, @RepJamesComer, let’s have it—in public.

You love to talk about transparency. There’s nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on.

We will be there.

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@Aella_Girl Do people who attend ever just hang out, observe, converse, and just fool around without fully engaging in sex? We have never been but are curious and feel like our first experience would be more in line with the behavior I laid out in my question. Is that taboo?

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@Aella_Girl When I was 18 I had a fling with a 55 year old divorced. She was wonderful and the experience was fun and have 0 regrets.

Now I'm 50 and in a long term relationship with a woman who is 25 years my junior... My only regret is that I am not younger to spend more time with her

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@GENERALZOD1886 No

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@AlaskaAir Your customer service is awful ..

[Rod @TheRodRodriguez]

@AlaskaAir Hi... Need help with a flight ... We forgot to add our daughter's support animal (who traveled with her the last 3 flights) for her flight back to college. EWR to PDX. Been on hold for 3 hours... Can we get some help?

#alaskaair