Ryan Gallagher

[Ryan Gallagher @Thumbbum21]

@spencerpratt How do you write a memoir if you can't remember stuff?

[Ryan Gallagher @Thumbbum21]

@TWOTIMESABITCH There is no hypocrisy there. You're just dumb.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Whitney Cummings reveals what Donald Trump whispered to her after she torched him at his own roast.

The producers told the comedians Trump was going to run for president.

They ignored it. Then Trump's "media genius" took over:

CUMMINGS: "They kept telling us he's gonna run for president. There's this fact sheet, and we're like, okay, we're talking about his college. He had a steak business. We're ignoring the president thing. We're just—that's a stunt. It's silly."

"Then he gets up there, and I'm—great, he's gonna call me a whore. He's gonna call everyone, you know, whatever."

"And he gets up, and he goes, 'This is what's wrong with America. All these Hollywood elites beating up on a self-made man.' And we're like, 'What?' He was dead-ass [serious]."

"That was his first step, trying to be likable, and it was genius. And people started blaming us for, 'You made him likable. You made him seem like an underdog.' The roast was his first step."

"I went hard, and I truly kind of felt bad. And I went up to him, and he pulled me in, and he just went, 'That was great television.'"

"The guy's a media genius, quite obviously."

Hollywood roasted Trump. He turned their mockery into the first step of a presidential campaign.

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

I see people concerned about what Graham’s sudden passing means for the SAVE America Act/midterms.

I don’t know what will happen in Congress, but three days ago, Trump quietly purged the leaders of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), thanks to the SC Slaughter ruling.

Thanks to this historic ruling, POTUS now has the authority to fire anyone he wants in these “independent” agencies, and appoint their replacements, with Senate confirmation.

POTUS now has much more control over our elections, and removed the Democrat appointees/chairman atop the EAC, and the Republican vice chairman was forced out as well.

The DOJ are also ramping up their monitoring of elections, specifically in blue counties in swing states, that have been the site of election fraud, like:
-Maricopa/Puma in Arizona
-Detroit/Lansing in Michigan
-Minneapolis/St. Paul in Minnesota
-New Hampshire
-Fairfax/Prince William Virginia.

What do all these places have in common? Lots of illegals, corrupt Democrat oversight, worker “errors” and “irregularities”.

Simply put, Trump might be able to address the election security problem without needing Congress. Obviously, it would help to get the SAVE America Act passed, but it might not be required. Trump now has more power to implement more aggressive enforcement of our already existing election laws that the Dems refuse to enforce in their counties.

All I know for certain is, that the survival of the Republic will not be left to chance. The 2026 midterms WILL be secure, one way or the other.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.

It was by design.

The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends.

I gave them the contact information for five friends.

They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc.

They simply did not call the other three.

I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.

I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked.

I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.

As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim.

My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate.

Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman.

Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well.

But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”

[Ryan Gallagher @Thumbbum21]

@LeftVLockdown @jimmy_dore You know, I think those are actually pretty close 😂

Almost always? Western countries all have less government than North Korea. What Western countries are worse than North Korea?

[Ryan Gallagher @Thumbbum21]

@LeftVLockdown @jimmy_dore Where did I say that?

[Ryan Gallagher @Thumbbum21]

@LeftVLockdown @jimmy_dore I'm not arguing for no government. You are arguing for absolute government. When has that ever turned out better than less government?

[Ryan Gallagher @Thumbbum21]

@LeftVLockdown @jimmy_dore So now the group of people that control all production in the country have legitimate authority to kill you if they don't agree with how you conduct business. Nice.

Also, why is profit bad? If I buy a water bottle for $1 and sell it to you for $2, do I deserve to die?

[Ryan Gallagher @Thumbbum21]

@LeftVLockdown @jimmy_dore Because government is overregulating business. How is that free enterprise? And if you agree government overregulating is the problem, then why would giving government full control of business be a solution?

That's like saying, "help, I'm drowning, please throw me in the ocean!"

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[Ryan Gallagher @Thumbbum21]

@jimmy_dore Also, imagine using the overregulated California market as the "capitalism" example lol.

[Ryan Gallagher @Thumbbum21]

@nicksortor @petersantilli Home of some of the oldest fireworks companies in the world. They were probably happy to show off! 🍻

[Ryan Gallagher @Thumbbum21]

@Crabbyman420 @DailyLoud That's fair. The owner is off camera initially, so it's hard to judge how much he escalated as well.

[Ryan Gallagher @Thumbbum21]

@PNapz @DailyLoud The dog initiated the assault. The owner is responsible. This is like shooting a pizza delivery guy by accident then claiming self defense because he trespassed.

[Ryan Gallagher @Thumbbum21]

@gooblestink @ExxAlerts Dog owners are responsible for their dog's actions, even/especially on their own property. Same as they would be for a firearm.

This is like shooting a delivery driver and then calling it self defense because he trespassed.

[Jeanne Ives @JeanneIves]

Governor DeSantis and Governor Pritzker each just signed their 8th state budgets. The contrast couldn't be starker. And the lesson is that who you elect matters. Change out the politicians and you get different policies.
For reference, Florida is 1.8x more populous than IL, 23.37m people compared to 12.71m people. Now consider these points:
1. FL general revenue budget is $52B, IL is $56B. Because state's have different ways of budgeting, lookimg at the total FY27 budgets, FL =$117B, IL=$130B. This doesn't make sense.
2. Pritzker advocated for and signed the largest budget in state history this year and in previous years. DeSantis has lowered the amount spent every year for the last four years and vetoed over $10B in spending during his time in office. Pritzker's budget is up $16B since he took office.
3. Pritzker brags about his credit upgrades, but IL has the worst state credit rating, FL has the best credit rating.
4. FL has a rainy day fund of $18B. IL rainy day fund is $2B.
5. FL is pushing $78B in road programs and moving planned projects ahead 5-15 years. IL can't even get projects planned, permitted and built in a timely manner, so many projects are left undone and money sits in an account collecting interest. And now that surplus interest is being sent to the CTA to bail them out.
6. DeSantis has given back over $9B in taxes. Pritzker has raised taxes every year for a total of over $77B according to IPI.
9. FL is giving $5,000 signing bonuses for police officers. IL politicians want to defund the police.
10. FL is on the cusp of eliminating property taxes for 60% of home owners and they have no state income tax. IL has the highest property taxes, plus individial income and estate taxes, high corporate taxes, and there's been no attempt to meaningfully lower property taxes.
Yes, elections have consequences. But, it can all ve reversed. DeSantis barely got elected 8 years ago. Your vote matters.

[Ruzy.hl @0xRuzy]

Caleb Hammer schooled a guest on how taxes work in America, explaining that the U.S. has one of the most progressive tax systems.

Caleb: Question, what percent does the top 1% pay in federal income taxes?

Guest: None.

(Brief silence)

Caleb: Think it's about 40 to 50 percent? No, I think it's about... I believe it's about 35%. Then the top 10% pays 50 to 60%. Top 50% pays 99%. The bottom 50% of earners only pay 1%. Did you know we actually have the most progressive income tax system in the entire Western world? Did you know that?

Guest: I did not.

Caleb: Oh, we do. Of course you didn't know that. Why know anything before having an opinion? What the fuck is wrong with you?