Vonni

MN➡️TX. MNSU-MANKATO grad. Here you will find occasional rants, and life oddities

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

To all of the people calling to defund PBS and NPR, here are some facts:

- NPR receives approximately 0.6% of their funding from federal grants. The vast majority of their funding comes from corporate sponsors, and donations.
- Fox News has saved millions of dollars through dodging US taxes by opening shell companies in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere.
- Tesla, SpaceX and Solar City all receive substantially more in government funding than NPR.

[Vonni @Vonniknows]

@tippergirl27 12?! Not him saying they’re still married… umm yeah they’ve been groomed

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Reminder that Tennessee Republicans have spent the past several months working to pass a ban on drag shows in public to “protect children” while doing nothing on gun reform except LOOSEN the laws.

[Vonni @Vonniknows]

@tippergirl27 @ABC Oh my goodness. Whole new fear unlocked 😂

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Jim Jordan is attacking Pete Buttigieg for not having transportation experience prior to becoming Transportation Secretary.

Someone should remind him that Jared Kushner ran Middle East policy.

Ivanka worked in the White House after being an Apprentice judge.

Betsy DeVos was the Education Secretary when she hated public education.

Scott Pruitt headed up Trump’s EPA as a denier of climate change.

Louis DeJoy was Trump’s nominee for Post Master General all while he was trying to kill the postal service.

So please spare the fake outage.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

- Trump, who claims to be a billionaire, sent 13 Pallets of Trump Water and some Goya beans & cleaning supplies to East Palestine, worth approximately $10,000.
- The water was from his own company.
- The water was almost certainly bought by his campaign.
- Trump's company likely profited
- Trump advertised his water company in a press appearance
- Trump then used his appearance to campaign for President

- Yet, Trump supporters are asking "Where's Biden?"

Biden is literally coming from a war zone where he stood up against a dictator in support of democracy. The same dictator that Trump claimed to have "fallen in love" with and the same dictator who Trump sided with over his own intelligence agencies.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Regarding the Palestine, Ohio Environmental mess:

- Yes, it's bad
- No, It's not even close to a "chernobyl"
- Yes, Norfolk Southern is almost entirely to blame
- Yes, Pete Buttigieg could have said more publicly
- Yes, Biden offered Fed assistance
- Yes, DeWine declined Fed assistance
- No, Buttigieg couldn't have prevented the disaster
- No, Buttigieg is NOT responsible for the clean-up
- No, Democrats didn't order the train cars be burned
- Yes, Gov. DeWine ordered the train cars be burned
- Yes, The Norfolk Southern CEO donated to DeWine
- Yes, Trump removed safety standards
- Yes, Trump weakened the EPA
- Yes, we ALL should be working together to make sure this doesn't happen again!

[Kurt Geiger: Parody @ketgeiger]

"The choice is between normal and crazy..." - Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Also:

[Liberal Lisa in Oklahoma @lisa_liberal]

If Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the best you’ve got, then your party is garbage.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

"Democrats want to rule us with more government control," says Sarah Huckabee Sanders, representing the party currently banning books and reproductive healthcare.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Wow. While the deficit went up every single year under Trump, Biden, has already reduced the deficit by $1.7 trillion. There have been staggering economic gains since Biden took office. He deserves the credit.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene REFUSES to stop heckling the State of the Union.

If she thinks she's cheap drunk trash at a standup comedy show, treat her like it.

Kick her the f**k out. Keep her out. And don't let her come back.

What a disgrace.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Watching Republicans refuse to applaud when Biden stated at his State of the Union that no billionaire should pay less in taxes than a school teacher, tells us everything that we need to know about the Republican Party.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Most Republicans refused to stand for giving public schoolteachers raises. They literally refused to stand up for teachers. Never ever forget that.

[Vonni @Vonniknows]

Biden talking about fentanyl and the republicans want to tell about the border

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

you can see McCarthy,
line by line, weighing the risk of applauding

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Biden calls out Republicans who voted no on infrastructure but still show up to take credit: "I'll see you at the groundbreaking!"

[Vonni @Vonniknows]

Yes please

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

President Biden: “Let’s give public school teachers a raise!” 📚

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Wow — President Biden just got all the Republicans to agree NOT to cut Social Security and Medicare. BRILLIANT MOVE ON HIS PART!! 👏👏
#sotu2023