@arielhelwani Hokit is not well. The backlash has visibly gotten to him. That’s why he backtracked and tried (very unsuccessfully) to make what he said sound positive. Loser is going to start losing match after match and soon disappear into nothing. Watch.
@kevin_smith45@melissavitelli People laugh at Trump so much more: reflecting pool sabotage 😂, manufactured war 😂, tariffs 😂. It’s the biggest joke in America history. And that’s just a tiny bit of stuff… there is SO much more.
The Lessons I Learned from My Dad
I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.
Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.
I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.
I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.
I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.
Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.
That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.
Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.
@megynkelly Megyn - you sound like such a fool. Name some specifics as to why LA needs luck. You got a blue checkmark and you can’t muster up more than a stupid sentence? Makes some points.
@hpmcd1 Naw - you’re dumb for this comment bruh. He’s getting way more likes and views of his content and you are some no-name loser trying to hitch a ride on his coattails like the grifter president that you support.
Medicare spends only 2% of its funds on administrative costs. Private health insurance spends 17% or 18%. Single-payer healthcare lets us put more money toward actually making people healthy instead of pushing paper and denying claims.
Californians, if you’re hitting the road this holiday weekend, be sure to AVOID Chevron.
Pro tip: unbranded gas comes from the same refineries, storage tanks, and pipelines, and it meets the same state standards to keep your engine running clean, even if it doesn’t have a fancy name like ‘Techron.’
Big Oil is already making billions off Trump’s Iran War; don’t let them rip you off even more by overpaying for the brand name.