Maybe Vance doesn't know this history because it's in one of the books his administration banned.
The difference between Watergate and now is that back then, Republicans actually did something about a law-breaking president. Today, they only roll over for their cult leader.
84 year old Joe Biden dropped the biggest bombshell on Trump 🔥
🇺🇸 Biden: "Look, It’s not just that he’s tearing NATO apart and picking Putin over our allies, or that he’s made us look worse globally than any president before.
Dude’s acting like Putin wrote his script. " 🔥
He indirectly called him Moscow’s asset 🔥💪
On the night of July 3, 1976, a woman ran across Interstate 30 in Dallas, Texas, in the dark, weaving through headlights of oncoming trucks and cars. She was bloodied. Her face was swollen. She had 36 cents in her pocket, a Mobil gas card, and nothing else.
Her name was Tina Turner. And she had just done the bravest thing of her life.
She had been in a limousine on the way to the Statler Hilton Hotel when her husband Ike beat her again. By the time they arrived, the left side of her face was unrecognizable. She waited quietly until he fell asleep, tied a scarf around her head, grabbed a small bag, and walked out the door.
She crossed that freeway alone.
At the Ramada Inn on the other side, she walked to the front desk, bruised and barefoot. The manager recognized her immediately, not because of her fame, but because of her injuries. He gave her a room, posted a security guard outside her door, and sent up soup because she was too swollen to chew solid food.
She stayed hidden for three days.
What most people do not know is that Tina had been quietly preparing for this moment for years. Long before she ran, she had discovered Nichiren Buddhism, a practice of daily chanting that she credits with slowly rebuilding her inner strength. She did not find courage after she escaped. She found it first. The escape followed.
When she filed for divorce, Ike fought her through two years of legal battles. To end it, she agreed to his terms. She walked away with two cars, some jewelry, her furs, and her name.
No house. No royalties. No claim to the recordings. Her lawyers thought she had surrendered everything. Ike thought he had won.
But Tina understood something neither of them did. The name Tina Turner was the only asset she needed. It was the one thing she could carry into the future.
The years that followed were harder than most people realize. The music industry had written her off. She was approaching forty, a Black woman in a business obsessed with youth, with no label support, no hits, and no money. She performed in hotel lounges and small clubs. She appeared on game shows to pay the bills. She cleaned houses to cover her rent. She relied on food stamps to feed her children.
She refused to stop.
She chanted every morning. She took every small gig offered. She stayed visible even when visibility was painful. Friends from the rock world, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, the Rolling Stones, began publicly championing her. A new manager named Roger Davies believed in her completely.
In May 1984, at the age of 45, Tina Turner released Private Dancer. It sold over 20 million copies worldwide. ""What's Love Got to Do with It"" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. She won three Grammy Awards that year including Record of the Year. She performed at Live Aid. She starred in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. She became the first Black woman on the cover of Rolling Stone. She filled stadiums on every continent.
At the age when most careers quietly end, hers became the greatest comeback in the history of popular music.
In 1985 she met Erwin Bach, a German music executive sixteen years younger than her. They fell in love, stayed together for nearly four decades, and married in 2013 in Switzerland. When her kidneys began failing in 2016, functioning at only 20 percent and declining, Erwin told her he wanted to give her one of his. The transplant happened in 2017. Both came through.
Tina Turner died on May 24, 2023, at her home near Zurich. She was 83 years old. She left behind 12 Grammy Awards, more than 100 million records sold, and a story that keeps finding people who need it.
36 cents. A gas card. A name. And a will that could not be broken.
That is how legends are born.
I love how petty this is.
Iran knows how jealous trump is of Obama.
And the fact that everyone showered Obama's Preside3ntial Library opening with love and respect had to drive trump NUTS. 🤣🤣🤣
Chef's kiss.🤌
Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.
Imagine a country where you can get a 10 year prison sentence for removing peeling paint from a pool…
And receive no prison sentence for raping a child.
Welcome to America.