Mike Wentzel

software nerd with a penchant for sci-fi, fantasy, ultrarunning, downhill, bouldering, and getting lost in the wilderness while wildly unprepared.

[Mike Wentzel @barefootdotnet]

Absolutely heroic individual. He stands in front of a megalith and refuses to be railroaded or let his people be railroaded.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Men like Zelenskyy come around once in a generation.

Maybe once a century.

God bless this man, his heroism, and his dedication — at great personal cost — to his people's freedom.

[Mike Wentzel @barefootdotnet]

@MeghanMcCain You're a moron! Why are we the United States if there isn't collectivism? Why do we define ourselves as Americans? America First? Huh?!?! When 9/11 happened it was collectivism that United us. Not individualism.

[Mike Wentzel @barefootdotnet]

@WalshFreedom The form of "rugged individualism" we have in this country cripples individual freedom because the individual elites decide that some individualism is NOT equal and free. The collectivism still allows for individualism. Collectivism should be the driver to enable individualism.

[Mike Wentzel @barefootdotnet]

@AdamKinzinger There's always a chance she's seen the light albeit a FAR from likely chance. Other trumpers have seen the light once they were directly impacted. Whether that's a righteous reason to "convert" or not isn't as important. I'm just keeping a skeptical eye on her choices.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.

I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

[Mike Wentzel @barefootdotnet]

@dynamike614 @ABC And loses all privileges afforded to them as members of Congress (e.g. security, free health insurance, ...)

[Mike Wentzel @barefootdotnet]

@SharrellAnne2 @JoJoFromJerz I'm sure they would want to burden you & the rest of your family with 10s or 100s of thousands of $ in medical bills too. No one making the decisions for this woman/child have to pay a dollar of the medical bills that she is incurring so they don't give a shit. Nor do you.

[Mike Wentzel @barefootdotnet]

@RpsAgainstTrump Any Catholic who isn't enraged by this puts a man above their faith and thereby breaks the very ethos of their faith and is thereby NOT a true Catholic!

[Mike Wentzel @barefootdotnet]

@allenanalysis By global mismanagement I believe his referring to his inability to manage anything besides being inept, vengeful, and hateful.

[D. Stamos/Helodriver @SpacecoastPix]

@tribelaw Trump cannot do anything but make any situation he is in worse.

[Mike Wentzel @barefootdotnet]

@AlvinIsaTool @maddenifico Far more likely that he (or at least Daddy Elon) wants the natural resources and Maritime routes control much like in the case of Panama Canal.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The legendary Ed O’Neill reminds us about small town values and delivers a blunt message to men about the stakes this November.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Watch this powerful speech by Jeff Daniels.
https://t.co/WRsoREOqRq

[Mike Wentzel @barefootdotnet]

Daaaamn! @BillyBaldwin just served BK Jr a steaming pile of FU!

[Billy Baldwin @BillyBaldwin]

I have known Bobby Kennedy Jr. for decades.
We were friends.
I loved his politics.
His speeches inspired me.
We were neighbors.
Our kids were friends.
We carpooled the kids to school for a few years.

Bobby Kennedy has had presidential ambitions his entire adult life.

In 2006, when Bobby was 53 years old, New York State Attorney General Elliot Spitzer left office to run for Governor. Bobby Kennedy considered running for that office.

This position could have quickly led him to either the US Senate or Governor of New York and a potential path to the presidency.
He ultimately didn't run citing that his "responsibilities to his six children from two marriages had left him with expenses that simply couldn’t be covered by a government salary."
There were other reasons.

In 2008, when Bobby was 54 years old, Hillary Clinton vacated her New York Senate seat to become Barack Obama's Secretary of State... this was another feasible path for Bobby to fulfill his presidential ambitions.

That didn't happen according to Bobby because... “I have spent lots of time thinking about it. I have spent time talking with my uncle, my brothers, my cousin and, of course, my wife. And I think I’m in a good position right now doing what I’m doing.”
There were other reasons.

Now, in 2024 at 70 years old, with the window of opportunity for his presidential aspirations closing, Bobby decides it's now or never. He takes some conspiratorial positions on COVID, vaccinations and Dr. Fauci which tapped into MAGA's frustration and anger with the pandemic, the economy, establishment politics, and the white majority sunsetting into the minority... which leads him to get into bed with Roger Stone, Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon... and ultimately Trump.

At 70 years old, running for President was the desperate move of a man who had presidential ambitions but saw the door rapidly closing on the opportunity for him to hold any political office. It was a Hail Mary. For him to end his pursuit of the presidency and endorse Trump is not only a betrayal of the values and traditions of the Kennedy family but it is also a cynical, hypocritical betrayal of his own political beliefs and personal feelings about Trump which have been publicly documented for years and years.

His endorsement of Trump demonstrates his political cowardice. He has sold his political soul and desecrated the historic work and legacy of his father Robert and his uncle President John Kennedy.

The Kennedy family issued a statement:
"Our brother Bobby’s decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and family hold most dear. It is a sad ending to a sad story.”

His sister Kerry Kennedy added:
"I am disgusted by my brother’s obscene embrace of Donald Trump. And I completely disavow and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. and his flagrant efforts to desecrate my father's memory."

I too completely disavow and dissociate myself from Bobby Kennedy Jr.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Oops!

[Mike Wentzel @barefootdotnet]

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[🥀_ Imposter_🥀 @Imposter_Edits]

I ran across this old George Carlin bit, and I had to take a few minutes to throw this together. It fits so well.

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[Time Trip @TimeTriping]

@fasc1nate David Bowie talks about the impact of the Internet on society, 1999

[Mike Wentzel @barefootdotnet]

Interesting take on putting your people "first"...

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Fast forward to 1:15 if you want to really cringe and hurt