billhrogers

Marketer, Writer, Drummer, Skier, Astronomer, Cyclist, Dad, Husband, Freelancer, Progressive Realist.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

This needs to be played everywhere 24/7

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

FLASHBACK: Barbara Walters called out Trump for being $3 BILLION in debt, infidelity, not talking to his son, reading the works of Hitler, etc

Real Journalism used to be a thing!

(Now ask yourself what long-term promises you might make to people if you were billions in debt…)

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[billhrogers @Billhrogers]

@UPS I need DIAD scan data to prove a package was not delivered to my address. UPS did NOT provide a pic of delivery and my cameras show no delivery. I filed a claim with UPS but it was settled with a seller who will not refund my money. Please help!

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

WE FOUND THE WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE:

FBI Director Kash Patel used a $60 million government jet for a booty call during the government shutdown.

Not the first time either. In April, he made multiple trips to Nashville to see his 26-year-old country-singer girlfriend and even flew her around to hockey games.

THE HYPOCRISY: When Patel was just a MAGA podcaster, he slammed former FBI directors for “jetting around on taxpayer dollars.”

[billhrogers @Billhrogers]

@PeteButtigieg How about tax cuts for big businesses ONLY if they pay everyone a living wage that removes people from relying on Medicaid and other Federal assistance.

[billhrogers @Billhrogers]

@fasc1nate Wow, we've come so far in 57 years. Makes me hopeful for the future...ugh.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Republicans are playing dumb about what happened on January 6th, even if they were there

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Ann Telnaes, a longtime political cartoonist for the Washington Post. She resigned yesterday after owner Jeff Bezos blocked her cartoon criticizing Donald Trump and billionaires supporting him from being published.

RETWEET if you stand with @AnnTelnaes!

[Seaforde1 @Seaforde1]

@BasedMikeLee

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

At The Capitol™️—a nursing home in Washington, DC—the oldest patients get to run the place

[Red Panda Koala @RedPandaKoala]

🚨 BREAKING: New Jersey Mayor leaks FBI's game plan🚨

Facebook thread by New Jersey Mayor Ryan Herd,

Herd had a plan to undertake an assessment of the drone situation. Including support from a private firm, free of charge. NJ governor seemingly cleared it, only for it to be blocked at federal level.

His position is that the feds are not interested in identifying the cause and are trying to cover it up,

They don't know who the drones belong to.

[✭ 🅑🅤🅑🅑🅐 ✭ @BubbatheOG]

America failed an open book test. 🙄

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Does anyone disagree with this?

Overturn Citizens United!

[billhrogers @Billhrogers]

Blame who you want, corporations are colluding with politicians from all sided to protect massive profit taking. I think it's time for boycotts of the most greedy corps. Sell off all the stock you own in them and stop purchasing from them. Hit them where it hurts.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Americans are still struggling to get by while corporations are raking it in. Here’s how corporate price gouging is continuing to drive inflation.

[billhrogers @Billhrogers]

@walmarthelp Why doesn't your delivery service tell me that nobody will deliver to address before I place $300 order and wait 12 hrs for no food to arrive? Brilliant system you have

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

People on both sides of the political spectrum need to listen to this. Please!

[billhrogers @Billhrogers]

@esaagar I think you're wrong on NV. Either people here in Northern NV ( Trump County) are too embarrassed to let their Trump flag fly or they've flipped. There has been nowhere near as many Trump signs, MAGA hats, and rallies as in 2020.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump’s dirty election night trick doesn’t work if you know it’s coming.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H