auntieT

Proud PA Democrat. My vote will always be for democracy, decency, and rights for all. Waiting for accountability. I can’t stand hypocrisy & blatant lies.

[auntieT @bluide222]

@HunterBiden @CheriJacobus Your family legacy will be about love, kindness, grace and service. You have a lot to be proud of. Ignore the haters. - they are jealous.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

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.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning admission, Mike Johnson just told reporters that he has plan to cut Medicare and Medicaid after the midterms. We can stop this by making Hakeem Jeffries the next Speaker of the House.

[Covie @covie_93]

Why couldn't trump just watch the NBA finals on TV at the White House like he did the Jan. 6 insurrection???

[auntieT @bluide222]

@jaketapper You have contributed to this by normalizing him. Shame on you.

[auntieT @bluide222]

@HunterBiden 😍

[auntieT @bluide222]

@people And loving every minute of it!

[auntieT @bluide222]

@allenanalysis Joe Biden did the right thing!

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@jamestalarico: I've had a lot of interviews with national media. No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. No one's asked me about the cost of prescription drugs. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.

The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.

Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Undocumented people aren't defunding our schools. It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians

[auntieT @bluide222]

@Acyn Maine you deserve better than this.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation"

175 more days until you get to vote against this and every Republican who enabled it to go on this long.

[auntieT @bluide222]

@rachelvscott Keep being you Rachel! You are a true reporter and what Americans need right now!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

OBAMA: A good policy that I'd like to see followed is that the president shouldn't have a bunch of side hustles that companies and foreign entities can invest in

COLBERT: How much of that is just jealousy that you didn't think of selling sneakers?

[auntieT @bluide222]

@DrNeilStone He is just evil and cruel!

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

where’s the fucking book, @jaketapper

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Welcome to Donald Trump's America.

77 million lost Americans voted for this stupidity.

Twice.

[auntieT @bluide222]

@RonDeSantis I suggest sitting this one out.

[auntieT @bluide222]

Happy Birthday!

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY - 72 - and all I want for my birthday is for you to RETWEET THIS VIDEO!

[auntieT @bluide222]

@GovernorShapiro @jjabbott Thank you!

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

TWEEPS: At 5pm today, trump moved to end mail-in voting while continuing to use it himself. That’s not election integrity, that’s blatant voter suppression.

I need 1,000 fast RTs and replies using #TrumpVotedByMail.

Please and thank you! 🙏💪