The Other Jeff Smith

My tweets are my own, but any controversial likes are clearly the work of a 'staffer.'

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@SVPAnalytics @cincyboilers What's fake about it? As a Purdue fan I've enjoyed their coverage for the most part 🤷

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed.

He got a list.

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@LozzaFox Yeah he did none of those things.

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@AVAPopCulture Lol, sure Jan

[TraderSZ @trader1sz]

Elon Musk’s own kid about Elon

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The time that Elon Musk got told it exactly as it is.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.

Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.

Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.

People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.

Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.

He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.

That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.

There is a name for it.

So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.

The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.

And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.

Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.

And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.

Just another joke at our expense.

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@NancyMace I'd like to see you in prison, does that count?

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@SenJohnKennedy You're such an idiot

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.

Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.

The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.

The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.

Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.

The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.

But sure. My paintings.

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@YaboyZC @SonnyBunch @nrarmour Did you really?

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@AesPolitics1 Weird that somehow he can still tweet about it

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@RepBrandonGill Tell me how you're going to "end" anything. You can't even end this stupid forever war with Iran

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@realannapaulina @SecRubio You generally believe a lot of nonsensical things, so that tracks

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@BoilerFanTalk @PurdueBballGuy You're embarrassing yourself

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@PurdueBballGuy Yep, you caught us! We are incredibly clever about doing impossible things covertly, but only when we're not in charge. And sometimes we forget. But other than that...

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@SpeakerJohnson Lol no you're not

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@VP Immigrants are not stealing our jobs. Stop spreading that myth

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@RepOgles Yeah that sounds constitutional. Get fucked Andy.

[The Other Jeff Smith @bureau_13]

@SenJohnKennedy So your contention is that there is nothing between "President's personal attorney" and "President's enemy?" Really?