Grumpy Old Man

Progressives invent and inspire. It is NOT hard to be nice.
Stop tolerating the intolerant. LOCK TRUMP UP!

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.

Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT

[Grumpy Old Man @Catrafter1]

@donwinslow @realDonaldTrump So. We have to respect you like you respected President Barack Obama?

Or more like how you respected President Joe Biden?

With due respect - you are a complete disappointment to all who have ever had dealings with you.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”

— Bertrand Russell

[Grumpy Old Man @Catrafter1]

@L00nyLefties @BlueGeorgia Here is the simple explanation. So maybe even you can understand.

The bar chart is fake. The bars do not reflect the actual vote counts. Just another GOPMAGA lie.

Try actually looking at the facts. It's called critical thinking. Try it.

[catherine 💙🌎🦄🌈♻️🇺🇸🌊🌊✌🏼🌺👧🏻👧🏻👧🏻🌜🌴 @catherinenunya]

@RpsAgainstTrump @MayaBug2016 Like you respected Biden and Obama?

[Real Dutchman 🇳🇱🇺🇦🇮🇱 @LostDutchman9]

@RpsAgainstTrump

[Grumpy Old Man @Catrafter1]

@atrupar Later Supreme Court cases (e.g., 20th century) elevated Jefferson's metaphor as a key interpretive tool for the First Amendment.

Government cannot create a national religion. First Amendment.

Here we go again with all the loose dimwits and MAGA.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

“If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted…”

You’re god damn right.

[Grumpy Old Man @Catrafter1]

@RpsAgainstTrump @grok II am talking with die hard GOP MAGA Trump supporters until death takes them to heaven around here and things have changed.

The war = number 1. They hate it. Debt increases are now tied to rich tax breaks and stupid decisions. Costs of living. Gas. Housing.

They hate it all.

[Grumpy Old Man @Catrafter1]

@JamesTate121 Maybe ask them if police, fire, education, roads, emergency services don't work for them?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

[Grumpy Old Man @Catrafter1]

@jmbfn @Buckeye__Mike @RossKneeDeep I established that he is stupid. He blocked me from replying directly. Apparently his tiny MAGA fake Christian mind just pretends to support the first amendment.

Aw. They just love to say stupid things and then get irate when someone challenges their dumbfuckery.

[Grumpy Old Man @Catrafter1]

@Buckeye__Mike @RossKneeDeep Stupid is as stupid is.

FUck off dumbass

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

I think it was just hate.

By Sincerely, American:

"Trump supporters say, 'We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.'

Fair enough. Let’s take a look.

The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled.

General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $80 billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.

While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.

Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans. He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.

Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.

He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.

His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.

He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.

For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.

Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.

All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.

While Obama failed on his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that prison’s population decreased from 242 to around 50.

He expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research, supporting ground breaking advancement in areas like spinal injury treatment and cancer.

Credit card companies can no longer charge hidden fees or raise interest rates without advance notice.
Most years, Obama threw a 4th of July party for military families. He held babies, played games with children, served barbecue, and led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to his daughter Malia, who was born on July 4.

Welfare spending is down: for every 100 poor families, just 24 receive cash assistance, compared with 64 in 1996.

Obama comforted families and communities following more than a dozen mass shootings. After Sandy Hook, he said, “The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.”

Yet, he never took away anyone’s guns........

He sang Amazing Grace, spontaneously, at the altar.

He was the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms without personal or political scandal.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

President Obama was not perfect, as no man and no president is, and you can certainly disagree with his political ideologies. But to say we suffered?

If that’s the argument, if this is how we suffered for 8 years under Barack Obama, I have one wish: May we be so fortunate as to suffer 8 more."

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

VIVA LA FRANCE 🇫🇷

Macron: As for Ukraine, I believe that what has happened in recent days is very important. For the first time in 18 months, all G7 members have signed the same joint text. And the USA, together with us, confirmed their support for Ukraine's territorial integrity.

They pledged to provide Ukraine with military and energy support, maintain sanctions against russia, and follow the same path as we do.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

We are voting for a higher quality of life. Republicans just can't have that.

[Grumpy Old Man @Catrafter1]

@Jameshenry1970 Not going to happen. He cannot be reasonable or level headed about a thing.

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: The BBC has turned Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against them into a January 6 trial against Trump

The BBC is arguing that to win his defamation case, Trump has to prove he did not foment or incite the riot.