DC gal in a PGH world

DC born in khaki diapers, 🌎 bred, PGH retired IT Exec. 🐾 lover. SBO 🚵🏻‍♂️, former ⚓️ wife, 🪖 great gd, grand, daughter and sister.

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

Anyone, anyone? Buehler?

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

@WhiteHouse Where’s the line item # for small businesses to report a 25-50% loss due to tariffs?! We either ate the cost or lost the sale do to this. I can’t seem to find business loss due to POTUS on my 1040.

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

@soxbart @iamnotmattt Did you turn it over?

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

@svdate @lovethydog9 Welcome to hell on earth!

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

If you understand this then we can be friends

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[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY SHIT: Thomas Massie is spitting some FACTS right now that should SHUT MAGA UP:

“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.”

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

Yup.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

@DonaldJTrumpJr So back to the Obama deal? Are all MAGAs this stupid?

[LAHatx @LAHTX33]

@EastEndJoe lol. The fact that you have to look this up to be sure it’s not reality, is the current state of affairs.

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

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[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Chris,

I can start by telling you who my audience is not.

It is NOT you.

It is NOT the pundit class that rarely leaves the safety of its Georgetown cocktail parties.

It is NOT the chattering class who gets paid to pretend it knows the mind of the American people.

It is NOT for anyone who looks at everything through the lens of politics.

The people I am talking to are tired of the bullshit.

The people I want to speak with are the 50 million Americans still sick and suffering. The families fighting for the lives of the those they love.

Whether they are people living in the shame and fear of being canceled, or consumed by grief after the loss of someone they love, they are just looking for a slight glimmer of hope that they too can get back up again.

My audience is the people who feel unheard, unseen, and uninvited, just like me.

My audience also includes my perceived enemies, those pitted against me by you and your colleagues in the media. I want to meet them where they are and help build a bridge. A bridge built of that which connects all of us. That’s where we begin to actually heal.

And it’s not as if my intent is difficult to understand or discern. Just read and listen to what I have said on this platform, and the 18+ hours of unscripted pod casts I have done.

I think your shock as to why anyone would care says far more about you than it does about me. Take a look at the comments to your post.

And I also know this: people are tired of the bullshit. They’re tired of you and the chattering classes’ obsession with my family as Rome burns.

So instead of wondering why people care about what I have to say, Chris, maybe you should concern yourself with why no one cares anymore about what you and everyone you represent has to say.

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

@atrupar One child dying from a school shooting is one too many.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[GloriaLewis84 @miner_tech_bro]

@ChrissieMayr Spending the money they collected on GoFundMe on a house an Escalade, a cruise and new outfits might’ve been better used on a better defense for their son.

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

@skymarshel @shannonsharpeee @BenjaminPDixon Must’ve also forgotten that defense attorneys also assist in picking juror members.

[QUEER FAMILY VALUES 🌈 😍❤️ @QueerFamlove]

If my kids gotta do active shooter drills then your kids can handle a t-shirt with a rainbow on it

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

Now here we go… riots in the street by idiots that have zero common sense, respect for the law, the legal system or basic humanity. SMDH 🙂‍↔️

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

@theMafunguWire @bAnthonYsr Right? Also, I guess he brought a knife to a track meet to peel an orange. 🙄

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

@theMafunguWire @bAnthonYsr Right? Also, I guess he brought a knife to a track meet to peel an orange. 🙄

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

@lizlegs1 @WUTangKids Hold your beer…. He can call his daughter in law Lara. Best singer ever, the likes of which no one has ever seen! 🤣

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

@jarrettat @WUTangKids @RachelBitecofer Bret is officially out. Double bingo!

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

When I paid $200 for 3 bags of groceries today, I thought to myself, “I’m sure glad they’re having a UFC fight on the White House lawn”

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

They did, it was called America

[DC gal in a PGH world @cfpghdca]

@StateDept https://t.co/yXnc89rmiq. 🤡