Charles Laughlin

Professor of modern Chinese literature, wannabe literary translator

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

Great to see Donald Trump embracing Pride Month.

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@TPCarney I saw a whole lot of posts for the past week or so gushing over the fact that the pool was going to be “American flag blue”—doesn’t mean that the bottom of the pool was going to be blue?

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@Sassafrass_84 So what is the plan to manage the education of our children? We’re all on our own? What will schools of education teach? Who will issue teaching certificates? Based on what?

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@e3z9b_qI1ytkw Because he’s persecuted?

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

When I paid over $4 a gallon for gas today, I thought to myself, “Thank god the reflecting pool is bigger than skyscrapers.”

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@JayTC53 You caught them blinking I see. I guess the guy behind her is also asleep? Or maybe she’s just trying to block out Trump’s ad hominem rant against her. Very unpresidential.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Just 100 years ago: 1 in 3 children died before reaching their fifth birthday.

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@Fair_and_Biased @megynkelly Killing children and destroying schools is not my idea of “challenging a regime.”

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@simonmaechling I agree but it’s also making people more stupid. Twitter used to make me smarter, but coming up to X definitely dumbs me down.

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@Milajoy Well, he sends armed vigilante-style police around the country roughing people up and grabbing them off the street regardless of citizenship or criminal record, killing a few along the way. That’s not the policing I grew up with. Also firing thousands of dedicated public servants

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@EricLDaugh I arranged to meet someone at a DC restaurant over two months ago, and we had to go to another one because we would have had to wait 90 minutes for a table. I didn’t see anyone going out of business.

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@EricLDaugh The worst grass is the grass that has died many times over. I don’t know how it keeps coming back to life, but it just keeps on dying.

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@Milajoy It hasn’t worked since 1922? I’ve been by there many times over the past several years, and it always had water in it.

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@Acyn Trump triumphs with pioneering horizontal skyscrapers, revolutionizing business architecture forever.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

When your life is on the line, you want the expert.

When the topic is vaccines or agriculture suddenly everyone thinks a Google search makes them equally qualified.

The problem was never expertise.

The problem is that expertise tells people things they don’t want to hear.

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@StateDept “Organic” movements are supposed to not spend money? Accept donations? Have a structure?

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@TripleNetTyler Maybe he moved? If he moved and didn’t update his voter registration, does that mean he loses his right to vote?

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

I spent 24 years wearing this nations uniform.

Do you know what nobody ever told me?

That if I worked hard enough and sacrificed enough, someday my military career could be decided by the political opinion of a Fox News pundit playing Defense Secretary.

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@pensandpoison You mean they are English majors? How do you know?

[Charles Laughlin @charleslaughlin]

@BskiMike22802 Isn’t being shot the leading cause of death between ages 0-19?