Chunky

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[Chunky @Chunky_Brew]

One of my favorite quotes of all time, and still helps me to this day be a better, happier person, is this by the brave and beautiful Jane ‘Nightbirde’ Marczewski.

“You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Gavin Newsom goes off on the Trump Family corruption:

Newsom: And I’m not talking about the $100,000 watches. I’m not talking about the guitars that he’s selling that you didn’t even know about, or the Bibles, or the sneakers. I’m not talking about all that.

I’m talking about what’s happening substantively with these kids and these investments, and the Pentagon contracts they’re receiving on rare earth minerals and drone companies, and all the stuff that’s happening with the Kushner family, the Witkoff family, the “Board of Peace,” which is about getting a piece of the Middle East.

Let’s talk about the UAE and high-value chips, where they’re getting a piece of our national security, where the Biden administration held off. But as long as you can get a deal done with the UAE on the private family businesses, then all of a sudden national security becomes less of an important talking point.

Or how about the tariff relief in places like Vietnam for the golf courses and the development deals, and the dozen other countries that he’s doing business in? How about all the corruption as it relates to the self-dealing with his resorts and all of his assets that the Secret Service and taxpayers are subsidizing? Or directing G7 investments? Or the emoluments issues across the spectrum every day? Or just the day trading literally behind the Oval Office desk, or showing up on your calendar at a company that you just invested in because you know that stock’s going to pop because you’re going to promote it the next day?

All of this happening—this open sewage system. You talk about draining the swamp. He gave it a presidential suite with gold leaf.

And you’re seeing this gross corruption at a scale and scope never before seen in modern American history. This is stuff I don’t even imagine exists at this scale in a year and a half, even in Putin’s Russia or Kim Jong-un’s North Korea.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Start with this traitor

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen?

BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests.

BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool?

BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you and others in the media wanna keep questioning it

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Pussies

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jim Acosta says all the Trump vanity projects should be torn down:

Bring in a panel of experts to look at how the ballroom could be retrofitted so it doesn’t look like an eyesore and an embarrassment. And if that can’t happen, then you tear the whole thing down and start all over again.

This is like the end days of Saddam Hussein that we’re seeing right now, with the way he’s trying to build things and take over projects down in Washington, D.C. It does not speak to somebody who is at all healthy.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Cooper: I've seen governments and dictators rise and fall, people and places torn apart by lies and hate and war. And I've seen people do things and heard them say things that I could never have imagined. I've seen what we humans are capable of when everything else is stripped away. Yes, great acts of barbarism and brutality. But we are also capable of remarkable acts of heroism and kindness. It's a choice, and the choice is up to us

Let's hope 50 years from now, someone standing here or somewhere on the eve of the 300th anniversary of this republic will look back and say of us: they didn’t know if they would make it through but they did.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Lately, it seems like wherever Trump goes, inclement weather follows. The guy is literally a black cloud.

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

CONGRATULATIONS TO TAYLOR SWIFT AND TRAVIS KELCE ON GETTING MARRIED! WE LOVE YOU.

IGNORE DONALD, HIS WALKER BROKE, HIS RATINGS TANKED, HIS WIFE RAN AWAY, NO ONE CAME TO HIS FREEDOM 250 LEMONADE STAND, AND HE'S OUT OF METAMUCIL, DIAPERS AND HAIR.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Don't let Republican MAGA-fascists try to convince y'all of anything different.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

1. Communism is utterly un-American.

2. Authoritarianism/fascism is utterly un-American too.

3. The Democratic Party is not Communist. Not yet. Not even close.

4. The Republican Party IS
authoritarian/fascist. RIGHT NOW.

So…which party is the greater threat to America?

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

Sometimes bigger isn’t better.
This was one of those times.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

As I told @jacobsoboroff on @MSNOWNews if they wanted lines on the Mall this week they should have put Trump in a dunk tank…

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BASH: The president's armored motorcade of SUVs, which can weigh up to 20,000 pounds, drove across that new coating of the reflecting pool. Could that have damaged it?

BURGUM: No. There was no damage that night whatsoever.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

If anybody knows the names of any of the far right white supremacists yesterday, please DM me their information. Thank you.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Looking at the week ahead, Elias Law Group is litigating 80 voting and election cases in 40 states (plus DC). This is a lot of work for a small firm of 60+ lawyers.

When we fight we can win!⚖️🗳️💪

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Imagine blatantly lying about vandalism in the reflecting because a pedophile told you to.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Before a July 4th performance of "Party in the USA" Miley Cyrus stood up for equality, healthcare, and more.

"It's not a party in the USA if we don't have equality, unity, justice, compassion, kindness, opportunity, health care, education, non-violence. So f--k yeah, it will be a party in the USA, we'll see it, and if we all fu--ing come together, we'll fu--ing make sure that it is."

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

"What if there's some asshole in office, some narcissistic prick who doesn't follow the Constitution..."

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Nothing screams “American Pride” quite like the president of the United States marking our 250th by using a made up quote from our founding document to get a crowd of smooth brained shidiots to cheer because it validates their hatred of people who don’t worship the way they do.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Burgum: "The algae is all gone. That was a momentary thing. As it was being filled, there was algae in the pipes."

(So much for Trump's talking point that vandals put algae in the reflecting pool!)