Colin Sourke

Professional Wino

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

If you read one thing today….

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I hate all genocide supporters equally, regardless of their religion. Your religion is like your dreams: completely uninteresting to me. If you support an active genocide you're a bad person who deserves to be shunned and reviled, regardless of what your religion happens to be.

It's so wild how Jewish people will just stride confidently into public discourse about Gaza while strongly emphasizing their Jewishness, as though their support for genocide is somehow special and different from any other asshole's support for genocide. Wanting to starve civilians and mass murder children makes you a piece of shit, whether you are Jewish, Mormon, or Buddhist.

Nobody cares what religious belief systems you happen to hold in your head while you advocate massacring civilians, they care about the fact that you advocate massacring civilians. Being Jewish doesn't give you some kind of magical immunity from being held to basic moral standards and being judged by society for supporting a mass atrocity. It's got nothing to do with anything.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

History will judge very brutally those that stood aside whilst Palestinian lives were being destroyed.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

This speech is full of half-truths, distortions, misleading claims and outright lies.

Basically living up to every meme, trope and unfair stereotype, of Americans being ignorant morons.

I'll go through each of the claims he made in this segment and what the actual facts are. /1

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Human Rights Watch said in a report that Israel's repeated evacuation orders in Gaza amount to the "war crime of forcible transfer" and to "ethnic cleansing" in parts of the Palestinian territory
https://t.co/9qEYSO3lf3

[Colin Sourke @colinsourke]

@OdohertyI64991 @RachelMoiselle Oh the irony that this once semi-respected journalist who has started to throw around childish terms like ‘simp’ in every second tweet, while simultaneously becoming this woman’s top ‘reply guy’ 😂
Get off 4chan Ian, and take a long hard look at yourself.

[Colin Sourke @colinsourke]

Why would it be “worrying”, David? We as Irish people are lucky enough to live in a country where nobody is in fear of their lives or even worried about their safety based on their religion, nationality, sexual orientation etc. , as much as you seem to enjoy suggesting differently. The same cannot be said if you are a Palestinian, or indeed an Israeli Arab. The vast majority of Irish people stand for common decency, and are appalled by this genocide being perpetrated by the state of Israel. Being Jewish or anything else does not come into it, as much as you try to make that the case.

[Colin Sourke @colinsourke]

@richardtgarland Wasting the executive’s time playing political point scoring, all for a cheap win and a few sunbird and retweets from the likes of you. Have a look at your self, Richard.

[Colin Sourke @colinsourke]

@richardtgarland As disgraceful as the situation is, deliberately asking a question that’s worded in a way that someone cannot possibly reply is what is pathetic, and you know it. He might as well have asked for assurances that it’s not going to rain tomorrow

[Colin Sourke @colinsourke]

@OGTaylorB @TheStalwart @tracyalloway @_danielle_carr Thanks for the reply. It has been hard to give up coffee, as I love it, but I’m trying. Do you take any complementary supplements that help with dopamine production? I take l-tyrosine, magnesium and lions mane along with meds. I’m hoping they will help alongside regular meds

[Colin Sourke @colinsourke]

@OGTaylorB @TheStalwart @tracyalloway @_danielle_carr I have just started on ADHD medication. I haven’t heard of cases where the medication stops working before. This is worrying.

[Colin Sourke @colinsourke]

@msbet_neo_rush This kind of rubbish is the lowest of the low - preying on gambling addiction which has become an epidemic in our society. Shameful.

[The author, Séamas O'Reilly @shockproofbeats]

RIP Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh.

Arguably my biggest single contribution to British journalism is the amount of times I've introduced his commentary quotes to awed and thankful English journalists.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

James Baldwin, 45 years ago — eight years before Hamas was founded

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The UN court ordered Israel to stop its assault on Rafah to prevent the genocide of Palestinians. Israel responded to this by striking a UN refugee camp in Rafah full of Palestinian civilians in tents. This is a very clear statement on what Israel is and what it is doing in Gaza.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

So, the Israeli Army decided that burning books is also a great idea. Could they try any harder to prove that Israel is now adopting every trick in the book of those who haunted Jews and progressive non-Jews decades ago?

[Abier @abierkhatib]

This is the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Arieh King, in his own words.

This monster rules over the lives of more than 400K Palestinians in Jerusalem.

[katy moukakou @princessekateri]

Paul Auster
R.I.P.