Don Simpson

Grateful husband, dad, and grandpa. Missouri State University alumnus and retiree. Truth matters.

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

Wasn't it nice to live a few years without the constant anxiety over what the President would do next?

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

A rapist for AG.
A spy for DNI.
A zealot for Defense.
An antivaxer for Health.
A criminal for president.

This is what Orwellian means.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Look, I don’t think @TulsiGabbard can be trusted with our nation’s intelligence. It would be like putting @TuckerCarlson or Putin himself in charge of our intelligence. But here’s the problem. Donald Trump can’t be trusted with our nation’s intelligence. And we just elected him President. Both Gabbard & Trump are compromised. Both Gabbard & Trump side with Putin. But they are what America voted for because eggs are too expensive.

[John Clune @CluneEsq]

Mr. Gaetz's likely nomination as Attorney General is a perverse development in a truly dark series of events. We would support the House Ethics Committee immediately releasing their report. She was a high school student and there were witnesses.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Tulsi Gabbard just went from being secretly followed around airports this summer by dog teams and undercover agents (research it) to becoming the Director of National Intelligence.

This doesn't even happen in the movies.

We were living under tyranny.

[Archive: Rep. Abigail Spanberger @RepSpanberger]

As a former CIA case officer, I saw the men and women of the U.S. intelligence community put their lives on the line every day for this country — and I am appalled at the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to lead DNI. (1/3)

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

We’re about to find out whether there are any patriots among Republican Senators, or whether they’ll make excuses for the foreign-backed demolition of our Republic that is now plainly underway.

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

🚨 🚨BREAKING NEWS FROM @PunchbowlNews :

Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-Fla.) resignation from Congress came two days before the House Ethics Committee was set to vote on releasing a “highly damaging” report outlining its investigation into the Republican, according to multiple sources familiar with the probe.

The committee planned to vote Friday on releasing the report. Ethics loses its jurisdiction over Gaetz when he leaves Congress.

The secretive panel has been investigating Gaetz on and off since 2021.

President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Gaetz to be attorney general Wednesday.

@MZanona @bresreports

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Imagine if during the 2020 campaign, Mark Zuckerberg had come out & publicly endorsed Biden, used his social media platforms to push pro-Biden information and spread disinformation about Trump, then spent millions of his own money on pro-Biden PACS, and then campaigned his butt off for Biden. And then when Biden won, Zuckerberg became Biden’s closest advisor, basically setting up camp at the White House.

Look, it’s a free country, but I’m just wondering…would Hannity and the rest of the right wing media world be upset? Would Trump’s supporters be upset?

[Leslieoo7 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @Leslieoo7]

I'm just going to leave this here for posterity.

[Don Simpson @diradm]

@alx @SenWarren So due to wrongs make a right now?

If we really want to preserve this great country of ours, can we please just all agree that everyone, including an incoming president, should follow our laws?

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

As usual, President Biden quietly attended Mass in Delaware this evening, keeping up his record as the most consistently church-going president in modern history.

Faith isn’t a prop for him—it’s personal, something he genuinely lives by. Meanwhile, Christian conservatives just helped elect someone who would probably need a GPS to find a church.

I'll never understand it.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Bill Maher: "The only reason we're sitting here so peacefully now is because the one party that still believes in conceding elections lost. If the other guy had one, it would be a shitshow now."

[✭ 🅑🅤🅑🅑🅐 ✭ @BubbatheOG]

He summed it up like few could. 🫡

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

I’m listening to Republican strategist Sarah Longwell on NPR talking about public opinion of Trump’s tyrannical posture and she just said:

“When I ask voters in focus groups if they think Donald Trump is an authoritarian, the #1 response by far is, ‘what’s an authoritarian?’”

[Critter @asclepiasyriaca]

Seniors voted to gut Social Security.

Men voted for their wives and daughters to die from miscarriages.

Immigrants voted for deportation raids.

Poor people voted for tax cuts for billionaires.

Women voted to have fewer rights than men.

Police voted for a convicted felon.

[Tommy Santos @tommysantos14]

So when Trump fires all non-partisan career professionals in government, replaces them with radical loyalists within every nook and cranny of the US government, and adds radical judges everywhere.

And every one of you that voted for him finally wake up from your fucked up fantasy just like the folks that woke up after 4 years of the last shit show, only to realize it’s much much worse, and much more permanent, this time.

When the cancer you caused has infected every bit of the American system and it can’t be unwound for a lifetime.

What then?

Do you beg this country for forgiveness for choosing fascism because you were conned into believing your eggs are too expensive because of Joe Biden?

You just put Steve Bannon in charge of American policy.

You just put Michael Flynn in charge of our military.

You just put Alex Jones in charge of media and propaganda.

You just put Stephen Miller in charge of immigration policy.

You just put batshit crazy RFK Jr. in charge of health policy.

You just killed free public education and privatized schools, which you will have to pay for.

You just sealed the deal on a national abortion ban, because you’re demented if you think it’s not coming.

You just radicalized the Supreme Court for a generation.

You just made women less safe and less free.

You just made this country an oligarchy with the billionaires quite literally in charge now.

You just put in office the one person that believes a president is a king, with the fucking Supreme Court ruling to prove it in his back pocket!

You just ushered in Fascism.

Because your cereal costs more.

Congratulations.

[Don Simpson @diradm]

@CollinRugg So let’s see what Trump says…and more importantly, does…to restore the “unity” to which he refers. Is he willing to set aside his yearn for revenge? Is he willing to offer the other side a seat at the table?

[Lili Reinhart @lilireinhart]

I cannot fathom the feeling of the women who came forward about their sexual assault at the hands of Trump. Seeing millions of people vote for their abuser.
My heart absolutely breaks for these women. I believe you, and I am so sorry.

[Don Simpson @diradm]

@FPWellman Sounds right. Guess this is what they mean by making America great again.