Drea

American history nerd & Broadway fanatic
NJ-based, living for the next show 🎭

Probably already on the next train to NYC.

[Drea @DreBohm]

Irony at its finest. Chefs kiss. No notes.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

Way too many people are upset about having a fund for the January 6ers, but how else are they supposed to pay their bail or hire a lawyer when their inevitably rearrested for child sexual assault or domestic violence?

[Drea @DreBohm]

@RepJackKimble The joke went straight over so many heads, which is terrifying because those people vote.

[Drea @DreBohm]

@SecRollins Was trump napping during another meeting and he's finally awake?

[Drea @DreBohm]

@dblmdesigns @News12NJ "Officials have not released any details about the victims, any potential suspects or what led up to the mass shooting" yet you jump straight to ICE?
Be careful, your xenophobia is showing.

[Drea @DreBohm]

@MattOrlansky @NYCMayor Why is it always a douchebag that doesn't even live in the city 😂

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

In the federal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the coastal authorities, who investigate seashell-related crimes; and the Department of Justice, who prosecute the offenders.

[JJ Watt @JJWatt]

Hearing rumblings that your favorite team is either looking to move up or trade back or draft the greatest player in history or whiff on a complete bust. Buckle Up.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

[Drea @DreBohm]

@SenTuberville Except for the fact that it was not. It was founded on religious freedom.

[Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff]

9 years ago.

@HillaryClinton warned us:

“This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

8:06 AM. The man whose name is on a book I wrote posted: "A whole civilization will die tonight."

I am a ghostwriter. In 1987, I wrote the most famous business book in American history.

Half the advance. Half the royalties. Eighteen months in his office, listening to his phone calls. He would flatter, threaten, hang up, and call the next person the greatest. I wrote it all down. I made it sound like strategy.

Chapter 1 was about thinking big. I wrote that about condominiums.

This morning, at 8:06 AM, the man whose name is on the cover posted seven sentences to a social media platform. The first: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

That is Chapter 1.

I wrote that about condominiums.

Chapter 3 was about leverage. "The best thing you can do is deal from strength." The example was a zoning board. The technique was implying you had options you didn't have.

He is using Chapter 3 on a strait that carries 20% of the world's oil. The zoning board is a shipping lane. The leverage is a navy.

I invented a phrase for him. "Truthful hyperbole." An innocent form of exaggeration, I wrote. A very effective form of promotion.

I was describing how he inflated square footage.

Thirteen thousand targets struck. Two thousand and fifty-six dead. Twenty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven wounded.

I wrote "truthful hyperbole" about square footage.

Chapter 4 was about timing. When to make the call. When to let them wait. When to close. I was describing a contractor negotiation.

He paused the bombing for Easter. Resumed it Monday. His Defense Secretary compared the rescue of a downed pilot to the resurrection of Christ. Shot down on Good Friday. Hidden in a cave on Saturday. Rescued as the sun rose on Easter Sunday.

I wrote about timing. I was describing when to return a phone call.

At the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn, while children hunted eggs, he told the cameras: "We are obliterating their country. And I hate to do it, but we are obliterating."

Chapter 2 was about promotion. I wrote that about how to sell a building.

A reporter asked if destroying every bridge in a nation of 88 million constituted war crimes.

Three words: "Not worried about it."

A journalist reported a downed pilot missing behind enemy lines. He threatened to jail the reporter. I looked through the manuscript. There is no chapter on press freedom. There is no chapter on international law. There is no chapter on what happens when the contractor you're threatening is a civilization.

I didn't write those chapters. I was writing about real estate. He didn't notice they were missing. He doesn't read.

Someone asked if God supported the war. "God is good."

There is no chapter on theology either.

Chapter 7 was about knowing when to walk away. I described a stalled deal. The lesson was patience.

He walked away from every alliance his country had built in eighty years. Forty countries formed a coalition to guard the strait because nobody answered the phone.

In my journal, in 1986, I wrote: "All he is is 'stomp, stomp, stomp' — recognition from outside, bigger, more, a whole series of things that go nowhere in particular."

Forty years. Nothing has changed except the size of the things being stomped.

I know he never read the book. Eighteen months together, I never saw one on his desk. Not mine. Not anyone's. The man whose name is on the most famous business book in American history has never read a book.

He didn't need to. It was never a manual. It was a mirror. He looked at the cover — his name, in gold, larger than the title, as he'd requested — and saw everything he needed.

"A whole civilization will die tonight."

Seven sentences. 8:06 AM. A Tuesday.

I called it truthful hyperbole.

He is calling it foreign policy.

I built the mythology. He added a military.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

The world is on edge today because of this fucking moron. He’s a felon, a rapist, a pedophile now threatening to wipe out a civilization.

A special “FUCK YOU” to his enablers and the 77 million who looked at this ignoramus and said, “Yep, that’s our guy.”

[Abraham Mendieta @abrahamendieta]

Cuando te sientas estupido, recuerda que María Corina Machado le regaló su Premio Nobel de la Paz al tipo que hoy amenaza con destruir con bombas nucleares una civilización entera…

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.

[Drea @DreBohm]

@RepJackKimble I have one question: Team Edward, or Team Jacob? I need to know, please.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Happy Passover, New York. Here's to building a city where even the poorest among us know that their cup will be filled. Where all who are hungry can come and eat.

Chag Sameach and a koshern un freilichen Pesach.

[Drea @DreBohm]

@KerryTalbot74 @AOC @BigFish3000 You're a peach.

[Drea @DreBohm]

@stefiegirlNYG My BF’s late uncle Jim, a Dolphins RB, suffered from CTE-linked dementia. He’s one of 350+ confirmed cases, 6 from his 1972 team alone. CTE is real.
Deniers can kick rocks, no matter how talented they are at the game. 🐬🏈 #CTE #NFL
(Screenshot of an article from 2/2022)

[Drea @DreBohm]

@covertwarwounds @jr_tnd @propublica Maybe taxes wouldn't be so high if blue states didn't have to support the financially failing red states? Because I hope you realize that's what happens. A majority of the so-called red states get monetary help from the so-called "failing" blue states.