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We are the dreamers of dreams and the makers of reality - Willy Wonka

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

[D Z @dzemke]

@Megatron_ron Rutte has one of the hardest jobs in the world. He's trying to placate a bully while also trying to unite one of the most fragmented geographical unions ever. He's juggling knives while walking on a tightrope across the Grand Canyon.

[D Z @dzemke]

Trump's next book should be "The Art of Ruining A Democracy".

[Middle Age Riot @middleageriot]

Donald Trump ruins everything.

He ruined America's 250th birthday. He ruined the National Mall. He ruined fireworks. He ruined the bipartisan housing bill. He ruined passports. He ruined soccer.

And that's just in the past week.

[D Z @dzemke]

The endless grift goes on. It’s staggering to think of how much the Trumps have profited from their government connections.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[D Z @dzemke]

Prediction: Six months from now the great liar will lose and he will attempt to overthrow the election.

https://t.co/daflAnJtav

[D Z @dzemke]

You can be a liar, a felon and a pedophile, or you can be a president. You cannot be all of them.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both.

[D Z @dzemke]

When other people do it, it’s illegal. When the Trumps do it, it’s OK.

Hypocrisy thy name is Trump.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ferguson: I think it’s awesome when people succeed. He keeps doing business with his family. There’s nothing wrong with this.

Phillip: So you would’ve been ok with the so called Biden Crime Family if Biden had just been transparent?

Ferguson: Burisma was corruption. He didn’t know anything about the industry.

Phillip: What do the Trump sons know about mining rare earth minerals? What do they know about robotics?

Ferguson: A lot clearly. They made a lot of money off of it.

[D Z @dzemke]

@JesseBWatters @karolineleavitt Peddling the usual fears. The only communists are in the current administration. #notmyleader

[D Z @dzemke]

I’m not thrilled at all. Massive step backwards for the USA. Now more than ever we need alternative sources for energy. 🇺🇸

[Secretary Chris Wright @SecretaryWright]

I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for new wind and solar projects, thanks President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cut.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No President in History has ended the same war so many times.

Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.

No President has ever done this before.

And he is nowhere near finished ending it.

It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[D Z @dzemke]

@splendid_pete This woman is an idiot. I see flags everywhere here in Europe during World Cup. Flags hanging from balconies and on flagpoles everywhere.

[D Z @dzemke]

@nicksortor Seriously? How can he say this when he pardoned all the J6ers after they attempted to destroy the Capitol building? What a hypocrite.

[D Z @dzemke]

@RapidResponse47 @PressSec Only the Republicans and Trump could mess up the reflecting pool so badly and do such a poor job of repairing it-right before the 4th of July. Yet another sign of the gross ineptitude of the current administration.

[D Z @dzemke]

@PressSec Wow. Priorities! So glad he's protecting the reflecting pool, instead of inciting violence and destruction of DC federal buildings like he did on January 6th.

[D Z @dzemke]

@WhiteHouse If you felt so strongly about vandalism of our nations capital, please explain why the J6er’s were pardoned after vandalizing the US Capitol on Jan 6th.

[D Z @dzemke]

@ScottJenningsKY So you say "anybody who vandalizes our national monuments should be caught and put in jail. . did you see what the J6ers did to the US Capitol? b/c Trump gave them all a pardon. #notmypresident #hypocrisy

[D Z @dzemke]

I still believe in a fair and just America. 🇺🇸 Thank you @BarackObama for your years of service. Can’t wait to visit the new center next time I am in Chicago

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

More than 40 years ago, I arrived in Chicago in search of an idea. I was a young man looking for purpose, who believed deeply in America, was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and wanted to be a part of something larger. The America I believed in was one where everyone has opportunity, everyone is seen, everyone belongs—because that was an America that had a place for me, too.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

For the 5,447,992nd time, pointing out their hypocrisy will not work.

Maybe you should look into why people believe it. That might be a great avenue for you to pursue.

You can lead a horse to water…