Eric

Father, husband, disabled Marine veteran, therapist, Central Valley born and raised.

[Eric @EricG1247]

Why are things expensive?

4 companies control 55% to 85% of the meat market.

4 airlines control 80% of air travel.

3 companies control 92% of the soda market.

3 companies control 73% of the cereal market.

Why don't I hear about it?

6 companies control 90% of the news.

[Eric @EricG1247]

You don't have secret meetings in top secret facilities about a child sex slaver and trump unless you know he raped children.

Everyone in the trump administration is protecting a child rapist, except the one who went to the press.

https://t.co/8k2TcJMV0p

[Eric @EricG1247]

@ImBreckWorsham Open borders is an international agreement. Most of the EU has open borders where people can freely travel between countries without being checked. The US has no such agreement.

Gun safety laws prevent terrorists from getting guns.

You want terrorists to get guns here?

[Eric @EricG1247]

@MrEvanRoss Does he have credible allegations of raping children?

[Eric @EricG1247]

I'm asking honestly

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

I have been a lifelong Democrat. I am remaining a Democrat because I refuse to surrender our party to bigots who hate America. Having said that, we seem to have an increasing number of bigots who hate America in our party.

[Eric @EricG1247]

Wait until you find out what he did to children...

[Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera]

She Is Still from Alabama

President Trump has a real issue with female reporters who ask tough questions. When he goes off on one there is an ugly edge to his voice. I have been raised to treat women with a certain deference, even reporters. I don't mean that they should be pampered or judged by a lesser standard, I mean this guy seems like an abusive spouse.

It happens regularly. Just a couple of days ago in Wisconsin where Kristen Welker the fine moderator of NBC's Meet the Press mentioned that there is no evidence that the election of 2020 was rigged, Trump went off on her as if she was singularly responsible for him losing to Joe Biden. With the menace of an aging gangster, he leaned into her as if he was going to pummel her right there on live television, accusing the long-established forum for newsmakers of being “crooked” and Welker herself, “stupid.” Stupid? Who calls a woman or anybody stupid to their face on international television for asking a question that he's been asked 1000’s times before? He dramatically tore off his microphone, got up, ending the interview abruptly despite Welker’s entreaties to give her a break since she went all the way to Wisconsin to get a couple of minutes of his time.

Women who survive the rough and tumble world of political journalism must have thick skins. But in more than half a century of reporting I have never seen anyone as rude and distasteful as President Trump, who routinely insults the looks, ethics and competence of female reporters who cover the White House. He calls them “garbage.” Sometimes, he doesn't even wait for the question before exploding and insulting the woman with the temerity to look him in the eye and ask something remotely edgy. Why doesn’t the White House press corps stick up for the targets of his sexist diatribes?

On board Air Force One a year ago Trump insulted Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey, trying to ask a totally appropriate question about Jeffrey Epstein during the period that story was leading the news. He answered her first question then snapped “Quiet Piggy.” Piggy?! Calling HR!

However raw and inappropriate his exchanges with women reporters generally, none have been as insulting and offensive as President Trump's attacks on CNN’s former Chief White House Correspondent now anchor of her own weeknight show “The Source with Kaitlin Collins.” The history of their interactions stretches back to Trump’s first term but let us start with this week's $1.8 billion slush fund. Trump was in the middle answering another reporter’s question when he turned to Collins and out of nowhere said, “I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes, like she has hatred because we have borders, because we have a strong military, because we cut our taxes, because we do things that everybody wanted and then we win our election in a massive landslide.”

When Collins suggested that the slush fund could be used to pay off January 6th rioters who went to jail for attacking cops, Trump, his voice dripping with venom looking straight at her says “…you should be ashamed of yourself. You used to be a conservative. She was a conservative from Alabama,” he tells the crowd. “Can you believe it?”

Unflustered Collins, unsmiling responds, “I'm still from Alabama.”

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[Eric @EricG1247]

If there is a hell, I'll be seeing this asshole there......from heaven.

[Eric @EricG1247]

He is probably dying.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

President Trump has no public events on his schedule again today. That means it has now been one week since he has appeared publicly for anything besides a pre-taped interview. His last public event was his cabinet meeting last Wednesday, one day after his trip to Walter Reed.

[Eric @EricG1247]

It's because white supremacists hate people who are not white.

They use the law as a cover for their hatred.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

When people say "I'd do anything for my child," everyone praises them, but when a parent risks crossing a border to save their child from war, poverty, or danger, suddenly they're treated like criminals.

[Eric @EricG1247]

It's not rocket science.

They had outdated info.

Used an automated system to fire missiles to kill people.

Missiles killed children.

A lot of people didn't care because they had brown skin.

Or a psychopath knew it was children and fired anyway.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Has Hegseth finished that “investigation” of what happened on the bombing of the elementary school where all those kids are killed?

Americans talked about My Lai for years. Decades. Now nothing seems to matter anymore and we just move on.

When do we get the findings from that?

[Eric @EricG1247]

I joined the Marine Corps at 17 during a time of war.

Deployed to a warzone by 20.

I couldn't rent a car or buy alcohol but I could go to a warzone to kill or die.

Take all the fucks and shove it.

[Gary Kendall @garykendall286]

@chicfryrice Now Let me get this Straight….. Someone that is 18 not a HS Grad, has NEVER Paid Income Tax, hasn’t eve4 had a Real Job, doesn’t own any Real Property, never Paid Insurance or Medical Bills is Still allowed to Drive Hold Office and VOTE?

That’s ridiculous!

[Eric @EricG1247]

Do the camps come after identification?

[Bloomberg Law @BLaw]

The US Justice Department is seeking the names, addresses, and banking information of Reddit and X users, ratcheting up efforts to identify social media critics of government deportation efforts. https://t.co/7juwC4RkJo

[Eric @EricG1247]

About 800 people in the US have over $7,000,000,000,000 combined, but people are fighting over the property tax of seniors.

Wake up!!!!

[Eric @EricG1247]

What a horrible life to have lived to think a parent throwing their child down the stairs was not only acceptable but a good thing.

[Eric @EricG1247]

Anyone with money can buy our politicians. This is not new

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

I can't believe this, Israel can just buy our elections now?

[Eric @EricG1247]

@DeathMetalV Some do just not in the way that we would have hoped for...

[Eric @EricG1247]

@Mr_BoltUp I'm skeptical of any person who makes money from coal and private prisons only to turn around and say he will go after the same type of people.

[Eric @EricG1247]

If you comment right now with a plan to hold people who hide behind corporations accountable when they cut corners to make money and people get sick or die from those decisions, I will vote for you right now.

But odds are you paid someone to run this account.

[Tom Steyer @TomSteyer]

If you like how things are going in California and how much everything costs, I’m not your candidate.

If you think we need real change, I’m your guy.

[Eric @EricG1247]

@katieporterca What's your plan for the Central Valley and the shortage of drs?

Did you know about it?

What about our poisoned water?
Or the pollution that kills more people than homicide some years?

[Eric @EricG1247]

@Mr_BoltUp Tax them? They filed bankruptcy and then raised their rates to cover it.

Pge needs to be gone and laws need to change where greedy people cutting corners that lead to death or injury of people need to face jail time.

[Eric @EricG1247]

Do people like this actually believe this, or are they just cowards and don't want to be next?

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

President Trump is the most powerful political force in modern American history.

[Eric @EricG1247]

Hard pass

"Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) voted against The Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which made lynching a federal hate crime, when it passed the U.S. House of Representatives."

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

Should Rep. Thomas Massie run for independent?

(A: Yes
(B: No