The First Lady

Campaign war-room survivor. Professional skeptic. DC governs too much bc Americans govern themselves too little. Thoughts are my own.

[𝔖𝔢𝔯 𝔓𝔯𝔢𝔡𝔡𝔦𝔢 𝔉𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔷𝔢 𝔍𝔯 @cinephile_matt]

Apple TV is cranking out nothing but straight gas. This shit looks fucking sick.⛽️

[Darvio Morrow @DTheKingpin]

Republicans are in the fight of their political lives in the midterms and this is what your “conservative” influencers choose to spend their time talking about. These people are so stupid and so racist that they would rather lose elections than not be stupid and racist. Normie Republicans, these are the people pushing poison to your base.

[SharrellAnne @SharrellAnne2]

Everybody losing their minds over this seems to live somewhere other than Arkansas. White Arkansans are the largest racial group receiving SNAP here. And let’s be serious, if Sarah had used a Black man in that ad, she would’ve been absolutely crucified for it.

Conservatives are supposed to be better than this. We complain constantly about the left reducing everything to race, then turn around and do the exact same thing when it’s politically convenient.

Do better.

[The First Lady @firstladyfc]

Buy books.

[The First Lady @firstladyfc]

“We have a plan. But I’m not gonna tell you. You gotta go read about it.”

Hell of a pitch from Paul-Ryan Fazio. Nothing inspires confidence like refusing to explain your own plan. Lmao.

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

“We have a plan for that.”

After eight years, Lamont has raised our taxes and raised fees in our electric bills to the point that Connecticut is completely unaffordable.

He’s running for four more years with no plan whatsoever to cut taxes, reduce fees in your electric bills, or bring jobs back.

Our campaign aims to be the most substantive in the entire country. We have laid out the most thorough set of plans of any gubernatorial campaign in the nation to cut taxes, reduce electric bills, improve housing, raise education outcomes, combat corruption and more.

Visit https://t.co/GvyzYa3pKZ to read all of our plans at length to learn how we can make our state affordable for all.

[Daniel Miressi @DanMiressiCT]

Our National Sport

[doomer @uncledoomer]

gen Z hasnt made any music like this because they cant. millenials seeing the towers fall as kids produced a generation of soulful indie musicians the likes of which the world will never see again

[Artist Formerly Known As @ESPNFrankie]

Wheeled that boy out like

[Prep Propaganda 👔 @prep_propaganda]

Autumn approaches

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Sometimes it feels like Millennials, who were born after the lead poisoning but before the algorithms, are the only truly sane generation.

[The First Lady @firstladyfc]

Update: it was not addressed…not even mentioned, lol. Shocker.

[The First Lady @firstladyfc]

Hey @ryanfazio, this was tweeted 24 hours ago. We can’t always wait for carefully crafted statements or poll tested responses. You know what needs to be said. Please speak out.

Electric bills and capping property taxes matter, and cosplaying Superman in campaign ads is cute. But none of that can substitute for taking a position when Connecticut’s policies are thrust into the national spotlight.

I’ll look forward to hearing you address this at the CTYR forum tomorrow.

[The First Lady @firstladyfc]

Yes.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@WhiteHouse Are we living in one of the deleted scenes in Idiocracy ?

[The First Lady @firstladyfc]

Hey @ryanfazio, this was tweeted 24 hours ago. We can’t always wait for carefully crafted statements or poll tested responses. You know what needs to be said. Please speak out.

Electric bills and capping property taxes matter, and cosplaying Superman in campaign ads is cute. But none of that can substitute for taking a position when Connecticut’s policies are thrust into the national spotlight.

I’ll look forward to hearing you address this at the CTYR forum tomorrow.

[The First Lady @firstladyfc]

I’d expect those numbers from someone who has been taking a run at this seat for the last 4 cycles. It’s not actually as impressive as his pedantic reply wants to lead you to believe while obfuscating your question, especially looking at the vote count with a low voter turnout because Rs just can’t seem to mobilize registered Rs not part of the town club; what’s more impressive is a first timer even got 26%, Chris Shea had less name recognition and performed way better…I write this fully well knowing I may get attacked but wouldn’t be the first time.

[The First Lady @firstladyfc]

We’ve entered an age where an activist/advocate/candidate who puts the citizen first is too often treated as a threat.

If they can’t be bullied into submission, they must be discredited. Slandered. Silenced. It comes in many forms, from both sides, because concentrated power has one overriding instinct: self-preservation.

There is no perfect messenger. There never has been, and never will be. And checking the right boxes on a resume was never supposed to be the barometer for who gets to represent the American people. Representation should be about judgment, character, conviction…and whether someone will carry the interests of their neighbors into the halls of govn’t and resist being compromised by external interests.

I saw a lot over four years immersed in CT politics. And somehow, I came out of it radicalized in the idea of THE PEOPLE.

Because beneath a lot of the gatekeeping, maneuvering and paternalism, especially in the Republican Party here, is a belief I find profoundly un-American: that ordinary people cannot be trusted to know what is good for them. That someone smarter, wealthier, better connected or more credentialed should narrow their choices and make those decisions for them.

Our Republic is faltering while the powers that be squabble over who gets to control it.

Political institutions fight to consolidate power. The wealthy protect systems that make it easier to become wealthier. Parties fight for control of the machinery. And ordinary Americans are told to pick a team and just…cheer.

The measure of our politics should not be who controls DC. It should be whether the American citizen is more prosperous, more secure, more capable of building a life, and more powerful within their own republic.

The citizen is not an obstacle to power. The citizen is the point. America cannot prosper when preserving power becomes more important than improving the lives of its people. #CT4ward

[The First Lady @firstladyfc]

@DanMiressiCT @CTDems Aaaaaand he’s back lol

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

An aspirant to the British throne returns to England after years of exile.

Russia is engaged in a war of conquest on the continent.

Food-borne illness ravages the New World.

It’s 1660 again, baby!

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

Justice Clarence Thomas choked up on stage as he revealed the vow he made when both his grandparents died suddenly in 1983: to live the rest of his life as a memorial to theirs.

Thomas, abandoned by his father at age seven, was raised by his maternal grandparents in segregated Savannah, Georgia. His grandfather Myers Anderson — raised by a freed slave — had only nine months of formal education. His grandmother Christine made it to the sixth grade. Yet education was their "crown jewel," and self-reliance was the only philosophy they preached.

Thomas said his grandfather's favorite response when young Clarence said he couldn't do something: "Old man can't is dead. I helped bury him."

[The First Lady @firstladyfc]

Precisely. I didn’t name anyone bc the point is bigger than any one politician or party. Sycophancy is sycophancy, regardless of who inspires it or which side engages in it.

This is commentary on a political culture that increasingly treats politicians as people to follow rather than representatives to hold accountable. Full stop.

[The First Lady @firstladyfc]

I have been thinking a lot about how Americans confuse free will with freedom.

Free will is our ability to choose. Freedom requires something more: that our choices have consequence and that the institutions governing us remain accountable to us.

America doesn’t need weaker govn’t or stronger govn’t. It needs stronger citizens…citizens who see politicians not as saviors, but as representatives; not as rulers with all the answers, but as messengers entrusted with the interests of the people. Sycophancy is sickening.

The American experiment was always supposed to put the citizen at the center. Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost the plot.

‘We the People’ was a declaration of self-government. It was never meant to morph into ‘We the Ruling Class.’

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

GEORGE WASHINGTON: "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, a free people ought to be constantly awake."