Pat Flannery

Gramps lost his mind and started new Twitter acct. Doesn’t care whatcha think. Retired newsman. Family. Music. Travel. Mean people: Begone.

[Pat Flannery @flanaznc]

I’m reading Andrew Lawler’s book, “A Perfect Frenzy,” and ran across this while doing some background reading on the Web. He’s right. As a country, we can’t seem to cope with uncomfortable truths — particularly in this peculiar post-factual era. https://t.co/z8HLNpt6Yc

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it.

[Pat Flannery @flanaznc]

AN IMPORTANT ESSAY:
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. https://t.co/8JIrdCG1Ef via @NYTOpinion

[Pat Flannery @flanaznc]

This former Marine knows what he’s talking about. He takes his Semper Fi seriously. Trump could learn a thing or two from him. https://t.co/k0twubRqb4

[Pat Flannery @flanaznc]

From John D’Anna in Calif: Why the death of reporter Ruben Salazar 55 years ago resonates with journalists covering LA protests today https://t.co/vDPu8tPaHH

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Opinion | We are witnessing the suicide of a superpower - The Washington Post

This is really sobering and important piece. https://t.co/BklSt0Q4fP

[Dan Nowicki @dannowicki]

DON'T MISS: "How one night in Tempe sparked Willie Nelson's outlaw country revolution." (via @EdMasley) https://t.co/ov5FciKYBq

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

The DOJ memo approving Trump’s Qatari jet?

Written by Pam Bondi.

Her last job? Lobbying for Qatar.

https://t.co/K0cjGYBQMV

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

This is what happened when Clarence Thomas was not punished for hiding secret free trips on a private jet.

Donald Trump now is taking a free private jet — the whole damn plane — and he’s not hiding it at all.

Corruption is a slippery slope to losing your country completely.

[Pat Flannery @flanaznc]

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[Drunk Ryan Poles @DrunkRyanPoles]

Azeez Al-Shaair back at it with ANOTHER DIRTY ass hit.

Trevor Lawrence carted out of the game soooo maybe the #NFL will do more than just fine him $11k.

But prob not @NFLOfficiating 😑

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

I've been involved in winning presidential races and races that lost. One common thread is that everyone seems to have a reason why you won or lost which usually reflects a personal perspective or agenda.

So here's mine: I think VP Harris ran a very good campaign that operated at a high level. She had a great convention, crushed Trump in a debate, and put on a series of big event rallies that were the best I'd ever seen.

As a Republican operative, I spent years pointing out flaws in the Democratic Party and I'm not here to say it doesn't need to go through a period of questioning and self-reflection. Those are much larger questions than one election and one campaign. But the Republican party is an anti-democratic movement, attacking the pillars of American democracy from elections to the judicial system.

I understand those who say that if there had been a "normal" Democratic primary, the results would have been better. Maybe. But think about it. In modern political history, every time a sitting VP has run for the nomination, that VP has won. Perhaps it would have been different this time and the eventual nominee would have emerged stronger for the process. But more likely there would have been a bloody primary fight that left the nominee broke and trying to patch together a fractured party to face a Republican party that has become Donald Trump's party. In all probability, VP Harris would have won that primary and been in a weakened and vulnerable position when it was finally resolved in May or June.

I would say to my Democratic friends to go through this post-election process with open minds and hearts but never doubt that the Democratic party is the only pro-democracy party in America. No one will have a position in Trump's administration who is not an election denier adhering to the Big Lie. That's toxic to a country's sense of self and the damage will take a generation to repair, if it is possible to heal.

Losing an election does not mean that you were wrong and they were right. It means you lost an election. I grew up in Mississippi watching my parents back candidates opposed to segregation. When those candidates lost, and they did for a long time, my parents didn't question if they were on the right side. They didn't ask themselves if the majority who supported segregation had proven the justness of their cause by winning.

The mid-terms start after the Super Bowl. It will likely be a good election for Democrats and then the 2028 presidential race will be upon us. After a loss, the days seem long but the months will pass quickly. Reflect, rest up, but come back prepared to fight. Fight not because victory is assured but fight because not to fight is to give up. And if we do that, we no longer deserve to call ourselves Americans.

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[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Kerry Kennedy on her brother, RFK Jr:

"I am disgusted by my brother’s obscene embrace of Donald Trump. And I completely disavow and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. and his flagrant efforts to desecrate my father's memory." @Acyn (August)

[Maneli Mirkhan | مانلی میرخان @ManeliMirkhan]

Look into her eyes.
The eyes of an Iranian woman – strong, courageous, defying tyranny where the world has looked away.

A gaze that the Tehran regime has decided to extinguish, one morning, at the hour of their prayers.

They are going to execute her. Her name is Varishe Moradi.

Wake up, world. Don’t let bravery die in silence.

#VarisheMoradi

[Banjo Skeptic @BanjoAtheist]

Compassionate Family Values Christian friends: I’d love your thoughts on this.

I know a hard-working, non-criminal, undocumented Mexican woman who’s been in the USA 20 years and has four US citizen kids.

What would you like to see Donald Trump do to that family?

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"Still, it wasn’t the Democratic party that nominated Trump three times. It wasn’t Democrats who shied away from the fight against Trump. It’s the Republican party that has deeply, catastrophically, perhaps decisively failed America this past decade."
https://t.co/b1KuqiD9zZ

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"Reelecting Donald Trump after January 6 is the greatest dereliction of civic duty by the electorate in the history of the United States. We’ll pay for it in years to come..."

https://t.co/gVtekyqnbO"

[Jeffrey Wright 🥜 @jfreewright]

I’ve attended DC football games since 1970. That was as good as I’ve ever seen. That’s why we do this. That’s who were. That who we are again. The future is now!!!!