Ford O'Connell

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[Ford O'Connell @FordOConnell]

You got to be kidding me.

—> Hiring US citizens is what American companies are supposed to do.

[Daily Wire @realDailyWire]

DOJ Targets Elon Musk’s SpaceX For Allegedly Preferring To Hire U.S. Citizens https://t.co/e9kPHAScgH

[Ford O'Connell @FordOConnell]

Not wrong.

[Caroline Wren @CarolineWren]

Can’t wait for Matt Damon to play Graham Platner in a future coming-of-age Netflix film about a spoiled rich kid who acts out as a teenager and is shipped off to an $80K a year boarding school only to get expelled after one semester for sexually assaulting a student then he joins the Marines as a fuck you to his parents and while enlisted he frequently posts on Reddit about how soldiers should bang hookers in Thailand then gets wasted in Croatia and gets a Nazi tattoo before deciding to move back to DC and bartend at Tune Inn where he meets a Blackwater executive who hires him to “work security” in Afghanistan which he does for a year before moving home to Maine to sell oysters to his mom and run for the U.S. Senate.

Give it the Oscar already.

[Ford O'Connell @FordOConnell]

Smh

[Chad Pergram @ChadPergram]

House cancels votes for tomorrow. Means the House won’t sync up with the Senate on the Border Patrol/ICE bill until next week until the earliest - even if the Senate is able to pass the bill tonight. The House changed its schedule to not have votes until Wednesday this week. GOP leadership planned to pass 3 “messaging” anti fraud bills this week. Passed 1. Debated another. Then pulled it from the schedule. And never got to a 3rd anti fraud bill dealing with “ghost students” and abuse of education aid.

[Ford O'Connell @FordOConnell]

She has a point.

[Karol Markowicz @karol]

This is the friendliest article the NYT could possibly print about Platner and he still sounds like an abusive lunatic.

[Townhall.com @townhallcom]

GRAHAM PLATNER BOMBSHELL DETAILS

- Knew tattoo was a Nazi symbol — called it "my Totenkopf"
- Unit picked SS death's-head on purpose: "they were killers"
- Joked about it being a Nazi tattoo while dating
- 3 exes: "toxic," demeaning, heavy drinking, cheating
- NYT story delayed by his own lawyers
- Ex: blocked her from leaving rooms, "uncontrollable fits of anger"
- One woman: "collateral damage to the world that is his"
- Called exes to vouch for him before story dropped
- Obsessed with rape
- Bruised women

More details below.

[Ford O'Connell @FordOConnell]

Love it.

[Formula 1 @F1]

BREAKING: The Las Vegas Grand Prix is confirmed to extend to 2037

#F1 #Formula1

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: The US Senate has just REJECTED the SAVE America Act as part of budget reconciliation, 48-50 — would've required voter ID and proof of citizenship nationwide

REPUBLICAN NAYs: Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell and Susan Collins

UNBELIEVABLE!!

It needed 60 votes.

Why can't the Senate pass what over 80% of Americans want?!

[James Blair @JamesBlairUSA]

Platner is getting the Swalwell treatment for a reason.

The call is coming from inside the house.

The lobbyist-owned octogenarian DEM establishment is trying to strangle the upstart progressives / liberals.

We’ll see if the lobbyists or the voters run their party.

[Ryan James Girdusky @RyanGirdusky]

According to The NY Times, Graham Platner’s ex-girlfriend said he would talk about his Nazi tattoo and said he knew it was a Nazi tattoo.

[Ford O'Connell @FordOConnell]

Correct.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Biggest takeaway from this Graham Platner disaster: Even if you're the most liberal Republican in the world-- somebody who votes with Democrats as much, if not more than Republicans while having an 'R' next to your name-- the Democrat Party will still do whatever it takes to replace you with a degenerate buffoon who will vote with them 100% of the time.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Graham Platner's odds have collapsed in the Maine Senate race following sexting allegations.

Republicans now favored to take the seat — 51% chance.

[Ford O'Connell @FordOConnell]

This.

[Daily Caller @DailyCaller]

Democrat Strategist Wrapped Up In Plot To Confuse Voters By Running Candidate With Same Name As GOP Incumbent: 'They know they can’t beat Dan Sullivan on his record' https://t.co/HfQBnt1edJ

[Insider Wire @InsiderWire]

#BREAKING: CBP intercepts boat carrying 240 Haitian nationals attempting to enter the U.S. illegally.

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

Florida routinely counts and reports nearly all of its 10+ million votes very quickly, with the vast majority done on Election Night or within 24 hours.

LA can’t even count under 1 million votes in days.

Same country, wildly different competence.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

DELANEY HALL 100: Fox News Digital investigation reveals network of roughly 100 groups with $825 million in combined annual revenue coordinating Newark ICE protests through encrypted Signal chats, strategic comms documents and military-style supply operations.

The groups — including the ACLU, Indivisible and Democratic Socialists of America — direct activists to call the detention center a 'concentration camp' and detainees 'captives' who were 'kidnapped.' About 70 of the organizations enjoy tax-exempt nonprofit status, now under congressional investigation for alleged abuse of those designations.

[Breitbart News @BreitbartNews]

Former Gov. @MainePaulLePage tells @slaterradio: “What people don’t realize, Graham Platner is very wealthy... He is really not what he portrays himself to be."

"He’s only got one client... he supplies the oysters to his mother’s little restaurant."

“He’s an elitist who just has gone off the grid. That’s it. And it’s gonna catch up to him.”

[Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs]

Trump at 3 pm today will announce $700 million for 13 current coal plants plus two new ones, sources told @saraecook @RichardEscobedo and me. He's using Defense Production Act. @CBSNews

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

Bessent exemplifies my favorite form of the political animal. He’s an articulate, clubbable, well-coiffed, bloodthirsty, savage beast. You love to see it.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

Last week, the state of New Jersey’s health inspectors went to Delaney Hall and didn’t find one SINGLE violation.

Compare this to the “DEPLORABLE” conditions of the New Jersey state prison system.

See for yourself ⬇️

https://t.co/rivUrDtJUd

[New York Post @nypost]

President Trump plans to attend Game 3 at MSG as Knicks host first NBA Finals contest in 27 years https://t.co/alGRfrj4c4

[Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 @ChristinaPushaw]

Ah yes, the Soviet Union. Famous for cutting taxes and protecting private property rights.