Derek Lyons

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

Charlie Kirk hasn't said anything racist or divisive in 9 months.

[Derek Lyons @greatergator]

Damn. This was said perfectly.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Bryce Mitchell on Trump's White House UFC fight:

Our government is desecrating its role in society by entertaining sports. Our government is to protect and serve the people. Our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation. The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Bryce Mitchell on Trump's White House UFC fight:

Our government is desecrating its role in society by entertaining sports. Our government is to protect and serve the people. Our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation. The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us.

[top_gun 🇺🇸 @top_gun_i4u]

@CollinRugg Better check this place next.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

A farmer buys a young cock. As soon as he gets it home, it f*cks all the farmer's 150 hens. The farmer is impressed. At lunch the cock screws all 150 hens again.

The next day it's f*cking the ducks and geese too. Later he finds the cock lying on the ground half-dead with vultures circling overhead.

The farmer says, “You deserved it, you horny bastard!” The cock opens one eye, points up, and says, “Shhhhhh. They’re about to land!!”

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

I’m having a good day today.

James Talarico is following me and Catturd2 has blocked me.

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

@Spotlight_4U @nyi_news The Herald has only been reporting on this for ....(checks notes) eight years.

[Derek Lyons @greatergator]

Met him in Gainesville at the height of his fame. No cameras. No Insta. He drank and hung out with us for 2 hours after the show. Rest in Power my man!

[Variety @Variety]

Rob Base, 'It Takes Two' Rapper, Dies at 59 https://t.co/rdu3KpJrUg

[JustElliot @JustElliot2]

It has been a journey, King. Thank you for sharing it with us all. The man is a national treasure.

[Derek Lyons @greatergator]

Cuba on the bingo card

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 UPDATE: President Trump has abruptly CANCELED his trip to Trump National in Bedminster, NJ, and will be heading STRAIGHT BACK to the White House following a speech in New York

It's unclear why, but in a post about not attending Don Jr.'s wedding, 47 said "I feel it is important for me to remain in Washington, DC, at the White House during this important period of time"

[Manu Bhatia @manubhatia_]

@fandompulse Homelander was written as a comic book character over 10 years ago

The joke is that Trump has become so much like a comic book villain that you can’t tell the difference anymore

[Alfa Kenny-Juan @EvilNoodleBoy]

@fandompulse Whats hilarious is you failing to realize that while homelander IS an analog for Trump, a lot of what he did this season was written BEFORE Trump did it. So Trump is actually acting like a parody of himself lol.

[Derek Lyons @greatergator]

The problem is that when we hear that we think we are special and let them off the hook. I suffered this delusion too long.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”.

This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group.

What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact.

Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility.

This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

[Derek Lyons @greatergator]

There will be no paperwork or audit of where funds go. Have no doubt that lots of people will get change - under NDA. President will pocket 1 billion minimum.

[dian callaghan @diancallaghan1]

@NewsHour @micyoung75 The Settlement is not specific about who the $$ is for other than those targeted by the government for political reasons. It also says it’s bipartisan. Comey and others targeted by Trump should file complaints and show this fund for the fraud it is. Upend it!!

[Derek Lyons @greatergator]

Straight 🔥

[Magachurch Pastor🙏🇺🇸 @magachrchpastr]

Now that the good people of Kentucky have kicked noted liberal Thomas Massie out of the Senate race, the state can leave behind its policy of transgender for all and embrace it's long-standing heritage of underage marriage for girls🙏🇺🇸

[Magachurch Pastor🙏🇺🇸 @magachrchpastr]

@PConlisk We all do!!!!

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Doc Holliday was a dentist with a classical education in Greek and Latin who killed his first man at 19, coughed blood into a handkerchief for the next 17 years, and died in bed with a glass of whiskey, saying, "This is funny."

Funny because he'd spent his entire adult life expecting to die in a gunfight. He never did.

John Henry Holliday was born in Griffin, Georgia in 1851. He came into the world with a cleft palate and a partial cleft lip, a deformity that in 1851 was usually a death sentence for an infant. His uncle, a surgeon named John Stiles Holliday, performed the corrective surgery himself when the baby was two months old. His mother Alice spent the next several years patiently teaching the boy to speak clearly. She taught him piano. She taught him manners. She taught him how to bow to a woman and how to address a gentleman. By the time he was a teenager, John Henry could quote Virgil in the original Latin, play Chopin from memory, and dance a quadrille.

Then she died of tuberculosis when he was 15, and so did the small, soft world she'd built for him.

He was sent to Philadelphia to study dentistry. He graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872 at the age of 20, one of the youngest in his class, and his entry "Diseases of the Teeth" was considered exceptional. He won an award at a dental fair for "Best Set of Artificial Teeth in Gold." His diploma still exists. You can look at it.

He moved back south, set up a practice, and started coughing.

By 1873 the diagnosis was unmistakable. Pulmonary tuberculosis. The same disease that killed his mother. Doctors gave him a few months, maybe a year. They told him his only chance was to move west, where the dry air might slow the lungs from drowning. He kissed his cousin Mattie goodbye. He had been in love with her for years. She would later become a Catholic nun, Sister Mary Melanie, and she was the woman Margaret Mitchell would model Melanie Hamilton on in Gone With the Wind. They wrote each other letters until the day he died. Nobody has ever found those letters. The family burned them.

He went to Dallas. He set up a dental office. And his patients, watching this thin polite young man cough blood into a handkerchief between extractions, stopped coming.

So he turned to cards.

Faro, mostly. Poker when he could find it. He had a gambler's gift and a dying man's nerve, and within two years he was making more in a week at the tables than he'd made in a year pulling teeth. He moved through Texas and into the Colorado mining camps, then New Mexico, then Arizona. He drank an estimated two to three quarts of whiskey a day, partly because it numbed the lungs and partly because nothing else did.

Here is what made him terrifying.

Most gunfighters in the Old West were cowards in expensive boots. They picked fights they could win and avoided fights they couldn't. Doc Holliday already knew he was dying. There was nothing you could threaten him with. There was no future you could take from him. He would walk into a room of armed men with that thin slow smile and a Colt and a knife and sometimes a sawed off shotgun under his long grey coat, and the math running behind his pale blue eyes was simple. Every day he was alive was already stolen. The men across the table had something to lose. He had nothing.

He weighed about 135 pounds. He was five foot ten. He was usually drunk. And by the time he reached Tombstone, men crossed streets to avoid him.

His common law wife was a Hungarian woman named Mary Katharine Horony, better known as Big Nose Kate. She had been born to nobility in Budapest, run away as a teenager after her parents died, worked as a prostitute in Iowa, and ended up on the frontier with a temper that matched his. He once got her out of jail by bribing a guard. She once got him out of jail by setting fire to the hotel next door as a distraction, then walking him out at gunpoint. They fought constantly. They loved each other in the way two people love each other when they both know one of them is going to die soon.

He met Wyatt Earp in Fort Griffin, Texas, in 1877. The friendship that followed would shape both their lives. The legend goes that Doc saved Wyatt's life in Dodge City, walking out of the Long Branch Saloon to find Wyatt surrounded by cowboys with guns drawn, and putting his pistol to the leader's temple before anyone saw him move. Wyatt later said he owed Doc his life. He said Doc was "the most skillful gambler, and the nerviest, fastest, deadliest man with a six gun I ever knew."

Wyatt Earp said that. About a tubercular dentist who could quote Cicero.

At the OK Corral on October 26, 1881, the fight lasted thirty seconds. Doc was carrying a 10 gauge coach gun under his coat. He killed Tom McLaury with both barrels. When Morgan Earp was assassinated months later in retaliation, Doc rode with Wyatt on what history would later call the Vendetta Ride, a three week killing spree across Arizona that left every man they believed responsible dead in the dirt. They were never caught. They were never tried. They simply rode out of the territory and disappeared.

By 1887 the disease had finally caught up with him. He was 36 years old. He weighed less than 120 pounds. He had outlived nearly every man who had ever tried to kill him, and most of the ones who had only thought about it. He checked into the Hotel Glenwood in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, where the sulfur springs were said to ease the lungs. They didn't.

On the morning of November 8th, the nurse brought him a glass of whiskey. He had always sworn he would die with his boots on, the way a gunfighter was supposed to die. He looked down at his bare feet under the white hospital sheet. He looked at the whiskey. He started to laugh.

"This is funny."

Then he drank it.

And he died.

[Magachurch Pastor🙏🇺🇸 @magachrchpastr]

After working with a therapist--and considering the state of my mental health--I'll be stepping away from Twitter for an extended period of rest, prayer, and introspection. I will miss you all. Please stay strong. I'll see you after lunch and my weekly pedicure🙏🇺🇸

[Magachurch Pastor🙏🇺🇸 @magachrchpastr]

To me, after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz we had no choice but to spend tens of billions of dollars bombing them so they'd come back to the bargaining table and sign the Obama deal again. Kudos to President Trump for finally getting this done!!🙏🇺🇸

[Derek Lyons @greatergator]

@JustElliot2 @marklevinshow