Leslie Holley

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@RepMGP Thank you for understanding the value of compromise. If both sides work together great things might actually get done.

[Dylan Allman @dylanmallman]

If the Second Amendment does not apply to this exact kind of moment, what do people think it is for?

A citizen can lawfully carry, see masked federal agents beating someone in public, move toward the scene to help, and then get erased with a hail of bullets because “he had a gun.”

That excuse is an insult in a country where possession is legal by design, where the whole point is that the public never becomes a disarmed audience watching state power operate with impunity.

I’m not interested in arguing frame-by-frame footage. I’m interested in the principle that a free people cannot accept a standard where lawful carry becomes a death sentence the second authority feels threatened.

If that is the standard, then the 2nd Amendment has been reduced to a vibe. The founders did not write it so Republicans could do militia cosplay on weekends.

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@EricLDaugh Awesome, a concrete jungle

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@SecDef Isn’t renaming it politics? Glad time is continuing to be wasted

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@1Nicdar I do the same, they will not stop the people who are actually stealing but yet feel it necessary to inconvenience those of us who are doing the right thing. And it’s not just Walmart, Fred Meyer in SW Washington does the same

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@JDVance If you were simply deporting illegals with criminal records to their country of origin there would be no reason for questions. But sending people to a high security prison in another country without due process is unacceptable. Quit with the excuses and do what’s right.

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@elonmuskTN Oops didn’t notice the multiplication sign
20

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@elonmuskTN 12

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@thewealthdad Your parents don’t owe you anything. And be grateful they have type of wealth accumulated for their old age and will not be dependent on you. Anything can happen and the cost of elderly care is very expensive. WTF is wrong with your generations sense of entitlement

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@WCCSG_ @UpdogSportsTalk @SSN_Pac12 @SSN_BoiseState @SSN_Aztecs @SSN_Beavers @SSN_Wazzu @SSN_ColoradoSt Absolutely

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@EndWokeness Really not the appropriate time for this, show a little respect for those you’re there to remember

[Kyle Seeley @theKyleSeeley]

92.57% of America watching the #Debates2024 https://t.co/SYTlKu5CvG

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@vellonn85 @davidpdxer @SirJediSentinel That is not the case in Oregon, Washington, and California. Tipped servers still make the full minimum wage of that state.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@TrentonOSwanson @BrandonHuffman @GregBiggins @NickFarman55 @JordanJ_ @AndrewNemec @PrepRedzoneWA @PapermakerFB @eforcefootball Congratulations, very well deserved!

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@peru My Peruvian mom used to make this all the time when I was growing up and I make it for my family now.

[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

@CHS_ORourke @CamasHighSchool Our student/athletes are so lucky to have a principal willing to travel to support them!

[Washington State GOP @WAGOP]

“Everything Gov. Inslee and his bumbling bureaucrats at the WA Department of Ecology have said about their rotten cap-and-trade gas tax scheme has been wrong,” says WAGOP Chairman Jim Walsh.

“Remember ‘pennies?’ And ‘price gouging?’ Their desperate spin would be comical if their tax scheme weren’t forcing so many Washington families to go to food banks for groceries.

“Anyway, this latest desperate taxpayer-funded PR spin—that linking Washington’s rotten cap-and-trade tax scheme with Quebec’s and California’s rotten cap-and-trade tax schemes will magically lower gas prices—is crude fiction.

"Wall Street speculators are bidding up the price of the Department of Ecology’s pollution indulgences precisely because those speculators think linking several rotten schemes together will drive prices UP higher still. Say what you will about Wall Street speculators—but their track record of predicting the results of bad public policy is better than Inslee’s bumbling bureaucrats.

“The people of Washington have a tool for ending this economic damage and desperate PR spin: Initiative 2117, which repeals the rotten cap-and-trade tax scheme. Simple, clear, effective. It’s out gathering signatures now.”

https://t.co/ZKqv1fWdA8 via @WAStateStandard

[Joe Papermaker @PapermakersArmy]

#Papermaker #football will host #2 #Skyview next Friday night.

Get to #DocHarrisStadium early and be loud!! Give our team that home field advantage!!

#PapermakerPride 💪🏻
#WeAreCamas 🏭
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[Leslie Holley @gringaholley]

⁦@PapermakerFB⁩ a blast from the past. Happy birthday coach Hawthorne