Jim shoes

retired, but will work for sushi.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Alissa Ellman, Democratic candidate for Congress in NY: You want to talk about DEI? You want to fire people over DEI? You know that disabled combat veterans are DEI hires?

Did you know there are people I worked with who couldn’t work other jobs because they had traumatic brain injuries, or were missing limbs, or had chronic health issues caused by their service to this country?

When politicians get on TV and preach about how much they love veterans, how about you really love veterans? How about you really love them and give them jobs? That gives us dignity. That gives us respect for ourselves and our lives

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Raise your hand if President Obama will always be your FAVORITE President. 🤚🇺🇸

[Jim shoes @jimmclou]

@mmpadellan Decency personified.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The number of financial side deals the Trump family is running is so shocking it can sometimes be hard to track.

According to @Reuters, their crypto ventures alone have delivered $2.3 billion to Trump & co. while creating a similar-sized loss for investors.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump literally held a contest to see who could buy the most of his crypto, with the prize being exclusive access to him in his official capacity as President.

To be clear: those were bribes.

[Jim shoes @jimmclou]

@PoliticOhMyGawd @Acyn @SecRollins Great analogy 😂

[Jim shoes @jimmclou]

@AdamKinzinger It looks better upside down.

[Jim shoes @jimmclou]

@vincempls @atrupar Tom Emmer just isn’t the brightest tool in the medicine cabinet.

[Jim shoes @jimmclou]

@OurShallowState @frontlinekit Zelenskyy just might be the new leader of the free world.

[Congressman Brendan Boyle @RepBrendanBoyle]

So says noted expert on good looks and rugged masculinity Ted Cruz.

[Jim shoes @jimmclou]

@RepBrendanBoyle @atrupar Cruz just wants to blow him over like a feather.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here's the full clip of Rep. Emilia Sykes's brilliant line of questioning that made Chris Wright squirm by confronting him with the completely unhinged comments Trump just made in the Oval Office about inflation and the war in Iran

[Jim shoes @jimmclou]

@atrupar Elegant questioning and poise.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Jim shoes @jimmclou]

@revishvilig In case you haven’t noticed, there is now a new Leader of the Free World.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."

A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.

Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

[Jim shoes @jimmclou]

@JustinWolfers Night by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

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 or female – 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 most 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.

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Right now we have a fascist in the White House. Our neighbors are being abducted by Trump's secret police. The system is rigged by his billionaire buddies.

This is not the time for a career politician desperately looking for a job and who, up until tonight, hasn't even had the courage to face me one-on-one.