JTP

Advocate for the Accused. Mets, Jets, Isles. Seeking clarity in the absurdity

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@RonFilipkowski “We”. She’s still an idiot

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@threeinningfan It’s a small world, Kelley. Especially if you grew up in Queens.
I’ve already passed it on hoping his brother sees the post.
Thank you for taking the time to send it out.
The memories of those in the FDNY and everyone else deserve to stay alive and bring a smile to others

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@threeinningfan I did. We had mutual friends and met up a number of times.
His brother is also an FDNY hero who was badly injured on the job battling a fire

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@epaleezeldin @MarkDWiseman Lee, the fire is in a 2 million square mile forest. 2 million !!

Did he laugh at you performative bullshit call and hang up on your ignorant atttempt at looking intelligent ??

[Kelley Franco @threeinningfan]

Incredibly, there’s a 9/11 Memorial in Kinsale, Ireland dedicated to the 343 FDNY firefighters and their chaplain who lost their lives. If anyone knows the family of hero Michael Cawley, tell them the Mets shirt is still here. #NeverForget

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@BreannaMorello In a race that everyone was watching, but the Dems couldn’t figure how to keep the WH, Senate and House from being R.
Do you ever even listen to what you’re saying ??

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

From the Washington Post:

“American farmers can expect a bumper crop this year in corn, soybeans and, most of all, federal handouts.”

There’s a term for government intervention and subsidization . . . what’s the word I’m searching for? I suppose the term that’s currently en vogue in Republican circles to fearmonger anything that doesn’t empower and enrich the oligarchs is communism, but in the not too distant past the scare word was socialism. And there are few groups that wear more red MAGA hats and get more fired up about socialism (and I guess now communism) than farmers . . . but while government checks for others are derided as evil, government checks for them seem to be welcomed.

The government is already providing 44 billion dollars in handouts to farmers and, if Trump’s supplemental request for an additional 11 billion is approved, it will climb to 55 billion dollars. As the Post article notes, “(m)ost of the subsidies are intended as compensation for the White House’s own policies.”

This year, more than a quarter of farm income will be from taxpayer funded handouts from the federal government, and that’s due largely to the harm done to farmers by the federal government. Oh, and the federal government is propping up meat packers with another half billion dollars due to the shortage of and high cost of meat.

So, the government has plenty of money for handouts to farmers to help them with the damage government policy blunders did to their markets, but the government is slashing money for programs that helped ordinary Americans keep their heads above water. I guess selective socialism is okay with the Republicans.

And from the Wall Street Journal: “The trade gap in goods and services widened by 42.2% in May from the prior month to a seasonally adjusted $77.6 billion, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. . . Exports fell 3.2% in May, led by a large decline in sales of gold to overseas buyers.”

But not to fear. The stable genius — who made at least 2.2 billion dollars last year while toiling 24/7 for farmers and the working class — has his 747 sky palace, his gold plated statues, his forthcoming ballroom, his multiple foreign business ventures, ample time for golf at your expense at his resorts, and his signature on your currency . . . and he’s doing it all for you.

God bless America!

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

JD Vance: “The November midterms give us a choice: keep fighting fraud with Republicans or send criminal fraudsters a life boat from the Democrats.”

Just a quick reminder, this administration has pardoned more fraudster than every other administration combined.

Here is an incomplete list of fraudsters pardoned by Trump/Vance. It’s incomplete because the list is so long it exceeds the X post character limits.

• Dinesh D’Souza: Convicted of campaign contribution fraud via illegal straw donations.
• Conrad Moffat Black: Convicted of mail fraud and obstruction related to business dealings.
• Michael Robert Milken: Convicted of conspiracy, securities fraud, mail fraud, and tax fraud in the 1980s junk bond/insider trading scandal.
• Philip Esformes: Convicted in one of the largest Medicare/Medicaid fraud schemes (over $1 billion in fraudulent claims via nursing homes and kickbacks).
• Salomon Melgen: Convicted of health care fraud involving tens of millions in fraudulent Medicare billing as an eye doctor.
• Faustino Bernadett (and similar health care figures like those in large-scale schemes): Convicted in health care fraud with sham contracts and kickbacks exceeding $900 million in fraudulent bills.
• Michael Ashley: Convicted of bank fraud tied to a mortgage company collapse.
• John Duncan Fordham: Convicted of health care fraud as a pharmacist.
• Steve Stockman: Convicted of mail and wire fraud, campaign finance violations, and money laundering (misusing charitable donations).
• Chris Collins: Convicted of securities fraud and insider trading (providing material nonpublic information).
• Sholom Rubashkin: Convicted of bank fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering in a large-scale meatpacking financial scheme.
• Judith Negron: Convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, kickbacks, money laundering, and structuring (part of a major scheme).
• Fred Davis Clark Jr.: Convicted of bank fraud and false statements in connection with federally insured loans.
• Albert J. Pirro Jr.: Convicted of conspiracy, tax evasion, and multiple counts of fraud.
• Additional health care executives/doctors (at least 10 total in first term): Convicted in large-scale Medicare fraud schemes involving false billing and kickbacks.
• Trevor Milton: Convicted of securities fraud and wire fraud (false statements to investors about Nikola Corp. technology).
• Devon Archer: Convicted of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud (defrauding a Native American tribe in a bond scheme).
• Brian Kelsey: Convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States and aiding excessive campaign contributions.
• Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley: Convicted of bank fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to defraud banks (over $30 million in fraudulent loans).
• George Santos: Convicted of wire fraud, identity theft, aggravated identity theft, and embezzlement/fraud from campaign donors and unemployment benefits.
• Michael Grimm: Convicted of tax fraud (underreporting income and filing false tax returns).
• Jacob Deutsch: Convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud (mortgage fraud scheme).
• Adriana Isabel Camberos (aka Adriana Shayota): Convicted of mail and wire fraud in a counterfeit 5-Hour Energy scheme (millions in restitution; previously had a related sentence commuted in first term).
• Andres Enrique Camberos: Convicted alongside his sister in the mail and wire fraud counterfeit product scheme.
• Terren Peizer: Convicted of insider trading and securities fraud (health care company scheme).
• Wanda Vázquez Garced: Convicted of campaign finance violations tied to bribery and wire fraud scheme.
• Julio Herrera Velutini: Convicted of wire fraud and related bribery/conspiracy.
• Mark Rossini: Convicted of wire fraud in the same bribery scheme.
• Michele Fiore: Convicted of wire fraud and charity fraud (misusing funds for slain officers).
• Glen Casada

[Acyn @Acyn]

Nichols: It’s almost like we have a relative in the room, and there’s something deeply wrong with him. And we’ve all agreed not to talk about it. But there is something deeply wrong with him.

His friends know it, his critics know it. His staff, I’m sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.

Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy.

You know, I spent years teaching students that when the president speaks, it’s policy, and you must pay attention when the president speaks because nobody can contradict him.

Now, you know, are we really cutting off all trade with Spain? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. It might have just been a stray electron, you know, careening around inside his brainpan. Who knows?

But this is really dangerous because in the middle of all this stuff—and we can laugh about, you know, the Islamic Republic of Japan and all of that—but he made several statements about an ongoing war that the United States is losing. And no one’s even trying to pretend that they can make any sense of it.

And I’ll just add one last thing that you just brought up.

If this were any other president, this would be a national crisis. I mean, Joe Biden got somebody’s name wrong, and it was headlines. The president gets all kinds of things wrong, completely, you know, is out to lunch at an important NATO summit, and, you know, it’s Wednesday.

[UnclePhilTweets @unclephiltweets]

Michael Martin Murphy’s “Wildfire” is the best song about a young girl who dies in a blizzard while looking for her pony. In over 50 years since its release no one has written a better dead girl-pony-blizzard song.

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@SecDuffy Sean, the lack of respect is unbecoming of a person who holds an office such as yours.
You aren’t funny and it makes you look like an amateur

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@FreeSpeech40737 @BabyDMaker @HunterBiden Tell us how this administration accounted for the straight of Hormuz getting shut down and Iran charging a toll now

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@AmericanSoulApp @SecDuffy Coulda sworn the last administration got an infrastructure bill passed. Lemme check back

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

For anyone who is worried about the communist threat facing America, here is some important information:

No one was eating the dogs or the cats.

No country emptied it's asylums or prisons into America.

Schools were not setting up litter boxes for kids.

America did not win the war in Iran over 30 times. It lost.

Other countries didn't pay the tariffs, you did.

DOGE didn't cut $2 trillion from the budget. It cost more than the tiny amount it did cut.

There is no communist threat. Not one person who has won a primary for Congress this year is a communist.

A political party that can't run on its record because it has been such a massive failure resorts to baseless fearmongering. That's all.

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@Slepzfn @JoJoFromJerz Paul, what President has ever delivered a partisan political speech on July 4th ?
Keep in mind the significance of this years’ celebration.
I don’t celebrate failure but let’s be real about how half the country views this attempt to divide the country. It’s disgusting

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@TunTavern0369 @JulesCas34 @eviehuver @RepThomasMassie Hey Jon, we’re laughing at YOU. If you can’t see that you may need to get out of the echo chamber

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@paulcrespo007 @RepThomasMassie Why does pointing out government ownership of private companies as an aspect of communism - even if misplaced - result in labeling someone “evil” ??
He didn’t even mention the farmer bailout. Can you explain it to me bc it seems like a talking point by you

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@stoolpresidente Poor Dave has to spend his time being critical of a few knuckleheads and paint an entire fanbase with one stroke of his bitter brush because he can’t just say nice job by the Knickerbockers

[JTP @JohnPowersJr1]

@JonesOnTheNBA Dolan