Denise Johnsen

Army Vet 72-78 Union Ironworker 40+yrs Ret. Apprenticeship & Pre-Apprenticeship Instructor 11yrs. Go Women In The Trades!! Democrats support Unions=livable wage

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Maybe Vance doesn't know this history because it's in one of the books his administration banned.

The difference between Watergate and now is that back then, Republicans actually did something about a law-breaking president. Today, they only roll over for their cult leader.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

Neuroscientist Diagnoses Trump’s Brain Damage

In his patterns of speech, inability to state the truth on just about any subject, and the apparent joy he gets out of watching people suffer ― something strange is going on ― a “dementing malignant narcissist.”

Credit: Scott Carney

[Joey Tranchina @JoeyFotoFr]

@_InfoGram_ Americans are unaware of how much damage Trump
has done to America's financial position in the world.
Distrust for Trump has distanced the world from US.
The cost to America has yet to be calculated.
But it's good old-fashioned US logic:
"Money talks & bullshit walks."

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

The fact the Obamas are still being disrespected clearly indicates where we are in this country. However, I’m choosing to ignore the worst and just celebrate Michelle Obama!

[Denise Johnsen @johnsen_denise]

@Dhawks1839Karen @AnnieForTruth He’s used the lyrics of “The Snake” numerous times to demonize immigrants, but the reality is he’s speaking of himself and some of the gullible who voted for him are slowly waking up from his toxic venom.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Unfortunately, this is true. 😢 This lying, corrupt Malignant Narcissist, Sociopath, conman and wannabe dictator has destroyed the America we once all loved, honored and respected for 250 years, HOME OF THE BRAVE, LAND OF THE FREE. 😡

[Tree @The_Tree44]

@chiky_handlr

[Denise Johnsen @johnsen_denise]

@SenateTim @chiky_handlr @PaulDereume @POTUS Lots of Catholics are waking from the stupor especially after his blasphemous meme realizing breaking the 1st & 2nd commandments. That on top of the threats to the Vatican.

[Denise Johnsen @johnsen_denise]

@TabbyB69 @thehill The proper response from him is too embarrassing bc he doesn’t know. He saves that answer for depositions.

[Denise Johnsen @johnsen_denise]

Regarding possible prosecution of Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly , for “conduct unbecoming of an officer”, a shame it can’t apply to the commander in chief. It certainly fits.

[Washington Journal @cspanwj]

Retired Major General Steven Lepper, a former U.S. Air Force Deputy Judge Advocate General, joins us to discuss the right to free speech among current & former military & the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Watch here: https://t.co/lDXasKVUfF

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Every Mother Fucker who’s pissed off saying -

“I Didn’t Vote For This”

Fuck You.

You’re getting everything you voted for.

You knew exactly who this piece of shit was,
Before you cast your ballot.

[army of skanks, M.A. = PRO ABORTION @k_sarah_sera]

@NotAvgLiberal Pick up a fire extinguisher

[Erkki Sutela @ErkkiSutela]

@Brutus_454 @IRanMediaco https://t.co/GNvSfYzDhd

[Rep. Adam Smith @RepAdamSmith]

Each one of Secretary Hegseth and President Trump's stupid tweets and memes is gutting our nation's credibility.

[michael831 @michaelwhi5465]

@mmpadellan

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Trump murdered 180 girls this week so you'd forget about the ones he raped years ago.

[Denise Johnsen @johnsen_denise]

@cspanwj Pedro, you just sat there while some dummy called in saying a school wasn’t struck because according to her “girls don’t go to school in Iran” Geezus!