Jonathon Burns

Storyteller.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Ok, my last word on Platner (for now). He’s a really bad, dishonest guy. Look, every candidate has shit in their lives they gotta answer for. I certainly do if I ever run again. But Platner has A LOT of shit in his life, and it’s really ugly, cruel, troubling, bigoted, & violent shit. But even worse than that - You gotta be honest about your shit, own it, & take accountability. I’ve been doing that these past 8yrs. Platner has done the exact opposite - he’s lied about all his shit, he refuses to own any of it, and he gets pissed when he’s held accountable for any of it. Democrats, jettison him while you still can.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Evil. Swatting is extraordinarily dangerous. There is no excuse.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Kindergarten graduations are absurd. I can't understand why they started.

[CRG @Cantrushit]

Boomers five years ago: “I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY IMAGE OR POSTS BEING USED BY MARK ZUCKERBERG FOR META, FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, OR WHATSAPP TO SELL MY DATA. Like and share if you agree!”

Boomers today, for some reason: “hey I just uploaded all your baby pictures to ChatGPT and you and all your cousins look like penguins isn’t this cute I’m uploading all the grandkids next”

[Alan Feuer @alanfeuer]

This *very same magistrate judge* publicly apologized four years ago to Jan. 6 defendant Lucas Denney after there was a delay in bringing him to court for a detention hearing.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Pretty sure that’s not the kind of question they ask on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test, which is what he reportedly took in his first term. https://t.co/ncxXOgheVC

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England

[Jonathon Burns @jonathonburns]

@philvischer And now it’s time for the news of the —-
Oh never mind.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I know it’s really hard for some people to grasp, but if any other president — of either party — put his face and name on so many things the exact people who like it when Trump does it would be throwing a conniption about it.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

If the indictment really is over “86 47” then it’s got a huge Watts v US problem. That case involved a prosecution of a man for saying “the first man I want to get in my sights is LBJ” if he was inducted in the Army.

“Political hyperbole” is not a threat.

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

there is literally no funnier way i could've imagined this. like that's it. that's the funniest possible version of how the olaf animatronic would power off

[Esau McCaulley @esaumccaulley]

I am so tired of character and decorum mattering for every job except the highest elected office in the land.

[Jonathon Burns @jonathonburns]

@LukeBarnett Battlestar Galactica?

[Martín Olivé @FMartinOlive]

No le dieron el Oscar cuando protagonizó Space Jam y se lo dan por esta peliculíta.

[Jonathon Burns @jonathonburns]

As someone who is not a fan of Vance, this is entirely reasonable.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

REPORTER: "What did you advise the president initially as he considered his actions in Iran and what are you urging him to do now...do you express any concerns like those you've expressed in the past on the possibility of these extended wars?"

VP VANCE: "Imagine the situation, we're in the Situation Room...and the president and I, and the entire senior team, are talking about the options..."

“I hate to disappoint you, but I'm not gonna show up here and in front of God and everybody else tell you exactly what I said in that classified room.”

“Partially because I don't wanna go to prison, and partially because I think it's important for the president of the United States to be able to talk to his advisors without those advisors running their mouth to the American media.”

[Jonathon Burns @jonathonburns]

I hope some of that thought includes actually focusing on the In Memoriam itself and not constantly cutting to musical performers.

[Variety @Variety]

The #Oscars will air an extended version of the In Memoriam segment this year:

“We’ve had an incredibly tough year of losses,” producer Katy Mullan tells Variety. “So many cinema titans have passed away, and there are so many people who care so deeply for a lot of the people we’ll be tributing and honoring. That has taken a lot of conversation, a lot of thought, and will continue right up into the show.”

https://t.co/fY5DPxfJgf

[Paul Rieckhoff🇺🇸🇺🇦 @PaulRieckhoff]

You know I’m no fan of Hegseth. And there’s PLENTY to hit him on. He’s disgraceful.

But paying for lobster and steak is not some frivolous DoD expanse. Same with ice cream and doughnuts.

It’s a standard way of taking care of troops and giving them a nice meal to boost morale—often during a long deployment. Like the USS Ford that is gone for 11 months:
https://t.co/dPLed6iwB4

And there are ~4,500 personnel just on that one ship. And there are many ships deployed right now—and they have been for much of the last year.

A good meal is one of the few nice and celebratory things for them to look forward to.

They’re missing countless birthdays, weddings, funerals. Deployments are hard. Food is often a rare highlight. And not frivolous.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Sorry, so the suggestion here is that it should be illegal for an American company to set the terms under which it sells its own product? And that the military should be permitted to force any American company to toss aside their most foundational beliefs and values?

[Dan McClellan @maklelan]

It's unsettling to me that a federal legislator either doesn't know these numbers are given to noncitizens legally in the country to work who need them to work & pay taxes & don't actually grant them the ability to vote, or knows & is just lying about it.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Trump is a second-generation immigrant.