Franklin Fan Club President

laughter is my job. tears are my game. law is my profession. (comments are never legal advice- or are they?)

[Franklin Fan Club President @maki_p]

@WindlePoons76 Loves his baby 💜

[💀DeathMetalViking💀 @DeathMetalV]

Maybe you should transition into a guy who doesn't beat his wife and kid first.

[CP24 @CP24]

2 Toronto residents killed in Muskoka boat crash
https://t.co/kCKqEv3bnE

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Taylor Farms’ CEO eating the lettuce to prove it’s safe

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE agents chased out of Starbucks—citizens yell "We want coffee with no ice!"

"ICE agents separate families," people shout.
"You should be ashamed of yourself!"

"You should not be comfortable going anywhere—you should not be able to sleep at night."

Agents slink back to car where other agents wait for them—empty handed.

Crowd follows them the whole way yelling:
"Shame! Shame! Shame!"

Incident occurred at a Starbucks location in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey.

ICE Out of NJ doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

His name was Joan Sebastian Guerrero.

- He was here legally.
- He was authorized to work.
- He had Social Security Number.
- He was NOT target of ICE investigation.
- DHS: He did NOT try to kill ICE agents.

He was executed in front of his 3 year old daughter.

[Franklin Fan Club President @maki_p]

@jamiljivani Embarrassing and pathetic - very on brand.

[Franklin Fan Club President @maki_p]

@jennifertchan What’s going on with these comments 🫣

[JP @whyamijp]

it’s always something new with these mfs 😭😭

[Jenni @hashjenni]

At some point in the future I believe we are going to find out that Donald Trump actually lost all 3 elections and never really secured more than 15-20% of the vote in any election.

[Franklin Fan Club President @maki_p]

@tii_bag This is who I have become.

[Warren @swd2]

I’ve watched this eleventy million times and it’s my favorite thing on the Internet.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.

The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.

A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed.

Everything else was improvised.

I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.

What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.

I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.

She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.

The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.

The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.

That's priority.

The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago.

A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced.

That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details.

I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.

I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.

188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken.

A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

There needs to be an investigation.

[Franklin Fan Club President @maki_p]

@HockleyTyson Literally seething misinformed (and/or uneducated) hate with each breath- geez wonder why no one is hiring him

[witch of the wobbly woods (MAGGOT MOMMY) @sadjazzwxtch]

Every single one of those 62 million men involved in that rape group chat need to be executed.

[Franklin Fan Club President @maki_p]

Can we please vote him out? Thanks 🙏

[CP24 @CP24]

#NEW: Ontario purchases $28.9M private jet for Doug Ford’s ‘extensive travel’ https://t.co/gJ8414Qb5e

[Franklin Fan Club President @maki_p]

@Kwik_Fit @ContiUK Jalapeño, olives and pineapple 🍍

[Franklin Fan Club President @maki_p]

@Jarritos Orange 🍊

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

The only Degrassi I recognize

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

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