@LizzySavetsky You’re really getting desperate if you’re posting this nonsense. But I know it’s great engagement bait for your Islamophobic audience. Get that bag Lizzy.
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
@JoyceCarolOates Maher frequently says Trump is pulling off a slow-moving coup. But he does oscillate between that stance and reprimanding liberals, depending on his mood.
Martin: Can you tell me one example of Trump ever apologizing for anything?
Parrish: Can you give me one example of Trump making a joke about someone dying?
Martin: Robert Mueller.
Parrish: Can you give me an example of someone’s spouse—
Phillip: Nancy Pelosi’s husband.
@AnotherCatte@DougPinkston2@JoyceCarolOates I’m not ignoring anything. There’s just no evidence to support anything being staged. It would require so many people being in on it and keeping quiet. Never happen.
@queens_parents@NYCMayor It delights me every time they send people like you into a tizzy. It’s a fucking scarf. Your blatant racism doesn’t give it more significance.
@IAmPoliticsGirl This is such a gaslight, Leigh. And I really enjoy your work. But to say you’re not a conspiracy theorist and try to spin it as “just asking questions” is exactly what MAGA does. It’s dangerous. There is no evidence, NONE, that Butler was staged or that 2024 was stolen.
@DougPinkston2@JoyceCarolOates Right. It’s the most incompetent administration in history, yet they’ve managed to coordinate & keep a lid on multiple fake assassination attempts? It is not farfetched for Trump to be a target. America is full of psycho gun owners + Trump is reviled. Not a surprise.
O'DONNELL: In his manifesto, he wrote that 'I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' What's your reaction?
TRUMP: I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're horrible people. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. I'm not a pedophile. Excuse me. You read that crap from a sick person. I was totally exonerated. You should be ashamed of yourself, reading that. You're a disgrace.