MattB

Speech Language Pathologist / NY METS FAN / Contributor MetsMerized Online / USMC vet 🇺🇸. Judoka. Views are my own and not necessarily those of my cat.

[MattB @MattheosB]

@LorraineEvanoff Immigrants are a big reason for the US's fantastic post-covid recovery relative to other western developed nations (who are not doing nearly as well). There's that.

[MattB @MattheosB]

Anyone feel like Trump is sabotaging the talks because he doesn't want Vance to get any credit for the peace talks?

[New York Mets @Mets]

Slam the door, Airbender 🌪️

[MattB @MattheosB]

Omg GK&R are in mid-season form 😆. #LGM

[MattB @MattheosB]

@metsnewsletter Nimmo was Alderson's frankenmoneyballer draft prototype.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Let me say this as clearly as possible, because people keep getting it wrong.

Republican lawmakers didn’t stick with Trump because they were hypnotized...terrified...or somehow helpless.

They stuck with him because he’s one of them.

Trump didn’t corrupt a moral party. He exposed a corrupt one.

If Trump were merely embarrassing...reckless...or rude... they would have dumped him years ago. Politicians abandon liabilities fast. What they don’t abandon...are mutual liabilities.

Trump normalized behavior that many of them were already guilty of: ethical shortcuts...financial murkiness... abuse of power...contempt for oversight... lying as policy.

He didn’t invent the rot...he gave it cover.

And here’s the part people don’t like to hear:

For a lot of Republicans in Congress, Trump isn’t the risk.

Accountability is.

Trump absorbs attention like a sponge. While everyone is watching his circus...others operate quietly in the shadows. He’s not a distraction...he’s a shield. A very useful one.

Once they crossed certain lines together...election lies, January 6th...obstruction...weaponization of government ...there was no clean exit.

Loyalty became self-preservation. Defection meant subpoenas...investigations...and career death.

That’s why the so-called “good Republicans” vanished.

They weren’t persuaded. They were purged. Retired. Primaried. Marginalized. What you’re seeing now isn’t universal agreement...it’s selection pressure.

Only those comfortable with ethical decay remain.

This is how systems rot. Not with villains twirling mustaches...but with people who decide, one compromise at a time, that survival matters more than principle.

Trump didn’t take over the GOP.
The GOP recognized itself in Trump.

And that’s why expecting them to “come to their senses” is a fantasy.

You can’t ask people to enforce standards that would incriminate them.

The alliance holds...because it has to.

That’s not psychology.
That’s incentive structure.

And until people stop confusing fear...with complicity... they’ll keep being shocked by behavior that was always predictable.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

[Heidi Bilas @heidibilas.bsk@[email protected] @BilasHeidi]

@SethAbramson Alex Pretti, R.N, he knew.👇

https://t.co/Wc1cYERGHZ

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jeffries: This isn't an America first act. This is an Argentina first act. And if Donald Trump can find $20 billion to bail out his friend in Argentina, it's extraordinary to me that Republicans are unwilling to even have a discussion about how we address the health care crisis that they've created

[MattB @MattheosB]

@owl_elc @hwinkler4real Are you Greek? Because if not, change your name.

[Rob Friedman @PitchingNinja]

Paul Skenes Incinerating Bryce Harper.

99, 99, 100 🔥🔥🔥

[SNY @SNYtv]

EDWIN DÍAZ STRIKES OUT AARON JUDGE AND THE BALLGAME IS OVER!

[Mike Mayer @mikemayer22]

Howie Rose:

“If you’re going to start a wave in a 2-2 game in the bottom of the 8th inning in what’s been a good, crisp game, maybe you ought to follow another sport.”

[MattB @MattheosB]

Why are India and Pakistan fighting over a Led Zeppelin song?

[New York Mets @Mets]

FRANCISCOOOOOOOOO #METSWIN

[MattB @MattheosB]

@NoDMsPerfavore Magua ...

[MattB @MattheosB]

@ac132 Lol is this for real? #Block

[MattB @MattheosB]

@RpsAgainstTrump We want a real alternative not a bluer shade of oligarchy ...

That means actual healthcare reform good schools affordable housing and freedom from the corporate terrorism of billionaires and broligarchs.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Mr. Vice President @JDVance, I'm sure you don't mean to mislead anyone, but the hard data suggest that in fact you've inherited a stronger economy than any administration in your lifetime.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Things are going great

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Traitor?

Elon, if you don’t understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do.