Mike Posever (@[email protected])

Views are my own. Likes and re-tweets are not endorsements. Beware of sarcasm … or not.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history.

It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."

https://t.co/YSuFldfj70

[Jim @Jim_Valentine14]

Well dude, as much as I like your writing for @TheFP, your thesis here is horseshit. I learned much about life just sitting on a bench in Prague and drinking martinis at a lobby bar in Surabaya.
Two things to add to your caffeine-riddled brain: 1. "You can observe a lot just by watching.” -Yogi Berra; 2. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” -Mark Twain

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It's fascinating to watch some pundits overthink Hunter Biden's social media presence. Their brains so rewired by focus group pablum and D.C. newsletter speak that a political figure talking like a normal person with honesty + humor is some kind of Oz the Mentalist parlor trick.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Yes I sold paintings. About $225,000 a year over four years. The whole of my business while my father was President. Congress investigated it.

If you’re outraged about that, where is all your outrage now?

Kushner's Affinity Partners holds roughly $5 to $6 billion. Close to 99% of it comes from foreign sovereign wealth funds. Saudi Arabia. The UAE. Qatar. Over $90M in fees annually.

[Andy Ostroy @AndyOstroy]

Dear TX MAGA: when they tell you #Talarico is ‘trans’, what they’re really telling you is 3 things: they’re terrified he’s gonna win; they think you’re so fucking stupid that you’ll believe this idiotic bullshit; & they have NO plan to fix your affordability issues. GET ANGRY!

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

LIKE this post if you think Donald Trump is the worst president in American history — a walking dumpster fire of corruption who betrayed his oath, divided the country for profit, ripped healthcare away, and turned the White House into a family grift operation.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton is throwing everything he has at us.

He’s called me a radical leftist. He’s called me a fake Christian. He’s even called me a vegan!

I’m an 8th generation Texan — I've been eating BBQ since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

So when Trump went to Walter Reed yesterday, he did not visit the 14 soldiers injured in his war against Iran. But his explanation is understandable; his bone spurs were acting up.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

We ask our young people to enlist in our all-volunteer military to protect our nation, and in exchange, we promise to never send them into harm's way for stupid reasons.

Susan Collins did send them into harm's way with only politics in mind. This is an atrocious reply.

[Covie @covie_93]

Stephen Miller is just jealous because James Talarico can walk in the sunlight.

[Strummer @Strummer2323]

For fuck sake - I wish y'all would learn real history.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

I would say you should try transitioning to human, but I don't think medical science has progressed that far yet.

[Natasha @Natasha_Brynn1]

Four month ago, Alex Pretti was murdered by Donald Trump’s ICE.

RETWEET to honor Pretti’s life of service ❤️

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

I agree with George! 🎯🎯

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Generation after generation, men and women put on the uniform knowing the risk — and went anyway knowing they might not come home. Knowing their families would carry that for the rest of their lives.

To the families still carrying that weight — I see you. The pain doesn’t go away, but neither does the pride.

Freedom has never been guaranteed. It has to be earned, defended, and sometimes paid for in the hardest way imaginable. Today on Memorial Day, we stop, we slow down, and we remember those who did.

We honor them.

We thank them.

And we work hard to live up to what they died for. Keep the democracy they believed in worth believing in. That is the ultimate tribute for their sacrifice.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Let me put it to you this way, if Kamala were president and all she did was sit in the Oval Office, drink wine and watch reruns of The View, our country would be ten times better off than it is right now.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Donald Trump promised the war in Iran would end with unconditional surrender. But he never said which country would do the surrendering.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

"Circa early 2018, somewhere in the quiet of his beloved Cornville, Arizona ranch, John McCain — living with the knowledge that his days were growing shorter — made a decision that was so perfectly, mischievously, achingly him that it made the whole country smile through their tears when they finally heard about it: he picked up the phone and called Barack Obama, the man who had defeated him for the presidency a decade earlier, and asked him to speak at his funeral. Obama later said that when that call came, he felt 'sadness and also a certain surprise' — and then, with the warmth that defined him, he recognized exactly what McCain was doing, telling mourners at the Washington National Cathedral on September 1, 2018 that the invitation showed McCain's 'irreverence, his sense of humor, a little bit of a mischievous streak' — because, as Obama put it to a cathedral that erupted in laughter through their grief, 'what better way to get a last laugh than to make George and I say nice things about him to a national audience?' It was John McCain's final act of political theater, and it was genius — choosing the two men who had each defeated him for the presidency to stand before the nation and celebrate his life, sending a message louder than any speech he could have given himself: that in America, rivalry and respect are not opposites, that the man you run against can still be the man you trust with your legacy, and that decency is not weakness but the most durable form of strength. Obama stood at that altar and told the packed cathedral that McCain had 'made this country better,' that he had made Obama a better president, and that when all was said and done, despite every disagreement, 'we never doubted the other man's sincerity or the other man's patriotism' — and in the front pew, Cindy McCain wept, because her husband had arranged, from the very edge of his life, one last beautiful lesson in what it means to be an American.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

In other words, the war is over, we're stumbling toward some version of the JCPOA, America is out billions of dollars and lots of weapons that we didn't need to waste, and the United States is now weaker and Iran in a strategically stronger position.
And for what?