John Fintan Kennedy

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[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Call me crazy, but maybe two men who fathered 19 children with 7 different women shouldn’t be lecturing us about family values.

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

We call ourselves the most intelligent species on Earth.

Then we act surprised when the ecosystems keeping us alive begin to collapse.

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

One day, children will ask why we knew so much about climate change…

and acted so little.

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

We can’t survive without bees.
We can’t survive without forests.
We can’t survive without healthy oceans.
We can’t survive without clean rivers.
We can’t survive without fertile soil.

And somehow…
we still act as if humans exist separately from nature.

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

Canada is on fire.
Europe is on fire.
The Amazon is on fire.
Cities are breaking heat records.
Rivers are drying up.
Other countries are drowning in floods.
Storms are getting stronger.
Seasons don’t feel like seasons anymore.

And somehow…
climate change is still a debate.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

250 years after July 4, 1776, the successor of King George III pays taxes and publishes his returns. The successor of George Washington does not. https://t.co/CbIXDe8UQY

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No President in History has ended the same war so many times.

Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.

No President has ever done this before.

And he is nowhere near finished ending it.

It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[Mark Henry @Mark_J_Henry]

Ireland is one of the most peaceful nations on the planet. 🇮🇪 The country is rated 5th most peaceful in the Global Peace Index's assessment of 163 countries. Iceland tops the table, then NZ, Switzerland & Slovenia. Yet, global peacefulness is deteriorating. We need to nurture it.

[John Fintan Kennedy @MrJohnFKennedy]

@Buseireann @TransportIre 3 hours to get home after a full working day. Sort your crap 💩 out @Buseireann @transportire @buseireannsucks

[John Fintan Kennedy @MrJohnFKennedy]

So when @Buseireann updates its service page at 5.25 to let passengers know that a bus normally going from Wilton Terrace is instead going from Lower Gardiner Street does that mean we’re suddenly able to fly?
@TransportIre

[John Fintan Kennedy @MrJohnFKennedy]

Bus at Gardiner is now waiting on other 111X strandees who are being ferried by the NX. It’s a bit like Dunkirk with seagulls instead of Stukas

[John Fintan Kennedy @MrJohnFKennedy]

@Buseireann @TransportIre So, traversed city and sign says my bus will be there in 9 mins. Will it arrive or not @Buseireann 111X

[John Fintan Kennedy @MrJohnFKennedy]

@Buseireann @TransportIre When you operate well, you are great. When you fail, it is deplorable @Buseireann @TransportIre

[John Fintan Kennedy @MrJohnFKennedy]

But these are buses that are meant to transport people to the country. If they are cancelled people are stuck. Should I go back to driving to city or can I realistically rely on public transport?

[John Fintan Kennedy @MrJohnFKennedy]

I don’t know whether the bus leaves Gardiner Street at 5.30 but currently trying to traverse city in hope I make it.

[John Fintan Kennedy @MrJohnFKennedy]

At 5.30!

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, gutted USAID, which supports some of the poorest people in the world.

Now there's an Ebola outbreak in the Congo, which USAID could have helped prevent or slow.

When you dismantle the systems that stop deadly diseases, people needlessly die.

[John Fintan Kennedy @MrJohnFKennedy]

Venture capital money must be drying up. Has the AI bubble finally burst?

Why Tech Companies Are Quietly Cancelling AI Data Centers https://t.co/cIE2OFyalT via @YouTube

[John Fintan Kennedy @MrJohnFKennedy]

@adrianweckler Perhaps a punitive move for the DPC fines …