Anthony Xavier

Raiders,Lakers,Athletics and USC fan. love muscle cars. comic geek. Fan of 80's shows and toys. love my family and friends. Cali born and bread.

[Alessi Allaman @AlessiAllaman]

"Howard Lutnick lost 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees who were killed on 9/11..."

Within days — before many were even confirmed dead — Howard Lutnick cut off their paychecks to their families without warning.

He wept on national television. The families were furious.
Years later Cantor Fitzgerald won a $135 million settlement from American Airlines.

Lutnick told senior executives the bulk of the money would go to the firm's partners — not the families of the 658 dead.

He is now Trump's Secretary of Commerce.
He is also the man who lied to Congress about visiting Jeffrey Epstein's island with eight children.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This 81 year old man is a lifelong Dodgers fan & has been a season pass holder for over 50 years & was just told that he would no longer be allowed to get printed tickets only digital from now on & he’s barely able to navigate a computer & phone.Dodgers aren’t replying to anyone.

[⚚Sage @belikesagee]

HR handing out $50 bonuses after the company made $30 billion in profits this year

[miia @miiagarro]

my greatest adult disappointment was discovering that bad people get away with everything

[D. @Lush_Beauty1]

Everything is urgent in corporate, except recognition and salary increases.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

My greatest adult disappointment was discovering that bad people get away with everything.

[Crypto Fergani @cryptofergani]

8 billion people on earth. Maybe 300 of them are causing all the problems. And they convinced the rest of us to fight each other instead of stop it.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Question: I'm a waiter at a local restaurant in Queens, a full time college student who sleeps an average of four hours a night and is still thousands in debt. How is a war in a country half the world away funded by the taxes pulled from my check, helping me in any way?

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

Pete Hegseth: The problem with Iran is it spends money on weapons and missiles instead of improving life for their people.

Self awareness of a potato

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

Median family income in the US increased from $10,000 in 1971 to $106,000 today, a 10x increase.

However, the median cost of homes increased from $25,000 to $445,000, a 17x increase.

And the median cost of cars increased from $3,600 to $50,000, a 14x increase.

The median cost of college increased from $2,900 a year to $45,000, a 16x increase.

And the average cost of healthcare per person increased from $350 to $14,600, a 42x increase.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“Don't let someone ruin your peace just because they can't find theirs.”

[👑 J³ABz👑 @Jabz_CFC]

Tom Hardy fucking gets it, man

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

I hardly ever cry,but this story actually broke me because I know someone that’s child has brain cancer who’s the same age as this sweet little girl! This little girl deserves the best and definitely a home during this horrible time! 🙏

[The Nostalgia Queen @Snow_Blacck]

I remember when Covid first dropped and ANY cough had us looking at each other like:

[Amb. Arturo Sarukhan @Arturo_Sarukhan]

Today's pic.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

The best explanation of the stupidity of the pedophile führer's white supremacy you'll ever hear. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

Someone on the street just asked me how I remain so calm debating Trumpers and I told him “would you get upset if a toddler called you names?” lol

[Complex @Complex]

Tom Hardy’s old tweet still to this day is relatable 🤞

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[Anthony Xavier @MrX1972]

@BSO Dodged a bullet Dak!