Joseph Nowik

Husband, father; engineer; manager, photographer; pastel artist and wannabe Leo da Vinci. Life is a dance, one stage to the next. All comments are my own.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Donald Trump took us to war without a plan. Families have lost loved ones. Billions of dollars have been spent. For what? This “deal” he signed leaves Iran stronger and in control of the Strait, but does little to advance US interests. The “master deal maker” just made one of the worst deals in US history. This is a total capitulation! What’s next, the Russians get Alaska?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

There. Is. Always. A tweet.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

How much taxpayer money are we wasting on things that should have never happened in the first place?

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

NEWS: Judge REJECTS last minute attempt to keep Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center. The name is expected to be torn down in the coming hours. Watch our live feed at the link in reply.

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Stephen A. Smith claps back at Trump:

“The brother wasn't awake. If it was that important for you to be there, why did you look like you were asleep? Didn't you call out former President Joe Biden, 'Sleepy Joe'? Well, what should we call you?”

(via @FirstTake, h/t @NBA__Courtside)

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

He shut down New York and screwed over Knicks fans just to nap in a new location

[Joseph Nowik @nowikcandle]

President Trump was a major inconvenience for the New York fans and a jinx for the Knicks tonight. #Trump #Knicks #jinx #nbafinals

[MJdowntheshore @MJdowntheshore]

Big pussy got grabbed by a strong woman.

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

The look of a failed president.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

WTAFFF???

Trump RAGED, repeating the long-debunked conspiracy about the FBI setting up the Jan 6 rioters, repeatedly calling FBI director James Comey a "dirty cop."

Comey was fired May 9, 2017, and the Capitol insurrection occurred Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump's brain is total MUSH.

[Variety @Variety]

Rosie O'Donnell slams Donald Trump as a "conman, narcissist and a psychopath": "If you grew up in New York, you knew he was an asshole and a liar from day one." #Tonys

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[CNN @CNN]

Veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley was fired by CBS after a clash with management over his criticism of the newsmagazine's new leadership. https://t.co/AKlIt4Nhha

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Fixed it

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HELL YES! Vietnam veterans hit Trump with a massive lawsuit to stop his hideous and “disrespectful” Triumph Arch from being erected in D.C.

They didn't mince words about that draft-dodging coward...

"We know how authoritarian dictatorships work. There's no rule of law, there's no consent of the governed, and there's monuments for the leaders there," said veteran and retired diplomat Jon Gundersen.

"I think what we're doing is being loyal to the country. And loyalty can be measured in different ways," Gundersen added. He's suing the Trump administration along with veterans Shaun Byrnes and Michael Lemmon. Their lawsuit is joined by the ethics watchdog group Public Citizen.

The arch, which Trump has admitted is being built to honor himself, is slated to go up between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, our country's most hallowed resting place. At over twice the size of the Lincoln Memorial, the 250-foot-tall eye sore would cut off a clear view between the memorial and cemetery — inserting Trump's ego smack dab in the middle of our national soul.

"It's more about the duty I feel towards my colleagues and friends who did not come home to stand up against this project, regardless of who's in charge," said Byrnes. "I think it's just disrespectful to those that I served with who didn't come back, and then, of course, to all those who are lying in Arlington National Cemetery."

He explained that he has always hoped to be buried at Arlington when he dies but if Trump's arch goes up he'll be forced to "reconsider" his options.

The lawsuit argues that not only is Trump's vanity project arch illegal because he failed to obtain congressional approval, but it's also a disastrous design decision because it disrupts the intended sightline between the cemetery, which lies on land seized from Robert E. Lee, and the Lincoln Memorial, which was erected in the wake of the Civil War.

Tellingly, the administration has yet to unveil a price tag for the arch. While Trump previously claimed that it would be fund by private donations (meaning corrupt pay-to-play bribes) he also said the same thing about his ballroom and is now seeking $1 billion to build that.

“Even if you took private donations, is that how we want to build monuments?” said Gundersen. “To the oligarchs who give money for favors?"

More to the point, what "triumph" is Trump celebrating? His Iran War is a world-historic debacle that will almost certainly end with Iran in direct control of the Strait Hormuz, cementing themselves as a preeminent world power. On the domestic front, it has been one defeat after another for the United States. Trump gutted Medicaid, destroyed our education and scientific research systems, and devastated our economy with harebrained tariffs and costly military adventurism overseas.

The only Trump-related triumph will belong to the American people when we finally kick him and his entire party out of power.

Please ❤️ and share if you oppose Trump's arch!

[PaulleyTicks @PaulleyTicks]

So yesterday Donald Trump posted a video of him crashing Stephen Colbert's final show, and literally throwing him in the garbage, and of course, I had to FIX it.

[HP_ClipStorm @HINDUSTAN_PLUSE]

@krassenstein I made the opposite version of it