Savage_Optimist

Human Connection Addict. Panromantic Demisexual Halfcaf Snowflake. Failed at Plural marriage before it was cool.

[Ross Bolen @WRBolen]

Elon Musk and Joe Rogan moved to Texas to escape liberal California and inadvertently turned Texas blue for the first time in 30 years 😂

[Kinao @xbtkinao]

Porn star Bree Olson spent six months living in Charlie Sheen's mansion. They had unprotected sex. He insisted on lambskin condoms - the kind that don't block viruses. Doctors showed up at his house every single week. She was 24 and never asked why. Then he went on live television and told the entire world he was HIV positive. He never told her. She found out sitting on her couch, watching the Today Show, the same way as 300 million other Americans.

In 2011 she was one of the biggest names in porn. Over 170 films, Penthouse Pet of the Month, Playboy covers, millions of fans. Charlie Sheen - the highest-paid actor on television, $1.8 million per episode - called her up and invited her to move into his Mulholland Drive mansion. She became one of his "goddesses." She was living a life most 24-year-olds can't even imagine.

Doctors came to his house once a week. She saw them walk in and walk out. She didn't ask. She trusted him. He told her "I'm clean, I'm clean." She believed him.

They split in April 2011. She moved on. Four years passed.

Then on November 17, 2015, she turned on the Today Show and saw his face. Charlie Sheen looked into the camera and said the words: "I am in fact HIV positive." He said he'd known for about four years. That put the diagnosis right around the time she was sleeping in his bed.

He never called her. Not before the broadcast. Not after. Not once in four years.

She went on the Howard Stern Show and got tested live on air. The result was negative. But she said the terror of waiting for that result was something she would never forget.

She called him a "monster." She told Inside Edition: "I could literally be dead right now because he did not tell me that." She said he doesn't value her life. That he knew what he had and chose to protect his reputation instead of protecting her.

No charges were ever filed.

After she left porn, nobody would hire her. She said employers treated her like a "pedophile." She wrote: "Porn didn't hurt me. The way society treats me for having done it does."

She survived. But she had to live through months of not knowing whether the most famous man she'd ever been with had given her a death sentence - and he didn't even have the decency to warn her himself.

Should a man who hides an HIV diagnosis from the women in his bed face prison, or is a ruined reputation punishment enough?

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Democrats should pass single-issue bills that are easy to sell as having a measurable impact on people’s lives and then FORCE TRUMP TO VETO THEM.

His veto threats are pathetic and weak.

Make him own it.

[Ranni Team🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦💙 @AmesOsaycnuc]

I think we owe Zelenskyy a huge debt in bombing Russia data centers.

[Drexel Heard II @drexelheard]

Hasan is a Trojan horse for the Democratic Party. On a day where we have a singular focus on defeating Trump Republicans across the nation, Hasan is attacking Democrats in our state. He’s got no place in our party, and we should continue to reject this rhetoric.

[joi alexandra🌹❤️ @bruneaux_mahs]

Not to bring down the mood but we still have a shit storm coming when the worst of the Big Beautiful Bill kicks in next year. Please don’t play stupid and blame the Democrats when it happens.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

I will also join in and say Cooper, Sherrod, Turek were great recruits and hopefully Peltola wins.

[Ohio Rob @TheOhioRob]

Every Democrat who won a competitive district tonight is a political moderate. Normies. Non-fanatics. Clergy and doctors. AND YET, the progressive wing looks at these moderate victories as proof that what the party really needs is more fanatics.

Eric Hoffer called this decades ago in The True Believer. Fanatics actually despise moderates more than their real enemies. Why? Because incremental wins preserve the system they want to tear down. To them, steady progress is a bigger threat than losing.

[WhickTV - Bane of Christian Nationalists @WhickTv]

Lol every race he touched underperformed or lost

Meanwhile moderates are pulling double digit wins and flipping fucking texas.

[Ministry of Otaku @MinistryofOtaku]

"We need people to join the trades! We have a shortage of tradesmen!"

[James @onedrland]

Seeing this turnout really let’s me know how fucking useless you all were in 2024

[DarkMatter2525 @DarkMatter2525]

I've seen this before.
I'm not happy yet.
I want impeachments.
I want investigations.
I want arrests.
I did my part.
Now you do yours.

[the girl with a microphone @GWAMtweets]

WE GOT THE HOUSE BITCHES

[Savage_Optimist @OptimistSavage]

@ifkate They think it will guarantee 2028 win

[Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff]

These results show that the Democratic *base* and Democratic leadership knew what they were talking about.

Hasan Piker and other Dem-bashers will try to spin this and take credit but let’s be so for real about what just happened.

[DB @vapidcool]

@conorjrogers @kmcnam1 Regime change in Texas before Iran

[House Democrats @HouseDemocrats]

Let's get to work.

[Kathleen Wood @KathleenWoodnys]

The DSA’s worst nightmare is Democrats proving they can win WITHOUT embracing socialism or extremism.

James Talarico wins TEXAS. Roy Cooper flips NORTH CAROLINA. Mainstream Democrats are breaking through Republican territory.

The DSA confuses ideological purity with electoral strength. Americans want affordability, public safety, competent government, and results that help their lives get better. Most Americans are nauseated by ideological lectures, political purity tests, and revolutionary cosplay.

The Democratic Party doesn’t need to move further left to win. It needs to remember how to appeal to people outside its own political bubble.

Sticking to real Democratic values.
By focusing on the demands of Americans is how you build a governing majority.

[ilana kaplan @lanikaps]

i can feel the millennial optimism slowly reentering my body

[Keegs 🧮🏗️ @LittleKeegs0]

At first I was like "ayyy my man" but this is actually a nice sentiment