Michael

[Michael @pelzthebadguy]

Is it okay to ask a girl out over the phone

[Michael @pelzthebadguy]

@politicsusa46 I mean his followers barely passed high school

[rigatoni mad max @bespinderella]

white people could not last a single week -- maybe even not a day -- living in a society where people casually talk about them like this and everyone else ignores it or outright supports it. only black people are expected to tolerate this for generations on end.

[Andre Hollings @thoughtXopinion]

@RightWingWatch Classic Trump supporter.

[Michael @pelzthebadguy]

@_inthealpine_ @BuckeyeBackup @WordWithJustin @MsMelChen Hey had their representatives

[ًᵗᵒ @tosports13]

very tired of them treating russian athletes like they’re war criminals because of their government when they don’t do the same to american or israeli athletes

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

JD Vance: “The November midterms give us a choice: keep fighting fraud with Republicans or send criminal fraudsters a life boat from the Democrats.”

Just a quick reminder, this administration has pardoned more fraudster than every other administration combined.

Here is an incomplete list of fraudsters pardoned by Trump/Vance. It’s incomplete because the list is so long it exceeds the X post character limits.

• Dinesh D’Souza: Convicted of campaign contribution fraud via illegal straw donations.
• Conrad Moffat Black: Convicted of mail fraud and obstruction related to business dealings.
• Michael Robert Milken: Convicted of conspiracy, securities fraud, mail fraud, and tax fraud in the 1980s junk bond/insider trading scandal.
• Philip Esformes: Convicted in one of the largest Medicare/Medicaid fraud schemes (over $1 billion in fraudulent claims via nursing homes and kickbacks).
• Salomon Melgen: Convicted of health care fraud involving tens of millions in fraudulent Medicare billing as an eye doctor.
• Faustino Bernadett (and similar health care figures like those in large-scale schemes): Convicted in health care fraud with sham contracts and kickbacks exceeding $900 million in fraudulent bills.
• Michael Ashley: Convicted of bank fraud tied to a mortgage company collapse.
• John Duncan Fordham: Convicted of health care fraud as a pharmacist.
• Steve Stockman: Convicted of mail and wire fraud, campaign finance violations, and money laundering (misusing charitable donations).
• Chris Collins: Convicted of securities fraud and insider trading (providing material nonpublic information).
• Sholom Rubashkin: Convicted of bank fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering in a large-scale meatpacking financial scheme.
• Judith Negron: Convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, kickbacks, money laundering, and structuring (part of a major scheme).
• Fred Davis Clark Jr.: Convicted of bank fraud and false statements in connection with federally insured loans.
• Albert J. Pirro Jr.: Convicted of conspiracy, tax evasion, and multiple counts of fraud.
• Additional health care executives/doctors (at least 10 total in first term): Convicted in large-scale Medicare fraud schemes involving false billing and kickbacks.
• Trevor Milton: Convicted of securities fraud and wire fraud (false statements to investors about Nikola Corp. technology).
• Devon Archer: Convicted of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud (defrauding a Native American tribe in a bond scheme).
• Brian Kelsey: Convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States and aiding excessive campaign contributions.
• Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley: Convicted of bank fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to defraud banks (over $30 million in fraudulent loans).
• George Santos: Convicted of wire fraud, identity theft, aggravated identity theft, and embezzlement/fraud from campaign donors and unemployment benefits.
• Michael Grimm: Convicted of tax fraud (underreporting income and filing false tax returns).
• Jacob Deutsch: Convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud (mortgage fraud scheme).
• Adriana Isabel Camberos (aka Adriana Shayota): Convicted of mail and wire fraud in a counterfeit 5-Hour Energy scheme (millions in restitution; previously had a related sentence commuted in first term).
• Andres Enrique Camberos: Convicted alongside his sister in the mail and wire fraud counterfeit product scheme.
• Terren Peizer: Convicted of insider trading and securities fraud (health care company scheme).
• Wanda Vázquez Garced: Convicted of campaign finance violations tied to bribery and wire fraud scheme.
• Julio Herrera Velutini: Convicted of wire fraud and related bribery/conspiracy.
• Mark Rossini: Convicted of wire fraud in the same bribery scheme.
• Michele Fiore: Convicted of wire fraud and charity fraud (misusing funds for slain officers).
• Glen Casada

[Michael @pelzthebadguy]

@BrittRooted @IanCarrollShow Quick question, why would the security team need to update Ben Shapiro team?

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

Ben screwed up reeeall good by making this claim.

Charlie’s security team called Ben shapiro’s IDF security team before they called anyone else…. ? Before they’d even gotten Charlie to the hospital? When they should have been stopping bleeding and protecting the spine.

What???

[goma @soigomaa]

She was a 25 year old lawyer in Ayacucho, Peru when her boyfriend attacked her in a hotel in July 2015. The security cameras captured everything. Him chasing her. Dragging her by the hair. Her screaming for help while hotel staff tried to intervene. The court watched the footage.
Then sentenced him to one year suspended for minor injuries. The more serious charges - dropped. She refused to accept it. She went public. Put her name and her face to everything. Took the fight to the media, to the courts, to the streets. On August 13 2016 half a million Peruvians marched through Lima. The largest demonstration in the history of Peru. Led by her.
The appeals court threw out the original verdict. He was retried. Convicted of attempted f3micide. Sentenced to 11 years in prison. She went on to become a member of Congress. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Her name is Arlette Contreras. And she was just getting started.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Vance's attempt to rebrand as a reasonable, soft-spoken, pious politician for 2028 lasted all of five minutes. He can't help himself. This is more his speed. His comfort zone is reheating takes he sees on this app and serving up populist slop. He doesn't have the rhetorical skill or charisma for anything greater.

[Latina Ranting 🇧🇷 @LatinaRanting]

@andrefran É o Israel da América Latina.

[André Fran @andrefran]

Vimos mexicanos abraçando coreanos e ingleses, alemães aplaudindo paraguaios, japoneses desejando sorte a brasileiros, franceses brincando com noruegueses.... Sempre que tem violência, racismo e confusão é com argentino. 🇦🇷

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

“They (FG) won't come directly, but you will see their hand in virtually everything. They are frustrating me”

Of course, he's right. That's exactly what the government of Nigeria is doing to him. But I don't know if he and those he's talking to actually understand that what he just described here is exactly how neocolonialism works.

And I ask again, how come people understand this easily, but when you tell them that foreign governments do the same thing, and that these foreign actors are the source of whatever heavy-handedness they complain about their local leader, suddenly it becomes hard for them to understand?

I just cannot reconcile this type of cognitive dissonance.

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

Botswana is one of Africa's best performing economies, but it's still a nation that has had to struggle with poverty and one of the highest rates of wealth inequality in the world. If anything, Botswana further demonstrates just how much colonialism underdeveloped Africa and what a challenge it has been for African nations to fully rid themselves of the lasting effects of colonialism.

Vietnam was able to achieve this through a revolutionary break with the colonial system. It's difficult to achieve this in Africa with people who are too busy apologizing for colonialism rather than destroying it to build something new.

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

I think FIFA clearly had some sort of pre-existing narrative where they wanted Messi to face off against Mbappe for most goals scored in a World Cup or whatever nonsense metric they think is important.

but viewers don't watch for metrics. They watch for underdogs. They watch for great human stories. And FIFA has been killing off those stories steadily since the beginning of the tournament with bad calls and open corruption.

[IG: olesoul57.2 ♉️ 5/12 @olesoul57_2]

Y’all done made me side with Karen 😮‍💨🙏🏾

[gam @mbafraaude]

No es ninguna broma, es solamente la afirmación de lo que algunos llevamos diciendo 20 años.

Messi representa al producto perfecto del sistema. Un talento irrepetible al que moldearon hasta convertirlo en la imagen ideal: el héroe silencioso, el humilde, el ejemplo perfecto. Da la sensación de que aceptó ese papel porque era el precio de convertirse en el rostro del fútbol mundial. Vendió su alma y al final ha tenido su recompensa.

Cristiano representa todo lo contrario. Nunca fue el favorito del sistema. Era demasiado auténtico, demasiado competitivo, demasiado orgulloso y demasiado difícil de controlar. Nunca encajó en el personaje que querían vender y precisamente por eso lo ha tenido todo en contra.

A uno lo protegieron porque era la imagen perfecta para vender el deporte. Al otro lo señalaron porque nunca quiso dejar de ser él mismo.

[♡⃝ @wine_x13]

I lost it when the grandma from Encanto was forgiven like nothing happened after having created generational trauma for every single one of his children and grandchildren and DISOWNING HER SON for being different just to then hug him like he hadn't been living ISOLATED AND LIKE A RAT HIS WHOLE LIFE because of her.

No, everything is not magically okay with a hug. BAD thing to teach kids.

[Chief Ron @DoGoodRon_]

They in Texas making public restrooms designed for pedophiles✌🏽

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is something that people are typically not aware of, but which is a good illustration that China is more open to the West than vice-versa: there are literally hundreds of international schools in China, managed by Westerners and, oftentimes, directly by Western governments.

This is the case of French schools for instance, which I know quite a bit about given that my two daughters attended the French school in Shanghai. Under the so-called "AEFE" system all French international schools globally are managed by the French government, only have French teachers, and follow the French curriculum with zero difference in what kids are taught in China vs France.

The rule, AFAIK, is that to attend these schools the kids need to have a foreign passport, which in practice is the case of a very large number of kids in China from international marriages, Chinese who obtained foreign citizenship while living abroad and then returned, and of course of expat families working in China.

Imagine the outcry if the opposite were the case: a Chinese school in France managed by the Chinese government. It's basically unthinkable, even if these schools were only opened to Chinese kids.

Heck we don't need to imagine the outcry: we just need to see what happened with China's Confucius institutes which were just language and cultural centers - and yet were so intolerable to us that we systematically shut them down across the West.

The end result is that you get thousands of kids in China with an intimate understanding of the West, which is a good thing for China - it's that type of deep understanding that gives China a structural advantage in understanding and engaging with us.

Just another illustration that the West is more ideological than China: we are way more uncomfortable with what it'd take to understand them than they are in understanding us, to our own detriment 🤷‍♂️