Obama: "I'm worried about the Republican Party, not just the Democrat Party. When I was president, people would ask me, 'What change would you like to see in Washington?' I'd say, I'd love a loyal opposition. I'd love a Republican Party that was conservative in some ways, believed in rule of law and judicial independence and science, and wasn't constantly tapping into our worst impulses."
A woman who’s almost 60 having a pair of $800 earrings and wearing them to arguably the most important event of her life is not a story. I think y’all need to leave the house more.
Nancy Mace asked Tim Walz “what is a woman” in a congressional hearing.
He didn’t flinch:
“I’m the Governor of Minnesota. I’m not here to be a prop for your obsession.”
While six soldiers are dead, bases are destroyed, and the petrodollar is collapsing — Republicans are asking gender questions in Congress.
This is what distraction looks like from the inside.
Hillary Clinton: You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, despite espousing the need for transparency. You have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files. And when you did, not a single Republican member showed up for Les Wexner's deposition. This institutional failure is designed to protect one political party and one public official, rather than to seek truth and justice for the victims and survivors.
Robert De Niro: “We all love our country. I choke on that phrase. Can you love a country where our neighbors are shot down in the streets by masked government thugs? Can you love a country that denies healthcare for tens of millions of our fellow citizens? Can you love a country that trashes our economy to give tax breaks to its billionaire cronies? Can you love a country that pardons violent criminals and protects pedophiles? I feel betrayed by my country. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but it does have to return to the values that gave us our strength and humanity”
He is 83 years old
A trailer crash in 1972 killed wife Neilia and daughter Naomi instantly. Sons barely survived
Considered suicide after the crash. But he chose life for his boys
Memorized entire textbooks to hide his reading/stutter struggles
Still recites Irish poetry from memory to conquer his old stutter
Weeded gardens and washed windows to pay prep school tuition
Never drank alcohol. He vowed to break the family addiction cycle
Failed Vietnam draft physical due to asthma
Got college probation for fire extinguisher prank on dorm director
He is the second Catholic US president ever
Blocked from high school student president over demerits, but still won class president
Still drives the 1967 Corvette his dad gave him as a wedding gift
After loosing his wife and daughter in 1972, Joe Biden's son, Beau, urged him to run for president in 2016, but the plans were stopped when Beau died from Brain cancer.
Joe Biden grieved his son with the words "My God, my beautiful boy"
Joe Biden would later go on to see the funerals of his wife, his daughter and his son
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I never knew Joe Biden has faced this amount of life's storm.
The most painful thing is giving birth to children and burying the children with your own hands, closely followed by the death of a spouse.
Joe Biden struggled with speech and stammering. He was refused to be drafted because he had asthma.
He even survived 2 fatal brain conditions in 1988.
And still, with all these history, he came to lead an entire nation. And not just a nation, but a world power nation.
You might have your own reservations about Joe Biden and rightfully so.
But if you look beyond the president, and into him as an human.... Then you just might see an human with a lot of scars and painful past, while still trying to hold on to life and let out a smile when he can ❤️
My thought, prayers and best wishes are with Joe Biden and his entire family during this crucial period.
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✍️ Vincent the Therapist
You didn’t give a shit about the President of the United States of America posting an ape video of President Obama or calling African nations shitholes — but you’re going to call me racist for talking about my lifelong struggle with dyslexia?
Spare me your fake fucking outrage, Sean.
"[He] intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him, people he calls, quote, 'the enemy from within.' This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and out for unchecked power."
Oct. 29, 2024.