Ralph Valdes

Engineering and Product at Zumba Fitness. Tweets and reactions are my own.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

He now wants the historic Cherry Trees that were gifted from Japan in 1910 REMOVED, along with the bike path so he can build a golf course.

Guy's! HE'S PLANNING ON CUTTING DOWN THE CHERRY TREES. THE FUCKING CHERRY TREES OF DC.

This better not happen.

[Patricia Eguino @PatriciaEguino]

To Olympian David Hearn’s legal team: I took the following photos and videos of the Reflecting Pool on June 19th - same day that Hearn was arrested - and I saw that the pool sealant/liner was already peeling in multiple places.
I’d be willing to testify.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

It turns out the great egg price increase that helped topple Joe Biden's presidency was <checks notes> due to an alleged conspiracy among egg producers to artificially increase prices and the coverage of that fact is a blink-and-you-miss-it story on the NYT website 🙃

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

They're trying to give a guy 10 years in prison for ripping a piece of already-peeling sealant, after pardoning people who beat cops and stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn a democratic election. What a screwed-up administration.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I remember this system where, in order to “smooth relationships” with the government and allow your company to operate, one had to give the government a controlling stake in successful companies.

It was how the Eastern Block & USSR operated.

Not a controlling stake, but damn:

[Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports]

Sotomayor:

In abolishing independent agencies, SCOTUS hands the U.S. president more powers than a king, whom Parliament could constrain from removing high-level royal officers. https://t.co/5r4Cnm6HN6

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

This is the Republican Party in a nutshell.

Even when a bill is good, they won't support it because it'd mean working with Democrats—and their lunatic base would be furious about it.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

Fighting for kids to receive state-mandated Bible instruction while fighting against those same kids receiving free lunch is exactly the kind of religious hypocrisy Christians should stand against.

This is what it looks like to take the Lord’s name in vain.

[Jeff Brandes @JeffreyBrandes]

Government efficiency?

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Column by Michelle Singletary: Many engaged couples fail to take into account how much they’re asking people to pay to be a part of their wedding party.

If you’ve been asked to be a bridesmaid or groomsman, here’s a guide to managing the price tag: https://t.co/3KZKKakaT6

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[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie:

“I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is the most corrupt words to come out of a Speaker's mouth imaginable. The job of Congress isn't to protect the President and his family. It's to provide checks and balances on the Executive Branch. You're damn right we will investigate crimes and corruption. Who moved $180 million in oil futures 15 minutes before Iran announcements? Who has gotten sole source contracts because of their connections to the Trump family? Where did our social security data go when DOGE downloaded it into portable hard drives? Where are the rest of the Epstein files? On and on this Congress has chosen covering up crimes instead of stopping them. That ends in November. @WellmanForMO

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

The word religion appears in the Constitution twice.

Both times, it’s preceded by the word “No.”

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

“We’re doing 19 watergates a day” is not a good thing

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

You wasted more than one billion dollars of Florida’s emergency response fund on a failed PR stunt that hurt people and destroyed families. You should never be anywhere near public office again.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Inflation hit 4.1 in May. Highest level in 3 years. Yesterday, Trump killed a bipartisan affordable housing bill designed to help Americans people struggling with rent, gas, energy bills, and the inflation he caused.

Had enough of this yet, MAGA?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“It’s not conservatives, guys. This is fascism. You can’t reason with these guys. You have to crush them.”

If a liberal or leftist said this about MAGA, they’d be accused by Watters and Fox of trying to incite violence against them. But they can say whatever they want.