Sandy Smale

Dance Mom, IT Mom, political junkie, married to the love of my life 30+yrs.

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

🚨 BREAKING: Close Trump advisors have been informing him the likeliest cause of any “rip” in the Reflecting Pool surface came from him insisting the full motorcade drive on the fresh surface to “inspect” it before it was refilled, which he immediately denies to blame liberals.

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

Take a moment to really look at this photo. 👇

That is the White House lawn. The People's House. Sacred ground that has stood for 226 years. Not destroyed by war. Not by disaster. But for one man's pleasure.

We are 13 days away from our 250th birthday as a nation, and our president spent $14 million ripping out the Reflection Pool to build himself a swamp. Another $600 million turning the East Wing into rubble. Rose Garden destroyed. And $60 million for his own birthday party that tore up the lawn.

226 years it stood strong. This man destroyed it in a year and a half.

One photo that screams exactly what he's done to this great nation.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

📸 Great photo of @JoeBiden and @DrBiden with the Obamas, Bushes, and Clintons in Chicago today.

This is America. Not what is currently in the White House.

[Brad Reed @bwrrs66]

@Acyn Obama didn't give them any American money either. Like with the Trump deal, he released frozen Iranian assets. The difference is Trump is releasing a LOT MORE of said assets AND lifting sanctions.

[💥☠️BklynRayder☠️💥🏈🇺🇸♈️⚾️🏀#screwtheDemsnRepub @bkrayder]

@Acyn Why does @JDVance @VP continue to outright lie to American people and say it was American money that Obama released. Straight up liar that can be debunked in 5 seconds with a search. He cannot tell the truth on simplest things.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[Sandy Smale @sandy_smale]

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[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I’m just going to post this every few days rather than arguing with faceless, nameless trolls in the comments.

[Sandy Smale @sandy_smale]

@pipsblip @co3blue @HunterBiden @JShepardini2 Even if this was true. It does not mean that they approved and counted those votes. They have to match up signatures, and make sure no one votes twice and so on. Do you think that they just Willy nilly count every vote that comes in?

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

💔💔💔 I'm gonna post this everyday so MAGA never forgets what Trump did on Jan 6 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Sandy Smale @sandy_smale]

@niyetsel Peaceful

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things the recovery industry will not tell you:

1. The drug worked. That is why people use it. Not weakness. Not moral failure.
A neurological event so complete and persuasive that any honest account of addiction has to start there.
The problem is not that the drug fails. The problem is that what it does is unrepeatable, and you will burn your entire life to the ground trying to get back to a place that no longer exists.

2. Shame is not guilt. Guilt says I did something bad. Shame says I am something bad. Guilt is appropriate. Shame is a cell with no windows. Most people use the words interchangeably. That mistake is lethal.

3. You cannot shame someone who has already named the thing you are holding over them. Say it first. Say it in plain light. The weapon drops.

4. Guilt can coexist with self-respect. Shame cannot. You can hold the damage and the dignity at the same time. I know because I live there.

5. Radical honesty does not give you back who you were. It hands you the clean slate of who you always wanted to be. The mask comes off. The cartoon other people drew of you stays on the page.

6. Nobody gets clean on a winning streak.

7. You have to be almost self-delusional in your forgiveness of yourself. (Go watch Chase Hughes)

8. The greatest sin was not the chaos. It was the absence. Being unavailable to the people who needed you.

9. Sustainable recovery starts with one thing: honesty with yourself. If you love an addict and want to help, that is the only door in.

10. I am only an expert on my recovery. Nobody is an expert on anyone else’s.

[Sandy Smale @sandy_smale]

@Simi_2210_ Skin

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

💔💔💔 I'm gonna post this everyday so MAGA never forgets what Trump did on Jan 6 🇺🇸

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@JaulaDePerreo The collective belief that we are irreparably divided. We are not. We are all prisoners of the algorithms that manipulate us into believing we are. Break the algorithm- get out and meet your neighbors. They’re just like you.

[Sandy Smale @sandy_smale]

@GeraldoRivera Then it should be a national holiday. Everyone gets the day off from work to vote. At the very least.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@DrNeilStone I agree Dr. We must investigate, because this is crazy.

[Sandy Smale @sandy_smale]

@HunterBiden

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

And who exactly are you Revo? What group are you the self proclaimed spokesperson for. I don’t speak for any group. I’m a privileged Yale educated white dude that fucked up and got addicted to crack cocaine and drank a gallon of vodka a day. I lived in hotels and motels from the Chateau to the Super 8. I’ve been to 9 rehabs. Ive done every drug you can think of and some you’ve never heard of. I’ve had guns pulled on me in Nashville and Philly and NY and LA. I’ve made a lot of money and wasted it all. I’ve known prostitues and pimps and thought of them as my friends. I’ve been robbed and mugged and been in more fist fights than I can count. I am not apart of any class- no respectable class would have me. And now I’m clean. And I am not pretending to be anyone but me. Peace brother.