Joseph Owens

Dad, math/science junkie. Professional gambler in financial/political bets. My pronouns are he/him/hey you!/not that guy again and asshole! (if we’re married)

[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

This is one of the darkest moments for me in the war against Russia.

I just returned from visiting many our friends fighting in Donetsk region, and we had long discussions on the war, and geopolitics around it.

Authentic thoughts from Ukraine's frontlines, noted in this 🧵

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

"Russian borders end nowhere!" - says a banner hung at the Russia-Estonia border at Ivangorod-Narva border control point.

Putin's regime provokes European countries and wants the borders to be closed. This will allow the regime to blame the West for setting up the "Iron Curtain".
Russia is gradually being transformed into North Korea.

[Joseph Owens @Sepowens]

@Sundog512 @JoJoFromJerz @VetSquare Losing a fellow American to authoritarianism is never a good thing. Each one weakens the bonds of our Republic that little bit, leaving us all more vulnerable to the next demagogue with a bag of grudges to trade for votes.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

We aren’t going to reach Ma & Pa MAGA with stats and facts.
Believe me, I’ve tried.
The truth is about as useful to them as a library card.
If their melon-hued Messiah tells them that he was the greatest president in history, and that all the living past Presidents have told him so, they’ll believe him.

[Joseph Owens @Sepowens]

@Gerashchenko_en Strange. Every Russian in Russia is ‘not political’ and has no thought on any policy of their government whatsoever if asked. And every Russia outside Russia is highly political and will take to the street to let their host country know what they think.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

A demonstration in support of Russia and "Novorossiya" was held in the center of Paris on Saturday, December 2. The protesters called to stop supplying military aid to Ukraine.

As far as I know, there have been almost no such demonstrations recently. Now Russia, feeling that Ukraine is being mentioned less and less, is starting to organize such demonstrations again.

That is why it is very important to talk about the war that goes on, to use all possible platforms. Despite the fatigue, this is a marathon, this is another hard stage of this war.

Thank you to everyone who continues to stand with us and support Ukraine!

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Under our SAVE student loan repayment plan, borrowers could save $1,000 a year.
 
And I won't apologize for helping working people to the Republicans in Congress who are fighting to give massive tax cuts to the wealthy.

[Joseph Owens @Sepowens]

@Landofillusion1 @Victorshi2020 What a strange sad little person you are that even Christmas can’t pierce mindless hatred and vitriol. I pity you and hope Christ can someday touch your heart.

[Joseph Owens @Sepowens]

@Gerashchenko_en Hate to say it but at $0.86 per dozen I’d probably swing an elbow at someone’s ribs to get in on that action.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Staff members for Desantis had to scramble and buy a Bible on Amazon for $21 right before his inauguration because when they asked him for his family Bible to be sworn in on they learned that he didn’t own one. https://t.co/GK02AvbIst

[Don Lewis @DonLew87]

WTF??? The EXPELLED George Santos will still be able to:

• stroll the halls of the Congress
• access to the floor of the House of Representatives
• dine in the exclusive House restaurant
• exercise in the Capitol gym
• borrow books from Library of Congress

So long as...

[Joseph Owens @Sepowens]

@JaxAlemany @marycjordan I can’t help but think President Carter and he’s wonderful First Lady hung on so long just to remind us America doesn’t have to be what we have become. There is a better way.

[Jacqueline Alemany @JaxAlemany]

“Rosalynn Carter’s family said she specifically wanted Melania Trump to know she was invited to the service. In a time of division, she hoped all the first ladies would join in a show of solidarity as her farewell tribute,” per ⁦@marycjordan⁩: https://t.co/l8wtkzdrsX

[OUT OF FUQS QWEEN 💬 @SanteenaR]

WTF? 👀

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

A Democrat was in the White House when my family was sent to the internment camps in 1941. It was an egregious violation of our human and civil rights.

It would have been understandable if people like me said they’d never vote for a Democrat again, given what had been done to us.

But being a liberal, being a progressive, means being able to look past my own grievances and concerns and think of the greater good. It means working from within the Democratic party to make it better, even when it has betrayed its values.

I went on to campaign for Adlai Stevenson when I became an adult. I marched for civil rights and had the honor of meeting Dr. Martin Luther King. I fought for redress for my community and have spent my life ensuring that America understood that we could not betray our Constitution in such a way ever again.

Bill Clinton broke my heart when he signed DOMA into law. It was a slap in the face to the LGBTQ community. And I knew that we still had much work to do. But I voted for him again in 1996 despite my misgivings, because the alternative was far worse. And my obligation as a citizen was to help choose the best leader for it, not to check out by not voting out of anger or protest.

There is no leader who will make the decision you want her or him to make 100 percent of the time. Your vote is a tool of hope for a better world. Use it wisely, for it is precious. Use it for others, for they are in need of your support, too.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

On Election Day, Biden will be 29,936 days old.

Trump will be 28,634 days old.

Biden will be ~4% older than Trump.

Is Biden at least 4% more honest?
4% more intelligent?
4% more experienced?
4% more stable?
4% more qualified to be president?

Many, many times that, folks.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Putin & Russia don't give a shit about NATO as something of a military threat.

They don't care about it -- at all, at all, at all.

And they never did.

Just like now that Finland is part of NATO and Sweden is coming soon, the Kremlin couldn't care less.

Because, unlike independent thinkers on X, they are evil but not stupid, and they always knew the West is most obviously of no threat to Russia.

They always knew NATO & the West were way too heterogeneous, relaxed, comfortable, disarmed, unprepared, and too busy minding their own business in a world where a war of conquest is a stupid idea that just doesn't work -- especially when it comes to messing with the world's top nuclear power.

The only way Russia cares about Ukraine's "NATO membership" is that it effectively removes Ukraine from a list of countries against which the Kremlin can unleash yet another Great Patriotic Special Military Operation, thus prolonging and justifying its never-ending rule over Russia -- you know, the fortress all surrounded by enemies since the dawn of time.

So next time they talk about Ukrainian "neutrality" -- let me give you a simple translation: "We need Ukraine out of NATO so that we can conquer it and triumphally bring its severed head on a plate to the Russian public -- until the euphoria dies down again and we have to decide who's next."

[Joseph Owens @Sepowens]

@Gerashchenko_en Also indicates his signalling for peace talks is nothing but a ruse to buy time to rebuild for another attack.