strahern

mom, nana, former athlete, retired teacher, junk lover

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

President Obama did not walk out of our 2012 satellite interview. He was visibly frustrated when I repeated my Benghazi question after he ducked it. And his team did try to tell us our time was up. But I kept asking questions and he didn't walk out.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Partick's parents failed him. Hunter Biden's didn't.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

Every voter should ask themselves why this ok.

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

Dear MAGA: If you dropped off your child as a boy and picked your child up as a girl, please return her back to the school, you picked up the wrong child. Thank you.

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

I hate to admit this but Trump was right.

He said that if I vote for Kamala Harris gas prices, groceries prices and my utility bills will go through the roof.

I voted for Harris and my gas, groceries and utility bills have gone through the roof.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

By Jasmine Crockett:

"Hey Tim Scott,

You spent years tap dancing through every interview, every speech, every Sunday show appearance telling America that racism was basically over and that your success story proved everybody else just needed to work harder and complain less.

You carried water for people who mocked civil rights, demonized poor people, gutted diversity programs, attacked voting rights, and treated Black history like a disease.

And for what?

No VP slot.
No cabinet throne.
No real power.
Not even basic respect.

You confessed your admiration on national television for people who viewed you as nothing more than a convenient talking point — the “See? We have one!” guy standing in the background smiling on cue.

Then the second you showed the smallest trace of independence and questioned that disgusting Obama monkey post, your own side turned on you like starving wolves.

Suddenly the loyal house servant wasn’t loyal enough.

Now you’re sitting in a car recording cellphone videos reminding the world that you’re still Black.

Trust us, Senator — nobody forgot.

The problem is that you spent so much time trying to convince other people that racism wasn’t real that now, when it smacks you directly in the face, you want sympathy from the same community you lectured for years.

You defended the people stripping away protections for minorities, women, the poor, and working-class families. You stood beside people cheering the destruction of programs our grandparents marched, bled, and died for.

And now you look shocked that the crowd you entertained never actually saw you as an equal.

The Bible talks about the Prodigal Son returning home after losing everything.

But the Prodigal Son came home humble.
You spent years helping burn the house down.

And now you’re politically homeless:
too Black for the people you defended,
too eager to defend them for the people you abandoned.

That’s the tragedy of selling your dignity for a seat at a table that was never meant for you.

Tim, you may be the PRODIGAL SON, BUT YOU CAN’T COME HOME."

We saw it coming. He didn't want to.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

I guess my retirement plan should’ve been storming the Capitol on January 6th and waiting to get compensated.

[strahern @strahern2]

@chiky_handlr @PrezLives2022 🤬

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Since Mike Johnson says members of Congress don't make enough money with just their salaries, may I suggest:

- Dialing back on those streaming subscriptions
- Reducing your cell phone plan
- Taking public transportation
- Eating cheaper cuts of meat
- Eating in more often
- Turning off the lights when you're not in the room
- Getting a part-time job at Walmart
- Growing a f-cking spine and stop whining

Signed,
Everyone trying to eke out a living in your shitty economy

[Jenni @hashjenni]

My hot take is US Senators should be paid whatever their states minimum wage is. That’s how you represent your constituents, you live like them.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Mike Johnson thinks $174,000 isn’t enough to survive without insider trading, but $15/hour is too much for everyone else.

Every single fucking day these people prove how disconnected they are from normal Americans.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Scott MacFarlane slams the legacy media over its handling of January 6 coverage

MacFarlane: I’ve said before, and I’ll say again, that legacy media owns some of the blame for the lying about January 6th—platforming demonstrably false information, lies about the Capitol insurrection, giving Trump an unchallenged platform at times to say the 2020 election is rigged, to say the January 6th rioters were political patriots or heroes, and to allow his surrogates to do the same.

The Republicans here in Washington at the Capitol down the road—they’re silent generally about January 6th. They won’t defend it declaratively. Most of them won’t. They know it’s wrong. They were hiding for their lives or running for their lives that day. They know it was wrong; they just don’t say anything about it. They let the malignant lies go unchecked.

Legacy media has done the same. They have not counterpunched effectively or efficiently against the lies about January 6th. They own some blame for the idea that $1.7 billion in taxpayer money would pay off January 6 rioters. It really is a malignant lie that didn’t get counterpunched effectively.

There were a few of us—really talented reporters—and me who covered the January 6 prosecutions, who were in the courtrooms for those hearings. Sometimes there was only a few of us. Sometimes I was alone in the room, and that was negligence by mainstream media, who should have marshaled more resources, more time, more manpower, more energy toward covering the largest criminal prosecution in American history—the 1,500-plus January 6 cases.

Just guys like me scrapping in the courtroom, running outside on our phones to tell you what happened. The legacy linear media let the story die. They let it atrophy. They allowed the space and the void for Trump to step in and try to rewrite it, to craft a different narrative, to flat-out lie.

They left that space by underresourcing January 6th reporting. It’s really a cardinal sin to not put more time, money, and manpower into covering what I think was the defining criminal case of modern American democracy—and the first attack on the U.S. Capitol since the early 1800s.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Rep. @brotherjones_ at the CA state capitol: “We chanted ‘we will not go back’ — I burned a confederate flag outside the chamber to send a message we will not go back to the times in which our folks were met with Billy clubs & the blast of the fire hose…” 🇺🇸

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

A Louisiana resident named Marshawn didn’t hold back today and didn’t care who he offended with what he said. He’s right; this is MAGA’s last gasp for air. The courage of these residents to speak out gives me hope for our future. #DemsUnited

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

A lesson on social democracy that is not from a lying billionaire.

[strahern @strahern2]

@rachelvscott @highbrow_nobrow 🤬 POS!

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

This is BRILLIANT:

Watch this supercut of Republicans bitching about gas prices under Biden, lower than they are today, as they refuse to criticize MUCH higher prices under trump.

Hypocrites, all of them.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Sit back, take an edible, and think about how "Obama needs $1 billion for a ballroom" would get covered in 2011.

[Nikki Fried @NikkiFried]

What the living hell are we doing? Americans can’t pay for healthcare, groceries & gas but we are going to pay $1 BILLION for a freaking vanity project ballroom. Have we lost our damn minds!?!

Every damn Republican who votes for this scam needs to be voted OUT.