I'm so torn right now.
Despite its problems, I still love America, my country of birth, the only country I have ever lived in.
I'm torn because of the glee I feel as our Vice President, JD Vance, is drenched in thunderous boos at the Olympics. I really can't stand that lying sack of shit, but he's there sadly representing our country.
JD Vance represents the absolute worst that America has to offer, he is an embarrassment.
BTW -- that's why trump isn't going to the Super Bowl, he would be booed into oblivion.
I remember, as a kid, learning the "Pledge of Allegiance" and "My Country Tis of Thee," and learning the words to the "Star Spangled Banner" and "God Bless America." I still have national pride.
Just because I'm liberal, it doesn't make me any less patriotic. There's some kind of idiotic myth, pushed by morons on the right, that if you criticize America or you criticize the President, that means you hate America.
These hypocrites have the audacity to say that, after spending 8 years criticizing President Obama, and another 4 years criticizing President Biden.
I despise the way Vance has chosen to represent America, behind a wall of lies and hypocrisy used to justify the hateful actions taken against fellow Americans and anyone who looks like they might have been born in another country.
If you are a patriot, you love our Constitution. If you're a patriotic elected official, you've sworn an OATH to defend the Constitution and all its amendments, even those that are inconveniently impeding your quest to remove as many Brown people as possible.
And if you are a patriot, it is your DUTY to speak up when you see things aren't right, when you see people making us look bad, when you see others being hurt, oppressed, or treated with cruelty.
When you love something or someone, you correct them when they're wrong, because you expect THE BEST from them.
THAT is what it means to be American.
So yeah, BOOOO to that lying hypocrite JD Vance, and his "Haitians are eating cats and dogs" and his smug, mascara eyes looking in the camera, and his refusal to apologize for lying about Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
ALSO, hooray to our AMAZING American athletes, I will be rooting for you at the Olympics, hooray for all those people who told Vance to suck it.
And hooray for America, which I still love but excuse our appearance while we are under shitty new management.🇺🇸
Donald Trump would absolutely HATE it if you RTed Kamala Harris kicking ASS in her Bret Baier interview on Fox!
Here she is proclaiming that Donald Trump is UNSTABLE.
#TrumpisBadforUs
If you are wasting your time praying for Lewiston Maine, pray Congress makes stronger gun laws or helps provide better/free public mental health care. In fact, don’t pray, don’t wring your hands and make this about your sorrow. Do something. Act. Vote. Care for each other now.
I’m at Great Oak High School in Temecula, where students are walking out to protest the school district policy requiring parents to be told if their child identifies as transgender.
Once again, it’s not Joe Biden. It’s not Merrick Garland. It’s not the Justice Department. It’s a grand jury. It’s a group of ordinary Americans who determined that there’s probable cause that Donald Trump committed crimes.
So they ban my book from young readers, confuse me with @oprah , fail to specify what parts of my poetry they object to, refuse to read any reviews, and offer no alternatives…Unnecessary #bookbans like these are on the rise, and we must fight back 👊🏿 DONATE here: https://t.co/QFjBGwYDCL
👀 WATCH: The next time a gun fetishist goes on a wild rant about his so-called “Second Amendment rights,” show him this 4-minute video. Former U.S. Marine marksmanship instructor @Adrian_Fontes completely DEMOLISHES the gun lobby’s lies — and he does that by quoting what the Constitution ACTUALLY says.
Everybody send positive thoughts to E Jean right now. Just take a minute, stop scrolling, take a deep breath, and send some love her way. This has to be so hard.
I woke up to find I'm now blue ticked again. I haven't paid for Twitter or given anyone my phone number. Mr Musk, if you're paying for people who don't want blue ticks to have them, @StephenKing's suggestion that you donate the money to charity is excellent. To Refugees, perhaps?
This is incredible!
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday just destroyed Republican talking points that attacked a non-binary Navy Officer who was proud that they had the chance to read a poem to their crew mates on an LGBTQ spoken-word night.
Gilday responded to Senator Tommy Tuberville saying, “I’ll tell you why I’m particularly proud of this sailor. Her grandfather served during World War II, and he was gay, and he was ostracized in the very institution that she not only joined and is proud to be a part of, but she volunteered to deploy on Ford. And she’ll likely deploy again next month when Ford goes back to sea.”
Thank you to this incredible sailor and to Adm. Gilday for standing up for our Navy heroes!
THIS is what Republicans and the NRA have done to our children.
THIS is what’s being taught in schools now.
All because Republicans are blocking even the most minor #CommonSenseGunLaws so they can collect their #NRABloodMoney.
#VoteBlueToSaveOurKids