Stuart Apploff

Husband, father and grandfather. Retired trial lawyer. USAF Vet. Big band/jazz/classic film aficionado. Wine lover. "I drink and I know things."

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

@classic_film This is insanely difficult to complete. You could easily list a dozen or more songs. I had to pass on The Look of Love and Raindrops Are Fallin’ On My Head, just to name two. I included Nikki, A House is Not a Home and Arthur’s Theme. Love the melodies and lyrics on the last two.

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

Wordle 1,810 3/6

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Can you see my smile from where you are?😉

Have a Wistfully Wonderful Spring Wednesday!😃☀️🌼🌸

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

I hope he means this. Every Democrat running in November will have this as their best 15 second ad.

Candidate: Which White House do you want to see next January? Vote Democratic Party on Election Day.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Trump:

Many don't know, in Paris, France, the Eiffel Tower, 1889, it was built. It was supposed to be taken down immediately after the World's Fair.

And then they said, "You know, we sort of like it. Let's leave it up a little bit longer." And then they said, "Let's leave it up longer and longer and longer." Well, they never took it down.

And, you know, we're building something in front of the White House that's quite attractive to a lot of people. It's gonna have the big UFC fight on June 14th.

And I'm looking at it, and maybe we'll never, ever take it down.

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

@lippyent The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin.
“Yo, Rinty!”

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

No. The cost and protracted litigation aren’t worth it. He’ll come out ahead regardless.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

Should Scott Pelley sue CBS NEWS and Bari Welss for firing him?

(A: Yes
(B: No

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

There goes the “Netanyahu lied to me” off-ramp. As usual, his narcissistic need to always be smarter than the rest of us removes all doubt the Iran War is his fault and his alone. He’s had a lot of help, and those sycophants and cowards will also pay a price in the end.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

DEVINE: What do you say to people who claim Bibi Netanyahu tricked you into going into Iran?

TRUMP: They're just the enemy. They're dumocrats. They want transgender mutilization of our children. He tricked me? I'm the one that started it. I'll tell you what -- if there wasn't me, there would be no Israel right now.

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

@noirgal17 Remember, Molly. They’re called Liverpudlians, not Liverpoolians.😉
Enjoy!🇬🇧

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

@maddenifico @Charlen85758131 #ETTD

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

This is a win-win for Pelley. He gets to proudly get off a sinking ship and will undoubtedly land quite well on his feet professionally and financially.

His firing confirms Bari Weiss is just one more MAGA who can’t be trusted and will fail, leaving a decimated CBS in her wake.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

@gggirl924 Storekeeper Sam Drucker!
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Green Acres
- Petticoat Junction

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

@its_The_Dr He was originally cast to play the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, but the aluminum dust in the makeup made him ill. Jack Haley replaced him.

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

They clearly are afraid children under five in Missouri will be smarter than they are.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Missouri Republicans have cut $4 million in funding for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library literacy program, which sends monthly free books to kids 5 and under.

No more children will be able to sign up to receive free books in Missouri.

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

@Eman5695 The second girl from the left must have braces on her teeth. The only one not to display her pearly whites.

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

@noirgal17

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

Can’t wait for him to say the 13th Amendment is equally invalid. If we follow DeSantis’s logic, Blacks born here before the 13th Amendment was enacted were obviously citizens under the 14th amendment, making the 13th Amendment unnecessary and without legal effect ab initio.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Evidence against the current interpretation of birthright citizenship (being challenged by the Trump admin before SCOTUS):

If anyone who is born on US soil is automatically a citizen, then why did Congress need to enact a statute granting citizenship to Native Americans?

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Nearly 40 years after his snub by FDR, President Gerald Ford invited legendary Olympian Jesse Owens to the White House in August 1976. To Owens' shock, Ford proceeded to not only honor him, but present him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

It was a long-overdue recognition for a man whose triumphs had transcended sport. Owens, son of a sharecropper and grandson of enslaved Americans, had stunned the world at 1936 Berlin Olympics by winning four gold medals in the face of Adolf Hitler’s white supremacist propaganda.

His dominance on the world stage not only shattered Nazi racial ideology but also made him a global icon of resilience, excellence, and dignity.

Yet when he returned home to the U.S., Owens received no call from the White House, no ticker-tape parade. President Franklin D. Roosevelt never sent a letter, made a phone call, or invited him for a visit, reportedly fearing backlash from Southern voters.

Owens would later say, “I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.”

Ford’s invitation in 1976, at the nation’s bicentennial, served as a symbolic correction to that wrong.

In presenting the Medal of Freedom, Ford called Owens “a young man who possibly didn’t realize the greatness of his own accomplishments” and acknowledged the profound impact Owens had on the world. For Owens, it was more than a medal, it was long-delayed validation from the country he had so proudly represented.

© Historical Photos

#drthehistories

[Stuart Apploff @thinman_2001]

He’s pushing for a cabinet post.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇨🇦🥰Barron Trump, go fuck yourself!

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

Every member of Congress who remains silent on Bill Pulte’s appointment as director of national intelligence is actively choosing personal political survival over the literal safety of the United States.

[Mia @MiaForTrump]

🚨 Tell me again why Hillary Clinton was forced to testify under oath in front of a Republican-led committee… but Pam Bondi got a cozy closed-door interview with ZERO oath?

Rules for thee, but not for me.
The hypocrisy is fucking disgusting.