tom whelan

Proud Irishman

[tom whelan @tomtwhelan]

@atrupar It’s funny how president Obama only became a crook for tuberville when trump told him President Obama was a crook ……. What about all the lost years when tubby could have brought this to congress all by himself.

[ᴜᴋ1ʟʟᴇᴅᴍʏꜰ4ᴛʜ3ʀ @pr3p4r32d13]

@Acyn Taxpayers are not footing the bill for the Obama Library.

Lara Trump is a fucking liar.
https://t.co/WkFovuTpmX

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Luis Suárez reacts to Uruguay’s arrival in the United States for the World Cup, where the squad faced sniffer dogs and rigorous security checks:

“I’ve been in football a long time, and I’ve seen tournaments all over the world. But what we’re witnessing here with the USA hosting this World Cup is deeply concerning. Take the Uruguay team arriving — world-class players like Manuel Ugarte, standing there with arms folded, looking utterly bewildered as sniffer dogs go through their bags like they’re common criminals. That image says it all. These are ambassadors of the game, not suspects at the border.

This isn’t hospitality; it’s humiliation dressed up as security. You’ve got a Somali referee, one of Africa’s best, denied entry despite a valid visa — a man who dreamed of officiating at the pinnacle of his career, turned away at the airport. African and South American delegations facing extra screenings, visa chaos for fans and officials from qualified nations. This is the ‘land of the free’ rolling out the red carpet? It feels more like a fortress with razor wire.

The beautiful game deserves better than being turned into a political football or a paranoid checkpoint. FIFA chased the dollars — and there are billions to be made, no doubt — but they’ve sold the soul of the tournament to a host that treats global football stars and supporters like potential threats. Meanwhile, American taxpayers and host cities are left holding a bill running into hundreds of millions for security and logistics that FIFA largely pockets.

Football has always been about unity, passion, and bringing people together across borders. Right now, under this hosting, it’s being strangled by suspicion and overreach. The world is watching these scenes and cringing. If this continues, it risks leaving a bitter taste that lingers far longer than any on-pitch glory. We needed a celebration of the game — not a showcase of division. Something has to change.”

[Strummer @Strummer2323]

For fuck sake - I wish y'all would learn real history.

[tom whelan @tomtwhelan]

@Acyn Which one is Hardy and which is laurel.
I was waiting for the movie to start.

[tom whelan @tomtwhelan]

Please retweet this

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

@atrupar Took him less than a minute after not finding an answer to fall back on, “But Biden…”

Last I checked, Biden didn’t indict a former FBI director twice over a photo of seashells.

[صوت الحق @AlqadmAlthar]

سفير إسرائيل لدى الدنمارك يحتج على انتشار هذا الفيديو دعونا نجعل هذا ينتشر في جميع أنحاء العالم

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Trump called ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott a bitch, and I think we’re long past the point where anyone with a functioning conscience should be expected to shrug and mutter, “Well, that’s just Trump being Trump.” No. That phrase has done enough damage already. It’s the anesthetic we’ve used to numb ourselves to behavior that would have politically incinerated any other president in modern American history. Two professional lip readers independently confirmed what the video appeared to show: as Trump walked away from the press gaggle at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, he muttered, “She’s a bitch,” in Rachel Scott’s direction. The White House, naturally, offered no clarification. No apology. No denial worth taking seriously. Just the usual strategic silence that follows whenever this man says the quiet part out loud and hopes the outrage cycle burns itself out by dinner.
And what exactly provoked His Fragile Majesty this time? Journalism. Rachel Scott did her job. She asked an entirely legitimate question about why this administration appears preoccupied with beautification vanity projects while Americans are dealing with spiking gas prices against the backdrop of yet another Trump-fueled geopolitical mess in Iran. A straightforward question. The kind reporters are supposed to ask. Trump’s response was the usual slurry of grievance and invented drama, claiming Scott “probably don’t see dirt,” insisting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool had been some sort of national biohazard requiring “11 or 12 truckloads of garbage” to be hauled away, as though the place had been abandoned since the Eisenhower administration. That’s nonsense. The reflecting pool undergoes regular maintenance, including draining and cleaning, as part of standard federal upkeep. But facts have always been optional when Trump needs a dramatic set piece for his performance of wounded masculinity.
This is not just about one ugly muttered insult. This is about a man with a long, unmistakable record of directing particular venom toward Black women who dare challenge him publicly. Maxine Waters? “Low IQ.” Kamala Harris? “Low IQ.” April Ryan. Yamiche Alcindor. Abby Phillip. And now Rachel Scott. The pattern is not subtle enough to require forensic analysis. When Black women do their jobs with intelligence, composure, and precision in Trump’s orbit, he does not engage on substance. He lashes out. He demeans. He attempts to diminish. It’s the behavioral vocabulary of a man who sees confident women, particularly Black women, not as professionals doing their jobs, but as threats to be put back in their place.
And here’s the truly pathetic part: Black women are statistically among the most educated demographics in this country, which makes Trump’s lazy insult repertoire not just racist and misogynistic, but spectacularly ignorant. The man who confuses confidence with insolence and accountability with disrespect continues to reveal exactly who he is, and yet somehow we are still asked, by some corners of this exhausted country, to treat each new offense like an isolated misunderstanding instead of what it plainly is: a character flaw so deeply embedded it has become governing style.
No. We are done normalizing this.
This is not “Trump being Trump.”
This is a president of the United States behaving like a bitter, insecure bully every time an intelligent woman refuses to play decorative furniture in his presence. And yes, that matters.
—Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: James Carville just coined a SAVAGE new nickname for Trump that will send his MAGA fans into fits.

Donald Trump loves to give nicknames to anyone he either doesn’t like or who stands in the way of his authoritarian agenda: “Sleepy Joe Biden.” “Crooked Hilary Clinton.” “Crazy Kamala.” “Shifty Adam Schiff.” “Gavin Newscum.”

His fellow Republicans were not immune to his libelous labels either: “Sloppy Chris Christie.” “Low energy Jeb Bush.” “Lyin’ Ted Cruz.” “Little Marco Rubio.” “Marjorie Traitor Greene.”

So, it’s no surprise that Trump’s detractors have come up with a plethora of derogatory sobriquets to describe Con-Mander-in-Chief: “Mango Mussolini.” “Cheeto Benito.” “The Lyin’ King.” “Tangerine Toddler.” “Delusional Donnie.” The variations are endless.

Now, long-time Democratic operative James Carville has a new nickname for Trump we can add to the list that packs in just the right touch of disgust and humiliation for a description of our “Orange Shitler.”

Carville went to the Kentucky Derby this weekend and came back with not just a catchy new moniker for Devious Don, but also a warning to White House staffers to "lawyer up now," and a prediction that Trump won't make it through his full term.

The 81-year-old Ragin' Cajun told Politicon that at the Derby — surrounded by elegantly dressed, highly educated women from every background — he kept getting the same message: "We love it when you talk nasty about Trump. Just use all the language you can."

One woman, whom Carville described as dignified with an MBA from Vanderbilt, offered him some inspiration. When she sees Trump's face, she told him, it reminds her of "the backside of my husband's scrotum."

Carville's response: "That's what it is. You look like the backside of a nutsack. That's what you are, Trump. No wonder Lindsey Graham's always trying to lick your face."

And thus "Scrotum Face" was born, gifted to the political lexicon by a Vanderbilt MBA and the Ragin' Cajun at the Kentucky Derby. This is democracy in action.

But beneath the profanity was a serious message — and a warning. Carville aimed his remarks directly at White House staffers: "I want to talk to you f---ing a--holes in the White House. You better get straight, and you better get straight fast, because it's coming. Do you know how bad you're going to get beat in November? None of you are going to get a job for the rest of your life. You're all going to be subpoenaed. Lawyer up now."

The polling backs up his confidence. Trump's disapproval sits at 62 percent in the latest Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. Sixty-six percent disapprove of his handling of the Iran war, as unpopular as Iraq at its peak violence in 2006 and Vietnam in the early '70s.

And Carville doesn't think Trump will be around for November anyway. "I just don't see this guy being President of the United States by this time next year," he said, citing what he described as visible, accelerating deterioration. "People are giving less of a s--t of what he says. Foreign leaders, voters, politicians. It's not the same job he had a year ago."

While Carville may be best remembered for his role as Bill Clinton’s chief political strategist and a frequent cable news pundit, his new contribution to the political lexicon may be his most inventive — and accurate — hit job ever.

Please like and share this post if you think James Carville is bringing the energy the Democratic Party needs right now.

[tom whelan @tomtwhelan]

@NotHoodlum And doesn’t he look great in a dress.
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[tom whelan @tomtwhelan]

Bill Shankley once said football is a simple game.
Would someone tell Liverpool playing man united.
It’s like watching paint dry.

[tom whelan @tomtwhelan]

Correct.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Sadly, Joe Walsh is spot on and absolutely correct! 😢

[tom whelan @tomtwhelan]

@Airaasayss 82

[tom whelan @tomtwhelan]

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[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

See how scared he was when he thought it wasn’t staged?

[tom whelan @tomtwhelan]

Will some sane Americans please do something about this fucking lunatic.
Just asking on behalf of the rest of the world.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Trump defames Zelenskyy: "He's always looking to purchase missiles. Listen, when you start a war, you gotta know you can win a war. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles. (2025)

[восхищённый болгарин™ @dedzaebal]

Россия сбросила на украинскую Константиновку трехтонную авиабомбу. В Констаниновке до сих пор остаётся больше 2 тысяч человек. Трехтонная бомба. Целый квартал в труху.
Я хочу чтобы это видео увидело как можно больше иностранных аккаунтов.

Россия государство террорист

[tom whelan @tomtwhelan]

@_InfoGram_ @TPBlue4 I’m sorry to disagree with you.
We are way past the VERGE he’s over the cliff.