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Tom Riley retweeted
I am puzzled
Some days ago I saw a part of a very recent Trump
speech, when he rambled on about Cary Grant in a swimsuit
Then I saw him wittering on about Gettysburg, without uttering a coherent thought
Why are the media not discussing he fact that he has completely lost it ?
Tom Riley retweeted
Your periodic reminder that 100% of unwanted pregnancies are caused by men and that Republicans aren’t “pro-life”. They are anti-women.
Africa has a government? Weird. It’s not even a country. Huh.
Tom Riley retweeted
Jeffrey Clark wrote a DOJ memo as requested by @realDonaldTrump claiming concern for widespread fraud in 2020 election knowing it was false. But White House attorneys fortunately found out & blocked it. Clark deserves disbarment in all jurisdictions. Total liar & fraudster.
Tom Riley retweeted
Let's talk about Joe Biden's age.
Donald Trump is 3.5 years younger and both of them qualified for retirement years ago.
Keep in mind a great President surrounds himself with the best advisors who support, inform and decide policy with him.
A great President knows he alone can't fix it. It takes a team led and picked by the President to led America.
A great President doesn't have to dance on stage. They need to listen to the strong voices in their administration.
Donald Trump surrounded himself with family, self-servicing millionaires, white nationalists and the worse people he could find. Russia even paid some of them.
Joe Biden surrounds himself with the best, qualified, intelligent people.
I'm voting for Joe Biden and his team.
Competence matters far more than age.
#DemThoughts
#DemsUnited
#BidenHarris4More
The idiot who came up with her should be fired.
I'm glad NBC News decided to listen to viewers AND their on-air talent and drop Ronna Romney McDaniel, that was the right thing to do.
But I'm truly curious to know who it was that thought they would get away with giving US, the audience, an election denier to watch?
We get plenty of non-MAGA Republicans on the channel, we don't need that big lie bullshit in our TV schedules, for real.
Whoever made that boneheaded decision during an election year, they better not do that shit again.
There are heroes everywhere.
I needed this story today.
“We were in Athens yesterday and Avery had to go to the bathroom really, really bad.
She and I ran into the closest place which was a Subway in downtown Athens.
We ran straight to the bathroom and the employee got my attention and told me the bathroom was only for paying customers.
I didn’t have my wallet with me and I told him I was sorry, I didn’t have my wallet and we would leave.
Without hesitation these two young men spoke up and said they would buy a cookie for Avery so she could be a “paying customer” so she could use the restroom.
I was so grateful, thanked them profusely and dashed in the restroom with Avery.
We came back out and they were still there, so I thanked them again and started talking with them.
Turns out they both play on the UGA football team. (Go Dawgs) We had a great conversation and exchanged some laughs, and talked about football.
To some it may seem like a small act, but I was so thankful and impressed that these 2 college kids who don’t have kids of their own gave so freely and without hesitation to help us out.
The world needs MORE of this!
Thank you Latavious & Jaylen!! 📷📷 Fine young men who asked for nothing in return and a great example. A much needed ray of sunshine. Food for thought. Go Dawgs!! 📷”
‘What the world needs now is love sweet love.’
Credit: Christie Williams Myers❤️🖤
Tom Riley retweeted
@thereidout Joy Reid said it best! Some racist white folk hate DEI cause they can’t stand black people, and everyone crying about her saying it proves the saying. Blacks have to be twice as smart as white counterparts. I say to racist anti DEI folk; get educated and stop hating!
Tom Riley retweeted
I remember watching trump brag about how rich he was, and thinking how bizarre that was because you never hear wealthy people saying "you know, I'm really rich."
If you're really rich, you don't have to brag about it.
Then, I remember how he did that with his "intellect," bragging about how he had "a really good brain" and how he had "the best words."
It was equally strange to see him brag repeatedly about that "person, woman, man, camera, TV" test. I mean, it's almost like bragging about passing a breathalyzer test.
Intelligent people don't brag about it, there's no need, as they can flex with a few casual sentences.
Come to think of it, he did the exact same thing with people, saying that he hires "the best people."
Then he went and hired clueless Jared Kushner, disgusting Steve Bannon, sleepy Ben Carson, and Four Seasons Total Clueless Rudy Giuliani.
In every single instance, he bragged about things that were verifiably false.
- he can't cough up $454 million, despite bragging that he's a billionaire. Nobody will loan it to him, because they're not stupid.
- he's spent the past few months confusing Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi, WW2 with WW3, and he can't get President Obama out of what's left of his mind.
- many of the people he hired had to ask for pardons, a bunch were fired for incompetence, others were indicted and/or convicted, and some have been disbarred.
Not a billionaire.
Not a genius.
Not connected with the best.
He's a pretender, a poser, a complete phony. He's got fake hair, fake tan, lifts in his shoes, lies about his height and weight, even cheats at golf.
For some reason, MAGA thinks this clown of a person is strong, but he's a weakling's idea of what a strong person looks like.
He's a poor person's idea of what a rich guy looks like.
He's a dumb person's idea of what a stable genius looks like.
I'll never understand how a blatant charlatan fooled so many people so thoroughly, but I'm determined to make sure that phony, lying, weak, stupid coward is exposed and defeated once and for all.
Let's fucking do this.
Don’t forget the golden sneakers!
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Tom Riley retweeted
Is it worth reminding that Ukraine would not create a fake investigation for Trump into Joe Biden in exchange for previously committed aid?
He is still angry and has all of the MAGATs behind his rage so they agree to try and leave Ukraine defenseless.
Serves two purposes.
1)Gets "revenge" for Trump
And
2)Helps Putin's Russia
Trump only has his personal interest at heart.
Many MAGATs can never be turned
Let them be.
If you are a Trumpist follower please see what is happening.
Please see what you are assisting.
#TrumpIsATraitorAndCriminal
Tom Riley retweeted
Holy sh*t, Trump's language problems borne of neurological decay, are out in full force now - several forms of aphasia are at play - he doesn't even seem to notice his gaffes anymore, let on try to correct them. He's confused, short-circuiting like an electrical device with fraying wires. His last 15 minutes was way worse than the 15 minutes before - this is neurological!
It's a type of cognitive decline that is degenerative; it is not linear but when it passes a certain point, it doesn't go back all the way. There's NO WAY he EVER debates. Answering an unexpected question is very different than bloviating the same old sh*t off a teleprompter.
THIS should be THE story. And it's only March!!
Tom Riley retweeted
Last night, the state of the State Of The Union was strong.
If you want to know how the speech played with base Democrats in a battleground state, this about sums it up: halfway through the speech, Portage County Democratic Party co-chair Gary Hawley leaned over to me and said, “He doesn’t seem like an old guy. He seems like a fighter.”
Millions of Americans were thinking the same thing. Trump was probably thinking it too—which is why he was posting so furiously that Truth Social kept collapsing.
This was the unfiltered reality-check moment that American politics needed.
If you were involved in organizing any of the State of the Union watch parties last night—thank you. That speech was even more energizing to watch in good company. I was in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, watching with county Democratic Party members at their office. After it was over, I asked folks there about moments that stood out. Here are a few:
• “Look, folks, we have a simple choice. We can fight about fixing the border, or we can fix it. I’m ready to fix it.”
• “No billionaire should pay a lower federal tax rate than a teacher, a sanitation worker or a nurse.”
• “If anyone here tries to cut Social Security or Medicare or raise the retirement age, I will stop you.”
• “I want to give public-school teachers a raise.”
• “You can’t love your country only when you win.”
• People really noticed how Republicans didn’t stand up for things that everyone should support. And they loved how Republicans stood for Biden’s tribute to John Lewis—and then Biden turned the tables: “If you truly want to honor him and all the heroes who marched with him… Pass the Freedom to Vote Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act!”
• The story about Kate Cox, the mother in Dallas who was denied a medically necessary abortion in Texas. The warning of a national abortion ban. Biden’s question: “My God, what freedom else would you take away?”
• And then the crystal-clear promise: “If you, the American people, send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you, I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again.”
Beyond all these things, that room full of Democrats noticed Biden’s energy. His scrappiness. His readiness to take on his critics and make a difference for people.
Millions of people will need to work their hearts out for the next 241 days to defeat Trump and win another term for President Biden. Last night, those folks saw a champion, someone fighting for the causes they believe in. That’s exactly what this moment needed. Consider the moment met.
Tom Riley retweeted
@KatyTurNBC I hope you find this informative, please pass along to Andrea Mitchell. Thanks!
Tom Riley retweeted
Well NYT was it something we said?
NYT comes out swinging after we accuse them of favoring Trump.
The NYT has been guilty of making false equivalencies against Biden while simply ignoring Trumps 91 felony counts.
Today however they change their tune. They said the the Republican Party is now a tragedy for working so hard to elect Trump while forsaking their “integrity, principle, policy, and patriotism.” Ouch
Trump has always had contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law but when a party turns that into an instrument of Trump, the damage affects the whole country.
While this is a biting take on Trump and the Republican Party it is just one time. The NYT needs to expose the danger to democracy Trump and the Party represents. They need to highlight Trumps criminality, and his horrible qualifications to run a company much less a country. They need to talk about why he can’t come up with 83.3 million dollars and most likely an additional 430 million dollars. They need to amplify his sexual assault findings and his grab them by the pu**y comments. They should even try to link him to Epstein. They would be wise to ask where the missing documents are and why he showed top secret documents to people who should have never seen them. They should investigate his ties to dictators and ask why he met with Putin alone. They should highlight that Trump killed the border deal and he is responsible for making sure we don’t fund Ukraine. They would be wise to refer to Trump as an insurrectionist and someone who tried to organize a coup against democracy on J6 and used fake electors to try and steal an election.
@NYT you have a lot to do to regain any credibility with liberals because for awhile now it has been clear that all you cared about was propping Trump up. No one will give you an ounce of credit until you start tearing him down until the country sees him for what he is. A traitor to this great nation. One editorial does not make you a hero. Front page all Trumps crimes from now until the election might gain you some respect back. And fix those GD fake polls you’re running. They show you’re in the bag for Trump. Get your act together and start being real journalists. Until then my business will not return.
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