[My RN sister has two schoolteacher daughters. She published reference to a retiring teacher's rant which basically points to parents for our failing public schools. (I may republish this in a future one-off post and respond in more detail. This is what I commented to the post:]
No, that's an oversimplification. It's true parents can and should be involved, and aren't--for some kids. Other get involved in counterproductive ways. But there are a number of reasons for the failure of public education. Some of them deal with structural incentives, lowered expectations/standards, limited decentralization and administrative discretion (e.g., personnel), unenforced discipline and safety standards, etc. Trying to blame parents is an easy way to skirt responsibilities for one's teaching and administrative failures.
Um, isn't the idea of an endorsement supposed to be exclusive? Not much of a choice here--Cherokee Lizzie has a plan for Amy. Cherokee Lizzie is not electable.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 20, 2020
"New York Times"
In this piece, I critically review FBN's Stuart Varney's obsequious analysis of Trump's Iran policy. https://t.co/7xJ16h1DPG— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 20, 2020
In this post, I explain why I have a fondness for the Houston Astros (beyond being a Houston resident for 7 years and earning 2 graduate degrees there) & I push back on the absurd notion the 2017 Astros "cheated" their way to their 1st World Series title. https://t.co/w3NfWHrIWU— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 20, 2020
Antifa is part of the left-fascist movement.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 20, 2020
Fascism itself is a soft version of socialism/communism, which subordinates the individual to the state. It may pay lip service to private property but de facto controls what you can do with it. Our government is a fascist variant.
You are beyond illiterate.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 20, 2020
For one thing, you seem completely uninformed that Hitler fully embraced the social welfare net. Most leftists would gladly adapt his anti-corporation rhetoric.
Yes, there are authoritarians on the left and the right--and some weird fusions.
Kudos to those Virginians who stand against the unconstitutional leftist state government conspiracy against self-defense rights written into the state constitution.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 20, 2020
"Pledge of Allegiance"
This bizarre Pledge of Allegiance kerfuffle involving right-wing protesters in the state of Virginia is fascinating. Attempts by Democrats to legislate against guns is a challenge to the state constitution, not to the federal government. The federal government isn't relevant.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 20, 2020
There's noting "conservative" about the Pledge of Allegiance. "From its inception, in 1892, the Pledge has been a slavish ritual of devotion to the state, wholly inappropriate for a free people." Its author (Francis Bellamy) was a socialist. https://t.co/JynPvApJge— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 20, 2020
If 83% of farmers believe Trump engaging in idiotic, unprovoked trade wars in which their exports are at risk is good for them, and/or stealing from other Americans (Trump tariffs/taxes) is an acceptable form of Trumpian socialism, they are fucked up. Trumponomics hurts growth.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
First of all, keep your ignorant trite PC race-baiting rhetoric out of your tweets.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
The 53 GOP senators represent their states. The Constitution requires a super-majority to remove. Bill Clinton objectively was guilty of his charges--not a single Dem vote to convict.
Only Rasmussen has ever shown Trump with a net approval rating, and his latest is 48%. More importantly, Trump has been stuck in an overall 43.5% plus or minus a point for months. He's the only POTUS to never have a net positive.https://t.co/j6ZWVpgo4E https://t.co/3E1JvNVDbS— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
Bullshit! Trump is an economic-illiterate, immoral, lazyass, corrupt, narcissistic, incompetent, dumbass son of a bitch who has abused Presidential authority.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
"51% of Americans" want to remove Trump from office? First of all, remember the CNN poll is only 1 poll. According to 538, the overall number is more like 47.4%, and if you look at just independents, it drops another 3 points.https://t.co/Drus5NsMza— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
In Chicago I think they do it for ordering ketchup on a hot dog.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
removing your mattress tag #DumbThingsToBeArrestedFor— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
There really isn't need for witnesses here. We have a transcript of the phone call to Zelensky, we have evidence DoD certified Ukraine corruption compliance before Trump froze aid for unspecified/unlawful reasons.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
#coverup
Funny. The Dems unanimously voted to acquit Clinton despite compelling evidence of perjury and obstruction of justice. Maybe you're being hypocritical here?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
Personally, I would vote to convict Trump on both counts based on existing evidence. There is no constitutional basis for Trump to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, pure and simple. I do understand Republican senators who argue Trump's misconduct does not merit removal.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
Trump can bitch all he wants that his impeachment was "partisan", but we know the truth of his extortion of Ukraine for strictly self-serving political reasons. His impeachment is a permanent scarlet letter, damaging his name brand. To a narcissist like Trump, that's punishment.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
Sour grapes perhaps from someone who barely beat an obscure socialist for the nomination? As if someone who has had among the highest unfavorables in recent memory has the chutzpah to say, "Nobody likes him". https://t.co/svir8gLwZr— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
I'm increasingly annoyed by absolutely stupid talking points by Trumpkins over Trump's abuse of power impeachment count. They repeatedly cite Zelensky denying he felt being extorted. If a kidnapper has a gun against your head, are you going to admit to being mistreated?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
FACT: Trump pointed out to Zelensky how isolated Ukraine is, how Ukraine has done nothing for US in return.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
FACT: Trump asks for a favor. A PERSONAL favor. Not a policy matter.
FACT: Trump names political rival Biden, wants Zelensky to contact AG Barr and his own lawyer Giuliani.
Nope. This is partisan bullshit. Do I have to point out all the retired political whores or bureaucrats, without industry experience, getting plum jobs in industry? For God's sake, Cheney got named CEO of Halliburton. Do people with famous surnames attract attention? So what?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
Some son of a bitch raised the name of Biden in a phone call with Zelensky and wanted him to start an investigation of his biggest political rival, Joe Biden, told Zelensky to talk to AG Barr and his personal attorney, Giuliani. Not speculation, fact.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
Personally, I'm unimpressed by anyone's celebrity. If it were my company/money, I would never have Donnie Jr. on my board, even if I were selling manure. If Ukrainians want to name American politician relatives, who am I to point out they're wasting their own money? MYOB.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 21, 2020
How is the most prolific hitter in major league history still out of the Hall of Fame, just because he made a mistake as a manager? Put an asterisk next to the name of Pete Rose or exclude his tenure as a manager, but he was one of the greatest players of all time. #MLBHOF— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
How do you know when a politician is lying? He opens his mouth.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
#ThereShouldBeALaw for Trump-free weekends.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
#ThereShouldBeALaw requiring political candidates to pass Econ 101 qualifying exams.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
What Republican senators are doing, in not exercising their responsibility of due diligence in investigating the circumstances of Trump's criminal extortion of Ukraine for personal political interests, is a violation of professional ethics and infidelity to the Constitution.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
I am not a lawyer, but I find the White House Trumpkin lawyers are disingenuous and incompetent. They regard evidence beyond that yielded against an uncooperative White House is the only evidence the Senate can consider. No, by any reasonable criterion: relevant evidence matters— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
Just a simple thought experiment to make the point. Enough evidence is gathered to charge a cop killer. After charges are made, a video of the execution surfaces. By Trumpkin logic, that video is off limits to the trial. No reasonable judge would agree.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
The House did have sufficient evidence to indict/impeach Trump by any objective criterion. But the nature and extent of Trump's criminal withholding of Ukraine military aid, signed into law and unauthorized, cannot be determined because of self-serving stonewalling.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
Another example of unconscionable conduct by the White House legal team includes the intentionally incomplete transcript of the Zelensky phone call. Reportedly Trump specifically referenced (but not disclosed) Burisma (the company which recruited Hunter Biden). Whole truth?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
Wow, when Paul Krugman finds it necessary to point out Comrade Bernie is lying about Biden's position on social security, the socialist campaign is in trouble and desperate to do or say anything to promote a failed candidacy. #TellTheTruthJoehttps://t.co/BnWCknZMA8— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
The real "truth", which is not acknowledged by any of the progressives, socialists or commies in the Dem coalition, is the social security reserve will run dry in 14 years or less. This means the govt may have to make up the rest of maybe a third of payments #TellTheTruthJoe— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
The Dems want to say they can solve the unfunded liabilities of senior entitlements by soaking the rich. Folks, there aren't enough rich people to steal from; guess who the government goes after to get the rest? Remember, it was Dems with the bright idea of funding SS from debt.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
Many state pension funds are able to invest in real assets, including (dividend-yielding) stocks and assets other than low-earning Treasury bonds/notes. How many 401K investors last year would have been satisfied if forced to rely on meager bond returns? But social security is.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
Not that Trump is blameless in low government interest rates. He likes the idea of negative rates, e.g., you pay the government a fee for the "privilege" of investing your money in government bonds and don't get compensated for losing your purchasing power over time.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
Trump has never been out for investors/lenders, who he often calls "sharks". When he took on debt his company couldn't afford, he filed bankruptcies to shed it and rip off the lenders. He justifies stealing by calling the victims names. He is now doing it to future taxpayers.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
When the fuck are you going to release the full transcripts, you pathological liar? You still went after the Bidens even in your redacted transcripts, which is corrupt and unconstitutional.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
Nope. I don't disagree government should not be corrupt. But your approach is all wrong. What is corrupting is the size and scope of government. Your "solutions" will never work if you don't treat the disease.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
The answer is NOT to silence the right to ANONYMOUS speech.
Some 60 million babies have been murdered since the judicial abomination of Roe v Wade, the hypocritical unconstitutional abandonment of the unalienable right to live.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
FBN is explicitly promoting a Trumpkin perspective, not even maintaining the pretense of objectivity. Stuart Varney, Propagandist-in-Chief, waxes enthusiasm over Trump's tour de force in Davos, bragging about "his"/US economic performance, in contrast to a partisan Senate trial.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
No, Trump deserves ZERO credit for US economic growth. The fact that high tech is booming reflects the thankfully lower historical government footprint on the industry, not any Trumpian policy. Trump's unprovoked tariff wars actually hurt economic growth, below long-term rates.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
Trump confessed to impeachment count 2. QED.https://t.co/WCzVtulcfM— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
I'm not a fan of Gabbard's economic-illiterate economic policies (but then all the Dem candidates fail at those).— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
But when it comes to going after evil incarnate in the form of Hillary Clinton, you go, girl! (I'm not sure the lawsuit will go anywhere, but still...)
Tulsi
As a former Democrat, I have zero interest in rejoining the party or voting for its candidates, even when I left the GOP over Trump's nomination.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
But by any objective criterion, the House impeachment managers have been articulate, objective, and persuasive vs. the opposition.
The Trumpy White House legal team may need to get a gag order on their own client. Trump doesn't seem to understand the Fifth Amendment. He just confessed to stonewalling the Congress on access to evidence. Right after the Senate GOP voted to suppress evidence. Heck of a job!— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
My God, you're a lying son of a bitch. No, you don't get to reinvent the meaning of what you said in plain English:— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
-- you know, you guys have never given us anything of value in exchange for what we do for you.
-- you're alone in the world.
-- I'm asking you for a favor.
In fact:— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
- Ukraine KNEW promised aid had not been delivered, AT LEAST as early as the day you talked to Zelensky
- you had put Ukraine aid on hold without reason AFTER DoD had certified corruption compliance
- your surrogates demanded announcement of an investigation into Bidens.
You are enabling an anti-constitutional, unprincipled, narcissistic, incompetent authoritarian, economic-illiterate son of a bitch who is soiling the Office of the Presidency. Trump is NOT a conservative, and you are a traitor to the Founding Fathers. Conway is the real patriot.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
He was trying to shake Trump's hand at the NCAA Football Championship game, and Trump ate him. "Mr Peanut"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 22, 2020
History will be wondering why the defunct GOP defended a corrupt, amoral, unprincipled, narcissist plutocrat who illegally used foreign aid to extort an allied head of state for his own personal political benefit. And why Justin Amash is the only one who acted with integrity.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
Let's make this a handicap match: Rudy Giuliani has to be in the GOP corner. https://t.co/m9Xm68tFhz— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
FACT: Hillary Clinton violated government email policy, including classified data on an unsecured server.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
FACT: Hillary Clinton left an ambassador and other diplomatic personnel exposed in Benghazi despite inadequate security and AFTER Britain had withdrawn their own personnel.
That Chinese virus is nothing compared to the Trumpkin virus, which eats brains.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
My pro-life credentials are beyond dispute. But I'm not manipulated by a desperate political whore who is simply out to pander for pro-life voters in an election year. This is the same guy who dodged questions over whether he had supported Planned Parenthood.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
"March for Life"
It personally sickens me that the corrupt, economically illiterate Impeached One pretends to be "pro-life" at the same time his Administration was separating children from their migrant families.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
Just a reminder that Trump, over 50 years old in an NBC interview in 1999, argued that he was very pro-choice, against any restriction against partial-birth abortion. He tries the line that many Catholics in Name Only use, that he is personally opposed.https://t.co/giUggBrWLE— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
Hallelujah! Trump, just like Romney before running and George H.W. Bush before he became Reagan's Veep (not to mention Reagan, who had signed California's therapeutic abortion bill into law), had a come-to-Jesus moment just in time to run for the GOP nomination.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
"March for Life"
What's this hashtag? A new horror flick? "A Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue"? #PresidentPence— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
Having had published my fair share of typos, I really don't go out of my way to mock others over theirs'.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
But sycophants on the Trump Propaganda Network (aka FNC) have been annoying me over blurring the distinction between impeachment and conviction. Trump IS impeached.
This is partisan rubbish, and I'm speaking as a NeverTrumper who has supported impeachment and conviction.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
Blaming Pence is just as bad as the attacks on Biden over Ukraine. I thought Biden was stupid to brag over the take-down of a corrupt prosecutor.
#PenceKnewEverything
But Veeps have very little constitutional authority. If Pence were to succeed Trump, and short of Trump's death, that's extremely unlikely given a vote against Senate trial witnesses, he would be judged on his own record as POTUS. He isn't responsible for Trump's misconduct.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
This is different than say, going after a President's kid because of his/her father. Greta Thunberg has deliberately stepped into the political world. You don't get a pass because of your age. Mnuchin is spot on; climate alarmists are generally economic illiterate.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
Sen Hawley (R-MO) is a contemptible political whore, commenting on the Trump trial on FNC. This son of a bitch, among other things-and literally everything he said was wrong, is trying to make Hunter Biden an issue. That rewards Trump for his illegal, unconstitutional extortion.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 23, 2020
The GOP on Trump's extortion is arguing apples and oranges, comparing it to Obama's stupid remark to Putin he would have more discretion after the election. Yes, Obama didn't want concessions to be politicized, but there's no evidence that he was manipulating the process.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
Obama and POTUS in general have considerable discretion in conducting foreign policy. This is different than what Trump did. Trump went after a private citizen, Joe Biden; he was interfering in Ukraine. He suspended aid signed into law--after DoD certified corruption compliance— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
No. Unlike the Son of a Bitch-in-Chief, Napolitano is principled.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
It used to be pro-liberty people flourished on the Fox Channels, e.g., George Will and John Stossel. Basically, Andrew Napolitano is last man standing. We pro-liberty conservatives abhor tyranny in any form and have contempt for Trump living above the law.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
"Judge Napolitano"
No. If the church tries to accommodate everything, it stands for nothing.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
It's truly pathetic you are playing the gender card. It's a marker for feeble-minded thinking. Grow up!
As a Roman Catholic, I'm relieved to see other Christian churches faithful to the traditional construct of sex within marriage vs. cultural accommodation of hedonistic lifestyles and political correctness.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
Tulsi Gabbard's defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton is an assault on the First Amendment and should be dismissed. Hillary Clinton's reference to any adversary against her as a "Russian asset" is not a factual claim but a common post-election insulthttps://t.co/lPPKvD1vaM— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
When I first saw the allegation a Virginia delegate had introduced a bill criminalizing "harassment", i.e., dissent, against state government officials, I thought it came from the Onion. Nope, the unconstitutional bill is listed here (1627): https://t.co/EnzL5gfI1m— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
The intervention of government child welfare into family matters may have just had its "jump the shark moment". A stepmom after insulation clung to her clothes took off her top, exposing her breasts, seen by the kids. Word got to the ex & charges filed https://t.co/4Gc6YVlAJu— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
#WithMyTaxRefund I can finally afford to go to McDonald's for once.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
The Impeached One's phone call was a violation of the Constitution. Vindman, like The Impeached One, swore an oath to protect the Constitution; unlike The Impeached One, he kept his oath.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
The MLB sign-stealing kerfuffle is predictably ending up in lawsuits. Trying to tie alleged cheating with performance is difficult. Consider Shoeless Joe Jackson; in the infamous 1919 series, he got 12 hits for .375, no errors; his hit record stood for 45 years. Banned for life?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
I don't know if he has the attention span to read a Peanuts cartoon strip.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
Baseball trivia question of the day: who broke Shoeless Joe's batting record in the World Series? Bobby Richardson of the Yankees got 13 hits for a .406 average in the 1964 series won by the Cardinals.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
I think I had retweeted (with critical comments) one of Zeldin (R-NY)'s tweets, not realizing he was a GOP House leader against impeachment. Zeldin on FNC is still making a bogus argument Trump called Zelensky over "corruption" re: Biden. Trump never mentioned corruption.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
It's clear Dumbass-in-Chief Trump somehow thought Biden's role in the termination of the notoriously corrupt prosecutor Shokin, who Trump idiotically described as a "very good" man, was corrupt. Biden did try to pressure the Ukraine parliament to fire Shokin using aid: US policy.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
Of course, Shokin, desperate for a scapegoat to deflect attention away from his own lapses in prosecuting corruption, took the opportunity to falsely suggest Burisma, which had recently added the Veep's son Hunter to its board, was his target, motivating Biden to take out Shokin.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
It was poor judgment for Hunter Biden to accept an offer to join the Burisma board, given his father's role in the Obama Administration; you generally want to avoid the appearance of a possible conflict of interest. But his inexperience in the energy industry is not unusual.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 24, 2020
Ha, ha, ha! I bet Biden would have also come up with this....— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
Could you imagine Spock serving under Trump? 'Illogical, captain!' Spock's mind might literally explode. https://t.co/Z9aogRZZ4N
Of course, Trump is threatening Republican senators. That's the only reason you are seeing pro-liberty senators like Rand Paul & Mike Lee voting the party line on the Trump trial. Let's recall that not one Democratic senators had the integrity to vote against Clinton— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
"Murkowski"
Why is Pompeo asking a reporter to do something that Trump has never been able to do?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
Remember the atrocious Filburn decision, where the government sued a farmer for exceeding quotas by raising crops for his own use? The Trump Administration cut down creeping water regulation affecting property rights, and the ecofascists went crazy. https://t.co/OsfMqwt37l— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
Well, sad to say, but Pompeo has a point: I bet over 80% of Americans can't point out Ukraine on a map or even identify its capital. I don't think most Americans care about Trump's failed amateurish attempt to extort Zelensky, certainly in an election year.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
#ICareAboutUkraine
Can you imagine Don Vito Corleone critiquing Trump's extortion of Zelensky? He would have probably slapped Trump silly and said,"You gotta make him an offer he can't refuse. Remember when your Russian pals castrated and executed someone in Hezbollah, stuffing testicles in mouth?"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
One of the reasons I care about Trump's crime in extorting Ukraine is because I don't believe for a second Trump's abuse of power is an isolated incident. He simply got caught this time with his fingers in the cookie jar. We know he fired Comey for disloyalty#ICareAboutUkraine— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
We libertarians have convoluted positions about the Trump impeachment. At first glance, Trump's outrageous, grossly incompetent Presidency, following the failures of Bush & Obama, might cement the case of why we should be skeptical of the increasingly imperial Presidency.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
Some, like Ron Paul, totally ignore Trump's corrupt attempt to bribe Ukrainian President Zelensky for personal, political reasons. There are 2 reasons: they basically think all recent Presidents have been similarly corrupt; they believe the crisis is promoted by the Deep State— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
I was puzzled by Reason editor Nick Gillespie's disagreement with the principled stand against Trump by Napolitano and Amash. He seems to believe the partisan war may result in a greater power grab by the government.https://t.co/m6Rwg50rOj— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
#IGotKickedOutOfSpaceForce for recruiting illegal aliens from Vulcan.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
#IGotKickedOutOfSpaceForce for not collecting Trump tariffs on dilithium crystals.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
#IGotKickedOutOfSpaceForce for leaking Trump's corrupt conversation with the leader of the Romulan Empire.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
#IGotKickedOutOfSpaceForce because I got caught being intimate with a space alien.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
#IGotKickedOutOfSpaceForce for demonstrating the Vulcan nerve pinch on the Commander-in-Chief— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
The Trumpkins argue that we Trump critics have been squishy on Trump's extortion on Ukraine aid with Zelensky. Not so. The Impoundment Control Act required Congressional approval of any stipulation to the release of approved funding signed into law.https://t.co/x25gWJsfja— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
That's an exaggeration. Maybe you need some stipulations for, say, UPS drivers, who need to climb stairs and deliver packages, farm labor or technicians who handle equipment in a computer operations room. But a number of knowledge worker positions can accommodate the disabled.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
Life isn't fair, e.g., some people get offers because of family or network connections, having a degree from an elite university, or other factors (e.g., height in playing professional sports) beyond one's control.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
But you aren't going to influence people trying to shame them.
A capitalist society is one where disabled people are most likely to find opportunities to find work. You find a society respectful of individual rights vs. the state.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
Nazis were socialists in concept and fact. They responded to the disabled with genocide https://t.co/VicgcduNZ0
This is Soft Rock America. Pompeo corrects a PBS reporter who pointed to a country north of the Black Sea, saying she was pointing to a country north of the Bay of Bengal. Obviously Pompeo was never in the Navy. Cue George Harrison:https://t.co/ctjIJKJDrS— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 25, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho has Trump as a client.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
Why? The burden of proof is on the prosecution.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
Never trust anyone who steals your money and rules over you. I.e., an economic illiterate progressive.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
I don't trust you, either, but I have better taste in music. My music doesn't sterilize frogs.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho orders pizza with pineapple topping.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho promises to heal the planet.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho promises to heal the planet.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize before he approves kill lists, intervenes in Libya and expands undeclared drone wars.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho says his minions would vote for him even if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho promises that he would pay off a $20T national debt in 8 years.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho says Mexico would pay for his border wall.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho says "I made a perfect phone call to Zelensky".— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho says, "The blacks love me!"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho says "I like people who weren't captured"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho says "I voted for it before I voted against it."— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho says, "Four more years!"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho ran his company into bankruptcy 6 times.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho physically assaults you and then swears "I've changed!"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
#NeverTrustAPersonWho says, "You made me do it!"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 26, 2020
