Ronald A Guillemette
I bet the NYC one gives Black Lives Matter protest attendance points off while attending Mass or a funeral a 10.
Parler
This is the first segment from the new social media "free speech" platform which I referenced in a recent post. I'm still getting used to the nuances from Twitter; to give examples, I'm not aware of embedding functionality (if any) and it looks as though there are only rudimentary statistics for parleys vs. comments (see the eye symbols for parleys below). There is a "discovery" mode which is something analogous to Twitter trends. There are other statistics for up-votes and down-votes which I don't snip below for formatting reasons. My most reactive comment below was to "There are a lot of legitimate..." which got 3 up-votes and 9 down-votes.Twitter (new account @raguillemette)
Well, from a stat point of view, it was a good first week back with 4 tweets going viral (> 1K views). It's going to take time to rebuild my followers, about 76 when I retired my earlier account--that had built up over 7+ years; I'm at less than a handful. I did make a mega mistake, in my biggest tween confusing Congressman Peter King with sportscaster Peter King, who had ranted against hot dog eating contests. A couple of trolls caught my mistake, and I acknowledged the first one. I thought about deleting the tweet, but the tweet was more about comparing hot dogs to legislative sausagemaking than shaming the Long Island Congressman, who is one of my most despised Republicans (next to an Iowa Representative who recently was primaried).
Leftists have problems with people expressing different views. For many Southerners, their ancestors were defending their homeland, not the dying abomination of slavery. What Lincoln objected to in his inaugural address was losing his tariff base.https://t.co/UIKbLSp7zg— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
"The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force..." - Lincoln— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
I have no issues supporting Will's call for allowing Hong Kong refugees to migrate to the US. I'm more troubled by his call for Biden to embrace American defense guarantees for Taiwan. https://t.co/r6ZKMV5wOd— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
Well, let's first note that the face masks most people wear are not the N95's hospital professionals wear. And Trump is right: people touch masks. That's why you need to wash your hands and your reusable masks.https://t.co/mV4pzdoqVq— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
Destroying property that doesn't belong to you is an unconstitutional crime. This gross vandalism is fundamentally un-American. God damn the political whores who endorse it.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
"Columbus"
Isn't one reality TV star in the White House enough already?— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
"Kim Kardashian"
I've been at Ft. Sumter. You're wrong in several regards. Resupplying/reinforcing the forts was an act of war. Second, Ft. Sumter had been empty until the Feds abandoned Ft. Moultrie. Third, no casualties. Fourth, prior shots elsewhere.https://t.co/N16Kn0w2GG— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
Left-fascists, obsessed with American history propaganda, use terms like "traitors". The Confederates did not initiate an invasion of the North or seek to overthrow the US government. They seceded from the US just like the colonists seceded from Britain.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
"Holocaust"
Troubles mount for Trump. Cain has COVID-19, Kanye West is running against him. Who's left among the blacks that love him: Diamond and Silk? Ben Carson? Larry Elder?— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
The renewed Texas COVID-19 crisis is not just an artifact of increased tests; it's a doubling of positive rates over the last two months and crisis-high hospital utilization rates. https://t.co/XztoegUGnP— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
Thanks for the correction.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
Peter King is disgusted by hot dog eating contests. Seriously, dude? You've been part of legislative sausagemaking for years, and that's a hell of a lot more disgusting than what goes into hot dogs.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
"Peter King"
Whoops! I published a much-read tweet, thinking that the Peter King repulsed by a hot dog eating contest was the NY Congressman. It turns out this was an ESPN sports analyst. I haven't watched ESPN in years. He needs to hire a publicist. I stand by the general comparison.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
This is Soft Rock America. I confused Peter King the sport's guy with the NY Congressman. My bad! Cue the Main Ingredient:https://t.co/UxH6eQlwE2— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 5, 2020
Nope. Positive RATES in Texas have more than doubled these past 6 weeks. Hospital utilization is trending to capacity. Yes, deaths are down, but not because of you. Are you talking about the now stalled jobs recovery given the explosion of COVID-19 in the southern states?— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 6, 2020
Cartoon of the Day. H/T Michael Ramirez. pic.twitter.com/kN6x3GKRfe— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 6, 2020
It's sad to see how Trump is trying to scapegoat China for his failed leadership in containing the COVID-19. Species-jumping viruses are sometimes a consequence of population shifts and developing economies.https://t.co/gCFt8rzokb— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 6, 2020
"China Virus"
I don't know if cancel culture has spread to the right wing, if these are false flag attacks or if we're just witnessing ignorant leftists, but the recent attacks on the statues of abolitionists in Madison, WI and Rochester, NY are particularly egregious.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 6, 2020
Why Trump, who claims to admire Lincoln, is attacking NASCAR for banning the Confederate flag and accusing black driver Bubba Wallace of a hoax for reporting a suspicious rope hanging in his assigned garage, is just baffling. The South's politics are more nuanced than he thinks.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 6, 2020
It's odd what I've noticed so far on #WWERaw: the "crowd" is wearing face masks.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 7, 2020
Trump thinks he's being funny, tying "Pocahontas" Warren to pro sports teams (Redskins and Indians) reviewing team names. Trump's original joke wasn't funny: Pocahontas wasn't Cherokee. I think he's trying to get the PC crowd to overreact, but the bit was old first told.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 7, 2020
Murders in NYC are up 25%, but the mayor has his priorities: going after Amy Cooper for filing a "false report" against a black birder who was hassling and vaguely threatening her over her unleashed dog. Apparently being fired from her job & being publicly demonized isn't enough— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 7, 2020
This is Soft Rock America. Trump has decided to take action against the left's jihad against historic figure statues by creating a National Garden of American Heroes. Nope, Charles Lindbergh was not chosen, but Christa McAuliffe made it. https://t.co/sdAxu4Ucgj— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 7, 2020
This xenophobic policy victimizes students who do not control university policies. Never mind the logistics and expenses of international travel under COVID-19.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 7, 2020
"ICE says international students whose universities move to online-only this fall must transfer or leave the US"
Granted, Jefferson's own stake in the institution of slavery is troubling. but he signed into law a prohibition on the import of slaves and advocated its restriction, pushed against its inclusion in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.https://t.co/6K3oA1pMAu— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 7, 2020
There is something sadistic about people rejoicing over a cancer victim's tragic death. I'm not justifying her decision to have sex with a minor. But my own maternal grandmother died of complications of colon cancer when I was 2. She left behind children— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
"Mary Kay Letourneau"
Yeah, I'm not sure Trump could spell "SAT".— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
"Joe Shapiro"
It was a blast watching Ringo Starr's 80th birthday video show with reprises of his 70's solo hits ("It Don't Come Easy", "Photograph") and multiple Beatles covers, including a canned version of McCartney performing "Helter Skelter", Ringo on drums.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
It's bad enough that the Land of the Free, with 5% of the global population, imprisons a quarter of the globe's total. Prisons are virtual breeding grounds for the spread of COVID-19. Prison sentences should not be death sentences. Public officials have a moral responsibility. https://t.co/NEqG1W5Pli— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
Well, Sen. Duckworth appears to be more afraid of being on Fox News than of being in Iraq. Personally, I think the POTUS, threatening to veto defense appropriations over renaming military bases, lacks judgment we expect from a Commander-in-Chief.#SheHasMoreBallsThanYou— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
Do you think not knowing the fact that you have COVID-19 doesn't put your at risk family and friends in any less danger? Do you think earlier knowledge and medical treatment won't mitigate your own risks from the disease? Ignorance isn't bliss; it's fatal.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
"STOP GETTING TESTED"
#Vote4TrumpOr choose real change through Jo Jorgensen.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
"Progressives" find the Free Exercise Clause politically inconvenient for their authoritarian agenda. Demanding that the Catholic Church fund abortion services, which it has opposed since the Didache, is morally reprehensible.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
Sotomayor
I never liked birthday parties anyway. I've never listened to or bought a West or Taylor Swift recording, and quite frankly nothing bores me more than celebrities discussing their political opinions. But hearing West is another anti-vaxxer lowered my opinion.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
"Kanye West"
The one thing I found most curious about Ringo Starr's 80th birthday bash is that I didn't hear the greatest birthday song ever.https://t.co/tZG1IjtFvT— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
Public schools are not funded by the federal government; they are a local/state responsibility. Only about 8% of the budget comes from the feds. Does Trump legally control even that?https://t.co/B6WhANGOtf— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
"Trump threatens to cut funding from schools that won’t reopen"
Kudos to the black birder who says he won't participate in the DA's persecution of Amy Cooper. Ms. Cooper has already issued multiple personal apologies, lost her job (possibly her career), has received death threats, and has become a political target.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
"Christian Cooper"
Come on: Trump's low-attendance Tulsa rally, many of who weren't local to Tulsa, is being linked to a surge in local COVID-19 infections? I've seen no data to support that: it's speculative. We've seen a surge across the South unrelated to Trump.https://t.co/yGblNN84J8— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
On the other hand, I totally believe that Trump would call his Native American companion "Tonto", the Spanish term for 'fool'.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 8, 2020
#AntiMaskerProblems You can't tell which progressive political whore is picking your pocket.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 9, 2020
Obviously he heard Trump say with his mask he looks like the Lone Ranger. https://t.co/98YsZ71y6E— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 9, 2020
Congresswoman Bass is a proven, even-tempered legislative leader who balances Biden's questionable record on criminal justice reform. I'm particularly impressed by her involvement with CoCo for non-police initiatives to address crime. https://t.co/mkSZ5AsCZJ— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 9, 2020
No doubt Trump feels betrayed by Gorsuch and Kavanaugh voting against him in 7-2 decisions. Think the progressives will be satisfied by those politically inconvenient rulings? Nope. Trump's Trumpertantrum and whining are predictable.https://t.co/y2lmlVVnte— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 9, 2020
Well, Obama still holds the all-time record for most unanimous SCOTUS rulings against him, but Trump is challenging him.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 9, 2020
My Latino friends in Texas are more politically nuanced than Julian Castro suggests. For example, many of them are socially conservative, pro-life Catholics. And the Democrats have never been immigration-friendly: they ended the bracero program under JFK/LBJ.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 10, 2020
"Hispanics"
The Julian Castro boycott of Goya Foods is counterproductive. Goya Foods probably never got so much free publicity. I'm a Never Trumper who loves his Tex-Mex food; I've bought Goya Foods in the past. Every time left-fascists announce a boycott, I start a buycott.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 10, 2020
"Hispanic"
Hypocrisy doesn't wear well. Recall Julian Castro was part of the Obama Administration. He served under Deporter-in-Chief Obama. Do you think he would have resigned in protest of Obama's policies? Yeah, right...— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 10, 2020
"Hispanics"
If you didn't believe the search engines weren't ideologically slanted, try doing a search on military installations named after Union generals. Here's a small list:— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 10, 2020
Fort Campbell, KY
Fort Devens, MA
Fort George G. Meade, MD
Fort McClellan, AL
Fort Sherman defunct
Camp Dodge, IA
French was my first language, but I took a couple of years of high school Spanish (and then picked up enough Portuguese in Sao Paulo to work for over 2 months in Brazil). I don't have any issues with American residents speaking other languages; it's a natural right.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 10, 2020
I'm ambivalent over the Confederate general base kerfuffle. It wasn't local communities who named the posts in question; the Army says naming decisions were based on character, not ideology, in an era of national reconciliation. They now say it's a morale issue with black troops.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 10, 2020
I will say that I am utterly opposed to renaming a base after Union war criminal Sherman. There was nothing "patriotic" about the Union's unprovoked invasion of the South. It contradicts the very construct of the consent of the governed. If you do rename bases, not after humans.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 10, 2020
It's sad to see US allies blurring the line between church and state.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 10, 2020
"Turkish court says that Hagia Sophia can be converted to a mosque"
Why am I not surprised that traditional anti-Catholicism has come about with yet another hypocritical disingenuous rationalization to attack the Church?— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 10, 2020
"Catholic Church"
Of course academia is dominated by leftism. It was for decades before I worked for 5 years as a professor; as a libertarian-conservative, I didn't dare discuss politics. (Academic freedom is a myth.) But no government tampering with high ed!— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 10, 2020
"Radical Left Indoctrination"
Joe Biden, Catholic in Name Only, is attacking the recent SCOTUS decision upholding the contraception mandate exemption for the Little Sisters of the Poor. He is an economic illiterate who thinks contraceptive coverage is/should be"free". https://t.co/7hVlnAXwtF— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 10, 2020
My latest rant on Trump:https://t.co/ELOO0cywKR— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 10, 2020
De Blasio is a hypocritical anti-constitutional political hack who believes some assemblies (like Black Lives Matters) are more equal than others under the COVID-19 crisis.https://t.co/iitnbPeIsB— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
"President Trump tells Telemundo “One of the aspects of the [executive order] is going to be DACA. We are going to have a road to citizenship.”"— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
I would like to believe Trump is respectful of DACA recipient rights. Congress could pass a bill with his support. But not exec. order
This is simply an unconstitutional abuse of power. It reflects an undeniable personal conflict of interest.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
"President Trump commutes the sentence of longtime adviser Roger Stone"
Trump is incompetent. No, SCOTUS didn't say Obama had a constitutional right to establish DACA by fiat. They said that Trump had to follow a certain procedural path to unwind DACA. There are laws which the POTUS has to respect.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
DACA
What is going to be interesting is how Trump's xenophobic minions' heads are going to explode over his swerve on DACA. Tom Cotton may have a stroke. After years of bashing immigration, he is suddenly flipping? This is more unbelievable than Pam Ewing's dream season.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
DACA
Imagine how bad a day Stephen Miller must be having after Trump's interview on Latino TV. Might I suggest that you resign on principle, Stephen? Please?— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
DACA
The bounty allegation is unsubstantiated...— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
Get real. We're less than 4 months to election day. There is no path to getting to the two-thirds vote in the Senate for conviction.#ImpeachTrumpAgain— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
Does Trump's abuse of the powers of the Presidency know no end? Former lawyer Cohen, released last May to house arrest from a COVID-19 infected prison, balked at a special gag order against a Trump tell-all book, and is subsequently going back to prisonhttps://t.co/hNJx0bIdvj— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
Oh, give me a break! Where do you think all these breakouts are coming from? Maybe people are getting infected during grocery runs in air-conditioned stores! We really need to know more about patterns of behavior from people who are testing positive.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
"Disney World"
Oh, please! While the US and others were investigating Zlochevsky for moneylaundering, Biden said nothing while Hunter Biden took a board position under the oligarch's Burisma. It was a blatant conflict of interest. Biden is just as corrupt as Trump#BidenPledgesAllegianceToUS— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
Does anyone doubt Pence would pardon Trump? In fact, Trump once floated the idea of pardoning himself.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
Nixon
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 11, 2020
I would feel safer if Trump had duct tape over his mouth.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 12, 2020
"Lone Ranger"
No, I don't believe Trump can pass as the Lone Ranger. For one thing, he probably has a butt spur that keeps him from riding on a saddle.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 12, 2020
"Lone Ranger"
Apparently the Presidential emblem on Trump's face mask is meant to scare away the "Chinese virus".— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 12, 2020
"Lone Ranger"
Trump is finally resorting to a public disguise now that he's abused his presidential powers by corruptly commuting Roger Stone's jail time. It doesn't work, Trump; we can still tell it's you.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 12, 2020
"Lone Ranger"
Most women figure out there are other options, including sex toys. #ThatsTheOnlyReasonImSingle— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 12, 2020
Trump is going to equip Joe Biden to handle the Presidency? Wow, most incumbents wait until after they've been kicked out of office before planning the transition.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 12, 2020
I'll-equipped
Lincoln is responsible for the deaths of over 600K Americans. Trump has a long way to go.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 12, 2020
No, Trump is not responsible for COVID-19. Nor is he responsible for clown Dem governors shutting down state economies. Try again.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 12, 2020
