Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025So anybody else waiting to see if good ole boy Vance gonna get on tv and call us a bunch of N’s? www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...msnbc.comVance escalates tensions with China with crude remark about 'Chinese peasants'As tensions between the U.S. and China escalate over President Trump’s tariffs, JD Vance sparked more acrimony by referring to its people as “peasants” in a Fox News interview. 000
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Now wait a minute! *looks ard* This tornado 🌪️ done blew me to what side of Skyblue!? 😂🤣 000
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Sitting in the hallway with doors closed. 😭media.tenor.coma picture of a tornado and the words everything is fineALT: a picture of a tornado and the words everything is fine 350
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025may we be so fortunate as to suffer 8 more." by Teri Carter, Lexington Herald-Leader 010
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. President Obama was not perfect, as no man and no president is, and you can certainly disagree with his political ideologies. But to say we suffered? If that’s the argument, if this is how we suffered for 8 years under Barack Obama, I have one wish: 110
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025 little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.” Yet, he never took away anyone’s guns........ He sang Amazing Grace, spontaneously, at the altar. He was the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms without personal or political scandal. 110
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Welfare spending is down: for every 100 poor families, just 24 receive cash assistance, compared with 64 in 1996. Obama comforted families and communities following more than a dozen mass shootings. After Sandy Hook, he said, “The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful 110
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Most years, Obama threw a 4th of July party for military families. He held babies, played games with children, served barbecue, and led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to his daughter Malia, who was born on July 4. 110
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025He expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research, supporting ground breaking advancement in areas like spinal injury treatment and cancer. Credit card companies can no longer charge hidden fees or raise interest rates without advance notice. 130
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do. While Obama failed on his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that prison’s population decreased from 242 to around 50. 130
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26. Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans. 130
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers. He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016. 110
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half. He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay. 120
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans. He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth. Due to Obama’s regulatory 130
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs. 131
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest. While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11. 121
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $80 billion bailout to save the car industry. 131
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025"Trump supporters say, 'We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.' Fair enough. Let’s take a look. The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled. 2113
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...taskandpurpose.comArlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veteransThe Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans. 000
Cryssy @cryssy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025www.politico.com/news/2025/03... 😐🫤😑dummypolitico.comThousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rulesU.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office. 011