Retired grandpa living the good life in Minnesota. Beat stage 4 cancer and making every day count. Rebuilding a healthy body back up to 26.2. GenX rocks!
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Rusty Grandpa retweeted
This is for all the writers ( and want to be writers) in this beautiful community 💖✍🏼👩💻👨🏻💻📝. This gave me some serious guffaws and I hope it does for you as well 👍🏼💙. Happy writing ✍🏼🙏🏼. @LouDPhillips @DzintraSullivan @ChrisBohjalian @therealSIR3 @hwinkler4real @AuthorFleur @donnacox1021 @drdoomed01 @jameshealyjr
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
First there was the Alina Habba story about her billionaire Turkish third husband sending a 17.6 million dollar check — which was issued by the Democratic Republic of the Congo rather than the billionaire third husband — to a defense contractor in Texas connected to Trump’s pal Richard Grenell who Trump made head of the Kennedy Center which included 5.6 million dollars that was to go to the Kennedy Center to get Trump to help the billionaire third husband with the business ventures he had secured in Venezuela from President Maduro who Trump kidnapped.
Then there’s the story of a Venezuelan billionaire who paid Habba 50 million dollars for 4 years of legal services as general counsel of a brand new company he created that has no apparent actual business in order to use her access to Trump to procure a pardon for felony bribery charges that low and behold got reduced down to a petty misdemeanor.
In a recent poll, the number one issue for most Americans wasn’t gas prices or inflation or immigration or trans athletes — it was government corruption. And there’s never in the history of the country been a period of more rampant government corruption than the past 21 months since Trump’s inauguration.
Stop the Damned Corruption Now!
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
100% corruption
BREAKING NYT:
A billionaire wanted a Trump pardon. His family gave Alina Habba a $50 million deal.
Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Habba, a lawyer close to Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job. nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/po…
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
Trying to figure out how Russia captured the White House faster than the Donbas
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
Face it MAGAts, lifting Russian sanctions is the textbook definition of giving aid and comfort to the enemy
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
The most corrupt president of all time just called me a liar from the Oval Office.
Give me a freakin' break.
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order, turning America into a Russian ally, @RadioFreeTom argues: theatln.tc/ZkAeQt3l
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia.
I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order, turning America into a Russian ally, @RadioFreeTom argues: theatln.tc/ZkAeQt3l
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
Ten years ago today.
In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine, hampering the country's defenses during a devastating Russian attack; and Trump waived sanctions on Russia that Congress, led by his late friend Lindsey Graham, had pushed for.
Now, Putin has proposed a summit with Trump and Xi to decide Ukraine’s fate for them, bulldoze a century of international cooperation, and frame Russia as an equal to the U.S. and China.
We’ll see if Putin’s puppet continues to dance on his strings.
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
It’s clear that @PeteHegseth has blood on his hands
The Pentagon is delaying the delivery of Patriot missiles to Ukraine—missiles that have already been paid for by allies, reports *The Kyiv Independent*.
A shipment of missiles, fully funded by Ukraine’s allies (including through NATO mechanisms), is awaiting Hegseth’s signature; however, the Pentagon chief is deliberately blocking the process.
The Ukrainian leadership views this decision as another form of political pressure from Washington.
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
Remember folks, Abdul El-Sayed disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood.
Donald Trump accepted a luxury jumbo jet from them.
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
Trump admits that Russia is helping Iran to kill and maim American troops.
But just a “very little.”
This is a grotesque betrayal of US forces on the battlefield in this war—and their families.
The war that Trump launched.
No American Commander-in-Chief has sunk so low.
Trump: My decision on Russia is a very simple one. I don't want to do anything that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table.
Russia is doing very little, if anything, to help the Islamic Republic of Iran, compared to what they could be doing.
Zelenskyy is using Diesel Refineries in Russia as a target, knowing that these attacks are seriously hurting the world diesel markets, including those in the United States.
Farmers, ranchers, and businesses of all kinds are suffering greatly from this, but Russia is, nevertheless, sending, at a low price, millions of barrels of diesel to the World.
Zelenskyy doesn't care, and frankly, with all of the money that Europe is famously giving him, and that Crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past, he doesn't want to end this war, and probably never did.
He could have made a better deal two years ago than he can now. His country is in shambles, a large portion of his land is lost, his oceans and seas are gone, and his male population is low, wounded, and/or dead. I WANT THIS WAR END!
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
PS I’ve met Putin many times and listened in on calls with him as well. I also speak Russian. Yes he is soft spoken, deliberate, and measured. So what? He’s still a killer. He still launched a barbaric invasion of Ukraine, that has produced tragic loss of life not seen on this scale in Europe since WWII.
Vance: "I've never met Putin in person. I've spoken to him on the phone. He was calmer than you might expect. The American media has a stereotype of him. He's very deliberate and measured in his words.
I think, at his core, he's someone who cares about Russia's interests as he sees them. One reason he respects the President is that he recognizes the President cares about the interests of the American people."
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
If only Trump cared about what russian missiles do to Ukrainians as much as he cares about what Ukrainian drones do to russian diesel.
Rusty Grandpa retweeted
Master Sgt. Nicole Amor of White Bear Lake was killed in Kuwait. Her husband, Joey — who I have gotten to know well in the worst of circumstances and have worked with him to push for answers — asked JD Vance how this administration will hold leaders accountable for the failures that led up to it.
Vance said it was “literally the first time I’ve heard of this.”
Our servicemembers and their families deserve better. Joey and the families of all those who were lost that day deserve answers. They WILL get them.
