To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis: Show us your laptop. Show us your iCloud. Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation. You won’t. You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out. That is not who we are. My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count. For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame. I no longer believe that. Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us. And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts. That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena. Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next. Life does not determine our character. It reveals it. Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next? We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day. So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop. You won’t. The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing. That is the only definition that matters.

The vibes are insane. Driving through the great state of Louisiana on our way to New Orleans. It’s crazy how diverse this country is, every day the scenery looks different.

Always get a 22nd opinion as they say

Hayes: That line shooting up right at the end, that is entirely unilaterally caused by one man—Donald Trump. Most things that happen in an economy under the president are not just solely the president's fault. This is the rarest of exceptions. It's entirely on Trump. The irony being that Trump campaigned on lowering your prices on day one. It's the reason he became president. But in between naps and getting booed at basketball games and pool renovations and ballroom blueprints, he's managed to make everything more expensive

You were born in 2006.

“I love the inflation.” -Not Joe Biden

I think the Pratt thing is a bad sign for the GOP. They ran a reality TV ex-celebrity who ran on a platform of "homeless people rape dogs" and he lost. They're convinced he should have won. They're moving past the point where they learn rational lessons from election defeat.

For my next trick, I run for mayor in deep red West Virginia and act shocked when I lose.

Golden Rule of MAGA Era: - If we win: Election was clean and fair. - If we lose: election was stolen riddled with fraud that we can’t prove but we know happened.

2 of 3 Americans are cutting back on spending, per AP

The LA election discourse is a good reminder that Democrats are overly process focused and build well intentioned systems that move far too slowly, whereas Republicans are really stupid.

Like I cannot express how stupid you have to be to think Spencer Pratt losing in a district with 90% democrats is evidence of cheating

6 years of Trump promising "mountains" of stolen election evidence 6 years of Trump throwing a tantrum & storming off when asked for evidence 6 years of Maga morons cheering on his tantrums instead of questioning why he hasn't provided them ANY evidence

Too emotional to be president.

For almost a decade they turned @HunterBiden into the ultimate villain. The laptop, the drugs, the scandals. Nonstop. Everything about him got weaponized, memed to death, and thrown around as proof the elite are straight rotten. Dude got reduced to nothing... But now? The second he starts spitting his real story, his struggles, the addiction, family pain, the whole lore... The whole vibe shifts. A ton of people are actually listening. Agreeing with what he’s saying. Following him heavy. Sharing his posts. And through all that raw talk, they starting to see what’s really going on in this country. It’s wild as hell. The same dude they loved to hate turns into somebody worth hearing when he speaks for himself. No filters, no spin, just straight honesty about the mess he lived through and the mess he sees everywhere. Makes you think... maybe we've been fed these fake caricatures for so long that when somebody finally drops the act and talks real, it hits different. Folks are starving for that authenticity. It cuts through all the noise and shows how broken the whole game is. Hunter ain’t no saint, but watching this play out proves one thing... the truth hits harder when it comes from the person who actually lived it, not from the ones trying to bury him.

Thank you Jack. That inspired even me. I truly appreciate it- very high praise that I’m not sure I deserve but I will fully embrace. Now let’s do the “America the come back”- all of us.

I don't know this person.

This is the type of shit that needs no words to troll itself. This is actually real… he’s really posting infomercials plugging this… Using America’s 250th Anniversary too… More like… “As my dad tanks the economy as fast as he can, nothing is more patriotic than getting your hands on some Don Jr Gold to celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary in case it’s our last” This is SNL material or even better #smokefleet material

STRANGE HOW ELECTIONS IN AMERICA WERE CONSIDERED SAFE UNTIL A SERIAL LIAR WHO'S ALSO A CONVICTED FELLON TOLD AMERICA THEIR ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED 🙄🤡

Donald Trump “befriending” Elon Musk right before the midterms is not a coincidence. Notice?