Tom from Twitter 🚫👑
@tomlavan.bsky.social
One of those people Drake was talking about when he said “y’all sleep at the Sheraton” Guess we’re doing this again 🦜🚮 I was using emdashes aggressively before chatGPT was even born.
created November 21, 2023
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Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
The lack of curiosity in our media is astonishing. Who paid for all this tacky shit? Did we, the taxpayers? If not, isn’t this the best available indicator that Trump has no intentions of leaving in 2028? There’s going to be a decent sized block of “WH renovation” single issue voters
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Reminds me of that sopranos episode where carm finds the broken nail from Tony’s gumar and starts throwing all his stuff out the second story window onto the driveway
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember when this guy used to just be bad at polling.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Funny because it also turns off right before it crashes you so that Elon can claim it wasn’t FSDs fault.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Part of the magic of the other place was how sometimes it seemed like the whole platform was having a conversation because of a single tweet and not because of the chain mail “ruin a book by adding tom Clancy” prompt stuff that happens here.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s fine. Much better than the “only followers can reply” which is one of the limiting factors of this burgeoning platform. The idea that everyone has found all the people they want to engage with is absurd and it prevents network effects / true vitality of posts.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, a little, Brits.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
A very funny lens for this nonsense was the Meghan Markle Oprah interview. It didn’t air live on any UK channels so many Brit’s VPNed into US services and had to experience our ads. In unison they were all like “wtf is going on with the pharma ads in the states. Is everyone sick and dying??”
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
The Carneys are some of the strangest and dumbest people still posting at the other place
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t think the American people have grappled with the fact that we are the bad guys right now
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m here for that too!
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Dana for president! Fuck Gavin Newsom.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
When I look at him now I just see Cartmen with his hairdo. His face really does seem to be growing like a red giant star before it collapses in on itself. If the red giant had a truly abhorrent haircut.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
This man is truly astonishingly stupid.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
I find her to be incredibly abrasive even when she is right, not to mention when she’s making bad faith accusations. Hilarious she thinks she’s the only one that has come up with this and deserves praise heaped on her for it. And yea 16 may as well be 3, doesn’t have any more teeth.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Howard Lutnick has been the most foolish and idiotic of the supposed “adults in the room” with Bessent closely behind him likely muttering condescension to someone nearby
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
She literally never pushes back. She has all week to prepare for the interviews on this show and she never has the receipts on hand.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Hahahaha classic. CLASSIC. Even you know yours is a total fantasy so you cop out and don’t say it. Go monitor someone else’s hall.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok Log I feel like we really bonded today so I’m going to be a little vulnerable with you here you ready? I don’t think there is a way out of this. My “BDS” (puke) is so strong because he’s going to be pretty singularly responsible for tipping us over into authoritarian fascism. Now you go.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry my what? We are co-opting MAGA terms now? The idea Biden doesn’t deserve blame for Garland is fucking absurd. I don’t know how you can brand yourself after logic and not understand that the president has blame for the AG sucking.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
LOL you think you are so much smarter than you are. And don’t flatter yourself - you haven’t moved my heart rate 1 BPM let alone piss myself. You don’t ever actually make any arguments you just complain about everybody else’s.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
How bout you go first queen your world seems so nice and pleasant and made up 🌞🌈🦄
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Filed under “P” for “pics we didn’t need to see”
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Trump broke the law - we better call Pam Bo…oh wait a minute… The law doesn’t matter much if there’s no one around to enforce it snookems. And it’s adorable you want the Supreme Court to not be political.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
No. Trump did the crimes! Biden just needed to nominate someone that had the balls to actually convict him. And clearly you’ve never been in a leadership role - when you hire someone you’re responsible for their performance. Ergo Garland *and* Biden are to blame.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Illegal according to who? You? Your hall monitor badge doesn’t have jurisdiction I’m afraid. AGs have always worked for presidents and the independence thing is just lip service to suckers like you. Biden didn’t have to be corrupt that’s the difference. Trump did crimes and deserved consequences.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Did Trump do provable, grave crimes we all saw and heard? Yes. Did he go to jail for those crimes? No. Biden AND Garland are to blame despite your naive view that the AG is independent. Is SCOTUS also not political in your view? They just interpret the law as they see fit?
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Did you turn on a tv today? You’d see John Bolton on the sidewalk outside his house in his underpants. Were you alive in 2012 when Obama had Holder refuse to provide documents and was held in contempt? Do you think JFK didn’t influence his BROTHER? Your branding really is as bad as MuellerSheWrote
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes…he does. Take a civics class logician. AG is a cabinet level position. You can do all your naive blah blah about independence it was always a farce. JFK had his brother as AG…
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Second - you apparently don’t know that the AG reports to the president. If you come back with “norms” you are truly naive. Even Obama *gasp* meaningfully leaned on his AG with fast and furious scandal. And even in the norm argument, Biden could have fired Merrick and he didn’t.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Hahah ok so first - you don’t believe that Biden picking Merrick Garland for AG was a political decision? The guy that got robbed of his SCOTUS seat gets nominated to run (supposedly) investigations against the people that robbed him of his spot on the bench. That’s not political??
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
You called me a bot for the entirety of the thread where I was responding with actual arguments. You are detached from reality and you have your head in the sand. Your branding is about as good as MuellerSheWrote.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry…he claims the government got the stake for free??? How?
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Cool cool. Your first attempt was a big swing and a miss.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s very funny to me that your swift and obnoxious responses vanished when it came to defending your views instead of attacking mine. Also this thread that you turned comments off on (LOL) is a total farce. If you think this is how you engage on here I have a bridge to sell you.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry is this just a complete fumble of the tree falling in the woods thought experiment? Struggling to understand what you’re going for here
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
I love that yall have gotten yourselves giddy about this but in California where I live this is playing out like “help Gavin own Abbott and Trump” vs “level the playing field with these illiberal cheats” and I have little faith the voters will deliver this to Gavin in scenario #1
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Reaves deserves a bump and Thompson a slide
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Update: I’m a captive audience on a 6 hour flight and I read the twitter one. Very weakly argued, wish I had started my 2025 tax returns or given myself a root canal in this middle seats in lieu of reading it.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry one more - this is just demonstrably untrue. Your piece is proof - way more engagement on Bluesky and it’s not (just) because you’re talking the same old tired shit about Bluesky. Musk is specifically hostile to linking out to content - everyone seems to know that but you?
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
I truly understand the emotional tug to stay on twitter. It was magical and we know now it’s impossible to recreate. That said, X is not twitter and outside of nostalgia which I didn’t see much of in your piece, I don’t think there’s any reason to be on X. It’s an unusable troll farm of no value.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Also find it dubious that you quote 2021 numbers and 2024 numbers (that already show a downward trend) but still claim it’s the only relevant public square. I don’t hear literally anyone in my life reference twitter/x these days and I work in media.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
I can’t believe you still call this mangled mess of AI bull shit “twitter” when it bears no aesthetic resemblance or functionality with actual twitter. It’s a nearly unusable platform and the algorithm is centered around one conversation: musk’s
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
This argument (haha!) is particularly weak. Utilities are a government monopoly that delivers power - the consumer has no choice. If you have issues with Dara, Lyft, taxis, etc exist so there are sufficient substitutes. Neither are good analogs here, at all.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
I have 0.00% interest in reading any of those initial articles
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
I know you don’t necessarily own the headline here but it’s quite weak and you should talk to whomever did pen it. If you’re going to directly quote her the fact she wants a pardon should be secondary to the fact she was found guilty of perjury - legal speak for lying under oath.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
And why wasn’t this done during Bidens presidency? This seems to be kicking up because of the national guard presence in DC, but Trump marched the national guard into my state of California too so…?
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Totally agree. Gavin is getting too much credit. The social strategy is whatever but he’s an absolutely garbage Governor. The only things he cares about are accumulating power and media attention, he doesn’t give a shit about Californians or Americans more broadly.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Unhoused is and was one of the most annoying dem consultant vocab purity test words. For the wealthiest country in the world, homelessness is offensive and unacceptable, we don’t need to soften the language we need to solve the problem.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Overton window must be included just because they don’t think people know what it is?
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean are they out there really saying anything? They have been so ill-equipped for this moment it’s insane
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Somebody needs to get this loser a fucking hobby my god. How does he have time to sabotage Cracker Barrel of all things?
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
He is really and truly a worldclass twat.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Limited rights and services for thee, but not for me may as well be the GOP slogan.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Genuine question: what are Dems even doing in this moment? It truly seems like they are just staying home or casually dismissing this as a “distraction” which is the latest non-fighting posture they’ve take that makes me pull my hair out.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
The Atlantic really is a mess.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
With a hair cut like her husband just bought some oil rigs in 1982
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Tulsi Gabbard is almost certainly a Russian asset. This is one of those cases where if there actually was a deep state, they’d be making moves to sabotage her and save HALF of their jobs.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Actually this was said best by rage against the machine FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME [ICE]
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
The amount of times I’ve ripped Killing in the Name Of in the last few months is probably more than the rest of my life combined. Including right now ▶️
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
And for the millionth time because you’re apparently quite dense, bro, impeachment wasn’t the correct consequence. PRISON WAS. Why exactly didn’t Merrick convict Trump for the obvious crimes we all watched on TV? Logician me that genius
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
In the alternate realm that doesn’t exist where Dems have spines and call the obvious witnesses they should call to prove their case? Logic eludes the “leftist logician” basically every time your thumbs move
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
But since you don’t know anything about winning, apparently, you want to forgive the Dems for being cowards and not calling the witness. It’s literally indefensible thinking and yet here you are, BOT 🤖
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the loser mentality that you have lodged in your brain. If a republican took the stand and literally confirmed in front of the whole world that the conversation between McCarthy and Trump actually did take place, it would have been that much harder to vote against impeachment.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
They should all just tell ICE to go fuck themselves. There’s nothing about the metro that says you have to be a citizen. Absurd.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Coronating Kamala Harris when she was run off the stage before Deval Patrick in 2020. Without googling can you tell me who Deval Patrick is?? Of course not because he’s nobody and he stayed in the race 2 months longer than Kamala. Over and over again the Dems are just losers.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Impeachment 2 - they didn’t call the R witness that was in the room for the McCarthy call. Because they are spineless cowards that are allergic to winning. Indictments not turning into convictions - Merrick Garland was the worst choice for DOJ up until that point. He did nothing, spineless coward.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
This idea they need a super majority to do something is just what you tell yourself to tuck yourself in at night. The republicans have done literally everything they set out to do with 4 seats in the house and 50/50 senate. The Dems are losers and it’s people like you that allow them to be losers.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Just shoveling @darthbluesky.bsky.social some red meat with this one. Or some white starchy potato meat, rather.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
This is fucking insane.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
“Political sclerosis” as a term is quite good Mr Resnikoff
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
YES CHELSEA. Ask anyone in California if this man deserves a bigger role and they would say emphatically no. Gavin has no moral compass and he also has no will or competence to do his current job let alone a bigger one.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
One party has been taken over by fascist traitorous terrorists and you still expect them to uphold the constitution? The idea then Dems did everything in their power to stop this is not only naive it’s detached from reality. We need better Ds PERIOD.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Hahah actual LOL from me. What a legend.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok so: ✅Dems broadly don’t deserve criticism. ✅Biden specifically doesn’t deserve criticism. ❔but Merrick Garland also doesn’t deserve criticism 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨 I’m tired of voting for losers, and you should be too. I hope you have the best day for yourself leftist (truly I do)
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s funny how much of a snowflake he is for his supposed blue collar impoverished upbringing. He settled into entitled rich white softy real quick.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes because merrick garland just fell from the sky into the department of justice and Biden had nothing to say about it. Look if you just want to make excuses for dem failures by all means have at it. They could have and should have done more to counteract Rs and they didn’t. Period.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve been through union station 200x JD Vance has and what he’s saying about crime there is demonstrably false. No parents are afraid to bring their families through union. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a crime committed there or otherwise seen anything that made me feel unsafe. Bull shit lies.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Very funny to me that Stephen Miller lacks the self awareness to refrain from calling anyone else old when he’s a 38 year old that looks 60.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
And if you really want to relitigate impeachment 2 I’m happy to because Dems were feckless cowards during that, too. archive.ph/oDyQt
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh my god am I taking crazy pills? You do remember that Biden was president for 4 years following Jan 6 correct? Like you’re aware of that? Trump didn’t deserve impeachment he deserved jail. You need a citation that Rs do whatever they want without a super majority? Have you been alive in 2025?
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
*Taps sign* why is it still so hard to criticize Biden? You don’t need a super majority to convict someone, congress has no role in DOJ investigations. And, again, Rs do whatever they want without a super majority so this is just a loser mentality excuse. bsky.app/profile/toml...
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Warmer still! And did Trump deserve indictments for all those crimes we watched unfold on TV or did he deserve convictions? How many convictions did our dem white knights get us for these obvious crimes? What I’m hearing from you are a lot of loser excuses for them not using the power we gave them
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
They’ve failed us in part because of people like you that think there’s nothing more they could have done. That’s a loser mentality, it’s completely untrue and it’s what got us here.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes you’ve proven your superior intellect over me, a bot. Rs are scum bags that refuse to police themselves, I think on that we agree. But Dems are feckless losers that also won’t police Rs while supposedly standing on the higher moral ground. Only Dems get us out of this and they’ve failed us.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
The idea that “if they had a super majority things would be different” is absurd. Dems had the presidency for 4 years and did nothing with it to stop this.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Do Rs have a super majority now? Do they seem to have any issues executing their platform - however unsavory it might be - with the slimmest of margins in both chambers? This defeatist attitude gets us nowhere. Dems need to win power and then when they win power they need to use power. Period.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
What happened after that? You’re so close
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m sorry…your argument is “it’s not dems fault because they can’t win elections”? That’s a compelling argument from your perspective?
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
A truly absurd claim that has nothing to do with the topic at hand and has zero in common with my beliefs. What did the dems do to hold Rs accountable for Jan 6? What have they done to hold Trump accountable for ANYTHING? The dem politicians aren’t the victims here WE ARE.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
What Dog Funeral said. If you think dems are the victims in all this you’ve had your head in the sand since the 90s. Ds had ample opportunities to reign in these lawless Rs and they have done nothing but roll over and play nice. There’s a reason Ds poll below Rs and it’s not bc they are victims.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
In their defense, dems have done everything in their power to make Rs feel that way. If at any point during the last 25 the dems had made it known they could be an effective countervailing force to this bull shit, a lot of this bull shit would not have happened.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Also seems like we are glossing over the fact the one he’s specifically showing him is the unconstitutional “4 more years” hat. That after he stopped the Oval Office meeting to confirm with zelensky that Ukraine suspends elections during an active war. Nothing to see here!
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Flashing forward to 2025: perhaps it’s Voldemort that occupies his second chin
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
When you’re a star, Josh…
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
How does the ghoul continue to get reelected one might ask
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Shocked to find he looks like a smug loser SHOCKED.
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Tip top reference. Early on, potentially even the pilot of succession?
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s incredible how every update to this story is more embarrassing and humiliating than the last
Tom from Twitter 🚫👑 (@tomlavan.bsky.social) reply parent
Such a funny example of telling on yourself. Gavin’s tweets literally look like they could be written by Trump. But if he wants trumps job his tweets can’t look at all like trumps (?)