CHS APUSH/DC teacher & Aquatics Coach, Razorback, 2016 Boerne ISD District TOY, MA Ashland U, 2019 Tx Madison Fellow, Astros,Texans & U2 fan Schnauzer Dad
Boerne, Texas
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Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
What if I told you this kid decomitted from Texas A&M today?
High school recruiting is a fucking joke 😂
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
Because real men in TX don’t enthusiastically support a criminal degenerate like Ken Paxton.
Only grifts & clowns do.
The worst candidate of the cycle ran the worst campaign in recent memory & turned a Trump +13 state to Paxton -10 in 2 years.
A real accomplishment.
#txsen
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
Last night, Republicans lost the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate, and my home state of Texas, a conservative cornerstone for more than three decades, because our party forgot the basic rules of coalition politics:
1. Add, don’t subtract
2. Be likeable
3. Do what you promised
4. Character & integrity still matter
Time to turn the page and rebuild. Read my full thoughts in the @WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/republicans-…
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
Slither under a rock. Move into your 3rd favorite bathhouse.
Go the fuck away. For good.
You’ve done more damage in two years than can be calculated.
In addition to white nationalism being morally repugnant, it’s politically toxic.
Repent.
Tonight wasn’t the night our campaign had hoped for.
To everyone who stood alongside us, gave your time, and believed in what we set out to accomplish, thank you. I will never forget your dedication, your friendship, and, above all, your love for the great state of Texas.
As Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
My dreams for Texas and America remain undiminished, as does my faith in the indomitable spirit of the people of the Lone Star State.
I’m not going anywhere — because we have work to do.
Onward.
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
Bad policy, bad character make bad politics: erratic tariffs, impulsive Iran war, blanket pardons, apparent corruption, weaponized justice, ICE brutality, mountainous deficits, hiding Epstein, abandoning allies and coddling enemies. Hoping for a course correction, for the country and for my party.
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
The voters have spoken, and I want to extend my congratulations to James Talarico on his election to the U.S. Senate. I look forward to meeting him and offering my assistance with his transition as he prepares to serve Texans in the U.S. Senate.
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
Anybody at the RNC in Arizona want to actually help support a moderate republican and win?
Or nah, just keep running MAGA rubber stamp candidates and lose - for the sixth consecutive cycle.
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
Trump said vote as if I'm on the ballot. Looks like a whole lot of people did just that -- if you know what I mean
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
I haven’t heard Republicans this nervous since 2006.
It’s bad everywhere, and now there is legitimate concern about Iowa, Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina.
It all comes back to affordability, the Iran war, and President Trump.
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’
@JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist, after one of Ken Paxton’s wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case.
Ken Paxton even kept him off the sex offender registry. Adam Hoffman was supposed to serve 25 years to life, but instead he served less than a month. As of this week, he’s now back on our streets because of Ken Paxton’s corruption.
Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America, and it is costing Texans, it’s endangering our children, and it must end. The Epstein class has no place in Texas.
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
Just got back from a few days in DC meeting with lawmakers. The Protect College Sports Act is not perfect but we need to end this chaos now. We need stability or we will lose sports and lose opportunities for student athletes.
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
"What percentage of our athletes in college become professional?"
"Very few."
"It's like 1%, unless you play for me; it's about 65%, but we won't even go there." 😅😅
Never change Coach Cal, never change. #WPS
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
Since 1997, @UTAustin has granted automatic admission to top-ranked Texas high schoolers.
Since 2024, that ranking threshold has been the top 5% of any in-state high school — and 75% of incoming UT-Austin freshmen must be auto-admitted under state law: chron.com/news/houston-texas…
This system was implemented as a pure meritocracy, or a color-blind alternative to policies like Affirmative Action and DEI.
The demographics of UT-Austin’s undergraduate student body are: collegefactual.com/colleges/…
• White: 32%
• Hispanic: 25%
• Asian: 21%
• Black: 4.5%
• International: 10.5%
• Men + Women: 45.6% + 54.4%
That’s how reality has shaken out under a purely merit-based system.
Should that system be changed to factor in race/ethnicity now that @BoFrench is triggered by the higher representation of Asians in the UT-Austin student body? 🤔
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
This is the Republican nominee for statewide office. Are other Republican elected officials going to condemn the intolerance and racism, or look the other way while it becomes normalized. This is how great political parties self-destruct. Sad.
Michael Gillette 🇺🇸🏊♂️🐗🤽♂️🤽🏼🦅 retweeted
NAILED IT: Bill Maher: “Canadian state TV told its reporters, ‘do not refer to the September 11th attacks as terrorist attacks.’ No? Even though the very definition of terrorism is using violence against civilians to pursue ideological goals, what should we call it then? Unruly passengers? A wrong turn taken at the Chrysler Building? Why not just say the planes and the towers got into a fight?”
“I mean, after all, as the BBC advised its reporters, using the word terrorist can be a, ‘barrier rather than an aid to understanding.’ You know what's really a barrier to understanding? Lying.”