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Matt Bell @mattbellviolinist.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely. I’ve met some of my best friends on social media.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Matt Bell @mattbellviolinist.bsky.social · 2h

A distraction, you say?

FROM WHAT?

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Matt Bell @mattbellviolinist.bsky.social · 21h

Lee Greenwood’s God Bless The USA has 60 million streams on Spotify.

Bad Bunny’s DtMF has over a billion.

Which one has broader appeal? You tell me.

Matt Bell @mattbellviolinist.bsky.social · 1d

Is this one of the guys Kegseth was talking about?

Matt Bell @mattbellviolinist.bsky.social · 1d

Also, her IQ is at least 40 points higher than his.

Matt Bell @mattbellviolinist.bsky.social · 1d

He’d be infinitely better than what we’ve got. But that’s not the bar.

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Matt Bell @mattbellviolinist.bsky.social · 1d

The good news is that no one in her district needs to pay taxes on anything they made in those two weeks.

We literally fought a war over this.

Matt Bell @mattbellviolinist.bsky.social · 1d

War torn Portland? However did you get out alive?

Matt Bell @mattbellviolinist.bsky.social · 1d

I have it on good authority (the NRA) that nobody needs permission to have a gun. It’s a God given right enshrined in our constitution…

Matt Bell @mattbellviolinist.bsky.social · 1d

There could be a lot of people out there pretending to be ICE or DHS. I think we need to have local police check the credentials of everyone who tries to arrest anyone.

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