Tim Manson

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Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

“This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather.”

@united what a mess you’ve got at O’Hare. I landed at 6:20. Plane taxied for an hr. No gate. Then I sprint to my next gate cuz the app says im boarding and it ends at 7:30, get to the gate and the incoming flight is still deplaning because…they also sat waiting. Never again

@McDonalds The #bigarch is the best thing McDonalds has done since the Big Mac. It’s that good.

@ToBo_CH @trouble_man90 I voted for Talarico but he’ll be lucky to win in the primary, let alone get a Senate seat and then you’re suggesting he run for president starting about a year later? Why aren’t we ever realistic?

@trouble_man90 If the party establishment fought as ruthlessly against Republicans as against its left wing, we had less problems. • James Talarico • Maxwell Frost

All these threats about who liberals need to pick 2028, why don’t we avoid all the drama and you, leftists, pick a candidate that *we* like? Since y’all are the picky ones and we will vote blue no matter who. Name two people right now. Comments, quotes, and DMs are open. Go ahead

@ScottJenningsKY Was this your first time watching a state of the union address? JFC man

Moment of the night: Democrats refusing to stand to affirm their allegiance to American citizens over illegal aliens. Will be signature moment of this speech. Trump nailed them.

@artman8887 @axios Yes, the rest of the world and all published scientists on the topic are idiots. And you are the smart one Artman8887

@axios You are just idiots. Greenhouse gases, my ass. Did you ever take a biology class? Have you ever heard of photosynthesis? How about Organic Chemistry? Are you aware that Carbon is the most naturally occurring of all and essential to life itself?

Greenhouse gas emissions will keep falling despite Trump's climate rollback trib.al/3swhURf

@TexasMBB This game still happening? @TexasMBB

any given Saturday 🤘 #HookEm | #AlwaysCompete

@tiffanylloree @TheWarMonitor Who says they can use lethal force? Who says that’s ok? Thats idiotic.

How about don’t act like a fckn 5 yr old child. They are law Enforcement officers and you people know that they can use lethal force but you throw sht at them anyway and act like deranged fools. I have no sympathy for any of you. They are in way more danger from the rioters than the rioters are from them.

A 21-year-old in Santa Ana was permanently blinded in one eye after a DHS agent fired a “less-lethal” round at close range. He underwent six hours of surgery to remove plastic, glass, and metal embedded in his face.

@WhiteHouse I made a video of me fumbling my phone into my chest in my living room this morning. Was I hit by a weaponized vehicle?

Instead of facts, the media pushed shameless propaganda. That’s why Americans don’t trust them. Watch for yourself:

@RollingStone Paywall? Seriously? Now??

Last year, Bobby Weir shared a lifetime of lessons with Rolling Stone. Read his 2025 Rolling Stone Interview: rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

@EricLDaugh This is the dumbest post of the week. You ever been to Austin? Paid protestors?? Fucking moron.

🚨 BREAKING: Texas State Troopers are FENDING OFF paid agitators and protestors in Austin Communist funds are organizing protests in: - NYC - LA - Austin - Minneapolis - And other cities ARREST THE ORGANIZERS, NOW! Trace the funds to the source!

So, CBS News decided not to air this 25 yr veteran federal agent pointing out all the ways the ICE agent was in the wrong for shooting Renee Good, on its broadcast (I wonder why🤨). At least it’s online. Reshare.

@nicksortor @Badged_Patriot Running down?!?! That’s an insane take from watching all the videos available. You’re either very bad at watching videos or you’re intentionally spreading lies and absurdities. Feels like the latter.

@Badged_Patriot It’s a shame that these people believe there’ll be no consequences for running down ICE agents.

🚨 BREAKING: Video shows the moment a woman tried to RUN OVER ICE agents with her vehicle in Minneapolis, resulting in her being SHOT Tim Walz calling ICE the “GESTAPO” is EXACTLY WHY this stuff happens. SHAME on Walz and Mayor Frey.

@MichaelDah96086 @mcuban Most startups (especially successful ones) offer feee health benefits to employees as a way to get/keep good employees and to cover for them not offering other benefits large established corporations do (401k match, etc.).

@mcuban Elon provides very good insurance for his companies. I am a recipient of that insurance. They cover way more than normal. He has not skimped on that.

What insurance companies and PBMs do you use for your companies ? Wanna bet they have more control over your healthcare than the feds ever could ? Wanna bet they won't let you use grok or Optimus for your own employees ? Wanna bet they won't let you publish your contracts ? The regulatory capture in the industry by the biggest players is worse than what the government would do to healthcare Prove me wrong

@Bigbetsbrand123 Yessir!!

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@FrankLuntz A non-partisan response: this is dumb. All of it. Free money is nice but it does not fix the problems that are inherent in the current system.

At the risk of reopening partisan wounds, President Trump is correct about healthcare when he promotes his policy to give financial support directly to patients rather than to insurance companies. That's exactly what the American people want.   The discussion today on the Sunday morning shows completely misses the point; Americans don't want Washington bureaucrats OR insurance bureaucrats telling them what they can or can't do. The people want to make that decision themselves. To them, it's not about extending price support to prop up Obamacare. It's about making healthcare less expensive — for everyone. Listen to @SenBillCassidy, his solution is the closest to what Americans really want.

@Woodsy1069 @anthonyjoshua @jakepaul Awful fight. Awful show. Awful entertainment. Jake ran for 4, then got KO’d in 2. Announcers saying AJ was frustrated were beyond bad. Only upside was AJ getting the mic to call our Fury and try to make a real fight happen, even if they’re both past their prime.

The winner is @anthonyjoshua in round six, @jakepaul didn’t beat the count of ten. Jake started running out of gas in round three, and bought time by dropping to his knees repeatedly. Winning would have been going the distance.

@DanRafael1 Dumb fight. Two rounds of actual fighting and Joshua took him in those 2. Worst announcing literally ever. Just a bad look all around for boxing.

AJ KO6 Jake. It's over. Outclassed. #boxing #JakeJoshua