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Dave Meister
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Dave Meister
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Learner, blogger, golfer, retired school superintendent.....not in any order.
United States Katılım Kasım 2007
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Wow. This is long, but worth the time. Powerful. And I am sad.
Gandalv@Microinteracti1
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
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Dave Meister retweetledi
I grew up Republican. Still am in many ways. But MAGA pushed the party so far right that I get called a liberal now.
Let me explain the difference:
Traditional Republicans believe in:
• Fiscal responsibility (balanced budgets, not exploding deficits for tax cuts)
• Limited government (actual small government, not big government that punishes your enemies)
• Strong institutions (courts, elections, constitutional norms matter)
• Personal responsibility (your actions have consequences)
• Free markets (not tariffs and trade wars)
• Strong alliances (NATO, international partnerships)
• Rule of law (no one is above it, including the president)
MAGA Republicans believe in:
• Whatever Trump says today (even if it contradicts yesterday)
• Loyalty tests (agree 100% or you're a traitor/RINO)
• Conspiracy theories over facts (stolen election, deep state, QAnon adjacent stuff)
• Grievance politics (owning the libs > actual policy)
• Personality cult (Trump loyalty above party, above country, above truth)
• Performative outrage (culture war theater instead of governance)
• Ends justify means (storm the Capitol, ignore election results, whatever it takes)
I didn't move left. The party moved off a cliff.
I still believe in conservative principles. But when you say "maybe we should respect election results" or "fiscal responsibility matters" or "rule of law applies to everyone," you get called a liberal.
That's not conservatism. That's a cult.
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I try not to be political on social media. I am a lifelong registered republican. People like me need to stand up and let our representatives know that we want them to oppose Trump and his agenda. Who cares if you get primaried, stand up and be an American!
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@ckcolvin24 @reidhoffman What line? There seems to be no line.
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@reidhoffman Agree, not one of Trump's finest hours. The threats are over the line
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Question to all those who said Trump would be better for the economy: is attacking the Fed’s independence what you had in mind?
Federal Reserve@federalreserve
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: federalreserve.gov/newsevents/spe…
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@andrewgrutt How do you get all 200 players, coaches, referees....etc to follow a script and nobody breaks confidence?
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This was perhaps the greatest instance of cosmic justice in NFL history.
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@RealSkipBayless #bronconation will take 12-2 and the driver's seat position for the #1 seed. If they have to come to Mile High, good luck climbing the altitude cliff!
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I'm warning Aqib and Bronco Nation right here, right now. These teams that just hang on the edge of the cliff all year, at the end of the year, they fall off the cliff. So Aqib and Bronco Nation, you won the battle today, but are you sure you're going to win the war? I'm not.
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@713SportsTalk How dem Texans do head to head vs dem Broncos?
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Texans and Broncos Defenses vs. common opponents:
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vs. Titans (HOU gave up 13 pts combined across two games, DEN gave up 12)
vs. Colts (HOU gave up 16, DEN gave up 29)
vs. Chiefs (HOU gave up 10, DEN gave up 19)
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Overall Defensive rankings through 14 weeks:
Total: HOU #1, DEN #3
Passing: HOU #3, DEN #10
Rushing: DEN #2, HOU #5
Points: HOU #1, DEN #4
Completion %: HOU#2, DEN #3
Pass TD: HOU Tied #1, DEN #2
INT: HOU #5, DEN #21
Sacks: DEN #1, HOU #8
1st Downs allowed: HOU #1, DEN #6
3rd Down %: DEN #1, HOU #3
4th Down %: HOU #7, DEN #14
Red Zone D: DEN #1, HOU #17
Strength of Schedule rank: HOU #4, DEN #29(!!)
In the 13 cited statistics above, HOU's D is up 9-4
But sure, continue to bring up an 18-15 win in which you beat a backup QB with limited reps after concussing the starter early in the 2nd.
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@chrislr15r @MarkAGunnels But they have did not in the one chance they got, and they are so bad that winning on Christmas won't matter. Maybe the Royals will be good this year.......
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@MarkAGunnels Chiefs can easily despatch Pittsburgh and Denver . Haters better pray we miss playoffs
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This doesn't even look right. The NFL is better when the Chiefs are good.
Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
Heading into week 15:
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@ClayWendler Oh I wish this was really possible! KC in Denver in January!
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Fear not, Chiefs Kingdom. We can still make the playoffs!
Requirements:
1. Chiefs win out (10-7).
2. Chargers go 2-3 against the Eagles, Chiefs, Cowboys, Texans and Broncos (10-7).
3. Colts go 2-2 against the Seahawks, 49ers, Jaguars and Texans (10-7).
This gives the Chiefs the 7th seed via ESPN Playoff Predictor.
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@TrueFactsStated @nancyrubin Trump can't qualify to be any of these? Just a guess....
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Can anyone explain why the Trump administration wanted to do this?
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@KyleBrandt does make out Christmas happen in the Sears parking lot?
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@KyleBrandt that angry runs segment had me in tears. It truly is an amazing Thanksgiving #sawthatturduckin
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If you notice a successful principal, you should assume there is a faculty of rockstars making the magic happen in the school.
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@miles_commodore Sometimes we make sweeping generalizations with lack of proper evidence too....
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If you don't think we have a math crisis in America, just watch a 17 year old working as a cashier trying to make change when the register isn't working.
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@RepMTG Do you ever really think things through. Look at things beyond you MAGA lense! What other outcomes might come to fruition if California leaves the US? It goes beyond losing some democratic colleagues, Marj! Think about it and share your thoughts please.
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California Secretary of State has approved a campaign to gather signatures for a petition calling for a vote on if California should secede from the U.S. and become an independent country.
Go ahead.
That would mean 43 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives would be GONE, giving House Republicans a HUGE majority!
And 2 California Democrat U.S. Senators would be GONE making the Republican Senate majority STRONGER.
AND if California secedes, the next Democrat presidential candidate would lose California’s 54 electoral college votes.
California TDS patients could lead to their own demise.
I’m here for it. FAFO.
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For the sake of rooting for a team worth rooting for...GO BILLS!
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@Broncos I speak for everyone when I say the Bengals deserved the 7 seed
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@liz_churchill10 The shots did not affect me but my dog of 10 years died. Coincidence? I think not! Jail em'
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