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@lady_valor_07 A burn.

What do you call this where your from?

@PeterHRatcliffe I am so sorry for your loss Peter. I can’t even begin to imagine such a loss.

Today is our son’s 41st birthday. He died in a firefighter training accident at age 20. In early grief, anniversaries are pits of despair we fall into. We have filled those pits with joyous memories of a short life well lived and most loved. We don’t fall, we pause to remember

@Jeremyrand101 @KathrynMathias1 Wow! Well done! He’s magnificent.

i can die happy now. my first ever canadian lynx

@UnitedCanucks26 If they are working then they should have some sort of clearance surely? You can’t just walk into our country without a reason. And they must have a departure date too.

Do you agree that Ice agents should be banned from entering Canada? 🇨🇦 answer: Yes or No

@SarahLongwell25 I feel so badly for the millions of Americans who didn’t vote for this sociopath, but have to live with the consequences of his putrid presidency every day. Being your neighbour is too close to his vile presence.

This, like the vile bleat he posted after Rob Reiner and his wife’s murder, like the thousand preceding data points of moral turpitude, is such a sad commentary on what many Americans are willing to tolerate. It corrodes us all.

@Microinteracti1 Beautifully written, but I contend that only America could have given Trump life. The cruel and the carpetbaggers found a blank canvas for their greed and mercenary ways, and planted them so deep there’s little room for a caring social democracy.

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

@bruceanderson Hopefully one day we can get some insight as to why millions of Americans voted for him. What redeeming qualities did they see in him, not once, but twice!

Such a dismal human being, this Trump. Not an ounce of good in him.

@always_vote @HeathMayo @SykesCharlie I was disagreeing in that Trump is not the only disfiguring scar on the nation. He had millions of accomplices who elected him.

@Elizabethcanuck @HeathMayo @SykesCharlie does that excuse his deplorable sadistic behaviour? It just proves he has a lot of money behind him and probably foreign entities. Plus they didn't vote for the platform he is executing presently. Far from it. And they were ignorant of much of the stuff that is being revealed now

What a sick human being. A permanent disfiguring scar on the dignity of our nation.

@JeffStorobinsky @atrupar Ha! You’re not serious are you? I don’t believe anyone has seen how low that narcissistic sociopath can go.

A new low has been reached

@oelma__ @drcarolf Freedom, well-being and safety.

What..

@JonLemire @speechboy71 And to think millions of Americans voted for him. I won’t be around, but I wish I could read the historical record of the Trump presidency, and insight into nation’s psyche that resulted in his two terms in office. Once wasn’t enough for the country.

President Donald Trump cheering the death of Robert Mueller - an American citizen, public servant and veteran

@JeffreyLuscombe @Jason___YYC I used to go to the US several times a month, and take flights internally. Haven’t crossed the US border in a few years. I can just imagine the stress this current situation would cause me if I was there for my work.

Canadians who choose to go down into this deserve long lines and headaches 😆🤷🏻‍♂️🇨🇦

@mmpadellan Does any sensible American believe that Trump gives a you know what about any of you?

Good morning and Happy Saturday to everyone who agrees that it is obscene for trump to be partying in the lap of Mar a Lago luxury as he deploys thousands more servicemen and women to his war of choice in Iran. Absolutely disgusting.

@CraigBaird Hey! It’s his bed too!

Washed all my bedding today, and within 10 seconds of making my bed Berton was up there.

@AliVelshi Have so enjoyed tuning in to your shows on the weekend Ali. I must admit I do find US news rather depressing, but like to stay informed. Good luck in new time slot.

@joncoopertweets @Rob16921 Conservative Americans will go to the ends of the earth to pay as little taxes as possible, but think nothing of Trump jetting off to Florida every weekend to golf.

Wow! Trump really is looking old, tired and disheveled — he can barely make it down the steps of Air Force One!

@StellarArtoisGB Is this ai? No city will allow random construction on the streets.

How about this for an act of kindness. So sweet 😂🤣

@Martina @MediaWeasel And her children were obviously ok with it.

Ouch. And true. Truly unreal where Ivana Trump was buried- no way this was her wish, no way