Lou Kropf

@BaseballAmerica What about Daniel Jackson UGA catcher

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@sec_d1baseball @MarvTraining @BaseballUGA @RazorbackBSB @AuburnBaseball @TexasBaseball @OU_Baseball @AlabamaBSB @Vol_Baseball You got it right with Jackson

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@GeraldoRivera WTF that's not what the report said. TACKY - is that a synonym for despicable? Stop your bullshit covering for the worst thing to have ever happened to our country. Trump needs to be Impeached Indicted Imprisoned

Robert Mueller's probe of Trump's non-existent ties to Russia was unfair. Trump got the last word. When told Mueller died Trump cracked, "Good, I'm glad he's dead." TACKY FYI Former FBI Director Mueller was a Marine Vietnam hero awarded the Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for service to our country.

@Microinteracti1 Well done and deserving of forwarding to as many people I can think of.... Thank you!

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

@wyatthenseler Wyatt watching the UGA game & great job - we're personal friends with the Jackson's & live in Atlanta and wanted to mention I grew up in Allentown & my boys played at Vandy and Harvard and with the Tigers You had a great career at Penn & A&M... Good luck... Lou Kropf, Marietta GA

Beautiful day for some baseball w/ Will Johnson!

@JonRothstein I watched Spanarkle in the late 70's (before Coach K) while at Duke & he was a great player & what a great team with Mike Gminski, Gene Banks, Kenny Dennard and Bob Bender. He's an equally great commentator!

One of the elite play-by-play guys in the history of sports TV. A polished color analyst with nearly 30 years of NCAA Tournament experience. And a guy who firmly believes that Tom Cruise’s best role was as Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men.

@laurenboebert Time for you to sit down & resign Why don't you begin by stating Hegseth spent the first 10 minutes of a presser bemoaning press coverage and not talking about the fallen service members Start there You're hypocritical and a "convenient" patriot like all Trump lackeys

Last night at the Oscars, Hollywood celebrities gave shoutouts to “Free Palestine” while using the stage for political activism. Meanwhile, the brave Americans who recently gave their lives serving this country weren’t mentioned at all. Hollywood doesn’t reflect real America.

@EricLDaugh You fucking ass kissers supporting not just the worst president in our history but one of the worst individuals to ever walk the planet. Do we need to look any further than Trump’s disgraceful appearance at the dignified transfer of our fallen service members yesterday.

🚨 SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: "You see this hat? Free Cuba. Stay tuned! The liberation of Cuba is upon us...we’re marching through the world, cleaning out the bad guys...Trump's the greatest Commander-in-Chief of all time...Iran is going down and Cuba is NEXT!"

@RepMikeCollins Trump has not done a thing to help this country He's fucked up the economy with his insane tariff bullshit, killed Americans with his DHS policies & how about this one - what has he done to move the US up the world's educational ladder? Not a thing but he is disbanding the DOE

The American Dream is back. The Working Families Tax Cut is creating an affordable future.

@PressSec Trump has not done a thing to help this country He's fucked up the economy with his insane tariff bullshit - killed Americans with his DHS policies & how about this one - what has he done to move the US up the world's educational ladder? Not a thing but he is disbanding the DOE

America Last.

@tedcruz He has not done a thing to help this country He's fucked up the economy with his insane tariff bullshit He's killed Americans with his DHS policies & how about this one - what has he done to move the US up the world's educational ladder? Not a thing but he is disbanding the DOE

Our families are safer and our citizens are more prosperous. President Trump is keeping his promises.

@WriteThomasGill @tedcruz He has not done a thing to help this country

@tedcruz I wish Trump would by 60 second Network commercial time on all four stations and list his accomplishments. Everything they won’t talk about.

@Richard60225391 @SSWorks The other thing that jumps off the page of your posts & reposts Richie is just like the fucking felon in the WH you're a fucking bully You hide on the internet and make cowardly comments about people unlike you and snicker watching similar dipshits "like" your disgusting BS

@KropfLou @SSWorks Triggered, stop feeling sorry for yourself and get to work!

He's bragging about starving millions of Americans.

@Richard60225391 @SSWorks Hey Richie I read your previous bullshit and you're just what our country doesn't need An uneducated, underperforming, narrow minded, bigoted fucking racist And guess what Richie, by the year 2045 you'll be in the minority and the subject of the same bullshit you post & repost!

@Richard60225391 @SSWorks Fuck you asshole and what's a generational person? My mom died in public housing. She was on stamps, yes. So what you bigoted POS? And how about you STFU you racist fuck. You are another fucking right wing pussy hiding on the internet!

@KropfLou @SSWorks You sound like a generational person that’s on snap, welfare, i’ve seen people driving Cadillacs beautiful SUVs pay for their groceries on welfare. Get the fuck out of here.

@Richard60225391 @SSWorks Stop your unsubstantiated bullshit and try speaking facts. Fact: most SNAP recipients DO work but are not making enough to make ends meet and use the benefits afforded to them. You're repeating age old right wing I'm a big prick bullshit so STFU!

@SSWorks No one is starving, but people really do need to work for themselves and get off welfare

@SSWorks Yes and the shitheads behind him applauded like this was an earth shaking accomplishment. These assholes will face the music in the not too distant future and forever be remembered on the wrong side of history!

@AnnCoulter Who's a fucking tool?

@AnnCoulter Representative Al Green hero of the night

That beautiful ending to Trump's SOTU address reminds me why we can't have a second-, third-, or fourth- generation immigrant as president. Love for our country has to be in your genes.

@KariLake @RapidResponse47 How about facts - Trump’s approval ratings are at 36%

They attack him because they fear him. They smear him because they can’t control him. The Swamp in D.C. fumes. The media melts down. America sees the results — and America loves him. 🇺🇸

@cardinal18491 @libsoftiktok Representative Al Green hero of the night

@libsoftiktok Decorum from the Left is getting harder to find.

Democrat Rep. Al Green REMOVED from Trump's State of the Union Address by security after displaying a sign saying "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES." This guy is a lunatic.