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@beetle6000 @Microinteracti1 Citation please?

@Microinteracti1 Did you know that 2 of the Saudi’s that flew into the World Trade Center rented an apartment from a CIA operative and Mueller kept this information from Americans? He was not a good and honest guy after his service in the military.

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

@MrPitbull07 They start at 5 and is done before noon? Not even 8 hrs, especially if he is taking a lunch.

"My name's Glen. I'm 67. I drive a garbage truck. Route 23, residential. I start at 5 a.m., finish by noon. People put trash on the curb, I take it away. Nobody sees me. I'm just the garbage man. But eight months ago, I noticed something strange at 447 Maple Street. Every week, same house, trash can barely had anything. Just a few items. But recycling was overflowing, empty soup cans, cracker boxes, pasta containers. All the cheapest brands. Then one week, I saw something that stopped me cold. In the trash, a kid's birthday invitation. Unopened. It said, "Ethan's 8th Birthday Party, Please Come!" The party was that weekend. The invitation had been thrown away. Something felt wrong. Next pickup, I looked closer. The house was dark, curtains closed. Lawn overgrown. Car in the driveway hadn't moved in weeks. I did something I'd never done, I knocked. A woman answered. Maybe 40, but looked 60. Thin, exhausted, dark circles under her eyes. "Ma'am, I'm Glen, your garbage collector. I noticed... are you folks okay?" She stared at me like I'd asked in a foreign language. "Why would you care?" "Because something doesn't feel right." She started crying right there in the doorway. "My husband left four months ago. I'm working three jobs to keep the house. My son Ethan, he's eight, he doesn't understand why we can't afford his medicine anymore, why his friends stopped coming over, why I'm never home." "The birthday party invitation" "I can't afford a present for another kid. Can't reciprocate. So I don't let him go. He sits in his room alone while I work nights." My heart broke into pieces. "Ma'am, what's your name?" "Jennifer." "Jennifer, when's Ethan's birthday?" "Two weeks. But we're not celebrating. I can't afford" "Leave that to me." I did something crazy. Went to every house on my route that week. Knocked on doors. "Hey, I'm Glen, your garbage guy. There's a kid on our street who needs help." Told them about Ethan. Didn't use his address, protected privacy. Just said, single mom, struggling, kid's birthday coming, could use support. People showed up. A neighbor donated a bike. Another gave $50. Someone offered to mow Jennifer's lawn free all summer. A retired teacher offered free tutoring for Ethan. I collected $340 and enough birthday supplies for a real party. Showed up at Jennifer's house with everything. She opened the door, saw me standing there with a bike, presents, decorations. She collapsed on the porch, sobbing so hard she couldn't breathe. "Why? You're the garbage man. Why do you even care?" "Because I see your life every week in what you throw away. And this week, I saw you throw away your son's childhood." We threw Ethan a birthday party in her backyard. Twelve neighbors came, people from the street who'd never met. They brought food, games, gifts. Ethan's face, pure joy. He kept asking his mom, "Is this real?" But here's what broke me, watching Jennifer talk to her neighbors for the first time in months. Finding out the woman three doors down was also a single mom, also struggling. Them exchanging numbers, planning to help each other. One birthday party rebuilt an entire street's sense of community. Six months later, Jennifer got a better job. Ethan's doing better in school. But more than that, that street looks after each other now. They started a "Route 23 Neighbors" group. Share meals, swap childcare, help with repairs. All because I knocked on a door after seeing too many soup cans in the recycling. Last week, Ethan flagged down my truck. Handed me a drawing, a garbage truck with a superhero cape. "Mr. Glen, you're my hero. You saw us when we were invisible." I'm 67. I collect garbage for the city. But I learned this- What people throw away tells their whole story. Empty medicine bottles. Unopened invitations. The cheapest food in bulk. Letters from debt collectors. Their trash is a cry for help nobody hears.

@1CrazyDane @mandylu @RpsAgainstTrump Is it fear, or exploitation?

@mandylu @RpsAgainstTrump To please him. It's the craziest thing. This is how feared Donald Trump is.

In one of the most pathetic and humiliating moments in history, Trump just received the new inaugural FIFA Peace Prize. They literally invented a “peace prize” to keep him happy after he didn’t receive the actual Nobel Peace Prize. Beyond parody

@SJohn_1974 @GavinNewsom You are confusing an application to request a mail-in ballot, with an actual ballot. Applications for mail-in ballots are used by both parties. Once you have applied you can request to be mailed a ballot regularly.

@GavinNewsom He’s registered in Florida stupid. Florida to get a mail in you have to actually require the ballot to be sent to your residency via real ID and real signature, not the fraud mass mailings where you just mail it to anybody without consent or ID,etc…

This you?

@FrankValchiria @shaunmmaguire Citation please.

@shaunmmaguire the same indigenous people that slaughtered and raped one another for centuries, you mean that indigenous people?

“I hope you seek to dismantle the United States” This woman, Melanie Yazzie, is a professor at the University of Minnesota The radicalization tumor is metastasizing

@Ric36752Richard @shaunmmaguire @AdeleIsla Anti-Democracy is the enemy of our Republic, we once fought wars over it.

@Bernadette05098 @Ric36752Richard @shaunmmaguire @AdeleIsla It’s the term Trump uses to stir those that cannot think for themselves. Similar to Rush Limbaugh’s “Ditto Head”. Do the Trump cult members really think about what the Icons they choose to follow really think about them? It’s amusing to us who do.

@Ric36752Richard @shaunmmaguire @AdeleIsla What is antisemite exactly?

@Ric36752Richard @shaunmmaguire @AdeleIsla Interesting? She is native, and you are? Yet you seem to think you have some superiority in what America should be. Irony??

@shaunmmaguire As a Native American this was her country well before yours. If I were she, I probably wish they built the wall long before now.

@Don03Smith @atensnut Exactly, she is likely part of the Trump digital group that floods digital media with this stuff. When I see this, I realize there is a very concerning agenda behind it. People of color that supported Trump, are going to be as disappointed as the Palestinians that voted for him.

Horrific. This has to stop!!

@PeterWa34132791 @delinthecity_ @DonaldJTrumpJr Finally, someone sees Trump for what he is, this is what the rest of us have been saying all along

@delinthecity_ @DonaldJTrumpJr I,m in tears 😥 Bloody disrespect full f*cking dirty Child Abusing , forcing young girls in prostitution , inhumane sick cyka,s you all are 👿💩 To put it mildly 🤓

Watch every single video in this thread. This is pure evil.

@delinthecity_ @DonaldJTrumpJr Warning: Russian propaganda, trying to change the narrative of who actually started the Russian/Ukraine war. You can find any clip on the internet, and add your own narrative. How does “DEL” know what is going on in this clip?

@DonaldJTrumpJr All of these people who stand with Ukraine and have Ukraine flags 🇺🇦 in their bios on social media will never actually fly to Ukraine and stand on the front lines of their war. This is the crazy BS they are standing for.

@MZHemingway You may suggest this was a planned attack by Zelenskyy, that ignores that Trump knew it was televised, unlike Lavrov meetings that are often not televised. Furthermore, Trump wouldn’t have allowed Vance to speak out like he did, unless Trump and team had rehearsed it in advance.

Yesterday, Susan Rice said of the Trump-Zelensky meeting, "There is no question this was a set up." She revealed full knowledge of the mineral agreement, complained that it didn't include "concrete" security agrees (meaning, apparently, commitment of US troops on the ground if conditions merit), and then mischaracterized Trump's behavior, counting on most Americans to not have watched what transpired over the entire hour in the Oval Office. You can look at this and dismiss it as typical Democrat talking points, but you could also view it as almost a confession, one that includes details about the current "Get Trump" effort. Yes, Trump won the popular vote against unbelievable odds, but if you think Team Obama is being any less involved in quiet insurrections than they were during the first Trump administration (Russia collusion, Ukraine impeachment, etc.), you're clueless. I'll remind you that Susan Rice was in the small Jan. 5, 2017 meeting in the WH with other key Russia collusion hoax perpetrators. Zelensky repeatedly declined opportunities to sign the deal in Kyiv and Munich, and requested the meeting at the White House. It later came out that Rice and Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and Alexander Vindman may have been personally advising Zelensky to do this meeting in the way he did -- that they recommended him to be hostile and to try to goad Trump into blowing up. Even though he didn't, and even though Zelensky's actions horrified many normal Americans, the Obama team went on the airwaves to falsely characterize what happened. I think their goal was to have a wonderful performance by Zelensky, an angry Trump appearing to scuttle the deal, and the support of the neocon portion of the GOP to start applying pressure on Trump to have US Troop commitments as part of the "security guarantee." It was a set-up, in Susan Rice's interesting choice of words. Instead, Zelensky had one of the worst stage performances of his acting career, and Trump was statesmanlike (against all odds) throughout. Zelensky followed Team Obama's advice to be hostile to a tee, but it didn't land how they thought it would. Surprisingly, one of the most important aspects of it not working out might have been Lindsay Graham's reaction. Had he and other neocons thought Zelensky was being reasonable, Trump would be having to fight (even moreso) the neocon portion of the GOP in addition to Team Obama's dirty tricks. Even the "conservative" neocon pundits on TV last night were admitting Zelensky had royally messed up. As you can see from the hostility of the bureaucracy to any Republican oversight, no matter how reasonable or minor it may be, the entrenched bureaucracy and permanent DC apparatus is quite active. That goes quadruple for the deep state in the Intelligence Community. I'd expect more and more shenanigans and to be prepared so that you don't fall for the next information operation. The post-WWII architecture in Europe and the US needs this war to continue or be settled on "US troops on the ground" type guarantees, even though that's not what Americans want. Things will heat up here, and it's a very dangerous time.

@therealZNO @RonFilipkowski I’m sorry you don’t understand. The very makeup of Europe is riding on this war. We fought many wars to rid countries of the very thing Trump is promoting in Putin

@RonFilipkowski What’s disgusting is the hundreds of billions of unearned American taxpayer dollars that went to a foreign country over a failed war that doesn’t concern us.

This is absolutely disgusting. I’m embarrassed to be an American. Revolting.

@AttentionAaron @RonFilipkowski I’m proud to be an American. That is why I want to preserve it, and why I am gravely concerned about the Russian agents that have invaded our country’s government. We have fought more than one war against the very forces that you are supporting.

Revoke your citizenship then. 1. Regardless of who's in charge, what should make you proud to be an American is the constitution and philosophy you support, not the conduct of leaders, and 2. Grilling someone who's been given billions and billions of dollras in aid is totally fair (we "don't like billionaires" right? Zelensky's been given more than Trump's ever been worth.

@darren_mmmm @rustbeltmaga @RonFilipkowski You are absolutely correct. Trump is working on changing the narrative of the cause of the Ukraine War. This whole thing was rehearsed well before we saw it. Helsinki was enough to convince me, Trump is not our President, he is Putin’s toy.

@rustbeltmaga @RonFilipkowski Zelinskyy didn't invite the media to the meeting. That was all an orchestrated trump show.

@slimJim62583411 @rustbeltmaga @RonFilipkowski He was referencing the eventual fall of Europe once Russia invades them after marching through Ukraine. Although, what has transpired this week, I am no longer certain we are any longer allies with Europe.

@rustbeltmaga @RonFilipkowski You are joking? Right? You can’t be serious?

@RonFilipkowski No, Zelinsky tried to go over Trump's head straight to the media right in front of Trump. He got called out on it by Vance and then went into defensive mode instead of being conciliatory. Zelinsky is the one who played this very, very wrong.

@rustbeltmaga @coyotecreek158 @RonFilipkowski Please provide reliable sourced evidence to support your post

@coyotecreek158 @RonFilipkowski You think Liz Cheney speaks for anyone other than Kinzinger? HAHAHAHAHAHA!

@RonFilipkowski This meeting was an obvious setup, I wonder how long Trump and Vance rehearsed this. It’s extremely concerning to have so many in the Trump administration bowing to Putin. I fear for the future of our country, and who will save us.