Lance Fleming
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Lance Fleming
@flemingl17
Husband to a beautiful wife & father to 3 beautiful children. Thankful for the grace of God. Thoughts & opinions posted on this page are mine, not my employer.
Abilene, Texas Katılım Haziran 2009
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"If North Carolina didn't have that logo, I'm not sure we'd be talking about them as a blue blood. ... I can make a case that they're not a top 5 current, relevant team in college basketball."
—@RealJayWilliams on UNC men's basketball 👀
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@andrewclune24 @FirstTake @RealJayWilliams You mean since it played for the national title in 2022? Or went to the Sweet Sixteen in 2024?
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@FirstTake @RealJayWilliams UNC hasn’t been relevant in college basketball for a long time.
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@LiefHammond @kennerly @janekleeb @Liz_Cheney @KerryKennedyRFK @mikebarnicle @kathleenparker @AdamKinzinger @gtconway3d @NormOrnstein @JohnJHarwood @BeschlossDC @SykesCharlie @ImprovAmbassadr @ccwhip You’re the person he was writing about.
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@kennerly @janekleeb @Liz_Cheney @KerryKennedyRFK @mikebarnicle @kathleenparker @AdamKinzinger @gtconway3d @NormOrnstein @JohnJHarwood @BeschlossDC @SykesCharlie @ImprovAmbassadr @ccwhip Right up until about 40 years ago when he corrupted himself and just continued From there
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This is an extraordinary piece of writing. I started reading it and couldn’t stop, and neither should you. @Liz_Cheney @KerryKennedyRFK @mikebarnicle @kathleenparker @AdamKinzinger @gtconway3d @NormOrnstein @JohnJHarwood @BeschlossDC @SykesCharlie @ImprovAmbassadr @ccwhip
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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@MichelleMaxwell @Mach2222 He IS the deep state and the swamp, all rolled into one. You’re just too much a part of the cult to see it. He is an abhorrent human being, a horrible president and one of the worst people ever to hold a position of leadership.
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@Mach2222 wake the f up he is not only saving America for your grandbabies but demolishing the deep state around the world that has been plotting America’s demise. Time for you to do a little research.
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I am more than happy to pay more for gas for a brief period if it means President Trump realigns the world for the better. Anyone else feel this way?
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@WhiteHouse Straight up lies. Republicans control every part of the federal government. The Democrats have offered you 9 separate standalone bills that would fully fund TSA, but you guys have refused to vote for it because you have all the power.
Stop passing blame.
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@dallasmavs While y'all were there laughing it up in the middle of a terrible season, our guy @lukadoncic was dropping 60 on the Heat, one night after going for a 40-burger. And Finley - complicit in the trade - wants to be the GM? No, thank you.
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@NBA__Courtside @FirstTake Why wasn't he a top candidate for league MVP in a Mavericks uniform? Ridiculous statement.
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Stephen A Smith on Luka MVP chances:
“I’m ashamed I haven’t brought up Luka for league MVP considerations sooner than this morning. That ends now. That gets corrected…. Luka Doncic in a Lakers uniform is a top candidate for league MVP”
(Via @FirstTake)
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@UCantBThatDumb @_iamlougotti @MLB Never heard of Ohtani? Just a scrub who plays in LA, who might end up as the greatest player ever when he’s done.
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@_iamlougotti @MLB If you don’t say Skenes and Witt you don’t know ball, doesn’t matter who your team is.
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@All_Things_Mavs Complicit in the worst trade in NBA history. Hard pass.
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How would you feel about Finley being the full-time GM?
Noah Weber@noahweber00
Michael Finley on why he feels ready to potentially take the jump to be the Mavericks’ GM: “I think I am Dallas. I’m everything Dallas is about. I played here, through the good times and the bad times, and as a fan of the Mavericks, I know what it takes and I know what the fans are looking for. So I would love to have the chance to lead this franchise into the future and to ultimately championship contenders.”
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@td_nash LT is the greatest defensive player of all time, and maybe the greatest FOOTBALL player of all time. He is still the most unstoppable force in NFL history. There is no comparison between the two, and anyone who thinks there is obviously never saw LT play.
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@dallasmavs Go ask someone in the front office if all those complicit in the @lukadoncic trade would be willing to pose in clown suits. Somehow the trade looks even worse now than it did 14 months ago.
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@noahweber00 Complicit in the worst trade in NBA history. Hard pass.
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Michael Finley on why he feels ready to potentially take the jump to be the Mavericks’ GM:
“I think I am Dallas. I’m everything Dallas is about. I played here, through the good times and the bad times, and as a fan of the Mavericks, I know what it takes and I know what the fans are looking for. So I would love to have the chance to lead this franchise into the future and to ultimately championship contenders.”
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@AP Trumps gets his own NIL deal. How much are we paying him to put his criminal face on a commemorative coin?
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BREAKING: Arts commission clears the way for U.S. Mint to produce President Trump commemorative gold coin to mark America's 250th anniversary. apnews.com/article/trump-…
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@clearlyNcontrol @ReddCinema Idiotic. You really think Magic doesn't belong in that group? You clearly never saw him play.
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@ReddCinema Wade, and it's not particularly close. Have never understood why people think so highly of him, yet ignore a guy like Dirk, who has the hardest-fought ring of the last 30 years.
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@FBGreatMoments Ronnie Lott, Jack Tatum, Ed Reed, Steve Atwater, John Lynch, Sean Taylor, Troy Polamalu, Darren Woodson, Cliff Harris, Brian Dawkins, Kam Chancellor, Roy Williams, Scott Case, Chuck Cecil, Bennie Blades, Mel Blount.
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Name a defensive back who could hit like a linebacker.
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@CBB_RunThePoint @SFA_MBB @SouthlandSports This team might have had something to say about it. Defending conference champs in a semi-rebuilding year. Winners of 9 straight going into the tournament. Lost by 5 to SFA a couple of weeks before Katy. Don't know if we would have won, but it would haven't been a helluva battle.
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Maybe my biggest "what if" in NCAA history. After this game at Rutgers, @SFA_MBB won at Duke...and then finished as @SouthlandSports Champions at 28-3. Only for COVID to end the season before the conference tournament.
This squad was built for a DEEP tourney run. #AxeEm
Mid-Major Tapes 🔥@midmajortapes
Man I miss 2019 Kevon Harris...
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@NamethatYank You are not wrong. If anyone is going to be the captain of that team, it's Skenes.
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The only guy that is free of blame from this entire USA team in the WBC tournament is Paul Skenes. Am I wrong?
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@iztok_franko Lakers fans better get ready. When this demon gets on a heater, it's special and fun to watch.
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Maybe Nico was right...Luka is an unlikable psycho
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