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@atrupar The self-aggrandizing is exhausting.

Trump: "I would've won Vietnam very quickly if I were president. Look at Venezuela. I took it over in 45 minutes."

@mmpadellan This makes me cry. Not only because of the compassion Biden has for his fellow humans & the fact that he never shied away from expressing it, but also for the lack of humanity we have with the current President. I feel like I’m mourning a lack of decency by those representing us.

Every once in a while, I like to watch this video clip of Joe Biden comforting a grieving Parkland family to remind myself what compassionate leadership looks like. This is the stuff I truly miss.

@stengel But it’s so much more fun to continuously bitch for 6 years that an election was stolen. 🙄

For all his authoritarian tendencies, in the end Orban did the right thing: he conceded the election, did not make phony accusations of fraud, and called his opponent to congratulate him. That's the lesson American conservatives should take from Viktor Orban.

@SussexHenryVIII Yes, because they quietly did the job they were elected to do. There wasn’t a need to be in everyone’s faces multiple times a day patting themselves on the back and insulting everyone they didn’t like.

People under 30 might not remember that we could go weeks without hearing from or thinking about the President of the United States.

@RonFilipkowski He’s such an embarrassment.

Trump says MAGA should boycott Bruce Springsteen concerts.

@mmpadellan I love this for him.

🚨HUGE BREAKING: A JUDGE HAS TEMPORARILY BLOCKED CONSTRUCTION ON TRUMP'S IDIOTIC BALLROOM, HAHAHAHAHAHA

@MalikAlyza You do nothing. You sit in silent thankfulness that the cat chose you. And according to the cat rules you cannot move until the cat decides to get up and free you.

Help.. I’m cat-sitting and it’s my first time having a cat sit on me. What do I do?

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

@AJamesMcCarthy I knew it! 😆

Update: Trap

Even my cat Winkie loved the halftime show. ♥️ #BadBunny #SuperBowl

@RonFilipkowski You mean “staffer”.

When Leavitt was asked about it, she defended it & said there was nothing wrong with it. Now after huge backlash they took it down & are blaming a staffer. Because it’s always the staffers & advisors, never Trump himself. Even when it’s up on his personal account for 12 hours.

@Sec_Noem The fact that you can lie so effortlessly when the video footage directly contradicts what you are saying is terrifying. How do you sleep at night?

Today, DHS law enforcement was conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault. During the operation, an individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. This violence is directly fueled by hateful rhetoric from Minnesota's sanctuary politicians. It must end now.

I’d love to share a little positivity in this crazy world today. @FiveGuys you should know that Big Mike in your Springfield, NJ location is an absolute delight. Ray of positivity, smiling from ear to ear, reactive to customer needs. Please let him know he’s doing an amazing job.

@Freedom_NowTV @MattWalshBlog This was my thought. It happened so fast & if she wasn’t looking, didn’t realize there was a stabbing. There wasn’t blood initially & the poor girl just sat stunned at first with her hands at her mouth. I haven’t seen a video that shows the whole reaction from that woman though.

@MattWalshBlog She didn’t see what happened but then sees the knife in the hand of the guy who is still roaming back and forth. I think it is very normal to want to get the fuck out of there. The injury was not clear either, still baffling how it becomes a catastrophic bleed

I watched the full video of the train attack. It's very clear that all of the people immediately around Iryna did not intervene and did not make any attempt to help her or give her any aid or comfort. She bled out on the floor of a crowded train and died alone while everyone watched or pretended they didn't notice. People mill around, walking by casually while she takes her final breaths. Nearly two minutes after the attack one man comes over to try and help. Everyone else just stands and watches. A short time later another woman, and then another man. Those three should be commended. The rest of the people on that train should be plagued with shame and guilt for the rest of their lives. But I doubt they'll ever give it a second thought.

@Acyn So basically they are just going to make it harder for anyone to get the vaccines they want. Now instead of going straight to the pharmacy, I have to pay a $120 bill to see my doctor first. 🙄

RFK JR: Anyone who wants a vaccine, can get a vaccine. There is no change that we are going to make that’s going to take away people’s vaccines if they want them.

@SecKennedy So now instead of getting a free vaccine, I have to pay $120 out of pocket for an office visit w/ my doctor b/c I’m not at my health insurance deductible yet so they can authorize it, making it harder for sick people who need to see the doctor to get appointments. Got it.

I promised 4 things: 1. to end covid vaccine mandates. 2. to keep vaccines available to people who want them, especially the vulnerable. 3. to demand placebo-controlled trials from companies. 4. to end the emergency. In a series of FDA actions today we accomplished all four goals. The emergency use authorizations for Covid vaccines, once used to justify broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration, are now rescinded. FDA has now issued marketing authorization for those at higher risk: Moderna (6+ months), Pfizer (5+), and Novavax (12+). These vaccines are available for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors. The American people demanded science, safety, and common sense. This framework delivers all three. Thank you @DrMakaryFDA for your leadership.

@JoJoFromJerz My favorite part was when he chuckled at what he was saying and was met with complete silence because nobody laughed with him.

Trumpian word salad for “nothing was accomplished here.”

@queenofthesou1 Congratulations to you on 48 days. Every day should be something for you to celebrate, whether it’s day 1 or 10,001. Ignore that person, what a terrible thing to say. You’ve got this!

I just deleted my post about how many sober days I had under my belt. The last time I did that, some woman said, "Come back when you've done 3 years." I shouldn't let people like that bother me, but it did hurt my feelings a bit. So, yeah. For anyone who cares, it's 48 days.

@JoJoFromJerz Epic levels of wasted breath with all the nonsense he continuously spews.

He’s so epically fucking stupid sometimes it’s actually hard to believe just how fucking stupid he is.

@RonFilipkowski How unbelievingly pathetic and embarrassing. No president has ever behaved like this. 🤢

Here he is, folks. The President of the United States selling his new men’s cologne for $199 and women’s perfume for $249.