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@Amy_Siskind @sscheaf You are a good person.

I had an experience today that I haven't been able to shake. I was waiting in line at Walgreens behind an elderly woman who was trying to decide between different sized bags of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (what she could afford). She was rummaging around her bag looking for coupons or credits. She said her nephew was coming to visit from Virginia, and they didn't have these there, and he loved them. I asked her if I could please pay, she accepted and slowly starting walking out with the help of the Walgreens cart for support. After I paid, I asked her if I could help her to her car, and she shared that her nephew was coming up to see her before he got deployed to the Middle East. He is in the navy. She wanted to give him his favorite treat before he left. She is of course worried. This broke my heart. All of it. The inequity. Who we send off to wars. And who, in this case, is sending them. We have a 5x draft dodger making these decisions. He is unbridled, undisciplined and a know it all.Today the news is likely that he will use ground troops - for what? What are they giving their lives for? This woman's nephew, and so many sons and daughters might never come home. Please remember the human side of what is happening. I can't shake this interaction.

If you are 60, understand this. Life is no longer about proving anything to the world, it is about making peace with yourself. The years of chasing, building, and correcting have already shaped you into who you are. Now is the time to slow down internally, even if life is still moving around you. At this stage, you must begin to release. Release the regrets that no longer serve you, release the pressure to impress people who never truly mattered, release the silent competition with people younger than you. There is nothing left to prove, only things left to understand. This is the age where wisdom should replace noise. You begin to see life for what it truly is, not what you once thought it should be. Your greatest asset now is not your strength, but your clarity. And your greatest wealth is not how much more you can earn, but how well you can live with what you already have. At 60, protect your peace like it is your last currency. Because time is no longer something you spend carelessly, it is something you begin to respect deeply.

NEVER FORGET: VP JD Vance CALLED Social Security and Medicare “the biggest roadblocks to real fiscal sanity.” WE PAID FOR THEM! MY LIFE DEPENDS ON BOTH OF THESE PROGRAMS. Reply with 💙 if YOU AGREE & are voting BLUE in November! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

@contextpinit And going at the box w a knife

Replacing it with a new one

@WorkElizab Nope

My husband made this and put it in our living room. I said it doesn't look nice, but he said it looks great. I'd love to hear your opinions! Thaanks

@TheStingisBack @millj919 I did not realize Kristie Gnome was acting in the early 60’s.

William Shatner is 95 today! Bill’s Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (1963) remains one of TV’s most iconic moments. Shatner captures sheer terror and unravelling paranoia locked in a metal tube miles high, seeing something no one believes. Just brilliant.

@atrupar @sscheaf I want to just wipe that smirk off his face.

WELKER: Would the administration ever raise taxes in order to fund this war? BESSENT: Again, Kristen, terrible framing WELKER: It's a simple question BESSENT: It's a ridiculous question WELKER: Can you answer it? BESSENT: Why would we do that? We have plenty. We have a trillion dollars.

@atrupar @WildWestShow4 God I wish I could talk to these assholes. What has befallen the trump family besides more riches????

WELKER: Do you think it's appropriate for the president to celebrate the death of a Bronze Star, Purple Heart recipient who served in Vietnam? BESSENT: Neither one of us can understand what has been done to the president and his family WELKER: But is it appropriate for the president to celebrate the death of any American citizen? BESSENT: Give what has been done to President Trump and his family, it is impossible for either of us to understand what he's been through WELKER: So you don't think there's anything wrong with a post saying, 'Good. Robert Mueller's dead'? BESSENT: We should have empathy for what's been done to the president and his family

@atrupar Omg FO. “Frequently and often”. You are an idiot. Hope your soul was a good trade.

Sean Duffy: "I think we have to offer the president grace. We know the president cares about the economy, gas prices for the American people, he's talked about that frequently and often. He also cares about peace. A lot of people don't give him credit for that. He's proud of the conflicts that he resolves."

@BJn1717 @krassenstein A very un-funny joke.

@krassenstein It’s a joke that Trump is not being removed.

I have a really bad feeling about this week after talking to some people. I hope I'm wrong.

Happy World Down Syndrome Day! This child, with an extra chromosome, is valuable and worthy of life.

@Acyn What a stupid non- answer.

Question: I'm a waiter at a local restaurant in Queens, a full time college student who sleeps an average of four hours a night and is still thousands in debt. How is a war in a country half the world away funded by the taxes pulled from my check, helping me in any way?

@ButlerLonney @Microinteracti1 @y_shurly I’ve said this isn’t trump’s doing. He’s the pawn. What he did do, however, was roll aside the rock that covered the portal to hell.

Has it fallen? Or is it just that the racists, homophobes, misogynists and hateful finally have a voice? It's always been there waiting to be released. Trump just gave the worst of us a voice. It wasn't for jobs or a better economy or "making America great again" that made them vote for him. Trump opened Pandora's box. Not by accident. By design. No different than Hitler or Mussolini. They tapped what has already been there.....festering.

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

@atrupar Meanwhile, in reality

@helixbase @atrupar Omg I just spit out my lunch thru my nose. That is hilarious !

@atrupar 🤷‍♂️🤣

Trump: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

@STFUabtChicago @patriottakes Actual campaign footage of our governor in Nevada. We are the only state that elected a dead pimp. Rootin-tootin!!

@patriottakes 2-Name Mullin - Yosemite Sam

Trump DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin admitted to threatening his daughter’s teenage boyfriend while speaking at a church in 2022: “I told him, I said if I ever see you kiss her in front of me, I’ll drag your face across the asphalt. And that’s a true story. I told him that.”

@NHrynenko02 @lindyli @NEWSMAX You meant “without”.

@lindyli @NEWSMAX Taxation with representation is what the Boston Tea Party and the SJ Tea Party was about. How does one do this, why a census of all the people. Just consider, of the people who are not counted in the Census, they may win the argument, that they don't have to pay taxes.

Democrats either WANT or do NOT care if illegal aliens vote in our elections Dems want to count illegals in the census so they get more congressional seats The more illegals, the more federal funding and congressional power It’s all a shell game. @NEWSMAX