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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

3 weeks into war: 1. US gas prices are skyrocketing 2. Iran and Russian oil sanctions are lifted while they work together to kill Americans 3. US military ops have radically degraded Iran’s war machinery The WH needs to explain: (a) #2 (b) How #3 eventually reverses #1 🇺🇸

@Malachians It was so obvious they'd 100% have made him go to monitor. Once goal went in though there was no chance they'd do it. Shocking initial decision.

Atwell didn’t give that because he gave the first one and VAR didnt give it because they wanted to support Atwell on the pitch.

@PressSec Leavitt is Trumps Goebbels

There are many false claims in this letter but let me address one specifically: that "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation."   This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over.   As President Trump has clearly and explicitly stated, he had strong and compelling evidence that Iran was going to attack the United States first.   This evidence was compiled from many sources and factors. President Trump would never make the decision to deploy military assets against a foreign adversary in a vacuum.   Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The Iranian regime is evil. It proudly killed Americans, waged war against our country, and openly threatened us all the way up to the launch of Operation Epic Fury.   Iran was aggressively expanding their short-range ballistic missiles to combine with their naval assets to give themselves immunity – meaning they would have a degree of a capabilities that would give them immunity to hold us and the rest of the world hostage.   The regime aimed to use those ballistic missiles as a shield to continue achieving their ultimate goal – nuclear weapons.   The President, through his top negotiators, gave the regime every single possible opportunity to abandon this unacceptable course by permanently giving up their nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief, free nuclear fuel, and potential economic partnerships with our country.   But they would not say yes to peace because obtaining nuclear weapons was their fundamental goal.   President Trump ultimately made the determination that a joint attack with Israel would greatly reduce the risk to American lives that would come from a first strike by the terrorist Iranian regime and address this imminent threat to America’s national security interests.   All of this led to President Trump arriving at the determination that this military operation was necessary for U.S. national security, which is why he launched the massively successful Operation Epic Fury. The Commander-in-Chief determines what does and does not constitute a threat, because he is the one constitutionally empowered to do so - and because the American people went to the ballot box and entrusted him and him alone to make such final judgments. And finally, the absurd allegation that President Trump made this decision based on the influence of others, even foreign countries, is both insulting and laughable. President Trump has been remarkably consistent and has said for DECADES that Iran can NEVER possess a nuclear weapon. As someone who actually witnesses President Trump’s decision-making process on a daily basis, I can attest to the fact that he is always looking to do what’s in the best interest of the United States of America — period. America First.

@RichieMcGrath86 There is a 2018 feel to it, the problem for Limerick is it ain't 2018. Back line is far too old, it'll catch them again. Cork are by far the most daunting challenge for any side in the championship. Amazed if it's not the same story for Limerick in 2026 as it was in 24 & 25

Peter Casey in for Reidy & this team will take some stopping for the All Ireland My beloved Tipperary will need 20 lads playing at their very maximum for the full 75mins I feel there’s a 2018 feel about this Limerick panel this year so far Let’s hope I’m wrong

@HerbertMkHughes @nqatpod Exactly this. Not enough urgency on the field last few games. Strolling around but we've gotten away with it. 2nd time we've lost when we've had a man advantage for more than a half.

@nqatpod Arguably been on the route to this performance for the last 2-3 games

Worst performance of the Carrick period. So so flat from almost everyone.

@nqatpod 1 more year surely 🙏

Man we're going to miss that big Casemiro forehead. Hold my hands up, thought he was done physically. The lack of games this season has allowed a wonderful sunset to his United career. Brilliant season.

@utdreport Change in attitude, ambition, aggression..

What changes are needed for the second half?

@SmallerFishGAA Kilkenny wasteful with chances again but ref was shocking. He should be stood down for next week for the foul he gave against Eoin Cody after the Leavy rugby tackle. Bizarre stuff.

Draw would have been a fair result. It would have made a huge difference to Waterford. If they lose to Galway they'll be caught on the head to head now

@Trickstersworld Kavanagh jumped the shark a long time ago. Absolute clown, dim as bejayaus as well.

The rapist McGregor is such a piece of shit that his coach spiralling down the rabbit hole hasn’t gotten enough attention. Looper.

@BoardOfPeace 😂

The Board of Peace welcomes Belarus as a founding member of our growing international organization.

@SmallerFishGAA It's a joke. He was rightly sent off yet gets off on a technicality. Rewarding players for poor behaviour because an I isn't dotted or a T isn't crossed is absolutely ridiculous. Would have been very tough for the chap to miss the game but nobody's fault only his own if he did

Looks like Cullen Killeen got off on a technicality Delighted for him, I think justice has been served 🙌

@_PaulHayward Great manager but the malaise tracks back to his ego, and the row with Magnier & McManus that inflicted the Glazers upon us. He also enabled and legitimised their penny pinching with his 'value in the market' excuses. He was the only one powerful enough to change it. Company man.

"Your job is to do what's best for Manchester United." Not the owners, not the brand, but Man Utd. How Sir Alex Ferguson spoke for the soul of the club. Comment.... observer.co.uk/news/sport/art…

@nqatpod Martinez has far too many moments where his defending turns amateur. Same v Burnley with the space he gave Anthony.

Story of the game is really Brighton's goals #1 Overload on United's right followed by at least 4 defenders ball watching #2 Martinez out of position and Ugarte just ambling back Patterns

@jondarci @SportTG4 @EaskeyGAA @kilbrittaingaa @TG4TV Theatrical overreaction, a disgrace. Premier league be more suited to that lad with those antics.

@SportTG4 @EaskeyGAA @kilbrittaingaa @TG4TV Ridiculous decision. Completely over reaction from the Kilbrittain player.

Nóim 39 @kilbrittaingaa 0-12 @EaskeyGAA 0-12 Cárta dearg do Andrew Kilcullen agus Iascaigh anois thíos fear 🟥 Huge turning point as Andrew Kilcullen sees red, Iascaigh facing the rest of the half a man down and under real pressure ⚠️🏑 BEO/LIVE ar @TG4TV #GAABEO

@SportTG4 @kilbrittaingaa @EaskeyGAA @TG4TV Absolutely scandalous decision. You have to wonder sometimes what the hell officials think they have seen. There can have been no certainty that was malicious or reckless, because it wasn't. So they guessed, and ruined the biggest day of his career.

@nqatpod It's a cesspit. Maybe always was, but it's close to intolerable since Musk took over.

“Hey E,d I don’t agree with your take, here’s what I think …” Has become: “U don’t use ur brain u dumb fuck Manu will never be good with so called fans like u dumb fuck cunt”

Post something like this, which really isn’t that controversial, and get personal insults back. Then they cry wank when they get blocked and send DMs on other platforms. Used to at least be able to have a conversation on here. No longer.

@R_o_M It's demoralising. Starting 7 defensive players against the Worst PL team in history, and then subbing off one of the experienced attackers for an inexperienced midfielder at half time. The f**king goalscorer. Dorgu arguably MOTM on right the last day, plays him on left today.

The worst team in PL history created better chances than us at Old Trafford. The bizarre accusation that you’re pointing out how fucking dire our situation is for clicks absolutely sends me under. What drugs are you on and can I have some? How can’t you see how bad this is??!

I’ve had people asking me why I’m so negative. I don’t see how anyone who has spent the past 2 months coming to 8pm kick-offs to see us fail to beat all the worst teams in the league can feel even the slightest bit of hope. I’m jealous if you can. This is beyond appalling.

@Cathal_Dennehy @MarkLTighe 'Fool me once....'

Exclusive: Cian O'Connor says neither he nor anyone on his team gave a controlled anti-inflammatory drug to his horse, Pegasus, which was disqualified from an event in Mexico in October due to a positive doping test which he says is "totally unexplained". m.independent.ie/sport/other-sp…