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[Kate 🇺🇸 @Katehere]

@JoeBiden We have no choice-but to have faith.
We need a break from the lies, the gaslighting, the drama, the hate, and the divisiveness.
We need you @JoeBiden 🇺🇸
We are so damn tired. 😔

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Is he right?

Adam Kinzinger: “I personally believe that Donald Trump is the most evil, darkest piece of human trash to ever serve in the presidency.”

He says Trump has been “swallowed by darkness” and is trying to “infect the rest of the country.”

[Kate 🇺🇸 @Katehere]

@Microinteracti1 @WarnockWarrior Well said… thank you. ❤️

[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

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Robert Mueller has died. He was 81.

Trump posted this: “Robert Mueller just died,” Trump declared in a Truth Social post. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

I'm wondering if Donald and his family...understand that billions of people around the world will have the same thoughts and feelings about him when he passes on. But, whether he realizes it or not...doesn't matter.

[Rep. Dan Goldman @RepDanGoldman]

We mourn the passing of Robert Mueller, a true public servant: bronze star Vietnam veteran, federal prosecutor, FBI Director, and impartial special counsel.

Yet the President of the United States disgustingly celebrates Mueller’s death simply because he exposed Trump’s efforts to steal the 2016 election.

Mueller and Trump represent polar opposites of what a public servant should be.

May Director Mueller rest in peace.

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

President Donald Trump cheering the death of Robert Mueller - an American citizen, public servant and veteran

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Robert Mueller is dead. And the President of the United States has announced that he is, quote, glad.

Now. I want you to sit with something for a moment.

Jeffrey Epstein, the man who ran an international child sex trafficking operation for the entertainment of the ultra-wealthy, looked at Donald Trump and wrote the following words to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in 2017: “I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.”

The man who ran the pervert express to crime island looked at Trump and thought: that bloke is worse than me.

And today, that same Donald Trump looked at the death of a decorated Vietnam veteran and former FBI director and typed “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.” Then signed his name to it. Then posted it. Publicly. At 1:26 in the afternoon.

There are war criminals who’ve managed more dignity at a press conference.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Kate 🇺🇸 @Katehere]

@moondancedairy @cmclymer https://t.co/O0ZwU3HfqY

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Trump and Robert Mueller were born two years apart, both into wealthy families and both with private school upbringings.

Trump received five draft deferments during Vietnam and became a parasitic real estate baron.

Mueller volunteered for service, graduated from Officer Candidate School and Ranger School, was wounded in combat, and received a Bronze Star w/ Valor for rescuing one of his wounded soldiers under intense enemy fire.

And that pretty much crystallizes both the difference between the two and Trump's toxic jealousy toward Mueller.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Someday, Trump will die as we all must, and on that day, his knuckle-dragging fanbase will be scandalized and aggrieved that anyone would breath a negative word about him upon his death.

Remind them of days like today when Trump said he's "glad" that Robert Mueller died.

[Kate 🇺🇸 @Katehere]

@NewsWire_US Bingo ! Glad to hear that!

[Kate 🇺🇸 @Katehere]

@travisakers I like the comments as much as the post. 🤣

[Kate 🇺🇸 @Katehere]

@ahpingko @NewsWire_US ?

[Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith @CarlosGSmith]

Florida Republicans just announced legislation to enact permitless carry in Florida.

Reporters asked for data and statistics to prove the claim that permitless carry policies help prevent violence.

NONE were provided. They do not exist. Permitless carry INCREASES violence. 🧵

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Leader Hakeem Jeffries sends a powerful message to Republicans after the horrifying video of hammer attack on Paul Pelosi is released, says it was "unconscionable" and we are living in "dangerous times of unprecedented extremism and political violence." RT IF YOU AGREE!

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

The taunts, heckling... and references to "antifa" that police faced when they moved through Capitol on Jan 6

This clip is from newly released US Justice Dept video cout exhibit ====>

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

A mother runs to save her kid from kindergarten on fire in Brovary. This is the price we pay for someone to be sitting in warm cabinets thinking of new excuses why they don't send us the weapons we need. This is the price of russian terrorism
Photo @mrs_goodskaya

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

After Silk goes on and on about how much she loves Trump and all the great times they had together, Trump gets up and says this: “I knew Diamond, but I didn’t know Silk at all. I just learned about Silk. You’re fantastic.”

[The New York Times @nytimes]

A judge in Florida ordered Donald Trump and one of his lawyers to pay nearly a million dollars in sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit against Trump’s perceived political enemies, including Hillary Clinton and the former FBI director James Comey.
https://t.co/TjYzEjFYHb

[Duty To Warn 🔉 @duty2warn]

When show a picture of E. Jean Carroll at his deposition, Trump identified her as his ex-wife. “That’s Marla, yeah. That’s my wife.”
DTW has been saying for years that Trump has dementia. https://t.co/Pr6NLEQ2oO

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Multiple studies now show risk of both acute and chronic (ie long covid) problems increases with each additional infection. That’s why we shouldn’t just accept that we have to get infected repeatedly (and frequently).

https://t.co/UCDgudZR9h