Sotwe logo Sotwe logo
MathRocksKAllen's profile image

Kristen Allen

@MathRocksKAllen

Mom of two boys...love math, running, and scrapbooking!
Joined June 2011
248 Following
101 Followers
348 Posts
MathRocksKAllen's profile image
Kristen Allen @MathRocksKAllen
@Micah_CBC @AggieBaseball Maroon hat
0
0
0
0
9
MathRocksKAllen's profile image
Kristen Allen @MathRocksKAllen
@DavidAFrench So good
0
0
0
0
197
MathRocksKAllen ย retweeted
Microinteracti1's profile image
Gandalv Verified account @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 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
Microinteracti1's tweet photo. 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 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
4K
49K
15K
7K
3M
MathRocksKAllen ย retweeted
brosen1501's profile image
Barry Rosen Verified account @brosen1501
From my own life experience as a hostage in Iran for 444 days, I know how fragile safety can be--and how precious our rights are, especially now that we are plunged into war with Iran. I am outraged that a woman, one who I know, who has lived her entire life in the United States--adopted as a toddler by an American military family in Iran---now faces deportation to Iran, of all countries, because of a bureaucratic visa technicality. She has no criminal record, has lived in in California communities, paid taxes, more than contributed to the fabric of this nation, and calls this country her home. Yet, the Department of Homeland Security says she must removed because she technically "overstayed" a visa from the age of 4. "She has fought for nearly two decades to fix her status within the system--always above board, asking for no shortcuts--but she fears her next court hearing later this month" may "almost certainly result in detention and deportation." She has said," I'm struggling and fighting so hard to keep this life in America that I love and deserve...It's such a betrayal to my dad and to myself to send me back to a country where I was just an orphan baby." This is beyond unjust--it is cruel. She does not even remember Iran, a country she left as a child, and where as a Christian she could be persecuted, imprisoned, or worse under Iranian law that treats apostasy as crime punishable by severe penalties and even death. How can we call oursleves a nation of justice and compassion when we tear apart someone who is, in very sense an American? This isn't immigation enforcement--it is punishment of an innocent woman who belongs here. If we allow this to happen, we are not enforcing the law--we are abandoning our humanity. Where is the outrage? Where is the national coverage? If we allow this to happen, we are abandoning the very values we claim to stand for.
116
5K
2K
332
347K
MathRocksKAllen's profile image
Kristen Allen @MathRocksKAllen
@NickyPerkss This is 100% accurate
0
0
0
0
9
MathRocksKAllen's profile image
Kristen Allen @MathRocksKAllen
@DavidDvdrowan @9802MonGar Yes to this!! https://t.co/3j6rlfPtt4
0
0
0
0
16
MathRocksKAllen ย retweeted
CFAPeachBowl's profile image
Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Verified account @CFAPeachBowl
Christmas may be over but our Days of Giveaways arenโ€™t ๐Ÿ™Œ Like + repost to win this CFA merch #CFAPeachBowl
CFAPeachBowl's tweet photo. Christmas may be over but our Days of Giveaways arenโ€™t ๐Ÿ™Œ Like + repost to win this CFA merch #CFAPeachBowl https://t.co/5UeNBqITzZ
77
2K
1K
22
87K
MathRocksKAllen's profile image
Kristen Allen @MathRocksKAllen
@HoustonTexans @lbg_nico7 @Tyler_4464 @MathMpatricet @Shanahan_Math
0
0
0
0
22
MathRocksKAllen ย retweeted
HoustonTexans's profile image
Houston Texans Verified account @HoustonTexans
Anybody want a signed @lbg_nico7 helmet ๐Ÿ‘€ ๐‘๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ for a chance to win โ€ผ๏ธ 1. Follow the Houston Texans. 2. Like this post. 3. RT this post. 4. Tag 3 people in the comments.
482
1K
682
20
51K
MathRocksKAllen ย retweeted
AggieFootball's profile image
Texas A&M Football Verified account @AggieFootball
RETWEET IF YOU NEED THAT MIKE ELKO HALFTIME SPEECH
71
6K
2K
71
1M
MathRocksKAllen's profile image
Kristen Allen @MathRocksKAllen
@gmontgomerymd Canโ€™t wait for โ€œThe Pulseโ€ to come out on Thursday!
0
4
0
0
156
MathRocksKAllen's profile image
Kristen Allen @MathRocksKAllen
@HeismanTrophy I want to vote for #MarcelReed
0
0
0
0
0
MathRocksKAllen's profile image
Kristen Allen @MathRocksKAllen
@joshmancuso @renasant @AlumniHallBama @Wisconsin @UA_Athletics @BadgerFootball @AlabamaFTBL @espn This is exact what I needed on my timeline today! ๐Ÿ˜‚
0
2
0
0
71
MathRocksKAllen ย retweeted
astros's profile image
Houston Astros Verified account @astros
The Silver Boot is back @daikinpark! Don't miss your chance to win an epic MVP experience for you and three friends on Monday, 9/15! RT for a chance to win! @TexasLottery x #LUCKHAPPENS
astros's tweet photo. The Silver Boot is back @daikinpark! Don't miss your chance to win an epic MVP experience for you and three friends on Monday, 9/15! RT for a chance to win! @TexasLottery x #LUCKHAPPENS https://t.co/WOdU4kfaB6
35
676
892
11
74K
MathRocksKAllen ย retweeted
astros's profile image
Houston Astros Verified account @astros
The battle for the Silver Boot returns! Thanks to the @TexasLottery, you and three friends have a chance to win an Astros MVP experience on Saturday, July 12! RT to win! #LUCKHAPPENS
astros's tweet photo. The battle for the Silver Boot returns! Thanks to the @TexasLottery, you and three friends have a chance to win an Astros MVP experience on Saturday, July 12! RT to win! #LUCKHAPPENS https://t.co/cUPKgmC4tt
100
1K
2K
12
107K
MathRocksKAllen ย retweeted
astros's profile image
Houston Astros Verified account @astros
The battle for the Silver Boot returns! Thanks to the @texaslottery, you and three friends have a chance to win an Astros MVP experience on Saturday, July 12! RT to win! #LUCKHAPPENS
astros's tweet photo. The battle for the Silver Boot returns! Thanks to the @texaslottery, you and three friends have a chance to win an Astros MVP experience on Saturday, July 12! RT to win! #LUCKHAPPENS https://t.co/lGv9BKiWcj
158
1K
2K
28
131K
MathRocksKAllen's profile image
Kristen Allen @MathRocksKAllen
@robertkaplinsky ๐Ÿ˜‚
0
0
0
0
96
MathRocksKAllen's profile image
Kristen Allen @MathRocksKAllen
@howie_hua Love this!!
0
0
0
0
13
MathRocksKAllen's profile image
Kristen Allen @MathRocksKAllen
@TeamCoachBuzz Something very special there - congrats on the win and many many kudos for the relationships built. Thatโ€™s always special but in todayโ€™s landscape of college athletics itโ€™s simply remarkable and has been a joy to watch!!
0
0
0
0
326
MathRocksKAllen's profile image
Kristen Allen @MathRocksKAllen
@TeamCoachBuzz @aggiembk Been a huge fan - but that part at the end about taking pictures really spoke to this mommaโ€™s heart!
1
3
0
0
209

Last Seen Users on Sotwe

dulgonulx1's profile image
๐ŸŒŸSUPERMAN ๐Ÿ”ž๐ŸŒŸ
Seen from Turkey
yew17457711's profile image
เน€เธขเธฒเธงเนŒ
Seen from Thailand
rajurajib_raju's profile image
xnxx video
Seen from Turkey
bNuJf90UUCluTGg's profile image
เธ„เธ™เธญเธธเธšเธฅเธฏเธŠเธญเธšเน€เธฅเธตเธขเธซเธตเธฃเนˆเธธเธ™เธขเธฒเธข
Seen from Thailand
dahunter01's profile image
hunter
Seen from Indonesia
xdownloaderbot's profile image
X Downloader Bot Verified account
Seen from Switzerland
Fethiyeevlicift's profile image
Fethiye Evli ร‡ift
Seen from Turkey
pathan_xxx41308's profile image
Pathan xxx
Seen from United States
oQx2B9VNZN7Vgvo's profile image
ุดูŠู…ุงุก ุงู… ุงุญู…ุฏ ๐Ÿ’–
Seen from Turkey
Dunyageveze1's profile image
DunyayiGeziyorum
Seen from Turkey

Trends for you

1
#WWERaw
Under 10K tweets
2
NCAA
Under 10K tweets
3
Siri
Under 10K tweets
4
#WWDC
Under 10K tweets
5
Dane
Under 10K tweets
6
Good Nut
Under 10K tweets
7
Scooby
Under 10K tweets
8
USS Liberty
Under 10K tweets
9
McDavid
Under 10K tweets
10
Pete Rose
Under 10K tweets

Most Popular Users

elonmusk's profile image
1
Elon Musk Verified account
@elonmusk
240.2M followers
barackobama's profile image
2
Barack Obama Verified account
@barackobama
119.3M followers
realdonaldtrump's profile image
3
Donald J. Trump Verified account
@realdonaldtrump
111.6M followers
cristiano's profile image
4
Cristiano Ronaldo Verified account
@cristiano
109.1M followers
narendramodi's profile image
5
Narendra Modi Verified account
@narendramodi
107M followers
rihanna's profile image
6
Rihanna Verified account
@rihanna
97.3M followers
nasa's profile image
7
NASA Verified account
@nasa
92.1M followers
justinbieber's profile image
8
Justin Bieber Verified account
@justinbieber
90.6M followers
katyperry's profile image
9
KATY PERRY Verified account
@katyperry
86.9M followers
taylorswift13's profile image
10
Taylor Swift Verified account
@taylorswift13
80.7M followers
ladygaga's profile image
11
Lady Gaga Verified account
@ladygaga
72.3M followers
kimkardashian's profile image
12
Kim Kardashian Verified account
@kimkardashian
69.4M followers
imvkohli's profile image
13
Virat Kohli Verified account
@imvkohli
68.7M followers
youtube's profile image
14
YouTube Verified account
@youtube
68.6M followers
billgates's profile image
15
Bill Gates Verified account
@billgates
63.5M followers
theellenshow's profile image
16
The Ellen Show
@theellenshow
62.5M followers
cnn's profile image
17
CNN Verified account
@cnn
61.9M followers
neymarjr's profile image
18
Neymar Jr Verified account
@neymarjr
61.2M followers
x's profile image
19
X Verified account
@x
60.9M followers
selenagomez's profile image
20
Selena Gomez Verified account
@selenagomez
60M followers