Maybe everyone on this app can take that incredibly emotional opening ceremony and tribute to Kyle Busch and his grieving family to heart tonight while watching and listening to the running of this race
I’m sure there’s 1,000,000 other posts out there but it cannot be stated how vital Greg Biffle was in organizing the western NC Helene relief effort which was among one of the largest civilian humanitarian missions ever on American soil.
The world didn’t just lose a NASCAR great today. The world lost a great man and great family that selflessly stepped up and used their resources for the greater good to help total strangers during their greatest time of need.
Rest in peace.
Our political leaders & media voices must choose. Either use this latest act of political violence to further divide & inflame the American people or de-escalate. Either be irresponsibly partisan or acknowledge the truth that NEITHER side has a monopoly on political violence and ALL sides must stop engaging in violence.
Release the Epstein files and let the chips fall where they may. This is why people don’t trust government. You can never go wrong with being transparent. Redact victims’ names but release the rest.
🚨NEW: @WesleyHuntTX DEFENDS Trump restoring Robert E. Lee's name to military base — gets applause and causes Bill Maher to realize why it matters🚨
HUNT: "So when I was at West Point, I actually lived in Robert E. Lee Barracks when I was there."
"And I’ll never forget walking under the threshold of Robert E. Lee Barracks and think to myself: 'D*mn, this is one h*ll of a country.'"
"Because only in America can someone like me walk into a building named after a Confederate general and then be a successful West Point graduate."
"If we start changing the names on buildings, then every single building would be named Jesus Christ — based on perfection."
"And I do not want to take down these statues and change the names of these buildings because they’re a reminder of what was. And if we don’t remember it, we are doomed to repeat it."
MAHER: "Oh. So there’s a reason for it. I see."
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Please watch out for the Sandhill Cranes! They take their time and walk across well-traveled roadways. Please pay attention to the roads and if you see them, slow down to let them cross. They are not targets. They are wildlife. #LoveOurSandhills
🚨🚨🚨This is exactly how I feel. 🚨🚨🚨
CHARLES PIERCE WRITES:
“In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and say, "And we shall overcome."
I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over.
I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City.
I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job.
They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators.
Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.
We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents.