@big_ozeal@grok Often times, I leave a cash tip instead of a credit card tip. That way, the waiter or waitress isnโt taxed on the tip. How would this waiter/waitress know that the customer was not gonna do the same?
When I heard about Senator Grahamโs death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.
A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: โIf you canโt admire Joe Biden as a person, youโve got a problem. Heโs the nicest person Iโve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.โ
That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.
I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.
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For the last 13 years, the Bush Center has proudly carried the flag as the โnew kid on the presidential center block.โ Today, the @BarackObama Presidential Center takes on that role. On behalf of all of us at the Bush Center, congratulations to the @ObamaFoundation team. Take it from us: once the pomp and circumstance of opening passes, the real fun begins: serving the American people and guests from around the world. Weโll be cheering you on from Dallas!
๐ธ: The 43rd President and the 44th President at the Dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, April 25, 2013.
Bob Mueller was one of the finest directors in the history of the FBI, transforming the bureau afterย 9/11ย and saving countless lives. But it was his relentless commitment to the rule of law and his unwavering belief in our bedrock values that made him one of the most respected public servants of our time. Michelle and I send our condolences to Bobโs family, and everyone who knew and admired him.
These were the days when the world not only had respect for a U.S. president, they loved him as much as America did.
His representation of his country on the world stage was NEVER viewed as it is by a man now viewed as the global village idiot.
His name appears ZERO times in the Epstein files. He never needed to praise himself once, name a road or a building after him. He never sued the DOJ or filed malicious law suits against those who disagreed with or criticised him, because real men can take criticism.
He didnโt pretend to have a healthcare plan, he passed one into law. He never mocked disabled people or asked not to be seen with service members who had lost limbs in service of this nation, neither did he call those who fought and died for this nation โsuckers and losersโ
He won an ACTUAL Nobel Peace Prize and didnโt have to make up numbers for how many people attended his inauguration. He needed no monuments to his presidency because he had absolutely nothing to prove.
He served his nation with honour dignity and respect, the same respect he afforded Americaโs allies. He did not run an international extortion gang from the Oval Office and certainly didnโt send masked thugs into red state communities to brutalise them in order to instil fear.
He rebuilt a broken economy after the housing crash he faced in the year he was elected, handing off a growing economy when he left office in 2016.
He never stole money from low and middle income workers to hand tax cuts to the rich, while setting up a crypto bribe pipeline.
His speeches will go down in history as rhetorical masterpieces, with joined up coherent sentences and punctuation.
He never once felt the need to post an inflammatory vile and disgusting video about ANYONE, because he is a good and honest man, who remains to this day a beloved statesman and a man Donald J Trump will never be, even in a tan suit.
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