Jonathan DeVillers

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

@Scott8835 @dekker @wiaawi Summer football & basketball can coexist just fine with a few weeks overlap with interscholastic baseball. Most of these kids are playing club ball, legion ball, etc. in the summer. There is no argument for those opportunities conflicting with summer basketball & football.

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

@Scott8835 @dekker @wiaawi And my proposal would still allow for 6-8 weekends of summer tournaments, showcases, etc. Not to mention, there is quite a bit of recruiting going on at showcase events in the fall.

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

@Scott8835 @dekker @wiaawi Show me the evidence of where "tons" of high school seniors quit their high school baseball team following graduation. If that did occur, even a minor amount, that's a reflection of poor coaching and a lousy culture within the program.

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

@Scott8835 @dekker @wiaawi Gone? Gone where? You're telling me that a high school senior who just graduated wouldn't hang around 2-3 weeks after graduation to finish out his/her baseball/softball season (the postseason tournament at that)?

Come on man, you can't be serious.

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

@dekker @wiaawi Argument about school being finished before the end of the season is weak. The fall sports begin 2-3 weeks before school begins, and that's not an issue.

State Tournament the 3rd Weekend of June still allows for 6-8 weekends for Club/Travel tournaments.

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

@dekker @wiaawi WIAA should move to a hybrid spring/summer arrangement. State Tournament is always the 3rd Weekend in June. Regional 1st Week of June. Sectionals 2nd Week of June. Season begins April 20. Target 20 games in 40 days before postseason begins.

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

@Peter_Bukowski Gary might have just played his last game as a Packer. DFA his ass. He's a liability and has zero trade value. No reason to keep around dead weight.

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

3 times this year the Packers have not punted the entire game. They've lost all three games. Unbelievable.

Off-season reckoning incoming. The house will be cleaned. The country club atmosphere will be exterminated. This shit is supply simply unacceptable.

#Packers

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

@AndyHermanNFL This defense is tremendously overrated. Bottom 1/3 of the league Secondary and Defensive Line. Linebackers are league average, at best. Parsons has masked just how pathetic this defense actually is. Hafley is not nearly as good as most believe.

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

Nailed It!

[Andy Herman @AndyHermanNFL]

Parsons ☠️
Watson ☠️
Tom ☠️
MVP ☠️
Season ☠️☠️☠️

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

52 points given up in the past 6 quarters. Not Championship level at all. Just pathetic. And Hafley is supposedely a hot coaching commodity. 🤣🤣🤣

#Packers

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

3 Runs
9 Hits
13 Left on Base

That would be a poor total showing for 1 game.

That's all the Brewers managed through 3 games in the NLCS.

Can't wait to spend $4.6 Million in free agency this off-season & take "another bite of the apple" in 2026.

Sell the team, Mark.

#Brewers

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

Playoff Christian Yelich is flat out terrible. A complete embarrassment. You can't account for over 20% of your team's salary and perform so poorly when your team needs your most.
#Brewers

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

@ESPNMilwaukee Negative Eleventy Quadrillion

Murphy managing like he's God's greatest gift to baseball. Terrible lineup. Terrible decision. Terrible execution. Terrible, terrible, terrible.

And send Ron Darling to the moon on a one-way trip with his Cubbies blanky.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

A while ago, probably in 2017, I appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox show to talk about God knows what. Afterwards a name I barely knew sent me a DM on twitter and told me I did a great job. It was Charlie Kirk, and that moment of kindness began a friendship that lasted until today.

Charlie was fascinated by ideas and always willing to learn and change his mind. Like me, he was skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016. Like me, he came to see President Trump as the only figure capable of moving American politics away from the globalism that had dominated for our entire lives. When others were right, he learned from them. When he was right--as he usually was--he was generous. With Charlie, the attitude was never, "I told you so." But: "welcome."

Charlie was one of the first people I called when I thought about running for senate in early 2021. I was interested but skeptical there was a pathway. We talked through everything, from the strategy to the fundraising to the grassroots of the movement he knew so well. He introduced me to some of the people who would run my campaign and also to Donald Trump Jr. "Like his dad, he's misunderstood. He's extremely smart, and very much on our wavelength." Don took a call from me because Charlie asked him too.

Long before I ever committed (even in my mind) to running, Charlie had me speak to his donors at a TPUSA event. He walked me around the room and introduced me. He gave me honest feedback on my remarks. He had no reason to do this, no expectation that I'd go anywhere. I was polling, at that point, well below 5 percent. He did it because we were friends, and because he was a good man.

When I became the VP nominee--something Charlie advocated for both in public and private--Charlie was there for me. I was so glad to be part of the president's team, but candidly surprised by the effect it had on our family. Our kids, especially our oldest, struggled with the attention and the constant presence of the protective detail. I felt this acute sense of guilt, that I had conscripted my kids into this life without getting their permission. And Charlie was constantly calling and texting, checking on our family and offering guidance and prayers. Some of our most successful events were organized not by the campaign, but by TPUSA. He wasn't just a thinker, he was a doer, turning big ideas into bigger events with thousands of activists. And after every event, he would give me a big hug, tell me he was praying for me, and ask me what he could do. "You focus on Wisconsin," he'd tell me. "Arizona is in the bag." And it was.

Charlie genuinely believed in and loved Jesus Christ. He had a profound faith. We used to argue about Catholicism and Protestantism and who was right about minor doctrinal questions. Because he loved God, he wanted to understand him.

Someone else pointed out that Charlie died doing what he loved: discussing ideas. He would go into these hostile crowds and answer their questions. If it was a friendly crowd, and a progressive asked a question to jeers from the audience, he'd encourage his fans to calm down and let everyone speak. He exemplified a foundational virtue of our Republic: the willingness to speak openly and debate ideas.

Charlie had an uncanny ability to know when to push the envelope and when to be more conventional. I've seen people attack him for years for being wrong on this or that issue publicly, never realizing that privately he was working to broaden the scope of acceptable debate.

He was a great family man. I was talking to President Trump in the Oval Office today, and he said, "I know he was a very good friend of yours." I nodded silently, and President Trump observed that Charlie really loved his family. The president was right. Charlie was so proud of Erika and the two kids. He was so happy to be a father. And he felt such gratitude for having found a woman of God with whom he could build a family.

Charlie Kirk was a true friend. The kind of guy you could say something to and know it would always stay with him. I am on more than a few group chats with Charlie and people he introduced me to over the years. We celebrate weddings and babies, bust each other's chops, and mourn the loss of loved ones. We talk about politics and policy and sports and life. These group chats include people at the very highest level of our government. They trusted him, loved him, and knew he'd always have their backs. And because he was a true friend ,you could instinctively trust the people Charlie introduced you to. So much of the success we've had in this administration traces directly to Charlie's ability to organize and convene. He didn't just help us win in 2024, he helped us staff the entire government.

I was in a meeting in the West Wing when those group chats started lighting up with people telling Charlie they were praying for him. And that's how I learned the news that my friend had been shot. I prayed a lot over the next hour, as first good news and then bad trickled in.

God didn't answer those prayers, and that's OK. He had other plans. And now that Charlie is in heaven, I'll ask him to talk to big man directly on behalf of his family, his friends, and the country he loved so dearly.

You ran a good race, my friend.

We've got it from here.

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

Charlie Kirk would have been president. His friends knew it. His admirers knew it. And his enemies knew it.

This universal confidence in Charlie’s future began with his countless political accomplishments. At 18, he founded Turning Point USA, which went on to become the most important cultural organization on the American Right. By 22, he was addressing the Republican National Convention. Three years later, he founded Turning Point Action, which led the get-out-the-vote efforts that delivered the first Republican popular vote victory in twenty years. In his spare time, Charlie published five books, hosted a national talk show, married a lovely wife, and fathered two beautiful children. All of that by 31.

Charlie’s appearance inspired as much confidence as his accomplishments. At a towering six-foot-five slouching, he joked that he had descended from the Nephilim—the giant “fallen ones” of the Old Testament. He might have been born with such a nature, as are we all, but he was not content to remain so. Charlie loved his Savior. The zeal with which he debated politics paled in comparison to the excitement with which he discussed religion. And his religious life bore fruit.

Turning Point launched a Faith division to focus specifically on his followers’ souls. There too, Charlie’s enthusiasm for open debate set the tone, as he invited atheists and even Catholics to take part. But he didn’t need a specific religious conference to convey his faith. Charlie Kirk’s religion bore fruit in everything he did.

Discerning observers believed in Charlie Kirk, not chiefly for his accolades or his appearance, but for his manifest virtue. Charlie’s prudence, the principal virtue in politics, built a generational coalition that helped to transform the American government. His temperance distinguished him as one of the few on the Right to eschew whisky, cigars, and every other delight that might have distracted him from his purpose, for which he had so little time. His sense of justice produced clarity in moral vision and grace for his opponents. His fortitude impelled him to enter the public square without a hint of servile fear.

Charlie’s only fear was the holy sort—awe and wonder, the beginning of wisdom—and his clearest virtues were theological: faith, hope, and charity. We mourn his death, we take up his cause, and we entrust him, as he confidently entrusted himself, to God’s care.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.

But we aren't "one people" are we?

The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.

We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.

I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.

And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.

I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.

It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.

Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.

And the other side murdered him.

Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.

I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.

Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.

I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.

I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.

I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.

There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.

But then there will be a reckoning.

My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite.

So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.

Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.

Ours is just beginning.

[Jon Gruden @BarstoolGruden]

Thank you @BadgerFootball for having me!

Let’s kick some ass in 2025!!! 🦡

[Jonathan DeVillers @JDV217]

What an impressive guy. Haven't been this anxious and excited for a Brewers season in a long time. Do something special, boys!

#brewers @Brewers

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A behind-the-scenes look into the passionate and engaging mind of 2024 NL Manager of the Year, Pat Murphy.

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