Jon McHenry

Christian, Husband, Dad, Pappy. Strategic opinion researcher. Georgia Bulldogs, LFC, and Red Sox.

[Jon McHenry @jonmchenry]

One of the great joys of reading five psalms a day is on the fifth of the month, seeing the despair of Psalm 22 (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?) yield to the rest of Psalm 23 (The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.)

[LFC Transfer Room @LFCTransferRoom]

🚨🎙️ Andoni Iraola on Curtis Jones:

“I rate Curtis very highly. For me he is a great player. It’s very important he’s Scouse, that he’s from here. I also like the personality. I hope we can keep him, not only for this year, more time.”

(via @ptgorst)

[Jon McHenry @jonmchenry]

Continues to freak me out when @3YearLetterman says something serious.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Every kid in this country should be able to watch the Home Run Derby. You shouldn’t need a goddamn streaming service

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Lindsey had a series of repeatable riffs.
My fav—>

On my weekly commute from Nebr to DC, I often had one of my kids in tow. My youngest grew from age 3 to 12 over my tenure. Whenever LG would approach me at Judic or ArmedServices, he’d first pretend not to notice Breck, and just dive into his topic. But then, one sentence in, he’d interrupt himself & turn to fist-bump my kid with:
“Oh hey dude. Sorry about your social security. You’re screwed!”

[Bruce Haynes @BruceHaynesDC]

David Beasley. Former Governor, renowned for receiving Nobel Peace Prize while heading UN World Food Programme. Has extensive relationships in the Senate, House, throughout the US government and with global heads of state, similar to Graham. Given Graham’s outsized role in diplomacy and foreign affairs, could easily and credibly assume that mantle. Native SCer, knows state, lives in SC now. Also an easy, non-controversial choice. /3

[Doug Horstman @DougHorstman]

This all very cool and a testament to progress with pancreatic cancer but Ben has also shared that his diagnosis remains terminal. The man is bearing his cross, and witness, like no one I’ve ever seen. Listen to him while we all still have the opportunity to.

[Brad Todd @BradOnMessage]

Everybody is rushing to blame Graham Platner for the mess, but the real blame lies with Maine Democratic primary voters. They KNEW he was awful & still nominated him anyway. My take for @CNN:

[Jon McHenry @jonmchenry]

@tommiezito If you can get some time with @bensasse it would probably help you avoid 30 mistakes and have the school training evangelists two years earlier. (And I don't have any connections or "ins", I just think he lives his faith publicly in a way few do.)

[Jon McHenry @jonmchenry]

@gordonhensleydc Agree ... but my Dawgs usually get called for them!

[Jon McHenry @jonmchenry]

Oh ... you know that our guys usually get called for targeting for less, and suspended for the rest of the game and the first half of the next game.

[The Bulldawg Report @ReportBulldawg]

Imagine throwing someone out of a game and suspending them for the next game for stepping on someone's foot in American Football.

Instead, hits like this are 100% legal.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Two years ago, I left church after Sunday School because I had a brisket from Snake River Farms on the smoker and it was gonna be finished sooner than expected (before church) and I had both family coming to eat the brisket and a group of guys coming for a men's fellowship. I posted the attached tweet. After pointing out that a lot of the Christian Nationalists on Twitter don't actually belong to a local church based on a tweet from @WesleyLHuff, some of the Christian Nationalists are recirculating the tweet as some sort of gotcha. What the pastors doing it all have in common is that they don't have congregations of much size, if at all, and what the laymen doing it all have in common is that they're all into white nationalism. I think I'll take my actual church community, of which I am a member, and wear the derision of the weirdos and fringe as a badge of honor.

If you're a member of a church that gets upset you left early to save a brisket for your men's fellowship and family, find a new church.

And if you're a Christian who pulls up a two-year-old tweet to try to shame someone, you might be one of the goats, not the sheep.

[Jon McHenry @jonmchenry]

Palace will drag this out for two months before nixing it.

[PurelyFootball ℗ @PurelyFootball]

🚨 𝐍𝐄𝐖: Liverpool exploring a deal to send Harvey Elliott to Crystal Palace in exchange for Adam Wharton.

The Reds are assessing a potential player-swap structure involving both players. 🔄

[@Danny7Gallagher]

[Jon McHenry @jonmchenry]

VAR is so broken, man. 110 yards away from the goal.

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

I hope these folks rescinding their endorsements and calling on Platner to drop out will consider calling Lyndsey Fifield to apologize. Doesn’t need to be public, but she warned them before the primary and they attacked her. Reminds me of Rob Hur on Biden’s mental fitness.

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[Josh Holmes @HolmesJosh]

Freddy does America will be one of the lasting memories from the World Cup. Thanks for coming.

[DaveOCKOP @DaveOCKOP]

Jurgen Klopp to MagentaTV on Jonathan Tah's disallowed goal for Germany: “If the goal is illegal, then Arsenal won't be English champions. They've scored 60 percent of their goals that way.”

[Jon McHenry @jonmchenry]

Thanks for reminding us what makes this country great!

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

@ally32250 @GordonRamsay It’s been amazing but when I’m back in Germany I’m gonna close this account. The “influencer” life is not for me.

[The Anfield Wrap @TheAnfieldWrap]

🗣️Dave Grohl after performing at Anfield with the Foo Fighters:

"I wish every day was exactly like this. Thank you so much. But I kind of have a feeling that it's just this place and these people. I don't think anywhere else is like this."

Scouser

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

After years of being banned from entering a stadium in my own country, for no crime other than being a woman, this is how I walked in.

This was the World Cup FIFA 2026 between England and Panama but for me, it was beyond that.

You have to be a woman from Iran or Afghanistan to truly understand this emotion.

For whom this simple act, walking into a stadium, moving with joy, showing my hair, sitting next to men, was not just forbidden. I was beaten for it. Imprisoned for it. Humiliated for it. Exiled for it. And even in exile, I became a target for multiple assassination plots.

And now people lecture me: "Don't politicize football."

I have a question: which part of my body hasn't already been politicized by the Islamic Republic? My hair? My voice? My seat in a stadium?

They turned our entire existence into a political battlefield. Every inch of a woman was a crime scene under their law.

And now I'm supposed to just sit back, eat a hot dog, and enjoy the game?

I did enjoy the game. England won. But walking through those gates, that was the real victory.