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We cannot forget what Biden & company did in Afghanistan nor the people who've been left to deal with Taliban terrorist animals. COVID, inflation, politics here in the US have taken our eyes away from this but we should not forget what we have left there.
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"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
I was eight years old in April 2011.
All I had left in the world was my red leather school backpack.
The tsunami had swallowed my house in Ishinomaki.
And it had swallowed my school, Minato Elementary.
Two feet of rotting black sea sludge covered every classroom.
Dead fish, shattered glass, and splintered pianos were piled against the chalkboards.
The adults told us gently:
“There will be no new school term this spring. The school is gone.”
Then, on April 1st, the giant green trucks arrived.
Two hundred United States Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.
At first, I hid behind my mother's coat.
They looked like giants. Broad shoulders, combat boots, tattooed arms.
I thought soldiers only knew how to fight wars.
Then I watched what those giants did.
There was no running water.
There was no electricity.
Those burly twenty-year-old Marines got down on their hands and knees in the freezing, stinking mud.
They didn't use machines inside our classrooms.
They used small hand brushes, buckets of cold water, and rags.
For days, they scrubbed every single wooden floorboard until their knuckles bled.
They carried hundreds of mud-caked children's desks outside, washed every single one by hand in the biting wind, and carried them carefully back to our classrooms.
When they found a soggy photo album or a child's recorder buried in the slime, they didn't throw it in the trash pile.
They wiped the mud off gently with their own uniform sleeves and placed it on a clean table.
When they finished, the wooden floor shone in the afternoon sunlight.
A giant Marine with black mud dried across his cheek looked at me holding my red backpack in the doorway.
He dropped to one knee, gave me a crisp salute, and smiled:
“Your classroom is ready, little boss.”
They gave us back our childhood when everything else was dead.
Twenty years from now, fifty years from now, the children of Ishinomaki will still tell their grandchildren about the American giants who scrubbed our floors on their knees. 🇺🇸🎒🇯🇵
"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad:
Do not blame the French people for this.
We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no.
Here are the numbers your media won't show you.
70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today.
79% want a tougher immigration policy.
77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration.
83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home.
And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years.
This is not a fringe. This is the French people.
In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again.
That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway.
So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations.
In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders.
It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed.
What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it.
The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did.
So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this."
The French never chose this.
They were forced into it.
If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us.
If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd.
Government NEVER makes things better or faster.
CAN’T WAIT FOR MEDICARE-FOR-ALL!
“A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.
“At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said ‘if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday.’
“He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
“Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.
“He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
“He told an interviewer: ‘I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way.’
“The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.”
—Tweet by @multiplanet1
"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
QUIT YOUR BITCHING!!!!!!
Grandpa didn’t have a $90 month internet bill, a $130 phone bill, seven app subscriptions at $72 month, an Amazon addiction for $200 month, he didn’t have Netflix, Paramount or HBO for another $112 month and his haircuts didn’t need a ‘stylist’!
I’m worn out hearing people moan, “Our grandparents could buy a house on one paycheck, but now we can’t even afford rent on two!”
Yeah, maybe because Grandma wasn’t dropping half her income on $14 iced lattes and avocado toast shaped like art projects. Back then, if they wanted coffee, they boiled it at home in a dented pot. It tasted like burnt rubber and regret — but it woke you up and cleaned your pipes.
And Grandma wasn’t “out to brunch.” You think she had time for mimosas and hashtags? She was making something called whatever’s left in the fridge and feeding six people with it.
Don’t even start with Uber Eats. You think Grandpa was out here paying $38 to have a burger delivered three blocks away? Please. He grilled mystery meat on a rusted barbecue, and everyone called it dinner.
Now people cry about being broke while sitting in a house full of gadgets. Two SUVs in the driveway, six streaming services, three air fryers, and matching tattoos that cost more than their light bill. You think Grandpa had a tattoo? He did. It said “Korea, 1951,” and it came with trauma, not Instagram likes.
And the kids—Lord help us. “We can’t make ends meet, but Brayden needs the new iPhone!” No, he doesn’t. You’re handing an $1100 device to a child who still eats crayons and forgets to flush.
When we were kids, there was one phone. It hung on the wall like a family relic. The cord stretched just far enough for you to whisper secrets before someone yelled, “Get off, I need to make a call!” And guess what? We lived.
The TV? One. In the living room. With three channels and a dial that clicked like a safe. And if Dad wanted to watch bowling, you were a fan of bowling, end of story.
Now there’s a flat screen in every room, the baby’s got an iPad, the dog’s got a camera, and everyone’s wondering why they can’t afford rent.
Because you’re living like rock stars on retail salaries, that’s why.
Grandpa wasn’t leasing Teslas or buying $12 smoothies called “Green Zen Awakening.” He drove a truck that coughed smoke, rattled like a storm, and smelled like oil and hard work.
They lived within their means. Whatever Grandpa brought home on Friday — that’s what they had. They weren’t keeping up with the Joneses; they were keeping the lights on.
So yeah, Grandpa bought a house on one salary. But he also didn’t have a gym membership, three delivery apps, and emotional support crystals on his nightstand. His only support system was Grandma, who told him to quit whining and mow the yard.
Nowadays, everyone’s broke, anxious, and “manifesting abundance” while ordering tacos on DoorDash for the fourth time this week.
It’s not the economy — it’s the lifestyle.
Wake up, turn off your subscriptions, make your own coffee, and maybe—just maybe—you’ll smell the truth.
It’s truth....God is Good, God is Great, I thank HIM for this day and everything I have!!
These people should not be in office. The DSA does not care about the working man or the poor; they care about power. #VoteRED
Hi @YsabelJuradoLA , I look forward to our meeting today at 12 PM. It’s been years in the making. I hope this meeting will wake you up. Since your office can’t admit that there is animal or human cruelty on Skid Row here are some pictures of a dog that a gang member tried to sit on fire, another dog who had his leg purposely broken, a woman that was murdered, a dog that had a giant gash around his neck that has been abused and neglected for years and a dog that overdosed on six hard-core drugs. If this meeting doesn’t wake you up, then I suggest you see your nearest doctor. The whole world is watching you.
"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT JUST PUT THIS ON NATIONAL TELEVISION DURING THE NFL GAMES.
“This is the final battle with you at my side.
We will demolish the deep state.
We will expel the warmongers from our government.
We will drive out the globalists.
We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists.
We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country.
We will rout the fake news media,
and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”
PAID FOR BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
Not a campaign.
Not a PAC.
The actual United States government.
They’re not working us over anymore.
We’re working them over.
This is the final battle.
And it’s live on national TV.
"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
Just got this in my FFL/SOT inbox from the ATF's official email account.
I also got the message on the 8th that they're referencing here and I just assumed it was spam as I had never heard of "beacon" and didn't open/click on it.
I guess I wasn't the only one that thought it was spam/phishing and didn't open it; hence this follow up email.
So, if you're a FFL/gunsmith/etc... check your inbox accordingly...
But Hillary, and others, would have us believe, "What does it matter now?" It matters by God, it matters!
12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI:
DAY 6
By late August and early September 2012, the intelligence picture was getting worse too.
On August 19, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff produced an intelligence update titled “Libya: Terrorists to Increase Strength During Next Six Months.” It warned there were “no near-term prospects” for reversing Libya’s trend toward becoming a terrorist safe haven and said eastern Libya was likely to become an even broader safe haven by the end of the year. It also warned that those conditions would allow terrorists to increase attacks against Western and Libyan interests.
Then, on September 5, AFRICOM produced another assessment on extremism in Libya. It said the disarray in Libya’s security services was giving jihadists freedom to recruit, train and move fighters and weapons. Most importantly, it said the threat to Western and U.S. interests remained high, particularly in northeast Libya.
That matters because Benghazi is in northeast Libya.
And this wasn’t the first time people were saying it.
Back in June, State Department security officials were already discussing what they called “an active terrorist cell in Benghazi” that was planning and carrying out attacks against Western interests, including the U.S. mission. Another security official warned that extremist activity had increased so much that he feared they had already crossed a threshold where they would start seeing more attacks on Western targets.
So by the beginning of September, you had:
Repeated attacks against Western targets.
Growing extremist activity.
A weak Libyan government that could not control the security environment.
Intelligence assessments warning eastern Libya was becoming a terrorist safe haven.
AFRICOM saying the threat to U.S. and Western interests in northeast Libya remained high.
The intelligence community later said there was no specific, credible warning of the exact September 11 attack. But there was plenty of strategic warning that the environment was getting worse and U.S. facilities and personnel in Benghazi were at risk. That is the distinction people need to understand.
There may not have been a warning with the exact date and time. But there sure as hell wasn’t a shortage of warnings.
By September 5, the United States government was writing in its own intelligence reports that the threat to Americans in northeast Libya remained high.
We were now 6 days away from September 11.
#12DaysOfBenghazi #Benghazi #13Hours #NeverForget #HonorTheFallen
"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
One Constitution. No parallel legal system.
Belief is protected in America. Using religion to justify crimes against women and children is not.
Europe already ran this experiment. America doesn’t have to.
Ban sharia law in every state.
"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
Yes, it is true, your United States Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court arguing that assault weapon bans are, in fact, unconstitutional. Historic. youtu.be/WGTfoXff3Mg
"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
🚨#BREAKING: Absolutely HORRIFYING footage has emerged of a deranged Black woman beating up MULTIPLE White women while wearing a "Drake" mask.
Multiple people just stood around laughing and filming.
Zero media coverage.
"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
NEW: The Maria Bartiromo backstory, per multiple sources familiar....
Maria Bartiromo wanted to pursue a story related to China and 2020 election voting conspiracies... a major sensitivity for the network given its Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits.
A Fox Business executive sent a text to Fox Business producers informing them that that story could not go to air.
Bartiromo took a screen shot of the guidance and sent it to senior White House officials.
Fox News leadership learned about that after receiving a call from the White House, which they viewed as a fireable offense.
Fox pulled Bartiromo from air after Aug. 9. She was fired today. I have also learned that her executive producer Patrick Ignozzi was also fired after the annoucnement.
Maria had resigned her contract with Fox last February.
More in tomorrow's edition of IN THE ROOM @PuckNews
"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
Sergeant Major Brad Kasal (Retired) Weighs In On This Photo. Shout out to @AnalyzeEducate for bringing attention to this.
Now, if only places like the People's unDemocratic Republic of Illinois can be forced to allow its subject... I mean, citizens should have the fun toys too.
BIG WIN: FFLs Passing ATF Inspections Transferring Suppressors on 4473s xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1pKkOXMrn…
"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
CDC CONFIRMS: Guns Used In Self Defense Up To 2.5 MILLION Times A Year xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1pKdRDevN…
"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
Friday’s opening Viramontes brief at SCOTUS serves as a great reminder:
We fight forward in 60+ lawsuits, nationwide grassroots efforts, & more…
To create a world of maximal liberty & end government coercion that separates peaceable people from their life, liberty, & property.
"Dave" MaoMao says #Fallen13 #Trump47 retweeted
For those complaining about $4 for a gallon of gasoline, here's some perspective:
A fancy coffee shop charges $6 for a 16 oz. latte. That's $48 a gallon.
Bottled water at a convenience store, $2.50 for 20 oz. That's $16 a gallon.
A 12 oz. energy drink at $3.50 works out to more than $37 a gallon.
A 12 oz. bottle of maple syrup for $8. That's about $85 per gallon.
2 oz. of Vanilla extract for $6 equals $384 per gallon.
Don't get me started on printer ink, which can cost thousands of dollars per gallon.
Shall I continue?