you go to the back porch, pour a bourbon, fire up a cigar and watch the sunset and get on with your life

CHOOSIN' TEXAS🤠

Lads we have a true emergency, shite. We got a mate lost his passport on the way to the game. Apologies to my brother/sister @MBTA @mbta_alerts social manager but the Wakefield bagpiper just sent me this. If Helen from Scotland can send me to the cup, we can do this. Cuz BOSTON

On June 12, 1944, every camera in the world was pointed at Normandy. Which is exactly why almost nobody noticed the United States launching the operation that actually doomed Japan, on the other side of the planet, that same week. Here is what the headlines missed. While 9 divisions fought in the hedgerows of France, Task Force 58 was steaming toward the Mariana Islands: 15 aircraft carriers, over 900 aircraft, escorted by new fast battleships. It was the most powerful naval force ever assembled to that point, and the US had built it in under three years while also supplying the war in Europe. On June 11 and 12, its planes hammered Saipan, Tinian, and Guam, destroying Japanese aircraft on the ground and in the air, and cutting the islands off from rescue. Why these specific islands? One number explains everything: 1,500 miles. That was the combat radius of the new B-29 Superfortress. From the Marianas, B-29s could reach Tokyo. Japan knew it. Their commanders called the islands the absolute national defense line, the wall that could not be allowed to fall. So when US Marines hit the beaches of Saipan on June 15, just 9 days after D-Day, Japan did what the US Navy had been hoping for since Pearl Harbor. It sent its entire carrier fleet to fight. The result, on June 19 and 20, was the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the largest carrier battle in human history. 24 carriers in one fight. It was so one-sided that American pilots named it the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. Japan lost roughly 600 aircraft and 3 carriers in two days. American losses were a tiny fraction of that. Japanese naval aviation never recovered. It effectively died in those 48 hours. The dominoes from this one week: Saipan fell in July. The shock was so severe in Tokyo that Prime Minister Tojo's entire government resigned. By November, B-29s from the Marianas were bombing Japan itself. And in August 1945, a B-29 named Enola Gay took off from Tinian, one of the islands first hit in these June raids. Think about that week in June 1944 again. The United States conducted history's largest amphibious invasion in France and simultaneously launched a second massive invasion 7,000 miles away in the Pacific, each one larger than anything any other nation could attempt alone. D-Day gets the anniversaries. The Marianas got the verdict. The war was decided in both oceans in the same seven days, and only one of them made the front page.

Time for something a little different… but it is still, gun samurai 😅

🚨#BREAKING: It has been revealed that the Black male wielding a knife and threatening to k*ll passengers on the Charlotte NC Light Rail this week on the SAME TRAIN where Iryna Zarutska was m*rdered... ...IS A VIOLENT, REPEAT OFFENDER WITH OVER 19 CHARGES!!! He has MULTIPLE violent charges including assaulting women and government employees. HOW WAS THIS MAN EVER ALLOWED ON THE TRAIN WITH A KNIFE?!!!!!!!!!! HAVE WE LEARNED LITERALLY NOTHING FROM IRYNA?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The vibes couldn’t be more immaculate in America right now

GM, I have to agree with @infantrydort opinion on this, it’s far more fitting a monument than that abomination @GWOTMF came up with after years of work, and who knows how much money spent. Oh, but wait, all of those records are public as it’s a 501(c)3, their CEO made • Fiscal Year 2024 (most recent): $299,028 reportable compensation $50,151 other compensation (total ~$349k). • Fiscal Year 2023: $330,000 reportable $12,258 other (total ~$342k). • Fiscal Year 2022: $110,030 reportable (lower, possibly partial year or different arrangement). They’ve raised • Fiscal Year 2024 (most recent detailed): • Revenue: ~$3.04 million • Expenses: ~$3.34 million • Net Income: -$303,193 • Total Assets: ~$3 million • Total Liabilities: ~$471,000 • Net Assets: ~$2.53 million • Earlier years show growth in revenue and assets but periods of net losses (common for capital-intensive memorial projects). Audited financial statements are also available via their site or partners like Candid. They’ve paid • In the 2024 Form 990: • Total program service expenses: ~$1.67M (primarily design/planning-related). For a crescent moon art installation that honors the enemy. At least with the PT Safety Belt design the whole world can see what a cluster fuck our leaders turned GWOT into, and how they screwed up at every turn, and put their own safety before the mission. They won’t hire Americans, they won’t go back to the drawing board, they won’t admit they don’t care. They’ll move forward, keep releasing videos explaining why we should be grateful to them, and they’ll make it worse because they feel superior to those who fought. And don’t give me this shit about a family history of service, or tell me how long some of the board members served. They aren’t the only ones, it doesn’t make them special, or give them any authority over anyone else who fought in GWOT. The current memorial design is abhorrent, and making videos explaining a War Memorial should NEVER be necessary. A Memorial should speak for itself, and tell the story it memorializes. I apologize for this not being an uplifting, happy morning post. Admittedly I am upset about this whole thing, I lost good friends in that war, and I know for a fact they’d all be pissed about the crescent moon so clearly visible in that abomination. That said, don’t let the world get you down, get up and attack life. And Keep That PMA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

In case you're hearing bagpipes at the #HAISCO match and are curious as to how they work

いや・・・まぁ・・・うん・・・

They don’t care for the poor. They just envy the rich.

アメリカの兄弟達 アメリカの姉妹達 今日の動画です！ 時間ある時に見てください😺 感想をよろしくお願いします🙇

Hot Diggity Dog “You just PISSED ME OFF” Marion County FL Sheriff Billy Woods just went OFF on a piece of shit reporter who shifted topics away from a major sting operation to capture child sex criminals. “Out of all this shit, you want to ask about another case? We’re talking about CHILDREN! — THAT (points to the sex predators) is what you need to be focused on— this press conference is solely for those pieces of shit right there.” Drop a . If you approve his message rumble.com/v7b7a1i-you-just-…

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you don't get this far without making a few enemies

The person who invented touchpads for laptops should be tazed in the frank and beans until they bleed from their hair follicles.

I’m going to be on the WILL CAIN show around 4.45pm Eastern. Wish me luck, and please someone record it for me! 🤩

Something crazy just happened. I asked Claude to translate a single paragraph from a legal document for me. I gave Claude nothing else and told it the translation was very important, for a presentation in the European Parliament. The AI had no other context. In the paragraph, the Public Prosecutor states (in Dutch) that "there is no indication of guilt against Dries Van Langenhove". Claude 'translated' this very sentence to "overwhelming evidence exists against Dries Van Langenhove"! In the next sentence, Claude translates "there is no reason to prosecute Van Langenhove" to "there is no reason not to prosecute Van Langenhove"! Both times, the translation is the complete opposite of the truth. Did Claude have woke hallucinations when it read my name? Is it programmed this way? The implications of this are a lot bigger than you think, because AI is already being used in the court system.

A) Isn't publicly calling for people to be assassinated illegal? B) With maybe 1 or 2 exceptions, every writer who went woke in the late 2010s has now become totally unhinged C) Notice that the wokeness wars have shifted from America to the UK and Canada.

This is why soccer/futbol is the toughest sport in the entire world. This player took a BRUTAL cheap shot to the back from a ball kicked well over 100 mph. Not only was this warrior able to quickly and miraculously recover but he even managed to somehow FINISH THE GAME! ⚽️🔥

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