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@ProfessorPape If you don’t know what you’re talking about, you can just say nothing. That’s an option.

Khamenei in the afterlife: George Washington walks up to him and kicks him so hard in the nuts they explode. "How dare you threaten my nation!" he bellows. While Khamenei's writhing on the ground, Thomas Jefferson walks over and stomps on his head, shattering his jaw. "You asshole!" cries Jefferson. While Khamenei's trying to get his feet under him Light Horse Harry Lee pulls out his sabre and runs him through a couple dozen times. "I fought fair, you coward! You targeted children!" As another huge American stalks over, Khamenei, holding his jaw together, cries out "Wait wait!" An angel appears. "Yes?" he asks. Khamenei wails incoherently, "It's not supposed to BE like this!" The angel says, "Well, you see, the Quran had a slight error when it was transcribed. It turns out that you meet 72 VIRGINIANS in the afterlife."

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24

4 months ago

BREAKING: Senior Israeli official to Reuters: “Khamenei is dead, his body has been found”

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I’ve been thinking about this post all day. Moral injury isn’t something that is talked about enough. Often, it’s just lumped in with PTSD…but it’s different. Moral injury is when everything you were taught in life such as values and norms, are turned on their head. Things you’d been taught since childhood were proved wrong. It’s when bad things happen to good people or innocent people, such as little kids, and you can’t stop it from happening. It’s from giving an order that gets someone hurt or killed. It’s from not taking an action when you could have but didn’t. More people should talk about moral injuries, but the very things that cause those injuries are so uncomfortable, that people would rather suffer in silence.

SGM Mike Vining @ Blasting Through Official @BlastingThrough

5 months ago

A group of us believe that moral injury is a significant factor in suicides.  Moral injury is also known as "Soul wound" and "Soldier's Heart."  The key is to repair the injury to begin the healing process. If the moral injury remains silent, it can't be helped; seek help.

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As a man, nothing is more fulfilling than finding the woman you want to spend the rest of your life with, treating her right every single day, and building a family together. Influencers and media personalities will tell you it’s money and fame and status and whatever else… it’s not. Find her. Treat her right. Marry her. Have babies with her. Raise your family with her. Grow old with her. Nothing else you do will ever compare to the happiness this will bring you. This is your legacy, and it’s the only legacy that matters.

Lots of people puzzled by what Trump's up to but it'll all become clear when he takes Kamchatka

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Walter Curt @wcdispatch

6 months ago

This is the listed location of the auditing firm that performed the audits for both the Minnesota and Ohio on the NGOs we have linked to potential fraud. You cannot make this stuff up.

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I’ve been asked for this more times than I can count, so here it is. The rumors are true. @ShawnRyan762 and I teamed up to launch a new podcast: The Watch Floor. After my appearances on the @shawnryanshow, a lot of people reached out to his team at Vigilance Elite asking for something different—not more content, but better context. The Watch Floor breaks down emerging threats and global events through a need-to-know lens, so you understand the risk, the relevance, and what to watch for next. We dropped a sneak peek of the first episode today on Vigilance Elite’s Patreon: patreon.com/posts/14748608… The show then launches tomorrow on YouTube: youtube.com/@thewatchfloor… Welcome to The Watch Floor.

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Every Christmas Eve, I think about George Bailey. He dreamed of escaping Bedford Falls—of shaking off the dust of a small town, building skyscrapers, exploring the world. Instead, he stayed. He ran the Building & Loan his father left behind. He sacrificed his college money, his honeymoon savings, his chance to see the world, over and over, because people needed him. By the time the crisis hits, George feels like a failure. His life looks like one long series of missed opportunities, thwarted ambitions, and quiet resentments. He stands on the bridge, convinced the world would be better without him. Then Clarence shows him the truth: a Bedford Falls without George Bailey is a darker, meaner, hollowed-out place. The people he quietly helped, the small acts of integrity he performed without recognition, the risks he took to protect others—those weren’t detours. They were the substance of his life. The film’s deepest insight isn’t just that “no man is a failure who has friends.” It’s that real impact is almost always invisible in the moment. The lives you steady, the small kindnesses you extend, the responsibilities you shoulder when no one else will—these things ripple outward in ways you may never see. A strong sense of purpose doesn’t erase pain; it transforms it. It doesn’t merely explain why hard things happened. It asks: What are you now responsible for because they happened? Faith, at its best, does the same. It doesn’t promise that everything was “meant to be” in order to make suffering palatable. It invites you to look at what has been entrusted to you in light of what you’ve endured. George’s story reminds us that meaning is rarely found in the grand escape, but in the faithful presence. The dreams we surrender don’t always vanish—they often become the raw material for something more enduring than we imagined. If you’re carrying the weight of roads not taken, of dreams deferred, of a life that feels smaller than you once hoped—watch It’s a Wonderful Life again tonight. Not as nostalgia, but as revelation. You may not see the full difference you’ve made yet. But it’s there. And it matters more than you know. Merry Christmas, friends. 🎄🇨🇽🎅🦌☃️⛪️✝️❤️

75 years ago today, the Chuck Jones masterpiece Rabbit of Seville was released. If you are of a certain age, chances are Bugs Bunny introduced you to opera.

In 1899, the congregation paid $2,500 for this M. P. Möller Opus 260 — built while the company’s founder, Danish immigrant Mathias Peter Möller, was still personally overseeing every instrument that left his Hagerstown shop (he would go on to build more pipe organs than anyone in history). In 1978, a team began what would become the organ’s only major restoration. When they lifted the swell-box lid they found an 1899 Indian-head penny and a folded slip of paper wedged behind the Oboe resonator. On it, in faded pencil was written:“God bless this church – J. Müller, Hagerstown, Oct 12, 1899.” Danville, Virginia📍

Diary of Abandonment @thequeenofrust

7 months ago

A Victorian Gothic church built in 1879 that houses the oldest pipe organ in Danville, Virginia, a 1899 M.P. Möller Opus 260 still in its original chamber. Danville, Virginia📍

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Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762

7 months ago

This is my defense’s response to the cease-and-desist letter from Congressman Dan Crenshaw. @RepDanCrenshaw @DanCrenshawTX

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U.S. Navy divers performed the sacred duty of escorting the final remains of Boatswain's Mate Second Class John D. Anderson, returning this true American hero to the hallowed wreck of the USS Arizona (BB-39). Seventy-five years ago, John refused to leave the burning ship until he could find his twin brother, Delbert. He's one of the last man who survived, carrying the profound sorrow of separation for a lifetime of service and resilience. That agonizing wait ends. John's ashes now rest within Turret Four, finally reunited with the brother he never stopped searching for. The promise has been kept. He sleeps with the 1,177 crewmates who still stand silent watch. Together again, forever

I just visited a shop class in Great Falls, Montana where high school students are building houses for people who need a place to call home. Let that sink in for a moment. High schoolers in Great Falls Montana, under the guidance of an excellent shop instructor and lots of community support, are building actual houses. Not birdhouses or doll houses – real homes, built to code from the ground up for real people, and move-in ready. Yesterday, I toured the latest home these kids are in the process of building. It’s the 48th such home built since 1998, through this remarkable program. While I was there, I ran into @GregForMontana. Like me, the Governor was blown away by what these kids were doing and took the time to talk to each one of them, thanking them for their hard work and congratulating them for what they’d accomplished. I was then invited to join the Governor on stage at Great Falls High, where I answered a few questions about mikeroweWORKS, talked about the many opportunities in the skilled trades, and discussed the ways we might be able to encourage more projects like this one, in Montana and beyond. It's encouraging to see public/private partnerships done right. And really, it’s not that complicated; it just takes a few stubborn people in various organizations who won't take no for an answer. In this case, too many to name, but a quick shout out to Pete Pace, the shop teacher at the center of High School Homes, the administrators in the school district, the principal at Great Falls High, Sherrie Arey and her devoted crew at @neighborworks, the incredibly generous executives at @WellsFargo who offered another round of financial support, and a Governor with the good sense to push through the normal bureaucratic nonsense that kills programs like this. Bravo to all! Mike PS. This is the third time in two months I’ve seen a program like this in action. The first was in Western North Carolina, (Rebuilding the Hollars), the second was in New Orleans, (@uCCNOLA.) The projects all have one thing in common - a shop class with an exceptional instructor. Like I said, it takes support from every direction, but a high school shop class is always where it starts. For years, I’ve argued that removing shop class from high schools was a mistake that would deny a whole generation of students’ critical exposure to a long list of essential careers and rob them of an opportunity to prepare for the all-important apprenticeships on which most skilled careers are built. Today, standing in the shop class at Great Falls, watching dozens of engaged students cutting, hammering, measuring, and fabricating, it occurred to me that I was wrong. Taking shop class out of high school was not merely a mistake - it was the single dumbest decision in the history of modern education. We didn't just rob a whole generation of students, we robbed ourselves, in a colossal, self-inflicted wound that's led directly to a host of unintended consequences - including the current shortages in every essential skilled trade. Correcting it, should be at or near the top of every Governor’s agenda in every single state. Because tomorrow’s skilled workforce is currently in the 8th grade, and if we don’t meet these kids where they are - right now - with programs like this, we’re in for a world of hurt.

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Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission. Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in Qatar by the CIA. Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy. It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.” Obama and Hillary committed TREASON! THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not. Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo. Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal. So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.

🚨HOLY COW: @ElonMusk has announced his support for Warren Buffett’s plan to eliminate the deficit in 5 minutes: “Just pass a law that says, ‘Anytime there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection.’” Do you support this?

It shouldn’t be illegal for me to sell my neighbor a pork chop or a pound of ground beef from an animal born, raised and processed on my farm I will not comply Food is fundamental to life and government shouldn’t be involved in a food transaction between neighbors

Signal boosting on this for Sergeant Kevin Lloyd, who I did two deployments with. A record correction package has been sitting on the Naval Board of Corrections for over a month. It would update his record to reflect that he’s dying from an instrumentality of war, which would ensure his family receives full benefits as if he were killed in combat. Because of the government shutdown, that package still hasn’t been approved. This Marine is on his deathbed because of cancer directly related to burn pits. @SenTedCruz and @RepLuttrell, you represent this Marine and his family. He’s in his final hours. Move heaven and Earth to make sure his family is taken care of, because I know you’ve already seen the messages my brothers have left on your phone lines. Stop talking about it. Be about it, for once.

Why is an American UN official lobbying on behalf of the al-Qaeda terrorists who killed U.S. Ambassador Stevens? Yes — you read that correctly. Stephanie Khoury, Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs in the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), pressured the head of RADA Special Deterrence Forces, Abdel Raouf Kara, to release 56 individuals from custody as a supposed “good faith” gesture to the UN and U.S. government—included in that list were 50 battle-hardened terrorists from al-Qaeda and ISIS, some of whom attacked our U.S. Consulate and the CIA Annex in Benghazi over the course of September 11 and 12, 2012. Even more alarming: the list wasn’t generated ethically. It was drafted by Al‑Sadiq Al‑Ghariani, the Grand Mufti of the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda in Libya, with direct input from senior al-Qaeda and ISIS leadership, then funneled via Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibah to Khoury, as if no one would question a chain of custody directly from al-Qaeda. So how do we have an American diplomat lobbying for both al-Qaeda and ISIS? This is 100% illegal under U.S. federal material support to terrorism laws. Are there different rules for her? Is she somehow exempt? And why in the world would we even consider freeing terrorists who murdered a beloved U.S. Ambassador, two rockstar former Navy SEALs—Tyrone Woods and Glenn Doherty—the infamous “Vile Rat,” State Department’s Sean Smith, and destroyed two U.S. diplomatic facilities, including a CIA compound? What the hell is happening and is everyone asleep at the wheel? @TheJusticeDept @StateDept @USAmbUN @SecRubio @realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr @PamBondi @repstevenlynch @AllenWest @Jim_Jordan @michaelgwaltz @HouseForeignGOP @HouseForeign @timburchett @RepEliCrane @SenTedCruz @HarmeetKDhillon @BentonDave28405 @KTantoP @MarkGeistSWP @TigTiegen @BradleyPodliska @BenghaziNotes @BenghaziAttacks

Since our nations CT “expert” (cough, cough) Gorka doesn’t allow me to comment or retweet his post—here is something he pointed out today—“And hostages fall under my portfolio as Senior Director of Counterterrorism for President @realDonaldTrump.” So, it’s Gorka who is responsible for not freeing American hostage Mahmood Shah Habibi in Afghanistan as we continue to give hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to the Taliban! Roger! Champion of doing the bare minimum….