Alex Beecher

Old Jarhead. Tend to be sarcastic. Not a Commie. I want my Constitutional Rights back.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

I just met Desiree Townsend in DC & was impressed - she has forced/shamed the mainstream media into covering this by doing her job the way they should have been doing theirs, tracking down the 911 calls, constantly going back to the hospital for updates, keeping pressure on his office/staff etc. If you’re interested in this, folo her reporting.

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Woman quickly eats food before her card declines

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

After the Civil War, Texas was broke, beaten and land rich, and it had one asset nobody could immediately use. Cattle. Millions of them. Wild, long horned, half feral descendants of Spanish stock, running loose across the open range and worth almost nothing where they stood, because the people who wanted beef were a thousand miles away in the cities of the East, and there was no way to get a live steer to them.

A steer worth four dollars in Texas was worth ten times that in Chicago. All you had to do was move it. So they moved it, on foot.

This is the origin of the whole mythology. The great trail drives of the eighteen sixties and seventies, cowboys pushing herds of thousands north across the plains to the railheads of Kansas, the Chisholm Trail, the dust and the river crossings and the stampedes. It was not romance to the men doing it. It was brutal, filthy, dangerous work, moving protein to market the only way then possible.

At the railhead the cattle went into boxcars and rode to Chicago, to the killing floors of the Union Stock Yards, the greatest concentration of slaughter the world had ever assembled, turning living animals into food on a scale no civilisation had come close to.

Then the last piece dropped into place. The refrigerated rail car. Once Gustavus Swift worked out how to ship chilled dressed beef instead of live animals, the whole clumsy chain collapsed into something ruthless and efficient. Kill in Chicago, chill the beef, rail it anywhere. The price of a good beef dinner fell and fell.

By the end of the century the results were staggering. America was producing and eating more beef than any nation in history. The working man in a Pittsburgh mill or a New York tenement, a man who in the old country would have tasted meat on feast days, was eating beef several times a week and thinking nothing of it. Cheap, abundant, muscle building protein, poured into the bodies of the people who were, at that exact moment, building the richest industrial nation on earth.

The cost was real and it was paid by others. The open range was fenced. The bison that had fed the Plains tribes were slaughtered nearly to the last animal, and the tribes who lived on them were starved onto reservations to make room for the cattle. None of that was gentle and none of it should be dressed up.

But the engine it built is not in doubt. A country that fed cheap beef to its factory workers grew a workforce that out produced the world. The steak was not a luxury bolted onto American power. It was part of the foundation the whole thing was poured on.

The cowboy became the national myth for a reason. He was moving the thing the entire country was quietly running on.

[𝔉🅰𝒏 Karoline Leavitt @WHLeavitt]

Three women charged in brutal racial attack on White woman outside Texas club — linked to Karmelo Anthony fallout.

They face Assault Causing Bodily Injury after allegedly jumping the victim in a Longview parking lot on June 21.

Prosecute them fully?

A. Yes
B. No

[Andrew Zywiec, M.D. @AndrewZywiecMD]

Someone needs to kick her teeth down her throat. Not kidding.

[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

We need to stop calling these “teen takeovers” and start calling them what they are.

Pretend pretending race has nothing to do with it is just willful blindness.

You don’t see white or Asian kids doing the same thing.

[White Girl @WhiteGirl1776]

Black female to White man: “we will replace you, you will be the minority soon, we’re replacing you, White people will be working for black people”

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

To date, I have never read another Medal Of Honor citation like this.
What a human. Read this and tell me if you ever have?

Donald Gilbert Cook, serving with the Naval Advisor Group, U.S. Military Assistance Command, USMC, was interned as a Prisoner of War by the Viet Cong in the Republic of Vietnam during the period from 31 December 1964 to 8 December 1967.

Despite the fact that by so doing he would bring about harsher treatment for himself, Colonel (then Captain) Cook established himself as the senior prisoner, even though in actuality he was not.

Repeatedly assuming more than his share of the manual labor in order that the other Prisoners of War could improve the state of their health, Col. Cook willingly and unselfishly put the interests of his comrades before that of his own well-being and, eventually, his life.

Giving more needy men his medicine and drug allowance while constantly nursing them, he risked infection from contagious diseases while in a rapidly deteriorating state of health.

This unselfish and exemplary conduct, coupled with his refusal to stray even the slightest from the U.S. Military Code of Conduct, earned him the deepest respect from not only his fellow prisoners, but some of his captors as well.

Rather than negotiate for his own release or better treatment, Col. Cook steadfastly frustrated attempts by the Viet Cong to break his indomitable spirit, and passed this same resolve on to the men with whose well-being he so closely associated himself.

Knowing his refusals would prevent his release prior to the end of the war, and also knowing his chances for prolonged survival would be small in the event of continued refusal, he chose nevertheless to adhere to the U.S. Military Code of Conduct - far above that which could be expected.

Colonel Cook, a son of Brooklyn, died on December 8, 1967 in a jungle Viet Cong Prisoner of War camp in the Republic of Vietnam.

His remains were never recovered.

For his enduring personal valor and exceptional spirit of loyalty in the face of almost certain death, Donald Gilbert Cook, a son of Brooklyn, was posthumously awarded the Medal Of Honor. He is the only Marine in history to receive it as a Prisoner of War.

Donald, we honor you.
Please honor this amazing Man by reposting so he is not forgotten
Thank you

[Alex Beecher @AlexBeecher5]

@Neccccy Fuck off.

[Genius Tech @Geniustechw]

How to fix this culture?

[Alex Beecher @AlexBeecher5]

@Geniustechw Learn to fight! Learn to recognize when you’re about to get punched out if you don’t put ‘em up, and fight dirty.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Meet Samuel Davis, he's the little POS that stabbed a convenience store clerk multiple times who died at the scene

Why?

Because he refused to sell him a 99-cent tobacco product since he was underage.

WTF is wrong with these people?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

A woman of possible foreign descent in America is seen trying to steal a huge amount of meat from the grocery store

She’s confronted by security and told she can empty all the meat out and leave without being arrested

In her luxury Michael Kors purse she pulls out package after package of meat she planned on stealing

She should have been arrested

Reminder

- A Black person is approximately 3x more likely to be arrested for larceny/theft/shoplifting than a White person, based on national arrest data
- Hispanics are 2.5x more likely than Whites

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Charlotte NC police have confirmed they ARRESTED 19 "teens" and CITED 8 PARENTS after July 4th festivals turned into brawls in the streets.

Kids as young as TWELVE-YEARS-OLD were seen out until 2AM BEATING each other, THROWING FIREWORKS AT BYSTANDERS, and multiple WEAPONS were found hidden on the teens.

WE DON'T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Authorities in California were forced to shut down businesses from Newport Pier to Pacific Coast Highway due to non-residents wreaking havoc on July 4th.

Hundreds of people reportedly swarmed police officers and threw debris at them before fighting each other.

Newport Beach stores were also looted, according to local reports, including a Pavilions grocery store. Video footage shows a massive amount of trash and debris left outside the store.

Authorities say about 100 people were arrested and multiple police officers were injured.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

This is why women live longer. 🤣🤣🤣

[𝔉🅰𝒏 Karoline Leavitt @WHLeavitt]

A black teen who got out of a stolen vehicle and shot and murdered a USPS worker in cold blood while she delivered mail was sentenced to just 5 years in juvenile detention.

With good behavior, out in 3.5 YEARS!

Execute this monster and jail the woke judge?

A. Yes
B. No

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

2014 clip shows how much Elon Musk appreciates taxpayers.

Host: Taxpayers essentially loaned you, Tesla, almost 500 million dollars. How much of that do you still owe?

Elon Musk: We paid the whole loan back with interest and a prepayment penalty last year.

Host: Did you have to do that? It wasn’t due, was it?

Elon Musk: I know it was not due for another ten years or something.

Host: Why did you pay it off early?

Elon Musk: The taxpayers supported Tesla. We ought to repay them as soon as we can. And since we had the ability to do it and the stock markets were good, we thought, “Well, let’s pay it back with interest and a thank you note, by the way,” which said, you know, “I really, really appreciate it. Thank you.”

[Loud Outside @LoudOutside]

The 16-year-old boy who left a 68-year-old woman with severe injuries outside her church had reportedly been arrested and released nine times before the incident

Just three days before the church incident, Jayvaun Prince had reportedly taken a 50-year-old woman’s vehicle

Prince had also been arrested twice in previous incidents and has faced charges in six robbery cases

[Tony Lane 🇺🇸 @TonyLaneNV]

An 18-year-old walked up to an unmarked NYPD police vehicle in Crown Heights Brooklyn at 4 in the morning on the 4th of July - video shows him waving a gun moments before he opened fire and shot Detective Robert Carroll directly in the back.

That bulletproof vest is the only reason this story does not end in tragedy. Carroll had already been working a 12-hour shift protecting New Yorkers at the Sail4th 250 celebration when this happened.

He is a husband and a father of three children and tonight he is home because that vest did its job.

The 18-year-old was Tasered, chased down, and taken into custody a few blocks away. And if that was not enough for one July 4th weekend in Brooklyn - a masked gunman also opened fire at a family barbecue in Coney Island wounding 8 people including four children as young as 6 years old.

These officers and these families deserve better.

Prayers!
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