I’ll say it:
If a tyrannical government nullifies the voice of constituents by fraudulently erasing their votes, it’s not treason to nullify the same government by countering their fraud and eliminating their candidates, by force if necessary.
The Spirit of 76’ showed us that. As did the WW2 vets of Athens TN in 1946.
A Nazi commander loaded his pistol, pressed the cold metal barrel directly against the forehead of an American soldier, and gave a chilling ultimatum: "Order the Jewish soldiers to step forward, or I will shoot you right now."
What happened next in that frozen prisoner-of-war camp changed history forever, yet the man who stared down death kept it a secret for the rest of his life.
It was January 1945, and the bitter winter of World War II was at its peak. Inside Stalag IX-A, a notorious German prison camp near Ziegenhain, thousands of American soldiers were trapped behind barbed wire. Among them was Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, a twenty-five-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee. As the highest-ranking non-commissioned officer in his section, Edmonds was responsible for the lives of 1,275 men.
One day, the camp commander, a fanatical Nazi major named Siegmann, issued a terrifying directive.
He ordered that the following morning, all American prisoners of Jewish faith must step out of the ranks during roll call. Everyone knew what this meant. Separating the Jewish soldiers was the first step toward sending them to extermination camps.
Inside the dark, freezing barracks, the prisoners panicked. Some of the Jewish soldiers considered stepping forward willingly to protect their Christian brothers from Nazi wrath. But Edmonds refused to let that happen. He looked at his men and gave a clear, definitive order: "Tomorrow, everyone steps forward. Everyone."
The next morning, the ground was thick with snow. Major Siegmann walked out onto the parade ground, expecting to see a small, isolated group of Jewish soldiers standing apart from the rest. Instead, he stopped dead in his tracks. All 1,275 American soldiers had stepped forward together in perfect unison.
The commander turned red with anger and stormed over to Edmonds. "They cannot all be Jews!" Siegmann screamed.
Edmonds stood completely still, looked the Nazi straight in the eyes, and replied: "We are all Jews here."
Enraged, Siegmann drew his Luger pistol and pressed it against Edmonds' forehead. The tension was suffocating. Hundreds of men held their breath, waiting for the gunshot. But Edmonds did not blink.
"According to the Geneva Convention, we only have to give our name, rank, and serial number," Edmonds said, his voice steady and calm. "If you shoot me, you will have to shoot all of us. And when the war ends, you will be tried for war crimes."
Edmonds knew the German army was collapsing and the Allies were advancing. Siegmann knew it too. The Nazi commander looked at the wall of unified men, realized he could not break their spirit, and slowly lowered his gun. He turned around and walked away without saying another word.
Because of that moment of defiance, two hundred Jewish-American soldiers survived the Holocaust. When the war ended, Edmonds returned to Tennessee, married his sweetheart, and raised a family. He never bragged about his actions, never looked for medals, and never even told his own children what he had done. To him, protecting his men was simply his duty.
Decades after his death in 1985, his son uncovered the truth by talking to the survivors. In 2015, Edmonds was officially recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, the highest honor Israel bestows upon non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. He remains the only American soldier to ever receive this recognition.
True heroism does not look for applause, and love will always be louder than hatred.
By standing together in the snow, those soldiers proved that when we refuse to abandon each other, ordinary human beings can become absolutely invincible.
Thank your family for their service.
I ignored your statistics because they don’t support your assertion. If you can’t realize that, no internet conversation will ever add a point to your IQ.
Good ole down-under blunder, right?
I’m sure you’ll troll some more, so I’ll say this and then I’ll ignore you: Look to your own nation, Nigel, or you may not have one for long.
The Mayor of Charlotte is demanding people stop posting this reminder of the lovely innocent Iryna Zarutska butchered by a savage on Charlotte public transit. He was on probation by a liberal activist judge.
Democrats could have let Spencer Pratt take 2nd, then easily defeated him in Nov:
"See, our elections aren't rigged. We let a MAGA friendly win".
Instead, they have fomented total unified visceral utter disgust. The Nation was glued to every single count, watched a 7%-point lead evaporate days after the physical voting ended.
The Establishment fucked up (John Thune, the most hated man in America). They treated this like a sleepy, localized primary that they could manage through standard, bureaucratic slow-rolling. Their ruthless public pursuit of power blinded them that entire country is hyper-sensitized to election integrity RN (thanks be to Trump).
By pushing Nithya Raman past Pratt by a razor-thin margin of 3,113 votes on a Sun. night, they lit a powder keg under the Nation, a 11.0 earthquake.
BS you say?
Read any comments, any local national MSM or any few daring to defend CA elections, on any SM platform. The vitriol of disgust hatred utter contempt for Democrats & RINOs corruption has unified a once deeply divided country.
They thought they were quietly securing a predictable Bass vs. Raman runoff for November. Instead, their smug pretentious Marie Antoinette-esque hatred brought together — the Left, the center, the Right — a shared outrage, turned a local mayoral primary into a national symbol of institutional corruption. They underestimated the public's boiling point, and now they have no idea how to contain the blowback. They so fucked themselves. Psychopathic doesn't even come close. They have healed a broken polarized country, once unimaginable.
Thank you Spencer for your unwavering courage. Thank you Trump for your fierce bellicosity. Thank you Dumocrats for destroying your own party. Thank you Thune, McConnell, Murkowski, Collins, Tillis... the most despised humans in Nation.
@MelbourneNigger@StealConner@ArbitrageAndy1 Things not on my Bingo card today: “Bloke from down-under trying to tell an American man who’s father & uncle both served in-theater in WW2 what American men thought in 1941.”
Stay in your lane, skippy…
82 years ago today, nearly 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, launching the liberation of Europe.
We are free because they were brave. 🇺🇸
The irony is, Ted, that we can spend a lot less money on both line items through simple competence:
1) Maintaining monuments & fountains is much cheaper than fixing them after they fall into disrepair;
2)not paying illegal grifters trillions in fraudulent medical claims lowers healthcare costs.
90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.
Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.
Idiot.
Most of those boys were raised in Depression-era households, where everyone in the family (including young children) worked from sunup to sundown doing something to put food on the table. They were tougher than you’ll ever know.
There was no SNAP, no SSI, no EBT cards, nothing. Families would rather go hungry than to be reduced to the shame of asking their neighbors for food, so people would anonymously leave dishes on the doorsteps of families in need.
There was no Medicare, so if you were sick you kept working until you couldn’t because your kids didn’t eat if you stopped.
Very few were overweight, none were obese, and the Army had to fatten them up as best they could- my Dad weighed 110 lbs when he entered basic training in 1945.
Most of the young men who signed up and defeated Hitler’s war machine already knew hardship, having dealt with it for decades. What they refused to stand for was murderous tyranny, so they toed the battle line and showed their qualities.
I hope for the good of our nation you’ll never be faced with that choice, because we all know you’ll nope out and run the other way.
@mazemoore Why? Because the goal of the Obama Administration was never to rebuild, restore, or redeem America, but rather to demolish, denigrate, and divide America.
🇺🇸As the 82nd anniversary of D-Day nears, I’d like to share a story.
The logistics/medical battalion I commanded in the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan held the lineage and honors of the Division’s original medical battalion (which was company-sized on the night of June 5, 1944).
On the night of June 5, 1944, medics from the 307th Airborne Medical Company jumped in with the Division HQ, and immediately started treating casualties.
Meanwhile, the main body of the Company was loaded up on gliders and landed in a swampy area on the Cotentin Peninsula, where by midnight they had formed up and established a triage and clearing station for the stabilization and evacuation of casualties. On the evening of June 6, Major (Doctor) William H. Houston, the Company commander, was KIA due to enemy action. More reinforcements landed by glider on D+1, and for the next month the 307th stayed right at the front, stabilizing casualties and evacuating them to England.
I went to Normandy a couple of years ago, and did a deep dive on all things 82nd and 101st. As part of that, I hired an English historian to research the 307th, and we visited the sites where they landed and where they established the constantly-moving medical clearing stations.
Below is a picture of a farm building in Normandy that is now a residence. That hand you see is my historian’s, and the picture his iPad shows is the 307th’s clearing station in that same farmhouse.
I thought that was kind of amazing.
When I went to Normandy, I was surprised at how much respect the locals still have to this day for the D-Day warriors, and military tourism there is absolutely thriving, even among Gen Z. (Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan are big reasons, I am told.)
I think it is great that the history of that day lives on so strongly. Never forget.
I gotta go now, Episode 2 of Band of Brothers is coming on. Airborne.🇺🇸🪂🇺🇸
🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: A $15+ MILLION DOE contractor and NoKings protest organizer with active nuclear security contracts is on camera recommending a color revolution "how-to" 🚨🚨
His name is Steven A. Cash. Former CIA officer (Balkans, Clinton era). Under Biden: Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary at DHS Intelligence & Analysis.
The day after Trump's 2016 election, Cash co-founded "The Steady State" — a network of more than 340 former intelligence community officials who decided Trump was an "existential threat".
When Biden won, the threat was gone. Cash went into Biden's DHS. His own words: "we disappeared."
Then Trump won again. "Suddenly the existential threat was back." The Steady State reactivated and is now a planning partner with NoKings. In the clip below, their meeting recommends "Bringing Down a Dictator" — the Otpor documentary about toppling Milošević — as "a how-to."
Meanwhile, Cash's company Deck Prism LLC holds $15+ million in Department of Energy contracts. Almost every one: sole-source or non-competed. One is for the National Nuclear Security Administration — our nuclear weapons program — justified because "disclosure would compromise national security."
His FEC records: 20+ donations over 20 years. 100% Democratic. Zero Republican. Including $1,001 to Kamala Harris on August 4, 2024, while his NNSA nuclear contract was active.
I have the USAspending receipts, the FEC filings, and him on camera twice.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
Because it was a No-bid contract….
No bureaucracy.
No years of delays.
No NGO comment period.
No consultant class feeding at the trough.
No kickbacks disguised as “stakeholder engagement.”
No public debate about turning it into a 2,000-foot LGBTQ flag.
No marketing campaign to advance woke agendas.
No funneling cash “straight to the local community” through Tammany Hall-style grinders.
Just results.
They vastly prefer the model perfected by @PeteButtigieg’s $2T infrastructure spending spree.
Because bureaucratic bullies never want their misdeeds to see the light of day. I lived 50 miles away from Granby at the time this happened, and no local ever forgot what Heemeyer did, though the news media sure did.
Bureaucrats everywhere should be afraid of the clusterfuck their petty tyranny creates when they leave a formerly law-abiding citizenry no recourse.
🚨Karmelo Anthony is GUILTY.🚨
As a teacher of 10 years and a Black Christian man, I’m removing ALL racial bias and calling it straight:
He brought a weapon to school — that alone is an automatic crime and grounds for expulsion. Then he put himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and chose to stab another kid instead of walking away.
This is an open-and-shut case. Without the politics and racial tension being forced into it, everyone would see the facts clearly: Karmelo Anthony killed that boy.
I pray for the victim and his family. Justice must prevail over narrative.
#KarmeloAnthony #JusticeForTheVictim #NoExcuses #BringWeaponsToSchoolGetExpelled #FactsOverFeelings #EndThePoliticization #BlackManSpeakingTruth