Scot

[Hatton, America is back @jnottah]

April 1967, a 20-year-old farm boy from South Dakota did something that would change the Vietnam War--he fell off his ship.
Seaman Douglas Hegdahl was standing on the deck of the USS Canberra when the recoil from a five-inch gun knockeo him overboard into the Gulf of Tonkin. He treaded water for five hours. then swam for seven more.
When fishermen finally pulled him from the sea, they handed him to North Vietnamese forces
The interrogators didn't believe his story. They thought he was a spy, a commando, someone important. Thev beat him and threw him into the Hanoi Hilton-the most notorious prison of the war.
But Hegdahl made a choice that woula save hundreds of lives. He became "The Incredibly Stupid One." He played up his country accent. He stared wide-eyed at things he'd never seen before. When they ordered him to write a confession he claimed he couldn't read or write. The guards, used to illiterate peasants in their own country, believed him completely, They even assigned someone to teach him--who eventually gave up, convinced Hegdahl was hopeless.
What they didn't know was that Hegdah. had a photographic memory and the
discipline of a soldier. Because they thought he was harmless, the guards let him sweep the prison vards. He walked between cellblocks. He memorized the layout of the camp and the route into Hanoi. He even sabotaged enemy trucks by adding dirt to their fue tanks.
But his real mission was gathering intelligence.
With the help of fellow prisoner Joe Crecca, Heqdahl set out to memorize something impossible: the names, ranks, Social Security numbers, and persona details of over 250 fellow American prisoners. How do you remember 250 names under torture, starvation, and the constant threat of death? He used "Old MacDonald Had a Farm."
Every day, Hegdahl repeated the names to the tune of the children's song. Over and over. Names became melodies. Data became memory. While the guards laughed at the "stupid' American humming in the prison yard, he was conducting one of the most important intelligence operations of the war.
When North Vietnam offered early release as a propaganda tool, Hegdahl initially refused-prisoners had sworn an oath to leave together or not at all But his commanding officer, Captain Dick Stratton, ordered him to go. "You're carrying the names,'' Stratton told him.
"Their families need to know they're alive." On August 5, 1969, Headahl walked out of the Hanoi Hilton.
When he returned to the United States, he recited every single name. Every rank. Every identifying detail. His memory transformed 250+ missing men into confirmed prisoners of war. At the Paris Peace Talks in 1970, he confronted North Vietnamese negotiators with firsthand accounts of torture-and the pressure he brought helped secure the eventual role,
brought helped secure the eventual release of all American POWs. That farm boy who "fell off a ship" had just freed an entire army.
Decades later, in 1998, Hegdahl stood before an audience of veterans and families at the Richard Nixon Library. Thirty years after his release, he stood and sang --to the tune of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"-the names of 256 men he'd memorized in captivity. Not one name forgotten.
Sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones vour enemv thinks are harmless. Sometimes genius wears the mask of stupidity. And sometimes, a child's lullaby becomes the most powerful weapon of all.

[Wendy Rogers @WendyRogersAZ]

Doug Hegdahl was cited over and over again as a textbook-genius POW during our aircrew SERE School (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) at Fairchild AFB WA in 1981.

[Scot @BarrioTucson]

@jk_rowling Mental health disaster. He needs serious help.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you don’t think he’s a woman, you’re transphobic. When he claimed to be a woman, he became a woman. He now belongs in women’s changing rooms, bathrooms, hospital wards, prison cells and rape support centres.

If you try and differentiate between him and a trans woman who looks more convincing as a woman, you are promoting patriarchal beauty norms. If you admit to seeing an aggressive and possibly unbalanced man in this video, you’re saying all trans people are mentally ill predators. If you refuse to let him into female-only spaces, you’re removing his right to exist. If you suggest he could comfortably use male facilities, you secretly want him assaulted. If you refuse to call him ‘she’, you are guilty of unpardonable cruelty. If you’re a woman who wouldn’t want to share a locker room with him, or a man who wouldn’t want your daughter, sister or mother to get undressed in close proximity to him, you belong to the far-right. If you point out that there is no objective difference between his claim to be a woman and that of any other biological male claiming a trans identity, you are too stupid to understand the circular arguments explaining why he’s not really trans whereas other men who say they’re women are really trans.

If you’re righteous, you must argue that this man’s self-declared identity overrides any consideration of the safety and rights of females. To be godly, you must agree he’s as ‘valid’ as every other trans woman, because people are who they say they are. No matter what your eyes, ears and common sense are telling you, if you don’t want to end up on the wrong side of history, you must pretend to believe that this angry, intimidating man is actually a vulnerable, oppressed woman.

[NATIVE_AMERICAN_BITCH_FROM_THA_SLAPAHOE_TRIBE 𖧶🪓 @TRUMPGIRL_STL]

@jk_rowling alls i can say is OMG!! WTF IS THAT!!

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Her nose ring is the reason that I’m mostly attracted to her.

[Scot @BarrioTucson]

@TRUMPGIRL_STL @BreitbartNews Then he needs to reformat it.

[Vee Ty @Ty81885Vee]

@TRUMPGIRL_STL I SAY MERGE THE WNBA AND THE NBA TOGETHER AND LET THESE HARD ASS WNBA WOMEN PLAY WITH THE MEN IF THEY WANT TO!

[Merissa Caldwell 🗳 ⛽ 🗽🔥 @MerissaCaldwell]

That's because Katie Hobbs can't complete full sentences without reading them from an iPad🫤

[Scot @BarrioTucson]

@libsoftiktok If SCOTUS has ruled then ignore her.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Obama-appointed Judge Allison Burroughs is BLOCKING the Trump admin from ending TPS for Somalians

SCOTUS already ruled on this! Who does she think she is?!

[Veterans For Arizona @VeteransforAz]

Word around the Hobbs Campaign is that she's having a difficult time finding a Lt Governor because she keeps getting turned down.

No one wants to hitch their wagon to her star.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS announces the FREEDOM HAULERS initiative — getting illegal alien truck drivers off American roadways and replacing them with PROUD AMERICAN VETERANS.

https://t.co/xuS1XzpGJS

[Mitch @Mitchboobigly]

@GideonHenry @ClayTravis @StephanieWhite So much for standing up for women. What a coward.

[⚡️Gideon Henry⚡️🇺🇸🍊 @GideonHenry]

Omg did she really say that? MEN,MALES, people with testicles have NO BUSINESS playing in Women’s, Female’s Sports. @StephanieWhite is an idiot if she truly thinks that and should be no where near women’s athletics. She is so worried about being accepted by the crazy woke crowd she won’t speak up for REAL WOMEN.

[Joel E. Turner @NFLAgents_net]

What a sickening and pathetic excuse for someone to not be able to say what everyone learned in kindergarten or somewhere before or right after then: boys and girls are different. Men and boys do not belong in Women's and girl's only sports. No amount of mental illness overcomes this basic tenant.

[Andy Griffith @Comm0nSense79]

@ClayTravis @JamesBay63837 I have been over this from the start. This is insanity we are STILL talking about this. Keep boys out of girls sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms. This trans crap has to be stopped. It is not open for debate any longer, especially in schools. This lady is a 🤡

[Thomas Jefferson Napalm™️ @BasedDetails]

no. they know. they know what is right. they know what men and women are, definitionally. everyone fucking knows.

but they lack a spine. she want's not part of being held accountable for what she believes.

the easy button is to say no men in women's sports. but she knows that they will come for her with TERF and all the other leftist bullshit.

it's doctors and COVID and jabs all over again.

[Terry Mueller @TerryMu97456187]

@ClayTravis @WomenAreReals WNBA Is a joke. Women not promoting women when you coach a women’s team? Are they going to allow trans to play? What is wrong with people. 1% believes men should play in women’s sports, why do they pander to these freaks? This died in 2024.

[Francis @ManningJul45727]

@ClayTravis @WomenAreReals Is she "educated enough from a scientific standpoint" to distinguish a living person from a dead one? A puddle from an ocean? A cotton ball from a marshmallow?

Word salad: favored by cowards and imbeciles.