Becase politicians are paid actors.
Government is written theater.
You have no representation and no democracy.
The sooner you realize this, the sooner we can actually move forward.
๐จ HOLY CRAP! SecWar Pete Hegseth just INFURIATED Sen. Elizabeth Warren with this epic line
"What I give, what you give, what others give, I'm not looking for MONEY. I don't do it for money. I don't do it for profit. I don't do it for stocks, and that's part of the reason why I'm able to be effective in this job, because no one OWNS ME!"
"No one owns this department. No one owns this president, and we can execute for the American people, and we do!" @DOWResponse
*Warren melts down* ๐คฃ๐ฅ
84 years ago today, a pilot running out of fuel made a decision that won the Pacific War. Most Americans have never heard his name.
June 4, 1942. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's navy is undefeated. Four of the carriers that burned Pearl, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, are steaming toward Midway to finish off the US Pacific Fleet.
At 7:52 AM, Wade McClusky launches from USS Enterprise leading 32 Dauntless dive bombers. Here's the detail nobody mentions: McClusky is a fighter pilot. He'd been given the air group weeks earlier and had barely flown a dive bomber in combat. Now he's leading every SBD the Enterprise has at the most important target in the Pacific.
9:20 AM. He arrives at the intercept point where the Japanese fleet is supposed to be.
Empty ocean. Nothing for miles.
The Japanese had turned. Nobody knew where. And now McClusky owns the worst math problem in naval aviation: his fuel is bleeding away, and every minute he keeps searching, he condemns more of his own pilots to ditch in open water where nobody will find them.
Doctrine is clear. Turn back.
McClusky keeps going. He works a search pattern, squeezing miles out of dying fuel tanks.
9:55 AM. Far below, a single Japanese destroyer is cutting a white scar across the ocean at flank speed. It's the Arashi, racing to rejoin the fleet after depth-charging the American submarine Nautilus. Think about that. A failed sub attack is about to give away the entire Japanese navy.
McClusky reads the wake like an arrow and follows it.
10:02 AM. The horizon fills with the entire Japanese strike force. Four carriers, their decks crammed with planes being refueled and rearmed. Fuel lines snaking everywhere. Bombs stacked in the open.
And here's the miracle: the sky above them is empty. Minutes earlier, American torpedo squadrons had attacked at sea level and been annihilated. Torpedo 8 lost all 15 planes. One survivor, Ensign George Gay, watched what came next while hiding under his seat cushion in the water. Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open.
10:22 AM. McClusky pushes over from 14,500 feet. Both squadrons follow him down onto Kaga. It's actually a mistake, doctrine said split the targets, but Lt. Dick Best catches it mid-dive, pulls out with two wingmen, and goes after Akagi alone. His single bomb pierces the flight deck into the packed hangar. It's enough.
By 10:28, Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu, the third hit simultaneously by Yorktown's bombers, are floating infernos. Six minutes. Three carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone. Hiryu follows them to the bottom that evening.
The cost of McClusky's gamble was real. Many Enterprise bombers never made it home, some shot down, others swallowed by the sea when their tanks ran dry. McClusky himself was jumped by two Zeros on the way out, took five bullets through his shoulder, and still flew his shot-up Dauntless back to the Enterprise.
Admiral Nimitz said McClusky's decision "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway." Japan never won another major battle.
One borrowed pilot. One destroyer's wake. One choice to keep flying when every gauge said go home.
U.S. Attorney in LA: File emergency federal injunction to halt counting of unverified mail ballots in Mayor & Governor races. Demand full forensic audit of dropboxes and chain of custody. Bass/Becerra surges canโt stand while Spencer Pratt & Steve Hilton get cheated. Federal court intervention NOW!
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If Friday had a Face Iโd kiss it! You know what rhymes with Friday? TITOโS๐ธ๐
Doesnโt it suck that we pay government officials to scam us and commit crimes against us then watch them cover everything up?!๐คฌ
Time for justice โ๏ธ
Now letโs go do Friday shit๐
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is 69 years old
She is up for reelection in 2028. She will be 79 at the end of her next erm.
Alaska ... you need to elect some one young.
Send Murkowski to the garbage dump
If you think USPS isn't tracking all the ballots they've been delivering for 2 days now, the routes, the times they pick them up and where they deliver them to, and logging it all with their GPS?
You don't understand what's about to happen.
GPS is admissible in court. :)
TREASON ๐จ
John Thune praising Susan Collins for casting her 10Kth vote
She's votes against Trump almost all the time, voted against Hegseth/Kash & the Save America Act amendment
Why wasn't Susan Collins primaried, she's a Thune ally... she's a traitor
BREAKING: Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) is about to introduce
the House-passed version of the SAVE America Act to the Senate floor.
To my understanding, this would be the first actual time the Senate would vote on the SAVE America Act.
It's beyond obvious now that The Senate cannot allow The SAVE ACT to advance even if 100% of American voters (instead of just 80-85%) approve of it BECAUSE many in Congress are NOT elected - they are installed. Anything preventing this crime cannot be approved @ScottPresler@BasedMikeLee