Ed Applegate 🇺🇸

Father, husband, avid gamer.If you love your freedom thank a veteran. All gave some but some gave all. #turn22to0 America= Freedom’s Final Stand. 🇺🇸

[RexValachorum² @BDemonrats]

@mtaibbi "But...but.. that wasn't real socialism"
Romanian who lived under Ceaușescu's regime here. Do you know how many times I read this reply on X? 😆

[Dan Bongino @dbongino]

Today is July 16, 2026 and Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States of America.

[Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 @TheRicanMemes]

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[M2 @Amer1can_Barbie]

Night y’all 😘

[Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 @TheRicanMemes]

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[Miles Commodore @miles_commodore]

One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, width, weight, wheelbase, and wheel track as the ’64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest.

[Denise 🇺🇸 @NoDMsPerfavore]

Look! I’ve found the source of the explosive diarrhea 🤣

[Benjamin Domenech @bdomenech]

Yeah, and O.J. spent most days of his life not murdering people

[Ed Applegate 🇺🇸 @EdApplegate1]

@heyitscaseymae

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

The Buffalo Bills have just released their new logo for the upcoming 2026 season.

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[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

LOL - Stop it.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

This is one of the most brilliant moves Hegseth has made. Here’s why:

Experienced pilots are freaking out in my DMs about these close flybys. Even some based people I follow and love, like @MCCCANM, are questioning them while my son’s class of young student aviators can’t stop talking about how cool it is but also everything that could go wrong.

The truth is, we don’t want every flyboy buzzing beaches and towers like Maverick.

What made that scene in Top Gun cool was that Maverick truly was the best of the best.

That scene would not be funny if some shaky pilot who just got his wings ripped past the tower in a T-6B.

The irony is in the contrast between the best of the best and some desk jockey who out ranks him worried about spilling his coffee.

This scene is so important to the plot the directors included it twice! It’s more important to understanding Top Gun than the combat scene with migs because it’s more relatable.

Every Blue Angel is as good as Maverick.

But what is the purpose of the Blue Angels? It’s not combat. It’s to show the American people, and our adversaries, how good we really are.

Go back and read my post from the 4th of July at how difficult it was to see the blue angels and navy ships which Mamdani requested, and the admirals foolishly agreed, to stay at a “safe distance” from Manhattan.

You can’t boost recruitment, get voters to support spending & send a message to our enemies at anchor 10 miles from the tip of Manhattan or 1,000’ above them.

Proximity matters.

I write books. Every mentor I’ve ever had says the same thing: “Show, don’t tell.”

That’s what @PeteHegseth just did with the Blue Angels.

By having BA do flybys, he did not write a long memo explaining his intent, he showed them that it’s time to stop blowing safety out of proportion and start taking risk again.

And better still he trusts they are smart enough to understand the broader implications. And our pilots are smart.

Pete is pushing the Overton window back toward the center on safetyism.

Now every Army SGT who’s told to make his guys wear stupid reflective belts on PT & every Navy Chief who’s told he can’t send a man over the side in a harness to paint the ship has a new tool:

“The flyboys can buzz the beach but I can’t paint the hull because a sailor might fall 25 feet into the water & get wet? Make it make sense Lieutenant.”

But he’s also giving the officers of flying squadrons a way out:

“Colonel, Hegseth has authorized flybys so can I buzz the Empire State Building?” asks some brand-new F-35 pilot.

Now his colonel has an answer: “Sure can sport. Right after you get your invite to the Blue Angels.”

And this Blu Angles flyby gives that CO some extra room to maneuver.

“Ok colonel, but can we at least stop flying 20 miles around that bogus safety exclusion zone near the theme park?”

“Yes, let’s try 5 miles for now.”

And this solves a real conundrum.

Those helicopters flying down the beach got monumental amounts of public support.

Why?

Did those clips really get shared because Joe Public wants helicopters roaring over his kid’s head? Not really.

They resonated because they’re cool as heck, and because absolutely everyone is sick and tired of creeping safety regulations.

Punishing them harshly would have killed morale and resulted in public outrage and would have accelerated the creep of safetyism.

Having the Blue Angels buzz the beach in response to that helicopter flyby does many things at once:

It gives the public cool AF photos.

It gives squadron commanders flexibility and a way out.

It shows our adversaries how talented our pilots really are.

It’s relatively low risk, because the Blue Angels really are that good.

It moves the Overton window on safetyism.

And it pisses off every low T troll on Bluesky and Reddit.

And it tells admirals the days of kowtowing to pinko mayors like Mamdani are over.

That’s not a win-win. That’s a long string of wins for the price of half a tank of jet fuel.

[Seaeyes @SeaeyesTri]

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[Ed Applegate 🇺🇸 @EdApplegate1]

@Ghostofcynthia @SenSchumer He’s just butthurt that the DSA has taken over the Democrat party and his limp dick response couldn’t stop them.

[Cynthia Holt @Ghostofcynthia]

This is a fucking lie and you know it.

Trump is exposing the real threats to our elections while you and your party keep gaslighting America.

You're the one laying groundwork for fraud and then crying "rigging" first.

Aren't you the farter?

The weak, desperate old man in the Senate who can't stop shitting out these pathetic attacks every time Trump speaks truth?

Fuck off.

[terry schappert @terryschappert]

Always gotta make sure Aunt Bea knows she hasn't been replaced.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

The self-appointed leaders of "BIGSTRATEGY" in and around the American defense establishment hate Pete Hegseth because he personally lived the consequences of the grotesque failures of their "strategies," and he intends to never let those mistakes happen again.

That's why they fear him so, and so frequently lie about him and distort what he is doing. For them it's not about a strong and effective military, it's about preserving their own sinecures.

Frankly, it's disgusting.

[Ed Applegate 🇺🇸 @EdApplegate1]

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[TonytheTiger57 @TonytheTiger57]

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[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

@RationalWins Google "ruled on the merits," do the basic research, and return only when you are capable of speaking on the subject in an informed manner.

Until then, scram.

[𝕂𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖𝕤 𝕚𝕥 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Katie_likes_it]

@BethanyForTruth Candice needs a padded cell. She's bat shit crazy.