Yankee Air Pirate

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart. -Baron Manfred von Richthofen.

[Yankee Air Pirate @Irish31769]

@JDVance I really hoped you help cure Steve of his TDS. Diary of a CEO has really lost a lot of credibility due to that single fact @StevenBartlett

[Emanuel Quiñones @EQuinones6310]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Tyler Bowyer @tylerbowyer]

We went from this👇🏻 To this 👇🏻

[The Michael Knowles Show @MKnowlesShow]

How Democrats Steal Elections In 4 Mins

[Yankee Air Pirate @Irish31769]

@Geiger_Capital I think @SenWarren has done lots for this country, just ask all the Spirit Airlines employees.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

Re: Karmelo Anthony and his defenders:

Obviously there is some blind black tribal loyalty involved, but I think there’s something else and arguably worse.

The facts seem to be this: Karmelo invaded another track team’s tent. He did this to assert dominance. When asked to leave, he issued threats: “touch me and see what happens.” After repeatedly telling him that he was not welcome, and in response to provocation, Austin Metcalf pushed him, trying to get him to comply with basic social norms. Karmelo, no doubt delighted that he had now received permission for escalation under his own code, stabbed Austin to death.

The black defenders of Karmelo believe this is how society should operate: an endless war of all against all to assert dominance, escalating when one’s assertions are rebuffed. They’re mad that the justice system got involved, because in their minds this is the proper way to conduct business: omnipresent dominance signaling, inevitably leading to violence.

They genuinely don’t understand that other people don’t operate according to those rules. And they certainly don’t understand that our rules, by drastically reducing friction and needless cost, are the very reason for the disparities in group power they complain about. We are polite internally and can thus exert greater collective power externally. A few Karmelos in the mix destroys this system.

But they don’t care that running things their way would be the end of civilization, the end of their cell phones and EBT and air conditioning, because they don’t understand it. They don’t understand anything about the modern world. They are lost here, confused. This state of affairs is not sustainable.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Last year DOJ published a report.

For every 10,000 blacks, 153 violent crimes are committed by a black person each year against a white person.

The same figure for violent crimes committed by whites against a black person: 3.4.

A black person is 50-times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white person than for a white person to commit a violent crime against a black person.

This is an extraordinary difference in the rates of violence committed between these two groups.

We are told that whites are systemically racist.

We are told that whites are successful because they oppress others.

But the facts tell the opposite story.

Blacks are not the ones being victimized.

Whites are.

Western civilization has been successful not because it was oppressive.

It has been successful because whites created, starting thousands of years ago, systems that are impartial and fair.

Today these systems are being dismantled.

Criminals are being released because of their skin color.

Law-abiding citizens are punished because of theirs.

All in service of an ideology that is simply false.

This puts everyone in danger.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

"The more homogenous our citizens can be made in these particulars [principles, opinions, values and manners], the greater will be our prospect of permanent union."

George Washington
1st President of the United States

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

California

Before 2016 law changes: Elections resolved on election night or within days. Republicans won seats, held seats, results were stable.

2016: Democrats pass ballot harvesting and universal mail ballot laws. Signed by Democratic governor.

2018 onward: Every close race follows the same script. Republican leads on election night. Slow count begins. Lead shrinks daily. Republican loses weeks later.

Seven House seats in 2018 alone. All the same pattern. All in one direction. Never reversed.

Since 2018, there hasn’t been one single race where the slow counting of votes didn’t take away a Republican victory by the end.

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Most Badass Americans You Don’t Know D-Day Edition: Harrison C. Summers

Staff Sergeant Harrison C. Summers dropped into Normandy before dawn on D-Day. Unfortunately for the Germans, he turned into Rambo.

Born July 12, 1918, in Marion County, West Virginia, Summers grew up working in the coal mines.

He carried that hard attitude with him when he enlisted and became a paratrooper.

He served in Company B, 1st Battalion, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.

On the morning of June 6, 1944, after his unit had secured Saint-Germain-de-Varreville near Exit 4 off Utah Beach, Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Cassidy needed a dangerous job done fast.

He ordered Summers and about fifteen men to seize a cluster of stone buildings nearby designated “WXYZ” on the map.

The buildings turned out to be barracks housing over a hundred German soldiers who were positioned to control the approaches to the beach causeways.

When Summers and his small patrol reached the edge of the position, most of the men froze under the threat of heavy fire.

Summers did not wait.

Armed with his Thompson submachine gun, he charged the first building alone, kicked in the door, and gunned down four Germans as they tried to escape.

He moved straight to the next building and repeated the assault.

Only two men, Privates William Burt and John Camien, followed him into the fight.

Summers kept going anyway.

For more than five hours he fought room to room and building to building through the complex, personally killing more than thirty Germans and forcing many more to surrender or flee.

He was wounded during the action but refused to stop.

With only very limited help, he eventually cleared the entire WXYZ complex.

His rampage opened a critical path for the forces coming off Utah Beach.

Physically and emotionally exhausted after the five-hour rampage, he sat down to smoke a cigarette and said, "It was all kind of crazy. I’m sure I’ll never do anything like that again."

He was nominated twice for the Medal of Honor but received the Distinguished Service Cross.

He later earned a battlefield commission to second lieutenant and continued fighting through the rest of the war in Europe, including Market Garden where he was wounded again.

After the war Summers returned to West Virginia and lived quietly.

He passed away on August 3, 1983.

Among the men of the 101st who knew what he did that morning, he became a legend, often called the Sergeant York of World War II.

Harrison C. Summers is an American Badass

Thank you, Harrison! 🫡🇺🇸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Well said

[Department of State @StateDept]

Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.

The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Strange numbers.

Here's how much Pres. Biden's presidential library has raised compared to previous 6 Presidents:

Biden: ONLY $4m (goal was $200m to $300m)
Obama: $1.5B to $1.6B
George W. Bush: $500m +
Clinton: $165m
George H.W. Bush: $43m
Reagan: $57-$60m
Carter: $26m (In 1981)

How does the most popular president of all with 81m+ votes in 2024 only get $4m from his supporter to build his library?

Makes you wonder.

[Yankee Air Pirate @Irish31769]

@realnickkupper Also, why does it cost so much to run standardized testing for the Arizona school system? Pearson is making a killing.

[TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2]

I'm going to say this again, real simple. And I will keep saying it until enough people realize what it means.

Why Doesn’t the FBI and DHS stop this violent, organized, national activity?

Don’t make it complicated. Just look at things as they are, as they present themselves to be, and ask the most obvious questions.

“Domestic Tranquility?” Why are violence and chaos permitted?

How can a group within America openly threaten police, use violence against police, throw Molotov cocktails, bricks and explosive fireworks at police. Use batons, shields, bats and physical violence against police and federal law enforcement; destroy vehicles, set cars on fire, destroy property, trash and block the streets and create chaos, completely without consequence?

It doesn’t matter where it is happening, that’s irrelevant. Think plainly and simply.

How does any individual or group get to do this without being arrested?

It doesn’t make sense, unless….
…. Unless…. The group conducting the violence cannot be arrested.

Day after day; night after night, in most major metropolitan areas around the nation, the group known as “Antifa” operate with impunity.  They are organized; they are funded; they communicate locally, regionally and nationally.  They mobilize in designated and coordinated areas of operation, and they are exceptionally violent and dangerous.

So how is it they can operate?

They build encampments outside federal facilities and openly fight with federal officials and law enforcement.  Yet, nothing is done.  Why not?

If the FBI did not support Antifa, quite simply Antifa would not exist.  They are right there, highly visible, doing illegal things on camera, repeatedly, all over the country, and the FBI doesn’t lift a finger to stop them.  Why?

The only thing that makes sense is that the FBI wants this activity to take place.

If they did not want it to take place, they would stop it and arrest the lawbreakers who are attacking federal buildings and officers. 

The visuals of trashed streets, barricades, smoke bombs, riots, semi-frequent baton clashes in the streets, etc. etc. must serve some purpose for the FBI and DHS or they would stop it.

This is not misdemeanor behavior.

Arrest the participants and put them into federal prisons. This is not complicated.

The FBI and DHS support Antifa.  If they did not support them, the FBI and DHS would stop them.

Remember this.

[Arizona Free Enterprise Club @azfec]

FACT: Households in the Phoenix area are paying about 23% more per kilowatt-hour than they were in 2022, even though average residential energy consumption has decreased.

Katie Hobbs claims that she's reduced electricity bills, but utility rates are some of the highest they've ever been. Not to mention, Katie Hobbs' top donor, APS, is currently seeking a roughly 14.5% rate increase, which would add about $20 to the average monthly residential bill!

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

They don’t teach that from 1920-1970, the US had severely restricted immigration…

In those 50 years we won WW2, became a global economic and military superpower, created a booming economy, a thriving middle class and a strong common culture. The America everyone talks about.