Ryan Leer

Just always been a badass. Dont know what else to say

[Kevin Nash @RealKevinNash]

Article 25/ Amendment 25. The Congress of the United States of America has a responsibility to our country. Each day the world watches as our President becomes more confused.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
What exactly is the hold-up?
IT'S THE FUCKING LAW!

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

July 7, 1944. At dawn on the island of Saipan, thousands of Japanese soldiers rise up and hurl themselves at the American lines in one final, hopeless attack. It was the largest banzai charge of the entire Pacific war, and it was pure human wreckage.

The battle was already lost. Their commanders, including the admiral who had led the Pearl Harbor attack, had killed themselves the day before. But there would be no surrender. Instead the order went out for one last suicidal assault, to die attacking rather than give up.

So at first light they came. Somewhere between three and four thousand of them, screaming, pouring out of the north end of the island. And it was not just soldiers. Wounded men hobbled forward on crutches. Others carried nothing but bayonets lashed to sticks, or bamboo spears. Men who had nothing left charging straight into rifles and machine guns.

The sheer weight of bodies smashed into two American army battalions and nearly wiped them out, overrunning their positions in a wave. For a while it was chaos and slaughter at close quarters. But the Americans rushed up reserves and poured in artillery, and in the end almost every single attacker was killed. The charge simply drowned in its own dead.

And then came the part that still haunts everyone who saw it. The civilians. Japanese propaganda had told the people on Saipan that the Americans were monsters who would torture and butcher them. So as the island fell, terrified families gathered at the high cliffs on the northern coast. And they jumped. Parents throwing their children first, then leaping after them. Hundreds of them, choosing the rocks and the sea over surrender, while horrified American troops and interpreters begged them through loudspeakers to stop.

Saipan was declared secure two days later. But the images of that place, the last charge and the cliffs, went straight into the nightmares of the men planning what came next. If a single island cost this, what in God's name would the invasion of Japan itself cost.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

Today in 1865, four accomplices of John Wilkes Booth are hanged at Washington's Fort McNair for their part in Lincoln's assassination. Among them is Mary Surratt, owner of the D.C. boarding house where the conspirators met. She's the first woman executed by the U.S. government.

[Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats]

Ken Paxton has hypocritically spent years warning Texans that "it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records."

Now, reporting by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica alleges that Paxton may have committed voter fraud by using an address where he did not live while voting in multiple elections.

The law should apply equally to everyone, including the Attorney General.

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

New: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” https://t.co/Abll3dfrMo

[Wrestle Ops @WrestleOps]

Sami Zayn crashes out after losing the Undisputed Title to CM Punk:

“After 24 years of crawling for every inch — after I finally get it…9 days?! That piece of sh*t can walk back in here after not being here for months? That motherf*cker.”

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million.

This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs.

Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

- Theodore Roosevelt 1918

Theodore Roosevelt wrote these words in 1918, during the final year of World War I, when debates over patriotism, loyalty, free speech, and dissent were at their peak.

Although he was no longer president, Roosevelt remained one of the most influential figures in American public life.

The quote comes from an editorial he wrote for the Kansas City Star, in which he argued that patriotism did not mean unquestioning loyalty to those in power. Roosevelt believed no president was above criticism. Instead, he argued that citizens had a responsibility to speak honestly about their leaders, praising them when they were right and criticizing them when they were wrong.

Those words carried particular weight because they were written during wartime, when criticism of government officials was often viewed as unpatriotic or even dangerous. Roosevelt argued the opposite: that a healthy republic depends on honest criticism, even when it is unpopular.

He wrote the passage in his May 7, 1918, editorial, Sedition, A Free Press, and Personal Rule, published just weeks before the Sedition Act of 1918 became law.

[Ryan Leer @Lunchbox365]

Wow with Canada and Mexico out there's a ton of pressure on the United States of America now.

[Dr. Hunter S. Thompson @GonzoVice]

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

[Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day @NormSNLJokes]

In an interview last week, administrator of the F.A.A., David R. Hinson, explained why English is the only language used by pilots around the world.

It turns out all the other languages are weird.

[Vintage Puroresu プロレス @vintagepuro]

Toshiaki Kawada x Mick Foley. Kawada makes the 4th defense of his legendary 529 day Triple Crown reign just weeks after Foley’s Backlash classic with Randy Orton. (5.8.2004) 🌟

[Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day @NormSNLJokes]

Meanwhile, with President Clinton's second inaugural approaching, the tension has turned to what the women will be wearing at the festivities.

According to the White House, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will wear a gown by Oscar De la Renta.

Tipper Gore will appear in a Jennifer George ensemble.

And Attorney General Janet Reno will be outfitted by Rochester Big and Tall.

[Drainmaker @TheDrainmaker]

4 years ago today, Brody King won the first ever AEW Royal Rampage by eliminating Darby Allin after literally hanging him with a choke!

What an unforgettable spot.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

Today in 1916, British Empire and French forces launch a major offensive against the German lines along the River Somme. The 140 days of heavy fighting that follow push the Germans back roughly five miles at a cost of a half a million casualties. German losses are nearly 500,000 killed, wounded or missing.

[Retro Anime @retro_anime]

Ninja Scroll (1993)