I lost my Dad on 9/11. I don’t get a lot of reach on here. But I just wanted to share a picture. He was 39. I thought he was old. I’m now in my mid 30s and I still feel like a kid.
He was a great trader. He loved markets. He loved to find a stock no one was talking about.
The first trade I ever placed was on his work computer, where he let me click the button to buy AMAT. I loved going to the office with him. It was electric.
He was the best dad. We spent hours out in the street after dinner where he’d throw “pop flys” for me to catch. Eye on the ball.
He loved watching Sponge Bob and eating cereal, wrestling with us in the living room. He just loved being around his kids so much, and we knew it. I’m so grateful I got a dad like that.
Love you, Pops.
Douglas Murray speaks of the 9/11 hijackers’ “lust for death.”
Yet every last phone call from a 9/11 victim to family spoke only of love.
We are not like them.
It’s very twisted that you are the one speaking as Mayor of NY on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. A Muslim who has a failed rap career in which he sang the praises of Muslim terrorists.
Recall Mamdani.
Rather than share with Twitter what I remember of September 11th, let me share how utterly disappointed I am with what has come after:
We spent 25 years removing our shoes in airports and then were chastised if we said something as simple as “we oughta be more careful about who we let in from predominantly Muslim countries.”
Were we’re called Islamophobic for saying, “hey… the FBI had Omar Mateen’s name and investigated him twice before the Pulse shooting. Maybe we oughta take these things more seriously.”
We have city and national leaders telling us that their greatest fear is backlash against Islam when an Islamic terrorist acts within our borders.
The world is upside down. Not because we never forgot. But because idiots tell us not to even make the connection.
3,000 people weren’t “lost” or “died”…they were murdered. They were innocent civilians whose lives were stolen by murdering, cowardly, terrorists. Semantics matter. 25 years later don’t let them change the semantics.
As I do every year on this day, I make myself re-read this and sit with it for as long as I can. And remember.
One of the greatest pieces of writing, on any subject, ever.
The Falling Man by Tom Junod
https://t.co/hdamIY4LQm
I didn't editorialize, or put up an opinion. I simply posted what the New York Times chose to publish o 9/11.
And the NY Times Comms is struggling with it.
9/11 is hitting me harder than usual this year
It's not because I ever forgot, because I certainly didn't
I think it's because I'm acutely aware of how much things have changed since then
Islam did this. Not radical Islam. There’s no such thing. There is only one Islam and this is it. People who tell you Islam is peace are either misinformed or lying. The 1400 year history of Islam proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that Islam is rape, pedophilia, torture, enslavement, murder, genocide and colonization. Muslims aren’t oppressed, they’re the most vicious oppressors in world history.
Mamdani writes about 9/11 like it was a natural disaster instead of a vicious sneak attack on our civilization by Muslim fanatics. It wasn't an earthquake, Zohran. It was the enemy, acting in the name of Islam. That's who killed almost 3000 people that day.