Ron Rico

[Ron Rico @RonRico911]

All who care about America, it’s allies, the global community & the citizens of the world & their well-being should listen to the stirring words of British MP & Afghanistan veteran @TomTugendhat in the 2nd (7:49) video.
God Bless You, Sir!
#Afghanistan
https://t.co/9zHh82K4H5

[Ron Rico @RonRico911]

@RichardGrenell @NikkiHaley @RonDeSantis STOP

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Oh, and he’s Native American according to his mother.
https://t.co/qsRtsWBt7s

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: The young boy who was labeled as wearing ‘blackface’ by Deadspin is Holden Armenta.

His mother, Shannon Armenta confirmed that her son was the one at the middle of the controversy on her Facebook page.

It gets even better: Chiefs players saw Holden during the game and decided to join him with his tomahawk chop.

Black players were so ‘offended’ by the “blackface” that they copied Holden’s chop.

What an embarrassment for Deadspin.

[Ron Rico @RonRico911]

The Football”? Biden, POTUS, is SURPRISED by this?????? !

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

❗️ JOE BIDEN TO FACTORY WORKERS: “Look, my Marine has a code to blow up the world.”

What the hell is this guy talking about??!

[Judianna @Judianna]

For all the fans of “It’s A Wonderful Life” and Jimmy Stewart . . .

Just months after winning his 1941 Academy Award for best actor in “The Philadelphia Story,” Jimmy Stewart, one of the best-known actors of the day, left Hollywood and joined the US Army. He was the first big-name movie star to enlist in World War II.

An accomplished private pilot, the 33-year-old Hollywood icon became a US Army Air Force aviator, earning his 2nd Lieutenant commission in early 1942. With his celebrity status and huge popularity with the American public, he was assigned to starring in recruiting films, attending rallies, and training younger pilots.

Stewart, however, wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to fly combat missions in Europe, not spend time in a stateside training command. By 1944, frustrated and feeling the war was passing him by, he asked his commanding officer to transfer him to a unit deploying to Europe. His request was reluctantly granted.

Stewart, now a Captain, was sent to England, where he spent the next 18 months flying B-24 Liberator bombers over Germany. Throughout his time overseas, the US Army Air Corps' top brass had tried to keep the popular movie star from flying over enemy territory. But Stewart would hear nothing of it.
Determined to lead by example, he bucked the system, assigning himself to every combat mission he could. By the end of the war he was one of the most respected and decorated pilots in his unit.
But his wartime service came at a high personal price.

In the final months of WWII he was grounded for being “flak happy,” today called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

When he returned to the US in August 1945, Stewart was a changed man. He had lost so much weight that he looked sickly. He rarely slept, and when he did he had nightmares of planes exploding and men falling through the air screaming (in one mission alone his unit had lost 13 planes and 130 men, most of whom he knew personally).

He was depressed, couldn’t focus, and refused to talk to anyone about his war experiences. His acting career was all but over.

As one of Stewart's biographers put it, "Every decision he made [during the war] was going to preserve life or cost lives. He took back to Hollywood all the stress that he had built up.”

In 1946 he got his break. He took the role of George Bailey, the suicidal father in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The rest is history.

Actors and crew of the set realized that in many of the disturbing scenes of George Bailey unraveling in front of his family, Stewart wasn’t acting. His PTSD was being captured on film for potentially millions to see.

But despite Stewart's inner turmoil, making the movie was therapeutic for the combat veteran. He would go on to become one of the most accomplished and loved actors in American history.

When asked in 1941 why he wanted to leave his acting career to fly combat missions over Nazi Germany, he said, "This country's conscience is bigger than all the studios in Hollywood put together, and the time will come when we'll have to fight.”
This weekend, as many of us watch the classic Christmas film, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” it’s also a fitting time to remember the sacrifices of Jimmy Stewart and all the men who gave up so much to serve their country during wartime. We will always remember you!

Postscript:

While fighting in Europe, Stewart's Oscar statue was proudly displayed in his father’s Pennsylvania hardware store. Throughout his life, the beloved actor always said his father, a World War I veteran, was the person who had made the biggest impact on him.

Jimmy Stewart was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 and died in 1997 at the age of 89.
H/T @mustangmarine

[Brad Cage @BradCageMusic]

@RealJamesWoods Good thing we got a Bill of Rights and not a bill of needs.

[Alaska @Dianna_Erwin]

@RealJamesWoods I know right!? My heart sank when I learned the ppl in Israel don’t have guns. It was hard to imagine & infuriating to think how things would’ve been so much different if only they could’ve defended themselves. Maddening. 😢💔

[Ron Rico @RonRico911]

@MdBreathe Why does this administration abdicate its authority over the border by refusing to enforce existing federal laws? Perhaps because the rule of law means nothing to it & its policy is to disregard the law & just do whatever it wants?

[Ron Rico @RonRico911]

SO WRONG!!!: “Harris County Judge Hidalgo asks Biden to stop controversial border law”
Joe Biden’s Fed Gov has ABDICATED it’s authority by its open border policy & REFUSES TO FOLLOW EXISTING LAW.THAT’S what violates the Constitution! Texas has no choice! https://t.co/xON2RbKkem

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

EXPOSED: This is documentation from Shifa Hospital from the day of the massacre, October 7, 2023, between the hours of 10:42 a.m and 11:01 a.m. in which hostages, a Nepalese civilian and a Thai civilian, were abducted from Israeli territory are seen surrounded by armed Hamas terrorists.

One of the hostages is injured and is being carried on a hospital bed and the other is walking. 1/2

[Boom! @Boomchakalaika]

@fasc1nate A heart melting song to be honest

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

At 3 a.m. one night in 1988, Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole called a local studio and said he needed to record something immediately.

He pleaded with the engineer: "Please, can I come in? I have an idea."

Kamakawiwo'ole recorded the iconic version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" in one take, which would soon touch countless people across the globe.

[Ron Rico @RonRico911]

@julie_kelly2 HOLD ON HERE! If what Sen Lee is asserting (exculpatory Jan 6 evidence was hidden/destroyed/not turned over to defense) is true, that sounds like a Brady violation in the Jan 6 case & a “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree” taint to the DC case! Wake up lawyers!
https://t.co/79b5WK0Ooo

[Ron Rico @RonRico911]

@MacFarlaneNews HOLD ON HERE! If what Sen Lee is asserting (exculpatory Jan 6 evidence was hidden/destroyed/not turned over to defense) is true, that sounds like a Brady violation in the Jan 6 case & a “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree” taint to the DC case! Wake up lawyers!
https://t.co/79b5WK0Ooo

[Ron Rico @RonRico911]

@benjamin_bdj Ceasefire? “Humanitarian pause” (aka opportunity for Hamas to regroup?)
NEVER!
#CrushHamas

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Cain Calls For Ceasefire After Killing Abel
https://t.co/h1HFN0PNZs

[Ron Rico @RonRico911]

@yaelbt “Ceasefire”, Joe? “Humanitarian pause” (aka give Hamas time to regroup), Joe?
HELL NO, Joe!
#CrushHamas

[Ron Rico @RonRico911]

@stclairashley @BillMelugin_ And to Delaware.
I hear Martha’s Vinyard & the Hamptons are also nice this time of year.
🚌🚌🚌

[Ron Rico @RonRico911]

💔💔

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

Yanai and Liel, 12, Kibbutz Beeri.
Yanai was murdered by Hamas terrorists on 10/7, along with his grandfather and aunt who raised the twins. His sister Liel was considered missing - her body could not be identified.

Today, after 38 days, Liel was laid to rest - there weren’t enough remains for a burial so the family buried her favorite toys instead.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Triple amputee Purple Heart recipient frisked in the airport on Veterans’ Day.

Illegal alien assisted entering America unvetted and in violation of federal law.

#BidensAmerica

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

On September 23, 1988, Ernest and Anneke Robinson welcomed the birth of their son, Matthew Stanford Robinson.

Matthew was born with severe disabilities. Due to a lack of oxygen, he was blind and paralyzed from the neck down.

Doctors said Matthew would only live for a few hours, but somehow, Matthew lived to be 10-and-a-half years old.

When it came time for Matthew to rest in 1999, Ernest decided his gravestone should be beautiful and unique, depicting Matthew in his truest form and signify hope rather than grief.