Spidey322

Always smile. All opinions are my own. CLE Guardians, Star Wars geek

[Strictly Speaking Unfiltered with Bob Frantz @StrictSpeaking]

Wait, aren't you the ghoul who literally killed tens of thousands of Ohio businesses...and hundreds of thousands of Ohio jobs...because you determined they weren't "essential" enough?

You literally destroyed this state when the ignorant @MikeDeWine gave you the keys to it. And now you want those keys back for 4 full years?

You are the most unqualified candidate to run for executive office in the history of this state.

Worse than that, you're a coward who won't even put your ideas and your credentials up for public consideration in a 90 minute debate.

[Skscartoon @skscartoon]

It turns out diversity isn't France's strength

[tones! @tonestirade]

i often think about this Chuck Jones quote about how animators, and by extension filmmakers, need to read.

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

One problem Trump faces with the younger generations is they have no context for the stuff he’s doing.

- They don’t know that Venezuela was once the world’s sixth richest country before Communism devoured it.

- They are all but ignorant of the Castro regime’s abuses and the plight of Cubans.

- They are blissfully unaware that Iran started a war with us decades ago and have been slaughtering Americans whenever possible ever since.

- And most importantly, when it comes to Israel, they have no idea that Arafat refused a deal that granted the PLO more than 90% of what it wanted at Camp David, or that Palestinians regularly launch rockets from civilian strongholds specifically so Israel will target those areas in return and Hamas can then scream “Genocide!”

It’s not Gen Z’s fault they don’t know it. We failed them by refusing to teach it.

Or, more specifically, by allowing our educational system to be hijacked long ago by Marxists who aimed to accomplish exactly what is happening now.

We let it happen, and now we are paying for it handily.

But we’d better address it ASAP.

Or we will all learn about the horrors of Cuba and Venezuela firsthand.

[Tommy Siegel @TommySiegel]

Star Wars vs Star Trek: a guide

[Cleveland Guardians @CleGuardians]

For the third consecutive year, the American League Central runs through Cleveland.

#GuardsBall | #StandGuard

[🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 @LionelMedia]

Can we please have this woman run for anything so that we can elect her and ultimately make her POTUS?

[Spidey322 @SpideyMike322]

@spencerpratt And here I thought they wanted to abolish all prisons? Guess they will have prisons only for those they don’t like.

[Spidey322 @SpideyMike322]

@OccupyLibraries

[Spidey322 @SpideyMike322]

@Rodriguez @lucasmuseum And thank very much for showcasing the Frazetta artwork. Seeing it in person was an amazing experience!

[Frank LaRose @FrankLaRose]

A revealing tale of two candidates.

I was with Vivek last week when he was asked an absurd and insulting question with the cameras rolling. He didn’t shy away and answered exactly how a governor should. He’s not afraid to speak with anyone, anywhere.

Meanwhile, Amy Acton isn’t even allowing people to take pictures of her in a public venue.

The contrast couldn’t be clearer, and neither could the choice for who should be our next governor.

[Spidey322 @SpideyMike322]

@jackwindsor This must be what it felt like to the Romans to see their country slowly fall apart.

[Red Eagle Politics @RedEaglePatriot]

You sat out the Midterms to "teach Republicans a lesson". They didn't learn anything.

The year is now 2031, the 2030 Midterms just concluded and the GOP flipped three Senate seats! Here's the problem...Democrats won the Senate in 2026. They abolished the filibuster, as there was no Sinema or Manchin to protect it this time, and blocked all of Trump's judges. Then, in 2028, they rode a sluggish economy back to the White House.

President Ocasio-Cortez made it a point to instantly pack the Supreme Court to 17 justices, overturning Roe v. Wade, gutting the First and Second Amendments, and more.

There was also another border surge of 10-20 million illegal aliens. Legal immigration has been doubled under the Immigration Act of 2027, a comprehensive expansion of the 1990 Act. The US became majority nonwhite under the 2030 census.

Then, as the Senate was deemed "racist" and "rooted in White Supremacy", they decided to vote on adding states to the Union as "reparations for nonwhite non-representation". This gave 2 seats each to American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC (but NOT evil white supremacist Northern Mariana Islands, because they vote Republican). They also split up California into three states, citing "efficiency" reasons they refused to explain.

They also passed a "gerrymandering ban", which led to "independent commissions" creating inexplicably gerrymandered maps that included 3 blue seats in Kentucky, and 4 in Missouri. Not to mention only a single red seat in Illinois.

The Senate rushed through single payer healthcare, which caused a massive tax hike in exchange for subpar DMV-run healthcare that leads to shortages and wait times.

Then, they passed through a blanket amnesty for 60+ million illegal aliens and other foreign visaholders. While they still cannot legally vote until 2036, they will make up 25% of the electorate when they do.

Despite all that, much of the 'retard right' continues to call President Ocasio-Cortez "the most America First President in history" because she cut all foreign aid to Israel and arrested Benjamin Netanyahu (who is now cellmates with former President Donald Trump in Riker's Island). While patriots are routinely censored once again, these grifters are not for some reason.

Even if Republicans manage to win the 2032 presidential election in most key swing states, as some polls have them doing, it is unclear if they will be able to win it by enough to overcome the additional states in the electoral college. But even if they do, it is unclear at this point if a GOP victory would be certified. JD Vance has already been arrested, and Marco Rubio has been deported to Cuba for hate speech (the only deportation of her term since ICE was abolished in early 2027), leading many to speculate who the next man up in the GOP would be.

Guys, don't let this happen, because it will. Get the fuck out and vote.

[Nicole Parker USA @nicoleparkerusa]

The best mayor ever. @RudyGiuliani has deep respect & reverence for the 9/11 families. The grief & pain does not subside after 25 years. Rudy pulled us out of the depths of despair in NYC after 9/11. Thank you for your service. God bless.

[jackwindsor @jackwindsor]

For anybody outside Ohio: Acton was the face of Ohio's COVID lockdown. March 12, 2020, she said "the math is over 100,000" Ohioans infected. Ohio had five confirmed cases. Next day: "I'm saying I'm guesstimating." Schools closed on that number, first in the country. Two Ohio judges ruled her orders unlawful or beyond her authority. The legislature stripped the health director's emergency powers over DeWine's veto. She quit in June 2020. Now she's running for governor and won't take questions about any of it.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Have you noticed that the community that is most vocal in warning about the Islamification of the USA is the GWOT veterans’ community?

That’s because we saw things with our own eyes that are hard for others to believe:

1. The treatment of women as chattel property. Goats are treated better than daughters—no exaggeration.
2. Widespread pedophilia and bestiality while at the same time people we call “LGBTQ+” in the West are subject to barbaric methods of execution.
3. An absolute lack of freedom of religion.
4. Wanton disregard for human life.
5. Insanely paranoid antisemitism straight out of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
6. Wholly corrupt governments; bribery as a uniform standard.
7. Tribalism to an extreme: tribe trumps truth and justice, always.
8. In the Gulf Arab countries, “Third Country Nationals” from poor Muslim countries engaged in menial labor and literally treated as slaves.
9. Absolute confidence that Islam will violently conquer the rest of the world, and a belief that this is just and proper.
10. Acceptance of the idea that lying can be and is necessary and proper.

These are not one-off observations; these are widespread norms that are easily observed and experienced in day-to-day life in any nation that accepts Sharia law. ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE COMMONPLACE. Having seen this stuff up close and personal across the entire Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa, American veterans have unwittingly become like the prophets of old, warning everyone else of the dangers we have seen that we never wish to see come ashore in America.

Yet somehow our voices are not being heard sufficiently, and we now see literal Communists wishing to import these evil practices to the USA en masse, as a path to their own power.

Guess what Commies? It’s the other way around, you are the ones being used and when the Green forces dispose of you Red forces, it’s not going to be pretty.

Wise up.

[Ed McCray @Real_Ed_McCray]

Because in the culture war stories have been sympathizing with villains for ober 30 years & now we have a generation and a half of adults who've been indoctrinated to feel this way while they villainize heroes.
https://t.co/W2pskuaSh4

[Tom Withers @twithersCLE]

My wish is we one day get back to how united we were on 9/12.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

At Ground Zero, after the last living person was pulled out, the search dogs stopped eating.

So the police did something nobody had written down in any manual.

They climbed into the rubble, lay down, and pretended to be alive.

More than 300 dogs worked the World Trade Center site. They came from every corner of the country, on trucks and in cargo holds, with handlers who had been trained to do one thing. Find people who are still breathing under the ground.

That is what a search and rescue dog is built for. Not bodies. Life. They are trained on live human scent. When they find it, they bark, they dig, they light up, and the handler rewards them, and the whole thing means something.

The last living person recovered from Ground Zero was a woman named Genelle Guzman-McMillan. She had been buried for 27 hours. A dog found her.

She was the last.

After that, the dogs kept going out on twelve-hour shifts, across sixteen acres of smoldering steel, at temperatures that burned their paws, and they found nobody.

Nobody.

Day after day.

The handlers noticed it first. The dogs were changing. Their tails were down. They were not eating. They would come off the pile and lie flat and not look at anyone.

A veterinarian named Cindy Otto, who spent ten days there working night shifts to care for the animals, put it plainly. The dogs had been sent to find life, and every day they were finding the opposite.

It was breaking them.

An NYPD officer named Famiglietti described what happened next.

They pulled everybody off the rubble. Then they asked for volunteers.

The volunteers, police officers, went out into the debris and hid themselves. Under beams. In voids. Curled up in pockets of concrete. They were told to lie down like they were hurt. Then the handlers sent the dogs in.

Picture that.

A grown man with a badge, a man who had spent the last week pulling friends out of that same pile, lying down in it on purpose. Face down. Holding still. Waiting for a dog.

And the dog comes over the top of the wreckage, and catches the scent, and barks, and digs, and finds a person who is warm and moving and alive.

And the handler says good girl, good boy, and the whole team celebrates.

They called them mock finds.

They did it for the dogs.

They did it so the dogs would remember what they were for.

One of those dogs was a two-year-old golden retriever named Bretagne. She came from Texas with her handler, Denise Corliss. It was her first deployment. They worked ten days at Ground Zero. They found no survivors.

But firefighters would come off the pile, stone-faced, not speaking, and see the dog, and something would break open in them. They would kneel down. They would put their face in her fur.

One day a man walked up to Bretagne and started petting her. He told Corliss his best friend loved golden retrievers.

Corliss asked where his friend was.

The man pointed at the pile.

"He's in there somewhere."

He kept petting the dog.

Bretagne went on to work Hurricane Katrina and Rita. She retired at 10. She was the last known surviving search dog of 9/11.

On June 6, 2016, at age 16, she was carried into a veterinary office in Texas to be put to sleep.

Outside, a dozen firefighters from her fire department stood in a line in their dress uniforms, in the heat, and saluted as she went past.

They draped her in an American flag on the way out.

Three hundred dogs went into that pile looking for the living.

They found one.

And when they could not find any more, the men they worked beside laid down in the rubble and let themselves be found, so the dogs would not lose heart.

That is the whole story of Ground Zero, really.

Nobody could save the dead.

So they saved each other. 🇺🇸

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

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