Stacey Duvall

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

You're a 19 year old kid.
You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam .

Its November 14, 1965 . LZ (landing zone) X-ray.
Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.
Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again.
As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.

You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.

Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.

Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board.

Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!

Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.
He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army, died at the age of 81, in Boise, Idaho.

God bless our vets!

[Brian Amick @Brian_in_Deputy]

This 👇👇👇

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is why

[Stacey Duvall @StaceyDuvall3]

@patrickwebb Seems like a mirror maybe in order.

[Stacey Duvall @StaceyDuvall3]

@joncoopertweets Now check that US refining capacity histogram.

[Scott Smith @basketballzen]

Anyone interested in who Tim Walz really needs to give this great podcast a listen!

[Stacey Duvall @StaceyDuvall3]

@BeeKamens @JoeBiden Transferred doesn't = canceled.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%. — Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! — Benjamin Franklin

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. — John Adams

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death. — James Madison

We are a Republican Government, Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy…it has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny… — Alexander Hamilton

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

An illegal immigrant allegedly killed a Georgia student out for a jog in Athens. That man had previously been arrested in NYC for a crime and was released. Joe Biden and Alvin Bragg’s soft on crime policies got this innocent girl killed.

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

How the people who want to send brave, strong young men into a meat grinder look:

[Stacey Duvall @StaceyDuvall3]

@krassenstein Premise rejected. Common sense implies that objective truths are widely accepted. Here's how this really goes: Restriction advocates bolster their views by calling them "common sense", mobilize a vocal minority to berate holdouts, and create a false consensus through media.

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

Covid Retrospective Series, Vol. 1

Media: The Unvaccinated Are Scum

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

“The science was settled”, and the inventor of lobotomy received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949.

The science is never settled. Never blindly trust the experts, and never “believe in science”.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Culture war lesson for the right:
Statements are cheap and meaningless, no victory at all

Victory looks like what the left gets

Enemies fired, friends hired, money donated to your patronage network, corporate training to make sure no one ever crosses you again

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Your primary care provider was bribed to suggest you should take the COVID vaccine.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

@RobertKennedyJr:

“I’ll leave you with three thoughts:
1. Any power that government takes from the people, it will never return voluntarily
2. Every power that government takes, it will ultimately be abused to the maximum extent possible
3. Nobody ever complied their way out of totalitarianism. The only thing we can do is resist.”

/END

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

🤖 this is extremely dangerous to our democracy 🤖

[Dana Loesch @DLoesch]

This literally never happened.

Here's the DOJ saying it didn't happen https://t.co/H4IPoUBHVF

Here's JAMA saying it didn't happen
https://t.co/L8RsI35nq9

Here's RAND saying it didn't happen
https://t.co/eRff2Pwmh0

Here's NYT saying it didn't happen https://t.co/Q6Db7XhuQA