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Pvt. Isabella Gonzales. 19 years old. Carrollton, Texas.
She was nineteen.
She should have been walking a college campus this fall. She should have been falling in love. She should have been planning a wedding someday — a white dress, her father’s arm, a boy at the end of the aisle. She should have been holding her first baby one day. She should have grown old, surrounded by grandchildren and the long, quiet peace of a life well lived.
Instead she was 6,000 miles from home, in uniform, on a base most Americans cannot find on a map — standing against one of the most evil regimes on the face of the earth. The Iranian regime. A government that hangs dissidents from cranes, that executes women for uncovering their hair, that funds terror across three continents, that has sworn for forty years to burn America to the ground. That is who she was standing against. That is who took her life on Friday.
She was fighting the very powers of darkness. She was standing where the men of this country should have been standing. And she gave everything she had to give.
Isabella — thank you. Thank you for your courage. Thank you for your service. Thank you for loving this country enough to die for it, when so many of us do not love it enough to live for it. To her family — thank you for raising a daughter of that character. To her brothers and sisters in the 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery — we grieve with you, and we are indebted to you beyond words.
Men. Where were we.
A 19-year-old girl is dead because the men of this country would not stand where we were meant to stand. That is a pathetic failure of masculinity in America, and I will spend the rest of my life fighting to end it.
Shame on the politicians in Washington who send teenage girls to die 6,000 miles from home while their own sons stay safe.
Shame on the generals who traded the warrior ethos for a promotion.
Shame on the culture that told a generation of young men that manhood was toxic — then acted surprised when our daughters had to fill the ranks.
Shame on every soft, comfortable, screen-addicted man who let this country get here.
Shame on me, for every day I was not strong enough, serious enough, godly enough to be the kind of man Isabella deserved to be protected by.
This stops. Now.
We need men of God who are true warriors. Loving. Powerful. Dangerous men of God. Men who can pray on their knees at dawn and face down evil at dusk. Men who will love a woman rightly, raise sons rightly, and lay their lives down before a single daughter of this country is ever again sent to bleed in their place. The powers of darkness are real. Iran is real. Evil is real. And it will keep taking our daughters until the men of this nation remember who we were made to be.
Men — stand up. Train. Get strong. Get serious. Get godly. Isabella cannot be the last. She has to be the one who woke us up.
Pvt. Gonzales, your name will not fall to the ground. I will carry it as long as I have breath. You stood in the gap when we would not. Rest easy, soldier. The men are coming home to their post.
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” — John 15:13
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LMAO! My tweet from literally three hours ago:
"Hypocrisy is, for example, when you clutch your pearls when someone calls you Jerry Springer of news, proudly tout your ratings as a defense against the charge, and then whine like a little girl when I won't come on your show."
And then you just did it. Again.
My ancestors conquered and settled the Salt Lake Valley nearly 180 years ago today.
I’m forever grateful that instead of complaining about the persecution they faced, and the insurmountable odds they had to overcome, they just DID IT.
We need more people like the Mormon Pioneers.
Happy Pioneer Day
Marlon West is one of the bravest people I know. His work on ending the rape gangs, following what happened to his daughter, shows remarkable courage.
I am very proud to support his campaign to become the next mayor of Greater Manchester.
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb
My prediction: AOC will run for president, and Zohran Mamdani will replace Chuck Schumer in the Senate.
Some Republicans are cheering that our opponents are crazy. I’m not.
This is bad for America. I may disagree with Democrats on taxes and regulations, but this country needs two parties that actually love America.
I expected the Iran war to be shorter, and have argued consistently that it should be shortened through more concerted action, not foolish MOUs. That's not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is, for example, when you clutch your pearls when someone calls you Jerry Springer of news, proudly tout your ratings as a defense against the charge, and then whine like a little girl when I won't come on your show.
The Secret Service is going all out to secure tonight's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association dinner following the April assassination attempt made against President Trump and other administration officials.
@JacquiHeinrich reports every attendee must complete mandatory guest registration and pre-vetting, with everyone entering through a single controlled entrance as the Secret Service works alongside other law enforcement agencies.
A Secret Service official says the current threat environment is unlike anything he's seen in his 24-year career.
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) delivers an incredibly powerful speech about Iran.
Watch every second of this.
"Yesterday we saw the president of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone.
That process happens beginning in the war zone through Dover to the hometown of our fallen heroes. I participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include carrying friends of mine off the plane.
One of those is on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP.
This regime that we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don't care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And they don't just say it, they actually do it, and they've been doing it for forty-seven years.
This is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It's a war of choice that was begun by a radical lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force, and savagery. And the second they took it over, they didn't free their people, they didn't unleash the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges.
They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world, and that is exactly what they have been doing. They don't just say it and talk about it. You don't have to believe what they say. You can simply watch what they've done.
They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people. They don't just attack them and kill them, they rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country, and they do it for fun, and they pay them money to do it, and they're heroes to that nation.
They've done it to friends of mine. They've done it to families who've been in this chamber. And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead. They want all of you dead. They want all of us dead.
They don't want us to disappear with a snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces. Watch the video from October 7. That's what they want to happen from Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self, and you don't have to theorize that.
That's what they do. From the 1983 barracks bombing, where 280 Marines were vaporized in a morning, from USS Cole to the Achille Lauro, to every terrorist attack, from the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas. These are not humanitarian freedom organizations. They are death-dealing cults, and they want all of us to die brutal deaths.
William Buckley was abducted in 1985, an American military officer. He was skinned alive on camera by the Iranians. American prisoners of war who were captured. They were never called prisoners of war because they were captured by lunatic terrorists, so they were not subject to the Geneva Convention. They were captured and murdered, power drills through their brains. This is in Iraq. These are families that have dealt with this, and they've never gotten a single dime.
These families have never gotten restitution, and not a single president has ever stood up to them. Love Donald Trump or hate him, love his policies, hate ICE, love ICE, whatever. There's never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back. For 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world.
And their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn't stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It's a global radical ideology, and we've been fighting it for half a century.
We didn't start this war. We did not, but we will finish it. And forever wars are not popular with anybody these days. Both sides of the love to attack our forever wars. And I can promise you, being someone overseas wearing the uniform, when you're fighting for your country, you don't care what party's in office, but you're fighting to defend your country, and you turn on the news and see your elected officials stabbing you in the back, telling you that you're failing, that you've failed every goal of the war, is what I just heard.
Last time I checked, we've wiped these bastards out. An occasional missile strike and boats in the straits, that's not military strength. Those are the flailings of a failing empire. Those are the flailings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it. So I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever's politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook, think about the people who are deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon, who have volunteered to defend our country and our way of life.
Because they are there defending us in a just war, because we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started it with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century. It's time to fix this problem and make sure another generations of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary."
🚨WOW!!!
A 16-year-old boy driving to work saw a car in a ditch, but every other driver kept going by...
...not this boy, he stopped his car and he found a woman UNCONSCIOUS behind the wheel and he SAVED HER LIFE!!!
First responders say if he'd been even been 20 minutes later, she would NOT have survived!
His name is Randy Gerlach, from Morrison, Illinois.
Earlier this month he was driving to work when he spotted a car sitting in a ditch along Linden Road.
He watched as other cars drove right past it.
Randy couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong.
So he turned around in town, because he figured if it was just a fender bender, the driver would be long gone by now.
They weren't.
He walked up to the car and found a woman slumped over, unconscious, engine still running, doors locked.
He called 911 immediately and stayed on the line, doing exactly what the dispatcher told him until crews arrived and pulled her from the locked car.
He went with them all the way to the hospital, and the first responders told him something chilling: 20 minutes later... and she likely doesn't survive.
TWENTY. MINUTES.
His family calls him a hero.
But good ol' Randy refuses to say so.
He says he was just in the right place at the right time and actually did the right thing instead of driving past. His advice to everyone else? "Go with your gut."
The woman is out of the hospital, back at work, and recovering.
She is ALIVE because a 16-year-old kid did what the adults didn't do... he cared enough to stop and help a fellow America
The next generation isn't lost, folks.
Some of them are out here turning around when everyone else keeps driving.
Amazing!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
If the Democrats regain power in 2026, 2028, and beyond, will we return to an era of wokeness?
@RepBrandonGill joins @michaeljknowles to explain why the answer is yes:
“We like to say that woke is dead...woke is not dead; it’s just dormant. As soon as they get power back, you’re going to see a resurgence of this.”