“The Democrat Party is no longer a political party. It is an insurrectionist crime syndicate that will torch the Constitution to stay in power.” —Stephen Miller
You wanna hear something funny?
Lemme tell y’all what Rep. LaMonica McIver just said to Secretary Mullin during the hearing. Paraphrasing but you get the gist…
“You wanna talk about racism and everything… tell me why every person locked up in Delaney Hall is a foreigner?” 🤡
Who’s gonna tell her that ICE facilities ONLY house illegal aliens?
GOOD LORD! Democrats are truly the stupidest breed out there. 😂😂
Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan. March 4, 2002. Before dawn.
The mountain was frozen and dark and full of al-Qaeda fighters.
Technical Sergeant John Chapman was an Air Force Combat Controller — one of the most elite and highly trained special operations specialists in the American military. He directed airstrikes. He operated in environments where everything that could go wrong usually did. He had been chosen for this mission specifically because, in a career field of exceptional men, he stood out.
The mission had already gone badly before it started.
During the initial helicopter insertion onto Takur Ghar, a Navy SEAL named Neil Roberts fell from the aircraft into an entrenched group of enemy fighters below. Chapman's team immediately turned around to rescue him. They flew back into a known enemy stronghold in the dark to bring one of their own home.
What they did not yet know was that Roberts was already dead — killed by the al-Qaeda fighters in the thirty minutes it took the team to return.
When their helicopter landed back on the mountaintop, they flew into an ambush. Enemy fire came from multiple directions at once. Chapman moved immediately toward the closest threat — charging uphill through the darkness and snow toward a fortified enemy bunker, closing to within ten feet, and killing both fighters inside.
He kept moving. He kept fighting. He pushed forward to protect his teammates as the firefight intensified around them.
Then he was shot. Multiple times. He went down.
In the chaos and the dark, his teammates believed he was dead. Under overwhelming fire and taking casualties, the remaining team was forced to withdraw from the mountain. They left behind what they were certain was a body.
They were wrong.
Somewhere in the dark on that frozen ridge, John Chapman regained consciousness.
He was alone. He was bleeding from several gunshot wounds. Enemy fighters were on three sides of him. His team was gone. No rescue was coming. By every rational measure, there was nothing left to do but die.
He started fighting.
For nearly an hour — alone, wounded, surrounded — Chapman engaged the enemy fighters closing in around him. What happened during those minutes in the dark would not be fully understood for sixteen years.
Then a Chinook helicopter carrying Army Rangers began its approach to the mountain.
As it descended, a group of al-Qaeda fighters moved into position with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, aiming at the incoming aircraft and the men inside it.
Chapman saw them.
He exposed himself to their fire to draw attention away from the helicopter. He attacked their position, giving the Rangers the seconds they needed to land.
His autopsy report later showed a broken nose and cuts and bruising consistent with ferocious hand-to-hand combat — evidence of just how close the fighting had become in those final minutes. Air Force Times
Chapman was killed in the last exchange of fire.
The Rangers landed. They survived.
For years, the full story remained incomplete. Chapman had received the Air Force Cross — a high honor — but the complete picture of what he had done after the team withdrew was not known. The drone footage existed, but analyzing it with enough precision to reconstruct his movements took time and technology and sixteen years of careful work.
When the Air Force finally completed its review, the conclusion was clear.
On August 22, 2018, President Trump posthumously awarded John Chapman the Medal of Honor — the first Air Force recipient since the Vietnam War. Chapman's widow, Valerie Nessel, stood in the White House to receive it on behalf of the man she had married in 1992, the father of their two daughters, the man who had gone to Afghanistan and never come home.
He was also posthumously promoted to Master Sergeant.
His was the first Medal of Honor action in history to be extensively documented by drone surveillance video — footage that showed, frame by frame, what one man had chosen to do when he had every reason to stop. Soldier of Fortune
What makes Chapman's story different from so many acts of battlefield courage is not the violence of it. It is the choice.
When he regained consciousness on that mountain, alone in the dark, he had no audience. No commanders watching. No teammates who knew he was still alive. No one who would have blamed him for staying down.
He chose to stand up anyway.
He chose to fight for men he could hear approaching in a helicopter but could not see.
He chose to draw fire onto himself so that others would live.
Those men came home. They had children. Their children grew up. Entire futures exist today because one man woke up alone on a frozen mountain and decided that the mission wasn't finished.
John Chapman was 36 years old.
He died on Takur Ghar before the sun came up.
And for nearly an hour before he did, alone and unseen, he fought like he knew the whole world was watching.
It just took the world sixteen years to catch up.
All that we really have to do is listen to the ENEMY tell us what their plans are.
Then we have to choose to be real men that will stand up to the conquest, or be Democrats.