Andrew Wong 🇺🇸

US Army Reserve (MSG/E8, MOS 25 series, retired), space exploration advocate, patriot, science fiction/fantasy fan, runner, coffee lover, American 🇺🇸🦅☕🚀👽🏃

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

Making America Sexy Again: https://t.co/BnOURvRvEb

[#FreeJimmyLai @SupportJimmyLai]

Today is the anniversary of Tiananmen Square.

Jimmy Lai once lit a candle and said a prayer to mark it. He was sentenced to over a year in prison for that alone.

Now 78 and in ailing health, Lai has been held in prolonged solitary confinement since 2020.

In February, he was sentenced to 20 years under Hong Kong's National Security Law—an effective death sentence.

All for publishing a newspaper that criticized the Chinese Communist Party. And refusing to stop.

#FreeJimmyLai

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

Americans also don't know or can't tell that Russia is of the Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity, not the Catholic or Protestant branches that we're so used to. It matters because Orthodoxy have never really marched to the same drummer as Catholicism and Protestantism when the Western and Eastern churches split in 1054. No one should be surprised if Dugin was influenced by Orthodox teachings.

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

@johnkonrad All of the above

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

Good. Calling out the two-tiered policing in the UK by us is telling the Brits, as their friend and ally, there's a problem on their hands.

[Department of State @StateDept]

Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.

The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

As 9/11's immediacy fades further away and takes up more room in history books, never forget what was done to innocent victims who expected that day to be just another regular, normal day in their busy lives.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Her name was Betty Ong. She was forty-five years old. She had grown up in San Francisco's Chinatown, the daughter of Chinese-American parents, and she had been a flight attendant with American Airlines for fourteen years. She was known to colleagues as "Bee."
On the morning of September 11, 2001, she was working American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles. It was a trip she had chosen — she wanted to get to the West Coast so she could travel home to San Francisco and then on to Hawaii for a vacation with her sister. She was looking forward to it.
At 7:59 a.m., Flight 11 took off from Boston Logan Airport.
At approximately 8:19 a.m., from a phone at the back of the plane, Betty Ong dialed American Airlines.
The call was answered by Vanessa Minter, a reservations agent at the Raleigh-Durham center. She heard a woman's voice, calm and precise, say the words that no one had ever called in before.
"I think we're getting hijacked."
Minter immediately patched in her supervisor, Nydia Gonzalez. Betty stayed on the line.
For the next twenty-three minutes, in a voice that witnesses would later describe as composed, professional, and methodical, Betty Ong told the ground what was happening.
The cockpit was not answering. Two flight attendants had been stabbed. A passenger in business class had been attacked. Someone had sprayed what she thought was Mace, and people couldn't breathe. She gave the seat numbers of the men she believed were the hijackers. She described exactly what she could see and hear, in the rear of the aircraft, as far as she was from the cockpit door that would not open.
"In a very calm, professional and poised demeanor, Betty Ong relayed to us detailed information of the events unfolding on Flight 11," Gonzalez later told the 9/11 Commission. "Several media accounts claimed that Betty was hysterical with fear, shrieking and gasping for air. Those accounts were wrong."
She had been there. She knew.
On the ground, the information Betty was providing was being relayed to American Airlines operations, then to the FAA, then to air traffic control. The picture she was painting — in real time, from the back of a hijacked aircraft — was giving the people trying to understand what was happening on the East Coast of America that morning their first clear confirmation that this was not an accident, not a malfunction, not a confusion.
This was intentional. This was coordinated. This was something no one had a protocol for.
She stayed on the phone.
At 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
The line went silent.
Gonzalez stayed on the open call for a moment afterward, not yet knowing what had happened.
"Betty, talk to me. Betty, are you there? Betty? Okay... I think we might have lost her."
Betty Ong's family spent months after September 11 fighting to hear her voice. Her brother Harry called Senator Edward Kennedy's office to ask for help. In January 2002, the family was brought to a private room at San Francisco Airport and played the tape. It was the first time they had heard her speak since the morning of the 11th.
"Her first duty is for the passengers and for the plane," Harry said later. "She didn't call us because her first responsibility as a flight attendant that day was to help the plane and the passengers, and that's why she made that call."
When the 9/11 Commission heard portions of her call in 2004, the room was silent.
Vanessa Minter — the reservations agent who answered the phone that morning and stayed with Betty for fifteen minutes until Gonzalez took over — still thinks about her. She has given interviews for years about what it meant to be on the other end of that call.
"You have to understand," Minter said. "Betty Ong, to me, was the hero. She was the hero. Not me."
Betty Ong's name is on the memorial at Ground Zero. There is a street named for her in San Francisco's Chinatown. A park. A middle school.
She was going to Hawaii.
Instead, she picked up the phone. She told us what was happening. She stayed on the line until the line went quiet.
That is what quiet courage looks like when it matters most.

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

This is Margaret Swan, a great-grandmother stabbed to death 20 TIMES in a random attack in the middle of the day on Atlanta’s public transit. Her murder was the second horrific attack on MARTA in a week.

I want ANSWERS from Atlanta. The number of assaults, robberies, and rapes on MARTA’s trains is MORE THAN THREE TIMES the national average.


MARTA has 15 DAYS from today to provide:

- Security spending

- Safety plans for riders and workers

- Detailed action strategy to prevent crime and fare evasion

Margaret’s family DESERVES ACCOUNTABILITY. No one should be forced to fear for their safety on public transit.

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

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[QUANTUM GUARD ™️ @QuantumGuard17]

🚨 WOW! Rep. Wesley Hunt just made the Democrats SPEECHLESS after dropping straight truth nukes

"My own father, who grew up in a segregated South, had to walk around to the back of a restaurant just to order a sandwich because of the color of his skin."

"THAT was Jim Crow, and THAT is precisely why it is so offensive to compare that era of legalized discrimination and racial terror to showing a PHOTO ID in a voting booth!"

"And it's just as offensive when groups and organizations like these manufacture faux hate and racial tension, requiring identification of vote."

"It's not oppression. It is not segregation. It is not racism."

"It is a basic standard that applies equally to every single American citizen, regardless of what you look like. You need an ID to board a plane. You need an ID to cash a check."

"You need an ID to buy alcohol. You need an ID to enter these very federal buildings. And by the way, attaining an ID in this country is an extremely low bar."

"But somehow showing an ID to vote in America is now considered to be Jim Crow 2.0. This is NOT about civil rights. This is about political theater. And the Democrat Party survives on manufacturing grievance."

🫳🏻🎤

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

Yes. Remember them. Their sacrifice will not be in vain.

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

TWOK opened my eyes to Ricardo Montalban's range of acting. He was doing Fantasy Island when he got the call for TWOK. His acting in TWOK showed how he was underutilized, miscast, and missed out on opportunities in his career. It's sad that TWOK was considered his peak acting performance of his life when he could've done more in Hollywood.

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

Another white female liberal savior doing her pathological altruism, suicidal empathy, and irrational virtue signaling clown show. She cares, loves, and idolizes everyone but law abiding Americans of all classes.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW. Rep. Brandon Gill throws Ohio Democrat State Senator into TEARS by asking: "Has Somali immigration been good for Ohio?"

"I'm processing your question and I was almost brought to tears just now!"

GILL: "72% of Somali immigrants are on welfare."

DEM: "The rate and level of HATEFUL RHETORIC based on false information!"

GILL: "They're defrauding the state at an astounding RATE. I think most Ohioans have a problem with that."

DEM: "Shocking. It's shocking to me. The lack of humanity to group—"

GILL: "It's INHUMANE to allow your own state to be DEFRAUDED at an astounding rate, billions taken!" 🔥

Well done, @RepBrandonGill 👏🏻

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Well said

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

The climate change, net zero fanaticism and fake virtue signaling is highlighted regarding the ridiculous replacement of brown eggs with white eggs. This irrationality is absurd coming from a multibillion dollar grocer but here we are stuck with the 21st century version of flat earthers and their climate cult.

@JohnStossel @shellenberger @BjornLomborg

Sainsbury’s ditching brown eggs is damning proof of the net zero farce https://t.co/raNoWdtAOe via @@yahooNewsUK

[Lily Tang Williams @Lily4Liberty]

We don’t know where the Tank Man is. We don't know his name. He disappeared after that courageous moment, but the world saw him and his legacy lives on.

I pray there will be millions of him in China.

Someday, there should be a movie made about Tiananmen Massacre and Tank Man!

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

She's another uber rich white female liberal savior nepo baby whose grandfather founded Qualcomm and became a billionaire, a major chip supplier to the tech industry as well as a minor defense contractor. Another evidence of how left aka stupid many tech billionaires are, funding and supporting those who would take them out to the killing fields if they ever took power.

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

@johnkonrad And don't forget that merchant ship loaded down with beer coming alongside your dad's battleship to do lots of UNREP.😂

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

The problem with these pestiferous "journalists" will not go away so long as you and I and other conservatives continue to have our tax money flowing into "journalism" schools at woke madrassas aka universities. Just like medical and nursing schools, the woke mind virus has found a home at journalism schools. Every May & June, we see another crop of woke propagandists graduating from these "journalism" schools, saddled with predatory student loans, a card carrying cadre of the Democratic Party, neutered, and entering a dying job market where in order to get a steady paycheck, you become woke (which most of them already are) or unemployed.

Journalism schools are a vector for spreading the woke mind virus and until the virus is wiped out from these schools, we're going to dealing with these woke pests for the foreseeable future.

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

"Guarding the fire."

This is the Weber way.

@MizEmersenLee @Kristinawong

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A backyard. One man guarding a grill for four hours.

He never left it once.

Everyone else drifted and drank and laughed. But one man stood alone before the flames, turning meat with a long fork, immovable. I knew him at once. The keeper of the sacred fire.

I took my place beside him and said nothing. After a while, he spoke.

"Low and slow," he said, eyes on the coals. "You can't rush it. Rush it, you ruin it."

I bowed my head. A blade, a tea, a life. None can be rushed. I had crossed four thousand miles to hear my grandfather's words from a man in a "KISS THE COOK" apron.

"Everything worth doing is slow," I agreed.

He glanced at me. Something passed between us.

"My wife says just use the oven." He shook his head at the fire. "She doesn't get it."

"They never do," I said.

And this is where it turned.

For the first time in years, this man had been understood. And he rose to meet it. His back straightened. His voice dropped low. A teenager reached for the grill and the man lifted one hand without even looking. "Not yet." The boy retreated. He was becoming what I already believed him to be.

A woman asked when the food would be done. "It's ready when it's ready," he told the flames.

Three people approached. Three were turned away with a single word. By the fourth hour, no one questioned him. The whole party had arranged itself around the man and his fire, the way a village arranges itself around a shrine.

Then he handed me the fork.

"Watch it a sec. I gotta pee."

I have been trusted with castles.

I have never been more honored.

He served everyone before himself, and ate last, standing, still watching the coals. We never traded names. We did not need to.

He believed he had finally met a man who took his cooking seriously.

I believed I had finally met America's last samurai.

Neither of us will ever correct the other.

So tell me, America.

Who is the man at your gathering who will not leave the grill?

Have you ever once asked him why?

I think he is still standing there.

Guarding the fire.

Waiting for one person to understand.

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

@TulsiGabbard

[Jum @JesterJum]

How do I know the media is brainwashing people?

Obama's ICE Chief received the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service for removing over 900,000 illegal aliens.

Trump's ICE Chief is called a Nazi.

It is the same person.....Tom Homan....

The only difference? The narrative.

[Andrew Wong 🇺🇸 @ayankeeoriginal]

The police training and conditioning led to a preventable death. Sadly, until the CRT/DEI drivel is expelled from police training and mental conditioning, Henry won't be the last victim at the hands of woke poisoned law enforcement agencies.

[Adam Gwiazda @delestoile]

🟥 Czy Henry Nowak mógł przeżyć?
Dr Krzysztof Magier @DrMagier , lekarz pediatra i były konsul honorowy RP w Cowes, przeanalizował nagrania z policyjnej kamery nasobnej pokazujące śmierć Henry'ego Nowaka.
Dr Magier jest lekarzem prowadzącym oddział intensywnej terapii dziecięcej, z doświadczeniem w szkoleniach z medycyny pola walki oraz po specjalistycznym kursie leczenia ciężkich urazów (w tym ran postrzałowych i kłutych).
Nie zgadza się z opinią patologa i sędziego, że Henry Nowak nie miał żadnych szans na przeżycie i ze skucie go w kajdanki nic w zasadzie nie zmieniło. Wręcz przeciwnie – istnieje duże prawdopodobieństwo, że to interwencja policji przyczyniła się do jego śmierci.
Przeanalizował on raport z sekcji, który wskazuje na uszkodzenie żyły podobojczykowej jako główne źródło krwawienia i tłumaczy, gdzie leży problem.
U zdrowej osoby krwawienie żylne odbywa się pod niskim ciśnieniem i często samoogranicza się dzięki powstającemu naturalnie skrzepowi, a samo zbliżenie krawędzi rany i ucisk otaczających tkanek domyka żyłę na tyle, że spowalnia albo nawet zatrzymuje krwawienie.
Z nagrania z policyjnej kamery nasobnej wynika, że gdy policja przybyła na miejsce (prawdopodobnie 5-10 minut po zranieniu), Henry był na tyle przytomny, że mówił dość głośno. Nie był zatem jeszcze w stanie terminalnym. Po wykręceniu rąk do tyłu i skuciu za plecami najprawdopodobniej doszło do rozciągnięcia żyły, rozerwania skrzepu i gwałtownego nasilenia krwawienia. W ciągu zaledwie ok. trzech minut stracił przytomność i zmarł.
Osoby z podejrzeniem urazów wewnętrznych nigdy nie powinny być gwałtownie przemieszczane ani szarpane – takie działanie może zniszczyć naturalny skrzep i doprowadzić do masywnego krwotoku wewnętrznego.
Zamiast natychmiastowego wezwania zespołu ratownictwa medycznego i przekazania pacjenta w ręce ratowników, policja go skuła. Gdyby na miejscu jako pierwsi pojawili się paramedycy, szanse Henry’ego na przeżycie byłyby znacznie większe. "50%" - pisze dr Magier.
Ratownicy mogliby szybko założyć kroplówkę, podać płyny zwiększające objętość krwi krążącej oraz kwas traneksamowy stabilizujący skrzep, a w razie potrzeby wykonać dekompresję igłową (wkłucie grubej i długiej igły w płuco), bo problemem nie był tyle brak funkcji płuca, ale ucisk zalanego krwią płuca na serce i śródpiersie, który blokuje krążenie.
Co gorsza, incydent miał miejsce zaledwie kilka minut jazdy samochodem (2–3 minuty karetką na sygnale) od Southampton University Hospital – regionalnego Major Trauma Centre dysponującego pełnym zapleczem specjalistów, procedur i sprzętu. "Jestem przekonany, że gdyby Henry dotarł tam żywy, lekarze nie pozwoliliby mu umrzeć" - pisze dr Magier.
Podsumowując: agresywna interwencja policji, zamiast ratować życie, doprowadziła do śmierci przez nieodpowiednie postępowanie z ciężko ranionym człowiekiem, mimo że najwyższej klasy opieka była w zasięgu kilku minut. "Obawiam się, że Sędzia i patolog byli zbyt łaskawi dla policji" - pisze dr Magier.