Brandon Prince

[Brandon Prince @bprince1981]

@Evan_P_Grant Lopez is this year's 2023 Jankowski

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Sometimes we forget how lucky we are to live in the US

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

June 5, 1944. You've been awake for 40 hours.

Yesterday, the operation was called off. Eisenhower stood in a muddy airfield in England, stared at the forecast, and postponed the largest invasion in human history by 24 hours because of weather. So 156,000 men sat on ships, in ports, crammed into LSTs and Higgins boats, trying not to think about what tomorrow meant.

You're 19 years old. You're from a town so small your whole graduating class fit in one room. You've been in the Army 14 months and you've never fired a weapon at a person. None of that prepared you for tonight.

The chaplain holds a service on deck. It's dark and the ship is rocking. Half your platoon shows up. The other half write letters. The guy next to you, Kowalski from Cleveland, keeps folding and unfolding the same piece of paper. You ask if he's going to send it. He says he doesn't know who to send it to.

At 0100, the order comes down. You climb the rope net over the side of the ship in the pitch dark, down into the Higgins boat bucking in the swells below. 35 men in a steel box 36 feet long. The smell of diesel and seawater and vomit hits you before you're even seated.

The English Channel in early June is not kind.

Eight-foot swells. The bow punches up and crashes down, again and again, spraying ice-cold seawater over everyone. Within 20 minutes, the guy across from you is sick. Then the guy next to him. Then the guy next to you. Then you. There's nowhere to go. Nowhere to look. You're soaked through your wool uniform and the wind is in the low 50s and you've been awake so long the fear has almost become boring.

One sergeant keeps whispering the Hail Mary. Not loud, not for anyone, just to himself, over and over, like a machine that can't stop. A kid from Georgia named Willis is crying and doesn't seem to know it. Nobody says anything to him. Nobody has the energy.

Then the battleships open up.

USS Texas. 14-inch guns. The shockwave from a single salvo is so violent it physically moves the air in your chest. The noise is past sound. It's concussive, it's physical, it rewires something deep in your brain. The sky over Normandy turns orange. Then red. Then orange again. B-17s roll over in formations so vast they blot out the stars, 1,000 planes heading for the coastal batteries, the bunkers, the gun emplacements.

You think: nothing on that beach is still alive. Nothing could be.

You are wrong, and you don't know it yet.

What you don't know: the Air Force bombers delayed their drop by 30 seconds to avoid hitting the fleet. Thirty seconds at bombing speed puts 13,000 bombs 3 miles inland. Into French farmland. Into empty fields. Not one bomb lands on Omaha Beach. The German 352nd Infantry Division, dug into concrete bunkers along the bluffs, is untouched. Alert. Waiting.

You also don't know about the tanks.

Command planned to send 64 amphibious Sherman DD tanks ahead of the infantry to provide cover on the beach. They were supposed to float. In calm water, they could. But this is not calm water. The 741st Tank Battalion launches their tanks from 6,000 yards out. The swells hit the inflatable canvas screens. The screens collapse. Twenty-seven of 32 tanks sink straight to the bottom of the Channel, 100 feet down. The crews inside most of them never get out. The infantry landing in the first wave will hit the beach with almost no armor. They just don't know that yet either.

H-Hour. 0630. June 6, 1944.

Your ramp drops.

The lieutenant in front of you steps off and is dead before he hits the water. Not wounded. Dead. You don't stop. There's no stopping. 35 men are behind you in a boat with nowhere to go but forward.

You jump left. The man to your right jumps right. You never see him again.

The water is chest deep and 50 degrees and you have 70 pounds of gear on your back. German MG-42 machine guns are firing 1,200 rounds per minute from the bluffs 300 yards ahead, and the sound is not like the movies. It's mechanical. Industrial. Like a factory running at full speed. The rounds hit the water around you so fast you can't track individual splashes, just a constant disturbed surface in every direction.

You cannot run. You can barely walk. The beach is still 80 yards away.

The soldiers from Company A, 116th Infantry made it to shore first. They were from Bedford, Virginia, a town of 3,200 people. There were 35 men from Bedford in that company. The German guns had been pre-sighted on the waterline. Before most of them could clear the ramp, before they could even get wet, the machine guns hit them. Nineteen of the Bedford boys died in the first 15 minutes. Bedford, Virginia lost more men per capita that morning than any community in America. The town wouldn't know for weeks.

You make the shingle. A narrow strip of gravel at the base of the bluffs. You press yourself into it so hard you feel the rocks through your jacket. The guy beside you is a technical sergeant you've never met, from a different unit entirely, blown here by chaos. He's got blood on his sleeve and he is absolutely furious. He looks at you and says what Colonel George Taylor will say to everyone still pinned on this beach:

"Two kinds of people are staying on this beach. The dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here."

You get up.

It takes six hours to clear 300 yards of sand.

Not with a charge. Not with anything glorious. In tiny groups, one gap in the wire at a time. Sergeant Philip Streczyk crawls through the smoke near the E-1 draw and finds a seam the Germans left in the defenses. He takes six men through it. Another cluster flanks a machine gun nest from an angle the Germans didn't fully cover. A corporal nobody has heard of stands up in the open and throws two grenades into a bunker aperture and clears it by himself. Acts of individual, unrepeatable courage happening in the smoke all across a 6-mile front, uncoordinated, unrecorded, unwitnessed.

Meanwhile, half a mile off the beach, USS Frankford sees the infantry getting slaughtered and makes a decision that violates every piece of common sense a naval officer has. She drives her destroyer to within 800 yards of the beach, so close she's bouncing her keel off sandbars, and opens up direct fire on the bunkers at point-blank range. They can't miss at that distance. Three other destroyers follow her in. The crews know they are one lucky German shell from being sunk in 15 feet of water. They do it anyway.

By noon, small groups are on the bluff.

By early afternoon, you can stand on the high ground and see the entire beach below. The tide came in. The men who were wounded and couldn't crawl fast enough are gone. The obstacles are still there, draped with things you don't look at directly. You eat half a K-ration because it's the first food since yesterday and your hands are shaking too much to open the other half.

By nightfall, 2,000 Americans are dead, wounded, or missing. On this one beach. In one day. It is the single costliest day in American military history.

You sleep in a shell crater in French soil. Still wet. No sleeping bag. 40-something degrees now that the sun is down. The man a crater over is crying softly. You don't check on him. You need him to be fine. He probably is. You tell yourself he probably is.

Tomorrow the hedgerows start. Weeks of fighting through walls of vegetation 10 feet thick, every field a potential ambush, every sunken lane its own kill zone. The Germans mastered it. The terrain was not on the maps. Nobody had planned for it.

But tonight you're alive.

You think about Kowalski and his unfolded letter. You think about the Bedford boys. You think about the tanks on the bottom of the Channel with their hatches sealed.

You get out your paper and you write your own letter.

This time you address it.

82 years ago today. Most of them were teenagers. Most had never left their home states. They were seasick and soaked and terrified and they went anyway.

The youngest survivors are over 100 now. Most are gone.

Remember them today, not as marble statues. As kids who threw up over the side of a boat at 3 AM and climbed a cliff at dawn anyway.

That is what courage actually looks like.

[Brandon Prince @bprince1981]

@JaredSandler Nolan Ryan

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

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[STACKS 💵 @Stacks_WWE]

I’ve been at the PC for 3.5 years. I’ve seen plenty of D1 ATHLETES take a couple of bumps and give up in a few weeks because they can’t handle it. The training. The grind. BROKE them.

Jelly Roll, BROKE his finger day 1 of training and he taped that finger up and was punching me in the face with it the next day. We pushed him hard. Expecting more from him everyday and he delivered. He smiled and sang through every minute of training and then grabbed the broom and swept the ring.

I’ve watched him commit every ounce of energy he had to this #SummerSlam match tonight. He may not consider himself an athlete, but he’s got that Mamba Mentality. He worked his ass off for this. Tonight, @JellyRoll615 is a @WWE Superstar and he’s gonna put on a show for the whole world.

[Brandon Prince @bprince1981]

@CRyanSchadel

[Brandon Prince @bprince1981]

@90sWWE Stone cold

[Brandon Prince @bprince1981]

@Evan_P_Grant Not well coached

[Brandon Prince @bprince1981]

@SeanRossSapp But Scott didn't know

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

"I was saved by God to make America great again."

-President Donald J. Trump, January 20, 2025

[Brandon Prince @bprince1981]

@DonaldTNews

[Brandon Prince @bprince1981]

@BloggingTheBoys Winning

[Brandon Prince @bprince1981]

@BloggingTheBoys Terrence Steele on that play

[Mike Lee @SenMikeLee]

Did you know that the federal government is spying on Americans’ purchases, credit cards, and bank accounts, even if they are innocent of any crime?

Did you know that the @USTreasury and the @FBI have surveilled financial transactions containing the terms “Trump” and MAGA,” and relating to guns and religion?

Did you know that the @SECGov has been quietly constructing a centralized database, called the Consolidated Audit Trail, designed to track every stock market transaction and the personal information of millions of Americans?

These actions are deeply unconstitutional, a violation of your 4th Amendment rights, and enable political persecution.

That’s why I just introduced the Saving Privacy Act:

▪️ Repeals the Bank Secrecy Act’s SAR and CTR reporting requirements while maintaining record-keeping provisions.

▪️Repeals the Corporate Transparency Act.

▪️Strengthens Fourth Amendment protections, bolstering warrant requirements in the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978.

▪️Repeals the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) database.

▪️Requires congressional approval for any new databases that collect personally identifiable information of U.S. citizens.

▪️Prohibits the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency.

▪️Requires congressional authorization for financial regulations deemed major rules.

▪️Institutes penalties for federal employees who illegally seek constitutionally protected financial information.

▪️Establishes a private right of action for Americans and financial institutions harmed by illicit government activity.

Please like and share if you think more Americans should know about this grave threat to our freedom.

@CatoInstitute has a great policy analysis in the link below 👇

[Brandon Prince @bprince1981]

@CRyanSchadel Could not agree more

[Brandon Prince @bprince1981]

@mcuban Obviously he can't just have a policy that lowers grocery prices. Lower prices will be a byproduct of some other policies that he wants to implement mainly lowering the energy costs by not being so dependent on foreign oil.

[@amuse @amuse]

FACT CHECK: In last night's three-on-one debate the ABC News moderators used misleading crime data from the FBI to 'fact check' @realDonaldTrump. The reality is that Trump (as he usually is) was right - crime is not down - it is up, way up.

Kamala Harris and her willing accomplices in the mainstream media would have you believe that violent crime in America is at a 50-year low, a narrative eagerly parroted by so-called fact-checkers at Politifact and now ABC News. The reality, however, is far from what they claim. The only thing at a 50-year low is the integrity of violent crime data. Less than a year after taking office, Biden-Harris's administration had the FBI dismantle the long-standing crime reporting system, replacing it in 2021 with a new, 'woke' system that is optional for state and local law enforcement agencies to use. As a result, at least 6,000 law enforcement agencies aren't providing data, meaning that 25% of the country's crime data is not captured by the FBI. This deliberate underreporting skews the statistics, painting a falsely optimistic picture of public safety while real Americans continue to suffer from rising crime rates.

Democrat-controlled cities from New York to San Francisco have effectively decriminalized violent crime. For instance, in New York City, 52% of violent felony cases are downgraded to misdemeanors, and offenders are typically offered diversion agreements that keep these offenses out of crime statistics. This manipulation alone could account for a 50% or more drop in reported violent crimes in the Big Apple. Across the country, Soros-backed prosecutors are refusing to prosecute violent criminals or downgrading their charges in record numbers. This systematic underreporting and leniency are tactics used by Democrats to create a misleading narrative about public safety, while communities continue to suffer from unchecked crime.

It's not far-fetched to imagine that the Biden-Harris regime and the Democrats replaced the FBI's universal crime data system with a new optional system to fabricate this massive decrease in 'reported' crime. The move raises serious questions about their motives and the integrity of the data.

Of course, the Democrats will argue that the new system is more inclusive, allowing law enforcement agencies to record pronouns and gender identities, including transgender and nonbinary, as well as the sexual preferences of both criminals and victims. The timing and optional nature of the new system suggest an ulterior motive: to obscure the real rise in crime and present a false narrative of improvement under Democratic leadership.

Additionally, we know that the 70 Soros-backed prosecutors, representing 72 million Americans and half of the nation's 50 most populous cities and counties, have made it their mission to implement so-called restorative justice. This approach often means refusing to prosecute violent criminals based on factors such as race and gender identity. The few criminals they do prosecute almost always have their violent felonies downgraded to misdemeanors. Both of these realities—the new optional reporting system and the restorative justice efforts—have led to violent crime data that fails to reflect the true state of our communities since 2021. These manipulations distort public perception and allow Democrats to promote a false sense of security.

National polls reveal that most Americans believe crime has increased significantly over the past four years. The situation is even more dire in large Democrat-controlled cities, where almost all residents report a massive surge in crime. Most residents even report that they or someone in their family has been a victim of crime.

Take Chicago, for example. Every weekend, approximately 70 people are shot. The crisis has escalated to such an extent that the mayor recently canceled the city's contract with a company that detects and reports gunfire. There are so many gunshots in Chicago that police can only respond if someone is actually hit by a bullet.

New York City is similarly experiencing a huge spike in robberies and assaults, often occurring in broad daylight. The situation became so severe this year that the governor had to deploy National Guard troops to the NYC subway system to deter criminals. Before District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Attorney General Letitia James took office, these violent crimes would have been prosecuted as felonies. Now, if they are prosecuted at all, they are often downgraded to misdemeanors with diversion deals.

There is also ample evidence that the FBI and the Biden-Harris regime are simply cooking the books. Watch Jesse Waters expose what he calls Enron-style corruption in their crime reporting.

The next time someone tries to tell you that Biden and Harris have reduced crime to its lowest levels in 50 years, let them know the truth. It's easy to claim a decrease in crime when you leave out data from 25% of the population living in major cities like Los Angeles and New York City.

The reality is, these omissions paint a misleading picture of the state of crime in America. Don't let them gaslight you with manipulated statistics. Demand full transparency and accountability in crime reporting to get the real story.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Fellow Christian:

Can *you* please join me in a complete and total boycott of the blasphemous sickening satanic occult ritual formerly known as the Olympics?

Jesus Christ will not be mocked

We are the majority - let’s demonstrate power

Do not tolerate darkness

Do NOT watch

[C Spire @CSpire]

We were shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. C Spire will be pulling our advertising from the Olympics.