Daniel Ortiz

Husband, dad, engineer, just trying to raise a good family.

[Linda @LndamyDark]

Best commercial I've seen so far for the save act.
What do you think??

[HausenKS 🌾🇺🇸 @HausenKS]

“The headlines will show you a country, but Americans will show you America.”

Love this! We are proud to be hosting the World Cup 😎

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

So, you’re hanging out in the cockpit of a 737. Waiting for taxi clearance…and you see this. 👀🇺🇸🔥

[Daniel Ortiz @DanOgoforlaunch]

@HamasAtrocities @Timcast kinda funny.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

I still loved America when Joe Biden was president.

I disagreed strongly with him. I opposed almost all of his policies. I thought most of the things his administration did were damaging to the country.
But here's the thing: I never stopped loving America.

You see, America is bigger than her government.

America is not Joe Biden.
America is not Donald Trump.
America is not Congress.
America is not the bureaucracy.

Governments come and go. Administrations rise and fall. Politicians make mistakes, abuse power, pass bad laws, and sometimes do genuinely terrible things.

But America is bigger than any of that.

It’s the culture, the people, the communities, the traditions, the freedoms, the churches, the charities, the families, the businesses, the neighbors who help each other when disaster strikes. It’s the idea that free people can govern themselves and build something better. (And disagree while trying)

A president can damage the government.
A Congress can damage institutions.
Neither Biden nor Trump can destroy the spirit of America unless we decide to surrender it ourselves.

If your love of your country depends entirely on who occupies the White House, then what you love isn’t really your country. It’s a political administration.

I loved America under Biden. I love America under Trump.

I’ll still love America long after both of them are gone.

[Daniel Ortiz @DanOgoforlaunch]

😮

[Surajit @surajit_ghosh2]

This is what experiencing Philippines 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the middle of the water looked like at Lake Holon

[Daniel Ortiz @DanOgoforlaunch]

Oh snap.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

CALIFORNIA VOTE IS RIGGED 🚨 Voters were rejecting a new sales tax increase in Los Angeles County but because of a ‘surge with late mail in ballots’ the sales tax increase PASSED

The same late mail in ballots that pushed Nithya Raman ahead of Spencer Pratt also pushed through Democrat’s sales tax increase

“I'm going to talk about one of the strangest results in the LA County — sales tax increase that will take the sales tax in Los Angeles County from a very high 9.75% to the almost unthinkable 10.25%, one of the highest in the country. Why did this happen? — Initially, it looked like Measure ER, the tax increase, was going to fail, but with late ballots coming in, especially for Nithya Raman, the tax increase passed.”

I found this new sales tax increase is expected to take a BILLION dollars per year from residents.

Again, they were rejecting it. But Democrats forged it through with mail in ballots

[EarthCam @EarthCam]

Months of work, condensed into seconds. Watch the transformation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as crews drained, repainted, and refilled one of America's most iconic landmarks ahead of a busy summer season in Washington, D.C.

[Daniel Ortiz @DanOgoforlaunch]

Racism is wrong, no matter which direction it acts.

[Gail Heriot @GailHeriot]

The CA Legislature tried to strike these words from the state constitution in 2020 (put there by Prop 209 in 1996). The voters smacked them down when 57.23% said NO—despite the YES campaign outspending the NO team by more than 14 to 1. Now they’re trying again—calling it a “clarification” instead of an effort to gut the provision’s application to public education. Don’t believe them. If approved by the voters, this would be a major change. The aim is to pave the way for the recommendations of California’s Task Force on Reparations. The Task Force wants to make college free to African Americans no matter how well off their parents are and to get school districts to fund individual schools based on the race of the students who attend.

@christopherrufo

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

US Navy load slinging timeline cleanse.

The largest warship ever built, the USS Gerald R. Ford, needs to stay well supplied.

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Steven Bartlett, host of the podcast, The Diary of a CEO, released an interview with Christian apologist, John Lennox, this week, and his closing comments to him were fascinating:

"One of the most compelling arguments for God that you've presented (and your way of seeing the world and being) is not actually necessarily anything you've written in your books or not not necessarily anything you've said. It is actually you.

You have a certain peace and contentment that I rarely see in people that I interview, but I often see, and I've almost always seen, in the Christians that I've interviewed, and this is a interesting phenomenon for me...it seems to be a trend that a lot of the Christian apologists that I've interviewed have that anchoring that so many of us are looking for."

What a great witness.

Link to interview below

[Daniel Ortiz @DanOgoforlaunch]

This puts a little more perspective on the whole Bundy ordeal.

https://t.co/oWT1EFEfpu

[Daniel Ortiz @DanOgoforlaunch]

Note to self.

[Reconecta @Ni_subo_ni_bajo]

Mientras comía en su escritorio, el técnico paramédico Elías se atragantó con un trozo de comida. Manteniendo la calma, usó una silla para realizar la maniobra de Heimlich en sí mismo y salvó su propia vida.

[Daniel Ortiz @DanOgoforlaunch]

Oof.

[EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince]

2016: Punch a Nazi.

2026: No not that one.

[RON .D. WATKINS @Ron_WatkinsQ]

BREAKING 🚨 President Trump stuns America by showing up to the First White House tour in years

Shoutout to First Lady Melania Trump for opening it back up ❤️

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

84 years ago today, a pilot running out of fuel made a decision that won the Pacific War. Most Americans have never heard his name.

June 4, 1942. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's navy is undefeated. Four of the carriers that burned Pearl, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, are steaming toward Midway to finish off the US Pacific Fleet.

At 7:52 AM, Wade McClusky launches from USS Enterprise leading 32 Dauntless dive bombers. Here's the detail nobody mentions: McClusky is a fighter pilot. He'd been given the air group weeks earlier and had barely flown a dive bomber in combat. Now he's leading every SBD the Enterprise has at the most important target in the Pacific.

9:20 AM. He arrives at the intercept point where the Japanese fleet is supposed to be.

Empty ocean. Nothing for miles.

The Japanese had turned. Nobody knew where. And now McClusky owns the worst math problem in naval aviation: his fuel is bleeding away, and every minute he keeps searching, he condemns more of his own pilots to ditch in open water where nobody will find them.

Doctrine is clear. Turn back.

McClusky keeps going. He works a search pattern, squeezing miles out of dying fuel tanks.

9:55 AM. Far below, a single Japanese destroyer is cutting a white scar across the ocean at flank speed. It's the Arashi, racing to rejoin the fleet after depth-charging the American submarine Nautilus. Think about that. A failed sub attack is about to give away the entire Japanese navy.

McClusky reads the wake like an arrow and follows it.

10:02 AM. The horizon fills with the entire Japanese strike force. Four carriers, their decks crammed with planes being refueled and rearmed. Fuel lines snaking everywhere. Bombs stacked in the open.

And here's the miracle: the sky above them is empty. Minutes earlier, American torpedo squadrons had attacked at sea level and been annihilated. Torpedo 8 lost all 15 planes. One survivor, Ensign George Gay, watched what came next while hiding under his seat cushion in the water. Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open.

10:22 AM. McClusky pushes over from 14,500 feet. Both squadrons follow him down onto Kaga. It's actually a mistake, doctrine said split the targets, but Lt. Dick Best catches it mid-dive, pulls out with two wingmen, and goes after Akagi alone. His single bomb pierces the flight deck into the packed hangar. It's enough.

By 10:28, Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu, the third hit simultaneously by Yorktown's bombers, are floating infernos. Six minutes. Three carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone. Hiryu follows them to the bottom that evening.

The cost of McClusky's gamble was real. Many Enterprise bombers never made it home, some shot down, others swallowed by the sea when their tanks ran dry. McClusky himself was jumped by two Zeros on the way out, took five bullets through his shoulder, and still flew his shot-up Dauntless back to the Enterprise.

Admiral Nimitz said McClusky's decision "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway." Japan never won another major battle.

One borrowed pilot. One destroyer's wake. One choice to keep flying when every gauge said go home.

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

A Democrat in DC says she hates she’s forced to admit the Reflecting Pool now looks good.

“I thought it was a stupid idea to paint the Reflecting Pool, but it looks really good. It makes the reflection look extraordinarily prominent in a way it did not before, and I hate that.”

[Captain Toke @Captain_toke]

😎🇺🇸

[Sage Steele @sagesteele]

Oh my.