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The privately funded Pennsylvania pavilion won “Best in Show” honor at the Great American State Fair held on the National Mall in Washington, DC after Sens. McCormick and Fetterman partnered to ensure the Commonwealth was represented for America’s 250th birthday—and they say the win belongs to all Pennsylvanians.

PA Gov. Josh Shapiro—who’s up for re-election this year—declined to sponsor a state pavilion at the Fair, claiming a lack of state funding and business sponsors, which was proven incorrect as the Senators were able to successfully secure private funding.

The pavilion highlighted the Commonwealth’s central role in American history and innovation and often had a long line of visitors waiting to view it.

“Pennsylvania’s story is Americas story, and this recognition is a tribute to everyone who helped bring that story to life,” says Senator McCormick. “From Independence Hall and Valley Forge to our farms, factories, and innovators, the Commonwealth has shaped our nation for 250 years. I’m grateful to Senator Fetterman, Secretary Rollins, and our outstanding Pennsylvania partners for ensuring Pennsylvania had a presence worthy of our history.”

“I’m incredibly proud of all the Pennsylvanians that showed up to make sure our Commonwealth had the spotlight it deserved right there on the National Mall during America’s 250th birthday. It earned this recognition,” said Senator Fetterman. “What makes Pennsylvania truly awesome are the men, women, and children who call it home. Our farmers, steelworkers, small business owners, and so many more. Those who visited the pavilion got to see a glimpse of some of the very best of us and our history, and I’m grateful to Senator McCormick, Secretary Rollins, and all who made this a massive success.”

Representatives from McCormick’s office accepted the award during a recognition ceremony on the Freedom Stage Friday afternoon at the Great American State Fair.

Let’s hope Shapiro doesn’t take credit for this.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

I hadn’t caught this during the game but England’s equalizer hit the sky cam, affecting the ball. One thing I have concluded, VAR sucks.

[春上今 @gong7jun]

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[Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA]

During a 60 day period the LAPD got 161 license plate reader hits for stolen cars that were NOT actually stolen.

That means 161 INNOCENT car occupants had guns pulled on them w/helicopter overhead, ordered to lay on ground, handcuffed, searched and detained for 20-45 mins.

[Donor @dpshphrd23]

@MCCCANM Let it go already

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Before I go to work I want to talk about discipline and standards. Frankly, I was floored at some of the reactions to the SECDEF's new focus on fitness and grooming standards. Many of whom are actively serving today.

My question to those people: What the hell are you talking about?

I've heard people say:

"Inspections are a waste of time."

"SECDEF is only focused on stuff an E5 cares about."

"He's trying to drive out women."

"Shouldn't we be focused on winning wars?"

"What's he trying to say here? I don't get it."

Again: What the hell are you talking about?

Do you know why he has to put out memos and guidance like this? Do you know why he has to care at the highest levels of DoD?

Because obviously nobody else does. Or if they do care, nobody is doing anything about it. Mass amounts of Soldiers being fat is a national security issue.

Leaders in uniform with their reactions surprise me. You all know leadership 101 is that when you shine a light on something, that's what your unit chooses to care about. This is the same thing at scale.

Have any of you walked around a base lately? Come on down to Fort Hood. Take a leisurely stroll. Count the fat Soldiers versus the fit ones. They look like they can't walk let alone run a mile and there's TONS of them (pun intended).

You know what else they don't do because they're fat? Literally everything else. They generally don't render customs and courtesies. Their uniforms look like trash. Their demeanor is just generally garbage. I feel like I'm at an Airsoft event.

Some of you are out here probably thinking you've seen Soldiers in the past who were AWFUL at discipline and standards in garrison but amazing in the field. You know what the common denominator with that type of Soldier is though? They are generally good at killing people. Their uniform may have looked like trash but their weapons were IMMACULATE.

Now tell me when you take a walk on Fort Hood that you can honestly say the slovenly Soldiers you're looking at actually have the capacity to kill like I just described. Or the capacity to meticulously care for their equipment; they can't even take care of themselves.

Has the body positivity movement diluted your sense of reality?

America, we are not your social experiment anymore. Cope however you need to at this news. We take quality over quantity, and your celebrations of individuality mean NOTHING to us. They shouldn't mean anything to you either.

War is binary. We win or lose, live or die. You don't even care about winning because none of you have had to deal with the threat of the wolf being at your door. We have just been a vehicle for you to push an agenda for the last few years. That time is over.

When that wolf comes, do you want the fat undisciplined mess protecting you, or the wild eyed fit killer? Seems like common sense to me, something many of you are sorely lacking these days.

On average, if a Soldier looks good then they are good.

My patience level for weakness and indiscipline is at less than zero. I know I'm not even close to being the only one. You think SECDEF just makes these decisions by throwing darts at the wall? No. He gets feedback from people just like me who bombard him with similar comments. Plus I know for a fact he's seen the fitness levels of Soldiers himself on circulation around the globe.

And finally, I would rather take 5 strapping killers into battle over 40 land whales. For those of you officers on the inside resisting this, resign. Or if you're enlisted and on contract, just fall out of a few runs and we'll take care of the rest.

***Real talk though we need to fix the feeding situation across the force (good food and 24/7 chow availability) and STRONGLY consider removing fast food from installations.***

[Donor @dpshphrd23]

😂😂😂

[Breadman @BTCBreadMan]

The next time you’re feeling down, remember it's all about perspective. I got a friend who reads 2-3 books a week, works out twice a day, has no financial worries, & has people who want to have sex with him all the time & yet he constantly complains about how much he hates prison

[Donor @dpshphrd23]

Good. The surveillance state has no business using these damn things.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Houston officials are furious after a SURGE in Flock cameras being ripped down, vandalized and destroyed — with at least 4 being attacked in a matter of days

They put an AMERICAN FLAG over the destroyed camera

This is happening in the Carolinas in Georgia as well

"This camera has been cut down with an American flag on it. Another Flock camera is on the ground a block away."

[Phantom II @Phantom2Phlyer]

Remember the 9/11 Commission's conclusion, that 9/11 happened because of three 'failures of imagination?'

I seriously wonder if anyone in the administration has the imagination to accept what we're up against. I can't state it any more plainly than this: Iran is run by delusional people who actually believe (and that's the key- they're not just saying it for emotional effect) that their God is commanding them to destroy the world.

This delusion has two effects: first, there is no middle ground, no ability to negotiate with people who believe something like this. They will not stop until they destroy the world. Everything they do is done with that complete motivation in mind.

Second, their total and complete belief in what their God is commanding them to do has also deluded them into an absolute belief that their God won't let them fail.

That level of fanaticism can't be negotiated with. They will never come to the point where they sit back and say, "Hey, we're constantly getting the shit kicked out of us. Maybe, just maybe, we're wrong about what Allah wants us to do."

The only thing we can do to end this war, IMHO, is to remove this insane regime. That should be the goal. Anything less than that will simply lead us nowhere. We need to take out the IRGC, who are driving the military attacks, and then either destroy the Shi'a leadership or send them into permanent exile.

[Phil A. Buster. @DanDLio50048934]

#Gutfeld

[Donor @dpshphrd23]

What a bunch of idiots

[Donor @dpshphrd23]

@BirthgiverLynn 😂

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

Not so fast, Belgium.

The city of Los Angeles still has another 29 days to count all the goals from tonight's match.

[Donor @dpshphrd23]

@BirthgiverLynn

[NWS Pittsburgh @NWSPittsburgh]

Here a picture from Parker, PA courtesy of Clairon county Dept of Public Safety.

[Donor @dpshphrd23]

@KDKARadio

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

Two air forces started the Pacific war.

One trained its pilots, then kept them fighting until they died. The other trained its pilots, then often pulled many of its experienced combat pilots out to teach everyone else.

This is one of the reasons America won the Pacific air war, let's dive in..

Japan's Elite Aviators
At the start of the war, Japan had some of the finest fighter pilots in the world.

The aviators who attacked Pearl Harbor were elite. Many had hundreds of hours in the cockpit and real combat experience from the fighting in China. Flying the nimble A6M Zero, they cut through Allied opposition in the early months of the war and earned a fearsome reputation.

But Japan made a fateful choice about these men. It kept them in combat, more or less indefinitely. Japanese pilots flew mission after mission with no real system to rotate them home. They fought until they were shot down, crippled, or killed.

It seemed ruthless and efficient. In reality, it was a slow-motion disaster.

The Difference in Philosophy
Because every time Japan lost one of those veterans, everything he knew died with him.

America did the opposite. It regularly rotated many of its experienced combat pilots back home once they had done their share of fighting. There, they became instructors, pouring everything they had learned in real air combat directly into the next generation of pilots.

So the two systems pulled in opposite directions. Japan's pool of skill drained away with every ace it buried. America's pool of skill grew, as each returning veteran multiplied his knowledge across hundreds of students.

One nation was teaching. The other was simply dying.

The Training Gap
The gap became a chasm, and it was made worse by sheer scale.

By 1944, the United States was training around 8,000 new aviators every month, each of them getting well over a year of instruction and hundreds of hours in the air before they ever saw combat.

Japan could not come close. As its veterans vanished, its training program collapsed, and it was crippled by something else, too. Fuel. Japan was running so short of it that many trainees could barely fly enough hours to learn their trade. By the later part of the war, Japanese pilots were being rushed into battle with barely 100 hours of flying time, and sometimes far less. They were teenagers with almost no training, being sent up against American veterans who had been taught by the best combat pilots in the fleet.

The outcome was no longer a contest. It was a slaughter.

The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot
Nowhere was that clearer than in the skies over the Mariana Islands in June 1944.

When the Japanese launched hundreds of aircraft against the American fleet, they flew into a wall of Hellcat fighters, guided by radar and expert fighter direction that positioned the Americans at the perfect height and moment to strike. The green Japanese pilots in their now outdated Zeros never had a chance.

In and around that battle, Japan lost nearly 480 aircraft, while the Americans lost only a few dozen. It was so one-sided that the American aviators nicknamed it the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.

Japan's naval air power, once the terror of the Pacific, was broken in a matter of days.

Better Aircraft, Better Technology
It was not only the pilots. It was the machines too.

America kept producing better and better aircraft, like the tough, heavily armed F6F Hellcat, designed after studying a captured Zero and built to beat it. It could take punishment, out-dive and out-gun its opponent, and it was forgiving enough that even a less experienced pilot could survive his first fights and become a veteran. Over the war, Hellcat pilots claimed more than 5,000 enemy aircraft for a tiny fraction of that in losses.

Japan, meanwhile, kept sending men up in the aging Zero, a plane that had been revolutionary in 1941 but was now underpowered, fragile, and outclassed. It was fast and agile, but a single burst of American fire could tear it apart, because it had traded armor and protection for maneuverability.

Better pilots, in better planes, backed by better technology. The advantages stacked on top of one another.

The Spiral Ends
By the end, Japan had reached the final, desperate stage of the spiral.

With almost no trained pilots left, and no way to make more in time, it turned to the kamikaze. A pilot did not need 500 hours of training to crash his aircraft into a ship. He only needed to take off, aim, and die. It was the last resort of an air force that had run out of the one thing it could never mass produce. Experienced men.

America won the Pacific air war for many reasons. Its factories out-built the enemy. Its radar and intelligence gave it eyes the Japanese lacked. Its aircraft grew deadlier every year.

But underneath all of it was something simpler. America treated its best pilots as a resource to be protected and passed on. Japan treated them as fuel to be burned. One of those choices built an air force that kept getting stronger. The other burned brightly, and then burned out.

This was why America won the Pacific air war.

I post a story like this every single day. Most people never see them. Follow so you don't miss the next one.

[Donor @dpshphrd23]

@KDKARadio @PghPublicSafety Yes. Yes we can.

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@NYCMayor Moron

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

Imagine that.