DougEFresch

Blessed is he who, when facing death, thinks only of his front sight.

[DougEFresch @fresch_e]

Fight

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@ComRedSoda Stupid, is what it gets you called.

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@CliffW08950229 @HeatherH51675 She has consistently testified the exact opposite

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@Mrgunsngear Ladies, once you go black, you can’t come back.

[DougEFresch @fresch_e]

Is there anyone on “the Left” that understands money?

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

@RoKhanna The US budget is $7.4 Trillion you moron.
Tax revenue is at record highs.

Forget about 5%… if you socialists confiscated 100% of his net worth, it would last ~45 days.
And then what?

We don’t have a revenue problem.
It’s you clowns spending it.

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@EricDLombardi

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@amlivemon

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@Jason_epi @DamirWallener @JamesLucasIT I think that was attempted in Paris

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The most famous painting of the ancient Greek philosophers is full of hidden portraits of Renaissance artists.

The figure of Plato is Leonardo da Vinci. The brooding man writing alone on the marble block is Michelangelo. And in the corner, looking straight out at you, is the painter himself...

It is called the School of Athens, and Raphael painted it on the wall of the Pope's private apartments in the Vatican between 1509 and 1511. He was in his mid-twenties.

Across a vast painted hall, he gathered more than fifty of the greatest philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists of the ancient world into a single imagined gathering that never happened.

At the very center, beneath a soaring archway placed at the vanishing point so your eye is pulled straight to them, stand the two men who divided Western thought between them. On the left is Plato, white-haired, pointing one finger up toward the heavens, holding his book the Timaeus. Beside him is his student Aristotle, holding his Ethics and reaching his hand out flat toward the earth. In a single gesture, Raphael captured the whole argument: Plato pointing to the world of ideas above, Aristotle to the physical world in front of us.

But the genius of the fresco is in its faces. Raphael had almost no ancient portraits to work from, so he did something audacious: he painted some of the philosophers of antiquity using the features of the artists of his own age...

Plato was given the face of Leonardo da Vinci, then an old man, whom Raphael revered. The melancholy figure seated alone in the foreground, leaning on a block of marble and lost in thought, is widely believed to be Michelangelo, who was at that very moment painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling a short walk away. Raphael cast him as Heraclitus, the philosopher known for his solitary temperament. The mathematician Euclid, bent over a compass to teach a cluster of students, was given the face of the architect Bramante, the man then designing the new St. Peter's Basilica.

And on the far right edge, in a dark cap, one young man looks directly out of the fresco and meets the eye of anyone standing in front of it. That is Raphael, placing himself among the greatest minds in history...

Raphael died in 1520 at the age of 37. He was buried in the Pantheon, an honor rarely accorded to an artist, and his epitaph, written by Pietro Bembo, reads: “Here lies Raphael, by whom Nature feared to be outdone while he lived, and when he died, feared she would die with him.”

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[DougEFresch @fresch_e]

What happened to England? WW1 take all the fight out of them?

[Bones @FrailSkeleton]

The English Love of Fighting, 1695

Misson de Valbourg

Anything that looks like fighting is delicious to an Englishman. If two little boys quarrel in the street the passengers stop, make a ring round them in a moment, and set them against one another that they may come to fisticuffs. When ’tis come to a fight, each pulls off his neckcloth and his waistcoat and gives them to hold to some of the standers-by. Then they begin to brandish their fists in the air. The blows are aimed all at the face. They kick one another’s shins; they tug one another by the hair. He that has got the other down may give him one blow or two before he rises, but no more; and let the boy get up ever so often, the other is obliged to box him again as often as he requires it. During the fight the ring of bystanders encourage the combatants with great delight of heart, and never part them while they fight according to the rules. And these bystanders are not only boys, porters and rabble, but all sorts of men of fashion, some thrusting by the mob that they may see plain, others getting upon stalls; and all would hire places if scaffolds could be built in a moment. The father and mother of the boys let them fight on as well as the rest, and hearten him that gives ground or has the worst.

These combats are less frequent among men than children, but they are not rare. If a coachman has a dispute about his fare with a gentleman that has hired him, and the gentleman offers to fight him to decide the quarrel, the coachman consents with all his heart. The gentleman pulls off his sword, lays it in some shop, with his cane, gloves and cravat, and boxes in the manner that I have described above. If the coachman is soundly drubbed, which happens almost always, that goes for payment; but if he is the beater, the beatee must pay the money about which they quarrelled. I once saw the late Duke of Grafton at fisticuffs in the open street with such a fellow, whom he lammed most horribly. In France we punish such rascals with our cane, and sometimes with the flat of our sword; but in England this is never practised. They use neither sword nor stick against a man that is unarmed; and if any unfortunate stranger (for an Englishman would never take it into his head) should draw his sword upon one that had none, he’d have a hundred people upon him in a moment.

[Bones @FrailSkeleton]

The English Love of Fighting, 1695

Misson de Valbourg

Anything that looks like fighting is delicious to an Englishman. If two little boys quarrel in the street the passengers stop, make a ring round them in a moment, and set them against one another that they may come to fisticuffs. When ’tis come to a fight, each pulls off his neckcloth and his waistcoat and gives them to hold to some of the standers-by. Then they begin to brandish their fists in the air. The blows are aimed all at the face. They kick one another’s shins; they tug one another by the hair. He that has got the other down may give him one blow or two before he rises, but no more; and let the boy get up ever so often, the other is obliged to box him again as often as he requires it. During the fight the ring of bystanders encourage the combatants with great delight of heart, and never part them while they fight according to the rules. And these bystanders are not only boys, porters and rabble, but all sorts of men of fashion, some thrusting by the mob that they may see plain, others getting upon stalls; and all would hire places if scaffolds could be built in a moment. The father and mother of the boys let them fight on as well as the rest, and hearten him that gives ground or has the worst.

These combats are less frequent among men than children, but they are not rare. If a coachman has a dispute about his fare with a gentleman that has hired him, and the gentleman offers to fight him to decide the quarrel, the coachman consents with all his heart. The gentleman pulls off his sword, lays it in some shop, with his cane, gloves and cravat, and boxes in the manner that I have described above. If the coachman is soundly drubbed, which happens almost always, that goes for payment; but if he is the beater, the beatee must pay the money about which they quarrelled. I once saw the late Duke of Grafton at fisticuffs in the open street with such a fellow, whom he lammed most horribly. In France we punish such rascals with our cane, and sometimes with the flat of our sword; but in England this is never practised. They use neither sword nor stick against a man that is unarmed; and if any unfortunate stranger (for an Englishman would never take it into his head) should draw his sword upon one that had none, he’d have a hundred people upon him in a moment.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Democrat Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, INSULTING locals and bragging about how she ignores their concerns.

“We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' and doing it anyway.”

Democrats don't care about you.

📹stopsalinedatacenter on IG

[Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan]

ActBlue accepted foreign money and donations under fake names.

They knew about it and failed to stop it.

And when we asked them about it, they all took the 5th.

[Homosexual Male with Strong Opinions @notimeforyou80]

@mindingottawa @MarkJCarney @NationalDefence @PrivyCouncilCA @jamesbezan @DominionDynamic Good Lord! This is the same woman the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commission found in breach of the Conflict of Interest Act from her time in IRCC. She is not fit to be the Deputy Minister of Defence or any other department. What defence services can her brother provide DND?

[DougEFresch @fresch_e]

@LynAldenContact @vaquerodepapel 9% in 2022. Wild.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. ActBlue just PLED THE 5TH and REFUSED to answer about getting foreign donations infiltrating US politics on behalf of Democrats

She wouldn't even refute getting RUSSIAN money! 🤯

ActBlue is a FRAUD group. Shut it down!

REP. JIM JORDAN: Your board chairman said ActBlue accepted up to 38 million contributions in 2024 that had the signs of foreign origin. How much fraud is too much fraud?

ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

JORDAN: How many foreign contributions did ActBlue accept?

ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

JORDAN: How much money did ActBlue accept from Russia?

ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

JORDAN: Why did your entire legal team quit? Your in-house legal team?

ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

JORDAN: Did your legal team quit because of reduced fraud standards?

ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

JORDAN: We won't keep you here all day, but let me just do one more. Did you weaken your fraud standards to help Democrats?

ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

Absolutely insane.

[DougEFresch @fresch_e]

@washingtonpost

[Santiago Capital @SantiagoAuFund]

Imagine thinking that the Milkshake is bullish treasury bonds when the entire Milkshake was predicated on Treasury yields rising and Treasury bonds falling.

And then imagine not understanding the reason treasury bonds are being sold is because the sellers need...dollars.

😅

[DougEFresch @fresch_e]

@triffic_stuff_ It’s no wonder their country is being taken over by migrants. Bunch of fucking pussies.

[Adriana Vitan Balint @adrianavbalint]

'Ucrainenii au încărcat și au direcționat drona pentru aruncarea în aer a terminalului de petrol, contînd și pe alăturatul depozit de azotat de amoniu. Asta ar fi ras instantaneu cu totul cam jumătate din Constanța și, mai ales, ar fi șters urmele, exploziile spulberînd orice firicel din drona controlată permanent de atacatorul ucrainean.

Dacă nimerea, drona era rusească - vorba unui amic pe care-l prețuiesc mult. Doar că drona s-a înfipt și s-a blocat în balizele antipoluare. N-a mai putut mișca.

În tot acest timp, operatorul ucrainean al dronei avea permanent control vizual satelitar, în timp real, prin camerele video ale sculei, perfect funcțională cu excepția agățării ei în balize. Operatorul a văzut astfel că niște unii s-au apropiat și că filmează drona de la nici 10 metri distanță. Deci obiectul delict era nu doar blocat, ci deconspirat și ușor atribuibil statului producător și utilizator cu mare succes. E plin internetul de povești eroice despre lovirea cu dînsele, în două rînduri, a Podului Crimeei, între altele.

Cînd ucrainenii au văzut,  în timp real, că românii filmează drona neatinsă au sunat la București înainte s-o detoneze controlat. Au sunat nu din dragoste aliată, ci pentru a distruge în siguranță electronica în care încărcaseră traseul și ținta prestabilite. Altfel s-ar fi dovedit cu probe pipăibile că au țintit cu premeditare ce au țintit.

Pierdea controlului dronei prin bruiaj rusesc - adică varianta oficializată inclusiv de la cel mai înalt nivel în România - e o harneală pentru vîrsta unui școlar neatent de clasa a patra. Las' că rușii s-a lins pe bot de Starlink-ul american cu antena la vedere pe drona filmată. "Pierderea controlului" e anulată de telefonul de la ucraineni care a anuntat detonarea dispozitivului pentru - repet - distrugerea probei.

Pe scurt: ne-a ferit Dumnezeu.
Ne-a ferit numai bunul Dumnezeu, cu niște balize antipoluare agățate de coada unei monstruozități cu care România - deci NATO - trebuia tîrîtă în război, nenorociților!!!"
Sorin Faur, jurnalist

[DougEFresch @fresch_e]

@FoodProfessor When was the last time that the president of Tim Hortons appeared on your podcast?