Dave Coen ✝️🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇮🇱🇺🇦

Former US Army Captain, Airborne Ranger, 82nd ABN, PLT LDR, Special Forces (Green Beret), DET CMDR-ODA525, Capitalist, Military/American History, Kansas Jayhawk

[Dave Coen ✝️🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @jayhawk1956]

“FREEDOM IS A LIGHT FOR WHICH MANY MEN HAVE DIED IN DARKNESS”

Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier

[@XTexasGirlX @XtexasgirlX]

ONE GIRL. FIFTEEN MEN.

Fifteen men in Bradford raped one teenage girl.

Eighty-eight counts of rape between 2007 and 2011.

They are:

📍Hannan Miah, 40, of Bradford, sentenced to 12 years for four rapes

📍Asif Budhia, 43, of Bradford, sentenced to 13 years for four rapes

📍Abdul Basith, 44, of Bradford, sentenced to 13 and a half years for four rapes and one conspiracy to rape

📍Burhan Uddin Ali, 39, of Bradford, sentenced to 13 and a half years for four rapes

📍Muhammad Yasir, 50, of Bradford, sentenced to 10 years for rape

📍Mohammed Nadeem Ali, 41, of Bradford, sentenced to 13 years for four counts of rape

📍Jameel Ahmed, 35, of Bradford, sentenced to eight years for four counts of rape

📍Amjad Hussain ,39, of Keighley, sentenced to 10 years and five months for five counts of rape

📍Ashfaq Ahmed, 39, of Halifax, sentenced to 12 years for two rapes

📍Aftab Ahmed, 37, of Bradford, sentenced to 11 for three rapes

📍Anwar Aziz, 36, of Bradford, sentenced to 15 years for 14 rapes

📍Yousaf Bhatti, 40, of Bradford, sentenced to 17 years for eight rapes

📍Faisal Rashid, 37, of Bradford, sentenced to 15 years for ten rapes

📍Omar Taj, 38, of Batley, sentenced to 15 years for 12 rapes

📍Shahinul Haq, 39, of Bradford, sentenced to 10 years for rape

After years of investigation and multiple trials they got a combined 188 years. Not long enough for such heinous acts.

One child passed around grown men who knew exactly what they were doing.

They stole her entire childhood. She said it herself. The system finally delivered justice but only after she carried that trauma for nearly twenty years.

How does one girl suffer that much while so many looked the other way? This is what happens when we fail to protect the most vulnerable.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

In responding to a challenge from Sen. Fetterman to prove that he did not send naked pictures to women, Graham Platner immediately raised the Jews, declaring that Fetterman is a tool of AIPAC. It appears that the tattoo may be obscured, but a certain obsession remains...

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

@GovPressOffice This you bro?

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the morning of June 4, 1942, a US Navy pilot strapped into his dive bomber, took a breath from his oxygen canister, and inhaled caustic soda fumes.

The canister was defective. His lungs were already burning.

He flew the mission anyway.

By sunset, Dick Best had done something no pilot in history has done before or since. And he paid for it with everything.

Best was 31, commander of Bombing Squadron Six aboard USS Enterprise. Six months after Pearl Harbor, America was losing the Pacific. Four Japanese carriers, the same fleet that had attacked Hawaii, were steaming toward Midway to finish the US Navy for good.

His air group launched that morning and found nothing but empty ocean. Fuel running low, the formation was minutes from turning back when group commander Wade McClusky spotted a lone Japanese destroyer racing north at full speed. He made a gut call: follow it.

The destroyer led them straight to the entire Japanese fleet.

Then came the mistake that almost ruined everything. Doctrine said McClusky's group should take the far carrier and Best's squadron the near one. Instead, nearly all 30 dive bombers poured down on the same ship, Kaga.

Best watched his own squadron dive past him onto the wrong target. So he pulled out, signaled his two wingmen, and went after the other carrier with 3 planes instead of 15.

That carrier was Akagi. The flagship. The ship that had launched the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Best rolled into his dive through anti-aircraft fire and put a 1,000 lb bomb through the flight deck near the midship elevator. It exploded in the hangar below, packed with fueled and armed torpedo planes. The blast set off a chain reaction that no one aboard could stop.

One bomb. One hit. Akagi was finished.

In roughly five minutes that morning, three of Japan's four carriers were burning wrecks. Historians call it the most decisive five minutes of the entire war.

But one carrier was left. That afternoon, coughing and getting worse, Best climbed back into his cockpit and flew again. His squadron found Hiryu at dusk and sent her to the bottom too.

Two carriers in one day. The only pilot ever to do it.

That night, Best was coughing blood. The caustic fumes had activated latent tuberculosis in his ruined lungs. He spent 32 months in hospitals and never flew again.

June 4, 1942 was his last flight.

Japan never recovered. The empire that had been undefeated for centuries lost the initiative in a single morning and spent the rest of the war in retreat.

And the most consequential single bomb dropped before Hiroshima was delivered by a man who was slowly suffocating as he aimed it.

84 years ago today.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Douglas Murray:

"Imagine what kind of a psychopath you have to be to gang rape a girl and then shoot her in the head. Most won't be proud of that, but Hamas is."

The vast majority of Gazans celebrated this.

[Trisha Posner @trishaposner]

It took a non-Jewish political commentator @HughHewitt to drop a truth bomb this morning about the Democratic Party and antisemitism.

“The Democratic Party is deeply infected with anti-Semitism — not anti-Israel sentiment, not anti-Zionism — antisemitism. And it’s like a sepsis….It’s either going to kill the Democratic Party or it’s going to kill the United States.”

25 years after 9/11, the Muslim Brotherhood influence and radical jihadist sympathizers are being mainstreamed in the Democratic Party.

This is no longer a warning. It’s a diagnosis.

#Antisemitism #JewHatred

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Sports media is profoundly broken. This is the headline in @latimes for a boy winning multiple girls state titles.

[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.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

California's inability to confirm the outcome of an election for weeks speaks volumes about the low expectations of citizens on the performance of their government in basic functions... https://t.co/kkMRCfYeLG

[Drone Lawrence @dronelawrenceks]

summer mornings

[Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet]

37 years ago today, the CCP launched its brutal crackdown on the peaceful student-led protests in Tiananmen Square. What made this atrocity especially shocking was that it unfolded before the eyes of the world, broadcast live on TV.

In the decades since, the CCP has worked relentlessly to erase this chapter of history. Many younger Chinese have little knowledge of this horrific event, and this year, for the first time, authorities banned families from visiting the public cemetery where many victims are buried.

Meanwhile, here in the U.S., leftists attempt to rewrite history by drawing false comparisons between rioters and the Chinese students who stood up to a tyrannical regime, and between ICE enforcing immigration law and the CCP’s military opening fire on protesters.

We must not forget the history and horror of the Tiananmen Square massacre. We must teach future generations about the horrors of communism and how precious liberty truly is.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Batya Ungar-Sargon: "My grandfather's whole family was murdered in the Sobibor concentration camp.

Graham Platner doesn't just have a Nazi tattoo. For 18 years, he had a tattoo of the concentration camp guards on his chest, and he knew what it was."

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

Imperdible discurso de Netanyahu:

“Antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los países occidentales le dieron un pedazo de Checoslovaquia a Hitler para hacer la paz. El resultado fue la peor guerra de la historia.

Ahora le dicen a Israel que les dé a los palestinos un pedazo de Israel para hacer la paz. No lo harán, porque su objetivo es destruir el Estado judío.

No nos doblegaremos ante los críticos extranjeros que carecen del coraje de enfrentarse a sus propios enemigos, pero que nos dan lecciones sobre cómo enfrentar a los nuestros.

No recompensaremos el terrorismo. Lo derrotaremos. Y el pueblo judío vivirá libre, fuerte y eterno en nuestra tierra.”

[Dave Coen ✝️🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @jayhawk1956]

Alyson Shontell, Fortune Editor-in-Chief, said on CNBC that there have only been 4 #1 ranked corporations in the 72 year history of the Fortune 500-GM, Exxon, Walmart, & now Amazon. Texas leads with 57 of the Fortune 500.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

If Israel had attacked four countries tonight, the podcaster class would be up in arms.

Iran just attacked four countries, they haven’t said a word.

Weird.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

This is the huge wall Egypt built on the border with Gaza.

One of the most well-fortified walls, with seven layers of razor wire, walls, and fences, just to make sure that not a single Palestinian from Gaza enters Egypt.

I wonder why Egypt doesn't want the Palestinians?

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Thoughts?

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

The only thing that stops violent men from raping you and your society are other men who are equally willing to be violent in stopping the rapists. The West has decided that the highest virtue is to quietly comply with the destruction of your civilization because to do otherwise is bigoted toward the rapists. It really is that simple.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Yep.

[j wall ✡ @jwhaifa]

Golda Meir: The Woman Who Refused to Break. In October 1973, Israel was blindsided. The Yom Kippur War erupted on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Tanks rolled across the Sinai. Syrian forces stormed the Golan. In 48 hours, Israel’s survival hung by a thread.
At the center stood Golda Meir, 75 years old, chain-smoking in the war room, with the weight of a nation on her shoulders.
Her generals came to her with grim news: ammunition was running low. Casualties were mounting. One advisor suggested preparing the world for the possibility of defeat.
Golda looked up and said: “We do not have the luxury to despair. If we lose this war, there will be no second chance for us.”
She picked up the phone and called U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. No begging. No panic. Just steel.
“Henry, I need those planes. Not tomorrow. Today. My people are dying.”
Kissinger later recalled: “When Golda spoke, you understood this was not politics. This was life or death.”
Within hours, Operation Nickel Grass began — the largest U.S. airlift in history. American C-5s landed in Tel Aviv carrying tanks, artillery, and ammo.
But Golda’s bravest moment wasn’t the phone call. It was day three of the war. Intelligence told her Egypt and Syria might push to Tel Aviv if the lines broke. Ministers urged her to consider evacuation plans for the government.
She slammed her hand on the table: “We will not leave Jerusalem. We will not leave Tel Aviv. We will stand here. If we must die, we die standing.”
She then walked into the press room, exhaustion on her face, and told the world: “We have always said that we are ready to die for our country. We prefer to live for it.”
Israel held the line. Then counterattacked. Then crossed the Suez. The war that began with disaster ended with Israeli forces 100 km from Cairo and 40 km from Damascus.
Golda never called herself a hero. Years later she said: “I was only doing what any mother would do to protect her children.”
Why this story matters: Leadership isn’t about fearlessness. It’s about showing up when you’re terrified and refusing to let fear decide. That’s what Golda did....