The Knicks trailed by 17 points with less than 9 minutes to go.
Entering today, teams were 0-96 when trailing by 17+ points in the final 9 minutes of regulation of a Finals game since 1970-71.
The Knicks have just made that 1-96.
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Fifty-nine years ago today, an American Naval vessel, the USS Liberty, was attacked by air and sea by the State of Israel.
Of the 234 men on the ship, 34 Americans were killed. 171 were wounded.
Today, Thomas Massie will take to the House floor to memorialize the worst interpretation of the event, an interpretation that suggests Israel attacked the American ship on purpose and that our own government either coordinated with them to do, or is complicit in the cover up.
The USS Liberty has become a rallying cry for many of the worst voices in public life. From the Groyper Wars against Charlie Kirk, to Tucker Carlson’s blackpill-and-despair political project, to Candace Owens’ global jihad of grift and Jew hared, the Conspiracy Theories surrounding the USS Liberty have become one of the most respectable ways to advance anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment.
But what really happened on that terrible day in 1967?
How can we know what’s true?
And what does it mean for us six decades later?
Conspiracy Theorists love to overwhelm you with the sheer volume of their claims, but there are 8 claims which makeup the core of the argument.
We thoroughly address those eight in this episode, and shine a light on the phenomena that undergird these Conspiracy Theories in the first place.
Here's an honest accounting of what happened on June 8, 1967, and how — and why — bad actors are lying to you about it:
This is an argument that has been repeated often for many years, and here's the thing:
Everyone on all sides of the conflict knows deep down that this is 100% true.
At 4:30 in the morning, in a room rattled by wind and rain, one man had to decide whether to launch the largest invasion in human history based on a weather forecast. Then he wrote a note taking the blame for a disaster that hadn't happened yet.
D-Day was originally set for June 5, 1944. On June 4, with the Channel turning ugly, RAF meteorologist Group Captain James Stagg told Eisenhower the weather would be too rough for landing craft and air support. Eisenhower postponed 24 hours. Some convoys were already at sea and had to be turned around.
The stakes of the delay were brutal: if June 6 was missed, the tides and moon wouldn't line up again until June 19. Two more weeks for the Germans to find out. (Worse, in hindsight: a massive storm hit the Channel on June 19.)
At 4:30 am on June 5, Stagg told the commanders the storm was breaking. A window. Maybe 36 hours of barely acceptable weather.
The Germans saw the same storm, concluded no invasion was possible, and relaxed. Rommel went home to Germany for his wife's birthday.
Eisenhower sat in silence, then said words to the effect of "OK, we'll go." Around 160,000 men, thousands of ships, and the fate of the war moved on that sentence.
Later that day, he scribbled a note and put it in his wallet, to be released if the landings failed: "The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
In his exhaustion, he dated it July 5 by mistake.
Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.
Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won���t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.
It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.
D-Day is underway. Some would argue that what's happening right now is the most daring and ultimately successful operation in the history of military Alliances.
Note: the majority of troops are friends of the US from eight countries. Eisenhower has been told that three-quarters of the 23,400 airborne troops will be lost. He's hoping that the prediction will be wrong.