One of the most beautiful stories I've ever read was when a scientist discovered a new butterfly species and named it after Iryna Zarutska.
The butterfly is called "Iryna's Azure."
"Her name will be forever immortalized as a butterfly," he said.
She will never be forgotten โค๏ธ
A bullet through the lung, another in the arm, 12 hours of surgery. This Krakow cop wakes up and asks one thing: "Is Kuba alive?"
Kuba is Jakub Kulik, his patrol partner. Both were badly wounded stopping the gunman who killed six people in Krakow on Saturday. Polish media report both are now awake.
That's what a partner looks like.
And what exactly is lost - other than a piece of your soul and humanity - when you say something so horrible?
The ability to change minds and to shine light on things in a way that can illuminate new ideas. One of Daveโs most recent exemplars of that was his drawing attention to addiction and the opioid epidemic.
Succinctly - he argued - crack in the 1980โs was the WAR on drugs but now, because itโs white people suffering this time, itโs an illness worthy of amelioration.
The next important and decisively valuable idea he has wonโt be heard because people- like me - who have been a fan since before โKilling Them Softly,โ will turn their backs on him forever.
For someone that was attacked on stage by a mad man for having made unpopular utterances into a MICROPHONE ought to connect the dots between what could have happened to him and, a rifle round whizzing past a MICROPHONE and into another human beingโs neck for no other reason than the words being projected forth.
Dave Chapelle has children of his own that didnโt have to watch him bleed out on stage. His attacker carried a makeshift plastic gun and bayonet. Lucky him.
Dave thinks deeply and is very careful when he writes. Thatโs why heโs been the GOAT. Thatโs also why this is goodbye forever.
โI mean, look, ever since that guy, Charlie Kirk, got murdered, I shouldn't say this publicly, but... I feel better.โ
-Former human being, Dave Chappelle
UPDATE ๐ต๐ฑ
Jakub Kulik is fighting for his life in the hospital after a shootout with 24-year-old Michat Oksiลski in the streets of the southern Polish city.
The attacker was stopped after taking the life of six people and wounding 16, but the tragedy would likely have been much worse without the heroism of Kulik.
A native of the southern Polish city of Bielsko-Biata, prior to joining the police, Kulik served in the 18th Bielsko Airborne Battalion, a unit of Poland's 6th Airborne Brigade. He was also a member of Bielsko-Biaลa's volunteer fire service.
Jakub Kulik is the name of the police officer who shot and stopped the shooter in Krakow yesterday. He saved many lives by taking on a skilled shooter armed with a rifle with nothing more than his pistol. He was shot several times by that shooter with that rifle and still managed to stand strong and take him down.
Itโs hard to describe the selfless courage and strength of heart to do that. He was a soldier before becoming a police officer and that training saved his and other lives. If we had far more courageous lion-hearted people like him in our world, we would have a far safer world today.
May he make a full recovery ๐๐ผ
Daveโs attacker had a plastic gun and bayonet. Lucky him. Charlie defending him isnโt even necessary for me.
Daveโs been the best at his craft because he thinks deeply. Think of this; the greatest comedian of my lifetime couldnโt craft a joke to land where he wanted to. Why? Because itโs in such poor taste even he couldnโt wordsmith it. So he simply bypassed a joke and told us how he felt.
And what exactly is lost - other than a piece of your soul and humanity - when you say something so horrible?
The ability to change minds and to shine light on things in a way that can illuminate new ideas. One of Daveโs most recent exemplars of that was his drawing attention to addiction and the opioid epidemic.
Succinctly - he argued - crack in the 1980โs was the WAR on drugs but now, because itโs white people suffering this time, itโs an illness worthy of amelioration.
The next important and decisively valuable idea he has wonโt be heard because people- like me - who have been a fan since before โKilling Them Softly,โ will turn their backs on him forever.
For someone that was attacked on stage by a mad man for having made unpopular utterances into a MICROPHONE ought to connect the dots between what could have happened to him and, a rifle round whizzing past a MICROPHONE and into another human beingโs neck for no other reason than the words being projected forth.
Dave Chapelle has children of his own that didnโt have to watch him bleed out on stage. His attacker carried a makeshift plastic gun and bayonet. Lucky him.
Dave thinks deeply and is very careful when he writes. Thatโs why heโs been the GOAT. Thatโs also why this is goodbye forever.
Reminder that if it wasnโt for Elon, this post isnโt on this platform. If this were 2020, youโd see it for about a week on Parler before they nuked it.
MIDTERM PRELIM BRIEF.
I am in the process of auditing 826 counties across 8 states from the midterm (TX, GA, IA, OK, KS, NC, NV, AZ) against 66 years of U.S. election history and federal voter-roll records.
There is a tremendous amount of data to go through and its still on-going. While the data is out with several people much smarter than I am, I feel comfortable showing some prelim findings.
Remember, none of this is proof of anything. This is just the math. Do with it what you will.
Kamala Harris got the third-most votes of any presidential candidate in American history
James Talarico got almost a million more Texas votes in a midterm election than her
Talaricoโs early votes were higher than Paxtonโs total votes
A Democrat has not won that seat in decades