oddhan

I’m German and I know things.

[oddhan @oddhanfoo]

@ShamashAran @varadmehta Yeah I grasp that the disability thing is weird. But I know of someone who was blown by a mortar that killed his CO and only got 40% disability. So, what happened to Platner?

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

@America1stLegal He has a deleted Twitter account at https://t.co/TwEzjXt71s* . Seems very active for a judge.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

South Wales Police has instructed officers to log comments they feel are beyond "legitimate" criticism of Islam.

This is, exactly as I warned, a blasphemy law through the back door.

Nobody voted for this.

My letter to the Chief Constable👇🏾

[Sunny @sunnyright]

The people who found outrageous Nazi symbolism in “Ok” hand signs can’t find it in a Nazi death squad chest tattoo

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

The idea was brilliant. The execution was catastrophic.

Allied planners knew that the men hitting the beaches of Normandy would be cut apart without armor support in those first critical minutes. The solution was the DD tank. The Duplex Drive Sherman. A standard 33-ton Sherman tank fitted with a collapsible canvas flotation screen and two small propellers bolted to the rear. Raise the screen, drop into the water, swim to shore, lower the screen, start shooting. Tanks arriving with the first wave, ahead of the infantry, suppressing German positions before the ramps even dropped.

The concept worked perfectly in testing. The designers had one requirement: waves no higher than one foot.

On the morning of June 6th, 1944, the waves off Omaha Beach were six feet high.

Nobody stopped the launch.

At 5:40 AM, the 741st Tank Battalion began dropping their DD tanks into the English Channel, six thousand yards from shore. More than three miles of open water, in seas that were six times rougher than the tanks were designed to handle. The first tank hit the water. The canvas screen, designed to hold the weight of a Sherman afloat, was immediately overwhelmed. Waves crashed over the top. Water flooded in. The tank went down.

Then another. Then another.

The canvas screens collapsed like paper bags in the swell. Tanks that had been designed to float became 33-ton anchors the moment they hit the water. Crews inside had seconds. Some got out through the hatches. Many did not. The tanks took them straight to the bottom of the English Channel.

Some crews managed to get a radio signal out as their tank went under, warning the following units not to launch. The warnings either did not get through or came too late.

29 DD tanks were launched by the 741st Tank Battalion that morning. 27 sank before reaching the beach. The entire left flank of Omaha Beach, where the 1st Infantry Division was assaulting, had five tanks to support it. Five. Against fortified German positions housing hundreds of machine guns, 88mm guns, and mortars zeroed on every inch of that sand.

The infantry arrived first. Alone.

What happened next at Omaha Beach, the 2,400 casualties, the slaughter in the first ten minutes, the near-total destruction of Company A, is inseparable from the loss of those tanks. They were supposed to be there. They were supposed to be firing at German positions while the ramps were still closed. Instead they were on the bottom of the Channel with their crews.

The story of the 743rd Tank Battalion makes it worse.

The 743rd was assigned to the western sector of Omaha Beach. Their LCT flotilla commander looked at the sea conditions that morning, looked at the waves, and made a different decision. He refused to launch his tanks into the water. Instead he drove his LCTs directly onto the beach and dropped the ramps in the shallows. The tanks rolled off onto sand.

Nine tanks were knocked out by German fire during the assault. But they were there. They were fighting. The infantry had armor.

At Utah Beach, the sea was calmer, protected from the prevailing winds. 28 of 32 DD tanks launched there made it ashore. The infantry had support. Utah Beach cost 197 casualties. Omaha cost 2,400.

The sunken tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion still lie on the bottom of the English Channel off Omaha Beach. They have never been raised. Divers have visited them. Inside some of the wrecks, they found what they expected.

They are still there today, 82 years later, three miles off the coast of Normandy, on the bottom of the sea.

Today is June 6th.

Remember them.

[DMR @dmr1619]

@kenklippenstein Platner is not even working class.. he went to HOTCHKISS which is $80,000 per year high school

[xonkd @xonkd7]

@kenklippenstein Working class na*i’s, abusers, veterans who disparage fellow American hero’s like Chris Kyle. You can be working class and not be a narcissist jerk.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

If AOC really grew up in the Bronx in a working class family and went to say, CUNY, instead of her father being an architect, growing up in Westchester, and going to BU, it would be a better story.

If Platner really was a salt-of-the-earth working class type guy, had a family he was raising, had a real, profitable aquaculture business, and had some organic class interests that he translated into lib politics, it would be a better story.

I could go on, but none of this stuff feels real. It comes off as staged and contrived and I think a lot of people get that. No one who is paying attention thinks these politics have an honest referent and it’s unclear why the lib left can’t articulate itself ideologically in a transparent way without the subterfuge and artifice.

[SuperJojo47 🎗🇮🇱🇺🇦 @SJojo47]

@SalMarinello @feelsdesperate Meet the champagne socialist duo who groomed rich kid Graham Platner into a ‘working-class’ candidate
https://t.co/B18Vz4L5ND

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

Who picked Platner and why?

Who flipped the switch on Swalwell and why?

How did Kamala get the 2024 nomination?

These questions are all way more interesting than the candidates themselves and the legacy press has no curiosity or interest in providing the answers.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I don't know anyone like Platner because I went to public school.

[oddhan @oddhanfoo]

@Fat_Electrician @RobProvince We’ve seen Twelve year olds carjacking people at gunpoint in Seattle. Probably out in time for his sweet sixteen.

[Anna B 🇺🇸 @pnwmom91]

Hey, remember this back in December 2024 when the Democrats’ email was leaked exposing their internal plans for new taxes—including messaging on painting the wealthy as ‘villains’ and ‘spreading that tax policy love around’?

The ones that called this out were told ‘oh no, that’s not true.’ Then Bob Ferguson promised no new taxes after getting sworn in…only to backtrack on that statement and signed the largest tax increase in Washington state history in April/May 2025. And now they’ve raised even more with SB 6346, the ‘Millionaires Tax.’

Yea good times.

[Joanne Mason @JoanneMason11]

Dems: Pro-lifers don't care about moms and babies.
Pro-lifers: We care very much about moms and babies, we have thousands of pregnancy support centers that help with medical care, food, housing and babysitting.
Dems: We need to shut down these centers that help moms and babies.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is the real reason crime is down in Los Angeles

Samantha lives in LA and has had to call 911 for the police four times

Call 1: A homeless person was trying to break into her apartment building. She was outside of her building while it was happening. She called 911, “I was placed on hold for about 10 minutes, and then they told me that since the person was homeless, they would not be sending the cops out, that they would try to get like homeless intervention people out, and it would take no less than an hour”

This was no help

Call 2: This one's really messed up. She watched a 80 year old man “get the sh*t beat out of him” by like a 20 year old. “Like bad, repeatedly, and this kid had his phone out the whole time, was recording it, like beat the shit out of this old, old, old man in the middle of the street, in the middle of Sunset Boulevard. This old man is like lying there bleeding everywhere, and I called the police and nobody came.”

Call 3: Her car was being broken into and someone was attention to steal it. “I waited on hold for 40 minutes before someone picked up and said, "Oh, you have to do that online." She was told how to categorize the incident. They told her wrong and it her police report was rejected. She called back and they said “There’s nothing they can do” and “nothing will be done”

Call 4: “A tweaker was loitering and tweaking outside my apartment for hours and eventually trying to break into it” After he was in the process of trying to break in she called 911 and after 3 hours nobody showed but but they called back to check on her. The man was gone, the cops didn’t help

Crime rates aren’t down in Los Angeles. Residents are just no longer reporting them because this is the response

We see this over and over again

[oddhan @oddhanfoo]

@wil_da_beast630 The simplest solution is the one rarely mentioned. Adoption wait lists are years out. Babies not wanted by the birth parents aren’t unwanted.

[Steve Inman @SteveInman]

Not the ending I expected, but I'll allow it.

[Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko]

This is a thread on Normandy/Overlord airpower, signals & invasion stripes.

There was a neat post by @militaryhistori about D-Day to D+1 airpower talking about how many aircraft sorties the Allies racked & stacked over Normandy 6-7 June 1945.

https://t.co/2Pxjv7eaLW
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[Will Kingston @WillKingston]

I’m stunned. The Sunday Times is reporting Hampshire police wanted to portray Henry Nowak as the aggressor in an official statement three days after his death, but changed their wording following outrage from his family.

I’ll be covering this shocking and contemptible revelation from the hosting chair on The Late Show Live. @GBNEWS 12am.

[Anthony Mixer @AnthonyMixerWA]

TOLD YOU SO!

@GovBobFerguson’s office of financial management director has stated there is another projected revenue shortfall. Guess that largest tax increase in state history didn’t work out so well…

And here’s the governor once again saying “don’t raise taxes”…(yes we’ve heard that song before).

Don’t believe that crap. Your taxes will go up again next session to cover Legislative Democrats spending porn addiction. There isn’t a revenue problem. It’s a BIG spending problem!