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[Patrick wike @patwike]

@pauliewingnutz @Local12 I’d do Thanksgiving with both of you dudes! What a stud

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

We are so back.

[Patrick wike @patwike]

@KrissBergTweets Great move!

[Patrick wike @patwike]

@KrissBergTweets Get her an extended stay motel room for a week

[Jack @Jackkk]

Shaquille O’Neal says his kids need three degrees to touch Daddy’s cheese

“In order to touch Daddy's cheese you gotta have three degrees because I believe in respectable nepotism”

“I was with the Miami Heat one day and this article came out. The grandmother leaves the son $250,000,000”

“This kid's on his knees scrubbing the bathroom floor and I'm looking at him. I'm like, hey man, didn't your grandmother just leave you $250,000,000?”

“Yeah, but Dad wants me to start from the bottom. Once I saw that I was like, you know what, that right there is respectable nepotism”

“I also have to teach my kids we're not rich, I'm rich”

[Patrick wike @patwike]

@Cubs @ScottyChags Rizzo for manager PLEASE

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic.

What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years.

First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home.

Eight months later, her luck ran out completely.

June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815.

The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship.

The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges.

So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding.

Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications.

But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight.

So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy.

The secret held until the war ended.

Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII.

And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry.

She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

82 years ago today. Thank you.

[Leni @Leni1680234]

The higher you rise, the more humble you should become.

[Patrick wike @patwike]

@North2North @CarlsBeef @Cubs Fire the weasel and hire Rizzo as mgr. Lester pitching coach

[Patrick wike @patwike]

@CarlsBeef Fire the weasel and hire Rizz a mgr. Lester pitching coach, fans buy back in immediately and players as well

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

Bessent exemplifies my favorite form of the political animal. He’s an articulate, clubbable, well-coiffed, bloodthirsty, savage beast. You love to see it.

[Patrick wike @patwike]

@Michael_Cerami Time for him and Suzuki to go. They suck shit at the plate and the corner outfielder’s are supposed to be the heart of any good team’s offense

[Patrick wike @patwike]

@dom_lucre Read the Bible people. Old Testament and its laws died with Jesus on the Cross. We don’t sacrifice cows anymore do we? Romans 15:4 and many other verses cover this…

[Patrick wike @patwike]

@BeatinTheBookie Which peptide?

[Patrick wike @patwike]

@Michellek4040 Wait til your 70 looking back on all those fantastic bikini pics

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accurate 😂

[Patrick wike @patwike]

@TMathSports Ending is awesome

[J. Mangual @MLBShotsFired]

Inflation is completely out of control, you can’t even take 3 kids to a Detroit Tigers game anymore without spending an arm and a leg! Crazy!