Quillwielder

Writer, Gardener, Reagan Republican

[Quillwielder @quillwielder]

@SecRubio This is very disappointing, @SecRubio
Absolutely nonsensical.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ronald Reagan has a message for MAGA as Trump escalates the trade war with Canada:

“We should beware of the demagogues who are willing to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world, all while cynically waving the American flag.”

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

"We will not prosecute the abusers named in the Epstein files or reveal their names to the public."

— Todd Blanche, US Attorney General

[mason @onehandpolitics]

100 watergates a week under this admin

[jim hertzog @mokanjim]

America has its smallest cattle herd in 75 years, yet President Trump is waiving $500 million in tariffs to flood our market with foreign beef. That same money could pay American cattlemen $200 per head to retain 2.5 million heifers and rebuild our herd. Instead, we’re rewarding foreign beef and punishing American cattlemen.

[Quillwielder @quillwielder]

@WhiteHouse This post is proof someone needs to go back to school and learn punctuation.

[Quillwielder @quillwielder]

@Polymarket How stupid

[Quillwielder @quillwielder]

What a topsy-turvy timeliness we find ourselves in.

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

Everyone who signed onto this decision will regret it.

[Quillwielder @quillwielder]

@Polymarket I hope @Hersheys is listening!

[Quillwielder @quillwielder]

@dustinbobbauer @FreddyLA7 It will still be hot in Texas, I assure you!

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

Honored to address the National Prayer Breakfast in Ukraine this morning with @ZelenskyyUa. God Bless the Heroic People of Ukraine fighting on this Frontier of Freedom. Slava Ukraini!🇺🇸🇺🇦

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

TRUMP: “We'll by Argentinian beef.”

Reporters:' What about the US farmers who are suffering?'

Trump: “Argentina is fighting for its life. Do you understand me? They’re dying.”

He says this as 77 American cattle producers are going out of business in the US per day.

[Tom Cotton @SenTomCotton]

Beef prices are too high for a simple reason: Our cattle herd is too small. Imported beef below market prices will only put more pressure on our cattlemen. I have advised the President against this ill-advised action in the past and I now urge him to reconsider. We need to support our cattlemen, grow the herd, and let the market work.

[Quillwielder @quillwielder]

@GuntherEagleman Wrong

[MM  @adgirlMM]

There's nothing more unAmerican than rounding up America's wild horses that have roamed the west free for over 400 years, and selling them for $25 each for slaughter.

ETTD. Remember in November. 🇺🇸

[Quillwielder @quillwielder]

@DameHatchback

[Renee Nal @ReneeNal]

Facts on Huey Long:

✔️Nickname "Karl Marx of the Hillbillies"
✔️Left-wing populist
✔️Pursued aggressive progressive agenda
✔️Criticized New Deal as too moderate
✔️Advanced "Share Our Wealth" program, which would tax the rich, redistribute $$, guarantee minimum income.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

I’d take a candidate who received a billion dollars from AIPAC over someone who received even a penny from the Muslim Brotherhood.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

On a dark night in 1943, a wounded submarine captain, unable to climb down off his own bridge, gave a two word order that killed him and saved all 80 of his men. The order was "Take her down," and it became one of the most sacred phrases in the United States Navy.

His name was Commander Howard Gilmore, and here is the moment. On the night of February 6, in the southwest Pacific, Gilmore had his submarine, the USS Growler, running on the surface in the darkness, stalking a Japanese convoy for an attack. Then a Japanese escort ship spotted them and swung around to ram, charging straight out of the black. Gilmore reacted instantly, ordering a hard turn to strike first, and the Growler smashed into the enemy ship at speed, a collision violent enough to crumple 18 feet of the submarine's bow over to one side.

At that same instant, the Japanese crew raked the Growler's exposed bridge with machine gun fire. The officer of the deck and a lookout were killed outright, and Gilmore himself was cut down, badly wounded on his own bridge.

Now understand the situation. A submarine's bridge is a tiny platform on top of the conning tower, and to dive, the crew scrambles down a hatch into the hull and seals it. The wounded men who could still move began dropping down the hatch. But Gilmore, hit and unable to climb down, understood the arithmetic instantly. The submarine was still on the surface, exposed, being fired on, and every second it stayed up it might be sunk with every man aboard. The only way to save the boat was to dive right now. But you cannot dive with the hatch open, and he could not reach the hatch.

So he gave the order that would kill him and save everyone else. Clinging to the bridge, bleeding, he called down into the hull, "Take her down." He was ordering his own crew to seal the hatch and submerge the submarine while he was still on top of it, knowing it left him on the surface to die. His officers hesitated at the sheer horror of the command. Then they obeyed their captain. They closed the hatch and took the Growler down. Gilmore was never seen again.

The battered submarine survived, submerged, and limped home, alive because her captain had traded his life for hers in the space of a few seconds. Howard Gilmore became the first submariner of the war to receive the Medal of Honor, and his final order, "Take her down," lives on in the United States Submarine Force as the ultimate expression of a commander who put his crew and his ship above his own life.