Rusty Self

Father, Grandfather, Son, Child of the Risen Savior, Patriot.

[Rusty Self @rustyself]

@debonnancourt @kershaw_alex @WWIIMemorial He did, in fact. Oh and kiss our asses, dipshit.

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@kershaw_alex @WWIIMemorial This must be one of the heaviest photos ever taken. Dude was a stud.

[Rusty Self @rustyself]

@themagaking Well. I’m ready to go when you are.

[Rusty Self @rustyself]

@SarahisCensored Why was this animal released, or not hung, already?

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

84 years ago today, a pilot running out of fuel made a decision that won the Pacific War. Most Americans have never heard his name.

June 4, 1942. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's navy is undefeated. Four of the carriers that burned Pearl, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, are steaming toward Midway to finish off the US Pacific Fleet.

At 7:52 AM, Wade McClusky launches from USS Enterprise leading 32 Dauntless dive bombers. Here's the detail nobody mentions: McClusky is a fighter pilot. He'd been given the air group weeks earlier and had barely flown a dive bomber in combat. Now he's leading every SBD the Enterprise has at the most important target in the Pacific.

9:20 AM. He arrives at the intercept point where the Japanese fleet is supposed to be.

Empty ocean. Nothing for miles.

The Japanese had turned. Nobody knew where. And now McClusky owns the worst math problem in naval aviation: his fuel is bleeding away, and every minute he keeps searching, he condemns more of his own pilots to ditch in open water where nobody will find them.

Doctrine is clear. Turn back.

McClusky keeps going. He works a search pattern, squeezing miles out of dying fuel tanks.

9:55 AM. Far below, a single Japanese destroyer is cutting a white scar across the ocean at flank speed. It's the Arashi, racing to rejoin the fleet after depth-charging the American submarine Nautilus. Think about that. A failed sub attack is about to give away the entire Japanese navy.

McClusky reads the wake like an arrow and follows it.

10:02 AM. The horizon fills with the entire Japanese strike force. Four carriers, their decks crammed with planes being refueled and rearmed. Fuel lines snaking everywhere. Bombs stacked in the open.

And here's the miracle: the sky above them is empty. Minutes earlier, American torpedo squadrons had attacked at sea level and been annihilated. Torpedo 8 lost all 15 planes. One survivor, Ensign George Gay, watched what came next while hiding under his seat cushion in the water. Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open.

10:22 AM. McClusky pushes over from 14,500 feet. Both squadrons follow him down onto Kaga. It's actually a mistake, doctrine said split the targets, but Lt. Dick Best catches it mid-dive, pulls out with two wingmen, and goes after Akagi alone. His single bomb pierces the flight deck into the packed hangar. It's enough.

By 10:28, Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu, the third hit simultaneously by Yorktown's bombers, are floating infernos. Six minutes. Three carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone. Hiryu follows them to the bottom that evening.

The cost of McClusky's gamble was real. Many Enterprise bombers never made it home, some shot down, others swallowed by the sea when their tanks ran dry. McClusky himself was jumped by two Zeros on the way out, took five bullets through his shoulder, and still flew his shot-up Dauntless back to the Enterprise.

Admiral Nimitz said McClusky's decision "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway." Japan never won another major battle.

One borrowed pilot. One destroyer's wake. One choice to keep flying when every gauge said go home.

[Rusty Self @rustyself]

@SedrickW86983 @DefiantLs Fag.

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@DefiantLs Yes they know they’re lying. But it’s for one of their same colored folks to whitey, so it’s good in their eyes.

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@Savsays Animals.

[Savanah Hernandez @Savsays]

One of the most shocking things I witnessed today was this woman in pink screaming “you gon end up like Metcalf, you gone be pushing up daisies”.

I caught the tail end of her saying this to Metcalf supporters in the clip below.

I also witnessed several Karmelo supporters get extremely aggressive when ANY media tried speaking with them.

One female reporter went up to the group to ask questions (linked below) and they immediately got angry saying “we told y’all to stop coming the f*ck over here” (this was her first attempt at speaking to them).

At this point I started warning every reporter who was trying to speak with this group, as earlier, another local reporter had tapped on the shoulder of the man who leads their chants. This man immediately squared up and acted like the reporter had punched him.

I’ve been covering protests for 7 years and this is some of the most violent and racially charged rhetoric I’ve ever encountered.

[Rusty Self @rustyself]

@SenSusanCollins Traitor.

[Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 @TheRicanMemes]

Pay close attention to Trump sleeping here 🧐

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

22 yrs ago today, after a long zoning dispute with local officials that ruined his business, welder Marvin Heemeyer had enough & created the Killdozer.

He destroyed the mayor’s house, the judge’s house, town hall, the police station, & the bank - while avoiding hurting civilians or their property.

Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate 🎊

[Just Jen ℞ 🫡🇺🇸 @JustJenRX]

“Where I come from we kill cracka’s.”

And this is precisely why 13% of the population makes up for 50% of the violent crime in America.

[Rusty Self @rustyself]

@SenatorTimScott @SenateGOP @SenatorCollins Bastard. Pass the Save Act.

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@SenThomTillis @SenatorCollins Sorry bastard. Pass the Save Act, bastard.

[Fight With Memes @FightWithMemes]

Happy Killdozer Day, to all who celebrate.

RIP, Marvin John Heemeyer (1951–2004)

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Ready to have your mind blown?

Read this very slowly…

Reid Hoffman pays Roberta Kaplan to represent EJ Carroll against Trump.

Reid Hoffman funds Indivisible via ActBlue for their “Tesla Takedown” campaign after Elon and DOGE expose NGO fraud like SPLC.

SPLC funds fake racism for Charlottesville operation.

Roberta Kaplan represents Charlottesville victims.

Joe Biden uses Charlottesville operation as reason for running for President.

Joe Biden appoints Matthew Graves to prosecute J6.

Matthew Graves wife Fatima Graves sits of Indivisible Board.

Roberta Kaplan and Fatima Graves start “Times Up Legal Defense Fund” together.

Fatima Graves and Indivisible run “No Kings” protests.

A tangled web…

[Maverick Alexander @MaverickDarby]

"Sometimes reasonable turtles must do unreasonable things," mused Franklin

[Department of War CTO @DoWCTO]

"Time and again our enemies have learned that if you dare to threaten the American people, American soldiers will chase you down, crush you and cast you into oblivion." 

— President Donald J. Trump

[Rusty Self @rustyself]

@ChuckGrassley Piss off you old bastard. Pass the Save Act or GTFO.