Tony in LA

Debt-free life, outdoor life, exercise & homemade food works

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Notice how Nithya Raman just completely disappeared after they blocked us out of the general election?

She's not campaigning at all. Like a pickpocket disappearing into the crowd. Just a ghost. I told you her campaign was a scam. Colluding with Bass from the start.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

"Stop crying."

"I've never been happier. You made my life."

Those were the last words his wife ever heard him say.

Then Rick Rescorla put down the phone —

and walked back into the burning South Tower.

There were still people up there.

He had already saved 2,687 lives that morning.

He was going back for the ones who couldn't get out on their own.

Rick Rescorla wasn't born American.

He was born in a tiny fishing village in Cornwall, England, in 1939. As a boy, he watched American GIs march through his town on their way to D-Day — and knew, right then, he wanted to wear that uniform someday.

Twenty years later, he did.

He fought at Ia Drang — the bloodiest first battle of the Vietnam War. His commander called him "the greatest platoon commander I have ever seen." While bullets flew and men died around him, Lt. Rescorla did something no one had ever seen a soldier do in combat.

He sang.

Old Cornish battle songs from his boyhood. Loud. Steady. Calm.

His men didn't panic. Because he didn't.

Fast forward 35 years.

Rescorla is now head of security for Morgan Stanley — 2,700 employees spread across 22 floors of the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

After the 1993 WTC bombing, he became obsessed with a single idea:

They're coming back.

He warned his bosses the towers would be attacked from the air.
They rolled their eyes.

He begged them to move offices.
They said the lease was locked until 2006.

So he did the only thing he could.

He drilled them.

Every three months.
Down the stairs.
Two by two.
Every floor. Every year. For eight straight years.

Traders complained. Executives grumbled. "Rick — this is ridiculous. Nothing's going to happen."

Rescorla didn't care.

"Practice again."

Then came September 11, 2001. 8:46 a.m.

Plane one hits the North Tower.

Rescorla is on the 44th floor of the South Tower when the Port Authority booms over the PA system:

"REMAIN CALM. STAY AT YOUR DESKS."

Rescorla ignores it. Grabs a bullhorn.

"Get out. NOW. Two by two. Just like we practiced."

They knew exactly what to do.

Then — halfway down — the second plane slams into their own tower.

The building sways. Steel screams. People freeze.

So Rescorla does what he did in Vietnam.

He starts singing.

"Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming…
Stand ye steady… stand and never yield!"

Down 44 flights. Singing the whole way.

Between verses, he calls his wife Susan. She's watching the smoke on TV, sobbing into the phone.

That's when he says the words she will carry for the rest of her life:

"Stop crying. I have to get these people out. If something happens to me — you made my life."

The phone goes dead.

He gets 2,687 people out alive.

Then — with the tower groaning above him — a colleague grabs his arm:

"Rick! Your people are OUT. You did your job. LEAVE."

Rescorla points up the stairwell.

"You hear those screams? There's more people up there. I have to help get them out."

He walks back into the tower.

Last seen on the 10th floor.

Going up.

Shortly after, the South Tower collapsed.

His body was never found.

Here's the part they never tell you.

For 8 years he warned.
For 8 years he begged.
For 8 years he drilled a room full of strangers who thought he was paranoid.

For 8 years he prepared for a day he prayed would never come.

And when it came —

the boy from Cornwall who once dreamed of being an American soldier
saved 2,687 Americans.

Then walked back in and gave his own life for the 2,688th.

They called him paranoid.

History calls him a prophet.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Was talking to a friend who was dour about Trump's first term. I'm elated actually, and yes I'm away of the "issues." Huge accomplishments, including:

- Stop the bleeding. Not only at the border, but the far left wing domestic terrorism has been reduced. Yes, more can and should be done, but under Harris? Let's be realistic.

- Catholic grandmas who prayed at abortion clinics were going to DIE IN PRISON. Trump pardoned them.

- Consent decrees that limited policing were undone.

- No more false and malicious prosecutions against Trump voters, such as the Douglass Mackey case.

- EEOC is making discrimination against white men illegal, and even pushing back against disparate impact theory, which is used as a basis to refuse to hire whites, especially white men.

- Massive spending to reindustralize. Factories are being built.

- Attempting to end the genocide of white South Africans.

- SCOTUS has been about as good as it gets due to the way conservatives operate (afraid of their own shadows), birthright citizen was always a long shot, and it looks like it was death threats that swayed ACB.

- Transparency on fraudulent investigations.

- J6ers freed.

- OBBB tax cuts.

Most of the problems people have with Trump are the result of the Senate blocking him and his agenda. You can't blame Trump for what Cornyn and Thune refuse to do.

I understand the anger over other issues. I feel the same way. Problem is. The standard isn't Trump or utopia. It is Trump or Harris and her demonic lieutenants.

Trump's second term has been a spectacular success compared to his first one, and is not in the same universe as what we would be living under if "the bad timeline" had happened.

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@WallStreetApes Rental companies wouldn’t do it if renters didn’t treat the rental cars like shit. Costs less to monitor than repair

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@GuntherEagleman Meanwhile, down at the Waffle House…

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@TheLastRefuge2 “This is my weapon, this is my gun”
Problem is euros dont know what to do with either.

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@HJB_News__ When you bring a feral pit bull into your house and turn your back, what did you think was going to happen?

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@BuckSexton @JesseKellyDC Get a med size breed dog. Compelled 1 hr walks daily.

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@JamesDi19356148 @RedWavePress The most investigated man in history and NOTHING. You people are boneheads

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@TheCalvinCooli1 Just like their voters.

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@ettingermentum Next time don’t vote for a proud Nazi

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@CSdildo @KurtSchlichter He won. The dems eagerly voted for the proud Nazi.

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@TexasBigSky @KurtSchlichter Dems voted for the proud nazi. Stop gaslighting

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@KurtSchlichter They talk like they don’t need planters consent for all of this. But “no kings”, right?

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@sahilkapur @MaineDems Dems voted for this idiot despite all clear warning, their blind hatred fueling his campaign. They got exactly who they deserve.

[Marc Lobliner - IFBB Pro @MarcLobliner]

America is the greatest country in the world.

When I was a teenager, my father started having strokes and couldn’t work anymore. My mother was in and out of drug rehab and mental hospitals.

I had one way out - football. One problem, I’m 5’8”. I worked as hard as I could and earned a D3 “scholarship”.

I injured my knee and then worked 3 jobs to put myself through school.

By working hard at one of my jobs, I was referred by a client to an executive at a publication company. I interviewed and got the job with no experience. When I asked my former boss who I am friends with to this day why he hired me, he said, “I just knew you had ‘it’.”

My starting salary? $24k in California in 1999.

I made sure I was the first one at the office and the last one to leave. I traveled 250+ days a years to close deals.

The company got acquired and despite firing over 60% of the staff, they kept and promoted me, raising my pay considerably (by this time I was making well over $24k).

I then left to start a business with Sylvester Stallone, got fired, then started my first company and the rest is history.

I’m not special. I had no advantage - in fact I had some major disadvantages. But I knew that work was the only way out and I worked until I literally ended up on the ER twice due to exhaustion.

The result?

I now live in one of the most desirable communities in the country, have three amazing children and am working daily to give my wife the life she deserves for being my rock for 29 years - since I was that dumb kid with anger issues at 16.

Only in America can anyone, even an idiot like me, work their way out of a hole and live the American dream.

What is the American dream? It varies, but I am living mine.

I am grateful to be a part of this amazing nation.

God Bless you, and God Bless America!

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@GuntherEagleman Party of “democracy” strikes again, just like they swapped Biden out when it was obvious there was no chance of him winning. How many votes did Platners’ replacement get? Same # as kamabla, Zero. But “no kings”, amiright?

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Being 'educated' in the wrong stuff is worse than being ignorant.

[Tony in LA @sincopae]

@RapidResponse47 @BennieGThompson His constituents are largely morons with money or on welfare. Theyll listen and stay poor