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[Doge Tipping @Dogetothemoon]

@TheRabbitHole @elonmusk Exactly, they want to destroy western civilization

[𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇 @pr0ud_americans]

@TheRabbitHole @elonmusk Thomas Sowell again: 'If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today.' Exactly why the double standard exists.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

@elonmusk “What multiculturalism boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture. And you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Surfpapi @surfpapi]

@QTHESTORMM Tesla

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Ira Hayes drank himself unconscious after watching America turn his dead friends into a photograph.

By 1945, millions recognized the image instantly.

Six Marines raising an American flag on Iwo Jima.

The photograph became one of the most famous wartime images ever taken. Newspapers printed it. Statues were modeled after it. War bonds were sold across the country.

To America, it looked like victory.

To Ira Hayes, it looked like a graveyard.

Three of the men in the photograph were already dead by the time the country celebrated it.

And Hayes could not stop thinking about them.

When the flag went up on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945, the battle for Iwo Jima was far from over.

Marines were still being torn apart by artillery, mortars, hidden machine gun nests, and Japanese soldiers in tunnels.

The black volcanic sand smelled like sulfur and blood.

Bodies covered the beaches so densely that some Marines later admitted they stopped looking down while walking.

Ira Hayes was only 22 years old.

A Pima Native American from Arizona, he had already survived some of the worst fighting in the Pacific by the time he climbed Suribachi carrying the replacement flag.

The famous photograph happened almost accidentally. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the moment in seconds.

Then the image exploded across America.

Suddenly, Hayes was no longer just a Marine.

He became a national symbol.

The government immediately pulled Hayes and two surviving flag-raisers from combat and sent them across the country for the Seventh War Loan Drive.

Cities packed with cheering crowds welcomed them like celebrities. Politicians shook their hands. Reporters followed constantly.

But something felt deeply wrong to Hayes.

The country celebrated the photograph while the men inside it were disappearing.

During speeches, people asked about heroism, courage, and glory.

Hayes kept thinking about the Marines who never came home. Especially Harlon Block.

He became obsessed with correcting misidentifications in the photograph. Military officials initially got one flag-raiser wrong. Hayes privately carried enormous guilt because Block’s mother was grieving without proper recognition.

Most people around him wanted silence. Hayes would not let it go.

At one point, he reportedly hitchhiked over 1,300 miles from Arizona to Texas to tell Harlon Block’s parents the truth. Not for publicity. Not for money. Because dead Marines deserved honesty more than America deserved mythology.

By then, Hayes was already struggling. Crowds overwhelmed him. Friends said alcohol became the only way to numb the memories.

The memories never stopped. Not the gunfire. Not the bodies. Not the faces. Especially the faces.

Most Americans saw six heroes raising a flag. Ira Hayes saw the three men who never made it off the island alive.

By the early 1950s, his life collapsed under alcoholism, arrests, and emotional isolation.

Then, on January 24, 1955, Ira Hayes was found dead in the desert near his home in Arizona. He was 32.

The official cause involved exposure and alcohol. Marines believed part of him had never really left Iwo Jima.

Years earlier, a little girl asked him what it felt like to become famous after raising the flag. He answered quietly:

“How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me… and only 27 walked off alive?”

[Mark Orme @morme1]

My kid has been a 2nd Lt for about a month.

His ROTC buddies see Hegseth as an inspiration.

HE is where they want to be.... at his age.

Comes close to idolizing him.

They believe in him NOT just because he's fit, they also believe he's got their best interests deep in his heart.

THAT'S a HUGE change from previous administrations seeing them as pawns on a chessboard.

[Gabe Gaines @thegabegaines]

@CynicalPublius Green Beret here.

SECWAR Hegseth did a PT event with my unit.

His fitness level and willingness to grind out a tough workout with the men he leads commanded our respect.

He's a real one.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

@Space_Prncss @SecWar I do not. Hegseth is one of a kind, in the best way possible.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I get so SICK AND TIRED of the Perfumed Prince Blogosphere mocking SecWar for doing PT with the troops.

The troops LOVE this. They LOVE it. It shows that the boss gets them, and even though he is not still on active duty, he can meet the same standards as they do.

That's called "great leadership."

And when the MILBLOGTWITs speak out against this, all they do is reveal their own lack of understanding of military leadership.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Boy, is this ever true. It’s unbelievable.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Remember:

The very purpose of mail-in ballots, no-ID laws, ballot harvesting and ballot drop boxes is to make it virtually impossible to prove widespread fraud while widespread fraud nevertheless routinely occurs.

[James Bradley @JamesBradleyCA]

@RealJamesWoods @auntbepatriot @RealJamesWoods I’ve been ringing this alarm since 2020.
It’s past time Californians and the rest of America wake up to what’s really happening with our elections.

[Geronimo @cris1surf]

@RealJamesWoods @HuffMarlow

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: MASS PANIC is happening outside ICE Newark as NJSP order leftists to disperse their camp immediately

They’re FRANTICALLY scrambling clear their camp

This should’ve happened DAYS ago. But our pressure is WORKING! 🔥

[Snarknado ⚓️ 🇺🇸 @ZannSuz]

@laraseligman Promotions should never be based on what box you check off for gender and race, Lara. Merit based promotions ensure military readiness and fitness.

[Pat @Pat960714]

There sure has been a lot of analysis of flag promotions the past few weeks. I’ve seen an awful lot of one dimensional analysis looking at nothing but gender and race. Haven’t seen one article comparing resumes and experience between those who were promoted and those who weren’t. Not sure if that amounts to racism in its own right - but it is revelatory as to the lens through which the left views the entire world.

[Surfpapi @surfpapi]

@AndrewBolis Guide

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@ai_master007 Claude

[Surfpapi @surfpapi]

@Amelia_With_Ai Please send

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

So today I had a retired US Navy three-star admiral accuse me of being a bot and having never served in the US military.

I posted a rebuttal, which basically caused this Democrat admiral to get swarmed by a social media army of veterans (and patriotic non-veterans too).

I truly appreciate the outpouring of support, but I am also quite interested in what this says about the mindset of America’s veteran community in 2026, writ large.

Most of us? We served in the GWOT and are still angry about it. We are angry that we were sent to do impossible missions of building liberal institutions in 8th Century tribal societies. We’re angry about ridiculously restrictive ROE that got our friends killed. We are angry that for much of the wars we were inadequately resourced, driving soft-skinned HMMWVs down IED Alley. We are angry that we spent all those years to have, in the end, accomplished very little. We are angry at how the VA treated us when we got out. Most of all, we are angry about watching our friends get killed or maimed (or kill themselves when they got home), seemingly all for naught.

And guess what? We are REALLY angry at the senior generals and admirals who led us down this path and never had the cajones to tell the civilian elected leadership what the real deal was. (We’re not angry at Pete Hegseth’s team—we’re angry at the generals and admirals who caused the problems he and his team are trying to fix.)

That admiral who came at me today? He was one of those GWOT senior leaders.

What you saw today was much less an outpouring of support for me and much more an outpouring of righteous anger at a righteous target.

Just wanted to share my thoughts on this, it’s an interesting phenomenon.