Louis Allen 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇧🇸🇹🇼🇺🇸

Conservative Texan-Canadian; USAF Comm/Nav on F-106, T-33, O-2, OV-10, CH-3; today, I'm a small cog in giant financial machine. Greyhounds! MAGA X3!

[🇨🇦Unacceptable Canadian Girl🇨🇦 @AreOhEssEyeEe]

Monday night timeline cleanse!

Tom Segura on covid. I laughed so hard I cried and almost peed! 😂😂😂

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

The National Anthem at the White House was absolutely epic!!! 🇺🇸🔥

Wait for the flyover!!!!

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

This woman is so brilliant. So articulate. So educated. She’s a joy to follow. This post about how silence isn’t consensus is spot on. I loved it.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

Dear Congresswoman Crockett, the weapon used to kII Austin Metcalf, kiIIed him.

I can’t even. I just can’t.

[Louis Allen 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇧🇸🇹🇼🇺🇸 @trecoal]

The blue dress that spoke truth to power!

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Girl please.

Your husband got a blowie in the oval. From an intern!! Not you!!

And Biden had topless trannies on the White House lawn. 🙄

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Girl please.

Your husband got a blowie in the oval. From an intern!! Not you!!

And Biden had topless trannies on the White House lawn. 🙄

[Mikale Olson @realmikolson]

The European mind has finally comprehended. 🇺🇸

#worldcup #usmnt

[Dume @gietzschean]

>Be Elon
>Get bullied so badly as a kid that you end up in the hospital
>Escape into books
>Read more than 8hrs a day
>Teach yourself programming
>Sell a video game at 12
>Leave South Africa
>Sleep on couches
>Work odd jobs
>Get into America
>Build a startup
>Get fired from your own company
>Start over
>Build another company
>Merge it into PayPal
>Get removed as CEO
>Your company gets acquired
>Walk away with nearly $180 million
>Instead of retiring at 31, put almost all of it into three impossible ideas: Electric cars, Solar energy, Rockets
>People tell you you're insane
>Start a rocket company with no aerospace degree
>Learn rocket science from textbooks
>First rocket fails
>Second rocket fails
>Third rocket fails
>Divorce
>Public humiliation
>Cash running out
>One launch away from bankruptcy
>Launch anyway
>The fourth rocket reaches orbit
>NASA signs a contract
>Survive
>Tesla is weeks from collapse
>Save it at the last minute
>Get mocked for wanting reusable rockets.
>Land one.
>Then another.
>Then dozens.
>Turn science fiction into engineering
>Get mocked for betting on EVs
>Turn electric cars into status symbols
>Force the entire auto industry to follow
>Build the most valuable car company in history
>Launch astronauts into orbit
>Create a global satellite internet network.
>Buy Twitter
>Fire most of the staff
>Rename it X
>Walk into politics
>Risk your reputation
>Risk your companies
>Risk your fortune
>Become one of the most polarising people on Earth.
>Get attacked by the media, politicians, competitors, and activists
>Keep building anyway
>Become a TRILLIONAIRE

[Louis Allen 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇧🇸🇹🇼🇺🇸 @trecoal]

@gietzschean I love that picture of Elon... "Elon Musk thinking about his next step in his plan to rule the world!"

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸The absolute best video of the YEAR. His demeanor makes this absolutely epic.🇺🇸

[Louis Allen 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇧🇸🇹🇼🇺🇸 @trecoal]

@WorkElizab I'd tell myself forget OTS and do 20 enlisted. Finish that degree without Bootstrap. Agree to a third child. Reatore the 69 Karman Ghia Start buying Vanguard S&P 500 Index fund. 83 I'm an E5 SSgt. 85 I'll be a E6 TSgt. She's working til the first baby, so we can afford 2 IRAs.

[Louis Allen 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇧🇸🇹🇼🇺🇸 @trecoal]

@LeftwaffenWatch In my opinion, the finest, the best, the original reboot Doctor! Number 9 Christopher Eccleston. It's a crying shame that they only gave him one season.

[TruthSeeker01011 @TruthSeek01011]

A message to all the woketards calling me a racist and saying I have white privilege. Suck a giant donkey Richard you bastards, I’ve been through the same and never once committed crimes or took advantage of the system.

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸I don’t see a problem with this.🇺🇸

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

It was April 30, 2019. The kind of ordinary Tuesday that nobody remembers — until they do.

Inside a classroom at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, students were finishing end-of-semester presentations. Laptops were open. Notes were scattered across desks. It felt like any other day at the end of a semester.

Then everything changed.

A gunman entered the room and opened fire. In an instant, normal life gave way to panic. Students rushed for exits, ducked behind desks, and searched desperately for safety.

Most people ran from the danger.

Riley Howell ran toward it.

At 21 years old, the ROTC cadet had no weapon, no protective gear, and no time to think through a plan. He saw what was happening and reacted.

He charged the shooter.

The tackle was sudden, direct, and decisive. Howell threw himself into the struggle, forcing the gunman off balance and disrupting the attack at its most critical moment.

He was shot multiple times.

But the shooting stopped.

Later, investigators confirmed what many already suspected. The gunman himself admitted that Howell's actions ended the attack. Police also discovered multiple loaded magazines that had never been used.

The attack could have lasted much longer.

It didn't.

Because Riley Howell acted.

The tragedy still claimed lives. Fellow student Ellis Reed Parlier was also killed, and several others were wounded. Families were forever changed by what happened that day.

But amid the grief, one fact remained impossible to ignore.

Riley Howell's decision saved lives.

The story quickly spread beyond the university. People across the country saw in him something rare — courage without hesitation, action without certainty, sacrifice without expectation of reward.

He was buried with full military honors. He also became the first civilian ever to receive the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Medal of Valor.

Yet his legacy was never about medals.

He wasn't on a battlefield. He wasn't wearing a uniform in combat.

He was a student sitting in a classroom.

And when others needed time, Riley Howell gave them his.

There is no formula for that kind of courage.

There is only character.

And on an ordinary Tuesday, Riley Howell showed the world exactly what that looks like.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🎯

[Andrew Klavan @andrewklavan]

The Triumph Of Feminism: Loneliness And Bad Nose Rings

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/0LZFJFYN0t

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

James Stockdale spent seven and a half years in the Hanoi Hilton. He was tortured fifteen times. He disfigured his own face with a razor so the North Vietnamese could not use him for propaganda.

He built a tap code that turned solitary confinement into a network. Prisoners who could not see each other kept their sanity through the walls.

Stockdale was a Navy commander when captured. He became the highest-ranking American prisoner of war in Vietnam. That rank made him a target.

The North Vietnamese wanted him to sign confessions. They wanted propaganda broadcasts. They wanted him on camera endorsing statements against the American war effort. Stockdale refused every request.

The refusal cost him. He endured physical coercion fifteen times. Rope bindings, beatings, and painful positions left permanent damage to his legs. He spent four years in solitary confinement. Two years were in leg irons.

When guards said he would be paraded before journalists, he went to his cell. He used a razor to slash his scalp. He beat his face with a wooden stool. Swelling and bruising made him unfilmable. The guards found him bloodied and abandoned the plan.

On another occasion, when guards threatened to harm other prisoners if he did not comply, he broke a window and cut his wrists. It was not surrender. It was a signal he would rather die than comply. The guards treated him and reduced their demands.

Stockdale’s greatest achievement was building a community inside the prison. He developed a tap code using a five-by-five grid of the alphabet. Each letter corresponded to its row and column, tapped in two sequences.

Messages traveled through walls, under doors, and between buildings. Prisoners who could not see each other communicated. They shared news, jokes, and orders. Stockdale passed commands down the chain and received information back.

The tap code gave structure, leadership, and the knowledge they were not alone. He established rules: resist as best as possible. Do not volunteer information. Recover after every interrogation. The rules gave broken men a framework to regain dignity. Resilience, not perfection, was the goal.

Stockdale was released on February 12, 1973. He walked out of Hoa Lo with permanent leg injuries. He was awarded the Medal of Honor.

He said, “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality.”

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

The Mayor of Charlotte is demanding people stop posting this reminder of the lovely innocent Iryna Zarutska butchered by a savage on Charlotte public transit. He was on probation by a liberal activist judge.