Greene

St Albans

[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

In honor of my mother, Flora Klein, who at 14 years of age was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, I will be at the White House July 4th honoring our veterans from WW II July 4th. Alongside me, will be 10 surviving WW II veterans. God bless our veterans.

[Ingenuous Firebrand 🐆🇺🇸 @ING2Firebrand]

Ben Franklin didn’t plow through dozens and dozens of French whores so that you could abide by fireworks ordinances

[Greene @turtlefry]

@FaytuksNetwork Anonymous sources.
NYT a feint hint at what was once a a paper that made an effort to report truths.
Together that makes a bull shit story.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

On today's date in 1901, over half of the U.S. was at or above 90°F and nearly 9% of the land area was at least 100°F. The same weather occurring this week occurred exactly 125 years ago, but according to most climate alarmists, it was just weather in 1901, but this week's three-day event is undeniable proof that we are facing a climate catastrophe.

[Greene @turtlefry]

@atrupar His discourse was lucid and on target.
A rational explanation of where Palantir is different from Anthropic and its clones. It’s a very big one.
Palantir’s AI is specific to the enterprise.

Your take is for morons.

[Greene @turtlefry]

@joelpollak Jewish Democrats are hoping the leftist voracious alligators will eat them last after whites, conservatives, conservative Jews, republicans, billionaires, donors to right wing causes, anyone who provides them services.

Like sonderkommandos of the past.

[Greene @turtlefry]

@JohnJHarwood You are responsible for his two time election to the presidency.
You and your clown show worshipped obama’s dick then wrinkly old Biden’s.
You found no fault with those clowns.

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Double Shot of Badass Americans: William J. Crawford

He was a janitor at the Air Force Academy for many years. The cadets who passed him every day had no idea they were walking among a living legend.

Born in Pueblo, Colorado in 1918, Crawford was drafted into the Army in July 1942.

By September 1943 he was serving as a Private and squad scout with Company I, 3rd Platoon, 142nd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division in southern Italy.

On September 13, 1943, his platoon attacked German positions on Hill 424 near Altavilla.

After reaching the crest, they were immediately pinned down by machine gun and small arms fire from multiple enemy positions.

Without orders and completely on his own, Crawford moved forward alone under heavy fire.

He first located one machine gun dug in on a terrace directly in front of the platoon.

He crawled through open ground under fire, closed to within a few yards of the emplacement, destroyed the gun with a hand grenade, and killed three of the crew.

He kept going.

Crawford spotted a second machine gun position firing on his men.

Again moving alone and exposed, he advanced on the crew under fire. When he got close enough, he threw a grenade, destroyed the gun, and eliminated the crew.

He still wasn't finished.

He located a third German machine gun that was continuing to pin down his unit.

Once more he advanced alone through enemy fire, closed on the position, killed one of the Germans with rifle fire. Two other Germans who were there fled.

Crawford, the badass he was, grabbed the German machine gun, turned it around, and fired on them as they were running down the hill.

Crawford had single handedly taken out all three machine gun nests that were holding up his entire platoon.

A few days later he was captured by the Germans. His fellow soldiers thought he had been killed.

He would spend the next 19 months as a prisoner of war.

Because the Army believed he was KIA, the Medal of Honor for his actions was awarded posthumously and presented to his father in 1944.

When the war ended and Crawford was returned home, he had technically already received the nation’s highest award, but he was never formally presented with it.

He would stay in the military until the 1960's, retiring as a Master Sergeant.

He then took a quiet job as a janitor at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

For many years he mopped floors and cleaned the cadet squadrons without ever mentioning his service. Thousands of cadets passed by him over the years without the slightest clue.

Then, in the late 1970s, a cadet was reading a book about the Allied campaign in Italy and stumbled upon his name. He asked the janitor about it.

Crawford simply replied, “That was one day in my life and it happened a long time ago.”

They were shocked to find out their janitor was that same person.

The cadets spread the word and helped arrange for him to have the recognition he deserved.

On May 30, 1984, nearly 41 years after his actions, President Reagan personally awarded Master Sergeant William J. Crawford his Medal of Honor during the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony.

William J. Crawford is an American Badass 🇺🇸

[Greene @turtlefry]

@DissentFu I have worked since 16. By 52 I had a nice home, kids, a stay at home wife and a high paying job.
And there is now a trillionaire.
BFD

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

In May 1944, 23-year-old Phyllis Latour jumped out of a US bomber and parachuted into occupied Normandy, France. Her mission was to gather information about Nazi positions in preparation for D-Day. Once on the ground, she quickly buried her parachute and clothes, and began a secret mission that would last four months, pretending to be a poor teenage French girl.

Phyllis had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). She learned how to send secret messages in Morse code, how to fix wireless radios, and how to spy without being caught. She also went through tough physical training in the Scottish highlands. Phyllis wanted to get revenge on the Nazis who had killed her godfather.

Phyllis said, “The men who had been sent before me were caught and killed. I was chosen because I would be less suspicious.” She would ride a bicycle through the region, pretending to sell soap, and secretly pass messages to the British about German locations. She acted like a country girl chatting with German soldiers to avoid raising suspicion. She moved from place to place to stay hidden and often slept in forests finding her own food.

Phyllis also came up with a clever way to hide her secret codes. She wrote them on a piece of silk and pricked it with a pin each time she used a code. She kept it hidden inside a hair tie. Once when the Germans briefly detained her and searched her she took out the hair tie and let her hair fall, showing she had nothing to hide. In the summer of 1944, Phyllis sent 135 coded messages helping Allied bombers find German targets.

After the war, Phyllis married and moved to New Zealand. Her children didn’t know about her wartime service until 2000, when her oldest son found out online. This hero passed on October 7, 2023. May she rest In peace.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy.

I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the “cool girl” or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham.

I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist — so even long after our relationship ended I continued to be upbeat any time he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past.

Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo — and I was terrified he would find out it was me.

But of course he knew it was me.

What’s ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn’t been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months once the tattoo story came out.

I tried to signal that I wasn’t the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is.

But then in early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story. They said but wait—there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this.

Hours before their first call to me I saw Eric Swalwell’s name plate get removed from his office door in Cannon. It felt like fate.

I welcomed the two journalists into my home days later, nervous and overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day and even conservative pundits were conjecturing that “if only those women hadn’t accused him of abuse, this never would have happened…”

But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered, and as I poured through old messages I was horrified by how much I had forgotten.

I explained very clearly that, like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time—I had covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said that’s fine because the diary entries and my on the record story was enough.

They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn’t feel so alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the NYT journalists and that we were doing the right thing despite their (sadly very accurate) sense that something was wrong.

One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely - he had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together.

I should note here that my life is just… beautiful. These are the best years of my life. Raising two young girls in a safe, beautiful neighborhood where I work from home and shuffle my children from dance classes and soccer to church events — I am blessed far beyond what I deserve with wonderful friends and family and the most loving, brilliant husband in the world. Why would I blow my life up like this? Why would I risk the psychotic doxxing from violent leftist activists?

Because while I have been terrified to come forward I decided this was the “hard right thing” to do. The guilt of staying silent has nagged me.

Most therapists recommend a “gray rock” approach to extracting yourself from narcissistic abuse — it works really well, but it is a gift to the abuser, allowing them to persist in their delusion that they’ve done nothing wrong.

I couldn’t stay silent as he continued to lie and lie and lie. I want my daughters to boldly speak out if they’re ever abused as I was.

[Greene @turtlefry]

@JarvisAeneas Shockingly color coding with shades of reds is scary in late May when summer is upon us.
It’s hot in summer. Sometimes really hot.
Always has been.

[Greene @turtlefry]

@glenn_tunes Europe thought they were hot shit with IPCC, climate targets, rules, rules and more rules.
President Trump is sweeping all that away like the Chinese have. Except they are hypocrites and Trump says what he means.

[Greene @turtlefry]

@AndrewYNg A grifter chiming in afraid to lose his funding.

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

After @FBI investigation - the mastermind behind the Feeding our Future scandal in Minnesota defrauding public COVID funds of over $250 million was just sentenced to 41.5 years in prison

[Greene @turtlefry]

@EJPointer @OJoelsen Who cares.
A country that cannot defend itself is not a country. It’s a conquest.

[Greene @turtlefry]

@RepJackKimble Here is my solution, work less.
Meet for three months each year.
Try February then June then September. The rest? Be gone, anywhere away from your DC office.

[Greene @turtlefry]

@DanielBShapiro Everybody angry about this is really upset the European grift of NGO money back and forth to American and European “ Altanticists” has stopped.

[Greene @turtlefry]

@SenThomTillis You’re angry cuz you, your wife, your kids, your brother lost their USAID grants.

Now those nut sacks have to find real work.
FO.