On August 21, 2015, high-speed train 9364 was racing toward Paris at 180 miles per hour with 554 passengers on board.
A terrorist walked out of the train restroom carrying an AKM assault rifle, a Luger pistol, a box cutter, and 270 rounds of ammunition. A brave passenger named Mark Moogalian tried to grab the rifle and was shot through the neck.
People ducked behind their seats in terror.
Sitting in Car 12 were three twenty-three-year-old childhood friends from California on vacation: U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and their friend Anthony Sadler.
They had no weapons. They were wearing t-shirts and sneakers.
Skarlatos tapped Stone on the shoulder and said two words:
"Let's go."
In samurai swordsmanship, there is a state of mind called Muhyoshi, charging into lethal range without taking a single breath to calculate your odds of survival.
Spencer Stone sprinted forty feet straight down the narrow aisle toward the barrel of the assault rifle.
The gunman pulled the trigger at point-blank range. The primer failed. Stone tackled him to the floor. As the terrorist slashed Stone's neck and nearly severed his left thumb with the box cutter, Skarlatos wrenched the rifle away and Stone held the gunman in a chokehold until he went unconscious.
Then, with blood pouring from his own hand, Stone did not sit down. He knelt beside the dying passenger who had been shot in the neck, shoved two of his own fingers directly into the bullet wound to pinch the severed artery shut, and held it there until the train reached the station.
Five hundred and fifty-four people went home to their families that night because three young Americans heard gunshots and ran forward.
@spencerpratt Amazing. I’ve always wondered how these upper middle class women would tolerate waiting a year to get their hips replaced or some other non life threatening procedure. Oh that’s right, they probably have enough money to fly to another country and get it done. Got it. 🖕🏼
What’s terrifying about this clip isn’t their ideals…these sweet gals’ hearts are certainly in the right place. What’s terrifying is they have the civic, political, and economic literacy of a 9 year old. When a charlatan like Abdul comes along with the Jr High class president schtick of “no more homework and the vending machines are all free!”, they fall for it.
I don’t know how you get to that age with ZERO understanding of supply chains, manufacturing, labor costs…but a lot of folks think that medicine and MRIs and hospitals just materialize out of thin air like unicorn farts. They’ve never built anything in their lives, so they have no concept of how things function…things are just…there. They think milk comes from the store. They think rich people don’t pay taxes, even though the top 1% fund 40% of government with their taxes already, and yet 40% of all Americans contribute ZERO federal income tax at all. These people don’t understand that you could tax the wealthy at 100% and it would only fund the government for 120 days. Then you’re screwed.
Too many Americans simply have zero understanding of how anything works, and even though they’re living in the easiest times in human history, they think things are “terrible out there”. These commie scammers roll through and promise them things that sound great, but aren’t possible in reality, and have devastating consequences if tried…but because they don’t know anything, they fall for it. Sadly, so many of our politicians and their advisors are such atrocious communicators, there’s like zero countervailing narrative to push back on the commie gobbledygook, so we are gonna have to learn the hard way. Guys…we just had a sample of socialism: Covid. We all got universal basic income, and it ended up tripling our costs and they’ll never go down. Ever. That one brief little experiment in command and control government will haunt us the rest of our lives. Bleak stuff, man.
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I saw news about Democratic lawmakers celebrating enthusiastically over allowing pregnant women to get abortions right up until just before birth.
In Japan, people believe that babies communicate with their mothers while still in the womb and even have memories from that time.
It reminds me of stories about child soldiers in African wars. It is said that brainwashed child soldiers who had lost their minds played a game of cutting open pregnant women's bellies to guess the baby's gender.
Instead of calling themselves the Democratic Party, how about changing their name to the "Demons Descended Party"?
Or even something like the "We Love Discrimination and Social Destruction as Long as It Makes Us Feel Good Party" would work fine too.
@Benjamin_J26@realBrandonGill And if you vote Democrat, the immigration flood will return. I will take slow deportation over the mass immigration of the Dems
"A guy looked at my airplane the other day and said I wonder how many people I could have fed for the price of that airplane...
I replied I am not sure, it fed a lot of families at the Dassault factory where it was built. I’m sure it fed a bunch of families that rolled the aluminum at the Alcoa factory. It surely fed a lot of people at the Honeywell factory where the experts built the turbines. It fed a whole company for a few weeks when I had them build me a new interior. It feeds the families of the linemen that fuel it.
That’s the difference between capitalism and a welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people's pockets, and give them dignity for their skills.
When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self worth.
Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value.
Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for."