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To the courageous Americans who answered the call to defend their homeland,
To those who kept watch upon our shores, or halfway around the world,
To those who stood in harm’s way, that harm may not come to their countrymen,
To those in generations past who never received the welcome home that they deserved,
To those who healed, who built, who trained, who flew, who sailed, who fought, who prayed:
Thank you for your service. Thank you for your sacrifice.
May God bless you on this Veterans Day, and may God bless the wonderful country you have protected for us all.
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Today we honor the sacrifice of our joint force veterans and their families.
I am proud to say I served; I’m never above you, never below you, always beside you.
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For generations, we made a promise to the men and women who answered the call to serve our great country that we’d care for them when they return home.
On this Veterans Day and always, we honor their service and sacrifice — and we work to hold up our promise to them. 🇺🇸
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Although many so called Americans will never acknowledge or honor your sacrifice, thankfully millions still do. I miss you every day son and will love you until the day I die and beyond.
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The United States made our priorities clear at the @G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Paris. 🤝 🇺🇸
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Ken Langone, Home Depot co-founder, on the claim that capitalism only serves the people who already have money:
Joe Lonsdale: "A cynical young person might say, of course you love capitalism. You're a billionaire. What would you say to them?"
Ken Langone: "But I wasn't when I started. I didn't have a silver spoon in my mouth — if I did, I never saw it.
The point is, Joe, we bring a lot of people to the party with us.
Think of the fact that Bernie, Arthur, and I and Pat Farrah, four of us, with $2 million in capital. Today, we have a half a million associates."
@JTLonsdale
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BREAKING 🚨: Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working, ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.”
Jemele Hill: “How is it not?”
Kmele Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is. That is not white supremacy.”
Jemele Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”
Kmele Foster: “I’ve actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”
Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”
Kmele Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”
Jemele Hill: “How was it absurd?”
Kmele Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”
Jemele Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”
Kmele Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy?… What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?”
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Veterans Day: Meet 101-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Edward “Eddie” D. Desmond, who served at Okinawa.
I met Eddie on November 10. He turned 101 and shares the same birthday as the Marine Corps, the day before Veterans Day.
On November 11, Desmond is being honored at the Veterans Day Wreath Laying Ceremony at the United States Navy Memorial.
TRUE STORY: Eddie served at Okinawa because he hated cold weather and liked cooking.
Veterans advocate Christopher M. Lehman shared Eddie’s story.
"When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Eddie was just 16 years old—too young to serve in the armed forces. He enlisted in the Navy in early 1944 at age 17.
After boot camp, he was given the choice to serve either as an armed guard (gunner) on a merchant supply ship doing convoy duty in the cold North Atlantic or as a ship’s cook on a ship in the Pacific.
Since he didn’t like cold weather and he did like to cook, the choice was easy.
Within months, he found himself as a cook on a small ship heading across the Pacific and was destined to participate in what became the bloodiest and one of the longest and hardest campaigns in the history of U.S. naval warfare—the Battle of Okinawa.
By early May 1945, 20-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Desmond had already been exposed to heavy combat.
He had also discovered that the ship’s cook on these small ships had additional duties when the ship was engaged in combat or the crew was at Battle Stations.
His battle station was at a 20-millimeter anti-aircraft gun on the starboard side of his ship.
He also witnessed the devastating effects of Japanese kamikaze suicide planes hitting other ships—many much larger than his—with some sinking in minutes and with tremendous loss of life.
As one of the last (and likely the final) surviving sailors from the roughly 10,000 men who served on the 130 Landing Craft Support ships known as LCSs during World War II, Eddie has helped preserve their history.
After the jump, a GoFundMe page has been set up to help keep the historic USS LCS-102 operating as a museum ship in California.👇
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“We can adequately defend against this threat…”
WATCH: @gen_jackkeane responds to ramped up “bluster” from Iran, potential for total U.S. victory
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In 1995, @realDonaldTrump saved the NYC Veterans Day Parade by personally donating $200,000 and raising another $300,000.
The parade director, Vietnam veteran Tom Fox, said, "Donald Trump saved the parade."
Epstein-file-level false promises.
FT Exclusive: One of the Democrats poised to lead US congressional investigations into Donald Trump has vowed to expose an 'avalanche of corruption' but warned his party not to be distracted by efforts to impeach the president again. ft.trib.al/bjBxrRa
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New York City's Department of Health told its Jewish employees that every identity counts except theirs.
Wrong answer.
@NYCMayor Mamdani may hate the Jewish state, but his City may not make hostility to Jewish people a condition of employment.
See you in court.
"We are all safer."
On this 251st birthday of the Marines Corps, this Marine family salutes Commander in Chief Trump and Sec of War Hegseth. Military recruitment is through the roof, after consistently missing targets under Biden. We are all safer. military.com/the-military-br…
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🔥 .@WhiteHouse Counsel @WillScharf puts Democrat @RepRobertGarcia ON NOTICE:
“Abusive threats and public statements about the indiscriminate issuance of subpoenas, along with threats directed at prospective targets within the Administration make it abundantly clear that any forthcoming investigative processes will be deployed to harass and aggrandize, rather than to advance any legitimate legislative end…threats to executive branch officials designed to deter them from public service, or process designed merely to abuse or instill fear in the recipient may cross the line into blatant criminality.”
@EmilyRandallWA: “We’re going to be passing out subpoenas like candy”
@RepAnalilia: “We’re going to toss out subpoenas like Mardi Gras beads”
@EdMarkey: “They are going to need to plant new forests for all of the subpoenas we'll be printing”
Rep-Elect @Ojeda4America wants to see Cabinet members “squirm”
Rep-Elect @katy4congress told witnesses to “put makeup on for the cameras at their hearings”
READ ⬇️
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Israel has transformed the threat of cyberwarfare into an industry that protects banks, businesses and governments worldwide. They're making the world safer through their ingenuity. Those who demonize Israel while benefiting from its innovations ought to be ashamed.
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BREAKING: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly threatened to drive oil prices near zero by pumping at full capacity unless Russia stops sending Iran weapons that end up with the Houthis.
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Amazing video celebrating America's 250th Birthday produced by the irreplaceable @FedSoc . Truly an amazing time to be alive, blessed with very fine justices
As America turns 250, Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh & Barrett on keeping our founding freedoms alive.
Gorsuch: our rights "don't come from government, they come from God."
Barrett: "It is our project."
Watch, via @FedSoc ⬇️
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Well, well, well
Rep. Ro Khanna sold $NVDA right before Nvidia's CEO admitted to having a Chinese spy side piece
He's a member of the following:
- Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party Committee
- Taiwan Caucus
- High Tech Caucus
Apparently, federal agents informed some lawmakers last year that Jensen Huang might be the target of a foreign intelligence operation
He avoided a ~26% dip
During Biden's presidency, I thought the greatest damage from his pushing DEI into every single organization was its damaging effect on our military.
Our military should not be a safe space or a haven for those who need protection. And climate change is not our greatest national security threat.
Hegseth was tasked with turning things around. Recruitment and retention are now way up. He stopped the decline.
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