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@Ozarkdogguy @smc429 That's probably better than the Trump wine I'm saving 😂
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@smc429 I have a bottle of Pinot Noir I’ve saved just for the occasion.
My last one!
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@timeforhiding Slowly, the old white men are dying off...can't happen fast enough!
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Joseph McCarthy would be jealous—completely green with envy. He was born at the wrong time—a man before his time. Glad Johnson is a wimp and rudderless without his puppeteer. Johnson is no Joe McCarthy—and that’s a good thing.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Mike Johnson: "You heard the president talk about how he wants to effectively double the funding for national defense. Look, we live in dangerous times. We're fighting communism on our own shores."
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In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima.
Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes.
Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse.
No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed.
So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history.
When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive.
The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy.
At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong.
They convicted him anyway.
For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy.
Case closed. For fifty years.
Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project.
He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay.
A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001.
The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader.
Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

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@MrPitbull07 And then Nate set the world record for shutting up the fastest!
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Nate Reeves rented Unit 37 at Crossroads Self Storage in Lebanon, Tennessee, in 2012. Visited maybe twice a year. What he didn't notice - for eleven years - was that his monthly invoice covered two units. Unit 37 and Unit 38. The billing error added $89 per month. When he finally disputed the charge in 2023, the facility manager cut the lock on 38. Inside sat a 1971 Chevelle SS 454 on jack stands under a canvas tarp. Original paint. Matching numbers. The previous renter had abandoned it in 2009. Under Tennessee lien law, Reeves owned everything in any unit he'd paid for. The car appraised at $74,000. The original key was still in the ignition.

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Mike Johnson--The Sycophant's Sycophant.
Nobody does it better and nobody is more useless. Instead of defending the coequal branch of government that congress should be, he is Trump's knife that neutered them. It will be written about in history books.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Mike Johnson knows nothing and does nothing During a press conference today, Johnson claimed "I don't know anything" about ICE killing a man in Maine yesterday despite the fact it was all over the news, then followed that up by punting a question about whether Congress should curtail Trump's war powers, saying "I'm gonna let the White House answer to that." It was the latest reminder that Johnson is the most useless Speaker in the modern history of the House. Here's a supercut of all the ridiculous things he said this morning:
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@EastEndJoe I have an actual bottle of Biff's wine I'll open on the occasion.
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@DougWahl1 It feeds armies!! add garlic salt, w/tuna fish, ground beef. Goes with anything.
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@DougWahl1 It takes about the same level of stupidity to believe Jean Carroll as it takes to Believe Donald Trump.
Carolls a sociopath that literally stole her rape story from an episode of Law and Order.
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@No1Home4 See your jill stein Bernie Sanders loving people problem is you want something easy appealing to all people actual wants and needs is not easy. That's why your entire movement is base on just three issues MFA, Gaza, the establishment
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@DougWahl1 Not him. DJ and Eric will set up a completely separate company to run it. Trump will have nothing to do with it.
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@MediumDebyOuld @JamesMelville 🤣 You people need your own island. Stay the fuck away from the rest of the herd. Please!!
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All very lovely, except that he was another one who pushed the Covid vaccines hard. He was another celeb on that bandwagon. I still find it hard to forgive all those who pushed that narrative because so many people, including members of my own family, have died or been injured by those evil jabs. I’ve felt very disappointed by many who should have known better or who were paid to promote the vaccines & all the mandates that came with Covid.
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