mostly a silly goose. Silent we moved through the woodlands, swift as the grey wolves of Slieve Bloom.
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LairdMacTíre retweeted
For the craziest stories imaginable:
Join the Infantry.
June 6, 1944. An American paratrooper jumps into Normandy in the dark and lands on the roof of a church.
By the end of the war he had been declared dead, held a funeral he didn't attend, escaped the Nazis, and fought his way toward Berlin in a Soviet tank unit.
His name was Joseph Beyrle. He's believed to be the only American soldier to serve in both the US Army and the Red Army during World War Two.
Beyrle was from Muskegon, Michigan. He joined the 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles. His buddies called him Jumpin' Joe.
On D-Day night his plane was hit by flak and he jumped early. He came down on a church roof, slid off, and lost his unit in the chaos. For a few days he fought on his own, blowing up a power station and cutting German communications.
Then he was captured.
Here's where it gets strange. A German soldier ended up wearing Beyrle's uniform and dog tags. That German was killed. When the body was found, the Americans identified it as Joseph Beyrle.
The army told his parents their son was dead. His hometown held a funeral mass for him. His obituary ran in the local paper.
Meanwhile, he was very much alive, being moved from one German prison camp to another.
He escaped more than once. One time he and two other prisoners jumped off a train heading east. They thought they were heading for Russia and freedom. They got lost and ended up in Berlin, where they were caught by the Gestapo, beaten, and tortured.
In January 1945, from a camp in eastern Germany, he finally made a clean escape. He went east, toward the gunfire. Toward the Soviets.
When he found a Soviet tank unit, he walked out with his hands up, holding a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes, and shouted the only Russian he knew. American comrade.
It worked.
He asked to join them. And they said yes.
For about a month, an American paratrooper rode with Soviet tank crews as they pushed toward Germany. He used his demolition training. He fought. He was reportedly welcomed by a Soviet officer who was one of the rare women commanding a tank battalion.
Then a German dive bomber attacked. Beyrle was badly wounded.
He was evacuated to a Soviet hospital. Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov reportedly visited, heard his story, and gave him papers to get to the American embassy in Moscow.
When he showed up, the embassy didn't believe him. As far as the US was concerned, Joseph Beyrle was dead. They held him under guard until his fingerprints proved who he was.
He made it home to Michigan in April 1945.
In 1946 he got married. In the same church where they'd held his funeral.
Decades later, in 1994, he was honored at the White House by President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin for serving both countries.
And the last twist. His son, Joseph Beyrle II, grew up to become the United States Ambassador to Russia.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Joseph Robert “Joe” Beyrle had two sons. The elder son, Joe Beyrle II, served during the Vietnam War, but wasn’t a US Ambassador. That was the other son, John Beyrle.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Be…
LairdMacTíre retweeted
People are calling her “William” now which I personally think is very disrespectful and fucked up but I’m just saying I’ve seen it happen
billie eilish spotted for the first time since her breast reduction surgery, and she looks completely different now.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This pictures are from 2023 and there’s no evidence that Billie Eilish has gotten a breast reduction surgery.
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LairdMacTíre retweeted
Thank you for removing the mask, Joel. Even if it may have been inadvertent.
You have, of course, simply confirmed what I said in the first place.
You are not an American Patriot.
You are a Christian Globalist.
Sey is a member of your tribe, and I am not. America is not your homeland, it's just where you keep your stuff. You do not feel loyalty to Americans, any more than you would feel loyalty to the guy who rents the storage unit adjacent to yours.
The same goes for Western Civilization as a whole. The ethos of illegals who defy American custom and law, who disrespect the American people, by sneaking into our homeland to profit from us, makes complete sense to you. Because it is your ethos as well.
You live in America not because America is special to you, or because you feel you owe it, and us, anything at all. You simply live America because it is comfortable and profitable to do so.
Unfortunately, this is not currently considered sufficient legal grounds to deport you to wherever the homeland of Christian Globalists is, Ghana or Bethlehem or the afterlife, whatever. Up to you.
So we can't rid ourselves of you just yet. But what puzzles me is why you think that membership in the Christian Globalist Tribe somehow gives you the legal and moral right to hand out tickets to America.
The bible does not come with a green card stapled to it.
America, and the right to hand out tickets to it, belongs to Americans. And, by your own admission, you are not one. That's what you said.
Now, I'm sure that saying you are a citizen of the kingdom of god has a nice ring to it, and your Christian Globalist friends may all have clapped when you said it.
But, unlike America, the kingdom of god is an idea. You haven't built it yet. You can't point to it on a map. And, while I'm sure you can think of lots of fine poetic-sounding metaphorical retorts about the kingdom of god living in the hearts of Christians everywhere, or something, you cannot actually go and live in that metaphor, because it's not a place, and it's not zoned for residential.
We have to keep the physical place we live nice, and we are doing that the way humans have always done that — by physically controlling our borders and who gets to cross them.
But you are not interested in these kinds of adult responsibilities. You are not interested in stewardship of the temporal earth, or the people on it. You have rejected this in favor of a lifestyle where your only responsibility is to love Jesus with the maximum possible intensity, and to miss no opportunity to tell everyone just how much you love him.
Frankly, if I were Jesus, which I am very much fucking not, I would find this slightly creepy, and quietly ask you to maybe tone it down just a bit.
But my concern is not the nature of your relationship with Jesus. I wouldn't even know about that relationship if you didn't insist on praying loudly on street corners.
My concern is the future of America, the future of Western Civilization, and the future of humanity, all of which are intertwined, and all of which will suffer if you are allowed to sneak open borders in the back door, concealed in a hollowed-out bible.
I do have a tribe. I am tribal.
It’s a tribe Jesus described. And to avoid putting words in his mouth, here’s Jesus in his own words, as well as those of the Apostle Paul:
“And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, “Behold My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.””
Matthew 12:49-50
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.”
John 10:27-28
“And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.”
Gal 3:29
“So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.”
Galatians 6:10
Yes, I am tribal. I just don’t classify my tribe by melanin count. Samuel Sey is in my tribe, and he is my brother. And he would make an excellent American.
LairdMacTíre retweeted
"Glaine inár gcroí, neart inár ngéag, is beart de réir ár mbriathar."
“Purity in our hearts, strength in our limbs, and deeds to match our words”
LairdMacTíre retweeted
Fuentes is a scumbag who deliberately suppressed involvement in anything that could move the ball down the field
LairdMacTíre retweeted
Lmao of course
🚨 #BREAKING: Leaked audio reveals Flock CEO told police chiefs Americans against mass surveillance are actually Russian bots.
LairdMacTíre retweeted
My dear Wormwood, Four years suits us. Better still is the native who calls it mercy while his own suffer. Preferring the stranger to one’s neighbor is the precise inversion of the Enemy’s law- our finest recruits march under that banner. Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.
LairdMacTíre retweeted
> Stop whining about 20$ burritos White boy. Here's how you can make a generic burrito with 100 calories at home. I wipe my feet on you.
> Stop crying sweet black illegal immigrant. I will wipe your tears with $20k!! I will wash your feet in public to prove my Christianity.
LairdMacTíre retweeted
Twitter Catholics whenever they touch their penis:
