This is what the Romans used to do. If a Roman citizen was captured or harmed in one of the provinces in North Africa or something, they were known to despatch an entire legion to go hunt and kill the perpetrators.
True story: Julius Caesar was once kidnapped by pirates. He spent his time in captivity gambling with them and would joke that he would crucify them as soon as he's free.
The ransom was paid, Caesar was set free, and the first thing he did was borrow a flotilla of ships, find the pirates, and crucify all of them.
Things could have gone awry here, but President Trump ignored the potential harm to his campaign and made the bold decision to save another American hostage. Promises made, promises kept.
I go to bed every night knowing if I'm ever kidnapped anywhere in the world, my country will come to rescue me regardless of my status in society or how much money I make.
God bless Donald Trump, and God bless the United States Of America.
Just know this; They will only rescue you if the right President is in office. Pretty much only Reagan and Trump. Oh, and we have to give a special mention to Jimmy Carter for at least trying. Also, if you are held hostage in China, you wont be saved, no matter who is in the White House.
Don't go to China. Right now they are like Hotel California. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Yeah, hat tip to Jimmy Carter. He at least tried to rescue the Americans held hostage in Iran. When the rescue attempt (Operation Eagle Claw) went sideways and FUBAR, Jimmy Carter didn't throw anyone under the bus. He accepted full responsibility.
This is an important point, I really think Pres. Trump is not political. If this went poorly, the media would be all over it. I think he does what he thinks is right. I cannot wait to vote and MAGA!
This is why we have nations. To protect our freedom at home, and anywhere in the world. If country X fucks w/Americans they need to find out. They learn to not fuck with America, and we enjoy the resulting security. Pepe remembers the pirates stopped seizing US flagged shipping some years back after popping some Somali pirates.
He probably wasn't even involved in the decisionmaking, having told the military "do what you have to do whenever you can do it." Because delegating military decisionmaking to military leadership is one mark of a good Commander-In-Chief.
They killed 4 of his 5 captors. Presumably, the last guy surrendered after pissing himself at the monsters in front of him who had slaughtered his entire little group.
This is kind of like the scene from the dark knight. These kidnappers guys think they have immunity and safety because they aren’t in the US, and seal team six just busts right in and fucks everyone up and takes what they want.
He's spot on about everything, except saying Romney is a good person. But the way he said Mitt should've responded about his net worth is dead on. "Yeah I made a lot of money. And paid a lot of taxes. And employed a lot of people."
Just watched the whole thing again (the second link). He 100% predicts Trump at the 14:30 mark. Might want to rewind a bit from there to get the context. But I totally forgot about that. Somebody shared that on the old TD because of his prediction.
Great story and quite a contrast to the Jessica Buchanan story. Jessica was kidnapped in Somali while Biden/Obuma were in office. She was forced to suffer through 3+ months of captivity before O approved a Seal Team 6 rescue mission. He only did so after learning she was suffering from a life threatening infection. The fact Trump took this decisive action just before the election says a lot about the man. He knows had things gone wrong it would be front page news likely being called a desperate election stunt. He acted anyway because it was the right thing to do.
IIRC there was one SEAL raid that got cancelled because Big Mike's bitch was busy playing golf and didn't sign the order. The helicopter had to turn around and return.
Interesting tidbit from the article about Team 6 being responsible for West Africa, what other units operate like this and where do THEIR responsibilities lie? Kinda interesting imo
Interesting. I always wondered how the decision to choose between DEVGRU and Delta is made. I assumed it was whichever one made the better pitch to leadership. For example, DEVGRU was chosen for OBL in Pakistan and Delta got Al Baghdadi in Syria. I'd think those areas would be in the same region.
Clearly you’re missing the context from the comment I’m replying to. I wouldn’t care if we dropped a MOAB to rescue an American dog that was held hostage.
Just so you can understand - OG comment said it was interesting that ST6 operates in W Africa. I was joking about how we just used the world most elite military unit in an unexpected area. Had nothing to do with whether it was justified or not. Of course it was. Take a chill pill, Cup Cake. We’re on the same team here.
Wow! That's super fast. Considering all that goes into an OP like that.
Find guys not already tied to another op. Review Intel, form a plan, brief the team, procure needed equipment. Not sure how they inserted, halo or asds. Asds would require ships to haul ass over there. Get the team and all their gear there too.
A pain logistically, and they did it all in 2-3 days. That's lightning! I don't know how many days it took to get them there for Capt Phillip's but I dont think it was this fast.
respected I guess can be confused with "liked" - IMO has nothing to do with fee fees - respected means they know not to fuck around because they will think of recent examples of people finding out
In the days of Rome people wouldn't fuck with roman citizens because they knew if they did the wrath of Rome would fall upon them. That's how I'd like to see America be. FAFO indeed.
Niger say what
GEOTUS: Niger, please.
Who?
Jogga who?
Niger is a gud country dat dindu nuffin wrong!
boo.
1.21 jigga watts
Do What Thou Wilt, right Jigga
Came here for these comments, and of course they are top.
The collective humor of this website never ceases to amaze me, it's very special.
Haha, I was laughing at this video for being so...dumb. Then your comment made me feel normal again.
Ha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frIA7tuBqqY
Sup muh jigga?
Dat Niger was a gud Chrischin boi and wuz turning’ he’s life aroun’
Today BLM will burn the streets, how dare US attack a Niger
But you'll notice they used the term very niggardly.
EDIT: spelling, thanks scroon
Btw, "niggardly" is the correct spelling.
And that concludes this episode of..."The Spelling Police!"
Ah geeeez! Stupid mistake, I know, thanks for the correction!
Meaning miserly or stingy.
Precisely
He was just curious about construction sites an' sheeet.
He just likes skittles and sheet.
Lol!
What Cho Mouf!
Niger gonna Nige
This is what the Romans used to do. If a Roman citizen was captured or harmed in one of the provinces in North Africa or something, they were known to despatch an entire legion to go hunt and kill the perpetrators.
True story: Julius Caesar was once kidnapped by pirates. He spent his time in captivity gambling with them and would joke that he would crucify them as soon as he's free.
The ransom was paid, Caesar was set free, and the first thing he did was borrow a flotilla of ships, find the pirates, and crucify all of them.
https://www.britannica.com/story/the-time-julius-caesar-was-captured-by-pirates
Kek
He was offended by the low ransom which the pirates proposed, and suggested they require a higher ransom.
Also, he took some pity on them and cut their throats after they were crucified.
He also annoyed the hell out of the pirates by reciting poetry to them at all hours of the night. Haha.
Whoa. I didn't know that fact. Interesting.
Life Pro-Tip: Darth Vader is not particularly fond of kidnappings. See Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon
Bring back our girls
Right? Such a different world with a real leader!
Trump became president
They weren't actually our girls so ::shrug::
"Bring back our girls, or the SEALs will." - DJT
Bring back our children.
ah yes, "Bring Back Our Girls": when nobody cared about the 10,000 boys captured and killed by Boko Haram even after 222 girls were captured. The only reason it made headlines was because capturing the girls went against Boko Haram's usual M.O. of killing/capturing the boys and freeing the girls.
"Peace Through Strength".
Never ever prod a sleeping bear. Just let him sleep and he'll be like 🐻
Let’s see them do it to Antifa
Should have taken the $40
I mean, that's quite a lot of money over there.
That's a lot of money to give to a random person here even without this fakedemic and everyone losing their assets over it.
they told the last one fuck around and find out.
Leave one alive to serve as a warning to the next ones who want to FAAFO.
Assuming it not Zimbabwe dollars.
Niger, not Nigeria. Niger is really poor since it’s pretty much only desert.
I'm not sure what Seal Team 6 carries, but one of the dead captors may have taken a .40.
I believe they call them tomahawks. Very badass
Whatever they want. I do know they have one just one HK416 and they used it on Osama
Typically they carry the HK-416 or MP7.
They killed everybody except 1? Thats just cold... LMAO
One to tell the tale.
One to win the immigration lottery and chain-migrate 20 family members to America. Oh too bad...not anymore.
The tale of how this one time he and his mates fucked around and found out.
👆this
He was probably the only one with enough brain cells to realize "I have no chance of winning against those monsters: I HAVE TO SURRENDER NOW!!"
If he had fought back, they probably would have killed him too.
Judas goat
No one expects the seal team six inquisition!
The one surviving captor sure didn’t—but he is grateful. He thought he was going to get the expected Seal Team Six ammunition.
Always leave one to tell the tale about FAAFO Team 6.
My thoughts exactly
seal team six extrication? Extraction?
$40 split 5 ways or death split 4 ways
Which would you choose?
$8 would buy a years worth of jenkum!
Huff n' Puff!
eeewwwww!
a tallboy cost 400 CFA in Niger, could've gotten 57 of 'em and had themselves a good night.
It would help Trump too much before the election.
It would be the only news if it went bad.
Knowing that, he still approved the mission! I love this man!
right. finally a president who gives a shit about regular people and isn't all about politics. it's so refreshing that it's beyond belief
Trumps like "Not on my watch."
Because our media is controlled by leftist scum who deserve one way helicopter rides
Orange Man.......Bad!
Orange Man Badass!!
Because the news is fake
he tweeted about it
Things could have gone awry here, but President Trump ignored the potential harm to his campaign and made the bold decision to save another American hostage. Promises made, promises kept.
I love America so much.
I go to bed every night knowing if I'm ever kidnapped anywhere in the world, my country will come to rescue me regardless of my status in society or how much money I make.
God bless Donald Trump, and God bless the United States Of America.
America is not a place. It is a people. It is a brotherhood. No one fucks with our brothers.
America IS a place, we got walls to keep out the baddies. However, no one better fuck with us....NO ONE!!!!!
True, I should've said not just a place. If the ocean swallowed the land tomorrow we would still be americans. And faafo would still be our way.
This really stopped and made me think.
God bless the USA.
Just know this; They will only rescue you if the right President is in office. Pretty much only Reagan and Trump. Oh, and we have to give a special mention to Jimmy Carter for at least trying. Also, if you are held hostage in China, you wont be saved, no matter who is in the White House.
Don't go to China. Right now they are like Hotel California. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Yeah, hat tip to Jimmy Carter. He at least tried to rescue the Americans held hostage in Iran. When the rescue attempt (Operation Eagle Claw) went sideways and FUBAR, Jimmy Carter didn't throw anyone under the bus. He accepted full responsibility.
Sleep tight
Not if Obama or someone like him is in power.......
He literally bet his 2nd term just so he could save 1 american. My god, what a fucking legend.
Fortune favors the bold.
And this isn't even the boldest move Trump made.
FUCK THE MEDIA
If this had gone bad, it'd be breaking news everywhere. Instead, nobody will hear about it
This is an important point, I really think Pres. Trump is not political. If this went poorly, the media would be all over it. I think he does what he thinks is right. I cannot wait to vote and MAGA!
This is why we have nations. To protect our freedom at home, and anywhere in the world. If country X fucks w/Americans they need to find out. They learn to not fuck with America, and we enjoy the resulting security. Pepe remembers the pirates stopped seizing US flagged shipping some years back after popping some Somali pirates.
Pepefarm remembers.
He probably wasn't even involved in the decisionmaking, having told the military "do what you have to do whenever you can do it." Because delegating military decisionmaking to military leadership is one mark of a good Commander-In-Chief.
"We let you live so you can tell the others what happened here."
Relevant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7T7dDVagEzY&?t=65
Yes
Fucking badass
Literally ninjas
Killed 5 men in a bar with a pencil
Americans : "That nobody... was Donald J. Trump. A man of focus and sheer determination. Something of which you know very little!"
DNC Socialists : "Oh..."
Americans : "Don will come for you, and there is nothing you can do to stop him."
With a fooking pencil!
Pffttt! Bruce Lee used nunchucks
Instead of a butter knife? Table manners, Bruce!
Good training exercise
There's no seals in Niger, good lord stop talking...
Can you believe tRump thinks there are MARINE MAMMALS in the middle of the desert 😂😂😂😂😂😂
^ cnn’s headline
Those based marine mammals!
"Trump's enforcers murder group of black men." -CNN
"supporters cheer it on" -WAPO
"sparks outrage on Twitter" - NBC News
Don’t give BLM any ideas...
Me: googles FAAFO
Me: “dang, I should have known”
Damnit, me too. Even after reading this thread.
And now you FOUND OUT! QUIT FUCKIN AROUND SOLDIER! MAN THE MEME CANNONS! MOVE YOUR ASS!
To be fair, we usually see it as the full phrase, rather than a weird 5-letter acronym.
Why not FAFA? For the same reason we don't live in the USoA
You mean it's not Hunter Biden's personal motto: Footjobs Are Awesome For Orgasms ?
:)
When people ask what happened here today, tell them Trump remembers. Tell them MAGA came for Niger
*you Nigers
Fix that for ya
This is kind of like the scene from the dark knight. These kidnappers guys think they have immunity and safety because they aren’t in the US, and seal team six just busts right in and fucks everyone up and takes what they want.
So the last one fleeing the complex made him escape their Rules of Engagement for the mission?
That's a lucky break for that goon's Fight or Flight response...
Negotiated by superior force and extreme violence.
The negotiations were ended. All living parties were satisfied.
Anyone else want to negotiate?
Perfect. One of my favorite movies.
Trunalimunumaprzure Joe would have sent them a pallet of cash, blamed American values, and not credit or military.
Then import the kidnappers and move em to the suburbs while calling you racist for voicing concern
Then labeled the 30 year old teenagers and sent them to highschool with your daughter.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/american-hostage-rescued-west-africa-seal-team-6-daring-raid
Imagine if Black Hawk Down had happened under Trump instead of Clinton.
For every quarter of an hour *Michael Durant is not returned, that's another Abrams tank in Somalia.
Edit: fixed the name, hat-tip u/MaoHadOnly1Testicle!
Butbutbut that's a quid pro quo! Impeachmints!
12 hours? You're so generous.
https://youtu.be/NvMsHji1i6g
Great speech about how Benghazi should've been handled. That's just the specific part but I recommend the whole thing :
https://youtu.be/Wgxlp2UJI5I
^^^ These Bill Whittle videos are great (from 2012). This man is describing GEOTUS.
He's spot on about everything, except saying Romney is a good person. But the way he said Mitt should've responded about his net worth is dead on. "Yeah I made a lot of money. And paid a lot of taxes. And employed a lot of people."
Wholly shit. That is fantastic. Never seen that before.
Best response ever about what should happen if we have an embassy or consulate come under fire.
Thanks for posting that.
Hope you watched the full speech. Worth the time. That was the first time I ever heard of Whittle but I loved it.
Just watched the whole thing again (the second link). He 100% predicts Trump at the 14:30 mark. Might want to rewind a bit from there to get the context. But I totally forgot about that. Somebody shared that on the old TD because of his prediction.
*Michael Durant
Omar wouldn't be here now.
Trump needs to deport that bitch
How is an actual team of 6 seals supposed to rescue someone?
The article doesn’t mentioned that the coyotes helped the team of seals.
And to think that trump is trying to defame them by insisting that they smuggle children
It took ABC 6 people to write those 2 articles. 6 people are capable of many things.
so monkeys with typewriters.
Sit down, Dar'shun.
Honk
No ignored calls from the embassy this time.
Someone fucked around and found out.
Looking forward to Joe Biden trying to talk about this and mispronouncing Niger.
If you don't vote for Joe, you ain't Niger.
Or his teleprompter glitching mid word
"Countries that annoy you."
Great story and quite a contrast to the Jessica Buchanan story. Jessica was kidnapped in Somali while Biden/Obuma were in office. She was forced to suffer through 3+ months of captivity before O approved a Seal Team 6 rescue mission. He only did so after learning she was suffering from a life threatening infection. The fact Trump took this decisive action just before the election says a lot about the man. He knows had things gone wrong it would be front page news likely being called a desperate election stunt. He acted anyway because it was the right thing to do.
An even greater contrast to the Kayla Mueller story.
Obongo literally allowed an American to die.
We need a meme comparing hostage responses between administrations
^^^^^^^^^ THIS 100%
IIRC there was one SEAL raid that got cancelled because Big Mike's bitch was busy playing golf and didn't sign the order. The helicopter had to turn around and return.
But why move to Nigeria? Or for Jessica, why do aid work in a dangerous place? Similarly, for Kayla Mueller, why go over the border to Syria?
Why do we have to bail out those citizens making not so smart decisions?
Yeah honestly she was prob a hardcore leftist. Shouldn't waste time on them.
As a woman going to a shit hole/muslim country you have to be a fucking brainwashed idiot.
Never been safer to be an American abroad
It's hard to think anything with a few rounds of 5.56 lodged in your brain.
GO SEAL TEAM SIX.
F.A.A.F.O.
DADDY TRUMP FOR FOUR MORE YEARS!!!
God bless America and Donald Trump!
CNN : Trump Authorizes Rescue of Hostage, But Does He Really Care? Experts Not Sure
CNN: Was Trump Too Quick To Authorize Force In Hostage Rescue? What The Rapid Assault On Black Nigerians Says About His Racism.
CNN: Trump Abandons the Black Vote with Deadly Raid on Low-Income Home.
CNN: Trump deploys military force to kill black people.
Snopes: True.
CNN: Sources familiar with Trumps thinking confirm, No he doesn’t care!
That is their whole argument. He also "panders to black people but he's racist inside"
And attributing it to him personally, like he was in the stack at the door. (See the bin Laden raid, as Exhibit A.)
Do it. FAAFO.
Interesting tidbit from the article about Team 6 being responsible for West Africa, what other units operate like this and where do THEIR responsibilities lie? Kinda interesting imo
That was strange because of all the teams I thought DEVGRU was the only one not attached to a geographic region.
That was my understanding as well
Interesting. I always wondered how the decision to choose between DEVGRU and Delta is made. I assumed it was whichever one made the better pitch to leadership. For example, DEVGRU was chosen for OBL in Pakistan and Delta got Al Baghdadi in Syria. I'd think those areas would be in the same region.
Might be an uninformed journalist scribbling.
Ummm how do we explain using the worlds most elite kill team to rescues a guy that had 2 $20’s on them?
Ummm, just say they operate over there 🤷♂️
Ummm because he was an American that was fucking kidnapped! Ummm who gives a fuck what kind of cash he kept on hand?
Clearly you’re missing the context from the comment I’m replying to. I wouldn’t care if we dropped a MOAB to rescue an American dog that was held hostage.
Just so you can understand - OG comment said it was interesting that ST6 operates in W Africa. I was joking about how we just used the world most elite military unit in an unexpected area. Had nothing to do with whether it was justified or not. Of course it was. Take a chill pill, Cup Cake. We’re on the same team here.
Then snowflake says:
Tell them it's cheaper than a nuke.
We’re only making plans for Niger
Kek, song reference
Did they say "this is maga country" before kidnapping him?
And spray painted, this is MAGA country
Fucked around status: Found out.
Under budget and ahead of schedule too!
In 72 hours, Trump will he re-elected!
God bless our president!! This is bad ass
From a counterterrorism source in the ABC News article..."They were all dead before they knew what happened."
GET. FUCKING. REKT.
Wow! That's super fast. Considering all that goes into an OP like that.
Find guys not already tied to another op. Review Intel, form a plan, brief the team, procure needed equipment. Not sure how they inserted, halo or asds. Asds would require ships to haul ass over there. Get the team and all their gear there too.
A pain logistically, and they did it all in 2-3 days. That's lightning! I don't know how many days it took to get them there for Capt Phillip's but I dont think it was this fast.
America is respected again
America doesn't care if it is respected again, America first and who cares about their fee fees
respected I guess can be confused with "liked" - IMO has nothing to do with fee fees - respected means they know not to fuck around because they will think of recent examples of people finding out
No wonder Obama is acting so pissy lately.
Thank you to SEAL Team 6.
Not just Navy. But, NAVY, you know?
And an early nod to the upcoming Veterans Day!
Joe Biden would have just sent them a pallet of cash.
Now bring DEVGRU home and have them on the White House roof from 11/3 to 11/10, please.
No - they should be taking out high level foreign and domestic enemies of the Constitution.
An extra fire team of Marines would suffice to defend the WH.
Or Jimmy Carter LOL
I bet you a mother-fucker can walk around Niger now without any issues.
True that! Word spreads fast in criminal society.
In the days of Rome people wouldn't fuck with roman citizens because they knew if they did the wrath of Rome would fall upon them. That's how I'd like to see America be. FAFO indeed.
We have too many traitors that refuse to place American lives above shithole country lives.
Joe would have sent two social workers hoping for a leg shot.
People died. I guarantee it. Pew pew
This really gave me a lift on the day Sir Sean Connery passed from living legend to legend.
What? This can't be right. I thought we're supposed to wait months or years to do anything about hostages?
Wouldn’t a hashtag campaign been just as effective? #bringbackthegirls was such a success.
By the way. Still not sick of winning. And this is what true leadership looks like.