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Top Gun: 10 Hilarious Memes Only True Fans Understand

Top Gun is one of those classic '80s films that is renowned for its endlessly quotable one-liners, high-octane action, and cheesy soundtrack by the master of the movie theme song, Kenny Loggins. It features beautiful people doing impossible stunts, promising melodrama and thrills that it delivers at Mach 10. Watching Top Gun makes you feel like you just got a thumbs up from Maverick himself.

RELATED: Everything We Know About Glen Powell's Role In Top Gun: Maverick

While it's been accused of being one long military recruitment ad, there's a certain sentimentality and charm floating in its tangerine sunsets. The franchise about elite pilots gunning for the distinction of 'Top Gun" isn't in the "danger zone" either, it's going to continue in 2020 with a follow-up film for a new era. Here are 10 memes that true Top Gun fans will find hilarious.

10 ODDS OF MAVERICK BUZZING THE CONTROL TOWER

When it comes to Maverick, one of the most reliable things about him is his unpredictability. What makes him a flight risk also makes him a hero. Often times if it weren't for Maverick's ability to think outside the box and fly in the danger zoneonce in a while, situations would be more than just inverted.

You'd think Maverick's antics would result in some fatal accidents, but he was cleared of any direct involvement in Goose's death. His recklessness in Top Gun appeared when he was bucking authority or trying to prove he belonged in an elite class of pilots.

9 I FEEL THE NEED FOR SPEED

If there was one character from another highly successful franchise that evoked the same hot-shot mentality as the naval aviators in Top Gun, it's Poe Dameron from Episode VII: The Force Awakens. From his carefree bravado to his constant clashes with authority figures, he's the sci-fi version of Maverick.

Unfortunately, Poe's need for speed caused the Resistance to lose almost their entire bomber fleet just to take out one of the First Order's Dreadnoughts, which caused Poe's immediate demotion. Like Maverick, he wouldn't have made Top Gun either.

RELATED: 10 Things From Top Gun That Haven't Aged Well

8 BECAUSE I WAS INVERTED

It turns out that George Washington and Maverick have a lot in common. Washington wasn't afraid to trust his gut and take a risk simply because the path to victory was dangerous. He wasn't going to be deterred by things like frigid temperatures, ice rifts, or the threat of British troops firing from across the river bank when it came to organizing the Delaware crossing.

On Christmas Day, Washington organized his secret mission, hoping it would result in a surprise attack of the Hessian and British troops across the river. It worked despite all odds, and Washington became recognized for the badass he is today. Viper would approve.

7 TOP GUN WAS SO UNREALISTIC

Top Gun has been cited as unrealistic for several reasons, much of which boils down to style being favored over substance, and the authenticity of a real military experience being sacrificed to make the storyline more exciting. Then there's the little matter of Tom Cruise's height.

Tom Cruise has been a leading man in Hollywood for decades, but like Robert Downey Jr. or Alan Ladd, he doesn't exactly have the leading man height. It's an aspect of his career that's fueled many a meme before, and a particularly memorable episode of Family Guy involving a Tom Cruise the size of Stewie.

6 NOT EVERYONE GETS TO BE TOP GUN

Top Gun is one of the most elite schools with some of the most elite pilot training programs in the entire world. The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program doesn't have the same ring to it, but don't let the colloquial name fool you.

Only select naval flight officers and naval aviators get selected to attend Top Gun, and after they go through a rigorous series of tests and simulations involving strike tactics and techniques, they're released to become instructors. Not even Maverick was awarded "Top Gun", but he did stick around to teach.

RELATED: Original Top Gun Editor Returning For Sequel

5 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ICE MAN

We've all heard by now the names of the actors returning for Top Gun 2, and while everyone knew Tom Cruise was reprising his role as Maverick, it was less certain if Val Kilmer would return as Ice Man. He'd had a string of health issues in the last decade that implied even if he did return, he'd look extremely different than the image he used to cut in a pair of dress whites.

While this meme alludes to when Kilmer gained an alarming amount of weight, his recent battle with throat cancer left him anything but large. The last few years have seen Kilmer appear in public looking exceedingly thin, but he made sure to confirm that he was healthy enough to do the film.

4 WHO IS THIS MOVIE ABOUT AGAIN?

It might be hard to remember after being blinded so many times by Tom Cruise's megawatt smile and mirror shades, but the movie is called Top Gun and he didn't win it. His storyline was the focus of the film, and the distinction of being "Top Gun" was his objective, but that honor went to Ice Man.

Ice Man gets a bad rep in the film for being a hardass, who takes an instant dislike to Maverick because his tactics put people in potential danger. Ice Man is painted in some ways as the bully and the villain of the narrative, when he's really anything but.

3 WILSON!

Few people may realize that the actor that plays Wilson, Tom Hank's only companion in Cast Away when he's stranded on the island, actually got his big break back in the '80s. Catch him in the beach volleyball scene in Top Gun being passed around by Maverick, Ice Man, Goose and the rest of the gang.

Known for his stamina performing physical stunts and a consistently upbeat attitude, no one's ever heard him complain about his treatment even when he's getting hit in the face by the biggest names in Hollywood. He's just happy to be on camera and get his moment in the sun.

2 IT'S TOO CLOSE FOR MISSILES

Anyone that's watched Top Gun or been to flight school will get this reference immediately, but the subtext beneath may fly over fans' heads. It makes perfect sense if you grasp the fact that in recent years, the film has been lampooned for its gratuitous scenes involving young, half-naked men in locker rooms and on the beach.

Top Gun is now remembered for two things; it's extremely pro-military agenda and its blatant homoeroticism. Filmmakers can't exactly deny that it wasn't a giant recruitment ad for the military, but the other implication seems to be something they'd prefer died with Goose.

1 TOP BUN

If you talk to anyone in the military, there was already a lot of non-regulation haircuts and styles going on in Top Gun. Yes, most of the actors' hair was appropriately short (it had to be off the color), but it definitely wasn't the typical flat top high and tight enforced by most branches of the armed forces.

These days, all sorts of interesting adjustments have been made for enlisted service members, from beards being allowed if they're part of your religion, to certain headscarves, and even longer hair on women. But Maverick with a man bun? Definitely not.

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This is because I noticed how many guys were doing this: The Points Guy is the Internet's pre-eminent authority on travel perks (It is now also a 9-figure business - pandemic aside) The RideShare Guy is who Wall Street called upon when Uber and Lyft IPO'ed Science communicators have definitely caught on to this. Neil deGrasse Tyson always introduces himself as your Personal Astrophysicist. But he's completely owned by Bill Nye - The Science Guy! If you skim over "the Guy" as a gender neutral shorthand, the actually important thing about having "a Guy" is that you look better just by "Knowing a Guy". Listen to Barney Stinson brag in How I Met Your Mother: You know how I got a guy for everything?... My suit guy, my shoe guy, my ticket guy, my club guy, and if I don't have a guy for something I have a Guy guy to get me a guy! This effect is real and it is extraordinarily powerful. Just by "having a guy" for something, you suddenly feel no desire to overlap with that person's domain. You can now focus on something else. And, to the extent you do that, you are now utterly dependent on "having a guy". You're also extremely invested in your "guy" being as successful and prominent as possible, so that you look better by association. It should strike you now that being someone's "guy" is very valuable, and that this also scales pretty much infinitely. You get there by planting a flag on your domain, and saying, this is what I do. People want expertise. People want to defer to authority. People don't actually need it all the time, they just want the option just in case. People love hoarding options. You can satiate that latent insecurity indefinitely. Most people also define "expertise" simply as "someone who has spent more time on a thing than I have" (The bar is depressingly low, to be honest. People should have higher standards, but they just don't. This is a systematic weakness you can - responsibly - exploit.) Picking A Domain You don't need to get too creative with this one. You want to connect yourself to something important: Maybe something people deal with daily but don't really think about too much (especially if they know they are leaving something on the table, like airline points - it is easy to make money from helping people unlock free money). Maybe something people only deal with once in a blue moon, but when they do it REALLY hurts (so you gain unfair expertise by specializing in having repeated exposure to rare events across multiple customers). There are a bunch of these, so to narrow down even more, look out for something you disproportionately love. Look for your own revealed preferences - search a topic in Slack or Twitter and see how often you talk about it. Look up your own YouTube watch history. An ideal domain for you is something that seems like work to others but you have fun digging into. With everything you love, there are things to hate. Find something within what you love, that you are ABSURDLY unsatisfied with. That love-hate tension can fuel you for years. For any important enough problem, there are plenty of experts. Do you feel like you haven't narrowed enough? Shrink your world. Be an internal expert at your company for your domain. This also helps you focus on things that bring value to a company, and therefore your career. It's also a very natural onramp to being an external expert when you leave. Claiming Your Domain Picking your domain is 90% of the journey. Most people don't even get that far. To really clean up, be prolific around that domain. Show up. To every conversation. I kind of joke about this as "High Availability for Humans". By showing up consistently, you become part of the consideration set. Humans don't have room for a very wide consideration set. It's usually 2. If we make lists and try really hard, we can get up to 10 (see: the Oscars). Think about the last time you purchased soap. You probably buy 1 of 2 brands of soap. But there are 100 on the shelves. They just weren't in your consideration set. So they never stood a shot. So your goal, as a brand, is to make it in. You do that by being Highly Available. By the way, we also have huge Availability Bias when it comes to recall. We conflate "first to your lips" with "being the best". We're also really good at backwards justifying what we just called the "best" by pulling up a bunch of bullet point reasons that have nothing to do with being "first to your lips". (Did I mention we like consistency?) It's your job to earn the right to be the best (and to define what that means), but also entirely within your control to be considered the best, which is what claiming your domain looks like. Give Up Freedom - For Now The flip side of planting your flag is you shouldn't plant it anywhere else. People like to see commitment. It implies, and usually does mean, that you have no choice but to be a domain expert. You signal commitment by giving up optionality. This is 100% OK - what you lose in degrees of freedom you gain 10x in marketing ability. The secret is - and don't tell anyone - that if you pick a Domain and it doesn't work out, you can still pivot if you need to. Nobody's going to hold it against you, as long as you don't pivot too often. If you really aspire towards more general prominence, you will find a much easier time of it if you first prove yourself in a single Domain. Blogging Blogging is usually mentioned up there in the "Marketing for Developers" space. I will always encourage you to blog - but don't fool yourself that pushing a new post every month alone will do anything for you by itself. There's just a lot of generic, scattershot advice about how you should blog more. These are usually people trying to sell you a course on blogging. (Except Steve Yegge!) The fact is Blogs gain extra power when they are focused on a Domain. CSS Tricks is a well known blog in the Frontend Dev space, and, as you might guess, for a long time it's domain was entirely CSS tricks. (It's expanded since then). Like everything else you follow, it's all about Signal vs Noise. Blogs let you get more juice out of that Domain Name you own, by constantly updating it with fresh content. You can also use it to feed that other most valuable online business asset: your email list! Overall, it is just a good general principle to own your own distribution. Twitter is a form of microblogging. It lets you export data easily and your content shows up on Google without an auth wall. All good things. But you're still subject to a feed. Definitely not a distribution you own - but it can be worth it to make the Faustian bargain of growing faster on a platform (like Twitter) first, then pivoting that to your Blog/Mailing list when you have some reach. Growing a Blog/Mailing list from zero with no other presence is hard. Marketing your Business Value vs Marketing your Coding Skills Business Value A large genre of "Marketing for Developers" advice basically reduces you to an abstract Business Black Box where your only role and value to the company is to Grow Revenue or Reduce Cost (or Die Trying?). I call this Marketing Your Business Value. This is, of course, technically correct: Technology is a means to an end, and ultimately your employer has to make ends meet and justify your salary. It is especially in your interest to help them justify as high a salary as possible. Have at your fingertips all the relevant statistics, data, quotes, and anecdotes for when you solve major product pain points, or contributed a major revenue generating/cost saving feature. You should be able to recite your big wins on demand, and frame it in terms of What's In It For Them, because you will probably have to. Managers and Employers are well intentioned, and want to evaluate you fairly and objectively, but often the topic of your contributions comes up completely without warning and out of context, and you want to put yourself on the best footing every time. Consider this Applied Personal Branding - success is when your boss is being able to repeat everything you say you've done to her boss, to advocate for you as fullthroatedly as you should do yourself. If you can, get it down to a concise elevator pitch - Patrick McKenzie is fond of citing a friend's Business Value as "wrote the backend billing code that 97% of Google’s revenue passes through.” Enough said. Coding Skills Unfortunately, this is not at all helpful advice for people who have yet to make attributable business impact through their work: Code Newbies and Junior Devs. Sometimes, even as a Senior Dev, you are still trying to market yourself to fellow Devs. These two situations call for a different kind of marketing that is underexamined: Marketing your Coding Skills. To do this other kind of marketing, you basically have to understand the psyche of your target audience: Developers. What are they looking for? There are explicit requirements (those bullet points that companies list on job descriptions) and implicit requirements (subconscious biases and unnamed requirements). You can make it very complicated if you want to, but I think at the core Developers generally care about one thing: that you Do Cool Stuff. Some have an expansive definition of Coding Skills - even if you've done something totally unrelated, they'll easily assume you can pick up what you need later. Others need something closer to home - that you've Done Cool Stuff in a related tech stack. If you're marketing yourself for employment, then the Risk Averse will also want to know that you have also Covered Your Bases - That, alongside the upside potential of hiring you because you've Done Cool Stuff, the downside risk of you being a bad hire is minimized. Do you know Git? Can you solve FizzBuzz? Is your code an unreadable, undocumented mess? This is covered if you have shepherded a nontrivial project from start to finish, and have people you can ask for references. If instead you're just marketing your projects and ideas, then downside matters less - it's easy to walk away. The definition of Cool really depends on your taste, but people's interests are broadly predictable in aggregate. If you look at tech sections of popular aggregator sites like Reddit and sort by, say, most upvoted posts in the past Year, you can see patterns in what is popular. In fact, I've done exactly that for /r/reactjs! Even if your project is less visual, and more abstract, you still need to explain to the average programmer why your project is Cool - it solves a common/difficult problem, or it uses a new technology, or it has desirable performance metrics. The best Cool Stuff will be stuff you have been paid money for and put in production, and that people can go check out live. If you don't have that yet, you can always Clone Well Known Apps (automatically Cool) - or win a Hackathon (check out Major League Hacking) - or Build Your Own X from Scratch, another popular developer genre. Portfolios vs Proof of Work Usually the advice is to assemble your Cool Stuff in a Portfolio. Portfolios do 2 good things and 2 bad things: Portfolios display your work easily and spells out the quick takeaways per piece - You control your narrative! Portfolios help you diversify your appeal - if one project doesn't spark interest, the next one might! In this sense it is most like a Stock Portfolio - you're diversifying risk rather than adding upside. Portfolios look skimpy without quantity - meaning you can feel forced to Go Wide instead of Go Deep, Quantity over Quality. Portfolios overly bias toward flashy demos (which doesn't really help if you're not trying to focus on Frontend Dev/Design) You can and should buy designs if design isn't a skill you're trying to market - it gives your projects an instant facelift which is generally worth multiples of the

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Top Gun: 10 Hilarious Memes Only True Fans Understand – Screen Rant

Top Gun is one of those classic ’80s films that is renowned for its endlessly quotable one-liners, high-octane action, and cheesy soundtrack by the master of the movie theme song, Kenny Loggins. It features beautiful people doing impossible stunts, promising melodrama and thrills that it delivers at Mach 10. Watching Top Gun makes you feel like you just got a thumbs up from Maverick himself.

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While it’s been accused of being one long military recruitment ad, there’s a certain sentimentality and charm floating in its tangerine sunsets. The franchise about elite pilots gunning for the distinction of ‘Top Gun” isn’t in the “danger zone” either, it’s going to continue in 2020 with a follow-up film for a new era. Here are 10 memes that true Top Gun fans will find hilarious.

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10 ODDS OF MAVERICK BUZZING THE CONTROL TOWER

When it comes to Maverick, one of the most reliable things about him is his unpredictability. What makes him a flight risk also makes him a hero. Often times if it weren’t for Maverick’s ability to think outside the box and fly in the danger zoneonce in a while, situations would be more than just inverted.

You’d think Maverick’s antics would result in some fatal accidents, but he was cleared of any direct involvement in Goose’s death. His recklessness in Top Gun appeared when he was bucking authority or trying to prove he belonged in an elite class of pilots.

9 I FEEL THE NEED FOR SPEED

If there was one character from another highly successful franchise that evoked the same hot-shot mentality as the naval aviators in Top Gun, it’s Poe Dameron from Episode VII: The Force Awakens. From his carefree bravado to his constant clashes with authority figures, he’s the sci-fi version of Maverick.

Unfortunately, Poe’s need for speed caused the Resistance to lose almost their entire bomber fleet just to take out one of the First Order’s Dreadnoughts, which caused Poe’s immediate demotion. Like Maverick, he wouldn’t have made Top Gun either.

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8 BECAUSE I WAS INVERTED

It turns out that George Washington and Maverick have a lot in common. Washington wasn’t afraid to trust his gut and take a risk simply because the path to victory was dangerous. He wasn’t going to be deterred by things like frigid temperatures, ice rifts, or the threat of British troops firing from across the river bank when it came to organizing the Delaware crossing.

7 TOP GUN WAS SO UNREALISTIC

Tom Cruise has been a leading man in Hollywood for decades, but like Robert Downey Jr. or Alan Ladd, he doesn’t exactly have the leading man height. It’s an aspect of his career that’s fueled many a meme before, and a particularly memorable episode of Family Guy involving a Tom Cruise the size of Stewie.

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6 NOT EVERYONE GETS TO BE TOP GUN

Top Gun is one of the most elite schools with some of the most elite pilot training programs in the entire world. The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program doesn’t have the same ring to it, but don’t let the colloquial name fool you.

Only select naval flight officers and naval aviators get selected to attend Top Gun, and after they go through a rigorous series of tests and simulations involving strike tactics and techniques, they’re released to become instructors. Not even Maverick was awarded “Top Gun”, but he did stick around to teach.

RELATED: Original Top Gun Editor Returning For Sequel

5 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ICE MAN

We’ve all heard by now the names of the actors returning for Top Gun 2, and while everyone knew Tom Cruise was reprising his role as Maverick, it was less certain if Val Kilmer would return as Ice Man. He’d had a string of health issues in the last decade that implied even if he did return, he’d look extremely different than the image he used to cut in a pair of dress whites.

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4 WHO IS THIS MOVIE ABOUT AGAIN?

It might be hard to remember after being blinded so many times by Tom Cruise’s megawatt smile and mirror shades, but the movie is called Top Gun and he didn’t win it. His storyline was the focus of the film, and the distinction of being “Top Gun” was his objective, but that honor went to Ice Man.

3 WILSON!

Few people may realize that the actor that plays Wilson, Tom Hank’s only companion in Cast Away when he’s stranded on the island, actually got his big break back in the ’80s. Catch him in the beach volleyball scene in Top Gun being passed around by Maverick, Ice Man, Goose and the rest of the gang.

Known for his stamina performing physical stunts and a consistently upbeat attitude, no one’s ever heard him complain about his treatment even when he’s getting hit in the face by the biggest names in Hollywood. He’s just happy to be on camera and get his moment in the sun.

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2 IT’S TOO CLOSE FOR MISSILES

Anyone that’s watched Top Gun or been to flight school will get this reference immediately, but the subtext beneath may fly over fans’ heads. It makes perfect sense if you grasp the fact that in recent years, the film has been lampooned for its gratuitous scenes involving young, half-naked men in locker rooms and on the beach.

Top Gun is now remembered for two things; it’s extremely pro-military agenda and its blatant homoeroticism. Filmmakers can’t exactly deny that it wasn’t a giant recruitment ad for the military, but the other implication seems to be something they’d prefer died with Goose.

1 TOP BUN

If you talk to anyone in the military, there was already a lot of non-regulation haircuts and styles going on in Top Gun. Yes, most of the actors’ hair was appropriately short (it had to be off the color), but it definitely wasn’t the typical flat top high and tight enforced by most branches of the armed forces.

These days, all sorts of interesting adjustments have been made for enlisted service members, from beards being allowed if they’re part of your religion, to certain headscarves, and even longer hair on women. But Maverick with a man bun? Definitely not.

NEXT: Top Gun: 10 Questions We’ve Waited Over 30 Years For A Sequel To Answer

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whimsically-ominously-auspice · 5 years

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Sometimes my brother stays in the house all night. And annoys my kid.

But after tonight i see why.

He had to register his hands as militant weapons. He said militant. lol.

He was in karate all through elementary minus some years and some high school.

He knocked me out with two fingers once then started crying cause he thought I was dead. My mom didn't care. She told him good job.

My little brother paralyzed my arm once by jabbing it. That shit hurt. It was temporary but my arm was sore for days.

So obviously neither are afraid. They have skills,i always believed out powered my own.

I woke my brother up to open a jar but he couldn't either so soon after he went to his home. He said for some,reason no one was outside.

He knows Jesse i know he does cause we used to work the same gas station. Jesse and Stewie are the same but I call him stewie after the Family Guy baby cause he always tries to kill his mom.

He went to ministry school for college and has all kinds of degrees in philosophy and church and all that.

Anyways stewie got a job with my brother at nights and my brother got him fired.

I got him banned but our boss was a bitch thinking about her pussy.

Anyways. So he gets those feels when,there is dumb asses thinking they got a brain.

Me and my kid do too but its different. We don't live by them.

Usually she comes out for a little while with me but she said tonihht she had a feeling she djdnt want,to.

But I know at home,she gets them. Because one of us will sleep,at different times and one of us is always awake.

Thats whn i knpw some type monster you wish only lived under beds has been outside,

I dont say anything. But I think we both know.

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I went out again, this time with the light off and smoked. 4th cigar later and my sinus feel great!!

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I could hear joints pop. Starchy grass being stepped on. And a chain.

I could feel a vehicle's presence. One with people in it.

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I heard the truck start drive slowly up,the north mesa. I could hear for so long i knew they were stopped.

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Random dogs had barked. First in the yard then one 3 acres away. Then in the yard again.

I listened to how many birds chirped and how.

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I knew someone was there when i moved my foot there was another sound... When you concentrate on doing something and you focus on it... I didn't hear the sound until i had already focused to move..its a random thing but always valid. If i move my foot someone else is moving theirs.

Its a constant.

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I said shhh to the dogs. I whispered a loud hey that echoed to the weakling that couldn't stand still on the other side of the fence.

No one appropriately responded.

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I heard the there's a mother fucker there bark.

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So i went in and as soon as I did that coward ass took off running to his waiting truck.

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I unfortunately can feel people's emotions. So i felt him being terrified. I also felt his chest heaving after running when i went in.

I feel his backward heart hurt the last two nights.

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#fbi he wants to kill me but he doesn't know how. Hes wanted to for 20 years after he believed jesse James killed my kids. That's why other people call him Jesse. Ive admitted to be fuddled about certsin things and barely have a glimpse of things. He had me,take an abundance of pills once to over dose. Right after the babies were murdered by their grandpa.

And hes tried to kill me and Annie multiple times.

The only person he has a right to kill is himself or anyone that is trying to kill him -- except when he decided to kill them first. Like me. Because I will kill him.

But if someone like wanted to mug him and had a gun then its okay to defend yourself as best as you can. The goal being to get them away from you and disarmed if possible. But not always death is the answer dependin on who it is.

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And since he collaborates with Denise, she focuses him on killing me. So he has a right to kill her to shut her up. Becsuse this is an extreme 20 plus year issue. Its not an issue for every one. Its not always the answer.

But in this case it is.

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Stewart often has someone drop him off where i am,then he walks where I can see him. Then he has them pick him up.

Lately I've honked at him and given him the bird. Just so he knows i see him and i still hate him and i will kill him.

Denise was driving today so i couldn't but i yelled my hate at him,anyways.

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Weird was when i got,to the gas station there was a black girl in the back seat of a red SUV with huge eyes like she was a victim of human trafficking. But I always see cops there. And all the Windows were down. IDK why people look like that. Last,time they were worrief about my tire. Windows were down some,dude was outside smoking. She could had screamed. She seemed to be the only one there,

Just a random thing.

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I was really worried about him going through the,gate. Because they wantef me to sit where I was safe and could see through the fence. But i was super close to the gate and i could hear him within the outer fence. Theres like 4 fences and shit... So he was within the half yard where I was but outside of,the porch fence.

So trespassing. New Mexico law is i can fight back with an equal or lesser weapon. Since he uses needles... And I'm handicapped. I can use a broom, chair, table. Pretty much anything i want but a gun. I could use a knife cause they're close to needles. He uses insulin so a big butcher knife.. Since I'm diabetic ... Insulin won't bother me much but he does use extremely high doses which would cause me to pass out. So then i would be able to equalize that with a stun gun which i have, pepper spray which i have. And blood loss from a butcher knife will cause him to pass out.

Now here I'm not suppose to equalize his crime and kidnap him.

But since I know he wants to kill me, has kidnapped me, etc....

They asked me what i would say if he ends up missing.

I don't care. That was my answer. I don't fucking care. Ive been complaining about him for years.

He tried to kill me and my daughter Annie. Hes constantly harassing us. He follows us. There's records.

If i go through the trouble of disposing him. Dude. They already fucking know where he is. They fucking watch me. They can push rewind on the dam satellite,

So seriously. I go through the trouble of disposing him myself or with my family don't fucking say shit but thank you snd pay me a reward.

Call me,crazy but im fucking telling you. So PREVENT IT.

Or don't bother arresting me or asking where is currently 50 extra pound ass is.

Lets not play dumb, here. Get someone smarter than you if you don't understand, #FBI

Self defense. Hes a threat and has been. Hrs fucking crazier than me,

We all know i can go sociopath, psychopath, serial killer. I can do them all all day any day.

Yes he is crazier than me because he can't go sane.

And despite me sounding crazy. I am actually sane.

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So. He is terrified of me. He asked me about a year ago to let him help me load my groceries on the black tread at the store. He was shaking like a leaf. I was PISSED because he came up behind me and squeezed next to me,to,get in front of me.

They're all he doesn't have his black bag!!!!! He wears a fanny pack to carry his insulin.

THATS WHAT I DONT GET.

hes scared yet he wants to kill me????

What the Hell. Stay away from me.

Then he will sit where he knows i should be able to see him and he eats candy and smiles all big showing his teeth like he just ate out some ones ass..

Telling me hes gonna have to have his needles out soon.

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But they tell me he doesnt have his bag.

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He will and has tucked them under his dick on his nut sack. And pulled it out in front of me and my child.

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I will fucking kill him before he can get his stupid hands in his pants,

I do not fucking care.

Hes lucky i don't have a gun. Because h3 would already be dead.

That's why i don't have a gun.

I almost got one a few years ago.....

But i don't want to go to jail. So if he is close enough for me,to,touch on private property not belonging to him.

Hes a dead man.

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Anyways so i was concerned for him to go thru the gate because I wasn't feeling the kill rage. So i felt like i wasn't ready so i was weary.

And i kept on although everything else was telling me,he wasn't but to my right,

So my left ear started buzzing like crazy and i was all fucking shut up i can't hear..

But duh. I didn't need to listen at the gate.

So god was there talking to me. Telling me he was there and ready to help me as i need.

To help me as i need.

Once i got the understanding then the buzzing quit.

And I knew to focus my ears to my right.

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I wasn't alone and,had a lot of support and understanding from a legend. She was really awesome in being curious and understanding. It was pretty awesome. She has a clear and strong voice. I bet she will be a guardian angel one day and i know she will be awesome at it. I was starting to wonder if she was dead because she was so good.

She's not but yeah i was like whoa. I could trust her. Its unusual.

Just because she was awesome doesn't mean she's near death, its just an Earth skill.

I trust the dead most because they can go anywhere even under water.

And i felt i could trust her just as much as a spirit sent from Heaven.

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I can hear stewart again.

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