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Chelsea Manning Tweets Suicide Note and Picture of Herself on Ledge of a Tall Building
2018-05-29
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Chelsea Manning
...formerly Bradley Manning before he decided to become a girl. He, or she or whatever it was, was a misfit Army intel analyst who decided to leak all the secrets he could lay hands on. Sentenced to 35 years in Leavenworth, he was sprung on an Obamapardon in 2017....
tweeted a suicide note and a picture of herself standing on the edge of a tall building on Sunday night.
Jump! Jump!
Manning, a Democratic Senatorial candidate, posted what appeared to be a suicide note on Twitter around 8:30 PM on Sunday.

Chelsea tweeted, "I’m sorry ‐ I tried ‐ I’m sorry I let you all down ‐ I’m not really cut out for this world ‐ I tried adapting to this world out here but I failed you ‐ I couldn’t do this anymore ‐ I can take people I don’t know hating me but not my own friends ‐ I tried and I’m sorry about my failure"
Posted by:Fred

#23  Chelsea Manning, Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Clinton...enough already!
Posted by: Sgt.D.T.   2018-05-29 22:33  

#22  Actually, I feel a little badly for Him. Her. It. This douchebag.

Okay, maybe not that badly. But hey. A little badly.

Suicide hurts a lot of people. Other than the deader.
Posted by: Blackbeard Bumble5724   2018-05-29 22:02  

#21  I get my info from fake news.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606   2018-05-29 18:48  

#20  
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2018-05-29 18:47  

#19  #18 - Errrrr....no. Deployed to Iraq
Posted by: Frank G   2018-05-29 18:08  

#18  The Taliban returned him to us. Another reason I hate the Taliban!
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606   2018-05-29 16:59  

#17  Sad our society has branded as hatred any attempts to actually help the trans community work through the underlying problems. Just accept and blame society for the high suicide rates among the trans community.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-05-29 14:38  

#16  Chelsea, don't JUMP, don't JUMP!!!
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-05-29 14:36  

#15  A talented writer named Jerzy Kosinsky had an interesting story about the struggles trannies face in a very weird book titled "Blind Date."

Unrelated to the subject of this comment, Kosinsky's novel "Being There," which was adapted to film, uncannily predicted the presidency of Barack Obama.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2018-05-29 13:38  

#14  Please what ever you are? MISTER, MISSES. Take some acid then go on a TRIP? FLY like a aah, BIRD? But please do something like STFU an or JUST LEAVE the USA? UMMK?? wut ever it/you be??
Posted by: ranture   2018-05-29 12:11  

#13  "I took (cut off) my toys and I went home".
It does alter your voice, but it does not give
you a platform. There is a difference.
Posted by: Beau   2018-05-29 09:42  

#12  All because you straight guys won't date

Or because the lesbians won’t date him. Isn’t that [the reupholstered] Bruce Jenner’s complaint?
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-05-29 09:33  

#11  All because you straight guys won't date (and have sex with) him --er-- her --er-- it.
RACCIIISSSTTT!!!!!
(/SARC)
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-05-29 09:26  

#10  BRADlee! You're such a tease!
Posted by: Mercutio   2018-05-29 09:05  

#9  if you can't say anything nice.....(crickets)
Posted by: Omomoth Spolumble6223   2018-05-29 09:04  

#8  "Herself" - you're A MAN. Poor excuse for one, but you'll NEVER be a woman
Posted by: Frank G   2018-05-29 08:50  

#7  Opportunity missed. Heeey look at me!
Posted by: KBK   2018-05-29 08:49  

#6  suicidal thoughts and actions are a serious problem in the trans community

As I recall, there is no significant difference between the rates of anxiety, depression, and attempted/completed suicide among those in the trans community who have gone through the surgery and hormones and those who remain comoletely as nature made them. And, as Dr. Paul McHugh of Johns Hopkins Medical School wrote a few years ago, after having studied the issue for forty years,

Ten to fifteen years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to twenty times that of comparable peers.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-05-29 08:40  

#5  "I double dog dare you"
Posted by: ed in texas   2018-05-29 08:25  

#4  Is this Gary Numan's comeback album or something?
Posted by: Raj   2018-05-29 07:58  

#3  Michelle Carter to the white courtesy phone, please, Michelle Carter...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-05-29 07:27  

#2  Manning, a Democratic Senatorial candidate,

Aaahh, a match made in he...., no hel...... well somewhere.

A perfect fit for Silentbrick's letter.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-05-29 07:02  

#1  ...Although it's not a 'always-happens', suicidal thoughts and actions are a serious problem in the trans community...because it's a hell of a shock to discover that you've gone through all that, only to find that it didn't make your life perfect, and in fact just made it more difficult.

And ol' Chelsea wasn't the most stable little thing to begin with.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2018-05-29 05:17  

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