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Sep 14, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Awful. Horrendous. Vile.

As we don’t yet know the shooter’s motivation, I’ll wait to make a larger point until the facts come out. Like we should do - and neglect to do - in every viral video that others have used to justify riots.
But...(thread),
But THIS must be addressed NOW.

A city leader says a 31-year-old mother deserved this, witnesses celebrate shooting cops, & “protestors” wish them death.

An ACAB climate has been built on a lie, fostered by radicals, and tolerated by ppl who only hope to never be called racist. ImageImageImage
The lie told and retold creating this climate is that black men are being “hunted down” by cops and killed “just for being black.”

It’s repeated by stars, athletes & the media until it’s accepted as true.

But it’s statistically, provably, false. It’s a lie creating the climate.
The lie is weaponized by a radical group: BLM.

Black Lives Matter has a Marxist platform, a driving ideology in critical race theory, violent historical origins, & revolutionary goals.

All good people believe black lives matter, but it’s on you to know abt Black Lives Matter.
The lie is then tolerated, believed, and repeated, by naive people who want to get through their day without being called a racist, who may even hope to call a few other people racist online during lunch break, and sit down at the end of the day feeling enlightened and superior.
These naive people are not only helping create an ACAB climate that leads to violence...they are doing untold damage to young black men who believe the lie they are being hunted.

And let me be clear, for these naive people, it’s not about helping anyone...it’s about them.
Most ppl believe black lives matter, want a more equal country, & would like to end racism.

But do you think that anyone who rejects the lie, sees BLM, and doesn’t yell “racist” at everything, is just...racist?

Do you really believe it’s simple as you’re good & they’re bad?
It’s past time to look around, see the climate, see the cost, understand BLM, live virtuously, not signal virtuously, live up to - not tear down - America’s values, and tell the truth.

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Sep 23, 2023
Truly one of the coolest things I’ve ever had the privilege of being a part of, Task Force Lahaina. Please watch:
Last month @PeteHegseth reached out to me and said the @LasVegasSands wanted to connect about Maui. They ended up offering their private planes, usually reserved for high stakes gamblers, to help the people of Maui. (Nicest planes I’ve ever seen. 747, two stories, bedrooms, beautiful, top quality.) I didn’t know what to do with that at first.
But then another @foxandfriends relationship stepped in. Former Green Beret Scott Mann who founded Operation Pineapple Express to get Americans out of Afghanistan, had helped create Task Force Lahaina to meet the needs of Maui and asked me to join. Now we had a place to figure out what to do with the incredible offer from Sands.
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On the missing and the dead. Anecdotally everyone I have spoken to that was in Lahaina August 8th or has since done work in Lahaina has said the number of dead will be much higher. In the range of 500-1000. But…
I know they are not looking for “bodies”. They are looking for DNA. Not to be too gruesome but: a piece of bone, a finger, any trace, which can be found be the dogs.

But if the number is 500-1,000 dead, it is very hard for me to reconcile the relatively low number of people screaming out for the missing.
This observation has been seconded by almost all the people I know in West Maui. For the most part their friends and family are safe. To be clear they know of friends of friends who are missing. Or half a dozen members of a congregation. They definitely know people who died. But…it doesn’t quite add up to what would seem 500-1,000. Lahaina only had 13,000 residents.
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“There are too many people that have jobs in Maui because they are related or connected.”

In taking inventory of preparedness and response…part of accountability will lie at the feet of patronage.

Etan Krupnick’s family had a home on Aki Street for over 100 years. Seven generations of memories were lost in the fires of Lahaina. “I thought I was related to everyone in Lahaina because the house was a gathering place for the community. There were funerals in my grandmas house.” The house was a multi-generational safe haven.
That day Etan, who is an electrician and farmer, was at the house in Aki. When the black smoke rose, meaning buildings were burning, he sent his wife and son and mother away, escaping Lahaina. He and his uncle tried for a bit to hose down the house before realizing they too had to flee. “You could feel the heat, like an oven.” He evacuated six people from the house and through smoke and traffic and chaos they, like so many others, took backroads and u-turns and around police barricades to escape Lahaina.
I’ve met a lot of people in West Maui and Etan has rare wisdom on the need for progress while retaining tradition and culture. That wisdom is going to be necessary in assessing accountability and redeveloping Lahaina. And continuing to challenge my belief in fate…it turns out Etan is cousins with @bethanyshondark and @SethAMandel! Crazy world.
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I’m in West Maui. Service is rough. Hard to post. But we’re putting together stories of incredible citizens stepping up where the government has failed. And at Napili Plaza someone from the Mayor Richard Bissen’s office tries to shut me down saying West Maui is a media free zone. No sir, this is America.
Right now I am nowhere near search and rescue. I’m twelve miles from Lahaina. How is the entire West Side a media free zone? Is it no longer America? Constitution has been suspended?
Everyone here is confused. Mixed messages. Just like those that led to no sirens during the fire. Is the water good or bad? How do you get in or out of West Maui? Chaos and confusion. I’ll tell you this, citizens are happy we are here. They have stories. And they are unhappy with leadership.
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Mexico’s cartels are POISONING Americans.

Fentanyl isn’t an overdose issue. The gall of Mexico’s President saying “not our problem.”
Mexico is not free. It’s a corrupt narco state, which means this guy, is complicit in poisoning Americans with fentanyl. And he stand here saying…”your fault”.
You don’t understand fentanyl. This isn’t an OVERDOSE issue. It’s POISONING.
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Dear lord this is possibly the dumbest column ever written. The author @mikefreemanNFL either has no ability to marshal reason and logic or believes that you, the reader, are impossibly dumb.

Thread me 🧵 Image
Let’s start with this. The claim is that it’s now a conspiracy NOT to believe an evidence free claim. Image
It’s not only a conspiracy to wonder why a stadium full of cameras, mics, and cell phones wouldn’t pick up repeated use of the n-word…

It’s a conspiracy to notice that none of the thousands of students - including fellow black athletes - didn’t hear the crime.

This is SPECIAL!
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