I’m not sure. I don’t remember exactly. Was it 33,000, 32,000, or just north of 31,000 followers I once had here at Twitter? Right now, I’m at 18,145…ish… Why ish? Twitter plays censorship games.
2) Out of you 18,000 followers, the numbers indicate that there are some 1,800 prospects for my services as a coach. Of those, 180 are serious prospects, and 18 are clients. That is, clients in the waiting. Please understand, I don't have the ability to accept 18 new clients.
3) Why should you care? I publish patriotic analysis. I serve our nation thereby. I do not ask for and would never accept financial contributions for my work. Rather, I am a PROUD Self-Funder! I am NOT a PAYtriot. We have to talk about that.
4) Personally, I have NO problem with those who do make their living by way of their patriotism. I am a pure capitalist, and I have no problem with how anyone makes their living, as long as it is legal. Drug dealers, I have a problem with. Any legal endeavor, no problem.
5) My own path is that of a salesman. I am a coach, a consultant if you will. I sell my services. I was trained classically, as a salesman, back in the 1980's. In every way, I am a salesman first, a consultant second. Both historically and tactically.
6) What does a salesmen do? What does an honorable salesman do? He aids in the process of helping others make excellent decisions, be they yes or be they no. Salesmen are decision helpers. It is a helping profession. It is NOT a manipulative profession.
7) Okay, I'm wrong. Most of today's salesmen are, in fact, manipulators. Do you got robocalls about your car's warranty? That is the current state of salesmanship. And I apologize. But it is NOT the correct mode of our profession.
8) I found the proper metaphor many years ago. During the Civil War there were these men called Heroic Surgeons. Their mission was to remove wounded limbs rapidly. They used saws. They were wonderful humans, with power in their arms and torsos, dedicated to saving lives.
9) What they did not know, could not know, was that infection killed more than wounds did, and non-antiseptic surgery killed as many men as it saved if not more. Infection kills. They did NOT yet have the science of infection, or antiseptics. They were wonderful men no less.
10) A salesman's job is to build an excellent decision. Most salesmen do NOT know that there is just such a science. Can you see the tie? As surgeons did not know there was an antiseptic mode of surgery, salesmen do not know there is an ethical mode of selling.
11) Lo and behold. Goal setting is the key. We have known forever that any salesman requires 9 no's in order to expect 1 yes. Setting goals over these 10 prospects is the answer. And I have published the theory and practice at LinkedIn. Join me there.
13) Please reach out to me there. Send me a LinkedIn invite. I will of course accept every single one. Let's talk about that.
14) Social media is, absolutely, the product of our American Founding Fathers. They created a nation built upon the principles of both democracies and republics. Let's define those two, right now.
15) A democracy is the opposite of a monarchy or dictatorship. It is where the people determine their ruler, their rulers, by majoritarian votes. No family or clan controls the nation. No kings. Democracy destroys kings.
16) What don't democracies do? Deliberate. They are not "Deliberative Bodies." The best men deliberate. It is our challenge as a REPUBLIC to choose the best men to do our deliberation for us. To be a republic is to have the best men, as chosen, represent us in making our laws.
17) And what about the rest of us? We voters? We who do NOT deliberate, but rather choose those who do? We are self-supporting. We pay our own way. We are capitalists. Be we farmers or coaches, we are capitalists. It is free-market capitalism that creates our freedom.
18) Marxism. It is an anti-Americanism. Marxism denies us our freedoms. It calls for our "goods." It is good that noone faces a painful retirement. So, we must tax everyone in order to prevent anyone from facing pain in old age.
19) What is missing are #ActionableGoals. Our Jeffersonian Farmers had actionable goals. Our revolutionary nation, that based its revenue upon tariffs not taxes, had actionable goals.
20) These are my LinkedIn posts from this morning. Here's number 1:
23) Who knew? Certainly NOT me! Goals are everything. When you set your goals, you write your name on history. Your goals define who you are. What I've provided at LinkedIn is the right way to set your goals.
24) I'm not special. I just show up to do my work. My grandfather came here from Italy, from Calabria. He was special. He worked for 41 years in the Santa Fe railroad yards in Chicago. He torn down engines and built them back up again. That was work.
25) If you reach out to me - I happily accept DMs - I will help you set actionable goals. That is what I do. That is how I support myself and my family. I'm very good at what I do. Give me a test. DM me.
Thread ends at #25.
I’d love to help you build goals that transform your life as I have for 34 years in my practice of serving others. You need spend NO dollars to join us a Telegram and we’ll help you just the same!
Friendships evolve. As they grow, new depths are attained. I speak very specifically of @HelpStopHate 's David Sumrall. David is my friend. Our friendship has grown and deepened over some several years now.
2) The image you see above is from Claude Shannon's 1948 paper on the mathematical theory of communication. Go figure! I was reading Shannon's book again this morning, and work that David and I are doing came into mind.
3) Many years ago, I developed a method of study. I just call it "How to be a truly excellent student." Or, Excellent Studies. What hit me this morning is that it's all about communication. We have to turn to another source, Warren Weaver. He gives us the following definition.
The always amazing and informative @JackPosobiec posted this image for us. It couldn't be more important. Let's discuss it thoughtfully.
2) We'll start with a quick bit of background. For the full story, we'd have to go back to Nixon, Kissinger, and Carter. But for our purposes, the story can commence with Bush 41, and include Clinton and Bush 43. The key is the WTO.
3) Tiananmen Square was a moment. Bush 41 could have led the world to condemn it, and scorn China's evil CCP. Instead, he granted them the right to oppress their people. He rejected Democracy's principles of freedom when it came to China. The shame echoes on to this day.
So there I was, yesterday, having a wonderful conversation with a brilliant soul. Our topic was grief and grieving, as a pet is aging and will soon pass away. My question was: do you feel you've ever experienced true grief?
2) I could NOT have been more shocked than to hear the response. It came it two parts.
1) I have philosophy, it helps. It gives me comfort.
2) There is no such thing as ownership. I never owned my pet, as one never actually owns anything.
3) I so profoundly wish I were a wiser man. The philosophical error here was, for my great friend, far less important than his emotional distress. A wiser man than me would have known that and left the philosophy behind. The heart rules. Not the brain or mind.
Few things have quite so crystal clear a beginning. This does. The study of Natural Law for any American patriot begins in the very first paragraph of our Declaration of Independence.
2) Here is the key phrase: "the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them." We'll discuss "the separate and equal station" first. Then, Natural Law will be our true target.
3) As always, honor to my teacher is my delightful task. @shestokas is my greatest teacher of American history, of our founding, of the legal basis of our nation's destiny. You must buy his book:
What are your purse strings? Your purse is your coin, hanging from your belt by strings. Having such a purse, you're rich. Therefore, you wear a woolen wig. Wigs made out of wool are a thing.
2) When we hoodwink you, we pull down your wig and cut your purse strings at the same time. We pull the wool down over your eyes. We trick you. We steal from you. We make you blind for the moment at take your coin from you. It's fun and profitable. Thieving is fun.
3) The word "heist" is a slight mispronunciation of the word "hoist." It means to lift. We hoist up the sails. We lift them up. We take the wealth of a bank or a train car with cash in it. We hoist it. It is a heist. Very similar to cutting your purse strings, yes?
UPDATE: I've taken a screenshot of Lin Wood's response to the story that broke yesterday and you can see that below. I will also provide the quote in full in coming tweets right now. He made these comments at his Telegram channel, here: t.me/linwoodspeakst…
"The Detroit “Free” Press is a Mockingbird propaganda rag owned by Gannett. Talk about Communist propaganda!
3) "Here is an example from this fictional article published today that shows you how objective, factual reporting does not exist at Gannett newspapers: