Follow them. Listen to them. Serve and support them as they have served and supported us. We need them in ways we have not yet understood.
2) Your first step is to go, right now, and follow @SandhillsKen right here at Twitter. Ken is a LtCol Ret. Army, right Ken? He led his warriors on the field as Special Operations commands. I can’t get him to tell me any more than that. I’ve tried.
3) @SandhillsKen does both lead a local movement and has an outstanding website. When you go there, and I’ll give you some screenshots below, you want to subscribe and donate. Here’s his site:
3) @SandhillsKen and I have been friends since 2016. I’ll tell you our story, soon. But believe it or not, I only subscribed to his site this morning. Here’s the proof!
4) Why should you care? Because you’re going to love their goals, and you’ll see they stand and deliver on them. Here’s goal #1:
5) In coming days, we’ll discuss these goals, deeply. Right now, consider how bold, stunning really, goal #1 is. The hypothetical, counter-factual visions it gives me are breathtaking. Imagine FDR had kept faith with our Japanese citizens. That’s just one.
6) Goal 2 is nothing short of taking the powers of our government away from evil actors in our land. The thought makes me gasp. No kidding.
6) Goal 3 is possibly the most important for pivot. If we get this right, we’ll win our nation and its destiny back.
7) The 4th goal is the one we’ll discuss the most. It is here that @SandhillsKen and I are most mightily bonded.
8) And as you’ll see, we’re already moving forward powerfully with Goal #5.
9) I am honored to close out our introduction with a simple appeal for your monetary help. We won’t let you down. Any amount you donate will move these missions forward, powerfully. No amount is too small to matter. Thank you!
The brilliant tweet below, by my friend @FloridaBoyMedia, solved a YUGE problem for me. Why did @realDonaldTrump support @kevinomccarthy for speaker? Until the tweet below, I could not square that circle. Now I can.
2) The simple fact is that McCArthy is a natural enemy of Trump's, and of the #MAGA Movement, exactly as Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are. All of us sycophantic Trump supporters wanted him to be a temporary Speaker, himself. Alas.
3) Thing is, if we know nothing else about Trump, we know he does business with his enemies. Think of Kim Jong Un. No missile tests during Trump's administration. And how many since Let's Go Brandon? It ain't zero.
2) I was not in DC for the 6 January 2021 Rally. I wanted to go. Fiercely. It wounded my ego to NOT go. Allow me a martial arts term: Zanshin. It comes from the Samurai and means your sense of threat or danger. For the Samurai it was almost a mystical concept.
3) In Akira Kurosawa's great film The 7 Samurai (which was the basis of the Magnificent 7), there is a scene in which a Samurai being recruited and tested, refuses to walk past an open door, which was, in fact, hiding an attacker. He was the greatest recruit. That was Zanshin.
1/ I have now watched our podcast below. If you haven't seen it yet, find the time. It's worth it. I sure wish I could learn to make my eyes look at the camera instead of the person's face on screen. Alas.
2/ As to the coming thread, though, I walk away feeling some other ground needs to be covered. Try to stick tight if you can. Look at this list:
1) Doctrine 2) Strategy 3) Tactics 4) Execution
Why does it seem the other side has all four, but we only have the last two?
3/ I want you to try to answer that question for yourself, and my spoiler alert is for the next tweet, not this one. And by all means, please comment. Let me know what your thoughts are, please.
Can you say "getting into the weeds?" I don't imagine too many will care, but for some strange reason I've decided I want to know about the Rules Package. So, here's the best version of the current package I've yet found.
2) The PDF above is the one they call "The 55 Pages."
So, knowing I do not know this language, I decide to just start reading and here's a screenshot of the first thing I find.
3) Who knew? Who had any idea? the 118th Congress begins its own rules by adopting the rules from the 117th Congress. I'd never have imagined. Okay, a bit of searching - it does NOT pop right up - and, I found this:
General Flynn's voice is heard strong and clear. He pulls incredible audiences. His analysis and writings are very powerful as well. Here's his New Year's guidance!
2) We'll walk through his counsel in detail later in this thread (which may take a few days to complete). But let's cut straight to the chase. @elonmusk, can you give General Flynn his Twitter account back, please?
3) No, @elonmusk, there is not - to my knowledge - a major Twitter story behind the unhinged attacks that our government executed against General Flynn and his family. But, the simple fact of his purging from Twitter is, in its own right, an important story.
Analysis 4 - 31 December 2022 - Hammer & Scorecard
Do you follow @maryclairerose? If not, please do so right now! She will be our guide in today's work. She's one of our very best analyst/writers, period.
2) We'll dive into @maryclairerose's work in a moment. First, I have a bit of backstory to share. I met Marcy Claire in 2016. I'll never forget the call I got, shortly after we met, where Mary Claire explained the illegality of Obama's money drop to Iran. Who remembers that?
3) Mary Claire always combines brilliance with patriotic passion. Throw in far more than anyone's fair share of writing talent and you start to get the picture. As I recall it, none of her editors were willing to run with her scoop.