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Jun 4, 2024 1 tweets 2 min read Read on X
I am hoping there are still a few rational Democrats in existence, so I am writing this post in hopes reason will pull them back from the abyss they are about to throw the United States into.

The following statements are indisputable, verifiable facts:

1. The criminal prosecution of the leading Presidential candidate of the opposition party is a wholly unprecedented event that violates all American political norms.

2. In recorded world history, literally every time a nation’s ruling political party acts against prevailing political norms and imprisons or kills the leadership of its major political opponent, the history books record such action as tyrannical despotism. Think about it, just as examples—Ancient Greece and Socrates; Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar; the French Reign of Terror; Russia, Lenin and the Romanovs; Stalin and his purges; every other Soviet premier and the Gulag; Nazi Germany (enough said); the British Raj and Gandhi; Mao’s Cultural Revolution; Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel and the Warsaw Pact versions of Poland and the Czech Republic; South Africa and Nelson Mandela; Vladimir Putin and everyone who ever opposes him; the list goes on and on and on. History records EVERY SINGLE EXAMPLE of this phenomenon as the embodiment of abject evil and tyranny.

3. When tyrants imprison their opponents, they always justify the action as being necessary and lawful. Always. Without exception. Additionally, when that happens, there are MILLIONS of citizens who believe in good faith that their leaders' actions are justified. Average Germans in 1933, average Russians in 1917 and average Chinese in 1970 all GENUINELY BELIEVED that they were the good guys and the actions of their leaders were entirely justified.

These are facts.

Indisputable.

Undeniable.

Here’s another set of facts: in the USA in 2024, the ruling party is seeking to imprison the leader of the opposition party, acting against historical political norms; the leadership doing this believes its actions are necessary and lawful; and average American Democrats believe fervently that the actions of their leaders are entirely justified. The parallels to historic tyranny are powerful, precise and alarming.

Democrats, please consider these facts. I implore you to reconsider your actions. You are not the good guys. Instead, you are the average German of 1933 or the average Chinese citizen of 1970. I warn you now:

History is about to mark you as yet another despicable entry in the pantheon of evil tyranny.

Step back from the abyss. There is still time.

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Dec 24, 2025
RE: Trump Battleships

Everybody on Mil X is giving their opinions on the new Trump battleships (“BBGs”), so I guess I should join in.

Although I love reading about the history of naval warfare, I am admittedly far less knowledgeable on the subject in the modern day than my USN/USMC/CG/MM brethren. My area of expertise lies in land warfare and logistics, but I have a passable knowledge of naval warfare and overall national strategy, so I will add my 2c.

John Konrad has a great breakdown as to why the BBG will fill important roles. I’ll link to his post on that one below. I had been concerned that the BBG was a bad idea in terms of putting all of our eggs in one sinkable basket, but he convinced me that the BBG has a vital role to play based on certain immutable facts of geography, such as sea lane choke points.

My focus instead for this post is on how all the usual suspects in the Democrat/Media Complex are decrying this as a Trump vanity project. Their arguments trace back to WWII where the battleship saw its preeminence vanish in the face of carrier-based aircraft. These detractors point out that in a peer-to-peer fight with a nation like China, the BBGs would be as vulnerable and useless as the gigantic Japanese battleships that the US Navy sent to the bottom in WWII before they could ever even join the fight.

I believe this is a wrongful application of military history.

As John Konrad points out, the BBG provides a unique capability that is especially useful in modern naval warfare against non-peer adversaries, and represents a deterrent against piracy-like operations that are more related to the Barbary Pirates than Guadalcanal.

Further, I doubt we would ever deploy a BBG in any environment where the USA did not possess air supremacy. Moreover, the air defense capabilities of modern naval warships eclipse WWII capabilities by several orders of magnitude, even with respect to aerial and sea-based drones. Finally, the survivability features of modern warships are greatly better than those WWII vessels that so many see as the exemplar of battleships. This is not going to be the USS New Jersey or the IJN Yamato—these will be modern designs with survivability capabilities far in excess of historic equivalents. For these reasons, I consider the WWII analogies to be invalid.

In practical application, the BBG would be an arsenal ship that can stay on station for extended periods of time without replenishment, securing vital choke points such as the entry points to the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf.

Additionally, as an Army guy I appreciate the ability of a BBG to conduct sustained, uninterrupted fire support to land operations in a way that even a carrier air wing cannot. (Does this mean the Army gets the same ANGLICO support it once enjoyed? Will ANGLICO stop focusing on CAS and now restore the emphasis on indirect fires?) Most of America’s land battles are in the littoral, not just for Marines but for the Army as well. IMO its has been a failure of US naval doctrine to limit the role of naval gunfire in support of land operations. The BBG will fix that shortcoming.

Next, as a matter of strategy and not tactics, consider the “Great White Fleet.” If you are not familiar with that fleet, it was a fleet of battleships and cruisers that Teddy Roosevelt sent sailing around the world in the early 20th Century that signaled the emerging naval preeminence and national power of the USA. Roosevelt saw this not as a tactical imperative, but as a strategic one, signaling “Don’t mess with the USA.” The power of that message is incalculable, as it serves as a deterrent that means those ships never need fire a shot in anger. I believe Donald Trump views the BBG in the same light, and he is right, IMO.

Consider the famous image of the USS New Jersey floating off the coast of Lebanon back in the ‘80s (below). Something about a gigantic, invulnerable, firepower-laden warship floating off one’s coast tends to have a dramatic strategic effect on bad actors and other adversaries. Trump intends to replicate that capability, which, CVNs notwithstanding, America’s naval forces have lacked for a very long time.

Finally, consider the bolster this will provide to America’s strategic industrial base. Countries like China and South Korea long ago eclipsed the USA in terms of shipbuilding capacity. The days of the USA turning out a Liberty ship in four days are long past. We have much catching up to do if we are going to ever try to go toe-to-toe with China in an extended conflict. The BBG will provide a great learning experience for our shipbuilding industry, it will help us grow that capability, and it will provide lessons learned and capabilities that can be applied to a great variety of other US warships and support vessels. This reason alone may justify the construction of BBGs.

The great challenge to the BBG will not be its employment. Its greatest challenge will be to get it built in the first place. For decades the USA has invested billions of dollars in the design and prototype production of weapons systems that are never actually fielded. For the BBG to succeed, we must see it through to full scale production. Which means electing MAGA Republicans to Congress and JD Vance as President, because without that follow-through from a supporting Congress and Presidency, the BBG will never sail.

So basically we have yet another reason to vote MAGA in 2026 and 2028.

Here’s to the battleship—Merry Christmas.

(I’ll explain some of the acronyms in follow-on posts below.)Image
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Dec 21, 2025
🔥MRS. DR. PUBLIUS ALERT (A 🧵, 1 OF 7)🔥

I hate to witness this ridiculous in-fighting amongst conservatives like Tucker and Vivek! Get focused and stay focused on our primary goal to save the Republic and preserve the country for future generations.

America has evolved through tumultuous and prosperous times in her relatively short history of 250 years which we will celebrate next year. What all of us who love this great country must remember is - it is because there were people in the 1600s who left Europe looking to establish a new way of life, the slaves who were tragically brought here in chains robbed of their human dignity during the times of slavery, the native Americans who lost their lands as more settlers arrived and migrated west and the immigrants in the 19th century from all over the world seeking freedom - all of these necessary facts, the good and the bad played a monumental part in the evolution of our great land- America. This remarkable evolution now showcases to the world like no other nation - it is a way of life for everyone, a set of values not an ethnicity or particular race, or class status that makes Americans who we are. Imagine a canvas as each stroke of the brush representing historical events blending together to create this masterpiece -America. What a great vision, a vision that must sustain us. So stop the damn bickering! It isn’t very American-and we have our very existence on the line because the next election the Dems win - they are coming for all of who believe in and cherish their American birthright - to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Your race and ethnicity doesn’t determine the veracity of your American heritage - in my opinion, the question is - what did you specifically do to make our country great? I have my list .

What’s on yours?
2/7

Unfortunately, however, the reality is there are some horrific truths about our history and how different groups of people were hated for their ethnicity or race. We all know this.

We all know it wasn’t until after a slow but steady process of civil rights advocacy through the courts, elections, civil disobedience, etc that the Constitutional Rights of every American was codified into US law and thus, the real and hopefully enduring American birthright was born. Now, we know we face a looming problem - do we as a nation mandate its citizens are REAL citizens? The answer is YES!

Are we willing to fight for our way of life? Are we willing to turn back to God as a nation, so He can heal our land? We need to jettison the toxic cultural trash in our culture since post WWII - Wokeism, Radical feminism, Feminization of our culture, the attempt to eradicate masculinity, anti-Christian hate, Anti-semitism, the list goes on.
3/7

What will this revised America look like? Simple, every American respects every other American’s birthright as well as you own because that makes you American. It isn’t hard but it requires self-awareness. Many Americans refuse to embrace responsibility, decency, fortitude and many other values that makes you a model citizen. The Dems spent the last four years pitting different groups against each other. This tribalism nonsense will destroy America because the achilles heel to our preservation as a nation is we all must cooperate and abide by our laws to exist together -respect each others rights. As a nation, we all need groups different than ourselves but who espouse their ardent belief in our cultural way of life and values to survive.
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Nov 26, 2025
RE: The Sedition 6 and History

I’ve been doing my best the last few days to frame the Sedition 6 in terms of US and world history, so I thought I would consolidate links to those posts in a single post for folks who may not have seen them.

History is hugely important in this context, as people need to understand certain precedents that illustrate the following points:

1. What the Sedition 6 have done is unprecedented since the Civil War.

2. Historic U.S. military success in some cases may never have happened had the Sedition 6 had a say at the time.

3. The exercise of lethal force we are seeing again the invading drug boats is both legal and consistent with past US actions by some of our greatest Presidents, and is consistent with the Monroe Doctrine.

4. The act of undermining a nation’s military through perfidious information ops is a classic behavior of fascists and communists.

History speaks, and should be our guide.

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@JohnGalt_who_is suggested I do this in thread format instead. Good suggestion. Here goes: 🧵
Read 8 tweets
Oct 16, 2025
RE: Pentagon Access Kerfuffle & Media Lies

Please take the time to read this lengthy post, it’s important.

There is SO MUCH lying and distortion on this matter, we need to cut through the garbage.

So I’m here for it.

Go ahead and Google this phrase (you'll see it everywhere in sooooo many legacy media reports):

“. . . information must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released, even if it is unclassified."

Google it with quotes around it so you get that EXACT phrase. See how much it shows up, VERBATIM, with those EXACT WORDS in that EXACT ORDER in so, so, so many media reports?

Go look for yourself. I’ll wait.

______________________

Welcome back.

Now.

This quote strongly suggests that what the Pentagon is saying is that the media cannot publish an article without Pentagon prior approval. If this were true, that would, in fact, be an egregious example of prior restraint and a grotesque First Amendment violation.

But…

See…

That VERBATIM quote is NOT TRUE. Here is the actual quote:

“. . . information must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released by any military member, DoW civilian employee or contract employee, even if it is unclassified.”

(I’ll link to the source document in my post immediately below, because the algorithm hates links.)

Notice the words that are DIFFERENT in the actual quote. (I bolded and italicized them.)

The lying media—the ones mewling about First Amendment violations—PURPOSELY LEFT OUT THOSE KEY WORDS.

Liars, liars, pants on fire.

Let me explain the difference:

1. In the media’s distorted, untrue quote, the language suggests that any news story requires pre-approval by the DoW. If this were true, it would be a clear First Amendment violation.

But it’s not true.

2. The ACTUAL quote merely says that people who work in the Department of War are not allowed to provide important defense-related information to the media without the appropriate national security approval party in the DoW authorizing that DoW employee to share such information first.

THIS IS NOT A FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATION. THIS IS NOT PRIOR RESTRAINT. The press is still allowed to write whatever it wants. The limitation is on DoW employees, military and civilian, and NO ONE ELSE.

THERE ARE NO LIMITS ON THE PRESS IN THIS MATTER, and the press is purposely and deliberately lying to you about this issue—lying by omission.

Please spread the word. Otherwise well-meaning people are being snookered by this propagandistic sleight of hand these evil journotards are foisting on them.😡😡😡😡
Source link, bottom of page 3:

rcfp.org/wp-content/upl…
Sidenote:

I talk ALL THE TIME about doing your own news research based on PRIMARY SOURCES.

This is a perfect example of how that works.

I kept seeing that bogus quote over and over and over, and it puzzled me why none of those reports bothered to link to the primary source.

So I went looking for the primary source. It was kind of hard to find on Google.

And guess what? What the media reported and what the primary source says are not the same thing.

Disgusting.

Always look for the primary source, never trust anyone quoting from it.
Read 8 tweets
Sep 27, 2025
A thread. 🧵

So a follower pointed out to me that the modern Democrat agenda is quite literally an embodiment of the Catholic doctrine of the Seven Deadly Sins.

What an insight! (I’ll credit the follower below as new posts with X @ names embedded tend to get suppressed.)

The Seven Deadly Sins are:

1. Pride.
2. Greed.
3. Lust.
4. Envy.
5. Gluttony.
6. Wrath.
7. Sloth.

This thread will use images to make the comparisons.
🧵First of all, credit where credit is due:

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PRIDE Image
Read 10 tweets
Sep 9, 2025
Now they we have renamed the Department of Defense to the Department of War, hence making the name accurate, I’m thinking we could also rename the remaining 11 federal departments to more accurately reflect their current missions:

1. Department of Agriculture—> Department of Genetically Modified Foods.

2. Department of Education—> Department of Indoctrination.

3. Department of Health and Human Services—> Department of Publicly-Traded Pharmaceutical Companies.

4. Department of Homeland Security—> The Stasi.

5. Department of Housing and Urban Development—> Department of Free Rundown Government Housing.

6. Department of the Interior—> Department of Critters and Oil & Gas Leases.

7. Department of Labor—> Department of Marxism.

8. Department of State—> Department of Acquiescence to Our Enemies.

9. Department of Transportation—> Department of Derailed Trains and Potholed Highways.

10. Department of Treasury—> Department of Theft.

11. Department of Veterans Affairs—> Department of Sorry, That Is Not Service-Connected.

Yes, I know President Trump and his team are doing a great job changing all this, but at the moment these departments are still infested with unelected, unaccountable Deep State Bureaucrats. A little truth in advertising can’t hurt.
Oops.

Forgot

12. Department of Justice—> Department of Lawfare.
Missed another.

13. Department of Commerce—> Department of Appeasing Lobbyists.
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