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I opened my NYTimes app today. They’re trying, but they can’t keep up. News that broke just hours ago is already off the homepage.

THIS IS CRUCIAL

The entire liberal deep state command and control system is broken. Let me explain 🧵
The NYTimes’ primary function isn’t journalism. It’s narrative coordination—setting the frame so the entire political-media machine knows how to think about an issue before it takes off.

Ever notice how, overnight, everyone starts saying “Biden is sharp as a tack” or “JD Vance is weird”?

It’s not random. It’s a system.
The Narrative Pipeline: How The Blob Operates

The NYTimes, NPR, WaPo, CNN, and the rest don’t just react to news. They function as a distributed, decentralized mission command system for the Democratic Party and the broader Blob.
Step 1: Local Bureau Chiefs – These guys are stationed across the country, watching which stories gain traction and fielding calls from Dem operatives feeding them narratives.

Stories that they need to start controlling
Step 2: New York Editors – Bureau chiefs snip the news and send it to NY, where an editor triages it:
•Will this explode nationwide?
•Will it simmer for days?
•Or should we bury it?
Step 3: Editorial Meeting – The most concerning stories get flagged. Here, editors decide on the narrative framing and who to assign to write it.
But before they assign a journalist, they make one critical call—to the Deep State.

Why? To give the government a head start on controlling the story.

At this point, the Deep State doesn’t just say, “Here’s what happened.”
They strategically select sources based on the tone they want.

•If they need hawkish China rhetoric, they have a “China hardliner” expert on speed dial.
•If they want to downplay a Chinese spy scandal, they go to a “dovish” China expert who will say it’s being blown out of proportion.
•If it’s a military scandal, they pick a “trustworthy” retired general to subtly steer the discussion toward a desired conclusion.

This isn’t journalism—it’s perception warfare.
Once the tone is set, the editor assigns the story and suggests the approved sources to call.

The journalist’s job is simple:
•Get quotes from the right experts.
•Write it up.
•Stick to the approved angles

If something goes wrong with the angle (e.g. a source exposes it as a lie) they return to the editor for “guidance”
Occasionally, a journalist oversteps. If it’s minor, it passes. If it’s major, the editor kills the piece, buries it on page 16, or reassigns it to a more trusted writer to “correct” the framing.

Overstep too many times and your reassigned to local news or gently (it’s not your fault, we LOVE your spark, just downsizing) let go

Do a really good job sticking to the approved script you’ll get awards or book deals and travel assignments

Nobody flatly says “this award isn’t for toeing the party line” because that would expose the scam

No, these journalist are smart. They either pick up on the reward incentives or they are gently pushed aside.
Suddenly, every news outlet, late-night host, and blue check is reinforcing the same message.

And because they aren’t technically taking orders, they think it’s their own independent analysis.

This is why the narrative feels so unified. No one’s forcing compliance—it’s a system that rewards alignment.
Now each individual pundit and blog is allowed to post independently but they all know unconsciously to work the narrative because that’s where the rewards are.

If someone breaks the narrative in a bug way intentionally there are three options:

1) smear campaign to make them toxic
2) ban them from the system (wikipedia blacklist, social media throttle, no DC party invites, no pentagon press pass, etc)
3) turn them into a double agent who claims to buck the narrative but subtly shifts things left (@bariweiss is the ultimate genius at this)
Not all stories emerge organically. Sometimes, the Deep State calls first.
•A senior editor gets a call:
•“Everyone in DC is talking about how weird JD Vance is.”
•The next morning, at the editorial meeting, that becomes:
•“People are saying JD Vance is weird. Let’s get some stories on that.”
•Then every editor repeats it to their reporters:
•“Did you hear JD Vance is weird? Let’s explore that.”
Suddenly, every news outlet, late-night host, and blue check is reinforcing the same message.

And because they aren’t technically taking orders, they think it’s their own independent analysis.

This is why the narrative feels so unified. No one’s forcing compliance—it’s a system that rewards alignment.
The deep state tries its best to play a soft hand.

They let things emerge around the narrative and only step in if the narrative is evolving in a bad way or new information disturbs the narrative
So where does this organic command and control system come from?

Well, the military, of course
Why This Matters: The Mission Command Model

This decentralized coordination mirrors how the best militaries operate—through a doctrine called Mission Command.
A bad general micromanages:
•“Move three platoons and six tanks around this road and attack the base.”

A good general gives flexibility:
•“Take this logistics base by X time. Figure out the best way.”

A great general sets intent:
•“We need to cripple their supply lines. Here’s what we know about their logistics.”

The best commanders set objectives, not orders—then let their officers adapt on the ground.
This is exactly how the NYTimes and the Blob operate.

They don’t give direct orders to every outlet. They set the intent—how the political-media machine should think about an issue.

Then, think tanks, columnists, TV hosts, and activists execute their own variations of the message.
Why Republicans Keep Losing the Narrative War

Republicans don’t have this.
•No clear commander’s intent.
•No unified messaging framework.
•No ecosystem where think tanks, media, and party strategists move in the same direction.

Instead, it’s chaotic, reactive, and uncoordinated.
Meanwhile, Democrats operate like a well-oiled Mission Command system—not because of a single top-down controller, but because every key player understands their role in pushing the message.

And until Republicans build a competing system, they’ll always be playing defense.
BUT TRUMP HAS BROKEN THE DEMS MISSION COMMAND SYSTEM

The famed fighter pilot John Boyd (who literally wrote the manual for top gun)

Came up with the OODA LOOP

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OODA is a process for making better calculated decisions faster

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I can’t go into all the details on how the food system works, if you can throw a LOT of information at an enemy

Information of all kinds, including false information

They start to get overloaded

This is what is called THE FOG OF WAR
Now military have been doing fake attacks and fake information and maneuvering around objectives for centuries but what Boyd found is you can’t just overload the enemy system because your troops will also get overloaded with information
What you have to do is MOVE and adapt l.

Thrown out a ton of information then let your officers change frequently

In the field an officer might bypass the logistics base and go for the train rail but then misinformation causes the enemy to abandon the base so the officer will turn around and destroy it

In a fighter jet you might fly straight so the enemy things you have a problem then when he’s on your tail most people would push the throttle… Boyd said it might be better to drop the flops as a break to make the enemy fly right past you

Be unpredictable !
Boyd called this “maneuver warfare” because you’re always maneuvering around the enemy

If you can not only throw out more information, but move a lot faster then your enemy and change tactics on the fly you will “get inside the enemy’s ooda loop” and win easily
This is exactly what TRUMP is doing

The sheer number of stories is absolutely overloading the New York Times app

New York Times editors do not have time to coordinate with the deep state and coax the process

Trump is completely overloading the information distribution system
And he’s not just overloaded the system but he’s moving FAST and adapting tactics

Instance in Panama, he was demanding the canal, but then when he went down, there took a quick win with giving Navy ship’s free transit and kicking China

Then he’s onto Canadian tariffs before the New York Times editors can figure out what the hell happened in Panama

And well before they can develop a narrative for Panama
Boyd didn’t just teach us how to defeat the enemy—he taught us how to recognize when you’re already winning.

The easiest way to tell? The enemy starts making really dumb moves.

They waste ammo shooting into empty forests, convinced you’re still there—when you actually left two days ago. They fly in a senior general to bark orders, trying to reassert control over a situation already spiraling out of their hands.

Sound familiar?

That’s exactly what the Democrats are doing right now. Chuck Schumer is firing off a constant stream of bombastic orders, desperate to override events he can’t control. The media is fixated on asinine distractions—like the price of eggs—while the real war is being fought elsewhere.

When the enemy is losing, they can’t see the forest for the trees.

Take the aid collapse—a massive exposure of corruption. Instead of grasping the real problem, Democrats have tunnel vision, obsessing over physical access to the building rather than the deeper rot it’s exposing.

And when they’re really losing? They go after the general.

Boyd taught us that when an enemy is out of options, they target the figurehead, hoping to break morale. That’s exactly what’s happening with Elon.

But a great general knows the game. Patton famously commanded a full fake army during D-Day, letting the enemy fixate on him while lower-level officers did the real work.

And that’s where we are now. The Democrats are flailing, distracted, and losing control. Meanwhile, the real fight is happening far below their line of sight.
In short the sheer number of stories on the NYTimes app right now, no deep clear narrative, tunnel focus on things that don’t matter, and bombastic attempts by generals like Schumer and AOC…. Whole point to one irrefutable fact.

TRUMP IS LITERALLY RUNNING CIRCLES AROUND THEM
Did Boyd teach us how to defeat masterful maneuver warfare like the kind Trump is executing now?

YES. But…

1️⃣ Maneuver warfare is insanely hard to stop. In any scenario, it’s designed to keep the enemy off balance.

2️⃣ What looks chaotic is actually a well-planned assault. Trump isn’t just making one move at a time—he’s prepped multiple maneuvers for every possible response. If Democrats attack a specific front, he simply drops one plan and picks up another—fully baked, ready to go.

He’s had years to refine this. The Democrats? They’re starting from scratch.

3️⃣ Maneuver warfare isn’t just about the “four-stars” (Elon, JD, Hegseth) or even the “three-stars” (Cabinet Secretaries). The real game is won by the one-stars and two-stars—the undersecretaries, chiefs of staff, and frontline commanders.

And Democrats? They haven’t even begun to focus on the actual battlefield command center—guys like @michaelgwaltz, a literal Green Beret who spent two decades mastering maneuver warfare.

4️⃣ I’m not about to explain how they can win in a Twitter thread.

If Democrats want a shot, they’ll have to start reading John Boyd themselves.

JK OUT
Wow!

A RT from Elon—honored, sir! 🫡 Now, let’s crush MSM. How?

BONUS 1/4 - Independent Media John Boyd Style Image
Bonus 2/4

I learned the NYTimes tricks because I run the small narrowly focused independent maritime news site @gCaptain

Boyd taught us that small, distributed, and specialized units dominate maneuver warfare. Independent news in general is excellent. People like @charliekirk11, @JackPosobiec & @ShawnRyan762 are crucial, but their scope is wide.

We also need specialists who think independently from editors.

We want independent journalists who own their niche. My own publication gCaptain focuses only on shipping & naval ops. @mercoglianos does the same on Youtube.

Drilling down you have @MikeSchuler focused just on ships while people like @cdrsalamander focus just on navies. Or even more specialized @maphumanintent on tariffs and trade.

Big outlets can do this too—@BreitbartNews is solidly right with editorial commander’s intent BUT their military editor, @kristina_wong, is sharp, independent, and excellent at her craft.

Support the specialists. That’s how we win.
Bonus 3/4:

@MikeBenzCyber is the perfect case study in why specialization wins. His focus? Internet censorship—not humanitarian aid. Yet he was the one who exposed USAID corruption because it intersected with his niche. That revelation triggered a chain reaction, pushing other independent journalists to dig deeper.

The New York Times has leaned liberal my entire life, but it was still a great news organization—until it abandoned specialists for generalists in the early 2000s.

In my field—shipping—they used to have dedicated dock reporters who lived and breathed maritime news. Now? Nothing. And it shows.

The BIG difference between specialist and generalist journalists? Sources.

Specialists build deep, trusted networks. Generalists rely on the same recycled “blob” sources and editorial databases—so they never break real news.

Look at me. I’m a ship captain. @gCaptain doesn’t write about media or politics. But watching the NYT bungle maritime stories for years—especially their terrible naval shipbuilding coverage—led me to investigate their process… and eventually write this thread.
Bonus 4/4 - The Blob’s War on Independent Media

But there is a big problem with specialized media: the Blob can’t control it. It also can’t outright delete it. So what does it do? Throttle.

For conservative news specialists, that means smear campaigns. Look at @JackPosobiec—accused of being a Russian agent. This man is a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Ridiculous. But once you’re on a blacklist, Google and others use it to throttle search results.

But what about conservative specialists without a news platform? They’re harder to attack—so the New York Times just buries them in allegations. Look at @MikeBenzCyber. NYT writes hit pieces, and because their articles dominate Google snippets. Social media sites pull in these snippets snd throttle him

And it’s not just conservatives who get nailed. The Blob throttles anyone it can’t control. @gCaptain is bipartisan—we have more liberal journalists than conservatives like me—yet Wikipedia straight-up deleted my personal page for being “irrelevant” and blacklisted gCaptain for “spamming” (we added facts to Wikipedia maritime articles).

Why does this matter? Because Google can’t keep its own public blacklist (or they’d get sued). But they can use Wikipedia’s blacklist to:
•Throttle our search rankings
•Deny our journalists Twitter Blue checks
•Kill our Facebook reach

gCaptain built 250,000 Facebook subs—then Meta stopped distributing our articles after Wikipedia blacklisted us.

And we’re just one example.

The Blob hates independent media because it can’t control us. It wants newsrooms run by Blob-approved editorial teams. If you have them, you get boosted by academia, think tanks, and Google’s algorithm.

If you don’t? You get blacklisted. Or graylisted. And you get throttled into irrelevance.
Finally—thank goodness for X!

Elon literally saved deep-niche independent journalism by nuking the blue checkmark scam.

Before? We couldn’t get verified by Twitter because Wikipedia blacklisted us. Now? X cut the umbilical cord to the deep state, and independent voices are finally breaking through.

THIS is why X is now packed with incredible threads from top-tier deep niche experts—everyone from esoteric specialists like @gas_biz guy to once-throttled national security journalists like @LeeSmithDC. Heck, you can even get direct insights on the Deep State from former Trump NSC directors like @EzraACohen & @JoshuaSteinman.

Bottom line: You wouldn’t be reading this thread without X.

Thank you, @elonmusk!
@gCaptain @MikeBenzCyber UPDATE: Looks like the NYT called in their top hitman, @ezraklein, to rush out a video countering this narrative.

Right on cue. 🤦‍♂️👇
@supertrucker It’s also the same reason my line can take a hiatus from his businesses for six months to focus on politics

He has great teams all his companies, and only has to check in and provide command intent when something goes off the rails

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Dec 27
First, yes—this post is anti-American, Pyotr. Second, it’s wrong.

The argument that Europe should unite to compete with the United States and undermine the dollar’s reserve-currency status fails for two basic reasons:

First: that’s exactly why the EU and the euro were created—and they failed to achieve that goal.
Second: the United States built enormous political, economic, and security leverage into the post-WWII system—and we haven’t even begun to fully pull those levers.

I backpacked through Europe in the late ’90s. Pro-American sentiment was real and widespread. But what many people miss is why.

A lot of that “pro-America” feeling was actually anti-EU. Ordinary Europeans understood, intuitively, that the EU wouldn’t work. American culture appealed because it offered an alternative to claustrophobic national systems and an emerging EU globalist blob.

Then reality intervened.

The EU and euro turned out to be both disastrous and convenient. Currency exchanges and border checks were a pain; the EU solved that. That convenience made it popular on a personal level.

But the downsides—work-visa chaos, rigid monetary policy, endless bureaucracy, repeated fiscal crises, and job displacement—were real. They just faded into the background. Functionally, Europeans went from a two-layer government system to a three-layer one.

After WWII, there was serious discussion about folding everything under an American umbrella.

Europe didn’t want that.
France clung to national pride.
The UK wanted to retain remnants of its empire.
And the U.S. didn’t want the hassle of direct control.

But Europe was also too weak to stand on its own.

So we built institutions and systems—NATO, free trade, freedom of navigation, the dollar reserve system—as an umbrella over weak nations.

The EU was supposed to replace that umbrella. But it was designed as direct competition to the U.S. system, which is why we resisted it quietly. And the same national pride that kept Europe from accepting American control also prevented the EU from replacing national governments.

The truth is: the U.S. should have fought harder against the EU. But we didn’t—because as long as Europe didn’t start another war, we didn’t really care.

The EU was sold as “the United States of Europe”—states replaced by nations. That analogy was always nonsense.

The single overriding priority for Americans and the U.S. elite has been simple: no more European wars. Full stop.

We had zero interest in micromanaging Europe’s economy or governance. So we tolerated the EU and the euro—even knowing they’d fail—because they helped our primary objective: stability.

If we’d believed the EU would actually succeed as a true rival system, we would have stopped it. We didn’t, because it never replaced the checks, balances, overrides, and leverage we built after WWII.

It didn’t replace the U.S. political, economic, or security umbrella. It just added another bureaucratic layer beneath it.

Then three things happened:
1.People’s daily lives improved due to easy travel.
2.The EU became a fiscal, security, migration, and bureaucratic nightmare—especially for operating inside a U.S.-led system.
3.The U.S. began quietly pulling the hidden levers.

And then came the Iraq War.

People think Iraq was George W. Bush’s personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein. It wasn’t.

It was a vendetta against Europe.

Conflicts happen constantly around the world. We don’t build coalitions for most of them. We did for Kuwait because Europe—especially the UK—asked us to.

Remember: George H.W. Bush was UN ambassador and CIA director before becoming president. And what did he do in office? He invaded Panama.

Then, in 2016, the Panama Papers exposed what had been happening all along: European elites were undermining the U.S.-led world order with dark money, political favors, and back-channel finance.

That’s the part this argument conveniently ignores. 1/3
HW Bush wanted to strengthen the American world order

He didn’t want to do this to strengthen his grip on Europe… he wanted to do it because the world order worked: it brought peace and prosperity to billions.

His plan to strengthen that was called 1000 points of light but to accomplish it he first had to regain control of a the grift and dark money he found while he was CIA.

Hence panama.

But Europe (especially the UK) was building that dark network as their own leverage against America…. And they were doing it right in our backyard… not just in Panama but CIA shell companies registered in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas… and even Canada

So they got us in a war to distract us from Panama and to take down HW Bush.

Why did he agree to it? IDK. But he did.

And the war was a success to everyone except him and his 1000 points of light.

Europe, with the help of the dark money, backed Clinton and big business (which wanted to retain global dominance) backed Ross Perot. And the vote was split and Clinton won.

Not just because of the money but also because European media pushed the narrative that Bush was there just to control the oil (which makes no sense but that’s another rabbit hole)

And in exchange for winning Clinton made a deal:

Throttle back on the dark money networks and make it legitimate with the Euro/EU

And he made a special consession to the brits: NAFTA will give you free access to the USA via the commonwealth of canada

Now nobody in America really like the EU and there was a lot of pushback against NAFTA but Clinton gave them top cover
So now W Bush comes in and starts pushing back on all these things Clinton approved.

It’s going well until 9/11 happens. Bush activates Article 5 and it’s extremely popular in Europe.

American flags are waving everywhere and pro-American sentiment hits a high pitch.

European leaders know Bush is dangerous and could reinstate his dad’s 1000 points of light.

Something must be done.

So they played the same trick on us again.

UK intelligence produced the September 2002 Iraq Dossier which claimed Iraq could deploy chemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes.

Then they got the media to back another war in Iraq. People today forget but go good “New York Times apology Iraqi” and you will see that media was pushing us into war.

Why did W agree to invade? Again, IDK, maybe they have something on the Bush family.

Then, once we invaded, they created the same fake narrative: the Bushes are just in it for the oil.

Bush fell for the first part of the scam but he was prepared for the second and when they propped up World Economic Forum superstar John Kerry, Bush solidly defeated him.

But Bush was unpopular and the EU was failing so they needed a new scam.

They helped Obama write a book and pushed it to go viral.

And the deal Obama made with the globalists? We will pump massive amounts of money into Europe to prop up your failed Euro via NGOs backed by USAID, NATO, UN and direct payments

And Obama, with the help of the uniparty in congress, opened the taps full wide.

But how would they hide this massive transfer of wealth? Keep the wars going and blame the rising national debt on “military spending”
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The new @USNavyCNO reading list is out—and #1 is about the US Merchant Marine pioneering containerization 🇺🇸🙌

Seapower. Logistics. American innovation.

Outstanding list, Admiral. Links in 🧵 Image
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One of my all time favorites!

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Dec 8
Everyone knows that so called “double tap” strikes on land are legal, Obama did it all the time, but CNN keeps inviting land lawyers on to say narco terrorists have special privileges at sea.

Let’s look at the admiralty law: 🧵
Source: International law studies @NavalWarCollege

“Rudderless and Adrift: States’
Unwarranted Timidity Respecting
Stateless Vessels
Andrew Norris”

digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewconten…
Ships without a recognized flag, “stateless vessels”, are the outlaws of the ocean. They don’t have a clear nationality, so no country claims responsibility for them.

International law already allows governments to stop, board, and enforce laws against these vessels.
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Dec 6
Why was the old pentagon press corps so bad?

Why are subject matter experts in the new press corps getting attacked?

David absolutely nails it. Must-watch.

What’s most troubling is this: 🧵
yes, @DavidSacks has conservative views, yes he’s outspoken but he’s also chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology.

Even the far-left in Silicon Valley doesn’t deny his technical credibility.

The fact he’s getting attacked should worry everyone.
I'm dealing with the same thing—millions of views on posts by @ggreenwald and @CAgovernor trying to bully a new Pentagon press reporter who focuses on niche topics. I'm one of a few hundred Americans who hold a Master Unlimited license to captain the largest ships. I've built some of the most technologically advanced ships on earth.Image
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I disagree completely — and that’s strange, because I think the reason Thomas Massie is getting flak is the same reason Mamdani won.

I’m a New Yorker. I’ve seen every layer of this city — the grit of the Bronx and the glass towers of Midtown, the preachers and the traders, the liberals and the cops. My wife and I logged more than ten years in New York’s colleges; I even attended the same ultra-progressive gifted high school as Lina Khan. At one point, debates couldn’t even happen unless I showed up — because without me, there was no one to take the conservative side.

I’ve lived among the poorest in the Bronx, where my mother worked as a nurse in the projects — and I’ve sailed with Manhattan’s elite.

My grandfather was a Methodist minister. My father, a devout Catholic. My godfather is Jewish. I worked for an all-Hindu company in India and an all-Muslim one in Boston. I’ve read every sacred text — not because I wanted to prove any of them right, but because I wanted to understand why so many people are willing to die for an idea.

And I learned early what ideas can cost.
My father died from Agent Orange when I was a kid — a casualty of both Communism and our own government’s incompetence. Since then, I’ve spent a lifetime studying how nations rise and rot. I’ve worked with people from every end of the spectrum — from one of the most liberal senators in America, Mark Kelly, to the Heritage 2025 team — all trying to rebuild the same sinking ship.

So enough about me. Let’s get to the heart of it. 1/4
The Real Divide Isn’t Left vs. Right — It’s Chaos vs. Order

Trump won in 2016 — and again in 2024 — for the same reason he lost in 2020.

It’s the same reason de Blasio failed where Bloomberg thrived.

The same reason Rudy Giuliani could command a city, and Mamdani could win one.

This isn’t about Epstein, or Israel, or inflation. It’s about order and following a systemic plan.

Giuliani tore corruption out of New York. Bloomberg tore sloth out of its bureaucracy.

Trump in 2016 promised to bring in the “best and brightest” to drain the swamp — but by 2020 those “best and brightest” had revealed themselves as the swamp itself.

Chaos killed him. He was fighting an internal battle and didn’t have a plan for the next four years.

Americans want a plan, preferably an extreme plan because we all know centrist plans won’t work today

Trump came back in 2024 not with slogans, but with Project 2025 (and several other great plans) — a blueprint to re-engineer the American machine. Ruthlessly. Without taking prisoners.

De Blasio and Biden failed not because of ideology — but because of entropy. No plan. No structure. Just drift.

Mamdani won because he has a plan — to dismantle capitalism and replace it with Communism.
And he’s backed by sharp minds like Lina Khan, who see not markets or morals, but systems. Systems to be broken and rebuilt. 2/4


The Dangerous Beauty of the Blueprint

I loathe Communism. I’ve read Marx, Lenin, Mao. I know the language, the promises, the poison. It is evil.
But it is also efficient — frighteningly efficient — at one thing: systematically destroying existing orders.

That’s the common ground between MAGA and Mamdani.
Both movements are fueled by disgust — with corruption, with waste, with the permanent class of parasites who run Washington and Wall Street alike.
Both sides want to burn the rot out of the system.

And here’s the uncomfortable truth: many on the Left quietly admired Trump’s first promise to “drain the swamp.” And many on the Right today secretly respect Mamdani’s willingness to wield a scalpel — or a hammer — where others use talking points.

Because deep down, we all know it: the system is broken.

And broken systems don’t reform — they collapse or get rebuilt.

MAGA offers a drastic rebuilding. Communism offers a total barn fire we can rebuild from. 3/4
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Sep 12
Yesterday, for the first time, I turned my back on a liberal neighbor and walked away. For Charlie.

I get asked daily by conservatives how I can possibly live in the most liberal town of the most liberal state.

Truth is, I’ve always been fascinated by how they think. I usually just laugh at the irrational takes.

But a single gunshot drained all curiosity and humor out of me.

He simply asked how I was. I said I was sad. He asked why.

“It’s 9/11. My dad was FDNY. And yesterday I lost a friend.”

His face softened. “I’m so sorry.”

I didn’t want to cry, so I backpedaled. “It’s ok, we weren’t close. Just spoke a few times but he felt like a good friend.”

“Who was it?” he asked.

“Charlie Kirk.”

Empathy turned to anger. Like I’d tricked him.

“Well, I don’t know him, and I don’t care what happens to him.”

“But he was my friend. I’m your friend. Isn’t that enough to care?”

He pivoted to politics. Gun violence. Assault weapon bans. “You people.”

I said it was a bolt-action rifle. He didn’t care. He said he didn’t care about Charlie.

Even though Charlie was a father? A friend? A believer?

“No,” he said. But his body language betrayed him. He did care.

Then: “I don’t want to talk politics.”

“I’m not,” I said. “I lost a friend. A friend with a wife and two beautiful daughters.”

Again: “I don’t care.”

So I turned and walked away.

He could have changed the subject, asked me about my Dad and 9/11 instead. But he was fixated on political drama not true empathy.

Some Republicans will say I should’ve stood my ground, yelled, fought back, told him off.

Some Democrat friends will say I should’ve leaned in harder with empathy and spent time getting him to understand my point of view.

But here’s the truth: I’m done.
Done debating. Done convincing. Done trying to “win” them over.

Charlie lived that. He spoke truth with compassion, even behind “enemy lines.” He never saw Democrats as the enemy. He saw Americans missing key pieces of the truth. He gave empathy and respect coupled with hard truths until his last dying breath.

He was a better man than me. Better than most of us.

And now he’s gone.

I’m not a great men Charlie, I’m a Captain in the U.S. Merchant Marine. We don’t talk, or seek glory & fame, don’t ask for thanks or forgiveness. We just move cargo. LOTS of cargo.

Our motto is simple: Acta Non Verba.

Actions, not words.

So why don’t I fight harder in my own neighborhood? Why do I let it go when a neighbors took down my flag on “no kings day”? Why do I remove the Trump magnet on my tesla when I get home.

Because the consequences are real. They don’t just punish me my kids will suffer for the sins of the father. But as the man said, he doesn’t care. That’s the line I won’t let them cross.

And because I do not have the courage of Charlie.

But gratitude for Charlie demands something more. Something bigger than my town which isn’t going to change. Debate is over. Tears are over. The time for action is here.

Not violence. Not riots. Not theatrics.

Political action.

Votes. Campaign cash. Pink slips across DC. Crowds of conservatives in every GOP office in congress demanding they stop doing TV appearances and start playing hardball.

Laws flipped at local, state & federal levels.

A dozen Scott Preslers in every California & Vermont farm town & every NYC church, rising Christians to vote out Sanders, Newsom, AOC & Mamdani.

An army of white hats exposing criminal NGOs, with Mike Benz, Data Republican, and a phalanx of lawyers volunteering for Will Chamberlain to get convictions.

Mass action against every Marxist policy.

We will not out-scream them. We will out-organize them. You can literally debate them until your last dying breath and nothing will change.

They don’t care and there is no way to change the mind of an apathetic man.

The time for debate is over.

We must speak softly and start carrying a big stick.

Acta non verba.

For Charlie.Image
tldr

They have the best theater kids. They have top Ivy league debaters. They have most MSM pundits.

What do we have in abundance?

Protestant Work Ethic

We can’t replace Charlie. But you can couple your individual talent with the work ethic of Charlie Kirk.
How can you start living Acta Non Verba?

1) Close X

2) List your best talents & skills

3) Match those with people (like @AndrewKsway & @ScottPresler) doing real boots on the ground (or really cyberwork like @DataRepublican) work

4) Go read A Message To Garcia: courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/pdf/hubb…
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