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@infantrydort
Jul 8 • 12 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
🧵 We Need A New Census

What keeps me up at night isn’t politics. It’s preventing American bloodshed. And I believe we’re getting dangerously close.

This post will be controversial. But if we care about preserving the fabric of our Republic, we need to act.👇 Image
1.
 The U.S. Constitution says we must count the “whole number of persons” every ten years for congressional representation.

But that word "persons" has a dark origin.

It wasn’t about fairness. It was about slavery.
2.
 The Framers chose “persons” over “citizens” because Southern states demanded to count their slaves. People who had no rights, no vote, and no freedom. All to inflate their power in Congress.

The infamous Three-Fifths Compromise was born.
3.
 Today, the exact same mechanism is being used for a different political goal:

To count millions of illegal immigrants (who aren’t citizens, can’t vote 'legally', and in many cases are exploited for cheap labor) so that some states can gain more power.

Sound familiar?
4.
 If you defend counting all “persons” today without any regard for citizenship, you are defending the same formula that empowered slave states in 1790:

Count people with no rights

Use them to gain seats in Congress

Never let them truly participate in the system.

It's wrong.
5.
 Some will say: “We can’t change the Constitution!”

Wrong, mostly.

The Supreme Court can reinterpret what “persons” means for apportionment, just like they’ve done for other outdated or unjust clauses.

And they should, because the system is rotting.
6.
 States like California and New York gain extra House seats and electoral votes by counting people who aren’t even supposed to be here.

Meanwhile, legal citizens in states like Ohio, Alabama, and Montana are underrepresented, even though they vote, pay taxes, and follow the law.

That’s not just unfair. It’s a violation of equal protection.
7.
 Here’s the hard truth:
If Americans stop believing elections are fair…
If their votes are diluted by non-citizens…
If they feel their voice no longer matters…

Eventually, some of them will turn to violence. Not because they want to. But because they believe they have no other option.

History tells us this very clearly.
8.
 We are already on a pendulum path:
One party wants no immigrants.
The other wants unlimited immigrants.
And stuck in the middle are normal Americans who just want to be left alone.

But if those Americans lose faith in the system, the middle won’t hold.
9.
 So what’s the solution?
🛑 We need a new census, before 2030.
🧮 One that counts only citizens for apportionment.
⚖️ One that restores equal representation.
🗽 One that honors the idea of government by and for the people, not people here illegally.
10.
 You don’t protect democracy by lying to yourself. You protect it by restoring trust, starting with math.

The current system is an ancient compromise that never belonged in a free country.

Let’s fix it now, before it leads to something we can’t take back.
11.
 What keeps me up at night is this experiment unraveling, violently. I am not a lawyer, and I submit this for review by people smarter than I.

When politics fail, guns prevail.

I swore an oath to make sure it never gets that far, if I can help it.

We MUST restore integrity

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Jun 28
Nah, you guys know what? I’m just gonna come out and say it. And when I’m done saying it, tell me if it’s “blatant Islamophobia” or just…. you know… reality.

Let me explain to you some of the things I witnessed with my very own eyes in multiple Muslim countries. This will not be for the weak or faint of heart.

1. They didn’t just massacre one another in Baghdad, they chopped each other up into little pieces and stuffed them in underground vats. SPC Plocica was the only one with a strong enough stomach to fish the pieces out with a coat hanger so we could confirm the report. Don’t worry @Primz94933160 was there too as a witness. Rib cages with rotted flesh, pieces of legs with shoes attached, arms, hands, you name it. It was the most disgusting thing I’ve seen with my two eyes.

2. The obsession with having sex with children or feminine men. The saying over there was women are for breeding and men are for fun. We had to protect our fairer looking male Soldiers from being molested CONSTANTLY. But that isn’t the worst part. I once stumbled upon an Afghan colonel r*ping his 11 year old assistant, I heard the unholy noises emanating from his tent on our FOB. When I moved to interdict I was stopped for fear of a Green on Blue incident. And then we were all “educated” on the fact that this was CULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE FOR THEM TO DO. It was as normal as breathing.

3. Women are less than nothing to them. I would always ask how many children elders had for small talk. They could have 10 kids. 7 daughters and 3 sons. What will they tell you? They have 3 sons. I watched a man carrying his dead daughter in his arms to my FOB. She died due to a malfunctioned bomb we dropped. That didn’t matter to him. He dropped her on the ground with a stone cold face and demanded we pay him. She was f*****g NOTHING to him. He left the body with us and walked away counting his money.

4. Some of them have sex with animals. Ask me if I saw a man from COP 763 in east Baghdad mount a donkey in the middle of the night through a RAID FLIR camera. Because the answer will be yes.

5. They did heinous things in battle. Suicide bombings. Using their own wives as human shields. Using children as shields. Shooting from mosques. Spitting at our working dogs… or worse.

This all sounds crazy right? And I bet my comment section will flow with similar horror stories. It almost sounds like I’m making it up huh? I wish I was. I really do.

I know good Muslims in America. One of them is among my closest friends. But he’s passed through the American filter…HEAVILY. I can safely say he is literally one of us.

My question for you is, how are you not “Islamophobic”? My assessment comes from 4 total years immersed in multiple Islamic nations.

I wish I could say I’m sorry that I’m an inconvenient truth teller against your agenda.

But I’m not sorry at all. You must open your eyes. You MUST see this is a problem. Don’t you? How can you not?
I’m barely interested in this “Zohran” person, that’s for NY to figure out. I do however take issue with being labeled “Islamophobic” lazily and without context.

And I just gave you the context. It is informed with experience.
How can you tell me what I’ve seen with my own eyes was just a fluke? GWOT isn’t an excuse. Most of my observations stem from watching them just…. living everyday life.
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May 28
You know what I find interesting?

During the GWOT surge, I had violent criminals in my formation I couldn’t get rid of. One failed five urinalyses with different substances. Took moving mountains to chapter him.

Fast forward to 2025: We have non-criminals begging to stay. Just asking for a clean record to keep serving.

And yet, I don’t know a single troop personally who’s been granted relief by @DoD_IG or BCMR.

Not one. Do you? I'm sure they exist, I just don't know any.

Am I just surrounded by an evil gang of undeserving service members? Possible. But not probable.

@DoD_USD_PR , listen: This position is untenable. And it will get worse. What happens when the suicide stories come out publicly? The ones where legitimately innocent people just....end it? Leaving behind families in the process.

Troops desperate to restore their honor, provide for their families, and they see no path forward except the business end of a rifle?

You already have the path to fix it. I’ve laid it out. Again, you didn't start this, but you can finish it.

But right now? The BCMR is trivializing the momentous, complicating the obvious, and torching warfighter trust in the process.
I'm really not trying to wear a tinfoil hat here. But if I didn't know any better, I'd think the BCMR is sabotaging the agenda of the Secretary of Defense.
You judge a system by what it does. And what does the BCMR and IG do besides say “no”?

Seriously, I want to know the answer to this, because it defies logic.
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May 4
⚔️We Used to Own the Last 100 Yards🧵

I recently dug into how we train our Infantry officers today. What I found shocked me.

Like many, my first instinct was to blame the schoolhouse. To point a finger at Fort Benning and the Infantry commandants of years past. My mind went to the Infantry Museum and its proud centerpiece, the exhibit that says we “Own the Last 100 Yards.”

But in that moment of frustration, I found myself wanting to change it. Maybe it should say:

“We once owned the last 100 yards.” Or: “We mostly own the last 100 yards under specific conditions.”

Because here's the truth: There is virtually no hand to hand training in the Infantry Basic Officer Leader Course today.

No bayonet assault course. No combatives. No night live fire. No platoon live fire. More classroom instruction. No grit building exercises. The very tools and mindset that once defined our close combat dominance are gone.

That hit me hard. Especially because I personally fought to bring the bayonet back in 2018. I saw what it did for morale, mindset, and confidence. And now, it's gone again. Quietly rescinded.

So yes, technically, we own the last 100 yards. As long as our weapons work. As long as they don’t jam. As long as we have ammo. But take any of that away? And what then?

Do you see the problem?

But then I paused, and looked deeper. I put myself in the shoes of the schoolhouse. I remembered something far bigger than any one policy or doctrine.
Manning. That’s the issue.

We’re not training warriors with no hand-to-hand because we don’t believe in it. We’re doing it because we don’t have the people to teach it. We are not manned to build the kind of Soldiers we say we want.
And that’s when everything clicked.

🧠 The Warrior Mindset: More Than Metrics

I’ve always believed that the warrior mindset is more important than any single task. You can teach tasks to someone who wants to win. You cannot teach grit to someone trained only to pass a slide deck evaluation.

The problem? Warrior spirit can’t be measured in classroom instruction.

But here’s what I argue now: Yes, you can measure it, just not immediately. You have to take the leap of faith first. Build the mindset first. Then measure outcomes:

Rifle qualification improves.
Stress shoot performance improves.
Confidence surges.
Retention rises.
Units begin to feel like units again.

We’ve forgotten that in today’s Army. In our obsession with clean metrics, we’ve lost our edge.

🪖 The Marine Corps Didn’t Forget. Take one look at the those grunts.

They still teach combatives.
They still train bayonets.
They still treat close combat as sacred.

And their Infantry Officer Course is by many accounts the finest in the world.

So what’s happening to the Army? My theory is simple:

We stopped believing in the fight. We started optimizing for safety, throughput, and bureaucratic convenience. We stopped investing in the human weapon, and started riding our best people into the ground, then wondering why quality slipped.

But this can be fixed. And it starts with manning from the @USArmy and equipping @TRADOC properly.

This post is designed to inform leaders who can make change at the highest levels: @SecDef @SecArmy @stuartscheller 👇
1/
 We’re scaling back deployments.

We’re not sending brigade after brigade to fight endless wars anymore.

That means training is now our main effort.

There’s no excuse for sending unprepared Soldiers to the line. If we fail in TRADOC, we fail in combat.

Every gap in training becomes a weakness in the fight.
2/
 TRADOC is still treated like it’s 2006.
🗂️ Throughput over quality
🧮 Metrics over mindset
💀 Burnout over balance

Why? Because TRADOC is undermanned. According to HQDA guidance, operational units are manned at 100%.

TRADOC? Often at 60–70%. Which might as well mean 0%
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Apr 6
.@SecDef @PeteHegseth You and I are Infantrymen. We were trained for one thing only: to close with and destroy the enemy. Every mission we ever cared about started the same way: looking outside the wire, scanning for threats beyond the perimeter, rifles up, boots tight.

But what if the enemy is already inside the perimeter? What about our most vulnerable dead space? Not low ground in front of us on a range card, the dead space BEHIND us.

There is rot inside the Department of Defense health apparatus. Not theoretical. Not symbolic. Real rot. The systems you are relying on to assess force medical readiness are compromised. The data is either intentionally manipulated or catastrophically mishandled. Either way, it is failing you. It is failing commanders. It is failing the warfighter.

If we keep deploying troops based on false metrics and corrupted data, we are potentially sending the force into battles they are not medically ready to fight. Some will die. Some already have.

This demands a violent break from convention.

Promote Lieutenant Colonel Theresa Long to Lieutenant General. Assign her as Director of the Defense Health Agency. Not next year. Not after a study. Now.

Yes, O5 to O9. And yes, it can be done. Under national emergency powers, you can promote her under Title 10 emergency authority to a critical billet in a time of national crisis. The same way Roosevelt bypassed normal channels and made civilian (William Knudsen) a three-star general overnight in 1940 to run war production. Roosevelt did it to cut through the red tape and win a war.

You are fighting a war inside the building. A knife fight in a phone booth.

You need to arm people who will not flinch. LTC Long is that warrior. Her voice has been unrelenting. Her documentation, public. Her sacrifice, unmatched. She fought for the health of the force when it was politically toxic to do so. She never wavered. Not once.

Her health is not perfect, but her mind is sharp. She’s threadbare in the same way warriors get threadbare. In the words of Johnny Cash: she is in good shape for the shape she is in. And she has already walked through fire before, and she can take a whole lot more.

She is thirty days from retirement. Without your intervention, she will be gone. And that will make the right people very happy. The same people who silenced her. The same people who buried the data.
I implore you: Do not let that happen.

Even if you cannot promote her immediately, task her out of her current command. Assign her to the Army Combat Readiness Center or the Aeromedical Research Lab at Fort Novosel. Give her the space to do what she was born to do: protect the force.

You already know the rot at the top. What you need now is what I call a "Reform Roomba". A relentless agent that moves through the halls and corners of the system, vacuuming up the mess no one else wants to touch. LTC Long will be that.

I have wrestled with this for weeks. I cannot think of another officer in the entire force with clarity, guts, and moral gravity to shake the system the way it needs to be shaken.

This will send shockwaves across the ranks. The right kind. It is the most outlandish and sensational recommendation I have ever come up with. But in these unprecedented times, I pray you take it seriously.

I humbly request you get her in the fight. Details on how to do this are below. And prepared for legal scrutiny.👇Image
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You can still move LTC Theresa Long into the fight and promote her to LTG, but her command won’t endorse her retirement withdrawal. You’ll need to override it.

Here’s how:

Step One – Override retirement block
Her chain of command wants her gone. You need SECARMY or a 4-star to intervene. Under 10 USC § 7013, the Secretary of the Army can halt her retirement and reassign her directly. This is a national mission. Use “needs of the Army” authority to keep her in uniform.

Step Two – Reassign her immediately
Assign her to Fort Novosel’s CRC or Aeromedical Research Lab. Task her under OSD or DHA to audit and reform medical surveillance systems. Authority: 10 USC § 7013(g)(1).

Step Three – Give her operational authority
Assign her to a billet normally held by a general officer. Give her acting authority to lead reforms in DMED, DMSS, and force health integrity.

Step Four – Promote her
Initiate a Presidential nomination for LTG under 10 USC § 601. For temporary appointment, use 10 USC § 603 during a declared emergency. COVID emergency powers and 50 USC § 1631 still provide legal justification.

Step Five – Use Roosevelt’s precedent
FDR gave civilian William Knudsen 3-star rank overnight to fix war production.
.@LTCTheresaLong
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Mar 15
🚨 SAMS: Has it Helped or Hurt the Army? 🚨

SAMS graduates returning to battalion level are like master chess players dropped into a street fight. They’re so busy calculating fifteen moves ahead that they forget to throw a punch when it matters.

We have to ask the questions👇Image
1/ What is SAMS?

SAMS (School of Advanced Military Studies) is an elite, year-long Army program that creates highly trained planners. It was founded in 1983 to improve operational-level thinking, especially after failures in Vietnam.
2/ The idea? Take top officers and teach them deep military theory, history, and doctrine so they can outthink our enemies. After graduation, they go into high-level staff jobs shaping war plans.
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Mar 1
How to Remove the Generals: A 2025 "Louisiana Maneuvers" 🧵

If @SecDef is having trouble getting public support for removing generals, I'll give him a technique even his opponents can't argue with.

Do you want to silence all of the critics? Let's see if they can win or lose.👇 Image
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1/ The U.S. military is led by risk-averse careerists who can’t win wars. They rose through a broken system that rewards politics over warfighting.

We don’t need a political purge—we need a combat effectiveness purge.

Here’s how we do it. ⬇️
2/ Step 1: Announce the 2025 Louisiana Maneuvers

SECDEF should order a massive, no-notice warfighting exercise modeled after Marshall’s 1941 Louisiana Maneuvers—where he exposed incompetent generals and replaced them before WWII.

The goal? Prove who can win battles and who can’t.
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