Inbox: "Wasn't that black dog you had before Baroness also one they wouldn't take for bomb school? How do you get them?"

No, he was taken, but I guess he flunked out of school. Friends with breeders. People hear "military dog" and most people are afraid they're mean. Spoiler: they're not mean.

The breeders generally don't want to give them to somebody who wants a military dog, because they tend to try to "train" (abuse) them. If the dog didn't make the cut, Billlybob isn't going to change that with cinderblocks and tires.

Inbox: "We've waited long enough. Tell us about Baroness dodging the draft! I thought you'd tell us tonight in a long video."

Fair enough. She was bred for the military and slated to be a bomb dog. The day they came to get her, she developed a problem with (Thread) her ear and it wouldn't stand up. They determined it would be prone to infection and limit her hearing. The original breeder called and we picked her up.

Inbox: "Please for the love of God explain why you're so calm about DOJ asking for more documents back when all the legal youtubers are screaming they should just indict him."

My patience rests on two things:
(Thread) First, assume DOJ doesn't know what other documents Trump may have.

Second, assume DOJ believes Trump has zero loyalty to this country.

Inbox: "Can you please do a video on how you name your animals? They're themed right?"

Not sure that's a video but how about a thread?

(Thread) Horses:
Marilyn: a well built blonde diva who doesn't get along with Jackie.

Jackie : the elegant dark haired lady who was there first and runs things.

Charlotte: a pampered well-bred friend to the diva (works for both sex and the city or princess and the frog)

Inbox: "About AG Twitter. Shouldn't they know how to do their jobs though? Are the complaints valid?"

Farming/ ranching can be more art than science at times. Sometimes people think their way is the only way. And sometimes people forget about regional differences. (Thread) Saw a woman getting trashed a few months ago because she was talking about how much her horses cost to feed. People from out west were flat out calling her a liar. (It was too low)

Trump is going to go all in on the conspiracy theories. Within the first couple of minutes he's talking about the "globalists". Now he's lying about his economic performance.

8 years. Based on demographic data, The republican party has 8 years to wake up and move left. If they don't, they'll be as relevant as the Whig party. To remain relevant they must:
Become pro lgbtq
Support climate mitigation
Support police reform
Stop dog whistling about black Americans
Stop with the xenophobic rhetoric
Drop gender based rhetoric
Support measures to increase the standard of living of the working class

Inbox: "Will you do a video on what brand safe or brand friendly means? I hear these terms all the time, but don't really get it."

Yes, but short version: a platform needs content an advertiser won't be embarrassed by.
(Thread) Imagine a promoted tweet from a major company near a tweet with the N word in it. People might associate that with the company.

Inbox: "Man please don't use my name, but since you're doing dating advice. I'm seeing this wonderful woman. Everything is great. BUT she's a surgeon. I frame f*cking houses man. She makes 10x what I do. She's never said anything, but won't she get tired of carrying me? (Cont) "... She's never said anything and man everything else is perfect. Been together two years. I'm just worried she'll realize she can do better than me at least when it comes to money. I know you'll say something encouraging, ask the women to respond maybe?"

Inbox: "You're a "jeep guy" right? I've been with this guy for 6 months. I just found out he has three jeeps. Ones a new one, one was his last jeep and then one is really old. Is this weird? Is this a red flag? Sign of something?"

(Thread) If you've been dating six months and this is your biggest worry and you're just finding out, you're probably in the clear.

"Just finding out" = he's not one of those who makes it his whole personality.

Inbox: "Why does something get the label TS/SCI?"

*basic explanation (it's more involved than this IRL)*

Most times, it discloses means and methods. In a lot of videos I say sometimes the secret isn't really the information, but how the information was obtained.

(Thread) Example:

TS: Russia has a new secret missile.
TS/SCI: Russia has a new secret missile we discovered through an asset working in Vlad's Electronics shop.

Inbox: "somebody told me your horses were rescues. They don't look like rescues."

Well if they still looked liked rescues, we wouldn't be doing a good job. 😆 But really "rescue" probably isn't the right term. They're either retired/injured or stubborn horses who just want to be horses and don't want to perform.

The people we get them from bought them as part of their businesses. They were bad investments but the owners didn't mistreat them and want them cared for.

Me: makes tweet asking people not to compare the scotus decision to Islam.

Inbox: *fills up with anti Islamic rhetoric and every single message includes mocking the phrase "religion of peace".

Thread That phrase relates to finding peace through submission to God, not pacifism.

If you didn't know this, you'll forgive me if I don't accept your take on what various schools of thought in Islam believe.

Inbox: "I get the cops didn't act. But what you say about pistol vs rifle is garbage. You use military guns in your analogies. You also say guns are purpose built. Name a single pistol made by the military to be used against someone with a rifle."

The FP-45 Liberator. (Thread) This was designed to be given to WWII partisans. The whole point was to walk up to a nazi who possessed a rifle, remove them from service, and take their stuff.

Inbox: "I'm curious how you dealt with your PTSD and became so calm now."

Me personal route involved crawling into a bottle, making a lot of mistakes, etc. Don't recommend it.

What I've seen work that isn't horrible:

Puppies and pot. (I'm not joking. Thread.) Having a dog (especially a therapy dog) gives you something to live for and is calming, especially true if the dog is trained to help with hyper vigilance. (Doggo is on alert so you don't have to be)

Facebook: "You encourage the individualistic, motivated, creative to band together to solve problems. Have you ever read Atlas Shrugged? That's what the main character did."

I am not John Galt. Suggesting a similarity between egalitarian networks and Galt's glitch hurts my soul. Me: organize everybody, make sure everybody gets a fair shake.

This guy: Have you read the book about how the rich should run everything and everybody else should shut up and do what they're told?

So let's talk about Star Trek going woke... (yes it's another one of those)

https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1525703978633371648

Garth Brooks was also always woke:

Inbox: You might know. Do Ukrainians really use the Iron Cross? Is this proof of a tie to nazis?

No. That form of stylized cross is common in militaries. It's a component in a lot Russian medals. US:

It's definitely going to be one of those weekends in north Florida. Apparently, a pro life pastor got into a discussion about baby formula outside a dollar general a couple towns over and wound up knocking out somebody from his flock who said not to feed "illegal babies". Me being pro choice/ pro immigration:

Me: *building pieces of a greenhouse in the middle of the night because it's hot in the day time*
Behind me: "Moooooooo"

I don't own a cow. They're just walking down the road in the middle of the night by themselves for some reason.

On Twitter number fluctuations:

My gut tells me that we're witnessing two separate events occurring at the same time so they look related.

(Thread) Event 1: some people left Twitter because of the Musk take over. This accounts for the small drop in followers a lot of liberal/ left accounts have seen.