We are all on edge about the election. Despite our confidence in the pro-Trump polling and early vote numbers we see daily, we are nevertheless anxious and uncertain.

We should be anxious and uncertain.

Our nation, our lives and the lives and our grandchildren depend upon the results of this election.

We are 6 days away from the election.

Fear and uncertainty are our enemies, as we need to inspire our friends, families and co-workers to get out and vote.

Inspiration is required.

Those of you who follow me know how much I am inspired by certain movie scenes.

So let’s do that.

A thread.

1 of 9. 🧵 Of course it all starts with this.

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers and sisters;
For he or she to-day that votes blood with me
Shall be my brother or sister; be they ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle their condition:
And voters in the USA now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their personhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon November 5th.”

youtube.com/watch?v=bvFHRN…

2 of 9 🧵

So GEN (Ret.) Barry McCaffrey is in the news again, this time as an MSNBC commentator attacking Trump regarding the “Trump loves Hitler” hoax.

I want to tell you a story about good ol’ Barry. The story speaks to how The Swamp operates, how political generals operate and how the Democrat/Media Complex operates.

(I usually hesitate to cite anonymous sources, but the story I’m about to tell comes from a friend who was on Barry’s personal staff when the incident I am about to describe happened, and I have since confirmed the story with an impeccable source who served in the Clinton White House. I’m telling this story just as it was told to me.)

Bill Clinton took office in 1993. Shortly after the inauguration, Barry (who was then a 3-star and serving as the Joint Staff J-5 (Strategy, Plans and Policy)) went to the White House for a meeting. He wore his Class A uniform. I’ll let the Congressional Record tell you what supposedly happened:

“He says ‘good morning’' to a young staffer, a female, not that gender means anything. She leans over in his face, and says, ‘We don't talk to people over here who wear their uniforms.'’ Nobody was ever fired for that despicable insult. As far as we know, nobody was even disciplined.”

…and that’s exactly how the news media reported the story.

If you are a youngster, you may not realize what a big, BIG deal this was. Bill Clinton’s status as a draft dodger and someone who was on the record as saying he “loathed the military” was a HUGE campaign issue. Mending fences with a military that really did not like him was a very important issue in the first days of his Presidency. This issue with Barry could have had terrible implications for the Clinton Administration, but it was basically smoothed over and Barry appeared very gracious about it.

But here’s the shocker.

That “young staffer”? It was really 13 year-old Chelsea Clinton, and what she said was actually more along the lines of:

“My father and mother don’t allow uniforms in the White House.”

The White House Press Corps KNEW THIS and collectively refused to report it, ostensibly to protect an innocent 13 year-old girl. (But imagine if Barron Trump had done something similar!!!) The reality was that they stayed silent not to protect Chelsea, but to protect Bill and Hillary from having to ‘fess up to the fact that they really did teach Chelsea to think and act like that. (Things could have been even worse because a few weeks later “Blackhawk Down” happened after SecDef Les Aspin refused to authorize sending M1 tanks to Somalia.)

Even today you won’t find this story accurately reported in the news.

Which brings us back to Barry. The President privately apologized to him, Barry kept his mouth shut, and to quote what the President told Jack Ryan in the movie “Clear and Present Danger”:

“You've got yourself a chip in the big game now. You're gonna tuck that away, you are going to save that for a time when your own ass is on the line and then you're gonna pull it out. And I'm going to cash it in for you. Right? But it won't go any further than that. It's the ol' Potomac two-step, Jack."

And that’s exactly what Barry did. He kept his mouth shut. He played the Potomac Two-Step. Then he made his fourth star and became the combatant commander for USSOUTHCOM, and most people in the know thought that was a steeping stone to moving first to USCENTCOM, and then maybe to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. But Barry retired early, called in that chip, and Clinton appointed him as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (the “Drug Czar”), which I feel pretty sure (IMO) Barry thought was a path to one day maybe being POTUS himself, which thankfully never happened.

So there it is. A scandal the media refused to report on. A political general who let POTUS, his wife and his kid insult and demean the military in exchange for a shut mouth and a cushy political appointment.

It’s the Potomac Two-Step.

It’s The Swamp.

It’s why The Swamp has to lie about, attempt to imprison, and attempt to murder Trump, all because he won’t play the game.

It’s also why when Barry McCaffrey and his banana republic, corrupt flag officer ilk get on MSNBC, you can’t trust a word they say. Here's the Congressional Record link:

govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CR…

I see that dude is getting millions of views getting his Tim Walz story out drip-drip-drip.

If you know me, you know I despise Tim Walz and would never do anything to assist his electoral chances.

Nevertheless, I try to remain a person of integrity.

If/when this dude reports something meaningful that either:

(A) Is not already open-source public knowledge;
(B) Includes official and incriminating government or school district documentation; or
(C) Includes assertions of illegal behavior by Walz from a named and independently verifiable source;

Then somebody please wake me and let me know because I would love for these accusations to be verifiably true.

Until then, however, I'm not playing Kraken-level engagement farming. OK, everybody, please let me explain why I find this problematic.

Unproven/unprovable, libelous assertions discredit our movement.

Here are FACTS that we know about Walz:

-As a high school teacher, he took a confused 15 year old boy student home with him and to an Indigo Girls’ concert.
-He encouraged this boy to accept that he was gay, presumably without his parents’ knowledge.

These facts ALONE are scandalous and disqualifying. We should be shouting them from the rooftops. We know they are true because Walz bragged about them. In his telling of the story, “Coach” Walz was a hero who saved this boy from bullying.

However, when you add in a bunch of unverified/unverifiable accusations of gay statutory rape, all of a sudden that unverified story puts a cloud over the FACTS that by themselves are awful.

This is how counter-intel ops work.

The idea is to discredit MAGA, discredit our movement, and hide truth behind deceit.

This is why I recommend we ALL be super cautious whenever we encounter a Kraken/Q/PizzaGate story. Often times we are the targets. We are the intended victims.

Let’s be careful out there please.

If you have some free time and are interested in the information war that flows all around all of us, I suggest perusing the U.S. military's Joint Pub 3-53, "Doctrine for Joint Psychological Operations." (I'll provide a link below.)

Quick excerpt:

"Psychological operations (PSYOP) are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence the emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. PSYOP are a vital part of the broad range of US diplomatic, informational, military, and economic activities. PSYOP characteristically are delivered as information for effect, used during peacetime and conflict, to inform and influence. When properly employed, PSYOP . . . [reduces] adversaries’ will to fight. By lowering adversary morale and reducing their efficiency, PSYOP can also discourage aggressive actions and create dissidence and disaffection within their ranks, ultimately inducing surrender."

Now go ahead and replace the word "foreign" with the word "domestic" each time you see it, and tell me we are not right now, as ordinary American voters, the target of a deliberate, pro-Democrat PSYOP campaign using the tactics, techniques and procedures developed by the US military and the CIA.

Tell me we are not. Go ahead. I dare ya. I double-dog dare ya. Link:

nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB1…

Well I guess I don't need to worry about doxxing Walz's battalion commander, because his battalion commander has done it himself on Facebook.

So everyone understands, Walz's battalion commander was his direct supervisor, and the bond between a Lieutenant Colonel battalion commander and his battalion Command Sergeant Major is one of sacred trust (or at least it is supposed to be).

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Colonel (Ret.) John Kolb, Minnesota Army National Guard. See below. Hat tip to @SRAlsultani for pointing me to this.

Thanks Braveheart, and thanks for your fearless service downrange.

OK Patriots, please listen up.

THIS POST BELOW IS THE VERY MOST IMPORTANT NEWS STORY RIGHT NOW, BY FAR. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW.

Seymour Hersh is a well-respected, veteran journalist and HE IS A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT.

He is reporting that Obama told Biden "Step away, or Kamala Harris will invoke the 25th Amendment."

Here is why this is so important:

1. This is criminal blackmail and extortion under federal and Delaware law (where Joe was at when it happened).

2. It is also likely a violation of numerous other federal statutes regarding abuse of an elected office.

3. This is blatant abuse of the Vice Presidential office and CLEARLY rises to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors" necessary for impeachment of Vice President Velveeta.

4. As a campaign issue in the Information War, this is a tactical nuclear artillery round:

"Kamala Harris, Backstabbing Blackmailer & Extortionist. How can she ever be trusted with our nation?"

5. I don't care if she is ever charged or impeached--it's the MESSAGING that matters.

Please spread this far and wide. Please, I beg you. This is exceptionally powerful stuff, I promise. I'm beginning to also think that this was a shiv that Obama, Pelosi and Schumer shoved in Harris' back at the same time they shoved one in Biden's back.

What if Obama and his cronies hatched this plan up, knowing Harris would go along if they did and that she would be too stupid and narcissistic to recognize that the plan put her at as much risk as Biden?

Then Obama or a close Obama associate leaks it to the immensely credible and unassailable Seymour Hersh, Harris is forced out of the race, and Obama gets the open convention he wanted. What if?

Do you put anything past the Targaryens at the top of the Democrat Kingdom?

In the light of morning of the next day, I'm going to posit the Occam's Razor theory of what happened. I think this is logical and is the most reasonable understanding of what happened:

1. A deranged young Democrat gun enthusiast was heavily influenced by fascistic Democrat/media rhetoric and decided it was just and necessary to assassinate Trump in order to "save our democracy."

2. He was a lone gunman, as acting alone is the only way to pull this sort of thing off.

3. Despite some individual acts of bravery, the Secret Service acted incompetently.

4. To the extent anyone wants to uncover conspiracies directly related to the shooter inside our government, nothing is there. The real conspiracy is simply the denial by the Biden Administration of the Trump campaign's repeated requests for additional Secret Service protection.

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You don't need to know the burglar to facilitate the burglary, you just need to leave the front door unlocked.

I think that's the whole story. I could be wrong, but don't think I am. Let's not let wild theories hide the fact that Democrat rhetoric caused this and Biden denying Trump protection allowed it. I'm reading the replies.

Never underestimate the incompetence of under-resourced government agencies staffed with DEI hires.

In my military career I have so many times seen things that were so dangerously unprofessional that one could easily believe they were due to intent when in reality they were due to gross incompetence.

If you see that enough you begin to understand it and are able to recognize it when it happens.

So the other day the great Buzz Patterson posted a story about serving in the Bill Clinton White House. The story was about Clinton blowing off national security issues at a golf tournament, and while it told us nothing materially new about Clinton's character, it was a nevertheless a FASCINATING insight into a piece of important recent history. I really, really enjoyed reading it. Now Buzz had the Clinton nuclear football and was a USAF pilot, and I definitely do not want to make anyone think my military career was anywhere near as sexy or glamorous as his was, but I do have a few stories to tell. So I want to tell my one Bill Clinton story, because it’s about a historic event, and in a similar vein to the ripping (and 100% truthful) yarns of Buzz Patterson.

It was 1993. I was a U.S. Army Captain, fresh out of company command, and I was amazingly fortunate enough to be selected as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Internship Program (today it’s called the Bradley Fellowship). Basically, as a mere O-3, I was given an opportunity to act as an actual O-5 action officer on the Joint Staff doing actual, real JCS-level stuff, and that also came with an awesome intern educational program that included things like chatting with Colin Powell and meeting an amazing array of political and military luminaries. This is where I first learned about the meat-grinder that is the Washington D.C. Beltway (although at the time I admittedly was a bit naive and start-struck and found it all to be pretty cool). As awesome as this program was, me and my fellow interns were also nevertheless the junior officers in every one of our Joint Staff directorates, and as a result we were prime targets for becoming what we called a “rent-a-crowd.” Basically, any time some D.C. dignitary needed a bunch of military officers to act like they were really into hearing a speech about some arcane policy issue, we interns got the call. I kept my Class A jacket in my office so I could put it on for my twice a week rent-a-crowd duties, and routinely me and my fellow uniformed interns (from all four services) were called to sit looking adoringly at some pontificating blowhard as if we cared about what he or she was spewing. We were well-paid stage props, but it was pretty interesting nonetheless. The worst was when Clinton came to the Pentagon to get an initial briefing from the Joint Chiefs right after he was inaugurated, and we were ordered to stand on the steps outside the Pentagon River Entrance en masse and we were ORDERED to wave at Slick Willie as he departed. I kid you not. You have to realize that Clinton was an avowed and unrepentant draft dodger as part of his still fresh-in-our-memories campaign, and none of us had forgotten that—these were the very most sarcastic waves ever waved in the history of waves.

But that’s not my Bill Clinton story.

This is my Bill Clinton story.

In July of that year we got a rent-a-crowd call: “Put your Class A’s on and go over to Fort McNair, the President is giving a speech.” Now that was pretty cool. Even though I despised Clinton, hearing a Presidential speech was a really big deal, so my Navy lieutenant and fellow intern buddy Werner and I got all dolled up in our best shiny brass dress uniforms and took the Metro over to the Waterfront Station in D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood. We walked the rest of the way to the National Defense University’s auditorium in Fort McNair. We got there super early, before the NDU students who would make up most of the crowd, so we got to pick our seats. The first two rows were reserved, so we got the third row, front and center, twenty feet from the stage. We had no idea what the subject of the speech was going to be, but soon the Clinton White House crew came in and sat right in front of us: David Gergen, George Stephanopoulos, Dee Dee Myers (not Dee Dee Ramone) and the rest of the Clinton henchmen and henchwomen entered and sat literally two feet away from our seats. Soon we overheard (because as far as that crowd was concerned we had the same tangible existence as the auditorium chairs) that the speech was about gays and lesbians in the military, and we rapidly realized we were human stage props sent there to pretend we approved—this was the infamous “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” speech. I was about to be a stage prop to history.

Soon the principals came in on stage: SecDef Les Aspin, Vice President Gore, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Slick Willie himself. The secondaries were all given seats high on the stage right behind the Prez, and it was clear that the JCS were every bit the stage props that poor little O-3 me was. We were all there to give the illusion that we supported and endorsed what the President was about to dump on the American people, and that realization was sickening.

I’ll drop a link to that actual speech in a comment right below if you are interested, but it’s not the content of that infamous speech I want to cover. Rather, it is two observations as a near-front row participant to history that I want to relate:

1. As David Gergen and George Stephanopoulos came in, their s***-eating grins were palpable. They were so, so, so, SOOOOO very pleased that they had created the illusion that the uniformed military was totally behind what their draft-dodging President was about to say. They looked like the Grinch after he stole all the Christmas decorations from Whoville. Even then, when I was still almost apolitical and really did not care who had sex with who, I found this appalling. I was being used and I did not like it one bit. It got worse when Gergen and Stephanopoulos sat down—they were verbally high-fiving each other over the illusion they had created, and I could overhear them celebrating in nefarious whispers. Even when Clinton spoke, they were whispering and giggling in glee like little girls, and… it sickened me. It was one of the very first times that I understood that politicians viewed the military as mere pawns in their social engineering schemes, and that idea has stuck with me to this very day.

2. As I mentioned, the Joint Chiefs were ordered to sit behind Clinton. The Commandant of the Marine Corps at the time was bada$$ Vietnam vet warrior USMC General Carl Mundy, and he had been an outspoken critic of gays in the military prior to that time. They sat him at the far side of the stage, mostly out of view of the cameras, but I had my eye on him the whole time. I swear to you, Mundy sat down, legs spread, hands on his knees, with the facial expression of a stone-cold killer, and he remained almost completely and totally immobile as a glowering, frightening statue during the whole speech. He did not move a muscle, except I could see his jaw muscles tightening and loosing repetitively. It’s a wonder all his teeth did not crack on that stage. I loved it. To me, Mundy was like one of those USAF Vietnam War POWs in the Viet Cong propaganda films who was blinking his eyes to spell out T-O-R-T-U-R-E in Morse code. He was coerced into being there, he was used like a horse in a gladiator chariot movie, and he knew it. I only wish he had resigned in protest. Nevertheless, on that day he became one of my heroes.

So that’s it. That’s my Bill Clinton story.

There is nothing all that Earth-shattering here, and the whole “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” thing is now water long passed under a very murky rainbow bridge. Still, this is a wee part of history, and I hope it shows how politicians (particularly Democrat politicians) view the troops as mere inanimate pawns on a political chessboard and not living, breathing, bleeding Americans whose lives and sacrifices actually matter.

I hope my little story was enlightening or at least interesting—let’s not let politicians do this again to our duty-bound and selfless military. Here is that speech, if you are so inclined:

Why is it that almost every taxpayer in the productive, private sector workforce that generates 100% of our national wealth is an "at will" employee but it's nearly impossible to fire any of the civilian federal government workers whose salaries we pay?

(Related question--why do those civilian federal workers get extravagant pensions that virtually no other sector of society any longer receives?) Once upon a time in America if you wanted to have the best, most secure middle class income to provide for you and your family, you would learn a trade, open a small business or get a union manufacturing job.

Today the most secure career you can choose is government civilian employee.

There is something fundamentally wrong with this.

I want to explain why it is important that we call Democrats "fascists" and not "Marxists."

Let's start by debunking the university-taught lie that the political spectrum runs with fascism on the far right and Marxism on the far left. That's balderdash. The political spectrum runs from the top with totalitarianism down to the bottom with anarchy. Fascism and Marxism sit side-by-side at the very top of that totalitarian stack, with very little to distinguish between the two. They are virtually identical in practice, with only subtle differences (for example--government owns industry (Marxism) versus government wholly controls industry (fascism)--the end result is the same).

With that in mind, it is fair to call the Democrat Party of the 21st Century both "Marxist" and "fascist." But here's the thing--Democrats are secretly kind of proud of being called Marxist. They see it as a badge of honor. They view the collectivist impulse of Marxism to be moral and just, so calling them a "Marxist" makes them smile. But the HATE being called "fascist." They DESPISE being called fascist, especially when you can explain cogently and accurately how they behave just like 20th Century fascist regimes (see my Tweet immediately below for an example). They HATE it because deep down they know it's true, and they feel trapped when someone calls them on it. It embarrasses them, makes them act rashly, and disempowers them just like showing a mirror to a vampire.

Please get on board "the Democrat Party is fascist" train--it's a winning formula. Example:

https://twitter.com/CynicalPublius/status/1708199286503346576

Anyone who follows me knows that I have an intense distrust of all forms of government and most of my Twitter feed consists of exposing the lies and misdeeds of the US federal government.

However, by stating that a 757 hit the Pentagon on 9/11, and by stating that I know this because of my close relationship with numerous eyewitnesses, I am apparently now some federal agent engaged in a massive coverup--at least in the eyes of some.

To those of you who think that about me, realize this:

Sometimes the cover-up is to make you think there was a cover-up when one never existed.

In the case of the 757 hitting the Pentagon, the conspiracy theory about a missile exists to distract you and prevent you from digging deep into the REAL issues. You think you are clever and see past the lies, when in reality it is you who have accepted the lies, hook, line and sinker. @BrendaH40921283