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Former Nuclear Scientist for US Dept of Energy | Ex-Photographer for @apple, @united, and @hyatt
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Jan 7 4 tweets 2 min read
🚨#BREAKING: It has been revealed that Democrat Charlotte NC Sheriff, Garry McFadden, who refused to cooperate with ICE/Border Patrol on deportations of illegal immigrants...

...used his OWN police officers to transport political officials to strip clubs and topless bars Image
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It gets worse...

McFadden also apparently threatened to retaliate against the POLICE OFFICERS who were assaulted by the criminal inmates at the detention center...

...then blamed the JAIL DEPUTIES for their OWN ASSAULTS

WHAT?!!!!!! Image
Nov 25, 2025 7 tweets 4 min read
As a former liberal-turned MAGA...

...here's some advice on how to deal with to your liberal in-laws over Thanksgiving.

1) Do the dishes. (Yes, seriously.)

Character is the ultimate persuasion strategy and serving others builds trust faster than a debate ever will.

Serving does 2 powerful things:

a) It starts to crumble the caricature of you.

Every single liberal has been trained to see MAGA as “mean, selfish, hateful.” If you're delightfully helping do the dishes, it's hard to keep that mental stereotype intact.

b) It earns you future permission.

Most people don’t change their mind in one conversation.

They change over time, when you build trust with them.

So, if you want anyone to hear you, don’t start by trying to be right.

Start by being useful, that’s what cracks the wall. 2) Choose the route of MOST empathy

Conservatives often come across as non-empathetic when arguing their points... which is actually the exact opposite of the positions held by nearly everyone in the MAGA movement.

Let's take illegal immigration, as an example.

Your liberal in-laws may say something like, "it's so hard right now, you know... to be an immigrant in this country."

Your response should be to choose to show insane amounts of empathy to the REAL victims of illegal immigration: children trafficked into the country by Joe Biden.

So a response should be informative, and empathetic.

Here's an example: "Yeah, I can't imagine... I heard that they found 70 children in West Texas that were trafficked across the border and were living in the worst conditions. I'm glad at least this administration is finally doing something about it, just so awful what's been going on for years..."

So the response combines a few things:

a) Enormous amounts of empathy for the victims
b) A new piece of information

To effectively communicate with a liberal, you have to showcase that you care.

This was actually done to me by someone I consider a dear friend now after Hurricane Helene.

It works.
Nov 16, 2025 8 tweets 3 min read
🚨#BREAKING: DHS has released a list of criminal illegal aliens arrested in Charlotte NC during "Operation Charlotte's Web"...

Let's meet who Democrats want to keep in the country!

First up:

Jordan Castillo-Chavez, a criminal illegal alien from Costa Rica.

He was arrested for indecent liberties with child, first degree sexual exploitation of a minor, attempted statutory sexual offense with a child less than 15 years old, and solicitation of a child by a computer. 

He was RELEASED after authorities failed to honor the ICE detainer!Image Meet Jose Ulloa-Martinez, a criminal illegal alien from Honduras, was arrested for MURDER!!!

He was ALSO RELEASED after authorities failed to honor the ICE detainer. Image
Nov 15, 2025 4 tweets 2 min read
🚨#BREAKING: Juan Arias, who was a Colombian-born ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT, is now a CITY COUNCILMAN in Charlotte NC...

...says that Border Patrol is only there to terrorize and attack neighborhoods in Charlotte

Unreal. Juan attended Queens University of Charlotte on a FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP because he was undocumented.

He got a FREE degree in Political Science and then went to work as a staffer for... get this... Alexandria Ocasio Cortez!!!!!!

Now is a city council member in Charlotte NC. Image
Nov 7, 2025 4 tweets 3 min read
I have spent the last 72 hours running through thousands of arrest records in North Carolina.

I've looked at something like 10,000 arrests.

What I'm discovering is so shocking, so horrifying, it cannot be a coincidence.

Hundreds of individuals are clearly being mislabeled in the arrest records system.

It's not a one-off or remotely rare.

There are hundreds of these, possibly thousands... just in North Carolina.

The clearest and most damning examples are when a repeat offender is arrested multiple times and his race is obviously changed between arrests.

I found at least 18 instances of this.

Here's the kicker... it NEVER happens the other way.

White men are NEVER labelled hispanic.

Neither are black men.

It's always hispanic (FOR WHICH THERE IS AN OPTION!!!) men being labelled

a) Caucasian
b) White
c) Other
d) Unknown

Again, there is a CLEAR and often-used option to label an individual as Hispanic and it is deliberately not being used.

EVEN WHEN the person has originally been arrested and labelled "H" = Hispanic.

The 2nd, 3rd, 4th arrest will label them "Caucasian"

I cannot think of any rational, reasonable explanation for why this is occurring, AT SCALE, in North Carolina.

At the minimum, we cannot trust any race data coming out of North Carolina arrest records.

If that data feeds into any federal system, we cannot trust this either.

Even, for the sake of argument, if the data is NOT being intentionally manipulated... the data is clearly and wildly inaccurate.

I am open to all explanations, but this looks like major data manipulation to me.Image There are many more egregious examples, like this one.

Jose Giron-Cervantes has been arrested many times.

Depending on the day, his race will change between, Caucasian, White, and Other.

This is not uncommon to find in the database. Image
Nov 5, 2025 11 tweets 3 min read
I’m a father...

...and I just watched Virginia elect as its TOP LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, a man who wished for his conservative opponent to be assassinated, and for his kids to die too.

Democrats KNEW IT and chose him anyway.

I can’t shake what this means going forward... 🧵 Image This wasn't a vague “tone was too harsh” moment.

This was an EXPLICIT, written fantasy about killing a political opponent and their children over politics.

And a MAJORITY of Democrats looked at that, weighed it, and said: "we’re fine with this."

Think about that for a second.
Oct 22, 2025 6 tweets 2 min read
Give it enough time and every conspiracy theory from the "Right" becomes true...

...DHS just confirmed in a 22-page report that FEMA staff recorded DISASTER VICTIMS’ political beliefs and skipped over their homes because of it

That’s not a rumor, it’s in the official report🧵 Image It started after Hurricane Milton in Florida.

A FEMA supervisor literally told staff to “avoid homes advertising Trump.”

At least 20 families were skipped for aid before others were sent back later. Image
Oct 15, 2025 4 tweets 2 min read
🚨#BREAKING: The "anti-capitalist" and known-Antifa bookstore in Asheville NC, Firestorm Books, is calling for Leftists attending the No Kings Protest to wear a red bandana in solidarity with anti-fascists.

They are giving out thousands of them for free, endorsed by 8 NGO's. Image Here is the list of organizations supporting it

- Asheville DSA
- Asheville Community Bail Fund
- Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross
- Mutual Aid Wellness Collective
- Asheville Alliance for Palestine Solidarity
- Rednecks Rising
- Appalachian Medical Solidarity
- Sumud Collective
Sep 24, 2025 11 tweets 4 min read
Someone has to say it...

2025 has been the year of Left-wing violence.

A steady drumbeat of ideologically motivated attacks. from arson and fire-bombings, to targeted shootings and swattings.

You cannot argue with the fact below.

Leftist violence is escalating. 🧵 Early March 2025:

A wave of swatting hoaxes targeted conservative voices (including me, in March).

Local police showed up with weapons drawn at homes of prominent conservatives based on fake, and horrifying 911 calls.

Swatting is attempted murder. Image
Sep 11, 2025 10 tweets 3 min read
I am receiving hundreds of DMs from people saying this is their turning point.

I will be using this post as a thread to post them.

Have courage.

This is the time ❤️ Image Image
Sep 6, 2025 8 tweets 3 min read
🚨#BREAKING: It has been revealed that new 2025 recommendations by the Asheville NC Racial Reparations Committee released 2 days ago contain even more shocking recommendations.

You are not going to believe what's in here...

Hang on, this is gonna be rough... 🧵 Image First up, they want to give FREE early childhood education... or just "childcare" in general... to ALL Black children.

Hispanics, asians, white people... no free childcare for you, even if you're poor and struggling.

But guess what?

You have to pay the taxes for it. Image
Sep 5, 2025 10 tweets 3 min read
Asheville NC has finally ended a race-based selection process to its human relations commission.

They sidelined 30-year city employee John Miall from the Human Relations Commission.

Two years later, a federal judge has finally ended it.

This is the story of John Miall...🧵 Image In early 2023, John Miall, a long-time Asheville resident who worked 30 years for the City Asheville, including as the Director of Risk Management...

...applied to the Human Relations Commission (HRCA) and was not selected.

He believed that violated equal protection, but why?
Sep 4, 2025 9 tweets 2 min read
A friend who knew me when I was liberal, called me out of the blue last night and asked why I got political.

He said I was "one of the last people" he would have suspected to get publicly political.

The short answer is:

When life bumps into policy, politics matter, a lot...🧵 ...but most people can go a very, very long time before they bump into a policy that directly affects them or a group of people they know

This is why politics is often on the back burner.

But when the rubber meets the road, suddenly policies set by unknown bureaucrats, matter.
Sep 3, 2025 9 tweets 4 min read
We have a serious problem here in Asheville NC.

The county is about to spend $2.9 million in taxpayer funds on racial reparations.

I took a deep dive into the 170 page report, and what I found is terrifying.

Buckle up, because you're not gonna believe this. 🧵 First up is a "race-targeted housing policy"

The plan explicitly calls to “sustain and expand rates of Black homeownership” with “targeted funding” ONLY for the Black populations over three years.

Literally a program that allocate benefits by race-ALONE! A clear violation of the 14th amendment, in writing.

If you're a poor white, latino, asian... or any other race, but black...

Tough luck. You don't get the money.Image
Sep 3, 2025 12 tweets 3 min read
I have been struggling to comprehend why leftists are defending radical Muslims.

They are essentially antithetical to everything the woke stand for and it made no sense at all.

Then... it dawned on me 🧵 Image When I say "antithetical" I mean truly POLAR OPPOSITES.

a) Woke ideology: gender fluidity, LGBTQ+ affirmation, secularism.

b) Islamist extremism: fixed binaries, compulsory modesty, theocracy.

They are quite literally the FURTHEST each side could get from each other...
Sep 1, 2025 7 tweets 4 min read
For years, I thought I was reading the news.

I have never been more wrong.

I was reading carefully crafted, completely fictional stories.

They choose the heroes.
They scripted the villains.
..and I bought it.

Let me show you the playbook that tricked me for years... 🧵 Step 1: The Casting Call

This is perhaps the most insidious of all the steps... where editors decide which story is even WORTH telling you.

It’s how “the story” starts before a word is written or a show is filmed. A story is picked because it's a “stand in” for a larger point.

It’s the case that can be elevated into a SYMBOL, a parable, a shorthand for a much larger narrative they want to reinforce.

...and here we are, thinking it was news, just a single story representative of a larger trend

It's not.

The “casting” comes BEFORE the script, and once the casting is done, the rest of the story almost writes itself.
Aug 28, 2025 10 tweets 2 min read
I've been wanting to write this for a long time, I think now is the time.

Empathy is a virtue... and it is being weaponized against those of us who truly and honestly care.

It's insidious. By design.

Here's how it works on so many... including me, for so long. 🧵 The pattern is always the same:
➡️ Present an emotional story.
➡️ Frame any opposition as cruel and harmful.
➡️ Rebrand neutrality as complicity.
➡️ Make the policy solution an empathy test.
Aug 24, 2025 9 tweets 2 min read
The more I’ve gone to church… the more I’m starting to realize that liberalism doesn’t just act like a political ideology.

It literally is a religion (a thread 🧵). Liberals have sacred texts…

Every religion has holy books.

For the radical left, it’s not the Bible … it’s “The Science,” NPR podcasts, Vox explainers, and NYT op-eds.

These aren’t just “a source…”.

They’re treated as sacred truth that must be publicly funded.
Feb 16, 2025 5 tweets 2 min read
🚨#BREAKING: The Guardian has just released an article where they sent a reporter to Western North Carolina and then SCOLDED Hurricane Helene victims for:

a) not understanding climate change
b) voting for President Trump
c) believing in God

This is absolutely disgusting... This is an insane statement. Scolding Hurricane victims for believing Helene was an act of God...

This is so gross. Image
Feb 3, 2025 4 tweets 1 min read
🚨#BREAKING: In a SHOCKING admission, the NC State Treasurer's office has confirmed that out of the $100 MILLION set aside to support local Western North Carolina governments impacted by Hurricane Helene...

... a grand total of $0 has been given out to date

Read that again. Image Well done to @WRAL for tracking this down.

This is insane. Image
Jan 10, 2025 4 tweets 1 min read
THERE ARE LINES 3 MILES LONG EXTENDING ALL THE WAY ONTO THE FREEWAY FOR PROPANE TO HEAT FAMILIES LIVING IN DONATED RV'S IN #WNC TODAY AND FEMA CLOSED ALL OF IT'S DISASTER RELIEF CENTERS UNTIL MONDAY?!!!!!!!!!!

WTF IS HAPPENING?!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU @HistoryBoutique FOR THIS VIDEO!