Retired Fire Capt/PM of 39 years, Paramedic for 46 years. Love Jesus, consider myself a Patriot. Married to the love of my life for 36 years. Proud Grandpa.
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FireCapt404 retweeted
A Message from the Chief
“The decision to commute the death sentences of the killers of Fallen Riverside Police Detective Charles ‘Doug’ Jacobs III and Fallen Riverside Police Officer Ryan Patrick Bonaminio brings renewed pain to families who have endured unimaginable loss. As your Police Chief, I am deeply disappointed and angry about the additional hurt this decision brings them.
Yesterday marked exactly 16 years since Ryan was murdered on November 7, 2010. A time to honor his life and surround his family with love instead carried the added weight of this announcement.
Doug was murdered on January 13, 2001, more than 25 years ago. Both men were protecting Riverside when their lives were taken in cowardly acts of violence. Their families live with empty chairs, missed milestones, and the ache of what should have been.
For Tammy, Nicholas, Rachel, Cathy, Raymond, Tara and the Jacobs family, and Joe, Gerri, Nicole, Christopher and the Bonaminio family, this is far more than a change in punishment. It reopens wounds and forces them to relive the brutal murders of people they love.
Juries heard the evidence, convicted both killers, and returned death verdicts. In Doug’s case, two separate juries reached that penalty decision years apart. The families endured those proceedings and painful accounts of their loved ones’ final moments. They should never have to wonder whether their suffering or those judgments matter.
Our RPD family and community share this grief and frustration, but the greatest burden belongs to the families. Whatever your views on the death penalty, these surviving families deserve compassion, support, and to be heard.
To the Jacobs and Bonaminio families: We love you. Does your RPD family still stand beside you? Absolutely we do. You do not have to carry this pain alone. Our responsibility to you did not end after the funerals or trials, and it will not end now.
Doug and Ryan’s lives, service, and sacrifice will always matter. We will speak their names, honor their memories, and stand with the people they left behind.”
- Larry V. Gonzalez
Chief of Police
Riverside Police Department
FireCapt404 retweeted
DIVORCE AGREEMENT
THIS IS INCREDIBLY WELL-PUT, AND I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT'S WRITTEN BY A STUDENT!!! WHATEVER HE RUNS FOR, I'LL VOTE FOR HIM.
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is our separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets, since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
—We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
--You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
--Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
--We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.
--You can keep Oprah, Whoopi, Bill Maher, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all five of them.
--We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.
--You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
--We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEOs, and rednecks.
--We'll keep Bill O’Reilly and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
--You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
--You can have the peaceniks and war protesters.
--When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
--We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
--You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLaine. You can also have the UN., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
--We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.
--You can give everyone health care if you can find any practicing doctors.
--We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
--I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine," "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," "Kum Baya," or "We Are the World."
--We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle-up poverty your best shot.
--Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name, and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P.S. Also, please take George Clooney, Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Short, Charlie Sheen, Barbra Streisand, and (Hanoi) Jane Fonda with you.
P.P.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.
Forward This Every Time You Get It !
Let's Keep This Going, Maybe Some Of It Will Start Sink in.
FireCapt404 retweeted
🔥🚨💥 BOOM! Florida’s NEW Gov-Elect Byron Donalds just TORCHED Senate leadership!
He says Republicans LOST the midterms because Leader John Thune and the RINOs FAILED to deliver.
❌ They refused to pass the SAVE America Act
❌ They blocked Trump’s border security packages from being codified into law
❌ They left key MAGA priorities sitting on the shelf while voters watched
Donalds: “There were some opportunities I think that were MISSED—NOT passing the SAVE America Act! NOT getting some of the key policies done, like putting through President Trump’s border security packages and codifying that into law. I think that stuff frustrated Republicans.”
🇺🇸 Meanwhile Florida stayed RED and made history electing its first Black governor… while Democrats flipped the House and Senate.
This is the price of weak leadership. The base is done with excuses. 😡
The failure to pass those bills is exactly why voters walked away.
FireCapt404 retweeted
Tonight should be a wake-up call. The next two years cannot be more speeches, more promises, and more excuses for why nothing gets done.
People are tired of voting for change and then being told to wait until the next election. If we put you in office, we expect you to do the job. Tell us what you’ve accomplished, where you’ve fallen short, and what you’re doing about it. Having an R next to your name does not get you a pass.
We have to follow through ourselves. Pay attention to what happens at your school board, your city council, and in Congress. Our children will live with the decisions being made right now.
The next two years need to be about accountability. We cannot afford to be having this same conversation in 2028.
LOCAL ACTION = NATIONAL IMPACT
FireCapt404 retweeted
Dear Mr. @POTUS
The battle of 2026 may have ended in “bloodshed” but the war for the soul of America continues. You sir, still have the responsibility to ensure the preservation and protection of our constitution. Below are some ideas as you awaken and examine the aftermath of yesterday’s massacre (there is no other way to describe it).
Overcoming failure in battle requires accepting responsibility, analyzing the root cause(s), and shifting one’s focus from the setback itself to your next immediate response.
In the U.S. military we use to follow a disciplined “lessons learned” process. We called it the AAR (After Action Review). The AAR is designed to make us better. Take it to heart. The AAR, if done correctly is an honest, if not brutal, assessment of what happened, how did it happen, and what can be done to fix it in the future.
First, we must understand the following strategies to overcome defeat:
1. Acknowledge and Own the Failure: Stop shifting blame or masking the reality of what happened; digest the failure directly so you can use it as fuel to move out smartly into the future.
2. Change the Formula: Failure with a proper response can return to success. Understand that the initial loss is not what defines you. Your immediate reaction and adjustments will. Essentially, it’s not that bad things happen to people, businesses, military formations, or even nations; they always do. That is not how you will be defined. How you will be defined is what you do to overcome those bad things.
3. Deconstruct the Root Causes: Evaluate factors like preparation, promises made & not kept, leadership (your own and those in your inner circle), and tactical (on the ground) execution and strategic decision making at the highest levels of your team to include your own. Now is NOT the time to sit and self-loathe nor cry in your corn flakes. Instead of allowing yourself to spiral into a selfish woe is me curled up fetal position, as an American president, you must awaken yourself to awaken the nation. Now is the time for great leadership to arise. Do you have it in you?
4. Rely on Your Team (but understand this same core team may be part of the problem): It may be high time to lean on others; your peers, outside supporters, former adversaries, a group of advisors who only want America to succeed (if America succeeds, you succeed). These things need to be said. Most of all, humble yourself quietly before God and pray. Many other great U.S. presidents who faced failure in our storied past did and it seemed to work for them. Find an inner strength and hold yourself accountable first and then you can hold others accountable.
5. Set a Clear Next Objective: Break your path forward into small, manageable tasks or re-aim for a distinct end-state or set of end-states. What got you to where you are today? Why did We The People trust to place you into the highest office in the land (again)? What were our expectations and why were they not met? Consider creating a new set of criteria given the conditions our nation faces (ie., domestic disunity and foreign policy disasters). No need to start from scratch but clearly you must wipe the slate clean in some critical areas then fill them with a renewed sense of energy and urgency.
I’ll finish here. That is enough for now. There is a great deal of work and much sacrifice ahead. The American people are a hopeful lot who want only what is best for our families, our homes, our communities and our country. Start there.
Now is the time to take control of the things only you can control.
An American in service to nation. Out.
FireCapt404 retweeted
SITREP: ACCOUNTABILITY. THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
America,
We lost last night. Full stop.
I’m not interested in sugarcoating it, making excuses, or listening to another round of political consultants or pundits explain away failure. Again, full stop!
In the military, when you lose ground, you don’t stand around congratulating yourself for a job well done. You figure out what went wrong, who was responsible, and what needs to change.
Washington could use a serious lesson in that kind of leadership.
For too long, Americans have listened to promises about accountability, government reform, fiscal responsibility, secure elections, and defending our constitutional freedoms.
Enough promises. Where are the results?
The American people deserve answers, not another fundraising email. Not another carefully scripted press conference. Not another politician telling us to wait until the next election.
The next two years cannot be business as usual.
We must examine why we lost. Where was the organization? Where was the leadership? Where was the follow-through? If we cannot answer those questions, we have learned absolutely nothing.
I spent more than 33 years serving this nation in uniform. One lesson never changed: failure without accountability guarantees more failure.
Our children and grandchildren will inherit the consequences of what we do, or fail to do, over the next two years.
NO MORE EXCUSES. NO MORE EMPTY PROMISES. ACCOUNTABILITY STARTS NOW.
And surf this wave like your life and our nation depend on it…because they do.
FireCapt404 retweeted
Final Farewell to an American Hero.
A solemn and heartfelt farewell took place at Bakersfield National Cemetery on Friday, October 23, 2026, as James T. Murphy, a 106-year-old WWII veteran, former prisoner of war, and Bataan Death March survivor was laid to rest.
As a young soldier, Murphy survived the Bataan Death March and more than three and a half years as a POW, facing starvation, brutal treatment, and forced labor in Japan's Mitsubishi copper mines.
In 2015, he accepted Mitsubishi Materials Corporation's historic apology on behalf of all American POWs subjected to forced labor during WWII.
We are deeply saddened by the passing of James Murphy, a true American hero and a man of great honor.
Rest in peace, James T. Murphy. 🫡
FireCapt404 retweeted
There are four abortion amendments on the ballot tomorrow.
Three are abortions UP TO BIRTH! One saves babies from abortion.
Sadly, many conservatives haven't sent a single tweet about any them. If you're pro-life, say something!
FireCapt404 retweeted
🇺🇸 A PRAYER FOR AMERICA ON ELECTION DAY 🇺🇸
Pray with me:
Dear Heavenly Father,
Today, we come before You with humble hearts, asking for Your hand of protection over the United States of America.
Lord, we know that our hope cannot rest in politicians, political parties or earthly leaders. Our hope rests in You. But You have given us a voice, a responsibility and the privilege of participating in the future of this nation. Help us never take that privilege for granted.
Father, awaken the hearts of Americans. Stir people to get out and vote. Give them wisdom, courage and discernment as they make decisions that will shape our country’s future. May they carefully consider the Christian values, freedoms and principles that have helped shape this nation.
We pray for strong and secure borders. Protect our communities, uphold our laws and give our leaders the wisdom to keep Americans safe.
We pray for the unborn. Give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves. Protect innocent life and remind this nation that every human life has value.
Lord, we also lift up our children. Protect their innocence, their dignity and their safety. Give parents, educators and leaders the courage to protect children's privacy in bathrooms and ensure fairness and safety in girls' and women's sports.
Lord, we pray for the preservation of our Christian heritage and the freedom to worship You without fear. Let our churches remain places of truth, our families remain grounded in faith and our children grow up knowing Your Word. May we never become a nation ashamed of the name of Jesus.
And Lord, as Americans cast their votes, may we remember that freedom comes with responsibility. Let us stand firm in our convictions, participate in our democracy and never surrender the blessings and liberties we have been given.
We ask You to bless America, protect America and turn the hearts of this nation back toward You.
May we be a country that honors You not only with our words, but with the way we live.
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, we pray.
Amen 🙏🏼
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
~ 2 Chronicles 7: 14
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FireCapt404 retweeted
Keep reposting
Hi @UMich i just want to be absolutely explicitly clear that NO, this video of your student committing Assault & Battery, resisting arrest, making death threats, & engaging in Anti Semitism ON CAMPUS is NOT coming down.
In fact, on behalf of @camhigby & others who were assaulted & threatened on your campus with your consent, & protection, I’m going to reshare it here.
And I’m going to tag some friends with reach to make sure it keeps going. Here. On telegram. On facebook. On Rumble. On YouTube. On Truth Social.
Remember, you asked for it.
@drawandstrike @willchamberlain @MattMorseTV @AAGDhillon @AndrewKolvet @AGToddBlanche @MrAndyNgo @catturd2 @EricLDaugh @FBIDirectorKash @EagleEdMartin @elonmusk @NickJFreitas @KurtSchlichter @libsoftiktok @nicksortor @RonColeman @StephenM @jenvanlaar
Its only fairthe rest of the world learns you’re desperately trying to hide this, @UMich especially from the Justice & Education departments.
cc @EDSecMcMahon @usedgov
FireCapt404 retweeted
This Election is a No-Brainer: Democrats are Pro-Abortion and Anti-Christian buff.ly/R7lgCPD
FireCapt404 retweeted
Heavenly Father, we pray in the Mighty name of Jesus Christ, that you watch over this Nation that you protect the Voting of every American and the Voices of your people , we pray for your mighty Angels to surround every Voting places, to stand a watch over us. Give us the Victory in Jesus name,
Let it all be done for your Glory and your Kingdom. We humbly ask in your Mighty Power. Lead the way to a Victorious outcome.
We give you glory. In Jesus Name. Amen 🙏
