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Mr. Thin Blue Line retweeted
It should tell you something that @elonmusk realized it is easier to catch a flying spaceship than get Congress to cut a dollar of waste.
Mr. Thin Blue Line retweeted
All those complaining about the cost of supporting our veterans need a serious reality check.
Our veterans were paid crap to go fight America's wars. Their compensation was modest, and the benefits they earned were part of the overall commitment made to them in exchange for their service and sacrifice. Many came home injured. Some watched the person to their left and right die. They carried the physical and psychological costs of fighting terrorists overseas so those terrorists wouldn't bring their violence to our hometowns. Those benefits aren't charity. They're earned.
Now, we pulled back from the fight against terrorism massively especially in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya, and the consequences are catching up with us. When I told a federal law enforcement officer about the Libyan al-Qaeda members I saw in Tampa, he asked how I knew they were Libyan and that’s the moment I realized he’s never even been overseas. They don’t even know what they are looking at here.
When terrorists strike our homeland again because our government failed to identify or thwart a threat, they aren’t the ones coming to save you in real-time. Hopefully, heroes in your own community will otherwise it’s nobody.
So many spend their time complaining online but can't be bothered to pay attention to what's happening in their own communities, recognize suspicious activity, report concerning behavior, or do the basic work of seeing something and saying something. You can't demand security while refusing to participate in it.
And let's talk about the bigger picture. Thousands of terrorists entered the country in 2022 and 2023. Not dozens. Not hundreds. Thousands. Rather than focus on finding and removing these terrorists, we're going to turn around and target our own warrior class? The only Americans even trained in the same types of urban warfare as these attackers?! Get a grip on reality.
Here are the states where I am confident there is at least one operational international terrorist cell today, involving a mix of AQ and ISIS networks, with the intent AND capability to kill Americans. I am not talking about fundraising or logistical support cells, like those we see in places such as Minnesota. I am talking about operational cells actively planning attacks against Americans. The states are: California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
We are done sugarcoating the Global War on Terror to make it more comfortable for people who want to criticize service without understanding what that service accomplished. There are thousands upon thousands of Americans alive today because of attacks that were stopped, plots that were dismantled, and threats that never made the headlines.
You don't get to benefit from the security their service helped provide, dismiss what they earned, and then turn around and question why we still need them to support them. And trust me, we are going to need their expertise again and soon. The war is far from over.
Mr. Thin Blue Line retweeted
“With guns in the hands of the public, there may be tragedies, but without them, there will be genocides"
This is historically irrefutable.
Mr. Thin Blue Line retweeted
Pete Buttigieg claims that the Electoral College “makes no sense” and should be abolished because it is a remnant of “some very arcane, parochial politics in the 1770s.”
IN FACT, the Electoral College is a safeguard against mobocracy, which the authors of the Constitution rejected because it allows the majority to easily violate the rights of the minority. Here are the specifics:
• Early during the convention at which the U.S. Constitution was written, James Madison, the father of the Constitution and primary author of the Bill of Rights, declared that the new government they were creating must provide “more effectually for the security of private rights and the steady dispensation of Justice.”
• He then stressed that violations of these ideals “had more perhaps than any thing else, produced this convention.”
• Madison then singled out “democracy” as the cause of those abuses and pointed out that all societies are “divided into different Sects, Factions, and interests,” and “where a majority are united by a common interest or passion, the rights of the minority are in danger.”
• Continuing, he stated that this is “verified by the histories of every country” and is the cause of slavery, “the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.”
• Thus, Madison emphasized that it was the duty of the Convention to “frame a republican system” of government that would better “guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.”
• Elaborating on that point, Madison stated that the “only defense against the inconveniencies of democracy consistent with the democratic form of government” is to “divide the community into so great a number of interests and parties, that in the first place a majority will not be likely at the same moment to have a common interest separate from that of the whole or of the minority; and in the second place, that in case they should have such an interest, they may not be apt to unite in the pursuit of it.”
• Other delegates to the Convention concurred, like Edmund Randolph of Virginia, who observed “that the general object was to provide a cure for the evils under which the U.S. labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy.”
• For the purpose of curbing such evils, Madison and the other framers of the Constitution developed a system of checks and balances on the powers of the government that they formed, such as the separation of powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, the Constitutional amendment process, the Bill of Rights, and the Electoral College.
• The Electoral College was designed to prevent heavily populated areas from dominating the election for president. As shown in the electoral precinct map from Washington State University professor Ryne Rohla, the vast majority of America’s communities voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Yet Hillary Clinton’s popular vote count was higher, mainly due to support in big cities.
• In essays explaining the Constitution’s protections against mob rule and government power, Madison wrote, “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
• Those principles produced the U.S. Constitution, which is the world’s longest-standing written constitution and an exemplar for many other countries that have copied its provisions into their constitutions.
Hyperlinks to the sources of all the facts above are available at justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n…
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Mr. Thin Blue Line retweeted
Nah man. I’m not gonna let this go unchecked. As a GWOT veteran I can’t.
I listened to Massie drone through his articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and I recognized the sickness immediately.
We fought under this ridiculous worldview during GWOT, and it cost us dearly.
Massie is merely an acolyte of the bloodless bureaucratic religion that puts the lawyer in the center of the kill chain, treats every American use of force like a moral emergency, and somehow always finds more sympathy for the enemy being hunted than for the American sent to hunt him.
His whole speech I began wondering who he actually was speaking for, and that’s not good.
GWOT vets know EXACTLY where that road leads. Another approval. Another review. Another JAG opinion. Another commander afraid to make a decision because one bad headline will destroy his career faster than losing the fight ever could.
We were lectured for years about “courageous restraint.” We were told that killing one enemy might create ten more. We were taught to fear our own lethality while the enemy studied our hesitation.
And then we spent twenty years bleeding into the fucking sand.
So spare me the sermon about how dangerous it is to remove lawyers who think their job is to become a veto point over command. Spare me the sudden reverence for process from people who watched Afghanistan collapse, watched thirteen Americans die at Abbey Gate, watched the Taliban retake Kabul, and somehow found no constitutional apocalypse worthy of impeachment then.
Now the outrage is that the machine is actually being used. That commanders are expected to command. And that enemies are being treated like…. actual enemies for once.
That civilian leadership is telling the bureaucracy to get the hell out of the way of lawful military action.
From where I sit, the betrayal isn’t that Washington finally found some aggression for a chang. The realest betrayal is that men like Massie still think the lesson of the GWOT was that we needed more hesitation.
No. WE NEEDED MORE VICTORY.
And I’m done pretending those are the same thing. We’re all done with it. Massie is dead wrong here, he knows it, you know it, and I know it.
Sincerely,
-A seriously disgruntled GWOT vet who knows Hegseth is the cure to what ails our military here.
Breaking News: Congressman Thomas Massie is reading Articles of Impeachment against @SecWar Pete Hegseth on the House floor now.
Watch here: youtube.com/live/3EmwC0QQ8f8…
Mr. Thin Blue Line retweeted
If you believe the price of gasoline went down 60 cents. The price of diesel went down 80 cents in the last 3 days since the midterms on Tuesday because of the price of oil falling or other natural economic indicators; you’re gullible and do not understand how deep the Deep State is and its ability to manipulate certain sectors of the economy for political purposes. Look at oil companies' quarterly profits last quarter, and when this quarter's reports come out, you will realize President Trump was right again.
Mr. Thin Blue Line retweeted
Shocker. Everyone who voted because of higher gas prices, congratulations, the elite played you like a string instrument.
Breaking: The national average price of gasoline has fallen below $4 per gallon for the first time in 3 months Per @GasBuddyGuy
Mr. Thin Blue Line retweeted
I would like to thank all the oil companies that wanted Republicans out of office.
You did a great job manipulating the price of gas before the election and it worked spectacularly.
It was $4.50 on Tuesday and now it's $3.01 on Saturday.
I'm no economist, but this is a massive reduction in price in 4 days.
President Trump did say it was going to drop like a rock after the election and it sure looks like he was right about that.
Gas prices at the pump are “magically” falling after the midterms. Will there ever be an investigation into the collusion & manipulation of fuel costs that continues to happen?
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Mr. Thin Blue Line retweeted
Tom is absolutely correct. He didn’t even monetize his page. He told me himself.
There is some sort of label being placed on his account where he can’t promote his music.
@elonmusk can we look into this?
Help my friend out. Make sure Elon sees this.
Please. 🙏🏼
Mr. Thin Blue Line retweeted
“It takes intellectuals to come up with some of the dumbest ideas.” Orwell.
Mr. Thin Blue Line retweeted
The argument that America is only in the Middle East because of Israel is not just wrong. It is historically illiterate and anyone parroting it just wants to revise history.
America’s strategic interest in the Middle East predates the modern state of Israel. Franklin Roosevelt met with Saudi Arabia in 1945, three years before Israel existed, to establish America’s relationship with Gulf oil.
The Truman Doctrine, the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Carter Doctrine, all of them were built around one thing: keeping Soviet hands off Middle Eastern oil and keeping the global energy supply out of hostile control.
This was always about oil and geography.
The Middle East sits at the intersection of three continents and controls the energy supply of the entire industrialized world. America would have a vital strategic interest in that region if Israel had never existed at all.
The 1953 Iran coup was about British oil interests and Soviet encroachment. Not Israel.
The 1958 Lebanon intervention was about Arab nationalism and Soviet influence. Not Israel.
The tanker wars of the 1980s were about keeping oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran-Iraq war. Not Israel.
The 1991 Gulf War was about Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait and threatening Saudi Arabia. Not Israel.
In fact Israel stayed out of it entirely at American request even after Saddam fired Scud missiles at Tel Aviv.
America fought that war to protect Arab oil states, not Israel.
The 2001 Afghanistan invasion was a direct response to September 11th, which was planned in Afghanistan by a Saudi national running an organization funded by Gulf money with ideology rooted in Egyptian and Saudi Wahhabism. Not Israel.
The 2003 Iraq invasion, whatever you think of it, was about weapons of mass destruction claims, regional dominance, and finishing what 1991 started. Not Israel.
And now Iran.
America’s conflict with Iran began in 1979 when the Islamic Revolution took 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days. Before Israel had anything to do with it. Iran has killed over 500 American soldiers through proxies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Iran plotted to assassinate a Saudi ambassador on American soil.
Iran directed attacks on American embassies and bases across the region for decades.
Iran was months from a nuclear weapon that its leadership had explicitly said it would use to threaten America’s allies and eventually America itself.
Every single one of those is an American interest and an American reason to act that has nothing to do with Israel.
The argument that Israel is why America is in the Middle East is based on nothing.
America was in the Middle East before Israel existed, stayed in the Middle East for reasons entirely independent of Israel, and has fought its bloodiest Middle Eastern conflicts against enemies who were America’s enemies first and Israel’s enemies second.
Israel is not why America is in the Middle East. Oil, geography, Soviet containment, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and 47 years of Iranian aggression directed specifically at the United States are why America is in the Middle East.
Now I have heard a lot of people criticize this war, a lot of lazy people who refuse to actually engage with the history and what’s going on in that region. So let me ask them this; what was Donald Trump supposed to do? Was he supposed to let them enrich, or are you going to be a child and pretend like they were not enriching uranium to get to a nuclear weapon because some podcaster told you so?
What is the specific path forward when it comes to a relationship with Israel? What specifically would people like to see happen? How is that going to secure our national interest in that region? And how are we going to deal with Iran and their seven terrorist proxies that attack American bases?
I want actual answers to those questions, not a bunch of lunatics running around screaming Neocon.
