Grumpyoldbuilder McNailbender retweeted
Republicans Announce Plan To Do Exact Same Thing And Expect Different Results buff.ly/i4UjGXJ
Good morning.
Dear @GovRonDeSantis , Plz fortify Florida.
We're surrounded and our backs are to the sea.
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Grumpyoldbuilder McNailbender retweeted
There was once a scribe who lived safely behind the walls of a kingdom, writing rules for men who fought beyond them.
He had never faced an enemy, but considered himself wiser than every soldier who had.
One day, a captain grew tired of watching his men die while awaiting permission to fight. He tore down the scribe’s decrees.
The scribe flew into a rage and demanded the captain be punished.
“You are a dangerous man!” he cried. “Who will protect us from your sword?”
An old soldier approached him.
“Tell me, scribe. If the enemy breaches these walls, will you stand before them?”
“Certainly not!” the scribe replied. “That is the soldiers’ duty.”
“Then why do you despise them?”
“Because they refuse to obey me!”
The soldier nodded.
And there, finally, was the truth.
The scribe had mistaken his power to obstruct brave men for proof that he was greater than them.
For there are men who would rather see the walls fall than endure the humiliation of knowing they were built and defended by better men.
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.
DC is complicit.
Nayib Bukele: “There is no State that cannot defeat criminals. If a State does not defeat criminality, it is because the State is complicit.” @nayibbukele
Grumpyoldbuilder McNailbender retweeted
For a very simple reason: it's not a resources problem. It's an ideology problem.
The UN spent more than $7 billion over 13 years on its peacekeeping mission in Haiti. Thousands of troops, billions more in aid, NGOs on every street corner. When it left, the gangs moved in. Today they control the capital.
El Salvador, a country of 6 million people that was itself the murder capital of the world a few years ago, sends 2,000 soldiers and pays for most of it out of its own pocket. Within weeks, the leader of 400 Mawozo is writing to the UN Secretary-General, begging for "dialogue."
A fraction of the money. A fraction of the time. Real results.
The difference isn't technical. It's moral.
In the ideology that captured our institutions, taking out a gang leader is never "the solution." The solution is mediation, reintegration, "root causes," a ten-year disarmament program. The criminal is always a victim of the system. The real victim, the mother whose son was kidnapped, the village being extorted, becomes a line in a report.
Empathy for the executioner. Indifference for the victim.
It's the same software that broke the justice system, where people worry more about rehabilitating the repeat offender than about the safety of those riding the subway. The same one that broke schools, where nobody dares to demand anything anymore. The same one that tells young people having kids is a problem for the planet.
And it's the same structures, the same profiles, who ran Covid with absolute certainty and zero self-questioning.
What Elon exposed with USAID is exactly this: an ecosystem that lives off the problem, not off solving it. Haiti is the textbook case. Billions poured in after the 2010 earthquake, and the country is worse off than before. When your budget depends on the crisis, you have zero incentive for the crisis to end.
Bukele didn't invent anything. He's simply doing what every state did before this ideology took over: protect the innocent first.
Based.
Replying to @brivael
je veux pas dire.. mais ils font le boulot avec des moyens dérisoires...
ya des militaires sur place depuis 20 ans avec des apaches et des roquettes à guidage laser qui ont laissé faire...
pourquoi?
The Bee with a banger.🤣
Heartbroken Eric Swalwell Learns Chinese Intelligence Has Been Seeing Other People buff.ly/MSU8g2q
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Every Republican legislature in America should immediately pass legislation to:
1) Ban sanctuary cities
2) Ban Ranked Choice Voting
3) Ban ballot harvesting
4) Require citizenship to vote
5) Require photo ID to vote
6) Ban the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
7) Ban foreign entities from buying property
8) Suspend any gas taxes
9) Institute school choice
10) Abolish property taxes
11) Open non-juror records to public inspection
12) Mandate secretaries of state to share complete voter registration rolls with DOJ
13) Mandate voter roll list maintenance
14) Offer rewards for convictions involving fraudulent use of Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, or other entitlements
Republican governors would be wise to use this time to convene special sessions.
Every Republican legislature in America should immediately pass legislation to:
1) Ban sanctuary cities
2) Ban Ranked Choice Voting
3) Ban ballot harvesting
4) Require citizenship to vote
5) Require photo ID to vote
6) Ban the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
7) Ban foreign entities from buying property
8) Suspend any gas taxes
9) Institute school choice
10) Abolish property taxes
11) Open non-juror records to public inspection
12) Mandate secretaries of state to share complete voter registration rolls with DOJ
13) Mandate voter roll list maintenance
14) Offer rewards for convictions involving fraudulent use of Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, or other entitlements
15) Freeze rent increases
Republican governors would be wise to use this time to convene special sessions.
Since we are picking what laws actually matter and which laws don't. What are the top 5 laws you dont feel a need to follow?
If Donald Trump gives illegals with jobs amnesty, that sends a very clear message that it’s okay to break into America illegally as long as you steal a job from an America while you’re at it
This is NOT what we voted for
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My Hot take of the day.
Either ALL laws matter
Or
No laws matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
@realDonaldTrump
I want the mass deportation of everyone. Anything less will be unacceptable no matter who backs the plan. Period.
@POTUS "You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon" obviously.
You cannot allow immigration law to be ignored for any reason. obviously.
You will lose my support. I suspect I'm not alone.
Dear President Trump,
You cannot trust a deal with the democrats.
You gave Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX) a full, unconditional pardon.
What was the reward for your generosity? He ran for re-election as a democrat to help flip the House from 🟥🔜🟦.
You won the popular vote in 2024 because one of your biggest campaign promises was the largest deportation force.
Remember: Democrats are so dishonest that they purposefully sought a candidate with the same name as incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan for the purpose of confusing voters.
An amnesty deal would be a blight & irreparable blemish on your legacy & American history.
I say this with the utmost of respect & — if I didn’t care, then I wouldn’t say anything.
Your base, your supporters, does not want amnesty.
End money laundering, aka foreign aid. End NGOs receiving US tax dollars, also known as money laundering. The corruption in DC is so bad it can't be denied and they barely hide it anymore.
The very 1st guy to walk in and kick over the tables and start slapping mfers gets my backing. Until then they are all full of sh*t.
On behalf of America, I’m calling on @SenRonJohnson to run for minority leader in the Senate.
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Grumpyoldbuilder McNailbender retweeted
How WORTHLESS is @LeaderJohnThune you ask?
Rep. Tim Burchett’s NO 40 MILLION a week of our Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act passed the House in June 2025.
It’s STILL awaiting a Senate vote.
American taxpayers should NOT bankroll the Taliban!
Senator Rick Scott was on Fox News saying what most Republicans are thinking.
Starting on Monday, all Republican Senators, should be at work every single day, nuking the filibuster if possible, and passing all of the bills in rapid fire session up until January.
While I love this attitude, we could’ve used it a few months ago!
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The left does not create. They regulate and it's not for your own good. It is for theirs.
My American friends,
If you don't understand this, you will never beat your real enemy.
On Tuesday, voters rejected data centers almost everywhere they were on the ballot. Within hours, the left was calling AI executives to testify and demanding a national moratorium.
Power bills, jobs, safety. That's the official story. It's not the real one.
The real story is that the institutional left runs on three things: scarcity, narrative, and money. Manufactured scarcity in housing, healthcare and education, so someone has to allocate it. A captured narrative, so you accept it. And a money printer, so you pay for it without ever voting on it.
AI is the first technology in history that hits all three at once.
It makes the $200,000 degree look absurd. It makes the expert's monopoly on truth disappear. It pushes prices toward zero in a system that needs inflation to survive its debt.
They're not fighting AI because it's dangerous to you. They're fighting it because it's dangerous to them.
Read this. Understand it. Then stop attacking the people building abundance, and start fighting the ones who need you poor so they can administer you.
AI isn't a threat to humanity. It's an audit.
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