Results Driven Leader, Fiercely Determined Optimist, Success Catalyst, Coffee Lover.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined December 2009
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Craig Nester retweeted
As we approach Columbus Day, we reflect on the remarkable transformation of Columbus Circle.
Under the Biden administration, the fountain was broken down and covered in pro-Hamas graffiti.
Now, thanks to @POTUS, it is a symbol of American greatness!
Craig Nester retweeted
it's incredible never thought the US government could be competent but ultimately the US government is people and people matter. leadership matters. we just had to get rid of the braindead president + brainless vp + fire the dei bureaucrats / deep state and get rid of the beltway bandits and replace them with people who have founder energy for the US! ❤️ 🇺🇸 🔥
Craig Nester retweeted
The fact that no news station will air the speech tonight is all the proof you need that there is a conspiracy between the major media corporations and anti-Trump sentiment .
Craig Nester retweeted
Muslims gang raped 250k+ British girls.
Evidence that Fauci funded gain-of-function research with tax dollars was made public.
Illegal aliens tried to blow up White House UFC event.
Media: OMG did you see the algae in the Reflecting Pool???
Craig Nester retweeted
Only one way to start off the Ceremonial Weigh-Ins 🦅
#UFCWhiteHouse LIVE Sunday June 14 at 8pmET on @ParamountPlus!
[ UFC Freedom 250 Presented by @Cryptocom & @RamTrucks ]
Craig Nester retweeted
Michael Moore was right on the money, especially when he describes our right to vote. Our vote “equalizes” every legal American when it is a fairly done vote. We still have a long way to go, but because of @realDonaldTrump America has a fighting chance.
We need to do our part now and force change to our voting system. It is still badly broken.
When the right steps are taken to correct how our voting processes are done, America is unstoppable.
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Craig Nester retweeted
Elon Musk says he underweighted one trait in hiring and learned it the hard way.
For decades, talent acquisition built its scorecards on three pillars.
Skills. Experience. Cultural fit.
Resumes were ranked accordingly.
Then the bad hires happened anyway.
"Generally, I think it's a good idea to hire for talent and drive and trustworthiness."
Talent. Drive. Trustworthiness.
The first three felt obvious. The fourth had cost Musk careers.
Hires he'd defended. Hires he'd promoted. Hires he eventually fired.
Then Musk named the trait most rubrics skipped.
"And I think goodness of heart is important. I underweighted that at one point."
Musk named the trait: **goodness of heart**.
Polished. Predictable. Almost useless without it.
Musk, who had interviewed the first few thousand SpaceX hires himself, knew the longest training set.
A high-talent, high-drive, trustworthy employee with bad intent could ship more damage to a company over a quarter than a low-output engineer could in a decade, because the same competence that delivered the win also delivered the harm.
"Are they a good person? Trustworthy? Smart and talented and hard working?"
You can teach domain knowledge.
You can teach a process.
You cannot teach a person to be kind.
Or to mean well when nobody's watching.
After Musk made the correction, his hiring filters added a layer most rubrics never named.
Goodness of heart became a yes/no gate.
Musk, on the four traits that can't be unlearned:
"Those fundamental properties, you cannot change."
What's the trait you keep meeting in great hires that doesn't show up on any resume?
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— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( @dwarkesh_sp ) podcast
Craig Nester retweeted
In case you think philosophers were a myth of history, we actually have one of the greatest ever in our midst:
Craig Nester retweeted
So…
There’s Medicaid fraud but no voter fraud.
There’s welfare fraud but no voter fraud.
There’s daycare fraud but no voter fraud.
There’s hospice fraud but no voter fraud.
Everywhere we look there’s major fraud but no voter fraud?
Voter fraud allowed all the other frauds.
Craig Nester retweeted
His name is Jake Mangum and he plays for the Pirates. He just created a lifelong memory for this boy and his sister.
God bless you @Jakemangum!
Craig Nester retweeted
We can’t pass the Save America Act.
We can’t fund DHS.
We can’t impeach corrupt judges.
We can’t carry out mass deportations.
But we can grant amnesty to 350,000 Haitians and fund a slush fund for predators in Congress.
What an absolute fucking joke.
Craig Nester retweeted
So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama's campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.
And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing.
All organically, I'm sure.
I'm a practicing Catholic. I need you to understand that part. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him. Maybe you'll disagree, but in the end, Trump talks like Trump. Water is wet. I'm talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne.
This is the same Vatican that watched governments padlock churches during COVID and said nothing. That let Biden take communion while funding abortion and said nothing. That fired Bishop Strickland for defending actual Church doctrine. That removed Bishop Fernández in Puerto Rico for defending religious exemptions THE CATECHISM ITSELF supports.
But somehow Trump is the threat to human dignity.
Pope Francis was bad. Leo has turned out to be worse. Francis at least was vague about his politics. Leo went and hired the consulting firm.
The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue.
OF COURSE he won't even name who's doing the killing.
But he'll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president.
The weaponization of belief is obvious. You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote.
Craig Nester retweeted
We’re being told this country is broken beyond repair.
And then this happens.
An American Olympic gold medalist, bloodied and grinning, wrapped in the Stars and Stripes, after decades of waiting, sacrifice, and belief, reminding the world what it looks like when America rises again. 🇺🇸
Two kids on a quiet sidewalk, watching Artemis II tear through the sky, like history reaching forward and backward at once, reminding us we are still the nation that dares to go farther. 🚀
And an American Air Force colonel, shot down over enemy territory, alone in the mountains of Iran for 48 hours, hunted, wounded, waiting,
And America came for him anyway.
Through the dark.
Through the risk.
Through the fire.
Because we don’t leave our own.
Same year. Same country.
Not spin. Not noise.
This is real.
They can keep selling division.
They can keep feeding the noise.
But this?
This is different.
This is who we are when it matters.
Not perfect. Not polished.
But still capable of courage.
Still capable of wonder.
Still capable of loyalty.
The darkness is loud right now.
But the light?
The light doesn’t ask permission.
It just shows up.
GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸❤️
HAPPY EASTER 💜
Craig Nester retweeted
That kid doesn’t know it now but someday he’s gonna be all grown up, facing life and look back and realize that’s the happiest he ever was ❤️
Craig Nester retweeted
I'll never see the world the same way again......
Casinos, liquor stores, & weed shops were essential.
Gyms & churches were not.
Think about that.
Craig Nester retweeted
Congratulations to the @USMC for again earning a clean financial audit – proof of a culture built on discipline and stewardship. It’s great to see a service treating every dollar like it’s their own and managing it responsibly for the American people.
When we account for it and invest it with purpose, we boost readiness, build trust with taxpayers, and the Marines remain the world’s most lethal amphibious force.