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CarpeCasus retweeted
I feel that the 25th anniversary of 9/11 has caused a critical mass of Americans to reach an inflection point on their understanding of that event.
We are starting to realize that we lost the Global War on Terror. We did not lose it on military grounds. We lost it on spiritual grounds. Domestically we are succumbing to the goals of Sharia and jihad, which was EXACTLY what the 9/11 terrorists sought to bring about with their heinous actions.
Now that more and more people are seeing this, we can combat it--not with tanks and bombs and rifles alone, but with our words, voices and votes.
We must actively combat the Islamification of America. Sharia and jihad are wholly incompatible with the Constitution. Islam is a political movement hiding beneath the cover of freedom of religion. When a "religion" itself is not free, it is no longer a religion and no longer enjoys the protections the Constitution affords.
Spread the word.
CarpeCasus retweeted
The Media Only Loves Us When We’re Dead: Part II
I’m not done with this "reporter" yet. And I won’t stay silent while the media drags warfighters who bled for this nation and are now trying to make it better.
I’ll be honest, I’m ashamed I didn’t look deeper into the story of @SeanParnellUSA sooner. The GWOT cuts too close to my own scars, so I looked away from the broader history. But not anymore.
Media scrutiny isn’t new. Even George Washington was mocked in print. But the latest attacks on Sean Parnell say far more about the press than they do about him.
So pause and remember where you were on June 10, 2006.
1. The most popular song was Hips Don’t Lie.
2. The top movie was Cars.
3. And Sean Parnell was leading 39 men through a mountain ambush by over 250 enemy fighters. He was wounded three times, and stayed in the fight. By the end of that deployment, 85% of his platoon had been wounded.
Funny how you only get one Purple Heart for taking three hits in one battle, but a thousand paper cuts from the press for doing nothing wrong.
So let me get this straight: guys like him are good enough to fight your wars, bury their friends, and carry the silence of it all for the rest of their lives, but not good enough to help fix the institutions that failed them?
Who better than them?
You think you're criticizing one man. But behind every name you recognize is a platoon’s worth of warriors you never will. Quiet. Steady. Carrying the same resolve that got them all home. And whether you realize it or not, the hopes of a generation of warfighters rest quietly on his and @PeteHegseth's shoulders.
You forget: the fire that forged these men didn’t burn them up, it tempered them. And here’s the part you never seem to learn:
If you keep mocking the warriors who came home and tried to lead, don’t act surprised when fewer of them show up next time. Why would they?
Or maybe that’s the media's goal? But it won't work.
Because in this country, it seems the only time the media honors them... is when they’re coming home in a box draped in the American Flag.
***Please share this widely to counter the harmful "media" narratives that exist to malign warfighters who bled in battle and are trying to make a difference.***
NEW: Trump Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, who has only done one briefing, has been participating in introductory “DOD 101” courses to get up to speed on the DOD’s priorities, four people familiar with the matter told me, @JackDetsch and @paulmcleary. politico.com/newsletters/nat…
CarpeCasus retweeted
Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos , I’m asking you to look at this once through the eyes of the people wearing the uniform since you own @washingtonpost.
We volunteered and accepted the bargain. Missed birthdays, broken bodies, years away from our families, hostile fire, and the possibility that if we die, our families get roughly $500,000 in life insurance. In much of America today, that barely buys a house.
We know our lot and we’re not complaining about it.
But the job is hard enough without having to wonder whether an American newspaper is going to publish classified wartime command deliberations because its newsroom despises the administration and wants another cheap political scalp.
Fight the President, the Secretary, the Pentagon. Whatever, that’s politics.
But when the ammunition for that fight is information tied to ongoing operations and the private judgments of senior commanders, you’re spending our risk to buy your headline.
That’s the part WE need you to understand.
Murphy already gets a vote. So does the enemy. Exhaustion, bad intelligence, mechanical failure and plain rotten luck all get votes. We volunteered to face those things.
We did NOT volunteer to become collateral damage in the Washington Post’s feud with an administration it hates.
Your reporters will publish the piece, watch the engagement numbers, and go home.
Some American kid will still be standing watch when they do.
Jeff, give us a fucking chance. Come on man. You’ve got to clean house at that paper. The journalists are too blackpilled to be of any use anymore. In fact, they’re literally harming us.
Our brothers and sisters are in a worse situation now due to this reporting. Don’t agree with the combat operations, fine. But come on. Leaking an SDOB? That’s objectively insane behavior.
***to my followers: share so we know he sees this.***
EXCLUSIVE: Military leaders warned Hegseth that keeping the force of more than 50,000 troops in the Middle East is unsustainable, drawing “non-concurs” from them in recent orders to extend troops. (gift link) w/ @AlexHortonTX wapo.st/4wT23bL
CarpeCasus retweeted
Excellent read:
Captain Kelly Forgot What the Rank Required: When Residual authority turns into political theater
👁️🧠🧐 Captain Mark Kelly wants you to know he spoke to a grandmother today. Her 21-year-old grandson is aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. The kid has dropped 20-25 pounds and is fighting depression. Kelly’s conclusion: so-called leaders like Pete Hegseth aren’t doing a damn thing about it.
That is the whole play. A sitting senator who still leans on the title “Captain” turns a private family worry into a public political strike. He treats the existence of strain itself as proof of failure higher up the chain.
A captain’s job was never to serve as the fleet’s public grief counselor. It still isn’t. Kelly is not that sailor’s division officer, his chaplain, or his corpsman. He is a politician wearing residual rank like a costume. The second he decided to broadcast one grandmother’s concern as evidence of institutional neglect, he stopped operating as an officer and started operating as every other partisan hunting soft targets.
Look at how the same problem was handled when the cost of failure was measured in bodies instead of headlines.
Private Eddie Slovik walked away from his unit in France in 1944. The Army did not issue a press release about his mental state. It court-martialed him, convicted him of desertion, and executed him by firing squad in January 1945. The only American soldier put to death for desertion since the Civil War. The message was simple and final: the mission continues.
General Patton walked into a hospital ward in Sicily in 1943, found a soldier crying that he could not take it anymore, called him a coward in front of the other patients, slapped him, and ordered him back to the line. The political class lost its mind. The men still fighting did not. Patton’s premise was never seriously contested by the ones who had to keep moving: once you are in, the job does not pause for your nerves.
Kelly’s version runs the opposite direction. He treats the sailor’s condition as an automatic indictment of leadership. That framing assumes the primary duty of command is to prevent or rapidly erase the psychological cost of the work. Armies have always produced men who lost weight, stopped sleeping, and stared at bulkheads. The real question was whether the unit could still function under pressure.
Kelly is free to push for better screening, more resources, or different policies. Managing these cases is part of modern military life. What he is not free to do while still trading on the word “Captain” is pretend that turning one family’s private worry into a partisan attack constitutes leadership. It does not. It is political theater performed in borrowed authority.
A captain’s duty was to keep the ship and its crew effective when the pressure rose. Consolation was never the primary mission. Kelly has either forgotten that distinction or decided it no longer applies to him. Either way, the performance is beneath the rank he once held.
—Mars Lewis
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CarpeCasus retweeted
July 2020. Steps of the Supreme Court. America’s Frontline Doctors stood in white coats and told the American people the truth the regime did not want spoken:
COVID was treatable.
Early treatment worked.
Nobody needed to die.
Lockdowns were never necessary.
We were censored within hours. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube erased the video. Careers were destroyed. Doctors were threatened. Patients were denied the medicine that could have saved them.
They called us dangerous.
They were the danger.
History has already rendered its verdict. We were right. They lied. And the people paid the price in lives, liberty, and lost years.
Watch it. Share it. Bookmark it.
Never let them memory-hole what they did.
The truth was never the threat.
Their power was.
CarpeCasus retweeted
Share if you agree that the Senate shouldn’t take its August recess until it has passed the SAVE America Act.
The Senate has only been in session about 40% of the time this year so far, and there is a lot more to get done.
Hardworking Americans work 5 days a week, and the people who represent them should too.
We should not leave here until we pass EVERY single piece of legislation that we need — especially the SAVE America Act.
CarpeCasus retweeted
Guys like @CynicalPublius, @KurtSchlichter, and even @infantrydort give the press hell for nitpicking and running fake news.
The MSM earns that scorn. But here’s the harder truth: praise is difficult to write because sometimes there’s nothing to report.
I just spent two hours aboard USS Arlington. I got nothing, folks.
I walked every major space. Met a dozen crew. Hung around the bridge asking questions.
They answered every one.
The ship was in tip-top condition. Not perfect. The crew had a few gripes, but they’re too inside baseball to matter on X.
And it wasn’t just the big things, it’s never the big things. What they reminded me of was an old Navy motto “Attention to detail”
Small things like stencil marks that don’t bleed, emergency gear properly lanyard, hatch latches not missing those little springs.
All those things that drive an old ship captain like me absolutely bat sh!t crazy not because we care so much about those little tiny things but because we know that if we find little things broken, there are big problems the crew is hiding from us.
So I got hours on a ship and nothing to report. No rust stain that’s going to get me 3M views. No overweight sailor who hasn’t shaved in three days. No sensationalism anywhere.
If I had an editor at a major newspaper, he’d ask why the hell I wasted my time.
I don’t have an editor. So I’ve got nothing.
And nobody wants to read about nothing. There were a dozen story fragments I could have stretched with half truths, but that wouldn’t be fair to a crew that has worked its tail off.
All I’ve got is a BZ. I’m posting it anyway.
Maybe a few patriots make it viral. Maybe not. Fine either way, because the truth always wins.
Bravo Zulu USS Arlington
P.S. Ok one story: Marlon a sharp young officer whose dad cut hair and refilled vending machines on Navy ships in the 90’s. A son who's a razor sharp officer on a ship defending your freedom from the CIC. The American dream lives on 🇺🇸.
CarpeCasus retweeted
Hello Mrs. Owens,
You told millions of people that Tyler Robinson "wasn't even there." That you felt "confident stating that Tyler Robinson did not kill murder Charlie Kirk."
He was on camera. Prone on the Losi rooftop at 12:22. Shot at 12:23:28. DNA on the screwdriver at 30 quintillion to one. DNA on the rifle at 1.7 octillion to one. He told his family what he did. His parents helped him surrender. He texted his roommate: "I am, I'm sorry." He engraved "Hey Fascist! Catch!" on the ammunition a month before he used it.
You said police "didn't even question" Lance Twiggs. He was interviewed twice. FBI the morning after. Joint state-federal team seven months later. His own attorney. Voluntary phone surrender. You laughed when you said it.
You told Shawn Ryan a shaped charge killed Charlie. That PETN was in his microphone. The medical examiner says gunshot wound. Bullet fragments were recovered from his body. A .30-06 Mauser with Robinson's DNA was found in the woods. Neither side — not prosecution, not defense — has mentioned explosives. Not once in four days.
You said the shot came from below. The Losi building is above the amphitheater.
You called Erika Kirk a "clinical psychopath" to an audience of millions. You said the assassination was "an occult ritual." You said Charlie was "sitting in a pentagram." You told people Israel killed him because he refused Netanyahu.
You made over a hundred episodes. You built a franchise on a dead man's name.
And the hardest fact of all: Tyler Robinson's own defense lawyers — the people whose entire career is on the line to get him acquitted — have refused to make a single one of your arguments. Not one. They're challenging DNA methodology. They are doing their jobs. You were doing something else entirely.
Charlie Kirk changed my life. He platformed my work when nobody knew who I was. He had my back when I was doxxed. I was the ten-thousandth most important person in his world and I will never be able to repay him.
So I did what I know how to do. I read every transcript. I watched every hour of testimony. I cataloged your claims and I held them up against what was said under oath.
Every single one failed.
I don't know why you did this. I'm not going to speculate on your motives, because that would make me exactly the kind of analyst I've spent my career refusing to be. But I know what you did. You told people confident lies about a dead man's murder, and millions of them believed you, and some of them turned that belief into threats against his widow.
The trial continues. And every day of sworn testimony is another day your words get tested against reality... under oath, on the record, where it counts.
I'll be here for all of it... because just as Charlie defended me, I will do what little I can to defend his legacy and @TPUSA and @MrsErikaKirk from evil.
CarpeCasus retweeted
15 days.
That's all until Cody Harper stands in court, facing the possibility of prison for assaulting a police officer.
The footage appears to show Cody being attacked by a group of men beforehand, including a punch to the back of the head.
Moments later, while seemingly disorientated, an officer rushes in and pushes him against a shutter. He lashes out, then immediately stops once he appears to realise it's a police officer.
I genuinely thought common sense would have prevailed by now, and that this charge would be dropped and an apology issued.
The police asked people not to share the footage.
I think the opposite. If you care about justice, people should watch the video and decide for themselves.
This young man's future is on the line.
CarpeCasus retweeted
What's happening in Ireland isn't a riot.
It's a Counteroffensive.
Call it what it is.
CarpeCasus retweeted
HORRIFYING: Carlos Nava was deported 8 times... yet he kept sneaking back into America. Police say he brutally r*ped up to 17 women and girls across three states, including children.
According to prosecutors, police found 17 pairs of victims’ underwear neatly folded in his truck "which he kept as trophies".
THIS is the kind of person Democrats are trying to block ICE from deporting.
REPOST this everywhere.
#thinblueline #lawenforcement
CarpeCasus retweeted
I’m tired of the Senate’s evergreen excuse for inaction:
“We don’t have 60 votes.”
There are ways around the 60-vote cloture standard.
It’s time to start using them.
And stop disingenuously characterizing any refusal to do so as virtuous or conservative.
Share if you agree.
CarpeCasus retweeted
UVU's Republican chapter is rightly opposing a commencement speaker who celebrated Charlie Kirk's murder.
UVU must be made to known that "nonpartisanship" does not exist and their works towards a Dignity Index are nothing more than a social credit system for which their implementers may or may not have known in advance about Kirk's murder.
CarpeCasus retweeted
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
UVU College Republicans strongly oppose the selection of Sharon McMahon as this year’s commencement speaker.
A statement from UVU College Republicans President Sage Lloyd has been issued and is attached below.
CarpeCasus retweeted
UVU, you should be ashamed of yourself. I didn't see the Kirk assassination - but I lived very close to it, and 11 year olds attending my own church saw it and will be forever scarred by it.
You need the @JimmysSeafood treatment.