Most Americans have no idea how hard the Founding Fathers fought NOT to fight. I mean they really exhausted every avenue with the king, and then some.
That tradition carries on today. We fight hard not to fight. Very hard.
But when we do?
Be somewhere else.
WARNING!! There is a pandemic of doctors being "baffled" about what is making young people drop dead, have heart attacks, PEs, turbo cancer and tons of autoimmune diseases...🙄
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Extreme Ownership— when a leader publicly acknowledges they failed and accepts responsibility for their leadership decisions and the consequences of them. Name one leader who has publicly acknowledged they failed when they executed the unlawful military vax mandate—an action that harmed hundreds of thousands of servicemembers! Or when servicemembers needlessly died from the Afghanistan withdrawal.
A RARE STORY OF LEADERSHIP
His decisions cost the lives of 9 people...he could have thrown his subordinates under the bus, engaged in blame shifting, or run a media campaign to reframe the incident to make him out to be some kind of hero...but that is not what happened— Commander Waddle took responsibility. He was relieved of command, reprimanded, and retired as a commander.
On February 9, 2001, 9 nautical miles south of Oahu, Hawaii, the USS Greeneville (commanded by Commander Scott Waddle) was conducting a public relations “distinguished visitor” cruise with 16 civilians aboard (including CEOs and others).
During a rapid surfacing maneuver, as part of a demonstration, the submarine rose quickly and struck the Ehime Maru—a 190-foot Japanese high school training vessel carrying 35 people (students, teachers, and crew on a fisheries training voyage).
The submarine’s rudder sliced through the hull of the smaller ship. The Ehime Maru sank within 10 minutes. 9 OF THE 35 aboard died (4 high school students, 2 teachers, and 3 crew members).
Waddle later expressed deep remorse, met with victims’ families in Japan, and has spoken publicly about the tragedy, including writing open letters of apology.
I was enlisted when this event happened— everyone expected the enlisted and junior officers to be blamed and punished. What happened when Commander Waddle took responsibility, he taught me and tens of thousands of servicemembers, one of the most important leadership lessons and demonstrated a level of character and integrity rarely seen today.
Society thinks leaders are the ones with the most ribbons or fancy titles...the ones who are front and center for photo ops and taking credit for the hard work of others...that is not leadership that is self-serving, self-promotion, and it’s the rot of the ranks.
Have mistakes been made? Yes.
Have servicemembers needlessly died because of incompetence, poor decisions, or people bowing to political theater? Yes.
When was the last time we saw a Commander Waddle-own it, not privately, not "between you and I" - just as publicly as when they are celebrated on a parade field? People don't expect leaders to be perfect - they expect that they act with the sobriety that good men and women’s lives depend on, their humility to admit when they are wrong, and learn from it!
I also spoke with Mitch for 20 minutes. We discussed Todd Blanche finally releasing all DOJ Epstein Files and for the "Epstein Files Transparency Act 2.0: the CIA Operational Files" to be released. We also discussed Thomas Massie replacing Mitch when CCP Chao ultimately takes him off of life support.
The "eye of the tiger" is unwavering, courageous, and locked onto a goal—we operate the same way.
This week, Feds For Freedom is at @TheFreedomFest in Las Vegas! Come by our media booth #336 to get interviewed and meet the F4F team. @ActiveSinger24 and @KyleSeraphin would love to chat!
Photo from the latest @Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens installation.
The pandemic response was handled by newly created agencies, not traditional ones. For instance, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency decided who was essential—creating a strange divide between professional and working classes versus those in between.
It's a great day to be an American! 🇺🇸
Thank you to the Conservative Soirée in Virginia for having Feds For Freedom out today. Here's our talented Executive Director, Stephanie Weidle (@ActiveSinger24), singing the National Anthem at the event.
Happy Birthday, America. 🎈🎉 Long may your colors wave over this great nation.
🚨 The CIA investigated thousands of its own employees and contractors for espionage… because they didn’t take the COVID shot.
For declining a personal medical intervention.
Their Counter Espionage Department was weaponized against Americans exercising bodily autonomy. Permanent “suspected spy” notations in security files that follow them forever.
Feds For Freedom just backed a class-action lawsuit filed yesterday in Virginia federal court to force the CIA to knock it off and clean the files.
This is exactly the kind of unaccountable agency abuse that shattered trust in these institutions.
American Exceptionalism VI: Benjamin Franklin
The World Before:
Europe expected colonies to produce subjects, not statesmen. Civilization was supposed to flow from old capitals, old titles, and old bloodlines.
The American Answer:
Benjamin Franklin ruined the theory. Printer, inventor, diplomat, revolutionary, and professional menace to dull men, he walked into the salons of Europe like the New World had sent its own weather system. He charmed France, mocked Britain, played kings and ministers against their own arrogance, and somehow found time to flirt like diplomacy was a contact sport.
The Legacy:
Franklin proved the American mind was not provincial. It could invent, bargain, seduce, persuade, and outthink older powers on their own ground. Before America became a superpower, Franklin made it impossible to dismiss.
The Threat:
The enemies of this country hate men like Franklin because they cannot be manufactured by systems or contained by class. He was talent without permission, genius without credential, and rebellion wearing spectacles.
Wait, I just had an epiphany. What’s the most triggering thing a communist has to endure?
You guessed it: stories of American exceptionalism.
We should just flood the zone with these stories all weekend. Ignoring everything else.
Just tell the stories of OUR country.
The ones that changed the very fabric of existence for the entire world.
Yes. Yes we should. We should tell our stories for the next 3 days.
Idk how to craft it. Musing on that now. But we should ALL do this.
Highlight American Exceptionalism!
American Exceptionalism V: Yorktown
The World Before:
Empires were not supposed to lose to colonies. Britain commanded fleets, armies, money, ports, and the confidence of a world that believed power belonged to those already holding it.
The American Answer:
At Yorktown, that world cracked. Washington trapped Cornwallis against the sea, French guns closed the ring, and the empire that had crossed oceans to command America found itself surrounded on American soil.
The king’s army marched out defeated.
The Legacy:
Yorktown proved the Revolution was not a rebellion to be punished, but a nation to be recognized. The Declaration had named America. Valley Forge had tested it. Yorktown forced the world to see it.
A republic had survived the empire sent to strangle it.
The Threat:
The enemies of this country hate Yorktown because it reminds them that history does not always belong to the largest machine. Sometimes it belongs to the people stubborn enough to outlast it, bleed it, corner it, and make it kneel.
🇺🇸As we prepare to celebrate 250 years of independence, let’s recommit to the principle that made us free: You are sovereign over your own body.
📜The Founding Fathers did not use words like “bodily autonomy”; however, they used the term “sovereign.” Today we are highlighting Patrick Henry.
‼️Patrick Henry warned us of “public liberty.” He was one of the most passionate Anti-Federalist orators.
👉“The rights of conscience, trial by jury, liberty of the press, all your immunities and franchises, all pretensions to human rights and privileges, are rendered insecure…” Henry repeatedly invoked the Virginia Declaration of Rights and argued that the Constitution endangered the people’s natural and unalienable rights. “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel.”
✨Henry’s warning applied to common arguments used to support Covid mandates. Motives such as requirements for “public health” and “for the common good” can (and did) violate personal liberty.
🫵Values championed by Henry such as enjoying and defending life, rights of conscience, and individual security align with modern ideas of bodily autonomy and individual sovereignty.
21 April: SecWar orders end of Flu shot mandate
Early-May: Policy is crafted to reinstate flu shot mandate for effectively everyone
Mid-June: All services implement policy undermining SecWar
2 April: SecWar orders service members be allowed to carry a personally-owned firearm for protection upon request.
Mid-June: No services take action undermining SecWar
Personnel is policy. They have multiple ways to undermine good efforts being made. There is one very effective way to fix it... fire them.
There are very few journalists willing to follow the facts wherever they lead, regardless of who it upsets. That’s why I’ve always respected @SteveBakerUSA.
Whether you agree with every conclusion he reaches or not, he’s consistently asked hard questions that many others won’t touch. Watching the government target people for pursuing uncomfortable stories should concern every American. A free press isn’t just about protecting journalists we agree with, it’s about protecting the right to investigate, question, and report without fear of political retaliation.
Steve is one of my favorite truth tellers. Praying for him and hoping the truth wins in the end.
American Exceptionalism IV: Valley Forge
The World Before:
Winter has killed more armies than enemy fire. Hunger, disease, naked feet, and the suspicion that no one is coming can destroy a cause before a battle ever begins.
The American Answer:
At Valley Forge, the Revolution was reduced to its bones. No glory. No momentum. Just a starving army in the Pennsylvania snow while the British rested in Philadelphia. They could have gone home and history would have understood.
They stayed.
The Legacy:
Valley Forge proved America was not held together by comfort, pay, or easy victory. It was held together by men who had every reason to quit and chose instead to become the spine of a nation not yet born.
America was declared in Philadelphia. It was earned in the snow.
The Threat:
Soft ages always forget what freedom costs. They mistake comfort for strength and slogans for conviction. Valley Forge remains the answer: a republic survives only when free men can suffer without surrendering what made them free.
Thank you to our Government Accountability panelists—wonderful discussion.
And that's a wrap on National Security Beyond the Headlines!
Thank you to all who attended in person, watched the live stream, and supported this event behind the scenes today.
American Exceptionalism III: George Washington
The World Before:
Revolutions usually end with a strongman. The old ruler falls, the liberator takes his place, and the people learn too late that they only traded one master for another. History was crowded with men who claimed to free nations and then crowned themselves.
The American Answer:
George Washington had every ingredient required for power: an army that worshiped him, a nation that trusted him, and enemies too weak to stop him. He could have become king in everything but name.
Instead, he resigned his commission and went home. That decision did more than end a war. It taught the republic what power was for.
The Legacy:
Washington made restraint heroic. He proved that the greatest man in a republic is not the one who seizes power, but the one strong enough to lay it down. Every peaceful transfer of power in America lives in the shadow of that choice.
The Threat:
The enemies of this nation hate Washington because he exposes their hunger. Every ideology built on control eventually requires men who cannot release the machinery of power once they possess it.
Washington did.
That is why he remains dangerous.