Dave Raftery

Foundation Training instructor, Aikido practioner

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@Policykook @sentdefender I read an US AWACS saw 40 Iranian speedboats yesterday and the US did nothing. All 40 should have been eliminated, just like the SA drug boats.

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@Macp3td @sentdefender The US should have taken over the 7 islands in the strait of Hormuz 3 weeks ago. Then the strait would be open to non Iranian commercial ships and the price of oil would have fallen. I read an US AWACS saw 40 Iranian speed boats yesterday and the US did nothing. Unbelievable!

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@SecWar Excellent decision to allow service members to carry their own guns on Department of Defense installations. (Note it is DoD not DoW. Only Congress can legally change to the name of the Dod and Congress has not done so.)

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@GybatShoresy @libsoftiktok Thank you for your service

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@IowaPatriot @CENTCOM Thank you for your service.

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@DeptofWar You guys are the Department of Defense! Congress created your organization in 1947. Only Congress can change your name, not the President. And this is coming from a Trump supporter.

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@FatKat1991 @joekennedy I am a Trump supporter but he cannot legally add his name to the Kennedy Center. Congress created the Kennedy Center by law and only Congress can change the name. The exact same reasoning applies to the Dept of Defense. Trump cannot legally change the name to Dept of War.

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@EricLDaugh I am 71 years old and weigh 200 pounds. No one is going to prevent me from reaching my grandchild in church or from exiting from church afterwards!

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Democrats now control the legislature and Governor's office in Virginia.

Here are just a few of the bills they've introduced

- New 4.3% sales tax on Uber Eats, Amazon, etc deliveries.
- New sales tax on admissions to a wide variety of businesses.
- Create two new higher tax brackets of 8% and 10% on people making over $600K.
- A new 10% tax bracket for anyone making over $1M.
- 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes.
- Raise the hotel tax.
- New personal property tax on landscaping equipment.
- Ban gas powered leaf blowers.
- Guarantee illegal aliens free education.
- Make it illegal to approach somebody at an abortion clinic.
- Extend the time absentee ballots can be received after election day to three days
- Allow people to cast their votes electronically through the internet.
- Expand ranked-choice voting.
- Extend the deadline for ballot curing to one week after election day.
- Redact the addresses of political candidates from FOIAs.
- Add Virginia to the National Popular Vote Compact for presidential electors.
- Make it illegal to hand count ballots.
- $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors .
- "Assault weapons" and large capacity magazine ban.
- 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition.
- Prohibit outdoor shooting of a firearm on land less than 5 acres.
- Lower the criminal penalties for robbery.
- Ban the arrest of illegal aliens in courthouses.
- Remove mandatory minimum sentences.
- Allow localities to install speed cameras.
- Replace Columbus Day with "Indigenous Peoples Day."

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@BGOnTheScene Sounds like a threat against federal law enforcement. Arrest her now!

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@SecWar Pete, you are doing a job and I am pro Trump BUT it is the Department of Defense, NOT the Dept of War. Congress created the DoD and only Congress can change its name, not President Trump.

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@BskiMike22802 @SenatorSlotkin Thank you for your service and your excellent comment. God bless you and God bless America.

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@JohnMcCloy @StephenM @JDVance I am a Trump supporter but I cannot stand Stephen Miller. He is a blowhard. If I see him on tv, I change the channel.

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@TheCalvinCooli1 Maybe now Tulsi will be removed from the Quiet Skies Terrorist Watchlist?

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@CitizenFreePres That is the SpaceX Dragon capsule at the bottom of the image!

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@L_Tactician @Brushbeater This guy's YT channel has good info on Baofeng radios, both for ham use and GMRS use. He has a strange sense of humor! https://t.co/2FHIqJmJYx

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@elonmusk Grok obeys Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"!

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

I was walking Sunday night at 7:30 Eastern and I saw Elon's Starlink satellites in the sky. I noticed a straight line of "stars" moving across the sky. 1/3 of the sky was covered. The sun had set an hour earlier; the sunlight must have hit the satellites so I could see them.

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

@business Completely misleading story. This occurred back on 20 April; the story makes it sound like it happened yesterday. The rocket did not explode on the launch pad. The engine exhaust was so powerful that it compressed the ground underneath the concrete pad causing it to fracture.

[Dave Raftery @BayStatePosture]

Amazing story of reclaiming high desert land using proper water management, trees and cows!

https://t.co/opBMf7lqlW