Craig Bowyer

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@getty_a96716 @Joeinblack I hope you didn't pull a hammy with that stretch....what could possibly symbolize that oppressive custom, I wonder....

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@Maestro4Maestro @gpapi2046 @jackunheard Just a cursory glance at your profile says it all. You're probably just pissed cause your "do gooder" grift is being jeopardized. The Non-Profit development professional says it all.

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@biggsag @chriswithans My social security benefit was cut by about 60%. I did not pay any less taxes than you, but I was penalized.

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@biggsag @chriswithans 1/2- That's not remotely accurate. Only public employees that qualify for social security benefits can collect. The WEP was a disaster that took way too long to get rid of. I've worked and paid taxes (SS) since the age of 13, but because I took a job with a public pension

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@RepMarkPocan Just like the 25 trillion we've spent on poverty has fixed that, right? You clowns are all the same, more government will fix everything...

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@DarrigoMelanie 60+ years, 25 trillion dollars, and the government still hasn't solved most of these issues.

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@JaredRyanSears @Thomas36303 "The official poverty rate has been cut in half since LBJ became president."-- This is absolute bunk. We've spent 25 trillion dollars on aggregated social programs to see a 4-6 point drop in poverty rates. That's a dismal ROI.

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@RaptorBreath @popculture72632 @QasimRashid Tell us you know fuck all about the history of taxation without telling us. How bout this: In 1913 only 1-3% of the US paid income taxes. It was essentially a wealth tax, given you had to earn $3000 or more/ yr. to be taxed. Today, 50% pay taxes. Slippery enough?

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@Heccles94 The US has spent 25 trillion dollars in the past 60 years combating poverty with no measurable improvement. Despite this massive expenditure, the poverty rate remains somewhere between 11-15%. But, yeah, taking most of Elon Musks money will surely fix it this time.

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@bourscheid The government keeps trying what you propose. They've spent 25 trillion dollars attempting this over the past 60+ years with no tangible results.

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@IFLH23 @Rensontwitts @politicallyvoid You're an absolute turnip, you smug limey. In 2024 alone, per a quick Google search: Overall Defense Spending

The total defense spending by NATO members in 2024 is projected to be $1.47 trillion, with the U.S. accounting for about two-thirds of this total.

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@IFLH23 @Rensontwitts @politicallyvoid @grok will you provide a detailed breakdown of NATO defenseapending by country?

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@quesoliker @KeenanPeachy @BenStiller Family Planning: "I'm planning to have sex, I should obtain and use protection"
Not Family Planning: "I had unprotected sex, oh well, I'll just have that pesky fetus torn out of my body. I don't have time for that inconvenience

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@JudgeJeanine R.I.P. Sarah Beckstrom, Thank you for your heroic service. May God give your family peace and assuage their grief.

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@ScottHech Yes, we descended from immigrants who created or assimilated into America.

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@RandomChances @adamscochran How long will someone survive, without defibrillation, if they're suffering from V-fib, Pulseless V-tach? What is the prescribed treatment algorithm for the aforementioned rhythms?

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@WILLIAM28584803 @adamscochran @RandomChances Nope, any Cardiac rhythm that doesn't produce a pulse is considered Cardiac arrest. Pulseless V Tach, V Fib, Asystole ("flatlined"). Any of those rhythms will result in death unless immediately treated.

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@Sassafrass_84

[Craig Bowyer @Braxtonsghost]

@jjverdi @RoKhanna @grok please detail how prices have changed when government gets involved in student loans, mortgage lending, health insurance. Please show whether prices have increased or decreased