Ghost of Smedley Butler

[John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen]

This is a disgrace.

A Gulf War Marine veteran named Albert O’Toole who served this country, took a blast that left him with TBI, and was later diagnosed with Alzheimer’s was beaten by his aide Matthew Cox inside the New York State Veterans Home in Montrose, New York.

His wife Angela Sangro became concerned after seeing unexplained bruises and heavy sedation. She installed a hidden camera. The footage shows the aide yanking food out of Albert’s hands, grabbing him by the neck, throwing him into a chair, punching him, and striking him in the head with a broom while he cried out in pain. No one came to help.

The state fired the abuser.
But the federal VA? Still has him employed. Still paying him while the case drags on.

You make veterans fight through hell just to get the benefits and compensation they earned with their blood and sacrifice. You move fast to cut or reduce what’s owed to them.

But when one of your own is caught on camera assaulting a defenseless veteran? You keep him on the federal payroll like it’s nothing.

@SecVetAffairs you talk about accountability. Here it is. Fire this man from the VA now. No pay. No protection. No more dragging it out.
@SecWar our warriors come home broken from fighting for this nation. They deserve better than a system that protects abusers while making veterans fight for every dollar they earned.
@SpeakerJohnson this is on you too. Oversight without teeth is just theater. Do your job.
This isn’t how you treat the men and women who served. This is a betrayal.
Veterans FIRST.
Zero tolerance for those who abuse them.
Immediate action. No excuses.
If you’re not outraged by this, you’re not paying attention.
Semper Fi.
@TheTankGuns

[Ghost of Smedley Butler @ChestyGhost]

@CoyoteUnclean Peak American culture

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

“Desecrating the Pride hat” is an interesting way to refer to what I’ve been assured is an entirely non-religious symbol and movement

[Ghost of Smedley Butler @ChestyGhost]

@codym1917 Now everyone remember this when you see Josh Shapiro run for President in 2028. He did time in the Israeli army, not the US.

[Ghost of Smedley Butler @ChestyGhost]

This needs to be remembered when Josh Shapiro runs for President in 2028.

[TalibanArtDealer @KevinIsInsideU]

If you served in another country’s military and didn’t serve in the US Armed Forces, you shouldn’t be considered a dual citizen. You should be considered a guest of the US living here at our prerogative.

[Ghost of Smedley Butler @ChestyGhost]

@BuckWilde_ Me after reading this

[Ghost of Smedley Butler @ChestyGhost]

@jerrycurld Outstanding & Congratulations!!!

[Dominie 🇺🇸 @price_dominie]

There are a few critically bad moves that have completely altered the fabric of our society. They steered the United States off course, just as certainly as shooting an azimuth near an iron ore deposit. There are many contributing issues, but these were the 3 most critical deviations.

While the Union was preserved, the example set by Abraham Lincoln negated the Tenth Amendment.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Our Nation was designed to be an alliance of many States who combined under a common National Government for defense & the common good. The Federal Government was never intended to extract money & then use it as a bargaining chip to force things like a national drinking age. Lincoln also set the very example that Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR, Nixon, Bush, Obama, even Trump have followed.

Lawyers interpretations are regarded as justification to ignore the clearly spelled out restrictions. There have been benefits, but the power of the pen continuously undermined the printed ink of the US Constitution.

The 17th Amendment was a critical mistake. It introduced corruption and monied interests where they were specifically excluded from the process. When the Founders designed our electoral system, they specifically created three separate pathways to hold office as a balance against mob rule and bribery:

The President was elected by the Electoral College, each State determined how those ballots would be cast. Popular vote was not excluded from their options, but also not required. The Legislature of each State would determine their choice.

Senators were chosen by the State Legislature. Most commonly they would gather together & choose the most accomplished amongst them to provide representation.

The 17th Amendment undermined the entire purpose of having a bicameral Congress. Senators spend the time where they should be coordinating with their State government, groveling for campaign cash and doing favors by how they vote.

The third way to get elected was as a District Representative, the people who serve in the House are supposed to be the most sensitive to the will of their District, but with the modern out-of-State donations, they must be Party team players & ignore the wishes of those who actually elect them.

Going off the Gold Standard created a catastrophe that many economists have warned about, but we see the consequences of on a daily basis now. It started with FDR and was finished by Nixon. This isn’t a “one party did it” thing. Gold never actually changes in value, inflation simply makes it seem so. When gold “spikes in value” all that happened is that your dollar actually lost value. Land is the other almost constant asset. If you have something extremely unique, demand may slightly increase it value because people are willing to pay more than it’s actually worth.

Real Estate agents use location, location, location to explain that phenomenon. For the majority of us, your house likely didn’t gain 30% in the past 7 years, it would just require that many more dollars to provide the equivalent value of what it once cost.

Politicians are constantly finding work-arounds to keep things afloat and still spend more. Sometimes it’s a Ponzi scheme like Social Security, or borrowing from the Post Office while claiming it’s a stand alone entity. Sometimes it’s printing money & moving a decimal place.

We’re obviously not returning to the Gold Standard, but the other 2 issues are fixable in rapid succession. Repeal the 17th Amendment and Congress should go back to doing their job instead of deputizing the Executive Branch to do it. Declarations of War, InterState commerce and regulations, a national budget; these are specifically the responsibility of Congress.

Gun laws are illegal.
Voter ID is a must.
Illegals have to go.
(But the 17th Amendment & Presidential overreach led to those)

[Ghost of Smedley Butler @ChestyGhost]

@deathmm84

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

"The enemy smelled our blood and thought we were prey. They forgot that a wounded animal is the most lethal. We tore that jungle apart to stay alive."

Major James Capers Jr stands as one of the greatest Recon Marines to ever do it. He enlisted in the Corps and fought his way into Force Recon where he became the leader of Team Broadminded. He completed more than 60 long range patrols and five major campaigns in Vietnam.

In 1967 near Phu Loc he was wounded 19 times while fighting a numerically superior enemy force. With broken legs, shrapnel across his body he refused evacuation until every Marine on his 9 man team was lifted out. His Silver Star citation states he continued to coordinate fire and movement under direct and indirect fire while suffering extreme blood loss.

That Silver Star, originally downgraded after his commander was kill*d and the Medal of Honor paperwork lost, is now being formally upgraded to the Medal of Honor. Capers was not only a mustang, he earned a battlefield commission in combat, a rare honor that speaks to the trust his Marines placed in him.

At eighty eight he remains a giant, a warrior who carried his team through hell and set the standard every Recon Marine still measures himself against.

[Ghost of Smedley Butler @ChestyGhost]

@CoyoteUnclean Credit where credit is due sir.

[Ghost of Smedley Butler @ChestyGhost]

Today's internet winner is @CoyoteUnclean

[Unclean @CoyoteUnclean]

Good news! Marlon Brando is apparently alive and well.
Bad news 😢: Bill Clinton is apparently paying his rent.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Nah, you guys know what? I’m just gonna come out and say it. And when I’m done saying it, tell me if it’s “blatant Islamophobia” or just…. you know… reality.

Let me explain to you some of the things I witnessed with my very own eyes in multiple Muslim countries. This will not be for the weak or faint of heart.

1. They didn’t just massacre one another in Baghdad, they chopped each other up into little pieces and stuffed them in underground vats. SPC Plocica was the only one with a strong enough stomach to fish the pieces out with a coat hanger so we could confirm the report. Don’t worry @Primz94933160 was there too as a witness. Rib cages with rotted flesh, pieces of legs with shoes attached, arms, hands, you name it. It was the most disgusting thing I’ve seen with my two eyes.

2. The obsession with having sex with children or feminine men. The saying over there was women are for breeding and men are for fun. We had to protect our fairer looking male Soldiers from being molested CONSTANTLY. But that isn’t the worst part. I once stumbled upon an Afghan colonel r*ping his 11 year old assistant, I heard the unholy noises emanating from his tent on our FOB. When I moved to interdict I was stopped for fear of a Green on Blue incident. And then we were all “educated” on the fact that this was CULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE FOR THEM TO DO. It was as normal as breathing.

3. Women are less than nothing to them. I would always ask how many children elders had for small talk. They could have 10 kids. 7 daughters and 3 sons. What will they tell you? They have 3 sons. I watched a man carrying his dead daughter in his arms to my FOB. She died due to a malfunctioned bomb we dropped. That didn’t matter to him. He dropped her on the ground with a stone cold face and demanded we pay him. She was f*****g NOTHING to him. He left the body with us and walked away counting his money.

4. Some of them have sex with animals. Ask me if I saw a man from COP 763 in east Baghdad mount a donkey in the middle of the night through a RAID FLIR camera. Because the answer will be yes.

5. They did heinous things in battle. Suicide bombings. Using their own wives as human shields. Using children as shields. Shooting from mosques. Spitting at our working dogs… or worse.

This all sounds crazy right? And I bet my comment section will flow with similar horror stories. It almost sounds like I’m making it up huh? I wish I was. I really do.

I know good Muslims in America. One of them is among my closest friends. But he’s passed through the American filter…HEAVILY. I can safely say he is literally one of us.

My question for you is, how are you not “Islamophobic”? My assessment comes from 4 total years immersed in multiple Islamic nations.

I wish I could say I’m sorry that I’m an inconvenient truth teller against your agenda.

But I’m not sorry at all. You must open your eyes. You MUST see this is a problem. Don’t you? How can you not?

[Ghost of Smedley Butler @ChestyGhost]

@BuzzPatterson Only after we've used B-52s first

[☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖‎ @LuckyMcGee]

If you’re mad about the Rape Gangs report from the UK, you should be just as mad about this right here happening in the USA.

Abigail Spanberger is just as complicit in Virginia, as Keir Starker is in the UK. 😒

[John Ringo SF Author @Jringo1508]

I was part of a civilian group getting books to troops around 2003. One of the other men in the chat said that troops were asking for us to 'stop sending romance novels.' He was a bit sharp on the subject but right.

One of the Karenish women went off on that. I was very calm on the subject. Said the one time I read a romance novel was on a mountaintop where I'd been for over a month and read every book there at least twice before opening up the romance novel. And I'd never read on since because I'd never been that desperate.

But as soon as women got real power in publishing, they (by and large) stopped publishing for men then asked 'why don't men read?'

[Ghost of Smedley Butler @ChestyGhost]

@ClaudesBBQ Sopping is mandatory! The meal is not finished until all of the juice has been sopped.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Democrats banned job tests as racist. Then replaced them with $150,000 degrees that turn your kids into gay Democrats.

[Ghost of Smedley Butler @ChestyGhost]

@LoveIsKey369 You know you can bounce your thoughts off me.