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[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Readiness

It seems we all unanimously agree that the better commander is the one who tells the truth.

Why then, do we promote the ones who don’t? We should all know the reason. Because it’s comfortable to live in a lie.

This is a great technique honestly, lying. If you’re a careerist who only cares about advancement. The problem is that it falls flat once a formation is put to the test. Combat has a way of exposing all flaws.

But what happens if you don’t go to combat during your command? I guess you luck out then. You avoid the test. It’s a gamble that often pays off.

We want the commander who tells the truth because we need to count on his word to make our own plans as his superiors. If he reports 90% efficiency and shows up to the battle exposing 60%, well that’s a problem.

Because I’ve calculated in redundancy and even by my most aggressively pessimistic views of his capability, he still fell short.

Now people are going to die. And he may not have been a liar per se. But he was incompetent and didn’t know about his own unit. Either is unfit for command.

I started on X talking about tactics and leadership. Now I’ve come full circle to just telling the truth. Because every battlefield effect rests on our ability to do this.

GWOT caused us to over inflate everything. If you need proof, look no further than the Afghan Army we said would hold after being propped up for two decades, it folded in days.

If I were Army Chief of Staff for a day, I’d be taking advantage of this period where we aren’t embroiled in a ground war to recenter this truth telling culture that has atrophied so far.

It’s not even complicated, you can just order units to leave garrison and come back. Checking their reported readiness percentage and comparing it to whatever returns to the motorpool. A test, if you will.

Then you can have hard conversations like:

“General (or Colonel) X, you reported your formation at 82%. After a simple maneuver to the range and back, testing your fleet, you clocked in at 58%. The delta is unacceptable. Thank you for your years of dedicated service to the nation, but it is no longer required.”

@KTB_500 and I talk about this frequently. I think it is a fine COA for GEN LaNeve to consider. And it will ruffle many feathers.

Oh well.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The latest polls put Marine Le Pen at 35% in the first round of France's next presidential election, giving her a 19-point lead over her nearest rival, former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, who is on around 16%.

Le Pen remains the clear frontrunner and it’s widely believed that Édouard Philippe is the only other candidate who stands a chance to challenge her in the second round of the election.

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

This just shows everyone what "crimes" police actually care about.

This Flock camera was reportedly cut down on Friday and police immediately responded WITH A FORENSICS TEAM 🤨

For reference, when someone tried to break into my house (video is up on my channel), the police laughed when asked if they were going to look for finger prints or to photograph the would be criminals' foot prints.

Someone tries to break in to an average citizens house and potentially kill them - no forensics team.

Someone cuts down a 3'' pole on the side of the road endangering literally no one - forensics team with every resource tax payer dollars can be used for immediately 🤡

Plan accordingly...

#CityLife #police #crime #PoliceState #4thAmendment #CivilRights #ALPR #cops #stalking #flock #SurveillanceState #asheville #NC #StandingArmy

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BOMBSHELL: Nick Shirley WALKED UP to CHIRLA, an NGO in California, and they immediately became terrified as he proved $80M in taxpayer dollars was given to them

"Starts to lock door...they're locking up! They're running away!"

Shut down CHIRLA!

It's fraud!

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 TRUMP DROPS THIS BOMBSHELL

A National Park Service employee witnessed David Hearn of ActBlue in broad daylight violently ripping and tugging at the Reflecting Pool’s coating.

The same area had acid-like material poured on the new grass with “86 47” written on it.
Hearn allegedly kept destroying the pool even after being told to stop, until National Guard soldiers arrived.

This wasn’t random. This was deliberate vandalism at one of America’s most sacred sites.

Security cameras are now being installed. The pool will reopen shortly.

The people who hate this country will stop at nothing.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Marcos Iriarte-Valdez, the suspect accused of kiIIing 68-year-old Todd Stewart while he worked in his yard in California, was released from prison just 24 hours earlier.

Not 24 years. Not 24 months. 24 HOURS.

JAIL. THE. JUDGES.

We should not have to live like this!!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk is surging funding to REPEAL Ranked Choice Voting in Alaska, a scam system of voting supported by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

LFG! 🔥

SCOTT PRESLER is vehemently campaigning against RCV as well, urging everyone to vote YES on Ballot Measure 2 👏🏻

The current donation is $1.5M, per Anchorage Daily News, to defeat ranked choice voting

Thank you, @ElonMusk and @ScottPresler! This is vital for Alaska's elections!

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

France: 420 arrested, 166 minors, over fires set during the worst wildfire season since WWII.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 BIG WIN FOR AMERICAN WORKERS

DHS just advanced a rule that would kill the 60-day grace period for H-1B visa holders.

Lose your job? Your legal status ends. No more free two-month job hunt on American soil.

Pack up or get deported.

This is exactly what America First looks like.

[@amuse @amuse]

ISLAMIFICATION: I talked to a product manager from Uber who told me Islamic gangs are becoming a problem for the company. In cities like Dallas, they're working together to game the system and capture the majority of airport rides. The company wasn't terribly concerned until female passengers began complaining loudly as a result of their treatment by the Islamic drivers. It was one of the primary reasons they now allow women to request female drivers. I won't let my daughter use Uber anymore unless she selects a female driver, and I can't wait until Tesla expands their Robotaxi service to DFW and New Haven.

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

🎯DISMANTLED: A Hezbollah underground tunnel shaft that was used to store weapons.

Additionally, Kalashnikov-type weapons, missiles & anti-tank launchers, artillery weapons & RPG rockets were located.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

This is the scariest thing about the resurgence of Marxism.

When we had McCarthy there were a lot of lies coming out of the Soviet Union and China. We didn’t have perfect intelligence. We didn’t know how bad it really was.

Even in my childhood under Reagan we thought they were a lot stronger than they really were.

So if someone was a communist sympathizer back then, there was at least some possibility it might work.

But once the wall came down and all the records were exposed from Eastern Europe… nothing was good.

And not just in Europe but the Soviets released fact about the failure of EVERY communist nation on Earth.

So when McCarthy was locking up communists and yelling about its dangers some could honestly fight back and say he was exaggerating.

But he wasn’t exaggerating. And all the academics putting rose colored tints on it are straight up, provably wrong,

Yet many people believe the straight up lies for the reasons explained here.

[Trust In Trump @Trustintrump47]

🚨 BOOM! JAMES O’KEEFE JUST DROPPED A NUKE — WIDESPREAD VOTE BUYING RING EXPOSED NATIONWIDE AS DEMS (AND SECRET RINOS) PAY $5-$8 PER BALLOT TO RIG EVERY ELECTION!

Undercover footage catches these hired guns openly bragging: “I’m bringing in 3500 votes”… “He was paying me $5k a month, now it’s $8k!” Even judges and Texas Republicans caught secretly working for Democrats while funneling thousands of fake ballots!

This is the Deep State’s desperate election theft machine in action — our Republic is being sold out in broad daylight for chump change!

We NEED the SAVE AMERICA ACT PASSED IMMEDIATELY + MASS ARRESTS and PROSECUTIONS for these treasonous fraudsters before they steal 2026 too!

Follow @Trustintrump47 for more intel drops.

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

“Nothing ever happens to these people.”

Something is going to happen. We’re going to make it happen by applying so much force through sunlight that it will be impossible for nothing to happen.

Don’t believe it? Watch…

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

The absolute state of the UK

White man gets arrested for buying a baseball bat

Meanwhile, Henry Nowak’s Indian kiIIer was allowed to carry a knife for “religious reasons”

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

⚡️ California Farmer Uses Lasers to Eliminate Weeds Rather Than Pesticides

The technology from Carbon Robotics zapped 130,000 weeds in under an hour

[𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧 ~🎙️🇺🇸 @RogueLou18]

This is the day I have been waiting for. Government doesn’t (can’t) tap into starlink.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Sen. Ron Johnson announces he has recovered 34,000 text messages, 522 voicemails and 3 contacts from Anthony Fauci, from 2014 to right after he left the NIH

"Our investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci’s phone is only just beginning."

Turn it over to the RED STATES that are prosecuting Fauci!

He must face criminal charges!

[𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧 ~🎙️🇺🇸 @RogueLou18]

Vote no on prop one Idaho

[@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray]

Harmeet Dhillion had DOJ monitors in Lansing, and a couple of other towns in Michigan Tuesday

Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt (MI) says Jocelyn Benson is allowing illegals to vote

James O'Keefe has undercover video of an Iranian here Illegally proudly voting on Tuesday

Afshin Michele admitted to committing a federal crime, he voted in Dearborn on Aug 4th

I'm calling on @ICEgov to arrest this illegal, and deport him after he serves time for illegally voting in our elections

Deport them all