I spent the last 7 months investigating crime in Utah and wrote an 18 page paper on my findings…
Hopefully some nerds out there still like to read. There’s some damning info in here every Utahn needs to know.
"Get married. Have children. Build a legacy. Pass down your values.
Pursue the eternal. Seek true joy.”
-Charlie Kirk
This is so freaking beautiful.
The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Kids come alive when two parents love each other & them.
@tyromper Its all about the net yield $. Never too early to start. Most families prepare their wealth for transfer. But far fewer prepare their children for what that wealth will ask of them.
Today, I announced my campaign for Mayor of Chicago.
I love this city too much to accept where we are today.
Chicagoans deserve safer streets, a reliable CTA, stable property taxes and schools that prepare our kids for success.
If you have a few minutes, I hope you'll watch.
Loved ones died alone in hospitals. Funerals were banned. High school coming of age moments like football and prom were stolen. Careers ruined over the vaccine. Small businesses destroyed. Military members discharged. Fauci and Big Tech and your Democrat neighbors did this.
Well, I have some news that's going to make some people uncomfortable...
My wife and I are pulling our youngest out of North Carolina public schools and my wife will be homeschooling him.
And no, we're not sorry about it.
We didn't come to this decision lightly. We prayed on it, argued about it, ran the numbers, lost sleep over it.
But every road led back to the same common theme: nobody on God's green earth loves that boy more than his mother and I do, and nobody is more responsible for who he becomes than us.
Yet, rather ironically, despite believing this somewhere along the way, we handed that responsibility to strangers and... trusted them with it.
His mind. His values. His time. His education. His TRUTH.
...and this past year, for the first time, we stopped and asked whether they'd earned that trust.
We don't think they did.
So we're taking it back.
Yeah, we're scared. Scared we'll get something wrong. Scared of the workload. Nervous about what people will say.
But I'll take the fear of us doing it ourselves over the quiet horror of watching our son be indoctrinated in utter BS woke nonsense and be laughed at for believing in God and mocked for liking President Trump (all of which occurred this year.
So yeah, he's going to read the hard books. The ones they'd rather he didn't.
He's going to learn history that hasn't been run through an anti-White woke filter.
He's going to know exactly where he comes from and what he believes.
Most importantly, he's going to grow up watching his mother choose him, to spend every day, all day with him, over what was easy.
They had their shot. They blew it.
We've got him from here. 🇺🇸
Congratulations @JayFeely on a massive primary win tonight in AZ-01!
Jay is a valley icon and a great husband & father. We are ready to get to work to win in AZ-01!
BOOM!!!!!!!
Fired up I got @XMoney today!!!
•Got a free $25 welcome bonus!
•Ordered a DEBIT CARD with @tyromper on it!
•6% interest so transferred over some savings!
•Sent @elonmusk $1 so I could write him a gratitude note & show my appreciation!
I AM SO BULLISH ON X!!!!!
Right now I am writing this in tears. Thank you @SECNAV@HungCao_VA from the bottom of my heart.
The US Merchant Marine has been defunded, denigrated, and stripped of respect for decades.
The result? The Navy pulled 17 critical logistics ships manned by Merchant Mariners from the active fleet, and only 86 🇺🇸 cargo ships remain in international service against China’s thousands.
Over the last three years, what started as a tiny group with @brentdsadler@Heritage gained traction through @michaelgwaltz and snowballed into countless meetings with Senators, Admirals, and senior White House advisors.
Together with dozens of patriots, and with the personal support of President Trump, we wrote the SHIPS for America Act, the Maritime Executive Order & the Maritime Action Plan. We overturned the UN carbon tax that penalized shipping, fought for new USTR rules, stood up @JerryHendrixII’s White House shipbuilding office and a new Navy shipbuilding plan, won critical support from @SecWar & got an actual USMM Captain, Steve Carmel, nominated as Commandant of the USMM.
It hasn’t all been unicorns and rainbows. We are still fighting to get the SHIPS Act through Congress and to get the bureaucratic state to execute the executive orders.
But my biggest frustration, one I raised at EVERY SINGLE MEETING, was this: we are swinging for grand slams while nobody guards first base.
And the easiest bunt of all is the most basic sign of respect: a service ribbon for US Merchant Mariners who served in combat.
My wife displays a single ribbon from her service in Iraq. Everyone who enters our house asks about it, giving me the chance to be the proud service spouse I am.
But that combat ribbon, one of dozens on the books for Merchant Mariners, is the only one regularly issued to our service & was essentially forgotten during the Obama years.
@PeteButtigieg refused to issue it when the USMM returned to combat in the Red Sea.
That ribbon is what kept me pushing. At every meeting with the top people in DC, I asked for one simple bunt: issue the ribbon to our mariners in combat.
Nobody did. A few tried. A few made phone calls. Most ignored the request, and some rolled their eyes.
One even told me: “This is ridiculous, John. We are budgeting billions for ships and you won’t shut up about a ribbon. Ask any mariner if they’d rather have a new ship or a ribbon and 100% will say a ship.”
They aren’t wrong. The problem is ships take time, we are three years in and they don’t have a ship. A ribbon can be issued in days.
The bigger problem is they don’t understand Colonel John Boyd: “People, then ideas, then platforms & technology. In that order.”
The fact that nobody is asking for a ribbon is exactly what makes it powerful.
A few weeks ago I met with Hung Cao and opened with the same ask I’ve made hundreds of times: “Dust off an @MSCSealift medals & give one to the crews in combat off Iran.”
He said what most have said: “Give me a few weeks, I’ll look into it.”
I’ve heard that before, so I got mad. Madder still when @shesova told me a USMM World War II hero had been overlooked for a medal. I called my Commandant & said, “GD it Steve, we still have a WW2 veteran who’s been overlooked.”
“Give me a few weeks John, I’ll look into it.”
🙄
Well, I woke up today to an email from Sheila inviting me and @SecDuffy to a ceremony awarding Charles Mills, World War II USMM combat veteran the USMM Outstanding Achievement Medal. Wow!
Then @MikeSchuler published this today.
I asked for a simple USMM combat medal nobody would recognize.
Instead President Trump & Hung Cao delivered a Presidential Unit Citation, one of the most prestigious awards in the military.
Yesterday @HungCao_VA said the Navy’s top 3 priorities are people, shipbuilding & the homeland. Senior officers have said that for years.
The difference is Hung Cao means it.
“Acta Non Verba,” deeds not words, is USMM Acadmy’s motto & boy did Secretary Cao deliver!
PEOPLE FIRST 🇺🇸
Two years ago today, God’s gracious hand of Providence once again touched the history of our great nation and spared @realDonaldTrump’s life.
Never forget that we witnessed a miracle and are living in the good timeline—and fight, fight, fight for a better American future!
MUST WATCH
Two patriotic 85-year-old songwriters called the Forever Boys released a music video called “What Would You Do If America Needed You," in reaction to the recent election of multiple far-left communists.
The song calls on every American to preserve the principles and freedoms on which our country was founded.
POWERFUL 🇺🇲
They gave me permission to post and spread it to the world. Please share!
Last year I was determined to make a contribution to America's 250th Anniversary. This documentary, The Thread of Liberty: Keeping Our Republic, is what came of that desire. I've posted it here in its entirety, as well as at https://t.co/Dnb8CMyjQq. We have an incredible nation, the first ever rights-based government in the history of the world in which the people are sovereign. We should appreciate it and, more importantly, love it. But loving requires understanding and then restoring. There is a great deal to celebrate and there is also a great deal of work that lies before us if we're to restore the republic. One of the central questions for the future of the American Republic is do we still feel an obligation to our experiment in free government? I believe one of the places that we renew the obligation, and begin the restoration, is with a rebirth of instinctive patriotism. I sincerely hope this documentary plays a role in that rebirth. Keep America Free.