Ben Strickland

Director, International Strategic Operations at Lockheed Martin; Commander, USCG (Ret.)

[Ben Strickland @MaritimeOpsProf]

@TrumpTruthOnX Sir, President Franklin would like a word with you… @3YearLetterman

[Abe Hamadeh @AbrahamHamadeh]

Why is it that every time the pipes burst, the machines fail, and the USBs mysteriously “fail to download correctly,” the chaos delivers exactly the result the political class wants?

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I know I’ve been posting a lot recently, but as Fr. Richard John Neuhaus used to say, “it’s a target-rich environment” right now.

The governor of Massachusetts just signed into law a statute that permits abortion up until the moment of birth, as long as mother and doctor give the go-ahead.
Please understand what this means. A fully-formed child, moments before exiting the birth canal, can be eviscerated, chopped into pieces, have its head crushed or skin burned off—all under the full protection of Massachusetts law.

What I found particularly gross was the reaction of the entirely female crowd around the female governor of Massachusetts as she signed this barbaric provision into law. They were clapping and cackling with delight because what can only be called infanticide can now be practiced with impunity in their state.

I’m old enough to remember when Mario Cuomo, the devoutly Catholic governor of New York, admitted that, though he found abortion personally repugnant, he was, after tortured wrestling with his conscience, willing to give it limited protection of law.

How far we have fallen from agonized and conflicted Cuomo to the present governor of Massachusetts and her entourage gleefully applauding the murder of children.

[Ben Strickland @MaritimeOpsProf]

@TaylorRMarshall Only for attending SSPX Mass.

[Ben Strickland @MaritimeOpsProf]

@FrMatthewLC Perhaps “Latin Mass Catholics” who are loyal in their faith and basically only have minor doctrinal differences and just want the OPTION to worship in accordance with the traditional Missal are not really the “enemy” of The Church and the congregations who should be targeted?

[Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC🇻🇦 @FrMatthewLC]

Repent & Submit to the Pope.

Signing a bill that legalizes abortion up to birth is the opposite of "care for others, especially those who are most vulnerable among us."

[Charles Haywood @TheWorthyHouse]

Private equity buyout firms enshittify everything they buy. But most people don't really understand why. It's not because some guy at the top orders "make everything more expensive and worse." It's because every key employee is suddenly made to report every two weeks on "metrics," and be rewarded or punished as a result. The only metric which matters is "how can I show I have increased EBITDA so my masters know they can sell this dog quickly for a 4X multiple?" And the only way to increase EBITDA quickly, for almost any employee, is to slash expenses, that is, quality, or to raise prices. Any long-term investment in customer satisfaction is therefore anathema (with rare exceptions). And, of course, any other goal, such as retaining long-time employees or contributing to the community, is also anathema.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Our immigration system has been exploited by those who treat citizenship as a commercial transaction, not a sacred bond.

President Trump is taking bold steps to combat birth tourism and restore our sovereignty. A serious nation owes its citizens nothing less.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

If I hear another Boomer conservative bitching about Gen Z ordering DoorDash I’m going to become a communist. It’s true their grandparents always cooked homemade meals. But that’s because grandma stayed at home and grandpa had a union job and nobody could reach him after 5. They had a house with a full kitchen and 3 kids by 25. Meanwhile half of Gen Z men are forced to compete with the entire population of South America for some 12 hour long shift HVAC job that barely pays the rent. They’re 30 and nobody cooks for them because they can’t find any women who’ll marry them when they can’t even afford a starter home in the ghetto. The other half of Gen Z men are busting their ass competing with the entire populations of India and China for some 70 hour a week powerpoint job that asks them for updates on the slides at 3AM. They can’t find anyone to cook for them either, because every women around them is convinced that being a mother and cooking for a man is beneath them because they’re gonna save the world when they become VP of Marketing at MegaCorp in 20 years.

[𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘴 @happiest_isles]

costco has adidas track suits for $30 and now my whole family looks like eastern european gangsters

[Ben Strickland @MaritimeOpsProf]

@ColonelTowner She also does not even live in the District she is running in.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

“We need foreign slaves to work the fields.” - Roman patricians, 140 BC

“We need foreign slaves to work the fields.” - Plantation owners, 1860 AD

“We need foreign slaves to work the fields.” - Rep. Don Bacon, 2026

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

There's a 100% the general here would have busted any airman for violating the law - but when it comes to the slave labor force for his corporate farming donors, he does a 180.

[Denise Wu @denisewu]

Taiwan has surpassed China to become the third-largest trading partner of the US.
🇹🇼🫶🇺🇸

[Richard Nixon Foundation @nixonfoundation]

It's Nixon.

[Ben Strickland @MaritimeOpsProf]

@SaveOurSheriff @AdamKinzinger He has been mentally unstable for years now.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

@NYCMayor I have set my temperature at 50 degrees in honor of the 50 states and 50 stripes on our flag

Good luck trying to violate my rights and make me stop, Mayor Trotsky

[U.S. Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept]

Birth tourism schemes exploit our immigration laws and often violate our criminal laws. The Department of Justice will prioritize the prosecutions of birth tourism schemes across the country. Actors seeking to exploit loopholes to obtain automatic citizenship for their children pose a national security threat and will be brought to justice.

[Libertarian Party NH 🦔 @LPNH]

It's a good day to remind everybody that Bush Sr nominated Clarence Thomas to the Court.

[Ben Strickland @MaritimeOpsProf]

This is The Way…