Mark Duffitt

Christ follower-Husband-Father-Grandfather-Retired - Go Ducks!

[Mark Duffitt @MarkDuffitt]

@Mikel_Snapper @BoudicaLX Why are you proud of those who are the laughing stock to the rest of the world’s law-enforcement community? The ones that once stand up or protect their own citizens yet they will protect the invaders. Your weak ass country is gonna die.

[Rep. Dwayne Yunker HD3 @RepYunker]

Governor Kotek and Democrat leaders broke the law to hide their government-run healthcare takeover until after you vote.
The Universal Health Plan Governance Board was required to release its report on September 15. They didn’t. Kotek and the committee chairs approved the delay anyway. Legislative Counsel says they had no authority to do it.
They buried it because voters would reject it.
What is already known from the draft: • Seniors lose traditional Medicare and get forced into the state system • Your tax dollars pay for full coverage for people here illegally • A new income tax hits AGI, before deductions, so working families pay more
A report that takes away Medicare and raises taxes does not get shelved by accident three weeks before an election. That is a cover-up.
The board just called an emergency meeting for Thursday, October 8. Open the records. Release the plan. Let Oregonians see it before November 3.

[Christine Drazan @ChristineDrazan]

It’s been over 24 hours since I called for Portland City Councilor Mitch Green’s resignation over his calls to abolish police and prisons. Tina Kotek still refuses to condemn him. Her silence is an endorsement of the police abolition movement.

When I’m governor, there will be no question where I stand: with law enforcement who deserve support to do their jobs, victims who deserve justice and Oregonians who deserve safe communities.
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[Mark Duffitt @MarkDuffitt]

@coreydu @OnceADuck @B1Gfootball Agreed, we also need @CSimmsQB to be suspended

[Alek Arend @alekarend]

.@B1Gfootball do the right thing and suspend @DesmanIi for the rest of the season. That’s the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen on a football field. Celebrating after the dirtiest hit you’ll ever see. Look at that smile. Disgusting.

[Sailor Girl @alice_kinzer]

VOTE OREGON RED!

Perhaps the first thing I learned that Tillamook Dairy did when they changed hands was not understanding how important the employees are to a company.

Bandons citizens were told they the company would remain there and they would continue to be able to work there.

The business decision to change locations was the first indication that they weren’t employee orientated. Within 2 years they shut the Bandon factory down and left for greener pastures.

I believe who ever is now in control is probably a democrat. I don’t say this idly. When companies don’t take of their employees, you can expect they only care about their bottom line.

Since I haven’t previously followed their growth and development I can’t speak to what other things they have or have not done that I would consider to have impacted their employees.

I have run my own business and my husband started up and ran 3 different businesses. Both of us knew that the most important thing a company could have was great employees. If you take care of them, reward them and make them feel they are important to the success of a business, your company will be successful. We both have proven that.

I wrote to Tillamook and published my letter, yet they have ignored me thus far.

This is very telling. If they don’t respond, that tells me they don’t care at all what a customer thinks.

I find that disturbing and again very telling.

It tells me they don’t believe in the old sound practice that ‘the customer is always’ right.

That SILENCE IS A STRONG STATEMENT.

Every business should care about what every last customer thinks, no matter how wrong the customer may be. Every good business should attempt to resolve the customers problem.

Words do travel fast and bad news travels even faster. Today with social media the impact may be even more noticeable.
I’ve had at least two people tell me that their grocery store had Tillamook selling at half price. That is a visible impact.

If Tillamook dairy ignores their customers, they will eventually pay for their own ignorant choices.

Every day our conservative movement is growing stronger in Oregon. More and more people are beginning to realize that every voice counts and every vote counts.

We must turn this state RED. I’m done with democrats thinking Oregon is a slam dunk. They have been in control way too long. It’s time to take our state back. We no longer have to allow them to be in control.

We have the ability to take it back and begin to repair the damage they have done. It’s not going to be an overnight fix, but every day we make progress is a day we win.

We love our country and we love our state.

We must vote for Christine Drazan as our next governor. We must collectively believe she will begin to turn things around.

There is going to be a lot of resistance, but I’m up for it, and I’m hoping everyone else will be!

Please keep up your enthusiasm and support. You have shown me when there is enough will, we can do anything.

Let’s together MAKE OREGON GREAT AGAIN!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

March 2011. An entire Japanese island was CUT OFF.
Kesennuma Oshima. 3,000 people trapped.
No power. No water. Harbor obliterated. Freezing cold.

The experts said: "No ship can dock. It's impossible."

The US Marine Corps looked at the raging sea and said:
"Watch us."

They fired up the LCACs.
Massive hovercrafts built for storming hostile enemy beaches.
Ripping across the debris-choked water at 40 knots.
Huge jet engines roaring. Spray flying 50 feet into the air.

They didn't wait for a harbor.
They rammed right onto the frozen sand.

Out rolled bulldozers. Generators. Hot water units. Clean food.
Marines jumped into the freezing mud to rebuild the power lines.
Why?
"Because the children need a warm shower tonight."

When the Marines left, the children painted a massive banner on the beach:
"THANK YOU USA."

Roughnecks with weapons of war, turning themselves into angels of mercy.
THAT is America. 🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵

[Conservative in Oregon @oregonducksmama]

‼️Well would you look at that. Kotek- your smear campaign is not going to work… Here is a post by Nicole Riehl on Facebook spitting facts… 👇🏻👇🏻

I WAS IN THAT ROOM. So let’s talk about what actually happened.

Governor Kotek’s campaign says Christine Drazan “skipped the vote to meet with business donors.”

I helped coordinate that meeting. We were NOT there as “business donors.” We were Oregon small-business owners asking our government to LISTEN.

That meeting happened eight days after my mom died. I was grieving, exhausted and still showed up because what is happening to small businesses in Oregon matters that much to me. Other business owners took time away from their businesses and families to show up too.

We talked about taxes, regulation, permitting, employment costs and the barriers Oregon businesses are facing.

Here’s the context that post leaves out:

The bill Drazan missed passed 29–0. Her vote would not have changed the outcome. She spent that hour listening to Oregon business owners and was back in Salem that afternoon for a Senate committee hearing.

And the article Kotek’s own campaign linked describes the meeting as a roundtable with business leaders discussing the challenges of operating and growing Oregon businesses and creating jobs.

Yet somehow that became:

“Skipped the vote to meet with business donors.”

See how much context can disappear in six words?

And here’s what makes this especially frustrating for me:

I reached out to Governor Kotek’s office asking her to meet with us about these exact issues. Her office didn’t even respond to my email.

Christine Drazan called me directly and listened to me. She the. Followed up with actions after the round table and still is following up and calling, 7 months later.

She showed up. She listened. She took action.

Then Kotek’s campaign turned the business owners her own office wouldn’t even respond to into a political attack line.

I was there. I know why we were in that room.

This isn’t about red vs. blue for me. It’s about telling the whole truth and listening to the people trying to keep businesses alive in this state.

Governor Tina Kotek for Oregon, the invitation still stands.

Come sit down with us as business owners. We have plenty to say.

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[Lars Larson @LarsLarsonShow]

Wow. As a proud Cheesemaker (class of '77) I'm floored by this

[Mark Duffitt @MarkDuffitt]

@HawkEmDownChris Bart Starr

[🇺🇸JB MAGA 🇺🇸 @JBMAGA03]

🇺🇸 This is what American power looks like.

14-year-old Laura Montero’s appendix burst 550 miles from the nearest surgeon while on a cruise off Baja.

The USS Ronald Reagan — a nuclear aircraft carrier with thousands of sailors — changed course overnight, launched a helicopter, hoisted her off the cruise ship in a basket, and performed emergency surgery at sea.

She was already septic. They saved her life.

That’s the U.S. Navy. That’s what we do.

Never apologize for this country.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

This should make you angry.
This is Bonnie Pierce, a 38-year-old mother of three from St. Paul, Minnesota. Her house caught fire. She and two of her children escaped, then realized her toddler was still inside.
Bonnie went back in, found the child, but could not get out. She shielded the child with her body. She died from her burns. The child survived.
A GoFundMe for her family raised about $42,000.
By comparison, more than $1,000,000 was raised on GoFundMe for Lindsay Clancy, who was charged with killing her children.
It is a sad reflection of the society we have become.
RIP Bonnie.

[Mark Duffitt @MarkDuffitt]

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg What a wanker

[Mark Duffitt @MarkDuffitt]

@CoastGuardCAN @FierteCapPride Instead of focusing on keeping your country safe, you wanna play patty cake. Nothing to feel proud about here!

[Mark Duffitt @MarkDuffitt]

@johnternus Congratulations

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

This world has an unspoken agreement with pastors.

When you violate this agreement, all HELL will breakout against you. However, it will also be the moment all of HEAVEN breaks loose in your church.

[Ben Edtl @benedtl]

On my mind today (it's a good reminder of the fundamental problem):

As the CEO of a government agency in Oregon, it was my statutory requirement to certify the election of my agency's Board.

That I could not, in good conscious, do.

The agency was provided ZERO evidence that the election was conducted securely.

So, when the State tells you:

🚨"Safe & secure"
🚨"The safest, the securest"
🚨"The Right to vote"
🚨"Every citizen, every vote,"

or anything of the sort, their words are in direct conflict with reality.

In fact, I will certify to you that Oregon's elections are not verifiably secure.

There is no mechanism that ensures every citizen's vote counts.

There is no ballot chain of custody.

Our system lacks sufficient audit processes to certify any election.

The real data is hidden from you, election workers, and the highest offices behind corporate intellectual property contracts.

When it comes to elections, there is no ultimate source of truth.

This is not by accident. This is by design.

[Mark Duffitt @MarkDuffitt]

@_melgibson1_ Amen

[F from the D @steffie_steff]

Does no one at @AmericanAir give a shit about their customers? It is now day 8 without our bags. I have Apple Tags on them & have told them exactly where they are every day this week & STILL do not have them. The incompetence is astounding.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

My father died in Japan in February and I could not get back.

I told exactly one American, and only because he asked a direct question at a bad moment and I have never been able to lie fast enough.

He did not say he was sorry.

He said, "You busy Saturday?"

I was not busy Saturday. I have not been busy on a Saturday since I arrived in this country.

He wanted help moving a riding mower to the other side of his garage. The mower runs. He drove it out himself. I want to be accurate here, because I have thought about it a great deal since: the mower ended that day about two feet from where it started.

We were in the garage five hours.

There was a small refrigerator out there with beer in it and one orange drink belonging to his grandson, and neither of us touched the orange drink at any point.

We discussed a shelf. We discussed a bolt for some time. Around one o'clock we spent close to forty minutes on the correct way to coil a hose, and he was wrong, and I told him he was wrong, and he told me to prove it, and I proved it, and he said "huh," and that was the end of it.

He did not mention my father once.

I had prepared for it. In my country a man in mourning is approached with fixed phrases that have been in service four hundred years, which is the entire purpose of them, and I had built mine in English over three nights. They were not good. They were ready.

I never used them. I still have them written down.

At six he said, "Same time next week?"

We did that for five Saturdays. We moved a workbench. We rewired a light that already worked. One Saturday we sorted screws by length, which is not a job. That is somewhere to put a man.

In April a neighbor three doors down lost his mother.

I do not own a mower. I own a boat trailer that does not need to be moved.

He came at eight. He is coming again this Saturday.

I have not said one word to him about his mother and I am not going to.

He knows what time.