Mark Thomas Temple

Gain perspective from the Wild Blue Yonder.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

They Only Love Us When We’re Dead

Let me explain why @PeteHegseth’s struggle cuts deep for so many of us.

He jokes about receiving 100% negative media coverage as @SecDef. Classic infantry humor. But behind the laugh is something serious, something warriors like me feel deep in our bones.

I didn’t know who he was until @realDonaldTrump announced him. I was bitter. Burned out. After years of watching the Army rot under leaders who didn’t believe in warfighters, I was ready to walk away. Then I saw his interview with @ShawnRyan762, and for the first time in years, I heard my own voice coming from someone else.

He was raw, honest, full of fire and frustration, saying what so many of us have felt and lived. I listened to The War on Warriors during my PCS from California to Texas and thought: maybe, just maybe, the tide is turning. But then came the media.

They didn’t see a man reborn from war, they saw tabloid bait. They didn’t see someone rise from the wreckage of combat, they saw a drunk, a womanizer, a threat to their fragile narratives. They ignored the mission, the movement, the message. They attacked the man. Because that’s what they always do.

And for the first time, I asked myself: is that how America sees me?

Because I drank too much. I chased women. I did reckless things to feel alive after brushing shoulders with death. Like many infantrymen, I struggled when I came home. Not because I was broken, but because I was human.

The media never tells that story. They only love us when we fight their wars, come home silent, and k*ll ourselves. That’s the Soldier they’re comfortable with. The one who disappears. But rise from that? Try to lead again? Speak your mind? Now you’re dangerous.

So no, I’m not asking the media to be nicer to him. I’m asking the American people to see through them. To understand what it means to walk through fire, stumble, and still choose to serve again, reborn. Because when you malign warriors for surviving the wars you forgot, don’t be surprised when we stop trusting you.

They went from “thank you for your service” to “how dare you not be perfect.” From hero to headline. They used our war, our pain, our sacrifice, and turned their backs the moment we showed our scars. That’s not criticism. That’s betrayal.

If the media actually cared about warfighters, they’d shine a light on our real battles: the suicide crisis, mold ridden barracks, a broken VA, commanders who punish truth tellers, and an IG system built to bury the truth. But they don’t. Instead, they spend their time tearing down Pete Hegseth for anything they can spin, forcing him to pause the mission just to swat away their lies. That’s not journalism. That’s sabotage. And we see it for exactly what it is.

And it proves what so many of us have known for years: they don’t hate Pete because he failed us, they hate him because he won’t fail warriors.

They don’t care about warfighters. They care about the narrative. And for the first time in years, the narrative is scared. We aren't backing down.

[Mark Thomas Temple @MarkThomasTemp1]

@greta @POTUS Annie Hall

[Mark Thomas Temple @MarkThomasTemp1]

@RepMaxwellFrost We are no longer willing to finance Democrat fraud. Get your money the honest way, and not on the backs of taxpayers.

[Mark Thomas Temple @MarkThomasTemp1]

@ChestyPullerGst I’m still waiting for my free one from saving Pepsi bottle caps…

[Mark Thomas Temple @MarkThomasTemp1]

@MaryEllenKlas Wut

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Pentagon Reporting

Please realize that every bit of reporting you see coming from major legacy media sources about anything Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon or Department of War is doing is butthurt propaganda.

I’ll explain.

You see, for years and years the major legacy media outlets such as the NYT, WaPo, Reuters, etc. have had privileged, largely unfettered access to the Pentagon—access other news outlets never enjoyed. This worked great in Democrat administrations, because the media was totally onboard with the DEI destruction of our nation’s military, and the Democrats knew the media would never abuse its access to undermine them. However, when a Republican is in office, that access was wielded against the administration via unauthorized leaks of classified and other controlled information, not to report the news, but to destroy policies those media members disagreed with.

And Pete Hegseth put a stop to that leftist gravy train. No more uncontrolled access. No more ability to get meaningful, unauthorized info from “sources familiar with the issue.” Zip. Nada. Nothing. He didn’t stop the legacy media from writing what they want—they always have had that right. No, he simply stopped the ability for certain members of the legacy press to undermine national security via privileged access that was denied the rest of the media.

And boy oh boy are they butthurt over that. So butthurt that they have lost whatever residual ability they may have once had to report honestly, and now everything they write is a character assassination piece sourced by anonymous “sources.”

Put simply, they are lying liars lying lies because they got their feelings hurt.

Couple this with the fact that the Gen Z “journalists” doing this reporting tend to have as deep an understanding of warfare as does my cat, and I just explained why any time you read Pentagon reporting from a legacy news outlet, you should assume the opposite of what you are reading is the truth.

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

Even the secular scientists know that life from non-life is impossible.

But don't take my word for it!

Take the words of one of the top origin of life scientists:

“Chemistry on early Earth did not produce life. It produced asphalt.”

“We have not yet found a path by which life could arise from simple chemicals. All paths end in tar, not biology.”

“The problem is not making organic molecules—they form everywhere. The problem is getting them to organize into a system capable of Darwinian evolution. No environment on early Earth that we know of supports this.”

“Instead of making ribose, nature overwhelmingly makes tar. Chemistry does not lean toward life. It leans toward asphalt.”

“Life’s molecules are unstable in water, yet all the standard models place the origin of life in water. Water is the enemy of polymerization.”

“Water, essential for biology, is destructive to prebiotic chemistry.”

“The chemistry that we have learned over the past century tells us that the RNA world is not plausible based on known chemical principles.”

“The RNA world is impossible based on everything we know about chemistry.”

“The very conditions that would supposedly allow RNA to form on early Earth are precisely those that destroy it.”

“We do not know how to get nucleosides, nucleotides, or RNA by any prebiotic route. Every proposed pathway either requires modern enzymes or conditions incompatible with life’s chemistry.”

“RNA cannot replicate itself. The only systems we know that replicate RNA require proteins—and proteins come from RNA. We are caught in a vicious cycle.”

“You cannot get a genetic code by random chemistry. The code requires a highly specific set of interactions that we have no way to generate prebiotically.”

“Every experiment shows that prebiotic processes produce mixtures—racemic mixtures. Yet life requires single-handed molecules. No natural mechanism has been demonstrated to select one hand over the other.”

- Steve Benner, Origin of Life Scientist, various published sources

[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

Brilliant letter

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Finally getting over the asthma - and here's the org chart of the Newark protests, as promised. A few are missing, particularly the Catholic NGOs. But this is the basic template for how mass protests are coordinated so quickly.

[Mark Thomas Temple @MarkThomasTemp1]

@GuntherEagleman Gerald Ford

[Mark Thomas Temple @MarkThomasTemp1]

@miles_commodore I sometimes wish I could turn up their volume, they speak so softly. My favorite saying is, “What?”

[Mark Thomas Temple @MarkThomasTemp1]

@miles_commodore You know it! Me too!

[Mark Thomas Temple @MarkThomasTemp1]

@miles_commodore The world is tragic to those who feel, and comic to those who think.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I'm in my very early 60s.

The best President of my lifetime is Donald Trump.

The best Vice President of my lifetime is JD Vance.

The best SecDef/War of my lifetime is Pete Hegseth.

The best SecState of my lifetime is Marco Rubio.

The best SecTreasury of my lifetime is Scott Bessent.

The best entrepreneur of my lifetime is Elon Musk.

We truly live in a Golden Age.

[Mark Thomas Temple @MarkThomasTemp1]

@Avabelly__ Blanca.

[Mark Thomas Temple @MarkThomasTemp1]

@SenFettermanPA Please allow me to amplify your words by reposting them.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but dead Hamas leaders are better for Palestinians, Gaza, the region and world.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Bring back based cartoons!

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

This lady is driving down a stretch of road on St. Louis St. in Springfield, Missouri.

She is driving exactly 30
Mph and as she does so the rumble strips create the melody of “America The Beautiful”. This just opened up recently.

The song was chosen as a tribute to America’s open road, the spirit of Route 66 and the upcoming celebration of the country’s 250th anniversary. ❤️🇺🇸

I think that is too cool. Love when towns and cities are patriotic. 💯

Never knew this existed or was a thing. I’ve heard there are other roads in our beautiful country that have other songs as well.

Did you know this existed? Have you ever driven on a road where the rumble strips play a song before? Isn’t that cool?

[Mark Thomas Temple @MarkThomasTemp1]

@miles_commodore Your reruns are well worth repeating!