Jack Compton

Retired, DV, LE, Christian, American Patriot

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Texas I was taken to a grocery store called H-E-B.

I asked what the letters stand for. My friend said, "Howard Edward Butt."

I waited for the rest of the name. There was no rest. The man built an empire on his actual name, and the empire did not flinch.

Inside, a woman in a red apron said, "Welcome! Finding everything okay?"

I had been inside for eleven seconds. I had found nothing. I had not begun to look.

"...I have only just arrived."

"Well, let me know if you need anything, sweetheart."

Sweetheart. From a stranger with a price gun. I held the cart handle with both hands and tried to proceed as a man who had not just been loved at the produce section.

The store was clean in a way that suggested someone cared about it the way my grandmother cared about her kitchen floor. Not for the guests. For the floor.

A man named Dale in the meat department was cutting brisket behind glass. I watched him work. He held the knife the way a calligrapher holds a brush. Each cut landed in the same place twice.

I bowed slightly. I could not help it.

Dale looked up. "You want a sample, boss?"

"...I was paying respects to your blade work."

He paused. Then he cut a piece, put it on a toothpick, and handed it over the counter.

"Well, that's a first. Most folks just ask if I got any ribs left."

I ate it. It was perfect. I told him it was perfect.

"Appreciate that. Twenty-six years behind this counter."

Twenty-six years. The same counter. The same knife. In my country we would call this man a living national treasure and put him on television. Here he wore a red apron and asked if I wanted it wrapped.

Then the storm came.

I do not mean this as a metaphor. A hurricane was approaching the coast, and I learned something about this grocery store that I did not believe until I saw it with my own eyes.

H-E-B has mobile kitchens. Disaster relief trucks. A full-time Director of Emergency Preparedness. Over a hundred and fifty thousand employees they call Partners, and when the wind starts to build, the Partners do not go home.

They drive toward it.

During Hurricane Harvey, this grocery store fed thousands. They sent trucks into flooded towns before the government arrived. Before the Red Cross set up. Before anyone asked.

A grocery store. With a meat counter and a bakery and a sign that says HERE EVERYTHING'S BETTER.

Texans have a name for H-E-B during hurricanes. They call it the FEMA of Texas. I have confirmed this. Multiple Texans said it to me without smiling, the way you state the name of a general who does not lose.

I asked Dale if he had worked during Harvey.

He stopped cutting. He set the knife down, which I had not seen him do.

"Drove in at four in the morning. Water was up to my truck doors. Store was the only thing open for nine miles. We made sandwiches till we ran out of bread. Then corporate sent more bread. Then we ran out again."

"...How long?"

"Sixteen days."

I stood there holding a package of brisket in both hands and tried to find the word.

"...You are not a butcher, Dale."

He picked up his knife. "Sure I am."

In my country, a man who feeds his village through a disaster is honored for the rest of his life. In Texas, he is called a butcher, and he goes back to the counter on Monday, and he does not mention it unless you ask, and even then he picks up his knife before he finishes the story, because the brisket is not going to cut itself.

The store was founded in 1905 by a woman named Florence Butt, who put sixty dollars' worth of groceries on a shelf on the ground floor of her family's home in a town called Kerrville. That was the whole store. One shelf. One room. Sixty dollars.

A hundred and twenty years later, the family still owns it.

I walked out with four bags. A boy in a red apron carried two of them to my car. I told him I could carry my own bags. He said, "I know you can. But I'm already here, so."

I did not tip him. He would not let me.

I drove home past the highway where the flood line was still visible on the guardrail, three feet up, and I thought about Dale, and the bread, and the knife, and the name Howard Edward Butt, who was not embarrassed by it, because the name is not the point.

The shelf is the point.

Florence Butt put sixty dollars on a shelf in 1905. A hundred and twenty years later, when the water rose and the power died, the shelf was still standing, and there was bread on it.

A store is not its name. A store is whether the bread is there when you need it.

The bread was there.

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

@TXRandy14 Happy birthday, Sir!

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

@TXRandy14 Indeed.

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

@NickJFreitas

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

@housescience @TXRandy14 Excellent! We must build back our reserves and our mfg. We must put America back on firm footing. Press on, Sir! 🇺🇲☝️

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

🤦 shit. Here we go again.

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Meet @harleydavidson’s new chief brand officer, Marcus Fischer. He’s not exactly what you’d expect as the face of a motorcycle company.

✅ Pronouns
✅ Loves Pride Month
✅ Raised $ for trans kids
✅ Loves DEI conferences
✅ Helped host a drag show
✅ Celebrates Hillary Clinton

[🇺🇸 Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter]

SCOTUS JUST PUBLISHED THE EXACT LIST OF RIGHTS PARENTS NOW HAVE IF A SCHOOL TRIES TO BLOCK THEM OUT

Not vague victories. Not "parents win somehow." NAMED PROTECTIONS. SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS. School by school.

🇺🇸 Advance notice — schools must tell parents BEFORE exposing children to the challenged books
🇺🇸 Opt-out right — parents can excuse their children from that specific instruction
🇺🇸 Free Exercise protection — forcing children into lessons that "pose a very real threat of undermining" religious beliefs is unconstitutional
🇺🇸 Preliminary injunction — this is ACTIVE NOW, not pending a future ruling
🇺🇸 Montgomery County, MD — the specific district that started this must comply immediately
🇺🇸 4th Circuit overruled — the lower court that sided with the school board was reversed
🇺🇸 Elementary grades targeted — the ruling applies to the LGBTQ+-inclusive storybooks in elementary English classes
🇺🇸 Nationwide signal — any district with a no-opt-out policy on religious-conflict content now faces the same legal exposure
🇺🇸 Administrative burden — schools must build notification and opt-out systems before the 2025-2026 year begins
🇺🇸 Case continues — the injunction holds while the full lawsuit plays out in lower courts

💀 6-3 vote
💀 Majority: Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett
💀 ZERO deference to the school board's "no opt-out" policy
💀 100% parental religious exercise — that is what the court protected

Every protection on this list belongs to parents. Not administrators. PARENTS.

Justice Sotomayor warned this "will be chaos for this Nation's public schools." These are the rights that caused that chaos.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

@TXRandy14 @HouseCommerce The 6th of June... God bless our truckers!

https://t.co/7OFAYYabnR

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

@ThePewPewJew After the Army I got my TX teacher's certification for secondary science. I had taught community college classes, labs & field camp as a TA. I taught one semester of 8th grade earth science & promptly changed to federal law enforcement. Hahaha!

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨 VIDEO: Texas state Rep. James Talarico opened a legislative session with a heretic prayer, invoked old Communist-adjacent phrase

h/t @reddit_lies who spotted it on Reddit; I tracked down the original video.

The prayer addresses God as "holy mystery" with "so many names" — Torah, Quran, Gita, Dharma — treating all religious traditions as equally valid expressions of the same God.

Jesus is described as "a barefoot rabbi" who "expressed" God's love... one expression among many implied.

The closing line: "build a new world in the shell of the old."

That phrase has a specific origin. It comes from the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) Preamble, written in 1905. It's syndicalist labor movement language. Not explicitly Communist - but they wanted to abolish capitalism and the state all the same.

See it for yourself:

[David M. McIntosh @DavidMMcintosh]

Democrat James Talarico is a woke weirdo.

Kick him to the curb where he belongs, Texas.

[@amuse @amuse]

TRAITOR: Leader Thune just sent the Senate home for a 12 day paid vacation but he’s having one senator stay behind to gavel in every three days to block Trump from making recess appointments. No other president has had his own party use pro forma sessions against him.

[@amuse @amuse]

HOUSE: Speaker Mike Johnson cut a secret deal letting Democrats veto any GOP amendment. Tim Burchett's amendments to the BUILD America 250 Act were all killed on Democrat objection. Republicans control the House on paper. Democrats control it in practice. This is why Republicans will lose the House - why bother voting if even when they give the GOP the House, Senate, and White House they STILL allow Democrats to govern?

h/t @timburchett

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2012. CNN does a segment on the complete failure of Obama's 2 year, $34 million reflecting pool renovation.

This was less than a month after the reflecting pool reopened.

Notice how CNN didn't blame the Obama in any way. They would treat Trump the same way right?😜

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

Good job Marco! Keep the faith young man.

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

Rep. Jamie Raskin spent over 2 minutes trying grill 16-year-old Texas high school student Marco Hunter-Lopez at today’s hearing on political Islam and Sharia Law.

What a clown.

Marco, who EXPOSED his school allowing "Why Islam" to hand out Qurans, hijabs, and Sharia pamphlets during lunch while censoring conservative clubs, simply pointed out America's Christian heritage and the faith of the Declaration's signers.

Raskin interrupted him repeatedly, demanded to know if he believes America is a theocracy, and lectured him on Jefferson's "wall of separation."

This is what happens when a 16-year-old patriot stands up for truth in Congress.

Marco stood his ground quite well against a man 47 years his senior. Good work, Marco.

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

Like a boss. 🫵😎🇺🇲

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

When I heard @POTUS say that he didn't think he had done enough good to warrant being accepted into God's Kingdom, I was taken aback. I'm afraid his current Faith Advisor is a charlatan and leading him further astray. He should listen to this...

https://t.co/eT4SrVUXU9

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

@TXRandy14 Remember Goliad! Remember the Alamo! 18 minutes later... Texas!

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

@TXRandy14 Yessir!

[Jack Compton @TXPedaler]

@TXRandy14 @BillMelugin_ Keep the faith, sir. America has weathered bigger storms than these.