Ramius

✝️ 🇺🇲 🌲Constitutional Conservative. Minimum Government/Maximum Freedom. Retired LEO. & U.S. Navy. Happy Warrior.

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

Some nations have freedom in the blood and are ready to face the greatest perils and hardships in its defense. It is not for what it offers on the material plane that they love it; they regard freedom itself as something so precious, so needful to their happiness that no other boon could compensate for its loss, and its enjoyment consoles them even in their darkest hours.
~ Alexis de Toqueville

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

@HansFiene Fair comment.

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

@MikeBales @AJ_Alarid I feel every word of that.

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

@ofcrdeonjoseph God bless you, my brother.

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

@BrandieWithABee @ken_kmak8542 @RepTedLieu How can you tell?

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

@JesterJum Bruh...

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

@aravosis To be fair I forget you guys are men by the hysterically feminine ways that you type words on the internet and your 🌈 emojis.

Apologies. Won’t happen again. Just give me your pronouns up front next time so I can be absolutely sure.

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

This.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery. You don’t have to support him. That’s America.

But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem.

You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.

[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.

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

@tyromper @rdsanchezjr Righteous.

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

@Jason True.

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

@infantrydort Correct, no one has cared what it thinks for 250+ years.

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

@RealHickory No, he's a PRC plant.

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

Buncha c**t's.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

These guys are obsessed with silencing us.

It’s their only play.

Kinda adorable tbh. Like a cat trying to catch the laser pointer.

I always find it funny though. The U.K. accounts advocating for punishment due to online activity in such a cavalier way.

They are SO used to having the cops show up to a citizen’s house over there and drag them away in irons for controversial posts.

I feel so bad for them.

But we are Americans. And you? Well…

We don’t give a fuck about you and your opinions at all.

250 years and counting….

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

@ChrisMartzWX How about we, just for one year, try what every family, business and individual in the U.S. does every pay day? Work within a budget. Here is the mone the Govt. has, spend it wisely because you're not getting any more.

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

Missing the point. When gas prices were even higher under Biden, they blamed Russia. And when they weren’t blaming Russia, they were insisting the president had no control over gas prices.

Either the president does, and Biden sucked, or he doesn’t, and Trump doesn’t either.

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

This is the best breakdown of the anti-gun fraud I have ever read. I almost never ask for people to share things I repost, but please read and share!

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Let me ruin your June for a second.

Every year when National Gun Violence Awareness Month rolls around, the same people who have not read a single page of John Lott's 13,312-regression peer-reviewed study start posting pictures of children and demanding you feel responsible for deaths you did not cause and had nothing to do with.

So. Let us talk about children. Since they brought it up.

In 2006, the CDC recorded 642 accidental firearm deaths in the entire United States. For children under the age of ten — the number was 31. Thirteen under age five. Eighteen between five and nine.

Tragic? Absolutely. Every single one.

But here is the number that will not appear on a single "Orange Friday" awareness post: 80.

Eighty children under the age of five drown in bathtubs every year. Every. Single. Year.

ALMOST THREE TIMES as many children drown in bathtubs annually as die from ALL firearm accidents combined — including adults. And forty more drown in five-gallon water buckets. The kind you buy at Home Depot for $4.99.

I have given this information at talks and watched jaws drop, because people genuinely believe the number is in the thousands. They have been so thoroughly marinated in "gun violence awareness" content that their perception of actual risk is completely detached from reality. That is not an accident. That is the point of the campaign.

Where is Bathtub Awareness Month? Where is the congressional hearing on five-gallon bucket control? Where is the hashtag? Where are the orange ribbons for the children who drowned while their parents were in the next room?

There are none. Because the campaign was never about children. It was never about safety. If it were about safety, they would be equally outraged about cars — which killed 1,305 children that same year. Or fire. Or drowning. But they are not. The selective fury lands exclusively on firearms. And if you are a scientist, which I happen to be, you do not get to cherry-pick your data based on which conclusion you prefer. Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism.

Now let us talk about what the actual data says about guns and safety, because John Lott ran 13,000-plus statistical regressions across every county in America and the results are not ambiguous.

Fifty-six percent of convicted felons surveyed in a ten-state study said they would NOT attack a target they believed was armed. Fifty-six percent. The deterrence is real, it is documented, and it functions whether or not a shot is ever fired. The firearm you carry protects your neighbor whether your neighbor knows it or not.

When states passed right-to-carry laws, multiple-victim public shootings — what the media insists on calling "mass shootings" to maximize terror — dropped by 67 percent. Deaths in those events dropped by 75 percent. Injuries by 81 percent. States that adopted these laws virtually ELIMINATED mass public shootings within four to five years. The remaining events? They happened almost exclusively in the specific locations where guns remained banned. The gun-free zones. The places we hang the sign that only the law-abiding ever read.

There were between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses in the United States last year alone, depending on which of fifteen national polls you consult. A JAMA Network Open study from March 2025 estimated 489,000 DGUs in which a firearm was actually discharged. The Department of Justice's own National Crime Victimization Survey puts the conservative floor at 65,000 defensive uses per year against assaults, robberies, and home invasions.

No dead body. No coverage. No awareness month.

Here is one more number for you: 74. Seventy-four percent of convicted felons in a National Institute of Justice survey said they actively avoided homes they believed were occupied by armed residents. Criminals respond to incentives. That is not ideology — that is basic deterrence theory, and it is confirmed by the people who actually commit the crimes.

I also want you to think carefully about something the Supreme Court already settled. DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989). Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005). Two separate rulings establishing that the government has NO legal obligation to protect you as an individual. None. You are your own first responder. That is not my opinion — that is settled constitutional law from the highest court in this country.

So the political class that just told you the government is not required to protect you... is also the one demanding you surrender the tool you use to protect yourself.

I want fewer people dead. That is why I know the data. That is why I read the book. That is why I am furious every June when emotion and fundraising replace science and evidence in a "debate" that has actual life-or-death consequences for real people.

You want to honor the children? Honor ALL of them. The ones who drowned. The ones who died in car crashes. And the ones who will never be born because a woman alone in her house at 2 a.m. had no way to stop what was coming through her door.

But what do I know — I am only a published textbook author, a science teacher, a father of four, and a combat medic who spent his career reducing human suffering and who actually read the peer-reviewed data before forming an opinion.

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[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

The U.S. military was the last redoubt the leftists needed to conquer to control our society.

They almost did it. Under Obama/Biden they turned the Pentagon into the Alamo. The DEI Marxists were swarming the walls, and a lot of them got inside the perimeter.

A LOT OF THEM.

But unlike the Alamo, this time reinforcements came in the nick of time.

The military was the last institution they needed to conquer to achieve total Marxist dominance over our entire nation.

THEY WERE SO CLOSE.

But then Pete Hegseth and his team came riding over the hill, defeated the attackers, and drove off the ones who got inside the walls.

The fact that they were so close to having it all, only to lose it all, is why we see so much wailing and gnashing of teeth today from the Pentagon “press.”

It’s glorious.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Fight back against the divisive media like you’re the third monkey on Noah’s Ark.

And brother, it’s startin’ to rain.

[Ramius @_Ramius_]

@maddenifico Please keep talking, clown.