GrumpyVet

4th generation Colorado Native, USN 1982-1994

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

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[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

Getting sent home from a job or VISA hits different depending on where home actually is.

Lets talk about culture for a second Visa vs. American.

For an American working in a foreign land, most of whom love and miss their country, losing the job and getting sent back here is the end of an opportunity and the start of the next but it’s still coming home. This is where your family is. This is the soil your people built. You regroup, you fight, you stay invested because America is your permanent home. Your identity is tied to this nation.

Here is where Americans struggle to relate.. take the average H1B where more than 70% are from India...

For many Indians on H1B, the cultural script is the opposite. Success is defined by leaving India. The win is the American salary, the visa, the money wired back home. Getting sent “home” to India often means the mission failed. You return with whatever savings and status you earned, but the deeper culture celebrated the exit, not the return. America was never the homeland. It was the opportunity. It was the economic zone you exploited.

This isn’t about individuals. It’s about the pattern. It's about a culture where everyone believes the 'American Dream' is a lottery ticket to a shopping spree where you get X yrs to pull in all you can.

When companies replace American workers with people whose entire success model is temporary extraction, the workplace loses any sense of shared loyalty or long-term investment. Americans who see this country as their only home watch their roles disappear while being told they’re the intolerant ones for noticing.

High-trust societies depend on people who are all-in on the same future. Importing a cultural operating system where America is just a workplace, not a homeland, breaks that foundation.

We live here and we are tired of being told we have to give up our opportunities.

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

@JimHendley4NC Agreed! It got a helluva lot better immediately after that CMC retired.

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

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[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨🧵 BREAKING - The "conservative" protest against AI data centers has an anti-ICE NGO organizer, a DSA member, Facebook money.

Other than that, totally grassroots.

Axios ran an "exclusive" Wednesday about a "conservative group" called Humans First planning a nationwide day of protest against AI data centers on July 18. Amy Kremer is chairing it and invoking the Tea Party.

Axios didn't mention that Humans First was incubated by the Center for AI Safety, an organization funded with millions from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Or that its original staff included a Sunrise Movement organizer who sat in at Pelosi's office with AOC and a DSA member who organized for Kamala Harris.

NBC News described CAIS as having founded Humans First "to be a sort of Trojan horse to make AI safety issues more palatable to a conservative political audience."

@ParkerThayer exposed the Action Network backend.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

@LinSD13 Me too! Especially when the (un)helpful people on the other end of the call act as if it’s no big deal to have a bill like that hanging over your head.

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

Exactly 4 months after spinal fusion surgery followed by 3 months of the hospital telling me that I owe them $78,000, insurance finally got their shit together and paid the bills. My balance as of 5PM today is ZERO! It’s a good day.

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

@LinSD13 Between the hospital, insurance, and then Cobra because I was laid off 6 weeks post-surgery, I’ve blown at least 40 hours on phone calls and follow ups. I’m glad it’s finally over with!

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

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[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

@JohnCornyn And you’re not on the ballot, Loser.

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

@scs_real I love the new livery!

[𝕊𝔸𝕃𝕋𝕐 𝔾𝕀ℝ𝕃 @SaltyGirl09]

Brit absolutely losing it over England vs USA possibly happening in Philadelphia on July 4th 😂

Americans will get a kick out of this video.

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

@20th_Centurygal Rik Emmett. Lead singer for Triumph at the US Festival in 1983.

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

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[Larimer Sheriff @LarimerSheriff]

We’re heartbroken to share information about a sudden, tragic loss within our agency.
On June 16, an LCSO Deputy, Sergeant, and Sergeant’s family member were vacationing together on a motorcycle trip.
1/6

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

@dnvr_is_burning https://t.co/QSoGwIpeeB

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

@Colorado14er22 The whole event was great but this was my favorite walkout performance last night!

[Cielo 🇺🇸🇵🇷 @CieloBonit]

🔥UFC 250 White House 🇺🇸

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

**One Simple Law That Protects American Housing**

Ban non-citizens on temporary visas from purchasing residential real estate in the United States. That is it. One rule.

Our parents and grandparents worked decades to afford a home and pass it to their children. Now temporary visa workers, often here on 3-year H-1B contracts, get approved for 30-year mortgages and flood markets. This creates artificial demand that drives up prices for everyone else while young Americans get priced out of starter homes.

Visa labor did not just take jobs. It distorted the housing market in entire suburbs. Banks treated temporary workers like permanent residents, handing out long-term debt on short-term visas. That mismatch was always going to end badly.

One clear law fixing foreign and temporary visa ownership would bring supply and demand back into balance for actual Americans.

Reply with why -why not.

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

@MickeyBlowtorch This one from @FireHatchRubs is very good!

[AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon]

The @CivilRights Division is suing VA, CO, & DC over 2nd Amendment restrictions that violate the Constitution and SCOTUS precedent.
@TheJusticeDept is standing up for ALL citizens who want to exercise every right protected by the Constitution — including the 2nd Amendment.

[GrumpyVet @cogrumpyvet]

@FiredUpCoug Get yourself some Hell’s Handle spatulas made by Mercer Culinary. They’re way better than the flimsy ones typically found in the big box stores.