Doug Taft

CUBuffs to the core. NCAA Football, hiking/climbing, faith, family and pets.

[Doug Taft @dstaft]

@JackCarrUSA It’s a great read, @JackCarrUSA ! Finished in one sitting (well, a long overseas flight).

[xyz - Everett Silvertips @WHLsilvertips]

OFFICIALLY YOUR WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 😤🏆
#WantTheFight | #WHLPlayoffs | #FeedingTheFuture

[Western Hockey League @TheWHL]

THIS ONE'S FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS😆🏆

@WHLsilvertips | #WHLChampionship | #FeedingtheFuture

[Doug Taft @dstaft]

@WHLsilvertips @RockwellCreate Congrats to the Tips!!! You guys are so much fun to watch!! A well deserved trophy!!

[Doug Taft @dstaft]

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[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Victor Davis Hanson Perfectly Explains Why the Right Shouldn't Sabotage Trump Over Iran

"What's the alternative to Donald Trump's MAGA agenda?"

Trump is delivering historic domestic wins:

- Border closed

- Deportations and self-deportations surging

- Record levels of oil and gas production

- DEI is dead

- Universities forced to follow the law

- No men in women's sports

"If you sit out or you oppose Trump, de facto — whether you know it or not — you are favoring the alternate agenda."

These victories would never have happened under a Democrat or RINO president.

We should keep pushing to end this conflict and stay laser-focused on America First priorities.

But we should not give up or help the Democrats regain power by turning on Trump.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

WE WILL NEVER LEAVE AN AMERICAN WARFIGHTER BEHIND! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

So SecWar Pete Hegseth just fired Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the US Army’s (now former) Chief of Chaplains.

I have zero insider information on this, but I have my own theories as to why it happened.

Green’s most important event as the Chief of Chaplains was to produce the United States Army’s “Spiritual Fitness Guide.”

Published in July of 2025, Stars & Stripes wrote an article on this with a link to the guide.

(I’ll put all related links in a comment email one below.)

I’ll save you the trouble of clicking on that link — it goes to the US Army’s website, and it’s “404 Page Not Found.”

That kind of explains a lot, doesn’t it?

So I went and found a full copy of that “Guide” elsewhere (in, of all places, a “Military Atheist” website; link in the post below).

Go check it out. Do a word search for the word “God.” Go ahead. Do it. It shows up exactly ONCE. How can you have a guide to spiritual fitness without mentioning God?????

But what that “guide" DOES TALK about is a bunch on New Age gobbledygook.

Let me give you a taste:

"The Soldier’s Spirit lies at the intersection of external influences (stimulus) and applied behavior (response). It is the vital junction that supports the weight of life and drives Soldier action. In a relatable way, the Soldier’s spirit is much like a compass in life, providing substance to the direction that they take in life and the decisions they make. This reality makes understanding and developing the Soldier's spirit crucial, as the direction of a Soldier ultimately shapes the direction and well-being of the Army.”

The primary mission of the Chaplain Corps is to “provide religious support” to soldiers (from their official mission statement).

Yet the US Army’s “Spiritual Fitness Guide” reads like it was written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on a bender—not a word of encouragement for a soldier’s faith, but pages upon pages of New Age nonsense that makes Universalism sound like rational thought and really does imagine no religion.

Yeah, one does not need to understand why a man of faith like Pete Hegseth fired a wishy washy New Age Pharisee like Green.

[Jason D. Meister 🇺🇸 @jason_meister]

Imagine throwing a “No Kings” protest after your party refused to hold a primary, coronated Kamala without a single vote, sued to keep RFK Jr. off the ballot, and attempted to remove Trump from state ballots only after your illegal lawfare scheme failed.

If there was a modern day monarchy in America there would only be one party you could point to.

The Democrats.

[Doug Taft @dstaft]

@WhiteHouse @elonmusk White House X account hacked??

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation."

You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process.

Here's how we know:

Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you.

Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work:

Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill.

Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results.

Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess.

Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate.

You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months.

Now let's talk donors:

• Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user
• Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify
• Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration
• Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants

Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail."

Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable.

We see the loop.

You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed.

What we want:

1. Force a real talking filibuster.
2. Stop hiding behind process.
3. Pass the SAVE America Act.

YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents.

You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time.

Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.

[Brian Gamble @briangamble_v1]

You don't have to be Oppenheimer to understand the following.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran currently possesses over 440 kg of uranium enriched to >60%

‼️60% has no practical civilian purpose‼️

N O N E

That stockpile is enough for multiple nuclear weapons if enriched further.

What’s left to reach weapons-grade (90%) is:

👉Technically small
👉Time-compressed (days to weeks, not years)

Now we see that Iran has the capability to launch ballistic missiles over 4,000 km away (far exceeding our intelligence agency estimates).

I don't need Joe Kent, Israel, or even the President to tell me what threat Iran did or did not pose.

Because I've subscribed to my own critical thinking capabilities over the last 4 decades to know exactly what the Iranian Regime was hell bent on doing.

And when you understand the trajectory, not just the moment, the decision to act becomes a lot clearer.

And I'll say it again, THANK YOU @POTUS for not allowing the regime, that chants death to my children, to acquire nuclear weapons!

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

This is pure propaganda of the highest order.

Not one goddamn syllable Mara Karlin spewed on that 60 Minutes hit piece holds water in the unforgiving arena of actual warfighting reality.

It’s a meticulously engineered psyop, dripping with the venom of defeatist bureaucrats who’ve spent their careers polishing PowerPoint slides instead of steel, designed to erode public confidence, fracture national will, and funnel billions into the next shiny MIC toy while our operators bleed in the Gulf.

First, the core fabrication:

“They went into this war prepared for certain threats, like missiles. They did not go into this war prepared for other threats like drones hitting soft targets.” *

Bullshit.

Pure, weaponized horseshit.

Every serious planner in DoD, CENTCOM, and the joint staff internalized the drone-swarm threat as doctrine after the 2022-2025 Ukraine meat grinder turned cheap Shaheds into the defining asymmetric weapon of the 21st century.

We wargamed it relentlessly...Houthi barrages in the Red Sea, Iranian proxies lighting up bases from 2023 onward, Gulf allies like the UAE stacking 90%+ intercept rates with layered systems that make Karlin’s “unprepared” whimper look like the desperate cope of someone who never once stepped inside a Tactical Operations Center under fire.

Soft targets?

Integrated C-UAS architecture...Phalanx C-RAM, Avengers, Coyote effectors, and now fielded directed-energy prototypes...was already baked into contingency plans years before this conflict kicked off.

To claim otherwise isn’t ignorance; it’s deliberate narrative sabotage, the psychological equivalent of handing the enemy a megaphone to whisper “they’re vulnerable” into the American psyche.

The economic asymmetry angle...4 million Patriots bleeding dry against 20,000$ Shaheds...is the same recycled trope they peddled about IEDs in Iraq.

We adapted then with MRAPs and jammers; we’re adapting now with cost-per-shot directed energy that drops to single digits while the industrial base scales to wartime surge.

Stockpiles “drained”?

That’s what happens when you expend precision munitions in a real fight...strategic expenditure, not collapse. The kill chain is multi-layered for a reason:

Patriots for the high-end ballistic threats, cheaper effectors for the swarm, and emerging lasers...Locust, HELIOS derivatives...turning the cost curve into an enemy nightmare.

Karlin knows this; she sat in the Assistant Secretary chair long enough to read the same classified wargame after-action reports the rest of us did.

Her selective amnesia reeks of partisan theater, the classic bureaucratic survival instinct: amplify costs, sow doubt, justify more funding for pet projects while operators in Kuwait and the Gulf have already proven the system works at rates that would make Sun Tzu nod in approval.

Psychologically, this is textbook cognitive infiltration...It preys on the civilian instinct to fear the unknown, erodes the OODA loop of public support, and hands psychological ammunition to Tehran’s proxies who thrive on perceived weakness.

It’s not journalism; it’s enemy-assisted defeatism, the same soft-power knife that’s been twisted into America’s back since Vietnam.

60 Minutes isn’t exposing a gap...they’re manufacturing one to keep the fear porn flowing and the defense dollars cycling. Real military minds understand:

adaptation under fire is our asymmetric advantage.

The enemy throws cheap metal; we counter with integrated kill webs, industrial resilience, and the lethal competence that has already delivered first-strike dominance in every theater that matters.

The United States military didn’t stumble into this fight blind.

We entered it forged in the lessons of the last decade’s drone wars, armed with systems that turn the enemy’s cheap swarm into an expensive funeral pyre.

And in the hard calculus of war, where blood buys time and steel decides outcomes, such propaganda deserves nothing but contemptuous scorn.

🗡️💀

[Doug Taft @dstaft]

Escrow NIL money and provide an increasing payout per year of play at a particular school, with the highest payout (like half or more) paid out AFTER year 4 of eligibility and AFTER any post-season game PLAYED (not sit out). If a player leaves that school, he forfeits the remainder of the NIL back to the school.

[Doug Taft @dstaft]

Anthropic designated as Supply-Chain Risk to National Security.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.

Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.

Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.

The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.

Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.

As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives.

Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.

In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.

America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

[Doug Taft @dstaft]

@IndianaGPA This is perfect. The only thing I would add is Mike Tirico’s final comments at the end of the broadcast.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

US hockey team leads Miami’s E11ven night club in singing Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.”

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

This edit is Incredible!! Great 3 minutes and 23 seconds 🫵

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

I was going to write something on everything the Alysa Liu case reveals about leftists but there is no need because this is perfect.