gasmonkey

Retired U.S. Navy. No DMs please.

[The Buddy CSM @TheBuddyCSM]

I've been digging through more and came across this list of operations my grandfather’s field artillery battalion was part of.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

One was treated vastly differently than the other.

Apparently some lives matter more than others.

[Byron Donalds @ByronDonalds]

To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.

I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.

I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.

One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”

It knocked me back.

I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”

I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.

That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.

I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.

I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.

People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.

I'll tell you why.

Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.

I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.

In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.

The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.

You just have to stop running.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

You know the system is cracked in half when DataRepublican gets gatekept because she has no “credentials”.

No patents of nobility.

Can she literally move the earth by clicking “post”? Sure.

Can she single handedly change national policy? Yes.

None of that matters apparently.

[Love Beyond Color @LoveBeyondCo1or]

White people have been fighting for black people since slavery, and they gave their lives to end slavery when they didn’t even start it. The least I can do is fight for them too. We have to End Racism Against White People Too.
Love Beyond Color

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: Miguel Bosé, the biggest Spanish-language pop star of the last few decades, has just released a video taking a knee and putting his hand over his heart in honour of Henry Nowak

This has now spread like a wildfire. Europe has never been more UNITED! 🇪🇸🇬🇧

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Spencer Pratt just dropped this post.

The cheat in CA is happening. No state needs weeks to count votes, they need weeks to manufacture votes.

[gasmonkey @gasmonkey]

@SGTWipper1Each Damn. And they say the navy is gay.

[Christopher Wipper @SGTWipper1Each]

Just conducted a civilian job interview for the first time.

The guy leading it told me as it started to not feel anxious or intimidated by all the interviewers present.

I responded with, “No worries, the last interview I did was for the Army and I had to show them my butthole to get the job”.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 OMG. President Trump CUTS OFF and WALKS OUT of a Kristen Welker interview

He looks her in the eyes and tells her SHE'S A LIAR, then storms off!

"The elections are like a 3rd world country. YOU'RE CROOKED...let's call it QUITS. I've HAD ENOUGH."

WELKER: Please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin!

TRUMP: "I've sat in the RAIN with you for an HOUR! I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press. You know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest press. Let's GO."

WELKER: *Whines*

BEST PRESIDENT EVER 🔥🔥🔥

[gasmonkey @gasmonkey]

@TheBuddyCSM Bigfoot 🫈. I thought me and him would be buddies by now.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Who is making them do this?

[Straight Florida @StraightFlorida]

Even our surfers are built completely different down here. 🏄

This salt-crusted Florida lunatic ain't just riding a wave — he's juggling three balls in the impact zone. Surfing takes core strength and balance. Juggling takes hand-eye coordination. Doing both on a moving chunk of the Atlantic with bull sharks circling below? That's years of unemployment, zero fear, and pure beach-bum sorcery.

California surfers drop ten grand on a custom board & cry about the wind. This guy grabbed a thrift store board, some tennis balls, and decided to mock physics while the rest of the country can't even walk and chew gum.

Only in Florida. Never change, you beautiful crazy bastard. 🌊🌴

[Mark Ormrod MBE @MarkOrmrod]

Starting my new job today!

Wish me luck 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

🚨 stop scrolling.. do you understand what this fake degree ring actually means to your life..

because most people only think about visa fraud as a paperwork problem..

those 100,000 seized certificates weren't for desk jobs.. they were for medicine.. nursing.. engineering.. IT.. fields where a fake credential doesn't just steal a job.. it puts someone in a hospital treating your family..

and here's the part nobody's connecting..

100,000 seized is 10% of the estimated total.. 900,000 fake degrees are still out there.. attached to real people.. working real jobs.. inside real companies and real hospitals that verified nothing..

a former US consular officer who processed 51,000 H-1B applications in Chennai said 80 to 90% of the applicants she saw used fraudulent documentation..

a 2008 USCIS audit found more than 13% of already-approved H-1Bs were fraudulent..

that was 18 years ago.. the program kept running..

Manav Bharti University sold 36,025 fake degrees while issuing only 5,455 real ones.. this has been running since at least 2010..

this isn't a printer in a back room.. it's a supply chain.. fake seals.. fake holograms.. fake transcripts.. 22 universities.. multiple states.. an estimated 1 million documents worldwide..

your doctor might have one of these degrees..

the system worked for the forgers.. just not for you.

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

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Washington found its counter to Iran's $24 billion demand: spend the frozen money on the countries Iran keeps hitting

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has ordered officials to tally the damage Gulf partners have suffered from Iranian attacks and price out repair and recovery costs, as the administration weighs using frozen Iranian assets to compensate for past and future damage linked to Tehran.

Think through what that does.

Iran says the entire deal hinges on getting its $24 billion back.

Treasury's answer is to start metering that pot out to Kuwait and Bahrain, so every missile Tehran fires at its neighbors now drains its own recoverable fortune.

The airport terminal, the casualties, the repairs, it all gets billed to Iran's account.

Source: Reuters

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

In France there is a new activity that the Left is getting their knickers in a twist about.

Le Canon Français is running massive banquets. For about £70 you can have great food and drinks and spend time singing patriotic songs.

The “Far Left” is furious.

LFI says it has evidence of racist chanting, and of immigrant staff being insulted. With pork regularly on the menu, they say the feasts are purposely designed to exclude Muslims and vegetarians.

Meanwhile, everyday people who love France, love food and beer are having the time of their lives.

[gasmonkey @gasmonkey]

@StraightFlorida Damn! Maine can't be too far behind

[Straight Florida @StraightFlorida]

Vermont is the least Christian state in America. 83% of y’all are apparently going straight to hell. 🤷

That explains why you barely ever see Vermont plates in South Florida — God’s been striking them down with lightning the second they hit Tampa.

Makes sense. We don’t need a bunch of maple syrup-drinking, flannel-wearing, Bernie Sanders socialists bringing that energy down here.

Y’all stay up there with your 9 months of winter and your sad little transgender trees.

We’ll just be down here living our best life, keeping the human race alive, reproducing, and teaching our children that there’s only two genders — and the only way to heaven is definitely not through Vermont. 🌴 ✝️

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Liberal members of the old Pentagon press corps had a conniption fit last week when he took Mrs. Hegseth to Singapore.

So this week he took the kids too.

The American family is so back. 🇺🇸