Hayden Johnson

Husband, Dad, athlete, sports fan (Go Army!, Go Spurs!), Hill Country kid and back porch musician. Business leader passing it on.
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[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

"The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately. Go to work!"

@thatsean Still bummed that we never met, but I loved teaching your wonderful kids. I share your story every year in class. Let's get to work! @thatdamonadams

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@MaxwellCan99061 Our multi-year #1 engine. Nice job, Canyon. Great hustle.

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@theallinpod Great episode. I am sad to update @jason about our tx schools. I left corporate to teach @ 10 yrs ago. This wsj article represents the attitude of most (not all) teachers - even in tx public schools. Thats why esa's are critical. https://t.co/UvTflyTUlz

[David Brody @DBrodyReports]

Meet Steve. This is a story of how God is moving! On Sunday, I was in Glendale, Arizona covering the Charlie Kirk Memorial. I went over to TPSUSA Headquarters in Phoenix the night before and on my way back, I was picked up by an Uber driver named Steve. He told me that he grew up Catholic but had walked away from the church. He became an alcoholic and his wife passed away from cancer. A couple years ago. he picked up Charlie Kirk from the airport and they had a great conversation. When Charlie was assassinated, it affected him deeply and he told me that after Charlie’s murder, he dusted off his Bible for the first time in years and started reading it! He also said to me that he was going to go back to church every Sunday! Furthermore, he told me that he planned to take two of his grandsons with him to Charlie’s memorial on Sunday. I then received a text from him during the memorial with this wonderful picture of him and his grandsons with a caption that read, “We made it in.” Pray for Steve and his family as he searches for that personal relationship with Christ. We serve a remarkable God! Thank you Jesus!

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@j_bambrick Thankful, indeed.

[🙏🏽🧎🏽‍♀️THAT Amber 🧎🏽‍♀️🙏🏽 @all_themoxie]

@j_bambrick And the Sec of State, @marcorubio sharing the Gospel in 90 seconds, flawlessly.

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@j_bambrick Thankful, indeed.

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

Your arguments should be formed thus: "I am right about (issue) and you are wrong because....." If instead you say, "I am right and you are ('Evil')" then you are part of the problem. ('Evil' = racist, XXphobe, UltraMAGA, socialist, etc). #ProveMeWrong

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left

If we were leftists and we were to use leftist tropes to editorialize the recent attempt on Trump’s life, then we would frame the assassination attempt in the following way:

We have witnessed for years blatant exceptions to the once common custom that we don’t normalize the imagined killing of any president or presidential candidate and thus lower the bar of violence.

But the Left constantly makes Trump an exception. Now, it as if the imagined killing of Trump had been mainstreamed and become acceptable in a way inconceivable of other presidents.

(Do we remember the rodeo clown who merely wore an Obama mask during a bull riding contest and was punished by being permanently banned by the Missouri State Fair authorities?)

So since at least 2016 there has been a parlor game among Leftist celebrities and entertainers joking (one hopes), dreaming, imagining, and just talking about the various and graphic ways they would like to assassinate or seriously injure Trump:

By slugging his face (Robert De Niro), by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson), by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park), by clubbing (Mickey Rourke), by shooting ( Snoop Dogg), by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain), by bounty killing (George Lopez), by carrion eating his corpse (Pearl Jam), by suffocating (Larry Whilmore), by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby), by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell), just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean), or by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”).

Or should we deplore the use of telescopic scope imagery, given that the Left blamed Sarah Palin for once using bullseye spots on an election map of opposition congressional districts, claiming that such usage had incited the mass shooting by Jared Lee Loughner?

Yet, recently POTUS Joe Biden was a little bit more graphic and a lot more literal.

In a widely reported call to hundreds of donors last week, Biden boasted, “I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”

"In a bullseye?”

At least, Biden did not go back to the full Biden beat-up porn of the past (e.g., “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him"/ “The press always asks me, ‘Don’t I wish I were debating him?’ No, I wish we were in high school – I could take him behind the gym. That’s what I wish.”).

Then there is the question of the Secret Service and one’s political opponents. Given the tragic history of the Kennedys, why in the world did the Biden administration not insist that third-party candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. be accorded Secret Service protection? Because his candidacy was felt to be disadvantageous to Biden?

And why just this April would the former head of the January 6th Committee and 2004 election obstructionist Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) introduce legislation ridiculously entitled, “Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act” to strip away Secret Service protection for former President Trump and by this April current leading presidential candidate?

Had Thompson’s bill passed, would that not have been confirmation for a potential shooter to feel his task was just made much easier?

But in a wider sense, if the common referent day after day on the Left is that Trump is another Hitler (cf. a recent The New Republic cover where Trump is literally photoshopped as Hitler), then it seems reckless not to imagine an unhinged or young shootist believing that by taking out somewhat identical to one of the greatest mass murderers in history, he would be applauded for his violence?

So is their logic, shoot Trump and save six million from the gas chambers?

After all, The New Republic defiantly explained their Hitler-Trump cover photo this way, "Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, “He’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.”

Well, New Republic, recently someone took you up on your argument that Trump was “damn close enough” to Hitler and so he likewise chose to “fight”— albeit with a semi-automatic rifle.

If ad nauseam, a Joy Reid is screaming about Trump as a Hitlerian dictator ("Then let me know who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out of the White House”) or Rachel Maddow is bloviating about studying Hitler to understand Trump, then finally the message sinks in that a mass murderer is about to take power—unless....

Finally, the idea, if true, that bystanders spotted a 20-year-old on a nearby roof with a gun, a mere 130 yards from Trump, and in vain warned police of his presence, is surreal.

Is it all that hard for the Secret Service to post a few agents on the tops of a few surrounding buildings closest to the dais, or at least coordinate with local law enforcement to do the same?

That is a no brainer. Whoever made the decisions concerning the proper secret service security details for presidential events should be immediately fired.

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@trey_h_33 @GentsBasketball @CentenaryLA @GentsCoachD @Dom_Percia @CTXAttackSouth @NYOScharter Congrats, Trey! I look forward to watching you and Logan Brinkoeter (Grace Academy now at Le Tourneau) going at it again!! Well done and congratulations! Hayden Johnson, Grace AD

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@ryanbomberger Oh, also thank you for your important voice and ministry!!

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@ryanbomberger Love it!

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@TinaJoh13012561 @RyanShead I would. Telling your team a difficult truth (ex. bonuses are for performance) does not equal callous. I much prefer to hear where I & org stand rather than simply what I want to hear.

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@william_layne4 @RoundRockFB @CoachJGesch @Z_Fowl37 Go get em, big man!! Go Rock!!

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@rockhoops @LTHSbasketball @DragonNationRR @var_atx @varsity_news @HenryHueyPhoto @hoopinsider @AlamoCityHoops1 @GASOTim @GASOBlue Nothing like beating LTHS!!! Congratulations, men. Go Rock!!

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@RyanOKeefe23 Good luck, young man!! Congrats on completing your first degree and good luck at another great school to get your second degree! Back home we are proud of how you are doing it. Well done. @RoundRockFB

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@RyanOKeefe23 Just picked up this story. What a great one! Always, remember that your family has always been with you and always will, draft or no draft! Ro Rock!

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@BaylorBaseball @Jared_McKenzie2 Congrats, Jared! Have a great summer of training and prep! Go Rock!! @Rockhardball

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@theallinpod @SCOTUSblog @AHoweBlogger I guess I am one of the few market participants who love this pod & also interested in const law. I am pro-life & loved the guests. Thx Chamath for the thoughtful discussion on an important issue. Better if there was a pro-lifer but thoughtful coverage by the guests. thx

[Hayden Johnson @haydenjohnson3]

@Jason @theallinpod @ApplePodcasts @chamath @friedberg @DavidSacks @nickcalacanis Great episode! Listening to you guys makes me realize there are broad areas of compromise agreements to solve important problems avail if pols were interested. We are not at all the same but could come up with a great st debt fix that solved higher ed in 30 mins w/ u guys. Thx!