I Used to be Clever

Father and Husband. Coug. Hawk and former M's Fan. Ephesians 2: 8-10

[USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸 @Arkypatriot]

Many of you may not know that I served for 8 years on the DOD honor Detail in Fort Smith, Arkansas as the electronic bugler.

Every time I stood on the Honor Detail and raised that bugle this was my view.

Not a crowd.
Not a parade.
Just row after row of white headstones stretching across the green hills of the Fort Smith National Cemetery.

From where I stood, I could see the stones of men and women who had worn the uniform long before I did. Some had fought in wars history remembers. Others served quietly and came home to ordinary lives before making one final journey to that sacred ground.

People hear the bugle and think it’s just a song. It isn’t.

When those first notes of Taps leave that bugle, time seems to stop. Families cling to one another. Veterans stand a little straighter. Even the wind seems to soften.

And as I looked through the curve of that brass instrument, all I could see were those headstones.

I often wondered about the lives behind them. The young Marine who never got to grow old. The Army medic who came home carrying invisible scars. The sailor whose grandchildren only know him from faded photographs.

For those few moments, it felt like it wasn’t just playing for the family gathered around the casket. It was playing for every single one of them.

As a Marine, I was taught that we never leave our own behind. Standing there, bugle in hand, looking across that sea of white marble, I realized that promise doesn’t end when the battle is over.

Your watch is over. Rest easy. We will remember.

[I Used to be Clever @marktchamp]

@BrockHuard Champion

[I Used to be Clever @marktchamp]

@seasidejoenews Oops. Must have missed it

[Defender of the Republic 🇺🇸 @realdefender45]

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended.

Critical thinking is now “hate speech.”

Common sense is labeled “dangerous.”

And the loudest voices in the room are often the most ignorant.

When did we decide that protecting fragile egos was more important than pursuing truth?

The Republic was built by bold minds, not by catering to the lowest common denominator.

[I Used to be Clever @marktchamp]

@WhiteHouse If Walz and Omar are not charged then all of this is just for show.

[I Used to be Clever @marktchamp]

@Nickolgolf Hook

[I Used to be Clever @marktchamp]

@ReasonUnchains @MikeGarafolo @AroundTheNFL @RapSheet Wrong. That would be Obama.

[I Used to be Clever @marktchamp]

@MikeGarafolo @RapSheet He supports the president of the country he was born and raised in, oh no, how terrible. /end sarcasm/

[unseen1 @unseen1_unseen]

This is why they were deathly afraid of Trump for the last 10 years.

This is why they impeached him twice.

This is why some in the gop establishment threw the 2018 midterms.

This is why they stacked his cabinet/admin in Trump 1.0 with Bruti.

This is why certain people on the right counter message everything coming out of this admin.

This is why they are melting down, daily.

Trump is changing the country and the world.

He is exposing decades of grift.

He is showing that we don't have to live this way.

He is shinning a light on "unfixable problems" that turn out to be simply fixed if not exactly easily fixed.

They have no defense for that truth.

Turns out the border could always have been secured in days if they wanted to do it.

Turns out, yes we can deport illegals from the interior if they wanted to do it.

Turns out, yes, we can require companies to not put poison into our food if they wanted to do it.

Turns out we can send the poisoners of our children to the bottom of the sea if they wanted to do it.

Turns out we don't have to live with mass migration if they wanted to stop it.

Turns out we don't have to hollow out fly over country and force our citizens to learn to code if they didn't want it to happen.

Turns out we dont have to pay for the world's research and development cost for prescription drugs if they cared about our welfare.

Turns out we dont have to allow widespread fraud in welfare programs if they dont want it.

Turns out we dont have to fear terror loving countries plunging the world into a new dark age if they have a set of balls.

Turns out we dont have to allow other countries to rip us off in trade if they cared about Americans.

Turns out we don't have to become woke to protect minority rights.

[I Used to be Clever @marktchamp]

@atensnut Fill the 3 g jug & pour into the 5. Fill the 3 g jug again & fill it by pouring 2 into the 5 g jug leaving 1 g in the 3 g jug. Empty the 5 g jug and pour the 1 g from the 3 g jug into the 5 g jug. Refill the 3 g jug one last time and pour 3 g on top of the 1 already in there

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

The revolutionary right is the present and the future. MAGA and America First are only the first iterations of it. In time we can become unbeatable.

We stand for the dominance of western civilization, national pride, merit, excellence, advancement, treating criminals the way Bukele treats them in El Salvador, an end to illegal immigration, making a decent life possible for every family, 2A, lower taxes, no property tax at all, slashing the size of government, no foreign aid unless it materially benefits the American people, free speech, expansion, exploration, beauty, dominating outer space before our enemies, putting Americans first before anything else, embracing crypto, bringing back a moral framework + class in society and providing a fulfilling future for every young person.

We believe capitalism will always be a better system than communism.

We believe families, safety and faith are the ingredients to a better life.

We believe the human spirt is meant to build and see beautiful things.

We believe we’re supposed to explore the universe.

We believe the greatest threat to humanity is leftism.

We believe the left is an extinctionist movement.

We believe in MAHA health policies.

We don’t care what woke scolds say. We don’t care what names we get called. We don’t care what the global left threatens us with. We’ll take the arrows. We’ll be relentless. We’ll grow and we’ll dominate over time.

We believe we control our destiny. We believe we aren’t at the mercy of others. We believe that we have the numbers and power to change the world.

We believe in the revolutionary spirit of our founders. We want to embody it in all that we do. We believe we can do great and hard things. We believe we can advance humanity to the greatest heights in human history.

If we have large platforms, we believe in using them to get things done, not using them to maximize clicks and cash. We have contempt for those who want to waste large platforms on clicks instead of changing the world.

We know roadblocks await us. We know that the institutionally corrupt, the vapid, the woke, the evil, the hedonists, the drone like zombies, the RINO’s, the braindead bigots, the commies and more will throw everything at us. Over time we will win.

The right will rise globally. Continually. Inertia is on our side. Truth is on our side. Comedy is on our side. History is on our side.

Don’t lose hope. Don’t blackpill. We grow every single day. We infiltrate every single day. We win little by little each and every day. Young people are waking up. They crave the revolutionary spirit our founders had. Especially young men.

The revolutionary right is inevitable. Have hope.

Be revolutionary. Embody the spirit. Start local. Plan. Make change happen. Be relentless.

[I Used to be Clever @marktchamp]

@BobFergusonGov Good Lord, haven't you done enough damage? Just stop please.

[I Used to be Clever @marktchamp]

@TiffanyFong Sorry I'm late to this, but the Simpson´s has been hilarious for years. Does that count as a sit-com?

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

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🔴 Chris Dudley: 48% (+4)
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Democrats DESTROY every state they lead in.

[Fight With Memes @FightWithMemes]

How it started: 💉
How it's going: 🤒

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

The only way to fully reform the Pentagon is mass firings of bureaucrats.

But if @elonmusk didn’t have the political capital to pull that off, what chance does @PeteHegseth have?

The Democrats and the blob have no power to get anything done. But they have enormous power to throw wrenches into working machinery.

If Hegseth fired half the Pentagon tonight, the warfighter would suffer in the short to medium term.

Supplies, ammunition, food replenishment for the carriers off Iran: all of it would be “accidentally” misplaced.

Remember all those stories about sailors going malnourished on the USS Ford?

Complete fake news.

Or was it?

Those stories weren’t reporting on what is happening now. They were warnings about what WILL happen the moment Hegseth or the CNO push too hard on reform.

That’s what most people don’t understand about the media fakenews. They don’t pull these factual wrong stories out of thin air. The narrative serves a purpose.

The fake news is often a warning of what will happen if MAGA doesn’t back off.

Look at what happened with ICE. Noem did not give a damn about the blob, so what did the blob do? They didn’t just shut down ICE. They kneecapped the entire U.S. Coast Guard.

They put maximum pain on something Trump cherishes: active duty service members.

I think that was the fundamental disagreement between Elon and Trump.
Trump wants to get shit done, but he understood that if he fired half of DC, everything would grind to a halt for a few years.

Look at the NSC. He gutted the place, which was a fantastic move, but the shipbuilding office got crushed in the process. They eventually pulled off the Maritime Action Plan, but it took a year.

Elon was willing to absorb the short term pain to get the long term result. It’s not that he doesn’t care about the warfighter. It’s certainly not ignorance of what the blob can do to inflict pain on warfighters. He was just willing to accept short term casualties to save the nation in the long run.

He was willing to sacrifice pawns, and even his knights, to win the game.

Trump thinks he can rebuild the foundation without losing any of his construction workers in the process. He thinks he can fix the foundation without evicting any of his tenants.

This is not black and white.

Neither is wrong.

And fundamentally, I think Trump is an optimist about the future of our Republic. He believes the nation will survive him.

Elon thinks we need to colonize Mars because there is a non-zero chance the entire Earth is screwed.

He’s an optimist too. Just on an entirely different timeline.

Trump wants to see real progress and real improvements before he dies. Elon is willing to sacrifice during his lifetime if it means the Republic is stronger in 100 years.

Both are patriots.

Trump just has a few more red lines he will not cross than Elon does. The biggest of those red lines is the wellbeing of our warfighters.

The problem is Democrats know it. And they are willing to kick the USCG in the balls to win the midterms.

And Trump is willing to back down, fire Kristi Noem, and sideline the deputy who was pushing USCG reforms, all to keep Coast Guard sailors from getting hurt.

I don’t blame him. It pains me too seeing our coasties suffer because of political nonsense.

Drain the swamp tomorrow and millions of tax refunds, programs for the poor, essential cancer treatments, scheduled lifesaving surgeries at the VA, and worse will grind to a halt for weeks.

Possibly months. Maybe a few years.
Don’t drain DC, and change will take decades to happen, if it happens at all.

Trump was willing to pay that price on essential services overseas. That’s why he let Elon shutter USAID.

But he is reluctant to grind domestic services to a halt, and he is unwilling to let Democrats and the blob hurt any service larger than the USCG.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

“Which one of you motherfuckers is playing for second?” - Larry Bird to the whole locker room right before the 1988 NBA 3-Point Shootout.

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[I Used to be Clever @marktchamp]

@MarioNawfal Then why are gas prices so high??