Phil Sherwood

Christian, Husband, Father, TX Rangers Fan

[Phil Sherwood @mrphiltx]

#OnEveryCorner #sweepstakes @Enterprise

[Phil Sherwood @mrphiltx]

#OnEveryCorner #sweepstakes @Enterprise

[Gail Heriot @GailHeriot]

The CA Legislature tried to strike these words from the state constitution in 2020 (put there by Prop 209 in 1996). The voters smacked them down when 57.23% said NO—despite the YES campaign outspending the NO team by more than 14 to 1. Now they’re trying again—calling it a “clarification” instead of an effort to gut the provision’s application to public education. Don’t believe them. If approved by the voters, this would be a major change. The aim is to pave the way for the recommendations of California’s Task Force on Reparations. The Task Force wants to make college free to African Americans no matter how well off their parents are and to get school districts to fund individual schools based on the race of the students who attend.

@christopherrufo

[Buster Keaton @BusterKeatonSoc]

Buster Keaton rated this "Hard Luck" impossible gag from his shorts as one of his best. As Buster recalls it, the water in the tank was covered with paraffin, over which was pasted a wallpaper that looked like solid brick flooring. Buster dived through the supposed bricks.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

If ID checks are “Jim Crow,” then so are Democratic National Conventions, where delegates are required to produce ID to get in!

So are the following institutions (among many others):

• Labor Union Conventions
• The Grammys
• The Oscars
• The Emmys
• Banks
• Pharmacies
• Hospitals
• Airports
• Hotels
• Gun Shops
• Casinos
• Schools
• Social Security
• DMVs
• Casinos
• Employers

IDs prevent fraud in finance, health, the Democratic Party, and so much more

Voter ID does the same for elections

Calling ID requirements “Jim Crow” is absurd and insulting to the American people, who overwhelmingly
agree that we need to take a few simple steps to make our elections secure

So, what *really* worries you about the SAVE America Act and its voter ID requirements?

[Phil Sherwood @mrphiltx]

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[Phil Sherwood @mrphiltx]

@wfaaweather Little bigger than quarters here Pete. Just north of Burleson near Crowley. 2 miles from the radar at Spinks

[Phil Sherwood @mrphiltx]

@wfaa @wfaaweather was this an actual tornado or just rotation detected?

[Charlie Peters @CDP1882]

Britain’s grooming gangs scandal is attracting attention. It’s happened before, but now it seems different.

I’ve dedicated most of my career in journalism to covering it. Because it’s the most appalling atrocity in modern British history.

In this thread, I’ll tell you what I know about the crisis, what I’ve uncovered, and what is yet to be revealed…

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

No, this is not a video from a war-torn country in the Middle East.

This is the aftermath of the Minneapolis Riots after Governor Tim Walz allowed it to burn four consecutive nights.

Kamala Harris bailed out the violent rioters.

This is their legacy.

Vote accordingly.

[ALEX @ajtourville]

Elon Musk: Almost every country on Earth has Voter ID requirements and we don’t — Why?

It's my firm opinion that those who say Trump is a threat to democracy are themselves the threat to democracy.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

For sure.

Obviously doesn’t make sense to count known fraudulent ballots.

What the heck is going?

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

This cannot be posted enough.

[Phil Sherwood @mrphiltx]

https://t.co/UzGR9mFrZb

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🔥HOLY SMOKES🔥

This is the single-most devastating ad for Kamala Harris.

Career ending.

https://t.co/xflECTCvyt

[Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine]

Trump has to meet a very high bar to rule as our most authoritarian President ever. If he sends an ethnic minority to internment camps, tries to pack the Court, and stays in office for four terms, he’ll still only be tied.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I’ve had a number of people ask me what I think happened that caused our senior military leadership to go from being the most respected institution in America to being a bunch of banana republic narcissistic self-serving politicos.

There are so many ways to answer that, but I think the answer lies in some cultural shifts that have taken place over the past 30 years that made officers think they are woke politicians instead of steely-eyed warriors (and what happened to the senior officers drifted into the senior NCO ranks like an infection).

To wit:

1. The promotion of the concept of “interagency.”

After 9/11, a huge amount of emphasis was placed on better coordination between the DoD and other federal departments like State and the CIA. The idea was simply to produce better coordination across domains. But instead of the State Department becoming more like the DoD, the DoD started thinking like the State Department. Historically (pre-1990s) there was a healthy tension between State and the DoD. Turning our senior officers into wannabe State Department grandees who get invited to Georgetown cocktail parties destroyed that tension and wrecked the warrior ethos of the military. (Although not “high ranking,” Alexander “Chow Thief” Vindman is a stellar example of this phenomenon.)

2. We sent our promising O-5s and O-6s to advanced degree-producing programs at Ivy League universities and made advanced degrees a key promotion criteria.

Think Dave Petraeus. The idea of the “warrior scholar” is nice in the abstract, but in reality what we did was infect our senior leaders with the woke mind virus.

3. The service academies and War Colleges tried to be like Ivy League universities and built a civilian cadre of professors who think and act like a Harvard scholar.

The result is the same as #2, except because the service academies are involved the woke mind virus starts at the very most junior officer levels with cadets at West Point, the Air Force Academy and Annapolis.

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How to fix these cultural issues?

-Dramatically cut back on interagency activities except for strict intelligence functions.
-Eliminate advanced degrees as promotion criteria. Stellar service in combat and line units/ships/planes will be the overwhelming consideration for promotion.
-Eliminate all DEI programs of every kind at all levels. Demonstrated adherence to DEI principles will be a “do not promote” criteria.
-Cease all advanced degree-producing programs at civilian universities for line officers (docs, lawyers, chaplains and scientists can still go).
-Fire 100% of the civilian faculty at the service academies and War Colleges.
-Greatly reduce permanent military faculty at the service academies and War Colleges and limit them only to very specialized areas. Rotate accomplished line officers through these schools as instructors.
-Refocus the service academies on disciplines related to warfighting and engineering. Eliminate any and all courses and majors that end in “studies.”
-Completely revamp the curriculums at all War Colleges so there is a laser-focus on strategy at the national and theater levels.
-Mirror all of this in NCO professional development programs.

There is so much more to be done to fix our military, but from a cultural perspective I believe this is a great start.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

🧵Remember @DrLeanaWen, the woman who demanded that the unvaxxed should not be allowed to leave their homes?

Wen wasn’t just a Covid fearmonger but also a crisis actor during the Boston Marathon Bombings. This THREAD will make any conspiracy theorist go nuts, so stay with me.⬇️

[Ryan Tyre 🇺🇸 @ryantyre]

If you are wondering why citizens are being turned away that are coming to help NC and TN - you'll want to hear my experience as someone who has been doing this as a private citizen for almost a decade.

I was able to get into, and out of Asheville. We brought food, water, fuel and other supplies as well as helped people affected by the floods, but there are reasons why they are not allowing outside help.

I cannot confirm the reasons why in NC, but i can tell you the reasons in other storms i have worked - i'll explain below.

Let me share with you the first disaster area that i finally realized that this was all about money.

In the FL Keys with Hurricane Irma, after Texas got hit with Harvey, we finished our efforts in Texas and were the first citizen team to make it to Key Largo.

The federal agencies had US1 shut down just South of Key Largo and wouldn't let anyone in or out, even though the road was okay to pass.

We explained to them that we had boats, Jet skis, food, water, chainsaws and fuel to bring these people.

They didn't care and wouldn't let us in.

It was night by that point and you rarely saw the lights of vehicles in the distance on the individual keys, meaning the emergency response teams from FEMA weren't even working, it was all quiet.

We decided that we would go in anyways.

We filled up the boats and jet skis with all that we could reasonably carry and went by water, around all their BS blockades and around their law enforcement presence on the water.

It was 87 miles by water to get to our first stop, Cudjoe Key and Sugarloaf Key.

When we arrived there we were greeted by a homeowner (for privacy, I won't name him, though we have video) who was elated to see us and all the supplies we brought, his house was in shambles.

We started offloading supplies on the shoreline and helping to get them into what was left of his house.
During that process, he explained to us that FEMA had set up a command center at a local high school on the island, but that they weren't doing anything to help the residents, not even bringing them WATER!

Instead, he explained that they were driving around using a loudspeaker, telling people to stay in their homes. They weren't even helping the home owners with supplies.

I was skeptical at first while he was telling me all of this, but then he said something that broke my heart....

He told us that the people of the keys were all in despair, because they had just seen, weeks before, the overwhelming support for Texas with Hurricane Harvey, by the citizens of this country. He, and his neighbors on all of the keys, felt like Americans had forgotten about them completely, because at this point, FIVE DAYS after landfall, all they had seen was FEMA, and they were of NO HELP.

The residents were cut off from the outside world, no cellular, no internet, no way to contact anyone or hear of any efforts to try to help them.

The ONLY communication they had was from a local radio station on Sugarloaf Key, that was broadcasting on AM to the surrounding keys.

The man, after hearing that there were citizens trying to bring them help, but being refused entry by federal law enforcement was visibly upset. He, and his neighbors, really thought the country had abandoned them.

He insisted that we get into his waterlogged truck and that he would take us to that radio station so that we could go live on air, to tell the citizens trapped in the Keys that we, the American people, were there to help and that the government was trying to stop our efforts.

And that is exactly what we did.

After that, we were determined to help as many people as we could, but we were met with red tape throughout the whole process and time we were in the keys.

We finally we able to talk some authorities to let us down to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon towards the end of Boot Key. This was the same hotel where state and local authorities were staging their personnel and they were happy to see us.

I was able to coordinate several trucks full of supplies to be brought down to the EOC in Marathon. I was privy to the EOC meeting, BUT was informed in that meeting, that all of the semi trucks full of food, water and hygiene supplies were to be turned around and not allowed to be offloaded for distribution by the EOC.

THE REASON they gave us, was that these donations were not from companies on their "preferred vendors list" and that they would not accept them or give them to the residents of the keys impacted by the storm.

It was at that point that I realized, this is ALL ABOUT MONEY.

These 'preferred vendors" are getting part of the money being released by the state and federal govt for each disaster. In turn, some of the "vendors" make it on the list because a friend gets them on the list, and in return for getting ridiculously outlandish amounts of compensation for the services they render, they give kickbacks.

So accepting outside donations, even though they are on location and can help people NOW, they would rather let people suffer so they can get their kickbacks.

This meeting solidified my resolve to help these people, regardless of what the greedy officials wanted, we were going to feed the lower keys that were being neglected.

I diverted ALL SEMI TRUCKS to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon and filled the entire first floor with pallets upon pallets of food, water and essential supplies and created a food pantry for residents to come and get anything, and however much they needed.

From local state troopers to the homeless, all were given wheel barrels and free reign to get anything they needed.

We also delivered supplies down to Big Pine Key. We helped establish the tent city on Big Pine Key. Big companies like Titos Vodka and Whelen just kept bringing trucks full of everything that was needed. When FEMA FINALLY started handing out boxes of canned goods (limited to one per household), we were filing cars full of food and supplies for people and pets.

There is so much more to the story in the Keys and further from there in other storms we worked- the common theme though, is that the federal government always tries to keep citizens from helping and the local authorities, the ones that live and work in the area are always happy to have outside help.

I call out to Elon Musk and anyone else who can monetarily help people like myself and those that work with me, who have the knowledge and the will to help those devastated by these disasters.

Help us side step the red tape and get the people the relief they need.

We are willing, and we are many, and we are ready.

@Sassafrass_84 @hodgetwins @elonmusk @Alphafox78