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[Stand and Salute @olgrumpyfart2]

Pride.
Honor.
Sacrifice.
Respect.
Blood, sweat and tears.

This is my pride flag.

[Freedom 250 @Freedom250]

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[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

The dead do not negotiate with the worms, and neither will this piece.

If Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Franklin rose tomorrow and stood on the steps of the Capitol they built, they would not weep for the republic.

They would recognize the corpse for what it is:

a once-sovereign nation hollowed out by 535 self-dealing imbeciles who have turned every constitutional safeguard into theater.

Madison’s factions…those latent diseases of human nature he designed the republic to dilute…have metastasized into identity-based tribes that now demand the state itself enforce their hatreds.

Jefferson would run the numbers on the thirty-nine trillion dollar swindle of posterity and call it exactly what he named it in 1816: theft dressed as governance.

Washington would count the permanent warfare state, the surveillance panopticon, and the administrative Leviathan that issues rules with the force of law while answering to no one the people can remove, and he would know, in his bones, that this is the tyranny they took up arms to escape.

This is not incompetence.

It is pathology.

A political class selected for malignant narcissism…grandiosity without competence, gaslighting without conscience, and the practiced art of DARVO when their failures are named.

They have trained a population to fight over scraps while the real power accrues to unelected agencies, donor cartels, and ideological enforcers who treat the Bill of Rights as an inconvenience.

The Founders would see the bloody ledger…the dead in forever-wars, the poisoned communities, the mutilated children, the despairing who check out permanently…and they would ask the only question that matters:

whether enough Americans still possess the will to do what they did when the forms no longer contained the rot.

If that offends you, the piece is working.

The truth was never meant to comfort the architects of the grave.

Read it. Then decide which side of the resurrection you stand on.

https://t.co/6Cdict37lQ

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

As a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq I find this self-aggrandizing “journalist” to be highly objectionable.

He is narcissistic filth with a grotesquely ridiculous sense of unwarranted self importance.

People talk about “stolen valor.”

THIS is stolen valor.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

🇺🇸📸JUNE 6TH PHOTOGRAPHY TIMELINE CLEANSE📸🇺🇸

I took this in the American cemetery in Normandy a couple of summers ago.

The sacrifice...

Fujifilm X-H2, Fuji XF 15-55mm zoom @ 50mm, f/8.0, 1/850th, ISO 160, handheld, B&W conversion in Adobe Lightroom Classic.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2023. Immediately after her interview with Trump was broadcast, Kristen Welker "fact checked" Trump about his Jan 6th claim that the Mayor of DC had called for the National Guard and that they were turned away.

Welker apparently forgot about her reporting from January 5th, 2021.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Let me ruin your June for a second.

Every year when National Gun Violence Awareness Month rolls around, the same people who have not read a single page of John Lott's 13,312-regression peer-reviewed study start posting pictures of children and demanding you feel responsible for deaths you did not cause and had nothing to do with.

So. Let us talk about children. Since they brought it up.

In 2006, the CDC recorded 642 accidental firearm deaths in the entire United States. For children under the age of ten — the number was 31. Thirteen under age five. Eighteen between five and nine.

Tragic? Absolutely. Every single one.

But here is the number that will not appear on a single "Orange Friday" awareness post: 80.

Eighty children under the age of five drown in bathtubs every year. Every. Single. Year.

ALMOST THREE TIMES as many children drown in bathtubs annually as die from ALL firearm accidents combined — including adults. And forty more drown in five-gallon water buckets. The kind you buy at Home Depot for $4.99.

I have given this information at talks and watched jaws drop, because people genuinely believe the number is in the thousands. They have been so thoroughly marinated in "gun violence awareness" content that their perception of actual risk is completely detached from reality. That is not an accident. That is the point of the campaign.

Where is Bathtub Awareness Month? Where is the congressional hearing on five-gallon bucket control? Where is the hashtag? Where are the orange ribbons for the children who drowned while their parents were in the next room?

There are none. Because the campaign was never about children. It was never about safety. If it were about safety, they would be equally outraged about cars — which killed 1,305 children that same year. Or fire. Or drowning. But they are not. The selective fury lands exclusively on firearms. And if you are a scientist, which I happen to be, you do not get to cherry-pick your data based on which conclusion you prefer. Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism.

Now let us talk about what the actual data says about guns and safety, because John Lott ran 13,000-plus statistical regressions across every county in America and the results are not ambiguous.

Fifty-six percent of convicted felons surveyed in a ten-state study said they would NOT attack a target they believed was armed. Fifty-six percent. The deterrence is real, it is documented, and it functions whether or not a shot is ever fired. The firearm you carry protects your neighbor whether your neighbor knows it or not.

When states passed right-to-carry laws, multiple-victim public shootings — what the media insists on calling "mass shootings" to maximize terror — dropped by 67 percent. Deaths in those events dropped by 75 percent. Injuries by 81 percent. States that adopted these laws virtually ELIMINATED mass public shootings within four to five years. The remaining events? They happened almost exclusively in the specific locations where guns remained banned. The gun-free zones. The places we hang the sign that only the law-abiding ever read.

There were between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses in the United States last year alone, depending on which of fifteen national polls you consult. A JAMA Network Open study from March 2025 estimated 489,000 DGUs in which a firearm was actually discharged. The Department of Justice's own National Crime Victimization Survey puts the conservative floor at 65,000 defensive uses per year against assaults, robberies, and home invasions.

No dead body. No coverage. No awareness month.

Here is one more number for you: 74. Seventy-four percent of convicted felons in a National Institute of Justice survey said they actively avoided homes they believed were occupied by armed residents. Criminals respond to incentives. That is not ideology — that is basic deterrence theory, and it is confirmed by the people who actually commit the crimes.

I also want you to think carefully about something the Supreme Court already settled. DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989). Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005). Two separate rulings establishing that the government has NO legal obligation to protect you as an individual. None. You are your own first responder. That is not my opinion — that is settled constitutional law from the highest court in this country.

So the political class that just told you the government is not required to protect you... is also the one demanding you surrender the tool you use to protect yourself.

I want fewer people dead. That is why I know the data. That is why I read the book. That is why I am furious every June when emotion and fundraising replace science and evidence in a "debate" that has actual life-or-death consequences for real people.

You want to honor the children? Honor ALL of them. The ones who drowned. The ones who died in car crashes. And the ones who will never be born because a woman alone in her house at 2 a.m. had no way to stop what was coming through her door.

But what do I know — I am only a published textbook author, a science teacher, a father of four, and a combat medic who spent his career reducing human suffering and who actually read the peer-reviewed data before forming an opinion.

IF you agree:
LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it.
SHARE this.
COMMENT below — did you know the bathtub number? Or did the narrative keep that from you? Tell me.

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#MAGA #Veterans #Trump
@JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Remember everyone…we are still in the lead, and we’ve got allllllll the way til July 6th to keep counting. They’re not the only ones who know where to find votes 😉

[Firearms Policy Coalition @gunpolicy]

This is just pathetic.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

I did not write what follows because I enjoy the sound of my own diagnosis.

I wrote it because the tree is dying in real time and the people who still claim the name American seem determined to let it happen while they argue about the correct way to feel about the blood that has always kept it alive.

Jefferson was not being poetic when he said the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

He was being precise.

He understood what every serious student of power eventually learns…that comfort is not a neutral state.

It is a solvent.

It dissolves the capacities that once made a people capable of self-government.

The nervous system that is never asked to endure real threat, never required to coordinate violence in defense of the particular, never forced to choose between its own comfort and the survival of the thing it claims to love…that nervous system atrophies.

The prefrontal cortex learns to treat any activation as dysregulation.

The amygdala, starved of the hormesis that once built resilience, becomes either numb or hysterical.

The result is visible everywhere I look.

Leaders who have never sent men into fire now lecture about proportionality from air-conditioned rooms.

Generals whose entire careers have been spent managing optics and avoiding viral moments replace the ones who understood that wars are won by spirit and velocity, not by minimizing political exposure.

A public that has been trained to experience any assertion of hard power as trauma now demands that its protectors operate with the restraint of therapists while its enemies operate with the restraint of conquerors.

This is not decadence in the decorative sense.
It is a pathology.

A collective refusal to do the dirty work that has always been the price of keeping the experiment breathing.

What follows is the map of that refusal.

It is the contrast between the men who did what was necessary and the castrated institutions that now tell us the necessary is too cruel, too risky, too likely to hurt someone’s feelings or end a career.

It is the neurological and philosophical autopsy of a people that has decided comfort is a right rather than a temporary privilege purchased by others’ willingness to bleed.

And it ends where all such refusals eventually end.
With a choice.

Either we remember what it actually costs to be American…or we surrender the name and die in the comfort we chose over the tree.

The piece below is not a suggestion.

It is the record of what happens when a republic stops feeding what keeps it alive.

https://t.co/jIrLL8X7ef

[Stand and Salute @olgrumpyfart2]

@RapidResponse47 @MarkWarner @pulte Warner is up for re-election as Virginia's senior Senator this year.

Warner is up to his eyeballs in the Russia-Russia-Russia scam, and is the top Dem on the Senate Select Committee on Intel.

Warner is looking to save his own bacon. He is exposed and vulnerable.

[Stand and Salute @olgrumpyfart2]

@johnnymaga "A country can never be great with a dishonest press."

That's some serious truth right there.

[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.

[Stand and Salute @olgrumpyfart2]

@TheLeoTerrell @CNN @MSNOWNews "A country can never be great with a dishonest press."

[Stand and Salute @olgrumpyfart2]

More truth from the President.

[Stand and Salute @olgrumpyfart2]

More proof Democrats do not love America.

.@Freedom250

[New York Post @nypost]

Bill Maher says artists quitting Freedom 250 concert makes it look like Dems 'don't love America' https://t.co/Wf6K4yZpMq

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

That's because they don't love America.

[Jason Miyares @JasonMiyaresVA]

🚨 Day 2 of 30 Heroes in 30 Days — countdown to July 4!
The Bedford Boys of Virginia. From a town of just 3,200, 37 young men of Company A, 116th Infantry landed in the first wave on Omaha Beach, D-Day. 19 died within minutes.
One shining example: 1st Lt. Jimmie W. Monteith Jr. (Medal of Honor) repeatedly exposed himself to murderous fire, rallied scattered troops, and guided tanks through a minefield under hellish artillery and machine guns. He was killed that day.
They stormed the beaches to liberate a continent & never asked for riches or glory — the only land they asked for was a place to bury their dead.
Brothers. Neighbors. Virginians. Heroes. 🇺🇸
#30HeroesIn30Days #BedfordBoys #DDay #OmahaBeach #MedalofHonor

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS: "I had to stop a country — a very powerful, very dangerous country — from having a nuclear weapon because they'd use it... They're nuts. They're crazy people."

[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

"What you say? You gonna kill me? You gonna kill me?" ICE Agent says as he drags protester away outside of Delaney Hall Detention Center

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Me trying to figure out how votes get counted in LA