Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Father, husband, Christian, Veteran, retired Diplomatic Security Service special agent, now rancher.

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

That's exactly what I am doing. We are trying to "add" 10% to our herd every year. I bought cows with calves in 2024 AND held back heifers... We couldn't afford to buy in 2025 so we held back heifers. We are holding heifers in 2026 as well because cattle prices are so high. That is less money short term, "investing" in long-term growth AND less beef on the market.

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

Some of our herd enjoying a cooler day...

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

I am a cow-calf rancher and a NCBA member, ballsy of you to presume to speak for me on this issue.

For me, cattle sale prices aren't offsetting the cost of trying to maintain my herds, farm, family, compete with inflation, etc...

I am trying to build my herd, but I am competing with people selling to chase the buck, or as in a few ago, panic selling.

There are fewer cows now, more people and greater demand.

You SHOULD be advocating for programs that help ranchers afford to NOT sell their cows for beef. We do need to grow the herds, what are you doing to help us grow them?

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

@mnsibley Zero situational awareness....

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

@ChrisAppalachia Some women.... was complaining the other day about how she thought her BF was romantic and thoughtful...he was using AI. She DX'd him....

I am not sure the lesson in that anecdote... too many options.

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

Not surprising anymore, it used to be, the number of "proud" Kentuckians and Appalachians who are ready or have already thrown away their freedoms...

Regardless of their "credentials" or supposed intelligence, these types are just sycophants and products of the system...

Traitors

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

@ChrisAppalachia A different world...

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

20 years ago...in Iraq, we KNEW when it was the Iranians or their trained proxies drop mortars on the Palace.... I had an expended Iranian mortar shell on my desk....

We've seen or read many of the same reports of Iranian activity in Iraq...

Iran was and probably still is one of the biggest threats to our diplomats, their families, and our diplomatic facilities..

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

Rage bait and engagement farming. Racist as well.

Appalachia is a "wicked" problem:

- Lack of leadership from politicians, religious leaders, civic organizations

- farming of resources by big industry and little wealth returned

- cultural issues

- many "Appalachians" prey on their own people and ignore the plight of their neighbor while happily galavanting off to help some other group...

- too many content or even happy with "the way it is"

- also look at the geography sometime. Not exactly an area ripe for industry, unless you mountain top remove, which is "bad"

But as @ChrisAppalachia said, we don't burn down out own towns, or riot, or blame the "man", or a myriad of other excuses from other demographics...

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

@shipwreckedcrew Democrats (communists) do not care about her capabilities. SHE is female, non-white, and they will say successful smalll business owner that capitalism failed. Should she win, she'll be the figurehead as the party apparatus implants its minions to do the communist's "work".

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

@ChrisAppalachia

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

Are y'all planning on buying a surplus M14 from the CMP?

#M14 #surplus #GWOT #vietnam #history #ebr

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

On this day in 1918 the Bolsheviks herded Tsar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, and their five children into a basement in Yekaterinburg and opened fire.

The bullets bounced because the girls had diamonds sewn into their corsets. So the reds finished the job with bayonets, stabbing, crushing skulls, and butchering the children while they were still alive.

Then they stripped the bodies, doused them in acid, burned what remained, and dumped the remains in a forest to hide the crime.

This was the deliberate, sadistic murder of an entire family, including a sick little boy, by communist animals who needed the blood of innocents to cement their power.

Never forget what the Bolsheviks were.

Never forgive it.

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

@ChrisAppalachia @jacktogon His "turn" makes one wonder....

When evaluating someone... always look at their friends and enemies and company they keep... Massie is very friendly with a lot of evil people...

[BostonWriter @bostonwriter]

I just posted a reply to someone who has issues with folks critiquing The Odyssey and it helped me to crisp-up some of my thinking around it.

I do think it will do well at the box office, but I also think it created unnecessary headwinds for itself.

I've seen every Nolan film since Batman Begins on opening night or opening weekend. I'm a flag-waving fan. That said, I'm in wait-and-see mode on this one.

Here's where my head is at with the controversies:

The sum total of a marketing team's job is to build positive buzz ahead of a premiere. They failed.

Trailers, clips, PR, social media, "leaks" to trade rags, buzz-building, red carpets... all of it. They all go into making a campaign, and this campaign has been a dud.

Some lowlights include:

>> Comments from Nolan himself stating that authenticity was important when creating the score, then releasing clips using decidedly contemporary dialogue. (e.g. "Daddy," "let's gooooo!," etc.) Is authenticity important or not? Mixed signals.

>> Releasing clips that any savvy marketer who has ever used social media know would fuel endless B.S. cycles was an unforced error. Total self-inflicted wound.

>> Admitting that the source material was Wilson's translation vs. a more classical interpretation was a lightning rod from the get go. It's loaded with interpretive biases that, again, runs counter to his "let's be authentic" ethos.

>> Yes, casting was going to be controversial. Lupita is stunning, but not what anyone would consider a classic interpretation of Helen of Troy. They had to know that going in, so any and all backlash should have been anticipated. What they didn't predict, however, is that simply crying "racism" wouldn't work anymore. Critiques of her being cast in this role are legitimate and worthy of discussion. This has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with making a deliberate choice that confounds expectations in an intentionally inflammatory way.

>> Ditto with his choice of using Leguizamo. He's the Latino version of Mark Ruffalo - someone who hasn't said anything positive in the public eye in years. Chronic crybabies don't play as well in 2026.

>> I get why they shut down comments on their posts this week, but again, it points to a marketing team that doesn't understand social media. It's not going to stop people from using the content anyway and it gives the double-whammy of appearing to be afraid of criticism. Not such a great look for an auteur.

>> Studios MUST do a better job of prepping their stars for interviews. Lupita stepped on the same landmine that Milly stepped on which is the landmine that Rachel used to blow up Snow White. She took a potshot at the source material and risked alienating 50% of the potential audience in the process. She hinted that this interpretation of The Odyssey "fixed" the "representation" issues from the original text. Anyone hoping to see what the original story would look like in the hands of a masterful director is now soured.

There have been other critiques - from the color palette to inauthentic armor to seemingly ignoring Greece in the runup to the film - but the main challenges from my POV are those listed above.

Blaming @elonmusk or @Nerdrotics or @TheCriticalDri2 or @disparutoo or @ThatChrisGore or any of the dozens of other people who have leveled fair criticism at what has been shared so-far is intellectually lazy.

Overall, it feels like a premise, film, and campaign that's tuned to 2020-2022 culture vs. 2026 culture.

If it has an Achilles' Heel, that's going to be it.

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

The evangelicals are broken at best. Heretics and coopted by communists and their ilk in truth....

They ALWAYS choose the foreigner over their neighbor. Graham could be advocating for helping the poor in the U.S., but instead, wants to bring mor in...

One of the many reasons I can't do Protestantism anymore...

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

@ChrisAppalachia Thanks Chris, nice pistol...

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

@CBSMornings V

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

Loved the book. I didn't read it as them being "the bad guys"... Romans were, well Romans and of their time. Enslave or execute, maybe a prisoner exchange/ransom for the valuable.

I don't think Western armies stopped slaughtering most prisoners until after Westphalia.

But you know all that... Go Rome!

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

@johnkonrad He's Agency..., always suspect

[Jeff Howard 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Riejun6]

@alancornett Vance is too "compromised" by whatever the Cernoviches, Martyr Mades, Shawn Ryans, are. There is an entire "genre" on "the right" that is always blackpilled, never happy, always complaining. Vance seems closer to that demographic than Rubio.