Rod Swartz

Common-sense, problem solver striving to be a blessing to others. Husband and dad, conservative activist, entrepreneur, and educator.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Staying home in November because Trump didn’t undo 250 years of problems in 20 months isn’t a protest. You’re just handing the keys to open borders, Sharia, communism, higher taxes, more crime, and gas prices that will hurt even more.

Get out and vote red!

[DKelly 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

Why Vote YES on Amendment 3?

This is just Jacksonville (excludes pensions, other benefits btw).

Source: Lisa Brown Bonfrancesco

[Hunter Eagleman™ @Hunter_Eagleman]

IRAN 1979–2025: “Death to America!”

IRAN 2026: “Vote Democrat!”

They didn’t change. They just found the party who will help!

[Rod Swartz @rodswartz]

@kroger you should be ashamed of having such little regard for your employees! #shopelsewhere

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Georgia after a White Kroger manager who ran into the parking lot to protect an ELDERLY co-worker from MASKED Black shoplifters was BEATEN, left with a CONCUSSION and STAPLES...

...and then FIRED by Kroger 3 DAYS LATER for helping her!!!

After 14 YEARS WORKING THERE!!!!!!

Yes, you read that right.

Sixteen months later, the men who put him in the hospital have never been arrested.

Not one.

His name is Michael Self.

For 14 years, he ran the Kroger on North Decatur Road in DeKalb County.

On the morning of Saturday, May 24th, 2025, around 8:20 a.m., masked shoplifters walked out of his store.

An elderly employee followed them outside.

Cellphone video shows what happened next. The masked suspects swung a bag of paper towels at her.

Then they SHOVED her.

Michael ran out to help her.

"I literally just wanted to draw the tension away from my associates, get them to stop and everybody just be done," he said.

"As I got away from that door, someone hit me in the back of the head with something."

The video shows him on the ground.

He left Emory University Hospital with a concussion and staples in his head.

AND IT GETS WORSE.

Three days later, Kroger fired him.

Yes, after fourteen years a father of three was TERMINATED FROM HIS JOB for trying to protect an elderly woman.

The reason?

"He violated the company's shoplifting policy."

The termination letter, Michael says, accused HIM of starting the fight.

"I didn't even get to talk to the people that decided to fire me," he said.

So the rule is: watch the elderly cashier get shoved in the parking lot.

Do nothing to help her.
Keep your job.

Step in? You're the problem and you're fired

OH, and the Black men in the masks?

DeKalb County police say the case is "still open."

No names.
No descriptions.
No arrests.
AFTER 16 months.

They beat an old woman, cracked a man's skull open, and walked away with paper towels and their freedom.

The only person who has faced any consequence for what happened in that parking lot is the man who tried to stop it.

Michael is finally telling his side of the story because he is still fighting to clear his name and still looking for work.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!

[Davecryps @0xdavecryps]

HYPOTHETICALLY… IF I BOUGHT MY HOUSE FOR $125,000 IN 2002 AND THE COUNTY NOW SAYS IT’S WORTH $487,000, WHERE DID I ACTUALLY MAKE $362,000?

Did I sell it? No.

Did I receive $362,000? No.

Did somebody hand me a check for the new assessed value? Obviously not.

But my property taxes still go up because, on paper, my house is suddenly worth hundreds of thousands more.

That’s the part that doesn’t make sense to me.

This isn’t income.

It isn’t cash sitting in my bank account.

It’s a number someone assigned to my property, and now I’m being billed based on that number.

If my stock portfolio doubles but I don’t sell, I haven’t turned that gain into cash.

If my salary stays the same, I don’t suddenly owe more income tax because someone thinks I’m worth more.

So why does owning a home work differently?

WHY AM I PAYING TAX ON A GAIN I NEVER REALIZED?

A house isn’t just an investment.

It’s where people live.

You can pay off the mortgage, own the property outright, and still face a bigger bill every year because the value of the house went up on paper.

At some point, you have to ask what “owning” something actually means if the cost of keeping it can keep rising because of money you never received.

THIS ISN’T ABOUT WHETHER THE HOUSE IS “WORTH” MORE.

IT’S ABOUT BEING CHARGED FOR VALUE YOU NEVER TURNED INTO CASH.

And people are starting to notice.

[Rod Swartz @rodswartz]

@mattvanswol I live in the area and I will gladly come put an RFI cat door in for this man so only his pets get in. Unreal the overreach here!

[carolyn tackett🐊 @CarolsCloset]

You know what is hilarious about all these Florida government workers who are mad that Florida property owners might get to keep some of their own money? By fighting against Amendment 3 they've called attention to their own bloated salaries. The cat is out of the bag now!

[Rod Swartz @rodswartz]

@tallytina27 @moand2wads Which is exactly why Jolly would have to in a Republican super-majority state! Either your ignorant of how things work, or your purposefully deceptive!

[Mo @moand2wads]

@tallytina27 Everyone is saying vote for Jolly. He won’t be able to do anything, if elected. I don’t believe that at all. He could do Executive Orders and ruin everything. Plus in the end he’s a Democrat. Look at what Spanberger has done with Virginia.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Dr. Fauci should be in GITMO right now.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

How much better would America be if members of Congress adopted the West Point Standard?

1. You cannot lie.
2. You cannot cheat.
3. You cannot steal.
(Or tolerate anyone who does.)

@WestPoint_USMA can't get involved in politics, but politicians should live by West Point values.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

News flash: Biden also changed the White House press pool and he cut off more than 440 reporter’s credentials.

Zero outrage.

I don’t know about y’all but the hypocrisy gets to me sometimes.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! A North Carolina Democrat running for the state House had a deleted Facebook comment wishing for an attack on U.S. soil. “Alabama or where the stupid people live.”

That is not a gaffe. That is sickness!

DO NOT VOTE DEMOCRAT! They hate America and they prove it daily!

The state party just withdrew all financial, operational, and organizational support from Shelly Heddin’s campaign. Police reports also list her in two separate incidents of assault on her husband. She called it a high-stress marriage story. The reports list him as the victim. Deadlines passed, so her name stays on the ballot anyway.

Fifty days out. Voters still get a choice. Reject anyone who fantasizes about attacks on Americans!

REJECT THE RADICAL COMMIES!

[Rod Swartz @rodswartz]

I couldn't agree more! #Desantis2028

[TMK @themagaking]

Say what you want about Ron DeSantis, but if there was ever a president who could translate conservative principles into actual government policy the way Ron DeSantis has done in Florida, America would look a hell of a lot better today. The guy truly knows how to govern.

[The SCIF @TheSCIF]

17,327 deceased Michigan voters were found to have a ballot cast and counted in the 2020 election who also had a confirmed corresponding obituary.

Another Michigan election worker testified that ballots were back dated from 11/4/2020 to 11/2/2020 and poll workers were entering names into the poll books with a DOB of 1/1/1900 to bypass the system and create fraudulent votes.

How much more evidence and testimonies do you need to see to understand that our entire election process is compromised and that the 2020 election was stolen?

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Why did @TheDemocrats bus in attendees for their “March on Washington” today?

@LoomerUnleashed tracked the busses down and caught the attendees getting off the bus on camera.

Notice the matching t-shirts.

This is your daily reminder that everything the Democrats do is fake and paid for.

[Rod Swartz @rodswartz]

Who'd thunk Google would move so quickly to recognize the change! #LakeAmerica

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American woman says she has female friends in Muslim countries and Americans don’t understand how badly women are treated

- “You're a woman and you have your hair down like I do right now, guess what? If it's not covered, jail
- Oh, you wanna walk outside without a man? Jail
- Oh, you wanna speak your voice and use your opinion? Jail. Actually, sometimes they might unalive you for that
- Oh, what was that? You wanna wear any kind of clothes that you wanna wear? Sorry. Death
- Oh, what was that? You wanna drive a car? Mm, imprisonment

Like, there's a number of things I could go on about that people just don't understand here. So when people here are saying things like, "You don't understand, like, we should allow them here because they came from a terrible country," yeah, they did come from a terrible country. However, you need to understand that they are not assimilating”

Assimilating means that you go to a country or somewhere else, and you actually become a part of that culture. So if they're coming from an Islamic country, that means you don't wear full hijab. That means you work a full-time job. That means you actually contribute to society. But none of them do that”

“If I go to their sh*thole countries that they're coming here from, I can't play Christian music. I can't go talk to somebody about God. You know why? Because I'll be put to death. But they can go to any other first world country or any country of their choice and force the culture to change to be what their religion is. That's my problem”

She explains how places like Dearborn Michigan and Minneapolis are just nothing hit Muslims in full Burqas and that’s not assimilating

She’s right, Islamic attire should be banned. Islam itself should not be recognized as a religion because it’s not. Islam is a society, it’s a government

We need mass deportations

[Rod Swartz @rodswartz]

Same here! #JayCollinsFlGovernor

[Florida MAGA Godzilla 2.0 @OnlyinFlorida2]

I voted for Trump 3 times.

Just because he endorses a candidate doesn’t mean I’m voting for said candidate.

[DeSantis Appreciation Society @KickboxerEsq]

WHAT AN INSULT TO FLORIDA VOTERS

In 2019, Byron Donalds went before the Florida House Criminal Justice Committee and said our Retail Theft Laws weren’t “EQUITABLE”

Roll the Tape.
JAY COLLINS 2026 to SAVE FLORIDA