Swamp Defender

@Swamp_Defender

A man of the South. Cold war veteran Exquisitely antebellum in nature Historically & geopolitically minded polymath

Amongst the gators 🐊

Joined February 2024

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BowTiedYukon

@BowTiedYukon

7 days ago

My sons have probably heard me call someone a stupid fucking cocksucker but they will never hear me say I think I’m putting on too much muscle My testosterone level is low Let’s go to a pride parade Trans people are misunderstood This energy drink has too much caffeine Its ok, you can trust the government To all the rest of the real dads out there, Happy Father’s Day & the rest of you faggots Mothers Day was last month

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Dr. Simon

@goddek

7 days ago

@SenTomCotton Israel got way more American blood on its hands, and yet you cuck for them. Could it be because they literally own you like a slave?

goddek's tweet photo. @SenTomCotton Israel got way more American blood on its hands, and yet you cuck for them. Could it be because they literally own you like a slave? https://t.co/7grsW1QRbI

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about 1 month ago

Move there you treasonous traitor. Your and yours’ political power is quickly coming to an end. Your lies are being seen through. Your sources of funding are being discovered and publicized. Best to Move there. Soon. Most truly yours, -A USN persian gulf combat veteran (and multiple millions of my brothers)

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Ron DeSantis

@RonDeSantis

about 1 month ago

Kill the kill switch. Government shouldn’t be able to surveil and control your car!

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Will Schryver

@imetatronink

about 1 month ago

@SaiyemI @rf121rf @ancientjake1 @S_Mahendrarajah Because when it comes right down to it, they're stupid people. And a deceived people. They falsely believe they are favored by their false gods to gloriously defend a false conception of Zion held by many Jews and evangelical Christians alike.

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@Swamp_Defender

about 1 month ago

@GaryLyndonDye @OwenGregorian Umm, suggestion: Go re-read the article

Swamp Defender

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about 1 month ago

@OwenGregorian This has reached epidemic proportions

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Owen Gregorian

@OwenGregorian

about 1 month ago

No Wonder Men Are Opting Out | Bettina Arndt, Zerohedge The warning signs have been there for decades. Back in 1983, American author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a powerful book — The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment — arguing that a male revolt was underway. Since the 1950s, she suggested, men had begun rebelling against the breadwinner ethic, inspired by Playboy culture, the counterculture and a desire for personal freedom. They were rejecting the cultural ideology that had shamed them into tying the knot and becoming a good provider, lest they be seen as immature, irresponsible and less than a real man. Ehrenreich understood that marriage was the mechanism by which society harnessed male productivity. Remove the shame and the yoke comes off. Forty years on, the yoke has disappeared. In April 2026, the American male labour force participation rate hit its lowest level since records began in the 1940s, according to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics. One in three American men — roughly 33% — were not working or actively looking for work. The overall male participation rate for men aged 16 and over stood at just 67%, down from 73.5% two decades ago and from 87% in the postwar years when Ehrenreich’s story begins. The trend is not confined to America. Similar declines — though less dramatic than in the United States — have occurred in the UK, Australia and Canada. The marriage collapse runs in lockstep with the workforce data. According to US Census Bureau data, married-couple households made up 71% of all US households in 1970; today it’s just 47%. As University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox documents in his 2024 book Get Married, the marriage rate has fallen 65% in the last half century. Ehrenreich had made the argument that marriage and productivity were inseparable — that the same mechanism which got men to the altar got them to work. The data suggest she was right. What Ehrenreich did not fully reckon with — and could not have foreseen in 1983 — was that the inducements for tying the knot would collapse. The shame mechanism has disappeared, yes. But the incentive has simultaneously imploded. The product on offer has changed beyond recognition. If you want to understand why men are voting with their feet, you need to look not just at what marriage now costs them — and the costs are severe — but at what it delivers. Increasingly, what it delivers is a pretty dud deal. The modern woman: a prospectus: - They are the most miserable, anxious and insecure cohort in living memory — hardly great marriage material. - Most married women go off sex — and the husband who objects is seen as the problem. - Many women don’t actually like men very much. The more educated she is, the higher the contempt. - They’ve gone full throttle Left — and three quarters of college-educated women won’t even date a man who votes differently. - They’ve rigged the education system and colonised corporate and institutional life, turning universities and workplaces into man-repellent factories. - Yet their hypergamy is still running hot. Despite outnumbering men in education and careers, they still demand a tall, equally high-status unicorn. - The modern female threat-detection system is hyperactive. Almost any male behaviour — silence, opinions, jokes, breathing — gets flagged as a red flag. - They’re extremely well-versed in the lucrative economics of divorce, including a well-timed false allegation to eliminate tedious shared parenting. What rational man reads this list and thinks: yes, that’s exactly what’s been missing from my life? To examine more carefully what is going on here, let’s start by looking at the latest addition to this sorry reckoning. I’m referring to the finding published in the New Statesman last month that many young women don’t like men. A Merlin Strategy poll of young Britons aged 18 to 30 found three times more young women than young men held a negative view of the opposite sex. Only about 50% of women had a positive view of men compared to 72% of men feeling positive about women. For women under 25, it was even starker: only around one-third (35%) reported a positive view of men. This applies particularly to professional and managerial young women of whom just 36% hold a positive view of men, compared with 61% of working-class women. The contempt for men is hardly surprising – that’s what they have been taught. Mary Harrington, a British journalist and cultural critic who writes on Substack, frequently criticises what she calls the “femosphere” — the online feminist spaces where women bond through shared grievances about men. “The online feminist scene often feels like one long group therapy session for women to compare notes on how awful men are,” she writes, suggesting this makes men the universal scapegoat, where ordinary male behaviour is routinely framed as toxic or oppressive, while women’s collective resentment is rewarded and amplified. “Casual, low-level male-bashing has become the background hum of progressive online culture.” Not only does this toxic climate encourage women to be wary of men, but growing up in a hate-fuelled online sewer takes a toll on their mental health. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has long been warning that the toxic world of social media would lead to a rise in mental health problems, particularly in girls and young women. “Since the early 2010s, young people across the developed world are becoming more anxious, depressed and lonely. The increases were even greater in young women,” he said. Recent large-scale surveys (Ipsos 202-–2026 across 31 countries, Gallup 2025) are showing Gen Z women currently report the highest recorded levels of anxiety, persistent sadness, hopelessness and depression of any female generation at the same age. Not much fun for their partners. Last year Psychology Today had a stark warning for men about these women as marriage prospects. The saying ‘happy wife, happy life’ may have some validity, but the lesser-known saying ‘anxious wife, miserable life’ has research-approved validation. … The more neurotic the spouse is, the less happy the relationship — but women’s neuroticism seems to carry more weight in the overall marital happiness equation. Then there’s the intriguing issue of married women turning off the tap, leaving sex-starved husbands as the norm. For as long as anyone can remember, men were shamed into showing up economically. Society has absolutely nothing to say to women who stop showing up sexually. One obligation was enforced by church, law and community for centuries. The other is now abrogated on the grounds of bodily autonomy. So here we have the portrait of the modern woman as marriage prospect: miserable, anxious, politically radicalised, contemptuous of men, often sexually rejecting and trained to see menace in ordinary male behaviour. And yet the puzzled chorus from commentators, economists and policymakers continues: why won’t men commit? Why won’t they work? The approved explanations are dutifully trotted out. The economic story: men have been displaced by automation and globalisation. The health story: opioids, disability, mental illness. The educational story: men are falling behind women in universities and therefore in the job market. The cultural story, favoured by progressive commentators: toxic masculinity is preventing men from adapting to a modern service economy. All of these contain a grain of truth. But they do not account for what is really going on. The obvious explanation — the one staring out of every data table — is intentionally ignored. Marriage was the primary incentive for sustained male economic effort. It has always been — Ehrenreich knew it in 1983, and the economists have now confirmed it. There’s an economic research paper, ‘The Declining Labour Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men, which establishes that the prospect of forming and providing for a family constitutes a critical male labour supply incentive, and that the decline of stable marriage directly removes it. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas calculated that declining marriage rates are responsible for roughly half the drop in the hours men work. Remove the marriage and you remove the responsibility. The data have been telling us this for decades. But here is what nobody in the mainstream conversation will say: it is not only that marriage has become too costly and too legally treacherous for men — though it has. It’s that many young women themselves have become, to put it plainly, not worth having. Half of young British women don’t trust men. More than half of educated young women view men negatively. They arrive at relationships pre-loaded with grievance, primed by algorithms that have fed them a diet of male failure and female outrage since adolescence. They are, by their own account, anxious, miserable and politically furious. What rational man, surveying this landscape, concludes that what his life is missing is a legally booby-trapped commitment to a woman primed to be impossible to keep happy? Ehrenreich feared in 1983 that if the shame mechanism collapsed, male productivity would follow. She was right. What she could not have anticipated was the other half of the equation — that the feminist revolution would produce not a generation of fulfilled, generous, companionable women, but one that is, by every available measure, angrier and unhappier than any before it. The yoke is off. The men have looked at what’s on offer. And many have, with considerable rationality, decided to go and play video games instead. https://t.co/dySGbpcsg2

OwenGregorian's tweet photo. No Wonder Men Are Opting Out | Bettina Arndt, Zerohedge

The warning signs have been there for decades.

Back in 1983, American author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a powerful book — The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment — arguing that a male revolt was underway. Since the 1950s, she suggested, men had begun rebelling against the breadwinner ethic, inspired by Playboy culture, the counterculture and a desire for personal freedom. They were rejecting the cultural ideology that had shamed them into tying the knot and becoming a good provider, lest they be seen as immature, irresponsible and less than a real man.

Ehrenreich understood that marriage was the mechanism by which society harnessed male productivity. Remove the shame and the yoke comes off.

Forty years on, the yoke has disappeared. In April 2026, the American male labour force participation rate hit its lowest level since records began in the 1940s, according to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics. One in three American men — roughly 33% — were not working or actively looking for work. The overall male participation rate for men aged 16 and over stood at just 67%, down from 73.5% two decades ago and from 87% in the postwar years when Ehrenreich’s story begins.

The trend is not confined to America. Similar declines — though less dramatic than in the United States — have occurred in the UK, Australia and Canada.

The marriage collapse runs in lockstep with the workforce data. According to US Census Bureau data, married-couple households made up 71% of all US households in 1970; today it’s just 47%. As University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox documents in his 2024 book Get Married, the marriage rate has fallen 65% in the last half century.

Ehrenreich had made the argument that marriage and productivity were inseparable — that the same mechanism which got men to the altar got them to work. The data suggest she was right.

What Ehrenreich did not fully reckon with — and could not have foreseen in 1983 — was that the inducements for tying the knot would collapse. The shame mechanism has disappeared, yes. But the incentive has simultaneously imploded. The product on offer has changed beyond recognition. If you want to understand why men are voting with their feet, you need to look not just at what marriage now costs them — and the costs are severe — but at what it delivers. Increasingly, what it delivers is a pretty dud deal.

The modern woman: a prospectus:

- They are the most miserable, anxious and insecure cohort in living memory — hardly great marriage material.

- Most married women go off sex — and the husband who objects is seen as the problem.

- Many women don’t actually like men very much. The more educated she is, the higher the contempt.

- They’ve gone full throttle Left — and three quarters of college-educated women won’t even date a man who votes differently.

- They’ve rigged the education system and colonised corporate and institutional life, turning universities and workplaces into man-repellent factories.

- Yet their hypergamy is still running hot. Despite outnumbering men in education and careers, they still demand a tall, equally high-status unicorn.

- The modern female threat-detection system is hyperactive. Almost any male behaviour — silence, opinions, jokes, breathing — gets flagged as a red flag.

- They’re extremely well-versed in the lucrative economics of divorce, including a well-timed false allegation to eliminate tedious shared parenting.

What rational man reads this list and thinks: yes, that’s exactly what’s been missing from my life?

To examine more carefully what is going on here, let’s start by looking at the latest addition to this sorry reckoning. I’m referring to the finding published in the New Statesman last month that many young women don’t like men.

A Merlin Strategy poll of young Britons aged 18 to 30 found three times more young women than young men held a negative view of the opposite sex. Only about 50% of women had a positive view of men compared to 72% of men feeling positive about women. For women under 25, it was even starker: only around one-third (35%) reported a positive view of men. This applies particularly to professional and managerial young women of whom just 36% hold a positive view of men, compared with 61% of working-class women.

The contempt for men is hardly surprising – that’s what they have been taught. Mary Harrington, a British journalist and cultural critic who writes on Substack, frequently criticises what she calls the “femosphere” — the online feminist spaces where women bond through shared grievances about men.

“The online feminist scene often feels like one long group therapy session for women to compare notes on how awful men are,” she writes, suggesting this makes men the universal scapegoat, where ordinary male behaviour is routinely framed as toxic or oppressive, while women’s collective resentment is rewarded and amplified. “Casual, low-level male-bashing has become the background hum of progressive online culture.”

Not only does this toxic climate encourage women to be wary of men, but growing up in a hate-fuelled online sewer takes a toll on their mental health.

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has long been warning that the toxic world of social media would lead to a rise in mental health problems, particularly in girls and young women.

“Since the early 2010s, young people across the developed world are becoming more anxious, depressed and lonely. The increases were even greater in young women,” he said.

Recent large-scale surveys (Ipsos 202-–2026 across 31 countries, Gallup 2025) are showing Gen Z women currently report the highest recorded levels of anxiety, persistent sadness, hopelessness and depression of any female generation at the same age.

Not much fun for their partners. Last year Psychology Today had a stark warning for men about these women as marriage prospects.

The saying ‘happy wife, happy life’ may have some validity, but the lesser-known saying ‘anxious wife, miserable life’ has research-approved validation. … The more neurotic the spouse is, the less happy the relationship — but women’s neuroticism seems to carry more weight in the overall marital happiness equation.

Then there’s the intriguing issue of married women turning off the tap, leaving sex-starved husbands as the norm. For as long as anyone can remember, men were shamed into showing up economically. Society has absolutely nothing to say to women who stop showing up sexually. One obligation was enforced by church, law and community for centuries. The other is now abrogated on the grounds of bodily autonomy.

So here we have the portrait of the modern woman as marriage prospect: miserable, anxious, politically radicalised, contemptuous of men, often sexually rejecting and trained to see menace in ordinary male behaviour. And yet the puzzled chorus from commentators, economists and policymakers continues: why won’t men commit? Why won’t they work?

The approved explanations are dutifully trotted out. The economic story: men have been displaced by automation and globalisation. The health story: opioids, disability, mental illness. The educational story: men are falling behind women in universities and therefore in the job market. The cultural story, favoured by progressive commentators: toxic masculinity is preventing men from adapting to a modern service economy. All of these contain a grain of truth. But they do not account for what is really going on. The obvious explanation — the one staring out of every data table — is intentionally ignored.

Marriage was the primary incentive for sustained male economic effort. It has always been — Ehrenreich knew it in 1983, and the economists have now confirmed it. There’s an economic research paper, ‘The Declining Labour Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men, which establishes that the prospect of forming and providing for a family constitutes a critical male labour supply incentive, and that the decline of stable marriage directly removes it. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas calculated that declining marriage rates are responsible for roughly half the drop in the hours men work.

Remove the marriage and you remove the responsibility. The data have been telling us this for decades.

But here is what nobody in the mainstream conversation will say: it is not only that marriage has become too costly and too legally treacherous for men — though it has. It’s that many young women themselves have become, to put it plainly, not worth having. Half of young British women don’t trust men. More than half of educated young women view men negatively. They arrive at relationships pre-loaded with grievance, primed by algorithms that have fed them a diet of male failure and female outrage since adolescence. They are, by their own account, anxious, miserable and politically furious.

What rational man, surveying this landscape, concludes that what his life is missing is a legally booby-trapped commitment to a woman primed to be impossible to keep happy?

Ehrenreich feared in 1983 that if the shame mechanism collapsed, male productivity would follow. She was right. What she could not have anticipated was the other half of the equation — that the feminist revolution would produce not a generation of fulfilled, generous, companionable women, but one that is, by every available measure, angrier and unhappier than any before it.

The yoke is off. The men have looked at what’s on offer. And many have, with considerable rationality, decided to go and play video games instead.

https://t.co/dySGbpcsg2

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Swamp Defender

@Swamp_Defender

about 2 months ago

@GeorgeRoush @stanislov1960 👆🏻I resemble this remark. Some people just have to be audacious assholes on the Internet.

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Dan Bilzerian

@DanBilzerian

about 2 months ago

Randy Fine just said he’s willing to stop aid to Israel. He’s obviously lying, but the pressure is getting to him. Congress has no accountability. Politicians who knowingly lie to the public should face criminal penalties.

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The Maverick of Wall Street

@TheMaverickWS

about 2 months ago

Any guess on what tomorrow's fake Axios headline will look like?

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Noah B. Price

@TrueOnX

about 2 months ago

🚨 EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL JUST DROPPED 🚨 Two foreign girls. CHILDREN! Strangled to death during "rough fetish sex." Buried on orders from Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell at Zorro Ranch. This isn't a rumor... It's in the files. An insider email with video evidence offered. They didn't just traffic kids. They murdered them. And the elite who partied there? Still walking free. Still protected. Still in power. How many more graves? How many names are redacted? The client list. The flights. The islands. The ranches. This is a global blackmail & murder operation wearing a suit and tie. They need to pay. ALL OF THEM. No more sealed files. No more "suicides." No more protection. Drop the full unredacted Epstein files NOW. SHARE THIS if you want justice for the children they killed. This isn't over.

TrueOnX's tweet photo. 🚨 EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL JUST DROPPED 🚨
Two foreign girls. CHILDREN! Strangled to death during "rough fetish sex." Buried on orders from Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell at Zorro Ranch.

This isn't a rumor...
It's in the files.

An insider email with video evidence offered.

They didn't just traffic kids.

They murdered them.

And the elite who partied there?

Still walking free.
Still protected.
Still in power.

How many more graves?

How many names are redacted?

The client list.
The flights.
The islands.
The ranches.

This is a global blackmail & murder operation wearing a suit and tie.

They need to pay.
ALL OF THEM.

No more sealed files.
No more "suicides."
No more protection.

Drop the full unredacted Epstein files NOW.

SHARE THIS if you want justice for the children they killed.

This isn't over.

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

about 2 months ago

😂 Why yes, I was an Israeli spy for 20 years. And then I somehow overnight became the main "journalist" used by the Israelis and US Governments to uncritically recite propaganda about Israel in the US. How dare you suggest these two things are related? Anti-semite!

ggreenwald's tweet photo. 😂

Why yes, I was an Israeli spy for 20 years. And then I somehow overnight became the main "journalist" used by the Israelis and US Governments to uncritically recite propaganda about Israel in the US. How dare you suggest these two things are related? Anti-semite! https://t.co/prwJLtL6UU

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Swamp Defender

@Swamp_Defender

about 2 months ago

@itself85309 @Matt_Bracken48 🤔 I can see that

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Chris Brunet

@chrisbrunet

about 2 months ago

if you worked in Unit 8200 I don't think you should be allowed to be a journalist in America

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Five Times August

@FiveTimesAugust

about 2 months ago

The Epstein case is so bad the government gave you a war, a new virus, and aliens to keep you distracted from it. Sit with that as long as you need.

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Owen Shroyer

@OwenShroyer1776

about 2 months ago

All this to stop a nuke that didn't exist and open a strait that wasn't closed.

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The Path Forward

@ThePathFoward25

about 2 months ago

@amazon when I SPEND MONEY on a series or a MOVIE - I DON’T WANT TO SEE ADS. Fucking thieving tech stealing whores

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@Swamp_Defender

about 2 months ago

@itself85309 @Matt_Bracken48 there were many heroes that day - most of them still entombed under the AZ memorial. The deification of Doris Miller always had a whiff of DEI to me. -still does (eg. naming an aircraft carrier? really

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ConfederateShop

@ConfederateShop

about 2 months ago

Seeing Robert E. Lee as a tremendous general is an objective fact. Winfield Scott thought so, even recommending him to command Lincoln’s invasion. I’ve counted nine U.S. presidents since 1870 who thought the same. To the critics—do you really think you know better than all of these sources? I think not. General Lee was great, and his legacy will continue to stand.

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