"Train like your life depends on it.
Because God forbid, one day it might."
— Jordan Salinas
And guess what.
That "one day" showed up YESTERDAY.
In-N-Out. Twin Falls, Idaho.
Some lunatic with a rifle starts dumping rounds like a maniac.
People running. Screaming. Absolute hell breaking loose.
And this guy?
He doesn't run.
He gets out of his car, draws, and goes AT HIM.
Exactly like he trained.
Exactly like he said he would.
Like a damn man.
THIS is the Second Amendment.
Not some boring paragraph in a textbook.
Not a meme. Not a slogan.
It's the line in the sand when evil shows up and the good guys still get to fight back.
It's the last firewall of a free country.
Cops are minutes away.
Evil is right there RIGHT NOW.
And the only thing standing between a massacre and a bunch of families still making it home...
is one dude who refused to freeze.
Jordan Salinas.
I'm Japanese and even I'm sitting here like holy shit this man is cold as ice and twice as solid.
He didn't just talk.
He didn't just post cool range pics.
He walked it.
In real blood. Real bullets. Real lives on the line.
The training wasn't cosplay.
The law wasn't decoration.
It WORKED.
It protected people.
It protected the country in that parking lot.
Hero.
Straight up.
No notes. No debate.
Remember his name.
Jordan Salinas.
Absolute American.
A woman at a bagel counter gave me a small paper card and punched one hole in it.
I asked what I had won.
"Nothing yet, hon. Ten of those and you get a free one."
Ten. A free bagel, promised in advance, on the condition that I come back nine more times. In my country you cannot buy a man's return for the price of a bagel. Here it is priced, and the price is nine bagels.
"It's just a card," she said.
It is not just a card.
I carry eleven of them now. Bagel. Sub. Car wash. Smoothie. A wing place. A frozen yogurt shop where I do not care for the yogurt, but my card is at eight, and a man who walks away at eight is a man who lifts a siege in the ninth month.
I keep them in a flat tin, in order of progress. I build my week around whichever one is closest.
In April I drove twenty five minutes past a perfectly good bagel to reach my bagel.
There is a card in that tin from a shop that closed. I kept it. The shop shut. The debt did not.
Then I put the car wash card through the car wash. It was in my shirt pocket. It came back to me as grey pulp, and I stood in the vacuum bay holding nine visits in my hand.
A young man named Trevor watched me do this.
"Oh, I'll just punch you a new one."
He put nine holes in a fresh card without looking up, the way you would top off somebody's coffee. Nine months of discipline restored in four seconds by a teenager with a hole punch.
I did not know whether to thank him or to grieve.
Loyalty here is not a weight you carry. It is a thing they hand back to you when you drop it.
I told myself I would let the yogurt card go. Eight is not ten. Eight is a field you are allowed to leave.
I went on Tuesday.
I am nine holes away from a bagel that costs two dollars and seventy five cents.
I will not buy it. I will earn it.
Fact check me on this one.
The DSA (Democratic “Socialists” of America) should be labeled a domestic terrorist organization.
Also, invoke the Communist Control Act of 1954.
🚨 TAXPAYER ALERT: USCCB & Catholic Charities — The Real Numbers Behind the Resettlement Machine
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is not just a religious body, it’s a federal contractor pulling in billions in taxpayer funds, then funneling most of it through Catholic Charities.
Here’s the proof from https://t.co/LCOixKafQb and https://t.co/lh2eFNu7LA:
USCCB: The National Pipeline
- $1.547 BILLION in federal grants (86 awards)
→ Recipient: Catholic Relief Services/United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
- $374 MILLION in one batch alone (14 awards)
→ Recipient: USCCB whose programs include Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs)
- $726 MILLION to Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth in 5 awards, includes $108 MILLION (one grant)
→ FY 2022 Refugee Support Services, ends Sept 30, 2025
How It Works:
1. USCCB gets the master contract from HHS, State Dept, etc.
2. USCCB keeps ~5–10% for "national coordination"
3. 90–95% flows to local Catholic Charities
4. Repeat across 170+ dioceses
USCCB is one of ten national resettlement agencies that partner with the U.S. Department of State and HHS/ORR for the Reception and Placement program.
(List updated March 2024)
▪️United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
▪️Bethany Christian Services
▪️Church World Service
▪️Episcopal Migration Ministries
▪️Ethiopian Community Development Council
▪️Global Refuge (formerly LIRS/Lutheran)
▪️HIAS
▪️International Rescue Committee
▪️U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)
▪️World Relief
But USCCB is the largest player by volume.
Bottom Line
💰 Your tax dollars → USCCB → Catholic Charities → Resettlement services
- No Form 990 required (church exemption)
- No public executive salaries
- No voter approval
$1.9+ BILLION in just these snapshots - and that’s only what’s searchable.
Transparency? Accountability?
Not when faith-based exemptions meet federal contracts.
H/T @DataRepublican (https://t.co/lh2eFNu7LA data)
Following President Trump's January 2025 executive order suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) and related funding freezes, many federal grants to the USCCB's Migration and Refugee Services (and downstream to Catholic Charities) for new refugee resettlement were halted, terminated, or phased out earlier this year amid ongoing litigation.
Some pre-existing obligations and reimbursements have continued under court orders, but the overall flow of new taxpayer funding for these programs has been dramatically curtailed or stopped.
The figures in this post reflect searchable active/historical awards up to the point of suspension.
I have found most lab tests and vitals have been changed throughout the years. Plus people need to take into account that the numbers are the “norms” for the general public. What may be normal for you may not be normal for another. Just a reminder.
Instead of getting all of the boys together to watch a baseball or football game, maybe it's about time to get the boys together and start hitting the shooting range, the gym, and learning new survival techniques?
Get active, but be safe. This is where we are now.
Just sayin'.
These people think there’s some kind of policy platform that’s independent of the burning hatred and resentment that progressives feel for the rich, but there just isn’t. They want to kill you, ultimately. You shouldn’t vote for people who want to kill you imho.