david schrotenboer

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“America doesn’t need the oil, our allies do” Gave my best years to drilling for oil in the Gulf of America. I am incredibly proud of the dangerous work my crews did. It’s hard to describe to the younger generation how desperate the oil situation was before the fracking revolution. Did we know that this day would someday come? A day were our military could be more relaxed, more detached without oil being the primary motivation in the Middle East. Yes we did. But for me it was bittersweet. Many of my crew were Army National Guard but with the training requirements to become captain that wasn’t an option for me. It was even harder when my wife deployed to Iraq. Each one told me “stay here, keep drilling, our troops need this.” Still to this day it hurts. Every single day someone drops a comment “but John you didn’t serve” True. But for an officer it’s about your crew and the dangers were real as the Deepwater Horizon disaster proved. Maybe it’s just an excuse, IDK. But still I am incredibly proud of what we accomplished together. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Republican NJ Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia BLASTS Democrats for trying to pass a laws that target federal agents and interfere with immigration law. “For the love of God and all that is good. Can you differentiate between the fact that we don't make laws that control the federal government?!... My fifth-grade middle school English student would get that!"

Called Hormuz before anyone What did I get for it? Rage, podcast cancellations, hit pieces.. anger. No matter. I’m not here for approval. I’m here to tell the truth, push real reform, and fight for a better nation under god. And IDGAF if they cancel me… I’ve got options 👇

Historian Bill Federer: "By 2030, there will be a majority Muslim population in Europe, and they’ll just flat out vote in Sharia law. People forget Egypt was completely Christian for 6 centuries. It's not anymore. All of North Africa was completely Christian for 6 centuries. It's not anymore. Constantinople was the largest Christian city in the world, and the largest Christian church in the world for hundreds of years was the Hagia Sophia. And it was turned into a mosque. They want to do the same thing with the Vatican." Pay attention to what he’s saying!

Christ alone.

I’m with you. A weak UK is a weak North America, a weak NATO, and a less resilient civilization for everyone. It is easier to tear down than to build, easier to let fall in to disrepair than to maintain…but things can be rebuilt. Just look how for former Warsaw Pact nations recovered. Let’s hope that can start sooner more than later…because things could get much worse…and no well-meaning people want to see that.

Its so depressing just watching us drive off a cliff. Defence, energy, economy, welfare, immigration, foreign policy, everything.

I agree with James Woods

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Democrat Rep. Bonnie Coleman just called for President Trump to be "ELIMINATED" Expel her from office NOW. "If we wanted to eliminate abuse and fraud, we'd eliminate the PRESIDENT of the United States from the office right now, and the REST of the sycophants in his administration!" @RapidResponse47 Deranged individual. Strip her of committee assignments, MINIMUM!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Pope Benedict XVI citing Byzantine Emperor Manuel II in a speech on Islam

Hoy, Benny Hill sería censurado…

Today’s excellent ⁦@nypost⁩ cartoon

🇮🇪 BREAKING: Irish Minister of State Michael Healy-Rae has announced his RESIGNATION from the Government and stated that he will vote NO CONFIDENCE in today’s motion against the Irish Government. This is a significant development. The dominoes are beginning to fall! 🔥🔥

In reality this is the case..

Bodycam footage ended the entire BLM grift Incredible backfire

Amen.

The problem is not this incident, or even her response to it. The real problem is that we still have not dealt with the underlying code. Weapons kill people. Full stop. What few are willing to say out loud is that SECWAR’s guidance, if followed seriously, will lead to deaths. Someone will accidentally discharge a weapon on base. Maybe more than one person will. Someone may bleed out. It is entirely possible a soldier leaves a pistol in his car, a child finds it, and tragedy follows. That is not good. It should be prevented wherever possible. We should teach proper storage. We should teach proper handling. We should reduce avoidable mistakes. But warriors are human, and humans make mistakes. If you cannot accept the risk of individual deaths, then you are, whether you admit it or not, accepting something worse: defeat. There are millions of people of unknown allegiance inside our borders. There are hardened criminals here too. There are hostile nations and extremist movements that would gladly take American lives and have every intention of keeping soldiers from reaching base when the balloon goes up. You must accept training accidents, negligent discharges, and lethal mistakes if you want a force that is truly ready for war. And readiness does prevent war. So no, the problem is not simply that he made a mistake and she punished him. The problem is that she is almost certainly calling friends and fellow officers right now, and they are almost certainly telling her she did the right thing. “What if his kid found it?” “What if it went off by accident?” “What if, what if, what if.” And with every call, more smart people get pulled in. They come armed with better language, cleaner rationalizations, and safer-sounding excuses. Before long, the “she wasn’t wrong” line spreads like wildfire. But she was wrong. He made a mistake. She made a bigger one. Neither of them should lose a career over this. But both of them need to understand commander’s intent. Both need to grasp the broader implications of SECWAR’s directive. Both need to reject safetyism and embrace fundamental safe practices. And if she refuses, if she cares more about shielding a few individuals from a hypothetical risk of death than about preserving the strength, readiness, and deterrent power that protect millions of American children, then she should be removed. I don’t care that she is a woman. I don’t care that woman tend to socialize problems amongst themselves more than men. What is dangerous is the fact those phone calls she has with friends and colleagues aren’t public. Women are more socially. They are more chatty. They are less likely to accept an order from a man without discussing it amongst themselves first. That’s a good thing. It’s a great thing. We need more people challenging orders. Problem is those discussions need to be made public. There needs to be documentation. But Navy culture doesn’t allow it. What worries me the most isn’t the fact she disobeyed orders (she probably made the decision before it was announced) the problem is I know there are people whispering in her ear and others “she wasn’t wrong, what if a kid found that?” She was wrong. There is a silent resistance to everything Hegseth is doing. And the core of that resistance is whispering in the halls. That’s not helping anyone.

You know what class of ships are really good for conducting blockades and interception of merchant ships and other related activities? Frigates. Oops.

🚨JUST IN: ALICE WEIDEL DROPS BOMB — “ORBÁN COULD BE VOTED OUT BY THE PEOPLE… BUT URSULA VON DER LEYEN CANNOT BE VOTED OUT AT ALL” 🔥🇩🇪🇭🇺🇪🇺 German AfD leader Alice Weidel openly exposed the undemocratic reality of the EU: Viktor Orbán was democratically elected and could be voted out by Hungarians, but EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was never directly elected by any citizens and cannot be removed by them either.