Grumpy Old Marine

privatepeppers.org/?fbclid=IwY2xj… I came across something that I felt a need to share because, I am a Marine. An organization called Private Peppers. This Org, founded by a Marine, shows up to every Family Day (the night before Graduation) and is there for every new Marine whose family was unable to attend. So that every new Marine feels a sense of pride and has someone to share that with. They are always looking for not only donations, but volunteers to spend time with these new Marines the night before Graduation. If you feel so inclined, please check them out and give if you can in any way that you can. I just found them and this year when I go down to Florida over Christmas I may take a day or two and go visit with some Marines whose families couldn't be there.

This afternoon I had the honor of mowing Mr. Hartfords lawn . He’s a 2x Purple Heart recipient that served in Vietnam . It was an honor and privilege to mow his lawn . Thank you for your service and sacrifice. Making a difference one lawn at a time

Today , I had the pleasure of mowing Mr. Pettys lawn ! It’s always great seeing him , he’s doing well today he said . Making a difference , one lawn at a time .

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@GrumpyMarine14 @vanscoyk_ Here's another one... x.com/Samanthapelk

@TrudgingSoul @vanscoyk_ Thank You

Reported and blocked @vanscoyk_ for stolen valor and foreign account.

@LeahRemini Congradulations Leah!

I graduated!!! I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a concentration in Psychology, summa cum laude! Five years ago, I started this journey with an eighth-grade education, and even that was from a Scientology school, where critical thinking was discouraged and the quality of instruction was subpar, to say the least. I did not get here alone. Thank you to @NYUSPS and @DeanKamath. Thank you to everyone who supported me, encouraged me, and believed in me, especially on the days I was not sure I could do this. And there were plenty of those days. To my therapist, who told me not to give up when I was told I likely would not be accepted into a prestigious program. To my tutor, without whom I likely would have given up at the harder points along the way. To all those here who have sent me loving messages on social media. And to everyone else who has cheered me on in person through the ups and the downs of it, it means more than I can put into words. It got me over this finish line of being a student again and graduating. That goal once seemed impossible. To those who have asked me, “Why this? Why now?” I pursued higher education to reclaim a piece of myself. When you come out of a high-control group like Scientology, or even a high-control family, there are parts of you that were never allowed to fully develop. Those parts include your curiosity and your ability and right to question. Education was discouraged because knowledge creates confidence in your ability to trust your own mind and navigate the world. That leads to true independence, and that would never be allowed. I wanted that back. But more than that, I needed to understand. I needed to understand how my mother could have us join Scientology when I was just eight years old, and how my family and I could be part of something like this and stay in it for so long. I needed to understand how these systems work, how they influence people, and how they take hold. Without education, access to real information, and support, people can fall into systems that work against their best interests. Some assume that because they are educated, even highly educated, they would never fall for something like this. But it turns out that is not necessarily true. What many of us are impacted by, but never quite understand, is how high-control groups operate. Many still do not understand how misinformation spreads, and how tribalism and radicalization shape what we think, what we believe, and who and what we trust. Without that awareness, none of us are immune. Today, we are seeing how these forces can influence good people and distort reality. History has shown us that this is not new; it just comes in a different form now. Social media connects us in ways we never imagined, but it also creates echo chambers that reinforce beliefs and justify behavior without question. Real critical thinking is hard when we are fed so much by algorithms designed to appeal to us. In learning and achieving this milestone in my own life, it has helped me take a good, hard look at my own beliefs and ideologies. This journey was about healing for me, but also about figuring out how to help others in whatever way I can in the future. So what is in my future? I am considering continuing my education and possibly pursuing a master’s degree, with the goal of contributing to advocacy and policies that protect people, not systems. For now, I am taking this moment in. I am proud of myself. And I am grateful. Thank you for being on this journey with me.

@0hour1 @SafetyNotorious A very Happy Birthday to @SafetyNotorious

Happy Birthday to my brother @SafetyNotorious

@BigGer_1970 Happy Birthday

Today is my 56th Birthday 🎂 So far, so good. Not slowing down, still going strong. 💪

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@GrumpyMarine14 Very happy birthday to you sir. 🇺🇸

Today, April 14, 2026 I completed 56 times around the sun. And I have been blessed through every part of it.

@Monty0415 Happy Birthday Deb.

Another year older. Happy Birthday to me.

😉 Sometimes, being old is adventational. These kids have never heard our old corny jokes. Our waitress (22) had no idea what one should call a girl with one leg longer than the other; ILENE, of course! Unless she is Japanese, when it becomes IRENE! I can hardly wait to pull out the names of guys with no arms or legs jokes! 🤣

@NerdyMom47 Yikes,... I can honestly say that at this point in my life I have never had a stone. Amber gets them all the time and they are like second nature to her. You have my sympathies.

Hopefully i can make it to 12 today at work. Cause I'm taking my ass to the ER after. I'm gonna need some Flomax to help this stone get out. And to see how big it is. Hopefully it's small enough to pass. But the way it's feeling, I fear it's big. 😰

@mkotts_nary I know,... but Grumpy Young Marine just doesn't sound right. How are you feeling? Good to see you back.

@GrumpyMarine14 Happy birthday! You are not old!

@BoyleKevin44699 @patrioticpuddy1 @Retarmy01 No Man, You're good.

@GrumpyMarine14 @patrioticpuddy1 @Retarmy01 Did I miss you? Happy Bday regardless brother! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

In what seems like in the blink of an eye, another year has flown by... Happy Birthday to me. Today I'm 53.... 🙏❤️🇺🇸

@dianehartmanfan Thank you for taking the time to read it

@GrumpyMarine14 I love this! Thank you for sharing.

privatepeppers.org/?fbclid=IwY2xj… I came across something that I felt a need to share because, I am a Marine. An organization called Private Peppers. This Org, founded by a Marine, shows up to every Family Day (the night before Graduation) and is there for every new Marine whose family was unable to attend. So that every new Marine feels a sense of pride and has someone to share that with. They are always looking for not only donations, but volunteers to spend time with these new Marines the night before Graduation. If you feel so inclined, please check them out and give if you can in any way that you can. I just found them and this year when I go down to Florida over Christmas I may take a day or two and go visit with some Marines whose families couldn't be there.

@JoymleeLily You’re one of the good ones Joy.

@GrumpyMarine14 You're very welcome!

I am overwhelmed at the Birthday Wishes I have received today. Thank you all so much.

It just got so much fucking worse than we could have ever imagined in Congress. Strap the fuck in, because the festering underbelly of this congressional cesspool just got ripped wide open, and what oozes out isn’t mere corruption; it’s a clinical case study in predatory pathology, institutional psychopathy, and the criminological blueprint of power as a license to prey. George Santos, just dropped the unvarnished truth: the United States House of Representatives didn’t shutter its High School Page Program in 2011 because of some polite budgetary hand-wringing or quaint obsolescence. No. It was because multiple sitting congressmen… sworn guardians of the republic, these soulless vampires…were systematically sexually abusing the children entrusted to them. Pages aged thirteen to fifteen. Minors. Fresh-faced kids shipped in from heartland districts to “learn democracy,” only to be groomed, violated, and discarded like collateral in the predators’ game. Pathologically, we’re looking at a textbook cluster of narcissistic personality disorder fused with pedophilic paraphilia and antisocial traits…the dark triad on steroids, amplified by the god-complex that absolute power breeds in the Capitol’s marble halls. These aren’t garden-variety perverts; they’re high-functioning sexual psychopaths who weaponize authority, proximity, and institutional silence as their MO. Criminology 101: the Page Program wasn’t some benign internship; it was a goddamn hunting ground. Overnight stays, unsupervised access, the intoxicating asymmetry of age and influence… classic grooming architecture straight out of the FBI’s behavioral analysis playbook. Offenders like this don’t strike randomly; they select vulnerable targets, normalize the abuse through “mentorship,” and rely on the system’s omertà to bury the evidence. Remember the 1983 page sex scandal? The 2006 Mark Foley clusterfuck? Those were mere surface eruptions. The 2011 shutdown wasn’t reform…it was containment. A bipartisan whitewash (Boehner and Pelosi’s joint obituary for the program, citing “costs” and “email”) to cauterize the wound before the full rot spilled into daylight. And here’s the profound, venom-laced psychology of it all: this isn’t aberration; it’s the inevitable telos of unchecked power. Lord Acton warned us, but modern political science proves it…absolute authority doesn’t merely corrupt; it unleashes the latent predator in men who view public service as a divine right to exploit the innocent. These fucks aren’t “flawed leaders”; they’re clinical deviants whose prefrontal cortices have been hijacked by dopamine hits from dominance and deviance. Congress isn’t a legislative body anymore; it’s a protected enclave for paraphilic criminals, where the rule of law bends like a whore for the right donor or the right cover story. The pages? Collateral damage in the psychosexual economy of the elite…discarded, traumatized, silenced while the perpetrators retire to K Street boardrooms or Sunday talk shows, feigning moral outrage at the rest of us. Fuck your sanitized narratives. Fuck the “official reasons” and the quiet little handshakes that kept this machine humming for decades after the last “scandal.” The House didn’t end the program to save five million bucks…it ended it because the body count of shattered childhoods was piling up, and even their Teflon armor was starting to crack. This is the real face of the swamp: not policy wonks, but a cabal of sexual sadists and power rapists who treat the republic’s youth as their personal fuck-toys. If this doesn’t ignite a lethal purge of the entire institution, then we deserve the collapse barreling toward us. Wake the hell up, America. The predators aren’t at the gates…they’re already inside, wearing the robes of office and daring us to look away. 💀⚖️🔪

Picked up a ton of new followers for my Birthday. Don’t worry new folks, I will get ya followed back ASAP.