John Ware PT, DHSc

@unseen1_unseen And it’s corallary: “Norms are written by those who can enforce them.” -@infantrydort

No country has a "right" to exist. Either they can defend themselves or they can't and they disappear into the sands of history.

Happy World Down Syndrome Day! This child, with an extra chromosome, is valuable and worthy of life.

Many years ago, as a Kansas State Trooper, I had the opportunity to meet Chuck Norris. Unfortunately, it was on a traffic stop: Speeding 85 in a 55. Fortunately, Mr. Norris let me off with a warning.

I’m just spitballing here, but what if foreign foes are basically doing this exact thing to enrich divisive American content creators and make their reach appear massive? Why else have bot farms?

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815. Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did. Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

Happy World Down Syndrome Day! 3/21 - Thanks to our perfect son, Van, every day is Down Syndrome Day around here. God knows what He's doin' all the time.

According to the Wall Street Journal, citing multiple U.S. officials, Iran has targeted the joint U.S.-UK base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean with two intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM). According to the report, one missile failed in flight whilst the other was engaged by a U.S. destroyer utilizing an SM-3 interceptor, but a successful interception was not confirmed. None of the missiles hit the base. This is notable as Iranian long-range precision fires have not previously been publicly assessed as having the range to hit such a target as Diego Garcia, as the base is some 4,000 kilometers from Iran proper.

@BlueBoxDave I think I found the problem.

Hoo boy…

This is incredibly generous. TSA agents across the country are relying on food pantries and community donations just to get by. I remain the lone Dem to vote with my Republican colleagues to fully fund DHS and get people paid. It should never come to this point.

The fact that the cancel mob was too afraid to cancel Chuck Norris while he was alive sounds like a Chuck Norris joke

@Matthew_Rupiper Flip side: f/u call to pt yesterday post ortho visit that I recommended cuz “sciatica” from PCP looked more like a post-THA problem. Ortho dx’d “bursitis” and told pt “PT won’t help that.” Are we confusing the docs abt how PT “works” with all this placebo leveraging? What a mess.

I question an intervention’s effectiveness & efficacy when more time and emphasis is dedicated to “leveraging the placebo effect” and “contextual factors.” I also question an intervention when the speaker says “why it works” without quantifying what “work” means

I’ve never rated a note “helpful” faster in my life lmao

@PrezWisdom @nedryun Highly recommend the guided tour of Jackson’s mansion at the Hermitage in Nashville.

Pictures taken of Andrew Jackson 🇺🇸 taken shortly before his death Pretty interesting to see actual pictures of a guy who was a POW during the Revolution… AND fought the British in the War of 1812… …and laid eyes on George Washington 🇺🇸 #POTUS 🤯

In 2007, when Chuck Norris visited Marines in Western Iraq, he demanded to get away from large bases and instead visit the small FOBs and COPs. MNF-W said it would be too dangerous, but Norris insisted and in the end, got his way. I'm forever grateful for the example he set, and this awesome choke hold.

Chuck Norris held a 183-10-2 record and was a 6x world champion in full contact bare knuckle karate. On top of that, he beat heavyweight kickboxing world champion Joe Lewis 3 consecutive times and also had a brutal sparring match with undefeated kickboxing world champion, Bill Superfoot Wallace, that lasted an hour and a half. According to Wallace, they practically stalemated and "beat the crap out of each other". Chuck was trained in kickboxing/boxing by Benny The Jet Urquidez and was also trained in BJJ by the Gracies and Machados for 20 years. Even being able to submit Carlos Machado himself on occasion. Chuck had a 315 Ibs bench press at 180 lbs bodyweight and was said to have a grip back in the day that nobody could escape from because he was so strong. Even Jean Claude Van Damme said he'd never fight Chuck Norris, despite being a kickboxing world champion himself. Chuck held a 10th degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a 9th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th degree black belt in Taekwondo, a 5th degree black belt in Karate, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a black belt in Judo. Rest in peace, Chuck!

The public has no idea how much of “healthcare” resources are spent on electronic health record workflows for the SOLE purpose of compliance & payment…not patient benefit or best practice. Following rules set the hospitals and insurance to get/deny payment

At midnight, the regime raided 18‑year‑old Melika Azizi’s home and dragged her to Lakan Prison in Rasht. She’s been beaten, cut off from her family, and sentenced to death. In court she looked the judge in the eye and shouted: “You’ve spilled the blood of so many young people, how can I stay silent? It doesn’t matter to me, kill me too.” This is a teenager whose “crime” was courage. We can’t let them execute her in silence. #MelikaAzizi #StopExecutionsInIran

This should have been on the front page of The New York Times. I speak to students in America and most have no idea that more than 30,000 Iranians were killed for protesting and demanding freedom. No names. No faces. No coverage. This silence kills me.💔 Thank you, Australia.

@BlueBoxDave Horrendous.

A Modest Proposal 2026

And THIS...this right fucking here... Is the goddamn textbook execution of Fifth Generation Warfare...5GW...unleashed with surgical, venomous precision while you’re still arguing over tweets and polls like it’s some goddamn game. Iranian regime state media...Press TV, Tehran’s official propaganda cock-socket...just slammed Joe Kent’s Tucker Carlson interview clips four fucking times in a single hour. Four. In sixty goddamn minutes. Not because they suddenly love “America First.” Because they’re not dropping bombs on our bases anymore. They’re dropping narratives straight into the American psyche, turning our own voices into guided munitions that detonate in the cognitive domain. Let me break it down with the cold lethality of a special operator who’s studied the black arts of modern hybrid ops. Fifth Gen isn’t tanks rolling or jets screaming overhead. That’s 3GW and 4GW nostalgia. 5GW is invisible, non-kinetic, data-driven psychological dominance. It’s warfare where the battlefield is your mind, your neighbor’s mind, the collective national will. The enemy stays unseen, uses proxies...your own citizens, your own media personalities...as unwitting...or witting...vectors. They exploit pre-existing cognitive fault lines: the isolationist streak, the “no more forever wars” exhaustion, the latent suspicion of the intel community. Then they amplify, distort, gaslight until the target population does the enemy’s work for them. Watch the psychology at play here, because this is where it gets fucking lethal. Kent resigns March 17 as National Counterterrorism Center Director, goes on Tucker March 18, and drops the precise payload Tehran needed: “No intelligence supported an imminent Iranian attack. Israel drove us into this unnecessary war. No nukes, no sneak attack...just Zionist manipulation.” Boom. Iranian state media doesn’t even have to fabricate shit. They just repackage American dissent, slap their regime branding on it, and flood the info-space. It’s classic social engineering: weaponized confirmation bias. The average American sees “former top intel guy” on Tucker saying the quiet part out loud, and suddenly the narrative seed is planted..."We’re the suckers, Israel’s the puppet master, why die for that?” Doubt metastasizes. Unity fractures. Political pressure builds to pull support, hesitate, retreat. Tactically? Masterclass. Tehran bypassed every kinetic red line. No IRGC missile barrage triggers U.S. retaliation protocols. No cyber op that we can attribute and counter-strike. Instead, they hijacked the free-speech oxygen of our own ecosystem...podcasts, X, cable news...and turned it into a precision-guided information munition. It’s the ultimate asymmetric play: use the target’s openness, its First Amendment, its internal political divisions as the delivery system. They’re not fighting our military; they’re fighting our will to employ it. Subdue the enemy without fighting, Sun Tzu said. 5GW is that on steroids with AI-amplified dissemination and psychological profiling. Kent and Tucker just handed the mullahs a propaganda victory they couldn’t have engineered better if they tried. Whether it’s naïveté, ego, or straight-up useful-idiot syndrome doesn’t fucking matter...the effect is the same. Domestic voices with credibility become Tehran’s megaphone. Cognitive warfare 101: erode trust in leadership, sow division between allies...U.S.-Israel...manufacture the illusion that the threat was manufactured. The Iranian people see clips of “even Americans admit it,” morale spikes in their regime. Our side? Hesitation, second-guessing, political knife-fights at home while the real enemy consolidates. This is why I’ve been screaming about 5GW. They’re not coming for your cities with armies...they’re already inside your skull, rewriting the story of what’s real, who’s the villain, and why resistance is futile. It’s divide-and-conquer on a civilizational scale. 🗡️💀⏳