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@RobProvince They do like the white flag…

France… good to know what the real military experts think.

Tonight’s “Buzz’s Bedtime Stories” is a tale about witches, one in particular. As some of you know, I was the Air Force Military Aide for Bill Clinton, lived in the White House, traveled everywhere they traveled, and carried the “nuclear football.” As such, I was always in close proximity to both Bill and Hill. Among the military who served in the White House and the professional White House staff, the Clinton administration was infamously known for its lack of professionalism and courtesy, though few ever spoke openly about it. But when it came to rudeness, it was Hillary Clinton who was the most feared person in the administration. She set the tone. From the very first day in my assignment to the very last.  When I first arrived to work in the White House, my predecessor warned me. “You can get away with pissing off Bill, but if you make her mad, she’ll rip your heart out.” I heeded those words, carefully. I did make him mad a few times over the coming years but I never really upset her. I knew the ramifications. I learned very quickly that the administration’s day-to-day character, whether inside or outside of D.C., depended solely on the presence or absence of Hillary. Her reputation preceded her. We used to say that when Hillary was gone, it was a frat party. When she was home, it was Schindler’s List. In my first few days on the job, and remember - I essentially lived there, I realized there were different rules for Hillary. She instructed the senior staff, including me, that she didn’t want to be forced to encounter us. We were instructed that “whenever Mrs. Clinton is moving through the halls, be as inconspicuous as possible.” She did not want to see “staff” and be forced to “interact” with anyone. No matter their position in the building.  Many times, I’d see mature, professional adults working in the most important building in the world, scurrying into office doorways to escape Hillary’s line of sight. I’d hear whispering, “She’s coming, she’s coming!” I could be walking down a West Wing hallway, midday, busier than hell, people doing the administration’s work, whether in the press office, medical unit, wherever. She’d walk in and they’d scatter. She was the Nazi schoolmarm, and the rest of us were expected to hide as though we were kids in trouble. I wasn’t a kid; I was a professional officer and pilot. I said, “I’m not doing that.” There was also a period of time when she attempted to ban military uniforms in the White House. It was the reelection year of 1996, and she was trying to craft the narrative that the military was not a priority in the Clinton administration. As a military aide, carrying the football, and working closely with the Secret Service, I objected to that. It simply wasn’t a matter of her political agenda; it was national security. If the balloon went up, the Secret Service would need to find me as quickly as possible. Seconds matter. Finding the aide in military uniform made complete sense. Besides, what commander-in-chief wouldn’t want to advertise his leadership and command? She finally relented because the Secret Service weighed in. On another instance, on our trip to Mexico City, she tried to divert Marine One back to the hotel we’d just departed because she’d left…her sunglasses behind. I’ll cover that story in a future post!  The Clintons are corrupt beyond words. Hillary is evil, vindictive, and profane. They’re both criminals. Bring them to justice, finally!

@uh1ao @CynicalPublius Not according to Peter Schilling. youtube.com/watch?v=rLWiiV…

@CynicalPublius He died in space.

Kinda seems relevant. (And yes, at one point in my military career I was "Major Tom.") youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4…

@dom_lucre Lester Holt’s daughter?

🔥🚨JUST IN: This TikTok influencer is going viral after claiming her life is hard because she is so pretty and how “pretty privilege” drains her so much due to everyone staring at her as soon she walks outside.

@CynicalPublius Coming back from Germany last year: full tactical dudes everywhere. Not a problem.

Leftists are freaking out because guys with automatic weapons were spotted walking around US airports. Leftists also deeply desire that the USA be just like Europe. I wonder if Leftists have ever been to a European airport?

A film crew arrived on Tuesday with a drone, a budget, and a 4,000-word researcher's brief about the environmental damage caused by British beef farming. What they found was Gerald. Gerald was in the south corner. 9:30am - The drone went up. Gerald watched the drone for approximately three seconds, concluded it wasn't interesting, and went back to grazing. Thirty seconds of footage: bull, ignoring drone, eating grass. Not the footage. 11:00am - The researcher asked the farmer about Gerald's methane output. The farmer explained the biogenic cycle. The researcher said that wasn't in her brief. The farmer said it was in the peer-reviewed literature. The brief did not contain the peer-reviewed literature. 12:30pm - The cameraman asked if Gerald could do something. The farmer: "Like what?" The cameraman: "Something more active." Gerald lay down in the south corner. Gerald had been awake since 5am and had grazed eleven acres. Gerald found the cameraman's schedule irrelevant. 1:00pm - The producer walked the south corner with an ecologist who was there on a separate Natural England survey. The ecologist pointed out the seven wildflower species. The Bombus humilis. The dung beetle activity. The lapwing pair. The producer: "Is this because of the cow?" Ecologist: "Yes." Producer: "Can we use that?" Ecologist: "You're making a film about Gerald being a problem." Producer: "...Can we use it anyway?" 4:00pm - They left. The documentary has a two-star rating on streaming. The south corner has a UK priority bee species. Gerald is in the south corner. Gerald has not seen the documentary. Gerald does not have a streaming subscription.

You’re over there in the U.S. - I’m here in Papua New Guinea. Let’s say you decide to protect my neighborhood. You spend the money. You build the security system. You hire the guards. You patrol the streets. In fact, you’re paying about 80% of the cost to keep my neighborhood safe. Years go by. Then one day trouble breaks out just down the road - in Australia, south of where I’m sitting. You come to me and say: “Hey, we need your help.” And I respond with: “Sorry… that’s not really my problem.” You’d be furious. You’d be asking: Why am I paying to protect you if you won’t lift a finger when it matters? That’s the argument President Trump has been making about NATO. For decades the United States has carried the overwhelming burden of Western defense. When Trump first took office in 2017: • The U.S. was paying about 70% of NATO’s total defense spending. • Many wealthy European nations weren’t even meeting the 2% GDP defense target they agreed to in 2014. Trump’s response was simple: If America is going to defend the alliance, the alliance needs to defend itself too. So he pushed hard. • He pressured countries to hit the 2% GDP defense spending target. • He threatened to reduce U.S. commitments if they didn’t step up. • He pushed NATO to change its funding formula so the U.S. share dropped from 22% to 16%. • In his second term he’s pushing for a 5% defense spending goal as global threats rise. The result? Non-U.S. NATO defense spending jumped by over $130 billion, and total NATO defense spending has grown from about $900 billion in 2016 to over $1.5 trillion today. But zoom out even further. Since World War II, the United States has spent over $20 trillion fighting wars and defending other countries. American soldiers have paid the ultimate price: • 36,516 deaths in Korea defending South Korea • 58,220 deaths in Vietnam trying to stop communist expansion • 2,459 deaths in Afghanistan fighting terrorism after 9/11 • 4,431 deaths in Iraq removing Saddam Hussein • Hundreds more across Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, and the fight against ISIS In total, roughly 150,000 American military deaths tied to overseas conflicts since WWII. The U.S. now maintains around 800 military bases across 80 countries and spends about $921 billion a year on defense, roughly 37% of all military spending on Earth. That’s the cost of being the world’s security backbone. So when Americans start asking their allies to contribute more… The real question isn’t: “Why is America demanding this?” The real question is: Why did the world get so comfortable letting one country carry the bill?

@CynicalPublius God comfort your family.🙏🏻

I lost my brother today. Saw him at Thanksgiving, he was just fine. 3 months later he was diagnosed with metastatic cancer with "too many tumors in his lungs to count." Two weeks later he was gone. Please, if you have cancer in your family, get screened. This is the second brother I have lost to the Big C. I'll link one below to a good comprehensive test for cancer screening. I'll be on X less for a while. Or maybe more to take my mind off it. I don't know. I'm knackered at the moment. Thanks for listening.

@brittilina @DaleStarkA10 The bonus is the porker “shepherd”.

This man is single-handedly improving my TL with so many cows.

You treasonous, spineless motherfucker... You’re not just dead wrong...you’re a walking, breathing pathology of the gutless, self-serving political class that’s let Iran bleed America dry for forty-seven goddamn years while you orbit the planet in your little astronaut suit and pretend to have judgment. Iran declared war on us in 1979, you historical illiterate prick. They didn’t send a memo...they stormed our embassy, took Americans hostage for 444 days, and turned “Death to America” into state policy. Their Hezbollah proxies then parked a truck bomb outside the Beirut barracks in ’83 and vaporized 241 U.S. Marines in the single deadliest attack on our Corps since Iwo Jima. That wasn’t “terrorism”...that was asymmetrical warfare, Iranian-style. Fast-forward: Quds Force and Shia militias in Iraq and Afghanistan pumped our troops full of EFPs...explosively formed penetrators...designed in Tehran to punch straight through armor and turn American bodies into red mist. Hundreds of our brothers and sisters came home in boxes because of Iranian fingerprints. Houthis, Hamas, every proxy cockroach in their “Axis of Resistance” gets cash, drones, and targeting data straight from the IRGC. And now they’re sprinting for the bomb so they can nuke the threat of retaliation off the table and hold the Strait of Hormuz...20% of the world’s oil...at gunpoint while their Russian and Chinese sugar daddies laugh. Every president before Trump was a castrated appeaser running the same suicidal pathology: Carter’s feckless Delta Force disaster, Obama’s JCPOA that shoveled billions straight into the IRGC terror machine, Biden’s limp-dick “restraint” that green-lit October 7 and turned our bases into shooting galleries. That’s not diplomacy. That’s Stockholm syndrome with jihadis...psychological surrender dressed up as sophistication. Weakness invites the wolf. History 101, motherfucker. Deterrence isn’t a suggestion; it’s a law of nature. You project your own trembling fear onto Trump and call it “terrible judgment” because admitting the truth would expose the rot in your soul: partisan grandstanding over dead Americans. President Trump is the first commander-in-chief with the balls, the brains, and the unbreakable will to end this forever war Iran started. Those precision strikes on their nuclear sites, command nodes, and enrichment hellholes aren’t some impulsive “feeling”...they’re cold, calculated preemption rooted in decades of SIGINT, satellite overwatch, and the unbreakable reality that you don’t negotiate with a regime whose constitution demands your extinction. This is Clausewitz and Sun Tzu in action: impose your will first, or bleed forever in their proxy meat grinder. Trump isn’t starting shit. He’s terminating the jihad they’ve waged since the ayatollahs took power. Your sniveling tweet? That’s wartime treason with a blue-check smile...undermining the Commander-in-Chief, signaling division and weakness to every enemy watching, and inviting the very retaliation you pretend to fear. Psychologically it’s textbook: the appeaser’s delusion that screaming “TRUMP’S WAR” saves lives when it actually paints a target on every American in uniform. You wore the Navy uniform once, flew combat missions, yet here you are betraying the very troops you claim to honor because your Trump Derangement Syndrome runs deeper than any sense of duty. Pathological. Disgusting. Lethal to the Republic. Get the fuck out of the way, you treasonous disgrace. Iran started this war in 1979. President Trump...with steel, strategy, and zero fucks...is ending it right now. Period. America First. Motherfuckers who forgot what that means can choke on it. 🗡️💀🇺🇸🗡️

I received this message from one of Captain Cody Khrok’s best friends today. Captain Khork was one of the 4 soldiers killed in Kuwait. “Josie, I saw you are posting about some of the service members who passed away in Kuwait. It would me the world to me to share more about Cody’s life, pictures, stories. Cody was the best of us. He always wanted to be in the military and came from a military family. He moved to my neighborhood in Winter Haven Florida in middle school. He was my best friend and grew into family. He called my mom, mom and she raised him for a period of time in high school. I used my job at Publix Supermarkets to get him hired and he worked with me at the local store a couple of years in collage. He lived with me after basic training for a period of time before buying his dads house in Winter Haven and deploying regularly  He graduated from Lake Region High School in Eagle Lake (2008) and Florida Southern College in Lakeland  (2014). He enlisted in the National Guard in 2009 and later commissioned as a Military Police Officer in the Army Reserve in 2014. During his service, he deployed to Saudi Arabia in 2018, Guantanamo Bay in 2021, and Poland in 2024. He also spend time deployed in Korea and Africa but I’m unsure of the exact years.  He received numerous medals and honors recognizing his service, leadership, and commitment to others. Some pictures of that below.  Cody played paintball semi professionally on a team for a period of time, enjoyed video games. He was a huge Florida Gators football fan and Tampa Bay Lightning fan and we went to many games together over the years.  Friends will tell you he was an amazing person, hilarious sense of humor, and most importantly the life of the party. Everybody who worked with him in the military looked up to him and said he would lead from the front. He helped many proper through the darkest times in their lives and was part of the best times.   He was also unapologetically American which I think he would say is the most important part.” And what an impossibly brave, good, and generous person Cody was. Well done. Good and faithful servant. Rest now.

I don't think Senate Republicans grasp what will happen if they do not pass the SAVE Act. To the people who put Republicans in power, integrity in our elections is the NUMBER ONE issue they care about. If the GOP fails in this, literally half of their voters will walk away. They won't become Democrats, they'll just withdraw from public involvement, stop voting and start hoarding canned food and ammunition. If the GOP fails to pass the SAVE Act, the BEST CASE scenario for the GOP is that we go back to the 1960s where the Democrats had overwhelming control of both Houses and the Presidency. Worst case? The GOP goes the way of the Whigs, the entire conservative right descends into fractured, ineffective factions and the Democrats gain multi-generational control like has never before been seen in the USA. GOP, failing to pass the SAVE Act will destroy your party. And it will destroy the USA. Choose wisely.

@DaleStarkA10 Peak porcine perfection.

Good morning from 7 Barrel Ranch. 🇺🇸

@CynicalPublius I would’ve expected no less.😆

@WV_Piper I'm as a straight as straight gets but could not resist...

You wanna know what happens on X if you are a conservative and you (i) criticize Thomas Massie for his narcissistic grandstanding and/or (ii) say something that defends Israel in even the slightest way? I'll show you what happens. Look at the chart below, because I did both of those things in the past day. People literally unfollow me en masse for making such statements. The only other thing that creates such a response is when I remind people that a commercial jetliner hit the Pentagon on 9/11, and nothing else. Conservatives like to mock leftists for being close-minded and intolerant, but it's (sadly) an enormous problem on our side as well.

Susan Collins voted against Hegseth Kashl & the Big Beautiful Bill Raise your hand ✋️ if you want (RNC) @ChairmanGruters to deny her campaign for reelection a dime of the money WeThePeople send the RNC Gruters is tagged, let him know, not one cent to Collins.. he'll see this

@DaleStarkA10 Don’t fat shame the porker…very fragile ego, ya know.

Everyone’s looking fat and lazy.

RE: Don Lemon So Democrats are screeching that Don Lemon is being persecuted in violation of his First Amendment rights as a journalist. At times like this, I like to flip the facts of the scenario ideologically while leaving the legal facts the same, and see if the argument still holds up. So here goes. Let’s pretend Kamala won the 2024 election. Let’s further pretend that there is a mosque in a deep, deep red Oklahoma county, and that mosque’s imam is suspected of being a Muslim Brotherhood leader. Let’s further pretend that the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers organized a secret protest against that mosque that was to occur during prayer services. Let’s further pretend that they carried through on the protest, loudly storming the mosque, chanting “Remember 9/11,” wholly disrupting the prayer service and scaring innocent children who were in attendance with their parents. Let’s also pretend that Laura Loomer accompanied the protest, reporting on it as a journalist. Finally, let’s pretend that Kamala’s Attorney General (Mark Elias) had Laura arrested. Would Democrats be screeching about Laura’s First Amendment rights? Of course not—even though the legal issues in my scenario are EXACTLY the same as those that are the bases for the current charges against Lemon. _____________________________________ Being a Democrat means always having situational ethics and never having any core beliefs other than power.

@DaleStarkA10 I hate that…

Sad day today, lost our sweet Jersey calf. She was perfectly fine yesterday. Came out this morning and she was flat on her back and no longer with us. Gave her a nice resting place by the creek. Will miss you Sydney.