Michael Shock

How much does it pay? Genuinely asking. My experience from the US (where I grew up) is people pound the table about skills shortages and when you ask what they’re paying, it’s equivalent to working at Walmart in a no-skill job.

One month out…

The Texas Stampede will partner with the ACC Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) program for an interactive workshop designed to give students hands-on experience working with adaptive athletes. To read the complete story go to fearthesteer.org.

We had a good thing, Britain. A really good thing. You taught us this game. Mahan studied you. We just wrote bigger checks. The deal was simple. We spend the trillions. Fight the hard wars. We even let you sit out Vietnam. And you? You hold the chokepoints you already own. You run Lloyd’s. Ships in the narrows, insurance on the hulls. That’s all you had to do and we would back your interests with the strongest military and financial markets in the world. That was the deal. Now look at you. You gave up Aden. Fine. You kept Diego Garcia so we could reach it with bombers. Now you’re giving that away too. To a Chinese client state. You built Israel to guard Suez. Now your Foreign Secretary threatens to arrest their PM. You built a base nearby to back it up. Iran hit your base in Cyprus. You didn’t have one warship in the Mediterranean. Spain got there first. Spain. You gave up Hong Kong but backed Taiwan. Now you’re letting China build the largest embassy in Europe on top of London’s fiber-optic cables. We gave you Five Eyes. You gave Beijing a SIGINT platform in the heart of the City. Gibraltar. Three hundred years. Actual sieges. Now the Spanish run your border checks. You lost South Africa but kept the Falklands so we can overfly the Magellan Strait. Argentina could probably take that with rowboats today. Your king kept ownership of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand navies to fill the gaps. Those navies are now a laughing stock. Your warships and bombers patrolled the GIUK gap. Now you don’t have enough but you also don’t want us buying Greenland. Fine. You do it. With what? We gave London the @IMOHQ to regulate shipping, you backed the EU agenda to carbon tax every ship to build woke UN slush fund. Iran closed Hormuz. In the ‘80s, 540 ships got hit. Lloyd’s never blinked. Because your navy was there. Now Lloyd’s cancels. Because it isn’t. You scrapped your only amphibious ships. Sold them. To Brazil. You have more admirals than warships. You built two light carriers but they keep springing leaks and you don’t have enough escort ships to support them. The English Channel. Stopped Napoleon. Stopped Hitler. Now you can’t stop rubber dinghies. You had one job. Have the warships, diplomatic backbone and insurance to support shipping through the straits. That’s it. That’s all we asked. And you blew it. Chokepoint by chokepoint. Called it progress.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Now hundreds of ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf and the world is blaming us. But that’s ok. All those solar panels you bought from China will keep you warm in that dreary weather I guess.

This is why, with or without @POTUS endorsement I will vote for Paxton if he’s on the ballot.

Thursday night thunder returns tonight! See you there! @TexasStampede @VescoMC

20 years in the making. @VescoMC @TexasStampede @Stampede501c3 #vescored

@KillmerCj Cmon CJ, this is boomer bait. No way did this actually happen.

And he’ll never fight a day in any of his daddy’s wars, that’s for damn sure. These wars are all upside & no downside to the truly privileged. No war but the class war, says I.

Proud to work with VMC. Where the standard is the standard.

Vesco is incredibly grateful and excited to work with The Stampede..... What Will Vesco Build Next.....

Texas Stampede Wheelchair Rugby Announces Official Partnership with Vesco Metal Craft   For the complete story go to fearthesteer.org/news_article/s…

My North Star is immigration and deportations Trump is far from perfect but better on this issue than any politician in my lifetime Regime change in Iran makes deportations harder, so I oppose it, but I pray for the safety and victory of our troops now that it has begun

@Gumbie1725 @TexasStampede @RoundRockFB @cmoorefrog @CoachRamirez12 @TenneyCoach @Payton_Newkirk @THE_USWRA @JamesGumbert @service Appreciate your help Jackson.

Had a great night volunteering for @TexasStampede lots of hits and spills tonight. @RoundRockFB @cmoorefrog @CoachRamirez12 @TenneyCoach @Payton_Newkirk @THE_USWRA @JamesGumbert #Believe #BReal @Service

Trump has been cornered. His options, as he sees them, are to start a war with Iran on something like our own terms, or to be dragged into it at a time and in the manner of Israel’s choosing. The third option - telling Israel to fight their own war - is not on the table because he believes that, if he does that, Israel will use nuclear weapons, and he and members of his family will be in physical danger. The military buildup has had three purposes. First, he hoped that Iran would capitulate and submit to an agreement strong enough to calm the Israelis down for the time being. Second, to have enough forces to deal with the fallout if Israel attacks and Iran retaliates against American bases and allies. And finally, to potentially strike first and at least be able to control the first phase of combat. The talk of “limited strikes” reflects his hope that Iran can be intimidated into buckling, because Trump genuinely does not want war. That’s where we’re at. I’ve never prayed for a politician or government before, but I prayed for Trump for the first time yesterday. You should, too.

I’ve been to some of the “before” schools in El Salvador. Great people, but the buildings were not much more than a concrete slab with some corrugated tin to block the rain. Remarkable what President Bukele is doing. A modern Lee Kuan Yew.

While you complain and hire more Indians, George Soros, with a fortune 24 times smaller, took over Spanish politics just like he did in Canada. He financed parties that grant amnesties, funded NGOs like Open Arms that bring Africans to Europe, and gave jobs to 1,000s of activists

The Brits love their fire. During WWII, Britain's FIDO system cleared deadly fog from RAF airfields by igniting petrol pipes along runways, creating fiery walls that lifted mist for safe takeoffs/landings. required 100K+ gallons/hour but enabled 2,500 ops & saved ~10K lives.👀

@thecospaiacat @AuronMacintyre @HunterDeRensis 6 months ago…

@AuronMacintyre @HunterDeRensis Way back when in 2025 ice.gov/news/releases/…

Who shot at ICE agents?

Dear Oprah, Yes, you were overeating! For years! And it wasn't some mystical "obesity gene" puppeteering your fork. It was your choices. Stop selling surrender as science. Our kids deserve the truth that real change starts with personal accountability, not excuses. MAHA

The Somali fraud scandal reveals a hard truth: Our citizenship process is broken. It's time to fix that. That's why I'm introducing legislation to revoke the citizenship of naturalized citizens who commit fraud and other serious felonies. 🧵