Preacher, Podcaster, Professional Driver. Staunchly Protestant Liturgical Particular Baptist. Older end of Gen X. 49.1 miles from Chick-fil-A!
The Piney Woods of Montana
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How did MrsSquirrel and I celebrate our anniversary today? We watched @MontanaGrizFB win and then grabbed @ChickfilA on the way home!
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Tuesday was not a good night for Republicans
It’s been 4 days and no protests, riots and vandalism..
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THERE IT IS!
A historic run for @eli_gillman to break @CooperKupp's @BigSkyConf record for total TDs with 78!
#GoGriz
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@eli_gillman is now the all-time leader for total touchdowns in @BigSkyConf history with 7️⃣8️⃣!
#GoGriz
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To all of you cowards who oppose the Iran War:
Tell that to the 220 US Marines 18 Sailors, and 3 US Army Soldiers that Iran-backed Hezbollah murdered in Beirut in 1983.
Tell my dad's best friend, Joe Boccia. Go on, tell him.
Tell it to the US Embassy staff who were held hostage for 444 days.
Tell it to the hundreds of US Servicemen and women killed by Iranian bombs in Iraq.
Tell it to the 49 US citizens murdered on October 7, 2023 in Israel.
Tell it to the 100,000+ Iranian murdered by their own regime.
Tell it to the millions of untold potential victims of Iran were to have gotten its hands on a nuke.
Or, better yet, shut your mouths, listen, and learn something for once.
SEMPER FIDELIS
This is a picture of (then) Lt. Joseph Boccia. He and my dad went to Marine Officer Candidate School together in 1979. My dad considered him a good friend.
In 1983 Joe, then a Captain, deployed to Lebanon. On October 23rd, a Hezbollah truck bomb blew up the barracks Joe was in, killing him and 219 other Marines, 18 Sailors, and 3 Soldiers.
I grew up learning about Joe Boccia from a young age. My brother and I both ended up joining the Marine Corps, and deploying the Middle East ourselves.
I will never, ever, ever forget Joe Boccia, and the other Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers who were murdered so ruthlessly that morning in Beirut. I will never forget Hezbollah, or their Iranian backers for doing that.
Some "influencers" are wining about our rightful elimination of the Iranian Regime. They don't see why we need to do it. They don't think it's that big a priority. They don't feel like it's "America First."
You may not agree with everything the US does, but if you can't agree that the Iranian regime, and their proxies (like Hezbollah) are mortal enemies who need to be absolutely crushed, then I don't know what to tell you. I don't know how to convince you. All the data is there. Their opening move as a new nation was storming our embassy in 1979. They were behind the Marine Barracks and Embassy bombings in Beirut in 1983. They have been behind the killing of hundreds if not thousands of US servicemembers in Iraq.
Yes, they need to be dealt with, and I'm so, so, so, so grateful to @realDonaldTrump and @PeteHegseth and all our troops, and everyone else involved in Operation Epic Fury. This has needed to happen since 1979 frankly. It's overdue.
But it's finally happening.
God Bless America
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It's always good to be home. Happy 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬!
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So @JustinPetersMin is in town & we had breakfast together today. We discussed (among other things) this phenomenon. It’s a movement of young, quasi-Reformed hotheads—mostly novices when it comes to understanding Scripture. They are possessed with the spirit of Jeroboam.
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Republicans Wishing There Had Been Some Kind Of Act They Could Have Passed To Save America buff.ly/cGBb1Fq
That Hakeem Jeffries feels this way about Stephen Miller is the best endorsement of Stephen Miller I’ve seen to date!
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A narcissist can't have real friends. Everyone is either an enemy or someone to be used.
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I’ve pondered the reactions to my previous post and want to say a few things:
1. Anyone who knows me knows I am not and never have been a globalist.
2. I understand how reading my post at face value was confusing for some, especially those who don’t know me.
3. I was reacting to those who were limiting immigration purely based on ethnicity.
4. I firmly believe some cultures are superior to others and some are incompatible with others (e.g., Muslim culture.) But I don’t think this necessarily translates to every person in a culture.
5. By the word “citizen,” I meant someone who fully assimilates into our culture and the American way of life. I do think our immigration policies need to be reformed. So, it can be “legal” now and be wrong.
6. I support freezing immigration until the current problem is cleaned up. But that doesn’t mean I only support white immigrants… as long as whoever it is assimilates into our culture.
This has always been my position. However my post below was not a thorough expression of what I truly think.
Finally, I think we need to have more open, honest, and godly discussion on these issues. I am more than open to be challenged or corrected on my thinking. However, I will not lock arms with racists who happen to share some of our concerns on immigration.
Scripture and godly thinking must guide this conversation. Therefore, I will never view someone who is clearly a racist as a suitable co-belligerent.
(I am not accusing any CN person as being racist. But I do believe some are partnering with racists.)
May God help all of us speak with clarity on this issue. And may the whole counsel of God’s Word guide how we talk about it and whose voices we listen to.
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Dear @JDVance,
You warned on Wednesday that the next few months would bring a lot of gaslighting. Then you wrote the first draft.
Your post says any honest conversation must start with the war. Great. Since April you have been the administration’s lead negotiator, which makes you the owner of the track that turned a seven-week bombing campaign into an eight-month stalemate. Every week of ceasefire that was not a peace kept the Strait a question mark and kept diesel where eighty-seven percent of voters said they could feel it. Had you spent the spring arguing for the one hour the President says it would take instead of extending the stalemate, the war would have been over by summer, the pump would have said so, and you would be writing a different post. You promised no forever war. You then built a ceasefire with no exit, and sat on it for seven months. Tell voters what settlement you believed was achievable, what deadlines mattered, and what the administration planned to do if negotiations failed.
You say you know a great many of the smartest people in politics, but not one of them has a name. (Tucker?) At least one of them cannot count (also Tucker?), because on your list of four things, items one and two are the same item, and item three is a bumper sticker. Item four is the only entry that names a country, and it is not the country we are at war with.
(BTW I can guess where item four came from. Days ago @TuckerCarlson wrote that the administration was considering striking Pickaxe Mountain under pressure from Netanyahu, on the strength of Israeli intelligence. That is your fourth item, written out in full. No one had to poll for it. It was posted.)
The poll itself. “Change our relationship to Israel” is broad enough to mean several incompatible things. What did those voters actually say? Did they spontaneously mention Israel? Were they offered a list? What percentage selected that answer? Were they objecting to this war, particular Israeli policies, American assistance, or the alliance itself? Why not publish the questionnaire, the sample, the percentages, and the crosstabs.
By contrast, the networks published their exit polls. The issues voters were asked about were the economy, democracy, immigration, corruption, the Iran war and artificial intelligence. Israel did not need a column, because voters were not voting about Israel. The sole evidence that the American electorate rendered a verdict on Israel is a phone call between you and a man you will not identify.
Contrast your response with @realDonaldTrump’s. Asked about your post, he acknowledged the war’s electoral cost and said he would make the decision again because long term it's the only answer. Agree or disagree, he defended his decision.
In July, you yourself said America would have fought this war without Israeli influence. You explained that the president independently opposed an Iranian nuclear weapon—and that you agreed.
Now your post finds room for an unnamed pollster’s undefined grievance against Israel, but none for an accounting of your own decisions as the administration’s lead negotiator.
Name the pollster. Publish the questions and the results. Tell voters which decisions you supported, which you opposed, and which you would reverse.
The President answered for his decision. That is leadership. If you want to be a leader, you need to be able to answer for yours.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.