Former Recon Marine turned author.
Joined August 2020
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29 Apr 2022
Since I'm still not sure the renaissance of Twitter is going to last, I do have an author newsletter as well. And you even get a free story when you sign up. dl.bookfunnel.com/qswxi8aqt1
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14 Jun 2025
If you really want to get immersed in those years:
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Every literary prize, upcoming book list, review site, etc. are all completely captured by friendships, bots, gatekeeping, sensitivity readers, offer of sex, or just money. The only way you know a book is 'good,' is if you read it; the action is clear; and you want to keep reading it. Other indicators are entirely subjective. I will use examples below to prove my point.
Should you lie in book reviews to help indie authors?
If a book is a 2⭐ experience…rating it a 4⭐ “to help the author” might actually hurt readers more
So where do you stand?
-Protect indie authors
-Or keep ratings 100% honest
Let's talk about it👇🧵
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Thread from @SecureFreeSoc on today’s strike.
🚨#1 Today, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Southern Command, in coordination with Venezuelan authorities, conducted a lethal strike against a Tren de Aragua compound, killing its leader, Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores (a.k.a. Niño Guerrero) x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2065…
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Jun 13
Nino Guerrero was a bad dude, no doubt about that.
But we DESPERATELY need to come to understand that "decapitation" strikes don't magically end a network.
And TdA has been a network for a long time now.
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Jun 13
Political stunts do not win wars. I shed no tears for Nino Guerrero, but let's not get it slanted.
I've said it over and over. Kingpin strategy doesn't work, and has never worked.
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Jun 12
This is why I keep getting pissed off at these CAIR-indoctrinated useful idiots who keep peddling the lie that the GWOT was a plot by the "elites" to enrich themselves.
The "elites" have been trying to declare victory (or surrender) and quit since 2004.
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Jun 12
Two reads to help understand what's happening right now.
The version of the Muslim world you have been sold by media (both traditional and social) is only the shadows on the wall of Plato's cave.
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Jun 12
The Ummah will always band together against the Dar al Harb. They will lie and dissemble when weak, and stab you in the back when the opportunity presents itself.
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Jun 12
"Me against my brother;
Me and my brother against my cousin;
Me, my brother, and my cousin against the world."
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Jun 11
Let these modern art weirdos know that their nonsense is not welcome.
Here is a survey link to express your feelings on this WTF design surveymonkey.com/r/gwotmfini…
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Jun 10
Can we make war monuments that are actually monuments to the men and women who fought those wars, instead of monuments to some fucking avant-garde architect's ego?
The Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation (@GWOTMF) has released the design concept for the GWOT Memorial which will be built on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Full announcement video here: youtu.be/qMbJt0-hHNg
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Jun 10
I don’t know who needs to hear this… but if Bernie Sanders agrees with what you are saying, you probably aren’t on the right anymore.
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May 28
About seven years ago (eight, if we're being picky and getting into the weeds of conceptualization), I embarked on a version of what I saw as a potential next world war scenario "within the next ten years." The result was the Maelstrom Rising series.
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Jun 9
1/3 Why does America keep getting China wrong?
It’s not naivety. It’s not ignorance. It's a failure of language.
Washington and other Western institutions describe China as AUTHORITARIAN rather than TOTALITARIAN.
Authoritarian regimes can democratize. South Korea did. Taiwan did. The Philippines did.
Totalitarian ones don't.
This shift in language may be one of the most consequential propaganda victories the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ever pulled off.
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Once again: we used to understand that you do not negotiate with terrorists.
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Islamic Terrorists Take the Negotiations Process Hostage and We Never Learn
by Daniel Greenfield
Islamic terrorists don’t negotiate to reach a particular outcome. What they do, over and over again, is negotiate to extract concessions from the negotiating process.
If a deal ends up being negotiated, they violate it, dare us to notice, and if we don’t, they realize we’re weak, they build up their capacity and attack. Then they start negotiations again with an escalated set of demands.
If however we put up any kind of resistance to just giving them everything they want or they have no intention of even pretending to reach a deal, then they take the process of negotiations hostage and start extracting concessions based on agreeing to negotiate.
This is the worst kind of sucker bait there is because what the terrorists do is blow up the process and then demand concessions before any kind of deal is made to return to the table.
In the latest example, Iran wanted its Hezbollah terrorist proxies in Lebanon to be able to attack Israel, without Israel being able to attack the terrorists in turn, not as part of a final deal, but just to stay at the table.
This is a typical example of taking the negotiations process hostage. It’s a test. And as we’ve already seen, Iran will keep testing to see what it can get.
Typical terrorist demands for negotiations like these are “I can hit you, you can’t hit me”. That’s because the terrorists know we care about negotiations and they don’t. So they can make one-sided demands.
Falling into their trap lets us be taken hostage and is a mistake.
It’s unfortunate that we keep making this mistake despite having experienced this same sort of thing for decades… including Iran seizing our sailors and broadcasting their capture while Obama frantically tried to appease them. That’s not where we’re at, but that’s where it leads to and we should be aware of it.
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