More Biden engendered stupidity:
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And:
We’ve heard Biden and the political left drone on and on about the need for our country to be unified again. And while the fact is true, his reasons and process to get there seem utterly flawed.
Then again, based on his recent actions in the White House, I’d wager to say that they were nothing but lies to get more votes.
Find out how his first steps as Commander-in-Chief defy every notion of unity.
Fighting for Freedom,
Lawrence Cooper
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Biden became “President Joe Biden” just 5 days ago. In the first 3 days of his tenure, he signed 30 executive orders, mostly undoing the work of his predecessor.
No one can speculate on his motivation, be it spite or part of some master plan, but his actions so far have Americans concerned for the future.
Here’s What He’s Done So Far to Ruin the Country…It’s Only the Beginning!
Fighting for Freedom,
Chuck Little
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I thought the South Pacific Military Museum in Texas was outstanding , and it is, but then I just saw this one:
THIS IS NOW ON MY BUCKET LISTThis is beyond remarkable!! An Unbelievable Display of Arms.I have never heard of this place. It's in Colorado Springs, CO.The guy must be independently wealthy to afford all this.Everything in there is completely functional. Pretty Wild !!!!!↓
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U.S. Renews Relations With Terrorists of Hama
Less than a week after he was sworn into office, President Joe Biden has ordered the State Department to restore relations with the genocidal terrorists of Hamas.
And:
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 Read it Here >> Finally: How could it be that Biden would actually pull something like this? Breaking: Biden’s ‘Transgender Military Ban’ Repeal Is a PR Stunt |
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Sent to me by a retired flag officer, a very dear friend and fellow memo reader:
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C'mon Man you got to be flexible. First tell them what you know they want to hear then you can break your word.
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Opinion:
Defense Secretary Austin Plays Politics Right out of the Gate
By Mike Ford |
Retired General Lloyd Austin was confirmed as Secretary of
Defense by the U.S. Senate on January 22, 2021, at 11:00 AM. An hour later, he
was sworn in as the Secretary of Defense for these United States. Many of my
military associates are cheering his nomination and subsequent confirmation.
All isn’t as they claim, however.
Austin required a Congressional waiver, as he had not yet
been retired from the military for the Congressionally-mandated seven years. I
have no issue with that. Congress mandated the seven-year timeout for military
members and most certainly has the authority to waive it. My issue with the
newly-minted Secretary of Defense is the same one I have with the current crop
of military officers, not only in very senior positions, but also the
mid-grades. As we know, the mid-grades are the raw material that feeds the
selection process for Flag Officers.
As we also know, some of those mid-grade officers ”ain’t
bein’ raised right,” as quipped by more than a couple Command
Sergeants Major I’ve had the privilege of being associated with. I have written
about one mid-grade in particular, LTC(R) Alexander Vindman, a low-level
staffer on the National Security Council, who evidently thought that he, not
the sitting president, set foreign military policy for these United States.
Read: Opinion: The Rot Is Deep (Part I)
Flag officers are just as guilty, putting their noses into
politics and doing so most inappropriately.
Read: Opinion: Senior Defense Officials, Both Present And Past,
Need To Stay The Hell Out Of This Election
Our military is sworn to obey the legal orders of the
duly-constituted, civilian chain-of-command. That policy stems from the
constitutional charge given to the president, who is specifically named, Commander
in Chief of the armed forces. That’s a good thing. However, there is
another piece of this that we rarely see (unless, of course, it’s to embarrass
a Republican president) which is a public disagreement between a DOD official
and a sitting president.
There is a proper method for a military member or civilian
leader in the Defense Department, to disagree with the president. That rule is
pretty simple. Two choices: Salute and execute the order, or resign. In his
first days in the seat, SECDEF Austin has failed this test. What is so
egregious is that he is actively supporting a presidential decision that he
knows, or should know is flat-out wrong.
In one of his very first official acts, following the
direction of an illegitimate president (IPOTUS), Austin published a memo
directing the Department of Defense to comply with his (IPOTUS’) directive
mandating ”to ensure individuals who identify as transgender are
eligible to enter and serve in their self-identified gender.”
Read: Statement by Secretary of Defense
Lloyd J. Austin III on Transgender Service in the Military
Once again, under the guise of political correctness, a
senior military officer albeit retired, has chosen the easier (politically
expedient) wrong, over the harder right. Let’s unpack some of this fraud,
waste, and abuse of taxpayer resources.
This revised policy will also ensure all medically-necessary
transition related care authorized by law is available to all Service members
and will re-examine all cases of transgender Service members that may be in
some form of adverse administrative proceedings.
This is one of the “no-brainers” in this whole foolish,
political event. What the IPOTUS and his new lapdog are signing us taxpayers up
for are increased, military medical costs, costs that will result in absolutely
no benefit whatsoever to the fighting force.
Moreover, such medical procedures mean that the service
member will require ongoing treatment for the rest of his or her life. That means
that for a goodly portion of his/her career, he/she will be non-deployable. We
always have a certain number of service members who are in a non-deployable
status. Why are we making a decision that we know damned right well, will add
to that number? What is the possible benefit? More from the SECDEF (emphasis
mine)
The United States Armed Forces are in the business of
defending our fellow citizens from our enemies, foreign and domestic. I believe we accomplish that mission
more effectively when we represent all our fellow citizens.
Really? Says who? Please show me any study, any metric that
says demographics that mirror society, inherent or made up, relate to Combat
Effectiveness. More on that further down.
I also believe we should avail ourselves of the best
possible talent in our population, regardless of gender identity. We would be
rendering ourselves less fit to the task if we excluded from our ranks people
who meet our standards and who have the skills and the devotion to serve in
uniform.
Absolutely false to fact. These United States aren’t the
State of Israel in 1948, surrounded by enemies on all sides and needing every
bit of manpower available…needing any human being who can fog a mirror. We
certainly don’t need anyone whose mental/emotional software is not aligning
with his/her OEM hardware. Put bluntly, if you don’t believe you are the same
sex (and it’s “sex,” not ”gender,” boys and
girls) as your issued equipment says you are, then you are inherently
unqualified to be in the business I spent 37 years in. You. Have. A. Disorder.
The treatment for that disorder isn’t cutting parts off or sewing them on…especially
at taxpayer expense. See a shrink…on your own dime.
This is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing to
do.
This is the part that really bothers me. It begins with what
the duties become at Austin’s level. There’s an old military adage, ”Colonels
and below, study Tactics; Generals study Logistics.” At Secretary
Austin’s level, the logistics become strategic, from emplacement of military
bases to the proper mix of ground, air, and naval (and of course, Army Rangers,
which we all know, are a force in and of themselves).
Manning the force is also a series of strategic logistical
decisions. Every additional person brought on board has a number of effects,
most of them involving logistical and monetary effects. These include some that
are readily apparent: housing, pay, uniforms, and equipment. Some, not so
visible: pensions, medical, post-service disability. These are what are known
as the Cost Factors for any personnel decision.
The cost factors are, in most cases, easily determined. In
the case of recruiting and retaining sexually- disordered folks, as has now
been directed, we are definitely buying into increased medical costs. However,
in the age of limited budgets, redirection of medical funds that would normally
go to treat normal military members would instead be diverted to treat what
folks in my generation called self-inflicted wounds, wounds
actually inflicted via taxpayer funds.
Those are just a couple of the costs. We won’t get into
others that are more ephemeral, such as diminished morale in units where these
folks are assigned, but not around to carry their fair share of the load due to
medical issues.
Now, let’s chat a bit about the benefits. Short version,
aside from gaining some Democrat votes at the margins, much like the issues of
homosexuals and females in close combat units, I have yet to identify any
benefit that could result from this decision. Not a single one. I have had
discussions with more than a few senior Flag Officers on all three of these
subjects and not one has any real answers.
Here is where I start the discussion. The mission of the
military forces of these United States is to kill people and break things in
support of the lawful orders of the National Command Authority, as determined
by Congressional mandate (war declaration). In my discussions with those senior
officers regarding these policies, I ask two questions:
How will this policy or decision:
1. Increase Lethality, Cost Effectiveness, Survivability,
Combat Effectiveness, Logistical Sustainability, Readiness, Deterrence or any
other metric by which we assess our military ability to kill people and break
things on behalf of the National Command Authority and if so;
2. At what cost?
To date, not one senior officer or DOD civilian, or even a
NEOCON, NRO pundit has been able to answer any of those questions. The closest
was a 4-Star General, who told me that it was important to keep women in
Special Operations Units so we could retain (my words here) the ability
to grope Arab females. Which is something we managed to triumph
without in the desert combat theaters in both World War I & II. In short,
very high cost and no benefit.
The same obtains for this latest sop to the extreme left.
Secretary Austin should know better. This should have been a deal-breaker for
him when offered the job. This is going to come with a very high cost and
absolutely no benefit to our Armed Forces. Even worse, he hasn’t even been in
the seat for a week. What’s next?
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‘It’s Who I Am’ Trump Impeachment Lawyer Speaks Out
Last week Trump’s
impeachment defense attorney was revealed to be none other than Karl “Butch”
Bowers. While many people and businesses broke their relationship with Trump
after the Capitol riot in attempts to distance themselves from the former
president Bowers never questioned for a second if he would accept the job and
scrutiny that will come with it. In a statement to The Washington Post Bowers
confidently said, “It’s who I am. It’s what I do. It’s all about the rule of
law in the Constitution.” [Related: Trump Impeachment Lawyer Announced]
And:
Newt also speaks out:
President Biden’s Flimsy Coalition and the Left’s Piñata Party
By Newt Gingrich
There seems to be a
continued, deep split between the message of unity the President Joe Biden
administration would like us to hear – and what its actions are communicating.
Again, President Biden’s
inaugural address was great. It hit the right themes of bringing people
together as Americans. But he promptly walked up to the White House and created
dissonance with his first volley of clearly partisan left-wing executive
orders.
Much of his first week
has been filled with the consequences of these divisive orders.
Divisions are beginning
to show over President Biden’s decision to kill the Keystone XL oil pipeline,
which was meant to carry oil from Canada to the US. These divisions aren’t
strictly partisan. President Biden is quickly learning it will be tough to
balance the wants of the radical left and those of more traditional
working-class Democrats.
Of course, Biden
campaigned on killing Keystone XL (when he was talking to his environmentalist
constituents) and was less aggressive in attacking fossil fuels (when he was
talking to people in oil and natural gas states).
So, in his first week, President Biden continued
to talk about unity but delivered purely partisan actions. This is because when
he says “unity” he really means “conformity.” The left-wing is not
interested in listening to or compromising with the more than 74 million people
who voted for President Donald Trump. The left just wants them to step in line
or be ignored.
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