And So It Goes In Disney Land East
Allah Just Like Democrat Run Government!
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When I was in the military I did not want my Gunny Sargent to tell me what books to read. I simply wanted him to train me to do my job which was to kill adversaries, avoid being killed myself and to protect my buddies.
The military is not a social experiment. It is the best institution government has because it is autocratic, no nonsense and dedicated to protecting and defending our nation. Everything else government touches it ruins.
Progressives generally have their heads up their behinds and their theories seldom, if ever, work. They are, by and large, discontent dreamers and hypocrites.
Gen. Milley strikes me as a man who will say anything to keep his job and if he can't do better than when he recently testified before Congress he should submit his resignation and go play in a progressive sand box.
He was despicable and came across obsequious.
Like I wrote previously I felt like puking.
Semper Fi
Has the Military Gone ‘Woke’?
Gen. Milley too easily dismisses the risks to recruitment and morale.
By The Editorial Board
Army Gen. Mark Milley is getting kudos from the media for telling Congress that the military hasn’t become “woke,” even as its leadership urges soldiers and sailors to absorb woke ideas. The brass is trying to have it both ways on this issue, and that may ultimately undermine its core mission.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs told the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday that he “personally” found it “offensive” that Republicans have accused general officers of being “woke.” A pair of Florida Congressmen had been criticizing Gen. Milley over seminars at West Point about “white rage.” The Chief of Naval Operations has recommended “How to Be an Antiracist,” a book that proposes “future discrimination,” ostensibly against white people, on his professional reading list for sailors.
Gen. Milley has to be sensitive to the political realities in the White House, but he was clearly exercised about the criticism, saying it’s “important actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read.” He later added: “I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist.” So, he asked, “what is wrong” with “having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?”
Of course sailors and Marines should read widely. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday said similarly last week that he was merely exposing sailors to new ideas. But one can still wonder why “How to Be an Antiracist,” a book promoting sectarian racism, is on the reading list as “foundational” material on par with Jim Hornfischer’s classic naval histories.
The Navy’s reading list for sailors also includes “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” and “Sexual Minorities and Politics.” Contrary to Gen. Milley and the Navy brass, it is not an assault on open-mindedness to ask whether an institution that requires esprit de corps and a common purpose can function if sailors are primed to view white shipmates as potential “oppressors.”
The branches have argued that they’re merely trying to recruit talent amid declining interest in service. The services need to tap new talent pools, but surely that goal will fail if the military comes to be seen as a venue for some of the most contested cultural debates.
Many military families, a mainstay of our services, won’t keep sending their sons and daughters to enlist if they think the military is one more progressive hothouse like universities. Officers will leave if they believe their advancement depends more on woke bona fides than merit.
All of this comes as the military desperately needs more resources to confront significant threats, such as a rising China. The military is a rare American institution that commands bipartisan confidence. If that trust is torpedoed over the next few years, Gen. Milley and his colleagues will share responsibility for the long-term damage.
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Politicians love pork:
Republicans Fall for Biden’s Infrastructure ‘Bait and Switch’
Senator Lindsey Graham is usually a mild-mannered sort of fellow, not given to outbursts of anger. But Graham couldn’t contain himself after the White House announced a slight alteration in the bipartisan infrastructure bill recently agreed to by the White House and Senate that Graham said makes the GOP look like “f**king idiots.”
Indeed, it does. Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer informed the Republicans that if they want that infrastructure deal, they’re going to have to pass the rest of Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar agenda.
“I expect that in the coming months this summer, before the fiscal year is over, that we will have voted on this bill, the infrastructure bill, as well as voted on the budget resolution. But if only one comes to me, this is the only one that comes to me, I’m not signing it. It’s in tandem,” Biden told reporters at the White House.
It’s a classic bait and switch, with Republicans believing up to that moment that Biden would sign the infrastructure bill — expected to be passed sometime in July — and then Democrats could try to pass the rest of their agenda, including the $1.8 trillion American Families Act, using reconciliation.
Is it a betrayal if Republicans should have known better?
Most politicians at least wait a decent interval to pull a double cross. But Mrs. Pelosi and Mr. Biden are trying to prevent a revolt on the left. So they are now holding a bipartisan deal hostage to the left’s demands. This is political blackmail aimed at Democrats like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema who are part of the bipartisan Senate Gang of 10: Unless they sign on to all of the progressive tax-and-spend agenda, they won’t get their bipartisan deal. And Mr. Biden and progressives will blame them for the failure.
This is remarkable bad faith even for Washington. We’ll have more to say about the details of the bipartisan deal as they emerge. But Thursday’s comments make clear this exercise isn’t bipartisan at all. The Pelosi-Biden political goal is to use this Senate deal as leverage to jam through the rest of their progressive wish list.
This has been extremely well played by Biden and has well and truly trapped Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. They have staked their electoral fortunes on the notion of “bipartisanship,” angering their colleagues and enraging the radical left. Now they’ll be forced to side with their radical compatriots if they want their little bipartisan victory.
Does it matter that Biden negotiated in bad faith?
“They have my word,” Biden said. “I’ll stick with what we’ve proposed, and they’ve given me their word as well.” He earlier claimed, “A lot of us go back a long way, where we’re used to doing one thing — give each other our word, and that’s the end.”
Except, in this case, it wasn’t “the end.” Biden’s bad faith was made possible because Republicans didn’t get his ironclad commitment to sign the bipartisan bill regardless of what happened to reconciliation. It must have slipped their mind.
The question is why Senate Republicans would sign on to this deal when they are being told to their faces they’ll be double-crossed. Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell expressed appropriate doubt due to the bait and switch late Thursday. Some Republicans hope the bipartisan deal will make it harder to pass a reconciliation bill by taking away the popular infrastructure bits. But unless Republicans know that Mr. Manchin or other Democrats won’t support a Pelosi reconciliation bill, that hope appears to have died on Thursday.
If Manchin and Sinema stick to their guns and refuse to vote for a reconciliation bill, they won’t get their bipartisan deal either. If Republicans kill the bipartisan deal, Democrats will have a political opening a mile wide. Biden could claim he tried to be bipartisan but the mean old Republicans would rather obstruct him and stand in the way of all these goodies the government wants to give you. They’re free, ya know.
The GOP just got snookered. And it’s their own fault.
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