[Breitbart] On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said that it was “ridiculous” to claim the U.S. military was too woke.
Anchor Dana Perino asked, “Also, just more back here focusing on some criticism in the U.S. military, that perhaps there’s too much of a leftward tilt, or a wokeness in our military when we face really determined adversaries, committed adversaries in China, Russia, Iran, who maybe don’t have those same kinds of pressures. How do you respond to those criticisms?”
Kirby said, “I think a lot of it, quite frankly, is driving a stake through a straw man here. This argument of wokeness in the military, I was in the military for 30 years, and I can tell you things like diversity and inclusion, that makes us a better military because it brings to the fore, in the decision-making, operational decision-making, that we conduct better ideas, more unique perspectives. Somebody else’s lived experiences which might actually make us smarter on the battlefield.” Bullshit Word Salad
He added, “So those kinds of arguments — I think are ridiculous. because we are stronger military because of our diversity, and because we represent all Americans, just like we defend all Americans.”
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Affirmative Action Generals. Think about that for a bit. Would you want your kid serving under a general who got there because if the color of their skin or their Gender?
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Every male member of my family on both paternal and maternal sides have served in the military. Covering all branches and every war. To include both sides of the civil war. Uncertain beyond that. That tradition has stopped with our children. Uncle Sam has squandered a dedicated resource, and I know that my family is not alone.
Viewing the US Army as a "conquering army" is the entire problem. It's not. It's for the defense of the USA. But - decades of neoconservatism and globalism have changed people's perceptions, especially in DC, and they do view the army's role as invading and conquering new territory. Much like Mussolini regarded his army.
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/\ The military policy of the Roman Republic was according to Edward Luttwak "Paranoid Preemptive Self-Defense". Form up the "Citizen Army" march out and smash someone then return home like Cincinnatus. When you become an Empire things get different...
'I think it's wrong - very wrong - for Ms. Psaki to suggest that violent crime in our country is of no concern or to just laugh it off,' FOP President Patrick Yoes said
'On Fox is Jeanine Pirro talking about soft-on-crime consequences, I mean, what does that even mean?,' the press secretary jeered
'There's an alternate universe on some coverage,' Psaki said. 'What's scary about it is a lot of people watch that
'People care more about what’s happening in their lives than what’s necessarily happening in every cable news chyron every day,' she said
Meanwhile, 28 police officers were shot in the U.S. in the month of January
Biden is traveling to New York City on Thursday to meet with Mayor Eric Adams on addressing gun crime in the city
URL provides the latest odds for each candidate's chances of winning the nod.
Either way, Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill. and ranking minority member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, will meet with Biden at White House today to go over potential nominees for the grilling seat.
Note, CNN likes the odds of:
DC Circuit Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson,
California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger,
and South Carolina US District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs.
BTW: Remember the media and Odd's makers got Kavanaugh's outcome wrong several times before the final round.
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...I'm going with Judge Childs - she's REP James Clyburn's personal pick. He's the next Congresscritter over from my district; and it's generally accepted that his efforts to save Biden in the 2020 SC primary may well have saved his campaign. If Biden wants to nominate somebody else, that's fine...but REP Clyburn is one of those fellas with a loooooooooooooooong memory.
Mike
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$5 on "Merica" Garland (post sex change and deep tanning).
[Breitbart] One of the most accurate pollsters of the last 20 years released a bombshell poll Monday that shows 50 percent of voters want to see His Fraudulency Joe Biden impeached. Only 45 percent say they disagree.
This includes 50 percent of black voters who want to see Biden impeached.
"Half of voters believe President Joe Biden should be impeached, and nearly as many think Republicans will do it if they win a congressional majority in the midterm elections," says Rasmussen Reports.
"A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and The National Pulse finds that 50% of Likely U.S. voters support the impeachment of Biden, including 33% who Strongly Support it."
Rasmussen adds, "Forty-five percent (45%) are opposed to impeaching Biden, including 33% who Strongly Oppose it."
Are you ready for this...? Thirty-four (34 percent) of Democrats support impeaching Biden, as do 50 percent (not a typo) of black voters.
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I can see it, if it looks like being tossed out is imminent, Joe will stride out to Marine-1, turn to the crowd and say, "You won't have Joe Biden sniffin' around anymore!"
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He'll resign and quickly be given a slew of $50 million sweetheart gigs as payback from tech oligarchs and financial giants.... prob'y MBNA plus some corrupt electric-vehicle BS companies for starters
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At his age, once Joe is gone, the oligarchs will have no use for him at all. They curry those in power, not those out. When they do "golden parachute" a leftist leaving gummint service, it's someone who can still make things happen with a phone call. That will not be Joe.
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As for Hunter, he knows too much about the wrong things. Without a Secret Service detail, he's not long for the world.
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/\ Mentally and morally "gone" a half-century ago.
A trial balloon to gauge voter reaction. But either way, he is not a sufficient scapegoat for the level of malfeasance demonstrated by President Biden’s administration and the federal bureaucracy around the Covid-19 pandemic.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Top White House officials have discussed ousting Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra
The Washington Post reported on Becerra's precarious position within the administration on Monday
Becerra, a former member of Congress and California's attorney general, has taken a backseat role in the coronavirus pandemic response
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Let the games begin. Long knives for Becerra (HHS). For Francis Collins (NIH). For Walensky (CDC). For Harris's staffers. And then... Mayorkas? Fauxi?? Da Ferret???
The researchers, led by Steve Hanke, the co-founder of The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, screened 18,590 studies to select the 24 papers used for the final analysis.
They concluded that lockdowns in Europe and the United States reduced the mortality from COVID-19 by 0.2 percent on average. Shelter-in-place orders reduced mortality by 2.9 percent on average, they found.
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An exhaustive analysis of the highly suspect magic numbers.
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The movers and shakers and doers,
With all of their dutiful wooers,
Elude a cruel fate
When they ooze through the grate
At an outfall of W.'s sewers.
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*shrug* Senator Manchin of West Virginia won’t go for it, so it’s toast.
[Breitbart] On Sunday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pushed for the federal government to allocate $1.5 billion to fund new gun control actions by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
The New York Post reported that Schumer wants to use the funds to get the ATF behind the Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns. The task force is ubiquitously aimed at getting illegal guns off the streets of New York.
Schumer commented his desire to get the ATF involved in the task force, saying, “The ABCs of beating back the scourge of gun violence depends on three federal letters: A, T, and F.”
He added, “I am pushing for $1.5 billion dollars in federal funds for the agency, so they can help with this work and do much more at the national level … Without the $1.5 billion … these plans will not have their full impact, and we need full impact to address the flow of these crime guns in our communities and across our state.”
Schumer’s $1.5 billion gun control push comes after NYPD officer Jason Rivera was shot and killed on January 21, 2022, and NYPD officer Wilbert Mora was shot and fatally wounded in the same attack. FOX News observed that the shooting suspect in the attack was “on probation for a 2003 felony narcotics conviction in New York City.”
New York has some of the most stringent gun controls in the nation, including a gun control that bars felons from possessing firearms.
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#1 meanwhile the Left has never given up supporting actual human sacrifice aka abortion.
It's the gangs Chuck, its the gangs. Those created by you and yours with your imbecilic Great Society programs that removed fathers in nuclear families and substituted the state. What was the out of wedlock births and crime rates in 1960 among the one community so much crime and violence originates today? /rhet question
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The New York Post reported that Schumer wants to use the funds to get the ATF behind the Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns. The task force is ubiquitously aimed at getting illegal guns off the streets of New York.
Sounds like a New York problem. Let New Yorkers deal with it.
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Chuck thinks he was elected to make decisions for the entire country. Lots of congresscritters think the same.
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Republican elected officials sought to distance themselves from a pledge President Donald Trump made over the weekend to pardon those charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol should he run for the White House again and win.
“I think it’s inappropriate,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a Trump ally, said Sunday in an interview with CBS’ “Face The Nation.”
Asked if he believed that Trump’s pledge to offer pardons to rioters could be dangerous, Graham said he did.
“I don’t want to reinforce that defiling the Capitol was okay. I don’t want to do anything that would make this more likely in the future,” the senator said. “I hope they go to jail and get the book thrown at them because they deserve it.”
Queerly enough, the Huffington Post does not share the video so that we can judge for ourselves. Nor does Gateway Pundit.
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You can basically look at any GOPe stooge who is all in for draconian treatment of the Jan. 6 people as less pandering to the center-left than they are terrified of the hard-left.
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Sen. Graham & Se. Collins.
Are you suggesting you are have decided they are guilty, or just running to the Camera for attention?
Care to discuss how the 6th'ers gained access to the Capital building?
Care to discuss the number of "KNOWN" Federal & ANTI-FA, SD's planted in the 6ther's crowd to lead and mislead?
Care to discuss why an UNARMED person is MURDERED and no charges brought or "official" investigative report released regarding the congressional employed shooter?
Care to discuss why the "victims" seem to have control of the Court proceedings, the bail/housing/treatment process, and isolation of the accused persons?
Yes, there are a lot more issues the Fair-minded citizens still want answers to. But it seems there is NO public access for your voters.
Should the Guilty serve time ... YES!
Should the trial be as PUBLIC as OJ's .... YES!
Should the Public get FULL Access to ALL evidence ...YES!
Should Congress get to meddle in the court/Legal process ... NO!
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