Amici,
Something
said last night got me into research a bit of history that I'm
surprised I don't remember very well. Something Obama, who famously
said, "Elections have consequences," did. In the context of recent
events, it is important to bring it up.
Tucker
Carlson is a conservative commentator on Fox News, and I have friends
who think he goes a bit extreme, and I do indeed get the sense he
sometimes goes too far, as he did when the Coronavirus was first
appearing on the international scene. Carlson was in scream mode, then.
He was a Cassandra, then, although later he quickly enough took
the opposite position as evidence mounted that it was a hoax -- "hoax"
in the sense that it was in no way the all-conquering, millions-killing
disease it was initially cranked up to be, requiring us to shutter the
Western World economically.
Now
Tucker is on the meme (or scream) that Black Lives Matter is about to
take over the U.S., by taking over the Democrat Party and giving us Joe
Biden as a puppet president and Keith Ellison as Attorney General --
he's an execrable American Muslim and former Congressman -- whom George
Soros' money installed as Attorney General of Minnesota (legal experts
are saying already that Ellison is making a mess of the prosecution of
the cop that killed George Floyd, and Floyd might easily get off). It is
certain that the Democrats will try to "steal" the election in November
in divers ways, and it is possible they might succeed -- the Dems are
excellent at stealing votes, that's well-documented -- though tensions
are so high that if they'd do so, the U.S. would descend into a true
shooting Civil War.
They're already taking over sections of Seattle. Antifa is: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/06/09/antifa-militants-seize-seattle-police-hq-set-up-autonomous-zone-n512621
However,
what Carlson didn't mention, and as I've noted before, within the
larger African-American community, Black Lives Matter (BLM) is in an
uneasy partnership with AME (i.e. "African-Methodist-Episcopal", the
long-established Black Civil Rights mafia that controls a good part of
the Democrat Party), and even now, evidence is quickly mounting that
"blowback" is coming against the extremist BLM people. The AME people
are big in the Democrat Party and regularly ensure Democrats get the
Black vote. But BLM is just too extreme for them. Also, were they to
just surrender to the BLM, the AME factin would lose their cachet of
power -- something they definitely don't want.
This article: https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/09/the-crowd-that-booed-jacob-frey-is-on-the-cusp-of-controlling-the-democratic-party/
gives a good description of the stark issues facing the standard
Democrat Party bigshots. Since the 2018 election (when the Dems took
control of the House of Representatives), standard Democrats have so far
let the Left (as in Sandy Ocasio, a.k.a. "AOC") run the Democrat show.
For example, the past couple of years have seen countless articles
discussing how "AOC" has upstaged and to some extent bossed Nancy Pelosi
around. The Leftist tail is wagging the Democrat dog, to put it that
way.
But are mainstream
(i.e., mildly Left-of-center) Democrats willing to "go there"? It is far
more likely that the BLM and the rioters and the insane rhetoric will
turn off far, far more Democrat votes (Black, White, Latino, Asian, Gay)
than it will attract. Also, over the summer, indictments not only of
radical Leftists (Antifa) but the Deep State plotters will be filed. (Or
so one hopes.) It will be interesting. And as for "defunding the
police", Chicago has suffered it worse night for murder, 18 murders in
24 hours. https://disrn.com/news/chicago-suffers-deadliest-day-in-60-years-with-18-murders-in-24-hours
I
can't image many people really voting "Democrat" this Fall. BTW, the
mayor of Chicago is begging businesses to stay, as they get prepared to
leave, like Walmart. But why would anyone in any of these cities? In
Minneapolis, the same story. https://www.startribune.com/manufacturer-that-burned-during-mpls-riots-plans-to-move-out-of-the-city/571104922/
An excerpt:
A Minneapolis manufacturing company has decided to leave the city, with the company's owner saying he can't trust public officials who allowed his plant to burn during the recent riots. The move will cost the city about 50 jobs."They don't care about my business," said Kris Wyrobek, president and owner of 7-Sigma Inc., which has operated since 1987 at 2843 26th Av. in south Minneapolis. "They didn't protect our people. We were all on our own."Wyrobek said the plant, which usually operates until 11 p.m., shut down about four hours early on the first night of the riots because he wanted to keep his workers out of harm's way. He said a production supervisor and a maintenance worker who live in the neighborhood became alarmed when fire broke out at the $30 million Midtown Corner affordable housing apartment complex that was under construction next door."The fire engine was just sitting there," Wyrobek said, "but they wouldn't do anything."Two days after the riots began, Gov. Tim Walz described the city's response as an "abject failure." Walz ordered the National Guard into Minneapolis to restore order at the request of Mayor Jacob Frey. The violence sometimes overshadowed peaceful protests over the death last month of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.Frey said Monday that he was unaware of 7-Sigma's decision to move, and he declined to say whether the company's decision reflects the challenges facing city leaders as they try to convince business owners to rebuild in Minneapolis. Many business owners have criticized the city, saying their pleas for help went unanswered.
Ron again:
Fantasy is fun, but Reality is a beast.
However,
last night Carlson asked an excellent question: "Why doesn't the Left
criticize the military any longer?" I hadn't noticed that. They don't.
Carlson said the Left/Democrats/Deep State had subdued the military.
Right now the Left is in full-scale war against the police, however, and
that's because they don't control them, but are aiming to. The
police won't actually be "defunded" but regular police will be replaced
by BLM-approved security forces, heavily Muslim and Sharia compliant,
especially in Minneapolis, which has a large Muslim population now.
As
for the military, this fiasco of the Sec of Defense ordering both
regular military and Nat. Guards to "stand down" during this past
weekend's riots is interesting to me. Extremely. In any coup d'état, you need to control the military, or a good portion of it.
In any event, Carlson's point is that the Left is critical of the police because they don't control them, but they control the military.
Look at Gen. James Mattis ridiculous critique of Trump, and there's a
host of others, like retired General John Kelly. There's a host of
others.
So I did a little research and found this article from October, 2013:
An excerpt
07:01 PM ET
10/29/2013
Defense: What the president (at that time, Obama) calls "my
military" is being cleansed of any officer suspected of disloyalty to or
disagreement with the administration on matters of policy or force structure,
leaving the compliant and fearful.
We recognize President Obama is the commander-in-chief
and that throughout history presidents from Lincoln to Truman have seen fit to
remove military commanders they view as inadequate or insubordinate. Turnover
in the military ranks is normal, and in these times of sequestration and budget
cuts the numbers are expected to tick up as force levels shrink and missions
change.
Yet what has happened to our officer corps since
President Obama took office is viewed in many quarters as unprecedented,
baffling and even harmful to our national security posture. We have commented
on some of the higher profile cases, such as Gen. Carter Ham. He was relieved
as head of U.S. Africa Command after only a year and a half because he
disagreed with orders not to mount a rescue mission in response to the Sept.
11, 2012, attack in Benghazi.
Rear Adm. Chuck Gaouette, commander of the John C.
Stennis Carrier Strike Group, was relieved in October 2012 for disobeying
orders when he sent his group on Sept. 11 to "assist and provide
intelligence for" military forces ordered into action by Gen. Ham.
Other removals include the sacking of two nuclear
commanders in a single week — Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, head of the 20th Air
Force, responsible for the three wings that maintain control of the 450
intercontinental ballistic missiles, and Vice Adm. Tim Giardina, the No. 2
officer at U.S. Strategic Command.
From Breitbart.com's Facebook page comes a list of at
least 197 officers that have been relieved of duty by President Obama for a
laundry list of reasons and sometimes with no reason given. Stated grounds
range from "leaving blast doors on nukes open" to "loss of
confidence in command ability" to "mishandling of funds" to
"inappropriate relationships" to "gambling with counterfeit
chips" to "inappropriate behavior" to "low morale in troops
commanded."
Nine senior commanding generals have been fired by the
Obama administration this year, leading to speculation by active and retired
members of the military that a purge of its commanders is under way.
Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, an outspoken
critic of the Obama administration, notes how the White House fails to take
action or investigate its own officials but finds it easy to fire military
commanders "who have given their lives for their country." Vallely thinks
he knows why this purge is happening.
"Obama will not purge a civilian or political
appointee because they have bought into Obama's ideology," Vallely said.
"The White House protects their own. That's why they stalled on the
investigation into Fast and Furious, Benghazi and ObamaCare. He's intentionally
weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower,
and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged."
Another senior retired general told TheBlaze on the
condition of anonymity, because he still provide services to the government and
fears possible retribution, that "they're using the opportunity of the
shrinkage of the military to get rid of people that don't agree with them or do
not toe the party line. Remember, as (former White House chief of staff) Rahm
Emanuel said, never waste a crisis."
For President Obama, the military of a once-feared
superpower is an anachronistic vestige of an America whose exceptionalism and
world leadership require repeated apologies. It must be gutted and
fundamentally transformed into a force wearing gender-neutral headgear only
useful for holding the presidential umbrella when it rains. It is to be
"his" military and used only for "his" purposes.
An Préachán
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