A statement made by Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley defending the teaching Critical Race Theory to West Point cadets has gained some attention. However, the comments Milley made today actually reconcile several years of CTH watching Milley operate and having puzzling questions.
Remember, General Milley did some really odd things as Joint Chiefs Chairman under President Trump:
(1) Milley never removed Lt. Col Alexander Vindman from his White House post after the underling compromised his leadership position. The pentagon left Vindman on assignment to the NSC even after Vindman attempted to take-down President Trump.
(2) Milley was then slow to react to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer threatening President Trump; attempting to extort him into inaction over the disciplinary plans against the SEAL commando, Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher. And perhaps worst of all…
(3) Joint Chief Chairman Milley, SoS Mike Pompeo traveled to Mar-a-Lago in December 2019, where they informed President Trump of military strikes in Syria and Iraq *after* they took place. [Background Here] [Background Here]. President Trump made Esper, Milley and Pompeo hold a press conference without Trump supporting them; then President Trump remained silent on the issue for days.
It seemed like CTH was alone noticing the issues with the Pentagon and suspicions of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley. However, a few days after the Mar-a-Lago incident Col Douglas Macgregor expressed his own suspicions about the U.S. military attack in Iraq and Syria that paralleled our gut reaction. Macgregor stated he believed President Trump was being intentionally and “skillfully, misinformed”.
There were valid reasons for suspicion around General Milley and the entire Pentagon apparatus.
Factually, President Trump’s strategic approach toward foreign threats and foreign intervention (through the use of geopolitical economic pressure) was a major paradigm shift that removed the Defense Department from a primary role and placed them back into a more appropriate ‘contingency’ role, when it came to foreign policy and national security.
It was obvious from the outset of the Trump administration the Pentagon did not like that position.
Before explaining more, let us watch General Milley today outline his worldview on internal domestic politics. Note how Milley connects the teaching of Critical Race Theory to his view that people attempted to “assault” the DC Capitol and “overturn the constitution of the United States“. Watch this carefully because in many ways he is saying the quiet thing out loud:
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In the big picture it was not difficult to figure out why the Pentagon would be opposed to Trump. During the Trump campaign and early administration President Trump’s expressed foreign policy was viewed by NATO alliance members as a threat. President Trump dared to tell them their “cold war mentality” was outdated. Heck, the NATO members were simultaneously purchasing energy from Russia at the same time they were demanding the U.S. military protect them from any Russian aggression.
The same type of common sense perspective that startled the NATO alliance members applied internally to the U.S. military.
President Trump’s preferred use of economic warfare made the Pentagon’s role diminished. Instead of punching North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, President Trump hit the checkbook of Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping (tariffs etc.) and then opened diplomatic discussions with the DPRK Chairman. Toward the threat from North Korea the primary military response became the contingency plan; President Trump engaged in economic leverage, not military…. and it worked.
As a consequence the value of James Mattis was replaced by the effectiveness of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. Joint Chief’s Milley was not in the primary planning room; Milley was replaced by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (until he’s needed).
In the Trump era the President was telling the Pentagon where and when to position; and then asked them for ‘contingency’ preparation. Decades of Pentagon-centric foreign policy was lessened by an entirely new geopolitical approach based on an economic strategy. This was, in essence, the Trump Doctrine.
Take away power, or worse yet, stop using military power, and the leaders within the system start to sense their institution becoming functionally obsolescent. Overlay this military fear with pre-existing ideological differences and the situation gets worse.
Unfortunately, like all other issues in the era of hyper-polarization, normally liberal democrats would be alarmed about military leadership going rogue with their own agenda. However, as long as that agenda was anti-Trump, the political-left with a totalitarian outlook are now okay with it.
In 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden was openly asking the U.S. military to initiate a coup against President Trump. The corporate media didn’t bat an eyelash… The traditional checks-and-balances, things that normally keep us stable, started getting very sketchy within the military; this has only gotten worse in the past year.
Remember,… the impeachment effort was only a “soft-coup” until the uniformed military showed up. Yet these same Pentagon leaders have the nerve now to call a protest in DC, likely manipulated by the FBI, an insurrection “intended to overturn the constitution of the United States of America.” The one thing these leftist ideologues are good at is projection.
“Tell me again how we should “back the blue”, as we watch parents arrested at school board meetings. Tell me again that most FBI agents are good & legitimate, while we watch 15 agents investigate a garage pull-down cord while ‘known wolfes’ roam free. Tell me again. Please, keep telling me…. and when the order comes down to go door to door to collect citizens’ firearms, or to arrest citizens for wrong thoughts, our local police and military will follow orders”… and I will say “tell me again”, in handcuffs.
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Sundance’s picture of Gen PC cannot be more appropriate. There’s no way I’d serve in an outfit dominated by PC ideology. He’s been standoffish (in fact, beyond standoffish) throughout Trump’s presidency which made me suspicious of him. Now that the government has been overtaken by ideological kooks, he’s all in!
He’s well read! Are you impressed?
”Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” Romans 1:22, KJV
“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” Romans 1:23, KJV
Excellent verse which applies to all the wealthy, politicians,and their ilk etc who proclaim themselves “elite”
When we resume control of the Whitehouse in 24, President Trump must gut the Joint Military Chiefs of Staff, the Justice Department , the FBI and the CIA ( if not totally eliminate it) otherwise they will once again make his life a living hell .
He must start now building his cabinet and Whitehouse staff with staunch and uncompromising loyalists.
It will be our last chance .
I don’t think we will make it to 2024.
It seems you may be right, at least if a person is honest with oneself and God. Everything is broken now, everything. It’s plain to see.
Maybe this is the way God planned it – so that the people would see that we are up against an evil, powerful machine and that we cannot get ourselves out of this mess without His help. We, who are called by His name, must turn back to God, and rely solely on Him. Our country has strayed far from God and, much to our shame, most of the young people have not been raised in a God-believing home and know nothing about Him.
Trump did not clean house before despite many, many places saying so, including here. What makes you think he will do it if he wins again? His greatest failure was not following his own advice regarding personnel. May I remind you he hired Omarossa for a WH job.
Trump is not the answer for the future. He was the catalyst.
Maybe Trump’s real goal was to be the catalyst to wake the country up to how infiltrated it is by the CCP and those wanting to destroy it. Why else would a man who has everything run for President? He sure as hell didn’t need to castigation!
Here’s why I’m not impressed: Critical thinkers can and should read some of those works and put them in historical and factual context. Only the weak-minded uncynically adopt their toxic concepts. He fails to balance the leftist tripe with a familiarity of The Wealth of Nations, The Road to Surfdom, the Declaration, or the very Constitution he swore (and dishonorably violated) an oath to protect and defend.
He, Esper, and Pompeo should have been at least fired as soon as they dropped bombs without Trump’s consent. Miley, especially, knows very well he should not have accepted his post with the intention to act seditiously. He belongs in the brig. That Trump consistently surrounded himself with traitors still concerns me.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer
Close enough to knife you in the back?
I think Trump took a very hands off approach in staffing relying on others he trusted to fill slots. Unfortunately he trusted the wrong people and we are paying for it. Even in the last year to last days Trump had to know Cipollone and Mark Meadows were corrupt and did nothing.
You have no idea how little control the president has in staffing cabinet…
NONE.
It is missing a few “accouterments”…………….nose piercing and rouge make up………………………….he probably has nipple rings, we just can’t see them.
Mark Milly is a self serving Chinese puppet, bought and paid for like his other CCP nesting jar friends, Barrac Obagman, and Yellow Joe Sliden.
This explains the words uttered by the incoming 1/8th Infantry Battalion Commander at the Ft Carson (4th Infantry Division) during the Change of Command ceremony, a week ago.
It is required spew and attitude, if one wants to assume command at any level in the US Military.
They are investigating the LTC making the speech at Ft Carson and will likely relieve him for no confidence in his ability to command, but the General Officers demanding the SJW spew…not so much.
I can’t find anything about this. You’ll need to be more specific.
The police AND military are NOT our ally. They are in place strictly to protect the ruling elite and will obey their commands. Have no doubt, these people would gladly nuke American citizens if their masters ordered them to.
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Which facts are those?
The very first professional police didn’t come into existence until NYC created the first professional police department in 1820. Prior to that they had Watchmen Militias that were controlled by a Watchman Committee of directly elected citizens and worked with the sheriff to enforce the law and deter crime.
The history of watchmen militias goes back to 1609 and Virginia’s Colonial Charter. The king wasn’t willing to send troops or constables to protect the colonists. His solution was to give them the right to keep and bear arms then to allow the creation of elected sheriffs. The colonists formed local watchmen militias and committees for oversight. It worked rather well up until the people in the 19th century abrogated their responsibility for defending themselves and property to an unelected special government militia. If you had read the works of the founding fathers they were against both standing armies and government special militias.
Finally, your argument is a fallacy as it’s an appeal to the poster must do something or they’re irrelevant. They do something every day to protect themselves and ensure their rights/lives are secure from all enemies. Whatever they’re doing must be working since they’re here.
“The very first professional police didn’t come into existence until NYC created the first professional police department in 1820.”
Reading recent Treehouse articles about police powers prompted me to reread excerpts from Teddy Roosevelt’s efforts to address Tammany Hall and police corruption in NYC in 1895.
To clean up the police it was first necessary to address Democrat party political corruption.
The lesson still stands.
Both parties had corruption in them. I give you the Teapot Dome scandal which was under Harding’s administration and he was a Republican. There was the matter of the Whiskey Ring under Grant’s administration. You get the point. Corruption has always been part and parcel of the US federal government.
We don’t need to clean up the police. We need to abolish it and bring back the watchmen militias. 😉
Do you believe that the Police/Military are going to protect your constitutional rights over the objection of the government? You’re naive if you do.
Audit the Audit YouTube channel will quickly disabuse people of the notion the police will protect your rights. You see police and sheriffs all over the country breaking laws and violating rights left and right with zero accountability taken against them. The so-called good cops protect the ones that break the law. Cops are their own side and we’re finding out about it via their bodycam or private citizens recording their actions.
Sorry hardcore but Dzufast has been proven correct. You have woefully few examples to contradict him. I do not trust the “blue” for a second. Just read the reports right here and update your loyalty.
To subvert the Military does not require controlling the entire 2.5 million rank and file of the Active, Reserve and National Guard Force.
It only requires controlling personnel over the rank of E-7 and above, less than 10% of the total. The promotions, assignments and career assessment of those ranks is centralized at DoD and DoD Department Levels. These Officers and NCO’s control the enlistment of, promotions and careers of all the other ranks as well as their juniors in the group E-7 and above.
Plus, General Officers are appointed by Congress.
Yes. Look what has happened in Turkey the last 20 years.
Don’t they serve at the pleasure of the president?
Only after being appointed by Congress to the rank of General Officer.
Also, congress has these additional major levers of control over the military:
Control of the Budget
Line Item Control one the Budget
Limits of the current still intact War Powers Act
Congress sets the numerical limits of uniformed members in the armed forces.
The issue of “woke” is not that it is a cute phrase to hurl at the naive, but that it actually reveals an individual that rejects our culture, our laws, our birthright q civilized men, and our citizen-sovereignty in favor of an ideological commitment which itself merely signals tribal loyalty. This tribe is antithetical to America, to rule of law, to the rule of the people expressed through their representatives, etc. They also reject their own kin, God, and their heritage. This creates amoral monsters ready to do anything (recall their slogan “by any means necessary”) to advance in the Party, the organ that elevates them above others and absolves them of any moral accountability.
These are the oath breakers, the depraved, the betrayers, the soulless creatures without loyalty except to their own narcissism. They are grotesque historical anomalies of the worst of human potential. They have sacrificed their humanity on the altar of egotism and secured ruin. This man’s proper place is to be stripped of the uniform he has defiled, and given over to his own depraved soul. Let his grave be un-marked and his name stricken from the roles of our people.
Gun make it sting for the military to kill it’s citizens.
They make have nukes, that the fools would never use. They want our guns so they get no snake bites when they demand obedience.
One county must arrest someone committing treason now. The conversation must start now if we have state rights still or boxcart rights.
Like the FBI and CIA, only “team players” are allowed in the “executive suites.”
Flag Officers of all the armed services (including Generals) are NOT APPOINTED BY THE CONGRESS. They are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
This is the problem when so many readers get riled up – they spout all kinds of erroneous stuff as if it were “fact”. Imagine how much ink has been spilt today over completely false ideas that the contributors think they know. It must be mind-boggling.
Obviously the goal is to change who is willing to work for Smedley’s enforcers….
I would believe Col Douglas Macgregor over Milley any day of the week. And I have suspicions about Pompeo. Methinks he thinks very highly of himself and that he could become President of the United States. Sorry, DOA.
Its funny. I’m half that guy’s size and still think of him as a complete pussy.
That is what is missing! His pink pussy hat! Thank You!
Someone with the skills PLEASE turn that into a meme. Ridicule is deadly!
Sickening to watch these Pentagon Potentates. After supposedly defending the the United States of America and supposedly upholding the Constitution all throughout their careers, they then align with the very class of Communists, Totalitarian’s, and Dictators that they supposedly have been fighting against.
These are not men of Patriotism or Valor, they follow orders handed down from the political class, and they do what their told in order to keep a paycheck. They have sold their honor, they are simply mercenaries seeking their fortunes in the defense industry now. American generals being told what to do by globalist scum. General Patton must be turning in his grave, lets hope its because he’s being reincarnated again.
Well said!
Everybody knows a Top/Master Sgt, Gunny, or even a plain old Sgt are better strategists than the top brass. Those guys are the ones who fight, and their troops fight.
The best ones will leave. Where do they go? With us.
Now picture – my 1st Sgt, my Gunny, and a whole slew of non-NCOs, against Trans, wymyn, and non-NCOs battling against each other when ordered to go out and round us up.
Ladies and gentlymen, place yer wagers…
it is often said; ” A private plans for battle knowing he may die. A general plans for battle that he may lose.”
This is ridiculous talk. All these brave patriots are all about their paychecks and benefits. Americans are very clannish. The revolutionary spirit has been bred out of us long ago through media and academic brainwashing and waves of immigration, most of it from idiot woke Germany then the Third World. Look how cowed the sheeple were by riots and a pandemic. Obama’s civilian army is here and most people are helpless to stop it.
You lost me at “paychecks and benefits.”
speak only for yourself
So if logic applies, does Milley want to learn about “black rage”?…you know…with all the burning, looting, and murdering (BLM) by BLM and antifa last summer? Oh I forgot, those are just “ideas.” Sad fo see our military represented by this “man/zim/zer”
Excellent observation.
Perhaps it would benefit the General to temporarily remove his uniform, put on some civvies, and walk the streets of Chicago alone and unarmed for a few nights in July. He will discover all he needs to know about privilege. Then he’ll have something worthwhile to pass along to the troops.
I served under both these men (Gen Austin and Gen Milley). They are not weak or pussies. Sorry to tell you the truth.
I was once told by Gen Milley to shoot anyone who takes pictures of our FOB and has their face covered because they are enemy performing Recon. I then asked him, what if they don’t cover their face? He said, “then you can’t shoot them”.
This is the essence of the two-faced nature of these political generals. They are swamp creatures doing what they have to in order to ascend the ladder of power. They will say or do anything to please those in power. Unfortunately the oligarchs are all in on SJW and left politics. Gen Milley has said disparaging words about women in combat arms units. Why did he change his mind after decades in combat arms? Maybe it is because if you don’t toe the line, you end up like Gen Flynn! This is why they say and do what they do.
I dont believe hes a pussy either. But I believe 100% hes is a political operative based on his behaviour towards Trump and not towards Biden. Milley knows what attacks on government look like and he knows jan 6 is not what they look like. White Rage, ni those are the words of a man loyal to himself first then in the industry he wants to succeed in. No normal person uses white rage to describe anything. Hes performing for future employers. He watched DC burn for a whole summer based on “black rage”. Why is one color more palatable to him than another. 2024 I’m looking forward to him being fired and any lobbying he does ignored.
First you say they are not weak or pussies and then you describe how weak and pussified they are.
If one is a “yes” person, toes the line because something might get them, they are indeed weak pussies.
You tell ’em Charlotte. Anyone with the name of Anonymous is trolling us anyway.
That was then, this is now. He’s a pink pussy hat, plain and simple.
He is a coward who has violated his oath sold out his country. Burn in hell pussy.
Excellence again SD
This is the first major thing I’ve heard of that Pompeo has done that I’m really shaking my head over. I remember when he was CIA director supporting Trump’s tweets as not being a negative Internationally, but often helped to see were people stood.
I’ve posted this before, it’s Pompeo at the Reagan Nat. Defense Forum when he was CIA Director in a discussion with Leon Panetta. I can’t cue it to 30:40 but those next ten minutes have him give insight into what Trump was doing as President… much to Panetta’s disbelief.
I wonder who Pompeo has the goods on. He seems to be still supporting Trump unlike others in the Trump administration who have attacked PDJT.
But, here’s what makes me really wonder…. Pompeo isn’t being attacked majorly by the left for anything he’s said that supports Trump.
Do not trust Pompeo
He “seems” to be supporting Trump. If he didn’t, Trump’s supporters would have kicked him to the curb by now. And he knows he can’t get elected without us.
Panetta said he couldn’t imagine being COS to a Prez that tweets every morning…
So Leon, how would it feel being COS, or even SecDef, to a Prez that let his ambassador and three brave soldiers die in Libya, when he was nowhere to be found and you had to photoshop his too-small head and body into a chair in the Situation Room, to cover his ass??… While YOU FORBADE GEN HAMM TO SEND ANY HELP to your OWN AMBASSADOR, YOU FKING COWARD!
May your dreams in your cushy retirement home be haunted with the cries and blood and horror of those brave men you abandoned, and then lied about, then jailing an innocent Muslim for months.
And you’re complaining about a TWEET?!? Rot in Hell, asshole
Here in the Great South Land we have our own troubles; but I really fear for the United States. The Evil Empire has its head and shoulders out of the water.
Isn’t the military Restricted by “constitutional law” from any actions on US soil? Milley should be fired for simply insinuating that they should be involved. Reading about the enemy is fine but trying to understand domestic protests is not his job and he needs to keep his opinions to foreign threats.
Democrats laugh at “Constitutional Law”. They own the courts, own Roberts, and use the “law” only to bludgeon conservatives and Christians.
Laws are useless without enforcers, and all the enforcers get their checks from Democrats.
Specifically they subvert the meaning of language. They simply redefine words to authorize their vulgar bestiality. Like Nazis, or other criminals. Case in point; free speech has been re-defined to mean approved speech only. “Systemic racism” is a racism undetectable by actual facts but pervasive and highly illegal, but only for those politically opposed to the Party.
The military can and does act within the borders of the US. The only potential restrictions are limits concerning enforcement of civilian laws and arrest.
To name a few examples:
Support during natural disasters is acting within our border.
The military could patrol and enforce our national borders with deadly force, its called national defense for a reason.
The military be called up to occupy our capital i 2021 is acting within our borders.
The USAF or USANG interceptng an a Russian or Chinese recon flight is acting within our borders.
The National Guard quelling a riot, while in Federal Service, is acting within our borders.
I think you will find that the video excerpt was his reply to a Congressman’s direct question or statement. In other words, the General was not the one who chose the subject matter.
It was way too well-prepared to be a casual question… WAY too much.
Nice summary Sundance. Lafayette Park finally put me over the edge regarding Milley and Esper.
I fully support free speech, peaceful assembly and petition of government for redress of grievances. The violent BLM/Antifa attacks on the WH, attacks on elected representatives and their families, and burning and looting of DC during the summer of 2020 were not peaceful and amounted to violent insurrection.
In contrast, the January 6 protests at the Capital was not insurrection. The people went to a rally to voice their concern that government officials were deliberately certifying election results that most everyone knew were fraudulent. It now appears that government officials colluded with activist/government sponsored participants to cause trouble. National Guard forces were told not to come to DC despite warnings of violence. Someone in government told capital police to open the gates and allow people to enter the building. It seems that all of it to support a political narrative that the election fraud story was a lie.
If the AZ audit shows significant fraud at the ballot level, the counting machine level, the information transfer level, the fraud cover-up by government officials level, at a foreign government interference level, at an illegal manipulation of voter laws level, by perjured testimony to courts to hide election fraud level and willfully and knowingly certifying fraudulent election results; holy hell must be rained down upon the perpetrators. I don’t mean like a $200 fine and a wrist slap to an underling FBI attorney that changed evidence that was presented to the courts.
Remember when Milley repudiated his participation in Trumps walk to St. Johns Cathedral after DemocRat voters tried to burn it down? Remember when his former chief of staff General Kelly publicly praised Vindman for his insubordination?
A big reason I don’t identify as Conservative is because the typical Conservative worships police and military authority as if it was infallible and sacrosanct. The truth is that our police and military institutions are just as corrupt and even more dangerous as our political class.
When the dust settles on our current strife ridden nation these institutions will murder and imprison millions of innocent patriots in the name of globalism, racial justice, climate change and national unity.
Don’t let your children become cops and don’t let them join the military. They will be forced to murder the rest of us in the name of social justice or face a military kangaroo court that sends them to Leavenworth or a public lynching like Derek Chauvin got.
Constitutional conservative better describes many conservatives.
Seditious and insubordinate clowns like Milley, Mattis and Kelly stopped being soldiers a long time ago when they “took the ticket” to become military overlords. The military high command are mostly politicians in uniform. They should be treated accordingly.
I think Gen. Mattis and Admiral Gary Roughead got onto the Board of Directors of Theranos along with Kissinger, George Shultz, Sam Nunn, and William Perry just to create hype and governmental connections. Sen. Frist, M.D. was at least a surgeon. Theranos was a huge disaster. The book about their downfall “Bad Blood” by reporter John Carreyrou would make a great movie. Just one of many evil corporations run by selfish and greedy wunderkind that spawned from Silicon Valley. Sorta like Facebook and Google and Twitter. We need to continue to shine bright sunlight on the un-American denizens of these marxist (but super wealthy) companies to finally convince the average citizen to finally take notice. (Remember when liberal Hollywood since the 1970s had always cast corporations and the CIA as evil rogue institutions? Now the CIA and FBI are chock full of saints!!!
Accordingly would be treating them like the enemy soldiers they truly are; as during wartime.
Every one of those medals were awarded for the number of soldiers he sodomized. How did this scum bucket reach such a height in the military? This traitor should be imprisoned in Gitmo with his brothers in arms.
Just look at this eyes. He is clinically insane. This is someone with authority in our military. Imagine him running D-Day! He would have been helping the Nazis!
My grandmother had a Yiddish saying which translated as follows: “Shit floats to the top.” This is positive proof of that.
Gen. Milley is well-read (?) but he spews the nonsense (and gets it wrong) that blacks were considered “only three-quarters of a human being” – actually, it’s called the Three-fifths Compromise, not 3/4 and it was the only way that several slave States could be persuaded to join our new country. They wanted the political power of each Negro slave counting as a whole person for political and representation purposes, even though they were treated as chattel in the law and in daily life. From Wikipedia: “Even though enslaved people were denied voting rights, this gave Southern states a third more Representatives and a third more presidential electoral votes than if enslaved people had not been counted. Free Blacks were not subject to the compromise and counted as one full citizen for representation.”
When one starts one’s reasoning from faulty assumptions and faulty understandings, it is likely one will come to faulty conclusions too. And this is completely aside from his apparent willingness to prostitute himself as a military officer to follow whatever “woke” fad comes down the pike…
He can read but he can’t comprehend.
Wikipedia? Really? It is a communist/marxist rag.
The 3/5ths compromise was written during the Philadelphia Convention not when the states had to ratify it.
Now I’m going to disabuse you of your fairy tale over the south and north. The northern states held that slaves should not be counted as they were considered to be property. The south countered with that they were people as well as being property. They agreed to the 3/5th compromise because even then the north was rounding up freed blacks and selling them southward.
The entire thing was about representation and the fear that the north would become more populated than the south and they would get more seats in the House. Remember, according to the Constitution that all bills for taxation and spending originate in the House. The south rightly feared that the populous north would place tariffs on goods imported into and exported from the south. That happened twice. The first was the Tariff of Abominations of 1828 and the other was the Morrill Tariff. The south couldn’t outvote the north and were levied with taxes of 45% and 70% respectively. This is why in 1828 the south threatened secession and Pres. Jackson said you do and I’ll invade you. In 1860, they left because of the tariff not because of slavery. Lincoln’s own words from when he campaigned the two years prior and his first inaugural address declares unequivocally that he had no power to do anything about slavery and was fine with it. He did, however, threaten war over taxes.
His justification for a forever union is flawed as it ignores the US federal law titled Declaration of Independence, the writings of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, and the state ratification laws that declare if the federal government becomes tyrannical they can leave to become an independent nation once again.
If the blacks in the south had been counted as whole person the south would have been equal population wise and had the same number of seats that the north did. They were equal in the Senate.
I thought he was arrested at the Pentagon several weeks ago with the Gen in charge of the National Guard.
Where did you hear that?
Gen Smily is desperate for a starring role in “Return of Doctor Strangeglove!”
I’m a former police officer. It was many years ago. I’ve asked many of my friends who are former LEOs and their sons and current officers if they would or would have execute(d) an illegal order to perform a door to door disarming of the citizen population. The responses were not encouraging. Police personnel operate in a para-military context and by their nature such organizations demand a top down authoritarian culture. Most officers when given a direct order by a member of their top staff are not thinking about who they swore their oaths too, i.e., the constitution. They contemplate their standing in the department and then do what their commanders tell them.
This is not right but it’s a hard reality.
I think a large part of blue city v red country. I have had neighbors who are LEOs and I am skeptical they would fire on a crowd of their neighbors. I may well be wrong but remain for now skeptical.
A Military Junta is being birthed in this country as we type. Listening to this man made me seethe with anger that he would think that citizens do not have the right to protest in the halls of governance.
There was not the same hair on fire reaction to those screaming at the windows outside the chambers when the latest Supreme Court Justices were being flayed alive on television.
He is part of the Deep State, no doubt. He is also a “true believer”; or would have us believe his portrayal as one.
He is so far removed from the plebeians, the common man from which the bulk of the armed forces draw their recruits.
How far we have fallen. Or is it how much has been revealed of the disgusting seedy underbelly of the DC swamp.
The revelation is the key factor; many thanks to DJT for his key role in exposing that underbelly, otherwise the country would still be on autopilot.
General Milley is a general for what country? Venezuela, Cuba?
Our military ‘leaders’ have gone from craven, to self promoting PC, to toxic. ‘Extremism’ now includes ALL conservative (true) Christian denominations (‘intolerance based on gender identity). But heck, with the new zampolits OBiden is creating, who needs chaplins?
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2021/06/23/exclusive-army-recruiting-command-now-hunting-extremists-in-the-application-process-n1456597
It occurred to me that the Progressives might be hurrying to “woke up” the military because they really are afraid that they might come to Trump’s rescue if the election audits turn out as we hope. Maybe they’re trying to forestall that option.
The deep state establishment has done more than just infiltrate our government. It encompasses the entire District of Corruption and the other side of the river– The Pentagon. However, without the complicity of the individual states– they are powerless.
One thing we do know is this will come to a head very soon, most likely when the results of the Maricopa County election audit are reported. In the interim– prepare yourselves and continue to work with your local community government and school board, your county government and law enforcement, your state legislatures, governors and the state sanctioned militia.
The deep state establishment is no longer hiding itself. That behavior is a very strong indication that they are not afraid of “WE THE PEOPLE”. The truth is that they are very much afraid of us. Let us not let that fear go to waste!
Remember the quote, “The military is the only way”.
We are true and totally screwed.
My favorite part of this history is how Sec. Def. Chris Miller BYPASSED the Joint Chiefs with the creation of a new branch of the military –
“The Defense Department today started the process of elevating special operations forces on par with military departments per authority from the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, according to the acting defense secretary.
“Christopher C. Miller directed the assistant secretary of defense for special operations/low-intensity conflict to report directly to him. His announcement was made today to troops at Fort Bragg, N.C.”
And then all hell broke loose.
https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2419154/special-operations-leader-to-report-directly-to-acting-defense-secretary/
Miller and Adm. Mike Rogers, and Adm. Nakasone of the NSA signed that anti-Trump letter of concern a couple of months ago, so they fell in line.
I wonder if the Suleimani murder in December of 2019 wasn’t something kicked up by Pompeo and the Pentagon and then shoved on President Trump?
Defend the DoD.
Anyone who is in a command role that advocates ANY theory that divides the fighting force is a disgrace to the uniform he wears. Without unit cohesiveness whereby all races, colors and creeds have each others backs – then the effectiveness of the fighting force falls apart.
Milley should be busted down to a butter bar for his remarks and stand on “theories” that will destroy the American Military. He is not worthy of being called a General much less holding that rank.
The Unites States Military is our last line of defense against those who would do us harm – all he did here is weaken the nation with his BS!
Milly reminds me of the military buffoons who used to be portrayed on M*A*S*H.
I used to staff MAC flights in and out of Saigon during the war, got to talk with lots of young enlisted men. Also got to see the “lifers” in action. They were uniformly assholes. Hated by the men. Arrogant as hell, even to us.
Milley is betting on America going to the Democrats lock, stock and barrel…He’s the barrel end of the deal.
Tucker nailed it.
https://therightscoop.com/watch-tucker-roasts-gen-milley-for-defense-of-crt-reading-list/
Why would anyone defend an inherently racist nation? How can I trust the guy in the foxhole with me if he isn’t my mirror image, never mind that he is an American, the chairmen told us all that its your race, creed, or gender that defines you.
Great job comrade. By the way when was the last time the JCS warned the troops against sedition.
Viva La Revoluccion! Milley should be the first sacrificed to water the tree of liberty after the politicians are first serviced. Then the academy, the labor unions, and corporations.
What a disappointment this guy is! Out! Out! Out!. He will destroy what he thinks he is trying to protect.
One more point, I find it interesting that Miley is intent on educating himself about CRT and the “White Rage” of January 6th, especially when he spent all last summer with his head up his ass refusing to learn a damn thing about the anarchists who were burning our Cities to the ground… Again, Milley is nothing more then a Brookings clown…
Milli Vanilli was a fraud and so is General Milley Vanilli.
Oh I smell a meme there!
Instead of leading and preparing our military against foreign adversaries, this communist subversive is attacking the soldiers who volunteer to defend our Nation. Soon we’ll see a huge drop of volunteers and a military consisting of LGBTQZ freaks unprepared for war.
In other words, Milley is enabling the Chinese global conquest scenario. What he was put in that position to do.
Milley is a traitor to his nation.
President Trump’s error was not purging the government, top to bottom, of Obama appointees and earlier Swamp people. That error is the root of nearly all current pain and probably the fraudulent election.
We are reaping the whirlwind of treason and perversion.
Author of “Hillbilly Eligy” running for Senate in OH blasts this general.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-less-about-white-rage-more-about-not-losing-wars-hillbilly-elegy-author-rips-top-u-s-general
… he didn’t mention reading Mein Kampf… probably explains why he doesnt see all the Fascists sprouting out all over the place. I think he’d also benefit greatly reading about the DDR and the Stasi… would be an eye opener!
My father was a Naval career officer whose eyes filled with tears when the National Anthem was played and/or the flag raised. He was an honorable and patriotic man who, were he alive today, would now shed tears over the corruption and traitorous behavior of power hungry top brass who, at best, deserve the same degree of disrespect we now direct to the politicians who are driven by their craven desire for power and their greed.
Someone needs to investigate the reason why Nancy Pelosi chose Mark Milley out of every general in the military to have her seditious conversation of removing President Trump’s ability to order a nuclear strike against our enemies and why has not a transcript of her seditious conversation with Mark Milley been produced yet to the public.
When is the march in DC to have him court martialed??? If he were on the “right” he would already be gone.