Comments on: Is Trump “politicizing” the military? https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/22/is-trump-politicizing-the-military/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:16:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: art deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/22/is-trump-politicizing-the-military/#comment-2789870 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:16:27 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140237#comment-2789870 In various and sundry venues, what you might call ‘professional’ recruitment and promotion policies (i.e. those which attempt to assess performance in accomplishing an organization’s facial mission) generate organizations dominated by people who do not share the attitudes of creatures like Susan Rice and Barack Obama. So, the object is to condition recruitment, promotion, and retention on what you might call your ‘social credit score’. That is, almost everywhere, irrelevant to facial missions, so the effect is to adulterate the mission so that priority is given to building a patronage mill run by people like Susan Rice and Barack Obama.
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Please note that one effect of this is that as soon as people like Susan Rice and Barack Obama are a critical mass in an organization, there will be an incremental purge of managers, first-line supervisors, and the fancy professions of anyone who can be identified as someone antagonistic to the use of ‘social credit scores’ in hiring, promotion, and retention and anyone antagonistic to using the activities of the marketing department and corporate communications to promote regime ideology. Market discipline can still influence these companies, but it does not have a pro-active effect on what they do. (Michael Medved has maintained for a generation that motion picture studios demonstrate a remarkable willingness to behave in ways that any observer can predict will cost them money).

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/22/is-trump-politicizing-the-military/#comment-2789869 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:37:29 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140237#comment-2789869 Oops,
should be “from the man who confidently predicted Kamala Harris’s victory in November”

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/22/is-trump-politicizing-the-military/#comment-2789868 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:24:53 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140237#comment-2789868 Related, alas:
“Omidyar: The Shady Anti-Trump Billionaire”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2025/02/24/omidyar-the-shady-anti-trump-billionaire/

Introductory grafs:

President Trump is under attack.

As I write this, a coalition of influential organizations and individuals is mobilizing to sabotage his second term in office. They are using a multi-pronged strategy of media manipulation and bureaucratic resistance to stall, discredit, and obstruct his presidency at every turn.

Let’s hope the good guys can overcome these gangsters…

+ Bonus
(from the man who confidently Kamala Harris’s victory in November):
“James Carville: GOP to ‘Collapse’ in 30 Days”—
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/james-carville-gop-donald-trump/2025/02/23/id/1200190/

To be sure, he might just know something that we don’t (see the first link, above).

]]> By: TJ https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/22/is-trump-politicizing-the-military/#comment-2789862 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:44:47 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140237#comment-2789862 If this story is correct — posted online very late Saturday night — then this thread’s theme takes on new if more serious and sinister dimensions: “Trump Fires Joint Chiefs of Staff After Alleged Coup Plot Exposed by James O’Keefe Video” on X.com

James O’Keefe says undercover video exposes deep stare plotting against our elected President. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4299950/posts

COULD THIS RESULT IN CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRIES?

]]> By: J.J. https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/22/is-trump-politicizing-the-military/#comment-2789849 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:42:32 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140237#comment-2789849 Thanks for the link, R2L. A very interesting, thought provoking, and timely essay.

]]> By: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup - Pirate's Cove » Pirate's Cove https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/22/is-trump-politicizing-the-military/#comment-2789778 Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:12:39 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140237#comment-2789778 […] neo-neocon: Is Trump “politicizing” the military? […]

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/22/is-trump-politicizing-the-military/#comment-2789768 Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:54:03 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140237#comment-2789768 If the Democrats and their Media poodles are whining that Trump is politicizing the military then one can be certain that he isn’t.

(OTOH, one can be absolutely sure that because of the Democratic Party’s—and friends’—amazing powers of PROJECTION that THEY THEMSELVES DID politicize the military…)

]]> By: art deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/22/is-trump-politicizing-the-military/#comment-2789763 Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:01:58 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140237#comment-2789763 Rice’s claim that it’s being politicized NOW is nonsense.
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There are Democrats who are not lying to themselves and lying to others. (Dershowitz, Weiss, Taibbi, Greenwald, Sinema). They’re visibly upset with the Democratic Party in our time.
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]]> By: Skip https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/22/is-trump-politicizing-the-military/#comment-2789758 Sun, 23 Feb 2025 06:27:43 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140237#comment-2789758 Turning the military into a Cultural Marxist machine was destroying it.
But Susan is a Cultural Marxist so that of course she isn’t happy.

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/22/is-trump-politicizing-the-military/#comment-2789749 Sun, 23 Feb 2025 04:49:11 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140237#comment-2789749 Consider: https://tomklingenstein.com/how-pete-hegseth-can-purge-wokeness-from-the-military/
How Pete Hegseth Can Purge Wokeness From the Military
By Will Thibeau February 19, 2025

In addition to the top levels, Thibeau cautions about fixing the pipeline of indoctrinated officers coming out of the miltary academies and some ROTC programs.

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