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  1. If President Trump managed to get Susan Rice outta her coffin then he did a magnificent job with such a move…heck, sounds like he got the entire “Obama Machine” outta their coffins!? What’s a fancy word that is two or three tiers higher than magnificent?

  2. My impression, based on reading some conservative ex-military commentators online, is that in the Obama years the military became heavily politicized. This continued in the Biden years. To be promoted, officers had to demonstrate allegiance to DEI principles. This lead to recruiting problems and performance problems.

    Rice’s claim that it’s being politicized NOW is nonsense.

  3. The job of the military is not to carry out social justice programs or to have a military that is politically aligned with any political party.

    Those two issues were what the Obama admin was carrying out in the military. And the reasons are obvious. To create a military that will fight for the Democrats and their causes.

    The military that’s devoted to destroying a national enemy on the battlefield is what we’ve always wanted and needed. And have mostly had. However, the military is made up of a cross section of Americans. Back in my days of service (1954-1975) there were some of what I would call politicians, self-serving “operators,” and people who weren’t necessarily warriors. Those sorts of individuals are what Obama was looking for if they agreed with Obama’s views. They want the military on their side if they need them to defend their political institutions. (Use them against civilians.)

    Unfortunately, our military academies and ROTC units have been infiltrated by the left and those institutions are turning out more of the politicians, self-serving operators, and non-warriors than before.

    I wish Pete Hegseth well in his plan to change that. It will take several years, and certainly a culling of the profs at the academies and ROTC units.

    My experience in the military convinced me that we could operate more cost effectively and efficiently by being more hard-nosed in dealing with contractors and arms manufacturers. Also, more specialization and longer tours in those specialties would reduce training costs and raise the level of competency and/or experience in the ranks.

    Just a few observations from a toothless old lion roaring at the wind.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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…)

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  8. 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?

  9. 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).

  10. Oops,
    should be “from the man who confidently predicted Kamala Harris’s victory in November”

  11. 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).

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