The Conservative Case for Cyberbullying America’s Generals

Josiah Lippincott

America deserves better than its current military leadership.

On July 22, Major General Patrick Donahoe, the Commanding General of Fort Benning, reported from his official Twitter account that he was seeing a “surge” in ICU visits among young soldiers due to Covid. He reported that he would mandate the vaccine if he had the power to do so.

I replied, pointing out that the DOD has lost a total of 26 out of over 2 million personnel in the last year and a half to the virus. In the fourth quarter of 2020, there was a 25 percent surge in suicides across all services. In those three months alone, 26 additional servicemembers took their lives compared to the prior year.

The military’s response to the Coronavirus is almost certainly to blame for the rise. I exited the service in May of 2020, having had plenty of time to witness these policies firsthand. Deployed troops returning home were forced to quarantine for weeks at a time. Masks were required in all public spaces on base. Gyms were shut down. Commanding officers dramatically reduced liberty limits to within only a few miles of base. Those, like me, who were stationed in Camp Pendleton, were prohibited from traveling just 30 minutes south to San Diego during our off hours.

In light of these draconian policies, it is no wonder that troops experienced a surge in psychological illness and suicidal ideation. Turning barracks into prisons is a recipe for problems. Nor did the catastrophic “outbreaks” of Covid materialize. Virtually all servicemembers known to be infected with the virus recover. The handful of Covid related deaths are sad, but they never rose to the level of a crisis. On average, nearly a thousand military personnel die because of training accidents, suicide, and illness every year.

General Donahoe accused me of engaging in “false equivalency” and of downplaying the vaccine, arguing that it was the path to “normalcy.” As the return of mask mandates for both the vaccinated and unvaccinated in cities like Los Angeles attest, this is clearly not true. The real path to normalcy is for military leadership to adjust their risk tolerance. Treating healthy people like biohazards over an illness that has killed two dozen personnel in a force of millions is insane. Those preventative policies have consequences, too; the surge in depression and suicide among the young is real.

Preventative measures make matters worse. One need only look at the case of Michigan and Sweden. Both territories have an equal population. Yet, Michigan suffered 50 percent more deaths from Covid despite implementing lockdowns, school closures, and mask mandates while Sweden did not. General Donahoe simply brushed these facts aside, deciding instead to call me a member of the “disinformation tinfoil hat team” for pointing them out.

He also tweeted at the university where I am a student, Hillsdale College, and told them to “come get your boy” for questioning the military’s quarantine and lockdown policies. General Donahoe, apparently, thinks the private sector is just like the military, where criticism can be stopped, and careers ended, with a mere snap of the fingers. As the thread attracted more attention, one commenter asked the General “how many wars he’d won.” The General responded by accusing the questioner of “shilling for Putin.” When I asked if Putin was the reason America had lost in Afghanistan, the General blocked me.

==My interaction with the General serves as a microcosm of the American military’s cultural rot=. Here we have a two-star General who spends his days on social media hyping a vaccine for an illness that poses minimal risk to his troops. When pressed on why America can’t win wars and why he embraces policies that treat healthy people like biohazards, his first response is to accuse his critics of treachery and then block them from view….

https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-conservative-case-for-cyberbullying-americas-generals/

Did you ever notice its elite whites pushing CRT, just like it was Black pastors pushing abortion for Sanger

https://twitter.com/conncarroll/status/1419656188988428290?s=20

McCarthy is a useless virtue signaler

https://twitter.com/joekent16jan19/status/1419757057507397638?s=20

Exclusive —Classified Report Biden Could Release Provides Intricate Detail on Eric Swalwell Relationship with ‘Fang Fang’

The U.S. Intelligence Community currently has in its possession a classified report that includes intricate and intimate details of the nature of the relationship between Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and a Chinese spy known as “Fang Fang,” Breitbart News has confirmed.

The report, which intelligence and national security sources familiar with its contents who spoke on condition of anonymity told Breitbart News, contains details of the nature of Swalwell’s relationship with Fang Fang including certain sexual acts they allegedly engaged in together. Sources familiar with it, however, would not provide any more detail on the nature of those acts or other details in the report—which is currently classified.

The relationship was first revealed in news reports in December 2020 when Axios uncovered that Fang Fang had targeted up-and-coming Bay Area, California, politicians:

Fang took part in fundraising activity for Swalwell’s 2014 re-election campaign, according to a Bay Area political operative and a current U.S. intelligence official. Swalwell’s office was directly aware of these activities on its behalf, the political operative said. That same political operative, who witnessed Fang fundraising on Swalwell’s behalf, found no evidence of illegal contributions.

While Fang did not make any direct contributions to Swalwell’s campaigns, per Federal Election Commission records, the Axios story noted she did place an intern in Swalwell’s office and “interacted with Swalwell at multiple events over the course of several years.”

Swalwell’s office responded to the Axios inquiry for its story on the matter with a generic statement refusing to answer detailed questions on it.

“Rep. Swalwell, long ago, provided information about this person — whom he met more than eight years ago, and whom he hasn’t seen in nearly six years — to the FBI. To protect information that might be classified, he will not participate in your story,” Swalwell’s office said in the the original statement.

Despite the revelations, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) made the determination to keep Swalwell on the Intelligence Committee.

Several followup reports to that original Axios story from outlets including Business Insider and the New York Post noted that Swalwell has refused to answer whether he engaged in sexual relations with Fang Fang. But that classified report about the relationship includes, Breitbart News can confirm based on multiple intelligence and national security sources, details about a sexual relationship between the two.

“For those who have seen the details of the Swalwell case, it was shocking that Pelosi and Schiff so willingly kept him on the intelligence committee even for nakedly partisan lawmakers like themselves,” a former senior national security official familiar with the details of the report told Breitbart News.

This official said that any government figure with original classification authority—that includes Democrat President Joe Biden and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines—could order the declassification of the report so the public, and Swalwell’s constituents in particular, can read it for themselves. Both the White House and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have not replied to requests for comment when asked if President Biden or Director Haines will declassify the report in the interest of transparency.

“Regardless of whether you would have pegged Eric Swalwell as someone dumb enough to sleep with a CCP spy, the evidence is damning,” a second source familiar with the report’s details,a former external senior adviser to Intelligence Community (IC) leadership, told Breitbart News. “That report should be declassified. There are no concerns about sources or methods. The only purpose served by keeping that report classified is saving Swalwell from embarrassment. That’s not a good enough reason.”

Swalwell’s office has not immediately replied to a request for comment on the details reported above about the classified report, or whether he would support the report’s declassification and public release in the interest of transparency.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/26/exclusive-classified-report-biden-could-release-provides-intricate-detail-on-eric-swalwell-relationship-with-fang-fang/

And now we come to my favorite part of this USA Today/Suffolk University/Detroit Free Press Poll; the racial divide, which is in no way surprising.

Read the following carefully:

The poll found a significant racial divide on the question. Black residents ranked crime at the top of their list of concerns: 24% cited public safety, and just 3% named police reform.

But white residents were a bit more concerned about police reform than public safety, 12% compared with 10%. Education was by far the biggest issue on their minds, named by 31%.

What you have here, and again this is in no way surprising, is more white residents wanting police reform than the mere 3 percent of black resident who want police reform.

Let me repeat that: only 3 percent of black residents in Detroit want police reform.

Three percent.

Three!

And which racial group do you think is 1) dealing with the most violent crime and by extension 2) dealing with police the most? Of course it’s blacks Americans, who have always been the disproportionate victims of violent crime. And that victimization rate only goes up when white liberals (the worst people in the world) begin patronizing the black community with ludicrous ideas about emptying prisons, ending bail, and defunding the police.

White liberals (the worst people in the world) never do anything to improve the lives of black Americans. But they enjoy improving the lives of black criminals.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/26/nolte-9-to-1-margin-detroit-citizens-want-more-cops-streets/

Tesla is a weirdo commie

According to former Tesla employees, the company’s solar power unitTesla Energy has a dedicated team for hunting down complaints on social media and convincing customers to delete negative comments.

Business Insider reports that Tesla’s solar-power unit, Tesla Energy, has built a team of more than 20 employees to comb through social media and review sites for customer complaints. The team then attempts to convince users to remove negative comments, according to a former employee.

A separate team of nine people looked specifically for posts aimed at company CEO Elon Musk, according to the ex-employee. This would appear to line up with a job ad Tesla Energy put out in January for a “Customer Support Specialist” who would address “social media escalations” aimed at Musk.

A former manager at Tesla Energy who worked at the company until last year also said a dedicated team searcher for social media complaints. “They would basically just look up #TeslaEnergy, #Elon, just anything that has to do with Tesla and energy and Elon,” they said.

As well as resolving the customer’s issue, both employees said staff were instructed to politely ask customers to delete their social media complaints. The first former employee said that they did not work on either side of the social media complaint teams and usually dealt with complaints that came through Tesla’s customers-service channels, but were expected to scour the internet for unhappy customers in their “downtime.” The employee said: “There’s almost no downtime and that’s what makes it difficult.”

The former manager said that posting on social media was often a faster way for customers to have the company address complaints than going through customer service. A Tesla Energy customer told Insider they received this advice from their dedicated project manager when they had problems with their solar roof contract.

“She told me to go online and complain … on Twitter or Facebook, because she said the only thing this company listens to is social media sentiment,” the customer said.

Tesla Energy customers told Business Insider in May that the company had ghosted them for weeks on end. One customer said that a Tesla rep called him after he complained on Twitter.

Musk isn’t only attempting to shut down criticism of him and his companies in America;in July it was reported that Tesla asked China to use its censorship powers to shut down criticism of its products on social media.

Breitbart News reported:

At the Shanghai Auto Show in April, a woman who claimed that a brake failure in her Model 3 had caused a crash, nearly killing four of her family members, staged a solitary protest at the Tesla booth. After climbing on top of a vehicle wearing a T-shirt that read “brake lost control” in Chinese, she was quickly hauled away by guards.

Tesla apologized for the error following the wide criticism the company’s response received on social media and from state-run news sources.

Per Bloomberg Businessweek, Tesla “complained to the government over what it sees as unwarranted attacks on social media, and asked Beijing to use its censorship powers to block some of the posts.”

U.S. legislators have previously expressed concern over the potential spillover effects for national security that can come from the close relationship that Musk — who is a major Pentagon contractor as the CEO of SpaceX— has with the communist regime.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/07/26/tesla-energy-runs-a-social-media-detective-squad-to-defend-elon-musk/

>>14207644

I meantElon Musk is a weirdo commie

>>14207641

Agree but the black community knows Biteass admin is intentionally trying to kill them! Enjoy

>>14207612

Thats gross but probably accurate

>>14207730

Pussies all of them

>>14207723

Wtf, “you did what you had to”? Killing an unarmed woman, these people should be hung

Yes, an Air Force Recruit with Ties to a Hate Group Is Out. But the Military’s Extremism Problem Isn’t Fixed

Q, I’m pretty sure at this point that this cant be the military you were talking aboutat least thats my hope!

The Air Force has kicked out a man who belonged to the white nationalist group Identity Evropa months after reporters uncovered his ties, a spokeswoman confirmed in an email to Military.com Monday.

The episode has only underscored the challenges the military faces in screening recruits for associations with extremist groups. That concern has gained fresh urgency since the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, which led to the arrests of at least 32 veterans and one active-duty service member who were allegedly part of the mob.

“Shawn McCaffrey is no longer serving in the U.S. Air Force,” Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek confirmed Monday in a statement.

McCaffrey enlisted on Jan. 26, 2021, according to Stefanek. In April 2021, the Huffington Post reported that McCaffrey had deep ties to white nationalist and anti-Semitic leaders and groups.

According to the report, McCaffrey belonged to Identity Evropa and hosted a podcast that featured guests who included white supremacist Richard Spencer and Andrew Anglin, the fugitive founder of the neo-Nazi message board, The Daily Stormer.

In April 2019, the advocacy group Right Wing Watch reported that McCaffrey was booted from his volunteer role on Democrat Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign after his extremist ties came to light.

“Information brought to the attention of his command after Mr. McCaffrey’s enlistment led to an entry level separation due to erroneous enlistment,” Stefanek said.

The term “erroneous enlistment” suggests that, had the Air Force known all the facts about McCaffrey, it would not have allowed him to enlist.

Regardless, McCaffrey’s brief enlistment illustrates how far the military still has to go in tackling the issue of keeping extremists from joining its ranks.

“There has essentially been no screening process,” Heidi Beirich, an expert on American and European extremist movements, told Military.com.

“The military needs to come up with materials. They need to train the recruiters on them. They need to access databases. They haven't decided yet what to do about social media postings,” Beirich said. “In other words, that whole sort of management that needs to be in place to keep people like this Identity Evropa member out – it doesn't exist right now.”

Stefanek said “Air Force Recruiters rely on national and local criminal background checks to help identify membership in extremist/hate organizations” and that “any military applicant that has a criminal history associated with an extremist/hate organization or gang is not qualified for entry.”

However, these screenings will miss individuals who are active members of extremist groups but who don’t have criminal records. One suggestion that has been put forward is to screen recruits’ social media profiles. Congresswoman Jackie Speier, D-Calif., called on President Biden to implement such screenings in February.

Beirich said social media screenings are more complicated to implement than they appear.

“I would say, yes, you do want to take [social media profiles] into consideration,” she said. “The second part of that is: How do you take it into consideration?”

Then there is the question of time and manpower.

A Pentagon report from February on screening recruits for extremism noted that “human analysts cannot effectively and efficiently search the Internet on the hundreds of thousands of people each year that undergo DoD background vetting.”

Both the Pentagon report and Beirich point out that there are civil liberty considerations involved, as well.

In the meantime, the problem of extremists in the ranks continues to haunt the military. Dozens of service members, including some on active duty, were arrested in connection to the Jan. 6 insurrection. The Pentagon also has acknowledged that extremist groups are actively trying to recruit military members.

One thing that has changed, though, is the attention being given to the problem.

“I've been in this game for 20 years. We finally have a president, a SECDEF [secretary of defense], leadership, all of whom are like, ‘This is a huge problem,’” Beirich said.

“We've never had that kind of seriousness.”

In April, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin released a memo that said the department plans to add new questions about current or past extremist behavior to screening questionnaires given to troops during the accession process.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/07/26/yes-air-force-recruit-ties-hate-group-out-militarys-extremism-problem-isnt-fixed.html

Biden's First Visit to Intel Agency to Contrast with Trump's

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is making his first visit to an agency of the U.S. intelligence community, looking to emphasize his confidence in national security leaders after his predecessor's incendiary battles against what he often derided as the “deep state.”

Biden is scheduled Tuesday afternoon to visit the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the 17 U.S. intelligence organizations. The White House said in a statement that Biden intends to express “admiration for their work and underscore the importance for our national security of intelligence collection and analysis free from political interference.”

President Donald Trump visited the Central Intelligence Agency on his first full day in office, praising the agencies but also airing personal grievances. Standing in front of CIA’s memorial wall with stars marking each of the officers who have died while serving, Trump settled scores with the media and repeated false claims about the size of his inauguration crowd.

The relationship between the intelligence community and the president "went downhill from that very day,” said Glenn Gerstell, who then served as general counsel of the National Security Agency and stepped down last year.

Trump would go through four permanent or acting directors of national intelligence in four years and engaged in near-constant fights with the intelligence community.

In particular, he was angry about its assessment that Russia had interfered on his behalf in the 2016 presidential campaign and its role in revealing that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden, an action that ultimately led to Trump's first impeachment. Trump eventually fired the inspector general at the national intelligence office — the internal watchdog who brought that pressure to light.

By contrast, Biden has repeatedly insisted that he would not exert political pressure on intelligence agencies, a message repeated by his top appointees. He also came to office with a long history of working with intelligence officials as vice president and serving in the Senate.

The president has already called on National Intelligence Director Avril Haines with several politically sensitive requests. Perhaps the most prominent is an enhanced review of the origins of COVID-19 as concerns increase among scientists that the novel coronavirus could have originated in a Chinese lab. Biden set a 90-day timeframe and pledged to make the results of the review public.

Haines and CIA Director Bill Burns are also investigating a growing number of reported injuries and illnesses possibly linked to directed energy attacks in what's known as “Havana syndrome.” The CIA recently appointed a new director of its task force investigating Havana syndrome cases, an undercover official who participated in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. And intelligence agencies are having to adapt to the military withdrawal from Afghanistan, with growing concerns that the Taliban may topple the U.S.-backed central government.

Haines and Burns have also said that their review of COVID-19 origins may be inconclusive, probably disappointing lawmakers and observers who have pushed for more aggressive action against China.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that Biden was not likely to make Trump “a central part of his message" during his visit.

“He’s someone who believes in the role of the intelligence community of civil servants,” she said. “He believes they’re the backbone of our government and certainly he’ll make that clear.”

Harry Coker, a former National Security Agency and CIA senior official who advised the Biden transition team, said he expected the president to discuss threats from China and his priorities for dealing with Beijing. Coker also expected Biden to address sagging morale within the national intelligence office and make clear his interest in “wanting the truth whether anyone perceives it to be good or bad."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/07/27/bidens-first-visit-intel-agency-contrast-trumps.html

Proposed 'Air and Space Guard' Would Stop Space Force from Getting its Own Component

Sabotage of Space Force

Lawmakers have proposed changing the name of the U.S. Air Force's military reserve force, signaling that creating a separate reserve component for the Space Force is likely off the table.

In its markup of the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization legislation, the Senate Armed Services Committee put forward a proposal to change the name of the Air National Guard to the "Air and Space National Guard," according to a summary of the bill text released Thursday.

The language comes as key leaders, including Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, have been advocating to Congress about the need for a part-time volunteer force within the Space Force.

Read Next: Smaller Military Pay Raise, Increased Parental Leave Included in Senate's 2022 Defense Bill

Top officials sought to create a Space Force National Guard almost immediately after the sixth military branch was founded in 2019. Leaders from the Air Force and Space Force last month said they had completed a study required by the 2021 NDAA detailing how best to organize Guard and Reserve personnel within the Space Force, and said the study would soon advance to lawmakers despite its original March deadline.

Nearly 2,000 personnel across 14 National Guard units with space-related missions are located in California, Alaska, Hawaii, Florida, Colorado, Ohio, New York and Guam. Arkansas also has one unit with a space-focused targeting mission. In February 2020, the adjutants general of California, Alaska, Hawaii, Florida and Colorado made a case that their Guardsmen, who already do extensive work on offensive and defensive space missions, should report directly to the Space Force.

According to its budget request, the National Guard provides 60% of the Space Force's offensive electronic warfare capability. Roughly 11% of the Defense Department's space personnel are Guardsmen, Hokanson told lawmakers in May.

Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, Hokanson's predecessor, also called for the National Guard's space units to converge under the Space Force. But the proposal was met with indifference or, in some cases, with increased scrutiny.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters in February that committee members would "consider" the results of the organizational study when planning for the NDAA legislation.

Rep. Betty McCollum, a Minnesota Democrat and chair of the House Defense Appropriations panel, questioned the funding necessary to create a Space Guard.

"I'm looking forward to a breakdown on how much this is going to cost to set up a Reserve and a Guard Space Force," she told Hokanson during the May hearing.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/07/23/proposed-air-and-space-guard-would-stop-space-force-getting-its-own-component.html

>>14207857

They must practice these kines for hours

>>14207911

That’s why they couldnt have true conservatives on this panel

>>14207706

They only brought in the radicals not the 100s that are leaving the Capital police, the real ones are disgusted

>>14207989

Not only are “these officers” not telling the truth, they should be kicked out for being pussified, crying on cue would be humilating for a real man. These guys should be investigated for the complicity with the Big Lie

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1420015065684709379?s=20

https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1419990503450365953?s=20

>>14208121

I akways leave a thread open so i can go to the index

>>14208105

Agreed, I think POTUS has something on him, and its not good