3) Pentagon. The military was declared not to be chronically short by 30-50,000 recruits each year—simply by readjusting the required manpower levels downward.
Do we remember the monthly sound-off of a retired admiral or general (Mark Milley was the latest example) screaming that Trump was a “fascist,” and during the Trump presidency, that he was a near Nazi, liar, coward, Mussolini, and an Auschwitz sort of camp builder—all in violation of Article #88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice? Why suddenly are active and retired generals and admirals quiet—is it that they suddenly believe Secretary Hegseth might finally enforce the UCMJ?
The greatest humiliation in a half-century in Kabul was entirely forgotten—no big deal, no need to investigate any culpability. No one dared to say the disaster in Afghanistan was the green light for Putin to invade Ukraine. The lessons from the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East were not to be prods to reboot procurement; the only problem was borrowing more money for new $14 billion carriers and $100M jets.
The Pentagon’s chain of command increasingly saw its new role as cultural and social—to fast-track DEI reverse racism, three genders, radical green mandates, and abortion on demand in the way a clumsy and slow-poke Congress never could. And now? The alpha generals who rode the DEI wave are now the omegas, given they placed race, gender, and sexual orientation above military efficacy.
4. Debt. The way to manage the $37-trillion debt and $2 trillion annual deficits was either to keep politicizing the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates and risk more hyperinflation and so pay off the annual interest debt with cheap rates and debased currency. We were headed for history’s usual solution for bankrupt nations: inflate the currency in Weimar fashion to worthlessness, renounce the debt and descend into Third-Worldism, or begin confiscating private wealth in Soviet and Cuban style—or all three combined.
Or was it more like musical chairs? Each administration doubled the debt, hoping the music did not stop on their watch and they found themselves without a chair.
5. Deep State. To keep feeding the unaudited federal bureaucracy we were to keep raising taxes and borrowing more money to send millions of dollars into the Wuhan lab that nearly wrecked the U.S. economy and killed one million Americans.
We were to keep paying 8 percent of the anti-American BBC budget. As good cultural imperialists, we were to keep promoting LGBTQ+ issues throughout traditional societies abroad and subsidizing most groups in the Middle East who wished to destroy us. We spent millions of dollars of aid trying to force gay marriage on the Greeks and Cypriots who wanted none of it.
Did anyone worry—did anyone even know—that the Biden proxies gave $2 billion in assorted “green” grants to be overseen (with no doubt ample pass-through deductions and overhead charges) by election-denialist Stacey Abrams?
What exactly was the status prior of her foundation/PAC? In truth, it had $100 in its coffers; yet when Biden left office it had increased by a magnitude of $20 million to $2 billion. Was it her sex novels or her ability to lose elections and claim she won them that so impressed Biden to entrust her with our $2 billion?
Was it so great that the Biden people took the taxes paid by 100,000 households (the average American IRS bite per household is $20,000) and turned their collective earnings over to Stacey Abrams?
Was the Biden idea to pour cash into leftwing coffers to use the deep state to do what could not pass Congress? Or was it nihilism—spend so much money, print so much money that taxes would have to go up, and thus “spread the wealth”?
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