Former Chief of Staff to the Acting Secretary of Defense Kash Patel joins Buck Sexton to discuss all things related to the Biden Administration’s agenda with the U.S. military as an institution and the impact on foreign policy and national security.
Patel and Sexton discuss the new ‘woke’ priority in the Defense department and how the Pentagon is now focused on politics instead of their core national security mission. This is a very dangerous shift in priority for the institution of the United States Military.
These will be perceived as acts of weakness by our enemies and our potential enemies.
They will take advantage of us in the same way that a predator takes advantage of a drunken women at a frat party.
Missouri Mule. Absozactly.
Missouri, the people who are in power in our government are owned by and are participating with our foreign enemies. For some reason they are anticipating the actual destruction of our country, and must believe that they will then have more power when the chaos and destruction is over. They must not think that these other foreign countries – our true enemies – would eliminate them and replace them with their own people if/when that occurs.
We should be prepared for EMP’s that would not only knock out power, but also all communications. There would be shortages of everything. There could be secret cells of our enemies ready to rise up if that were to happen – our open border makes it easy for them to enter.
Have groups of people you can trust/rely on in your communities!
I’m disappointed that Trump did not shore up our electric grid when he had the chance. People from FERC have warned us for years.
Dr Peter Pry has been saying for years all it would take is a billion to protect our grid. He lobbied the government and utilities and they all brushed him off.
BINGO!
Who do you think bought the drinks? China’s been stoking our culture wars, and it’s really paying off for them.
And blue state America is stupid, arrogant and disgusting enough to participate in these culture wars with their Chinese pay masters.
… similarly to the GOPe.
This has been the plan for decades. Now that we’ve financially rebuild the accounts for the brass to waste it won’t be long before rules of engagement go back to calling the communist before firing back.
Are you kidding?
The PLA is laughing it’s ass off at us.
The purpose of militaries is to kill people and break sh-t.
Not to be a bastion of diversity and political correctness.
For each of the last 3 demo-commie administrations, Carter-Clinton-Obama, this has been the basis of operation. Sock Puppet Biden’s administration is just another link in the trend.
I served through the Carter and Clinton regimes. During the Cater regime, there was a stretch of time that it was so bad my Troop leadership actually carried our service 45’s while on duty in Germany. At that time, we were receiving drug dealers and felons who opted for a tour in the Army vs a jail sentence. They just resumed their criminal careers once they deployed. One weekend, the CID drug suppression team actually pulled a bus up to the Kaserne one weekend and hauled away 30 guys.
Don’t leave the Bush family out. Remember HW’s sendoff – they’re every inch participants in the destruction of the military, the country and the Constitution as the Carters, the Clintons, and the Obamas, not to mention the entire uniparty at large.
And the Cheney family.
Making millions on the stock holdings in “military contractor” companies that supply overseas bases, while sending other family’s sons (and daughters) to get maimed or killed in endless, no-win wars.
We have not won a war against a peer opponent since defeating Japan in August 1945. 76 years. The PLA has probably noticed.
Problem is – OBiden wants to kill patriotic Americans and break our sh-t.
There is NO WAY IN H-LL that we would defeat China in a war right now.
Not a chance.
When was the last time that this country won a war anyway?
1945, 76 years ago
1945: America helped defeat a fascist government.
2021: America has a fascist government.
And when is the last time a war was fought that should have been fraught?
1945. Before the Cleveland Indians won an actual World Series.
Our Pentagon is run by the equivalent of the Detroit Lions coaching staff.
Those knuckleheads at the top of DOD are about 0-40 since 45. They are pee wee herman military strategists.
The brass have gone far left and despite a goose egg for several decades have the nations largest entitlement mentality. They think they are geniuses.
They have nothing in common with the enlisted folks who do the real work.
Politicians and political figures in the DOD will not let us win any war although we could and should have in the past like Vietnam. Now our military personnel will be offered up for slaughter and family members need to be encouraged to leave.
If you take everything including the confederate statue bashing, the effemination of the fighting force, and the disarming of the country, it is to weaken our own ability to defend ourselves from an invasion from U.N. “peace keepers”.
We have to see through all of this to prevail
We ARE a Banana Republic now. Thanks Jao Bi Dinh
Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama …
Been a continual process with a 4 year interruption during the Trump years.
As a former Marine that fought in battles starting in 2003 and still have friends in military and in state dept this is all by design.
They want us weak by trying to get the more conservative members to leave or not enlist at all.
And then there are ‘maternity flight suits’….
Why should any red state deplorable enlist? WHY?
Let the Chinese Democrats from the blue states fight in the Middle East and get their legs blown off while doing China’s bidding.
Let Stephen Colbert’s nieces or nephews or cousins get maimed.
Thank you for your service.
Those were some real dirtbags we sent you after.
We can thank Pat Schroder for the beginning of the end of our Military. Pat Schroder did more to emasculate the United States Military than could any combined Military in the World. She made the US Military a Political Force rather than a Fighting Force.
Yet one more absolutely gawd awful idiot US Senator. An absolute moron and force for the bad.
“This is a very dangerous shift in priority for the institution of the United States Military.”
Which is EXACTLY what “they” want. All by design.
Transformation.
All branches of the US military are soon to be under the supreme command of the US Woke Force.
“I swear by Satan, this sacred oath that I shall at all times render unconditional obedience and servitude to my lord and master, the Woke State, supreme ruler of all it surveys, and at all times be ready, as a subservient zombie soldier, to sell my honor and my soul to keep the Woke State from any possible embarrassment or other inconvenience in it’s quest for perpetual totalitarian power” (George Soros Form 666, 21 January, 2021)
“to discuss all things related to the Biden Administration’s agenda”
It is not an “administration.” It is an illegal regime.
Communicate precisely!
Now, as we are about to embark on our “new normal”, I’d wager that part of that new normal would nullify the need for the US, GB, and basically any singularly “sovereign” nation to possess a powerful “Aggressive” capability – AT ALL – save to serve purely as a “governing” force. Certainly their goal will be to place ALL military command under something like a UN International Force – used domestically to put down any “anti-international” resistance, and abroad if necessary (assets are assets) for same. My prediction is that what we for Centuries, Eons, thought of as “traditional” enemies, East/West Left/Right , Christian/Jew/Muslim vs whatever, even Capital vs Social – will be redefined into simply – those that comply and those that don’t.
Oldspeak: Yours is a well stated view of the situation
The politicization of the U.S. Army has its roots in the revamped Officer Efficiency Report (OER) that determines every officer’s career trajectory. Prior to 1996, if a senior officer believed all his subordinates deserved the “top block,” (the highest rating) then they were all top blocked. Any lower than a top block was a likely kill shot for promotions, schools and command track.)
In 1996 the rules changed. Not more than one half of a senior officer’s assigned subordinates could now be top blocked on the OER, even if all were outstanding. The new OER system was intended to curb an overinflated evaluation process. What it did in practice was increase unhealthy careerist competition among officers to the detriment of the team and the mission. Forget about “rocking the boat.” Brown nosing increased, risk taking and challenging leadership decreased.
Today’s senior military leaders grew up in this risk-averse personnel system and now you see the results.
I remember the OER’s. It was suppose to be what percent of ones contemporaries one performed better than. So the average score should have been 50. It was around 92 or 93.
Wow that is really on the money.
DOD understands nothing about managing risk taking calculated risk or risk:reward ratio.
Just keep doing what were doing spend the $ survive another year get the annual fed. pay increase–wash rinse repeat.
A.R. –
your info is excellent “inside baseball” knowledge that us lazy soft civilians need to know to comprehend what it is like in a military career. More, please, sir!
When a government wishes to deprive its citizens of freedom, and reduce them to slavery, it generally makes use of a standing army.
– Luther Martin, Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention
A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen. Without standing armies liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe
-James Madison
There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation, and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors, that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot, but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army.
– Thomas Jefferson
In the days following the American Revolution, Jefferson became increasingly concerned about two tendencies he believed were intrinsically connected: the concentration of power in a centralized government, and the establishment of a [career class ]standing army.
New Woke?
Politicization now?
Talk to some from back in the Clinton Day, how they were downsized and how it had to do with their gender and maybe even a sense of politics, they could see political correctness seeping in after a “big event” & hearings with the military, I’ll let you remember what it was.
Then there is a talk show host this week that noted at fund raisers for veterans on a base, were he was a speaker, top brass came after him vociferously in conversations about his Pro-Trump stance and how they wanted him out of office. His theory? They call came to rank and power via Obama’s purge of military if they were not down with his agenda.
Am I alone here or is this nothing new? CTH Mil-Vets please opine.
The military has become an $800 billion a year noose around the neck of The People.
The military has now become “woke supremacists”.
Will flight suits and uniforms have to become decorative and flamboyant for the drag queens?
If you’re out to make a splash, cheri,
Do know your haberdashery!
Buttons, buckles, ruffles and lace
Represent the new woke race!
Remember what they’re here for
Why they must be dressed to kill
If they have to look like Cleopatra
Then they will!
don’t know much about the military US or otherwise. this I do know. I know two men who are now retired army colonels in intelligence. never met anyone more stupid and more arrogant than these two losers. hope all the military not that way. one worked at west point. god help us
Military Intelligence:
Oxymoron.
“Military Intelligence” is one of the classic oxymorons.
Yes, as is Central Intelligence Agency.
‘Intelligence’
The losing runs deep.
Spenser Rapone graduated from W-P.
A lot of retired officers are arrogant with no reason to be.
Just wondering if anyone who listened to Kash speak about the military get the idea that the underlings have not (yet?) bought into ‘woke’ thinking yet? I know the known MAGAs are being culled, just wondering how bad the military is right now.
Am so looking forward to our maternity suit flight squadrons and trans brigades.
its amazing articles like these get very little comments. just like the Greenwald one.
It’s Saturday and I know I have been out all day and just got home a little while ago, so I am just now “catching up” on the new posts here.
People are overwhelmed by the losing. There are like several articles a day and anyone of them could be an outrage for weeks under other circumstances.
I don’t listen to the news much anymore; it’s either depressing or horrifying.
ain’t that the truth!
WhiteBoard,
Like Little Flower, I’ve been kinda down on the news. It’s taken months for hopium withdrawal pains to subside; now I’m more or less straight.
So I came into the Treehouse today, dipped a toe into the Markle mess, and I’m barely able to engage in more.
This from an official DoD twitter handle- they got miffed that one commenter said to focus on China and not on Tucker Carlson. The response was- “Come back when you’ve served and been pregnant”.
Rising Serpent: “First he built a wall around the Capitol and fortified it with the military. Then he sent the military after civilian TV opinion show anchors and Twitter users while the southern border was being invaded and US diplomats being anally violated.
And he did it all in under 2 months.”
The military is now an organization organized around its core mission of handing out free sex change operations and defending the Narrative against all enemies both American and domestic.
Thank God i know some of the retired marines who are still alpha and have not been influenced by the crap going on today.
They are still marines of the highest integrity, honor and bravery and still true to their oath.
And some are even here at CTH. BRAVO!
I am wondering if enlistments will go down? That would be the way to stop this crap. In fact, I think the head of the National Guard cited that as a concern when he said the Guard would be leaving (and then of course he was over ruled). But he was concerned about enlistments dropping which made me think maybe that is already happening. How many people want to be used as political ploys of Nancy Pelosi.
They should. No patriot or white man should go near the SJW military. Let the unwed mothers, feminists, trannies, illegals, and race baiters go get killed in Biden’s wars.
This ridiculous emphasis on women in the military is simply pathetic- particularly hawking maternity uniforms- just simply outrageous.
The Pentagon announces that while it is still a court martial offense to use a koran for target practice, it is now perfectly fine to use a picture of Tucker Carlson for target practice.
We know the FBI and intelligence agencies are totally crooked, so having military leadership be crooked and corrupt is no surprise. If the enlisted are inept, hobbled by PC and weighed down by identity politics, that might be a good thing. That way, when they’re coming to confiscate our guns, they might trip in their high heels.
On a related note, this article is another great one by Revolver News about the Capitol Hill “pipe bombs”. https://www.revolver.news/2021/03/fbis-ridiculous-capitolsiege-pipe-bomb-video-is-an-all-out-assault-on-common-sense/ Another FBI false flag, if you ask me.
Sentient: a glass half-full kinda guy~
OBiden wants a military that will shoot patriots. Anyone not likely to follow such orders is being driven out.
David Hackworth is rolling over in his grave.
Never forget, the entire Republican Senate to a man opposed, despised PDJT…every one of them covertly or overtly.
The truth was revealed when they denied The Don recess appointments, all it took was ONE Republican vote to allow a vital power for any President, but no.
Never forget there is not one Senator (R) from then who supports MAGA. Not one.
Yes even phony Rand Paul. All Republican senators are enemies of the people.
Make no mistake there is a Military within the Military. These are special Units and under special commands. There is them and then there is them. I think it would be described best as saying they march to the beat of a somewhat different drummer.
For those who enjoy listening to Kash Patel, following link is to Tracy Beanz’ podcast Dark To Light from Friday in which she (along with Frank Valbiro – Quite Frankly) interviews Patel. They spend time on HPSCI, DNI and Spygate…
https://uncoverdc.com/2021/03/12/dark-to-light-kash-patel/
Some choice commentary on Rosenstein is included.
I don’t give a damn any more about our military. Their leaders AND rank and file are in it for the benes. If a Conservative gets in as President again, I would veto any appropriations to military for on the ground upgrades. Put the money into cyber and drone tech and call it a day. Sick of the back stabbing. They had no better friend than Trump. Investment in assets and pay raises and what do they do? Screw all of us and take the safe road for them forget the country!
DOD is going hard left with lectures and training on white racism and white (redneck MAGA) domestic terrorism.
The rank/file desk jockeys and fed. Thrift Savings Plan warriors are following along like the zombies they are.
As a veteran, I highly recommend that you keep your kids/grandkids from joining the military.
Cool Challenge Coin rack.
White supremacy in the DOD?? Nope! But there is clear nepotism for other than males and those who were born male but don’t want to be male.
It was Sun Tzu who said “Treat your soldiers as your children and they will follow you into the deepest valley. Regard them as your own beloved sons and they will follow you even until death”.
Trump and his supporters treated them that way, but I guess Sun Tzu was talking about a much different caliber of soldiers.
Kash is a hero along with Devin Nunes.
I’m amazed at the sudden attention being paid to the military… It’s as if this hasn’t been the case since 1948 or something.
Everyone is like a newborn apparently… Struggling to grasp what has been going on for 3/4 of a friggen century.
What’s next, the idea that JFK may have been assassinated?
I wanna slap people!
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
(Charles Mackay)
Thanks Obama.
You speak wisely, grasshopper.
Taiwan, Japan, South Korea should be feeling pretty nervous with the US military becoming eunuchs over night
Look for this wokeness to be reversed when the CCP generals take over without firing a shot. Big Guy gets another 10%.
The only way Employee Biden goes to war against China is if Pres. Xi tells him to, in order to secure an American defeat.
No respect – I’m sick of hearing the rank and file are okay. Sounds a lot like the BS we hear about the FBI. The flag officers are political hacks, the Secretary of Defense is a leftist who wants to wage war against the American people, and the ranks are filled with feminists, SJW millennials, BLM supporters, and future political hack flag officers.
If you take a federal paycheck, you are suspect.
This is what our entire government is about now, trans/gay/black and everyone else can go to hell.
This gender/LGTBQ military thing is nuanced. Got no issue w/a pregnant pilot flying a tanker over Missouri, but pulling g’s in an F16 not good. Or, a transgender manning a Patriot battery who happens to be real good at radar/AD systems is ok w/me too. It’s all in the details.
This about sums it up
Oops forgot the post!
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1370882490001453058
Read the military’s attacks on Tucker Carlson and be afraid. Be VERY afraid.
Fighting bad guys and killing enemies to keep our country safe will fade out as the mission of our military. Just as educating our children is no longer the mission of our public schools, replaced by social engineering and ideological indoctrination.
Keep your eyes on the Army & Gen Flynn. They are up to something that will go after Flynn from a different angle it seems.
Army reviewing investigation into Michael Flynn’s dealings with Russia, foreign firm – U.S. – Stripes
“On January 27, 2021, we closed our investigation against LTG Flynn and forwarded several administrative matters to the Acting Secretary of the Army for review and appropriate action,” Allen’s statement said. LTG stands for lieutenant general, Flynn’s rank at retirement.”
(1) Stars and Stripes on Twitter: “The Defense Department’s internal watchdog has concluded a long-delayed investigation into former Army general Michael Flynn. https://t.co/giM1mtPLxw” / Twitter
J.D. Vance suggests that eliminating the requirement of a college degree to be a military officer could be beneficial. Colleges and Universities are woke-ism indoctrination centers, very detrimental to national well-being.