The story of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recovering in the hospital broke Friday afternoon when the Pentagon first released a statement {SEE HERE}. It was a bizarre first notification considering that Secretary Austin had been hospitalized since January 1st, and no official notification came until yesterday. However, the story has grown even more bizarre.
Secretary Austin was in intensive care for four days following complications that stemmed from an elective procedure.
Today, it is discovered that the Pentagon never informed the White House that the Defense Secretary was not in command. The National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and the National Security Council were unaware of Austin’s incapacity until January 4th. This is very strange. Politico has the update:
WASHINGTON DC – The Pentagon did not tell President Joe Biden and other top officials about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization for three days, three U.S. officials said.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan and other senior White House aides didn’t know of Austin’s Jan. 1 hospitalization until the Defense Department sent over word Jan. 4, two other U.S. officials said. Sullivan informed Biden shortly after DOD’s Thursday notification.
The officials said it was highly unlikely that Austin conveyed word to Biden privately before Sullivan’s briefing. “If Jake didn’t know, no way the president knew,” one of them said. “Who would have told him of Austin’s condition if not Jake? And if someone did tell the president, Jake would’ve been his first call.”
All officials and other people who spoke for this story were granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.
The news of Austin’s situation came as a shock to all White House staff as they were unaware the Pentagon boss was dealing with complications following an elective medical procedure, the officials said. National Security Council staffers were surprised it took the Pentagon so long to let them know of Austin’s status. The Pentagon didn’t make the information public until Friday evening, notifying Congress about 15 minutes before releasing a public statement.
“This should not have happened this way,” said one of the U.S. officials. The NSC and Pentagon declined comment. (read more)
Considering the U.S military is actively engaged in two regions of conflict, Red Sea (Israel-Hamas war) and Ukraine (Russia-Ukraine conflict) it seems stunning the Defense Secretary was out of commission and the White House was never aware.
Then again, considering the oft spoken arguments about the Joe Biden administration essentially operating without any command-and-control authority, meaning each institution is operating on their own priority system and Joe Biden is not a participant in government, perhaps this is just another affirmational data point.
Lastly, perhaps this level of detachment reconciles THIS STORY.
Adverse side effects to an elective transition surgery?
He tried to pull his head out of his arse…
…slight correction….out of Joe’s.😏
You win the internet!🏆
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That’s terrrible.
It certainly is..😂🤣😅🤣😂😅😆🤣😅
That might be the stink I smell here, LOL!
Ya never know!
Gender reaffirming care.
My first thought, next would be myocarditis.
Myocarditis was my second thought too – orchiopexy was my first. The stay was extended because they couldn’t find ’em.
RECALL: That our betters inside the Beltway are officially exempt from the vaqs. And their staffs. TINS.
I would not be surprised if that was the “issue,” GreyRockMan.
However, he could possibly be actually physically ill (cancer, intestinal obstruction, etc), requiring acute medical intervention. Whatever the reason, a legitimate administration would inform the Country and the World and announce who is temporarily replacing him. This “selected” so-called government is evil to the core. They operate in the shadows, behind the curtain, as the slimy evil controllers they are.
None of those excellent suggestions are ELECTIVE surgery.
It’s a lie.
mRNA is a helluva drug
Darkness….UNITY!
Fifth Dose of COVID Vaccine Fails to Boost Cellular Immunity
The COVID-19 vaccines may weaken our ability to fight viruses at the cellular level.
By Yuhong Dong
1/5/2024
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/fifth-dose-of-covid-vaccine-fails-to-boost-cellular-immunity-5557503?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy
They have already, or soon will, be putting it in the meat we eat.
Did they notify Obama?
That’s what I was wondering… or rather, was thinking.
Yes, which is why others didn’t need to know.
I bet Blinken at the State Dept and the boys at Langley knew.
After all, aren’t those the two groups running Ukraine and Israel/Gaza?
Flunky: P’resident’ Biden, Lloyd Austin is in intensive care.
Biden: Who?? (Where’s my ice cream…)
Our country is in such peril.
something happens every day that shocks me from the day before.
I don’t think I am on my own here, Slowcobra…
But I have a distinct feeling that God is moving.
Maybe not as quickly as we’d hope for…
But definitely moving 🙏🏻
Hang in there, girl…you have company.
Thanks betsy… **big sigh**
I was going to say something entirely different…
But I followed my own advice and tasted my words before I spit them out.
Others were provided 😘
Holy Spirit guiding your words.
All it took was a split second, BK…
That’s my experience with It.
Yes sir, my friend.
I’m not shocked anymore. I just remain sick and pi$$ed that this is our so-called life. The USA is now a laughing stock in the ENTIRE world. THEY have destroyed everything that America stands for.
These are only the things we know about!
Serious Data – Highly Indicative
Since he’s a DEI hire, maybe he just kept calling in after telling everyone he was going to work from home for a few days.
I’m sure General Milley kept China well informed of the incapacitated Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Um, so the Pentagon is truly accountable to NO ONE…….
100% Rogue.
The Pentagon and the CIA.
That is not news. They operated that way, and in direct opposition to PDJT. Who knows how long this has been going on? Didn’t start with the Biden admin.
No, it did not start with the Biden administration. But it sure as heck proliferated with them, especially with their allies in the LSM, beginning with the satanic Obama and the lies they spread, covering for him (oh, well, he doesn’t actually go to Rev Wright’s services any longer” )
The brain-dead Dem electorates were instructed to follow the LSM “news” aggrandizing BHO. And they did. Shame on them. Will they wake up?????
State and Langley.
Since the invention and use of atomic weapons to end WW2 , the US government has become a thinly veiled military junta that goes to war to serve its global business interests
In the words of Smedley Butler
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
Not every one..I served in the early 70s and could see how the ‘ bosses’ were incompetent and low iq, from the co to the base comander.
MajGen Smedley Butler, USMC and twice awarded the MOH … was way, way ahead of his time. Butler spoke to the destructive business interests and commercial enterprises that benefit from warfare. That was part and parcel of why the “swamp” of his day hated him.
President Eisenhower warned of the “military-industrial complex” and it’s corrosive influence on our society in his farewell address in January, 1961 …
If we’re going to “win wars” and protect the Country, we need more like these two gentlemen today. Sadly … we have been seriously lacking in that department for 30+ years … that’s an entire generation of US military “leadership”, or what passes for it …
It’s way past time to sound the alarm bells …
Certainly not financial accounting!
Nobody in this cabal is accountable to anyone. There in is the problem. It is a bona fide dictatorship. We either fight back or we are done as the USA as we knew it.
For example, $2.3 Trillion excuses back in 2001…
Wellll…… there’s an outside chance that CIC Trump knew……. 😉
I was hoping for a comment in his second rally today but he didn’t go anywhere near that…
Loose lips sink ships.
So, was the elective surgery related to his lips?
I was only a Chief Petty Officer in the USN. If my skipper hadn’t known I was in ICU for 4 days, I’d be UNDER the brig.
I know that my statement is redundant…but I shall say it anyway...IS ANYONE AWAKE IN THE OVAL OFFICE…IS ANYONE IN CHARGE???🫨🫨🫨
Possibly Obama and Jarett
And Rice.
Just ask the theater director and actors.
Oh someone is in charge – they are indeed. What is the Pentagon Brass up to now, because there is no way this happened by happenstance.
Nobody who represents We The People.
No, do you really need to ask that question?
Liposuction?
Jake Sullivan runs the white House
Perhaps, or Secretary of State Blinken. Both are Obama people.
Blink Blink is Biden’s man. He was Biden’s policy advisor in his 2008 campaign & his national security advisor during Biden’s 1st 4 yrs as VP & then moved over to the State Dept. again. He was Humper’s & Devon Archer’s contact in the State Dept. during the Burisma days. He was on the staff at Biden’s Penn-Biden Center which was paid for with China donations to the University. He was also on the Senate foreign relations Committee staff while FJB was a Senator.
Jake, Blinken, and all the rest are doing their allegiance to the Deep State. That is what they are being paid to do.
“But Austin’s hospitalization was a closely guarded secret, kept from even senior Pentagon officials and congressional leaders until just before the public statement, according to nine DOD officials and two congressional aides.”
Because they didn’t expect complications from (probably embarrassing) minor surgery they didn’t tell anybody since during that short time they thought they could get away with it and probably would have.
When it turned out otherwise due to complications, they kept it a secret because someone would then ask why they didn’t tell anyone in the first place and when the fix took too long someone finally noticed.
Maybe he has ‘roids and had surg to correct, then threw a clot caused by the clot shot!
I am going to guess a bowel perforation during a colonoscopy or a problem from a heart cath.
Just a couple of wild guesses.
His roids were impacted and hardened. They had to blast!
Prolapsed rectum.
here goes an aaron rogers… austin was in the hospital transitioning to a she.. obama likes austin better that way.
netflix new show is going to be brother wives…
You know your job is redundant if nobody misses you for 4 days. Must suck to have “big title” but make no difference.
Isn’t this the clown who was wearing those stupid Plastic PPE on his face? It’s vaccine related I can almost imagine. And while we never wish anyone harm, and hope he recovers fully, COVID19 mRNA therapies have been terribly risk prone and were not fully tested. In addition, the quality control has been very sketchy. Lipid nano particles have proven to be dangerous escaping and mobilizing around the body through the cellular walls and have caused all kinds of issues.
Yep…that’s him. He looked like a made up zoo monster.. so stinking ridiculous..
DOes anyone at the WH even OWN a mirror…beginning with “Dr.” Jill????
Vampires can’t see their reflections.
And they are definitely blood suckers.
Yep, he’s the one 🙄
Yes, totally ridiculous. A fireable offense. 😉
Yes, that’s him. He looked so ridiculous. Darth Virus.
Girth Vader.
😁
Given that he executed poison death shot mandate on men and women in uniform that caused irreparable harm, he would be swallowing a whopping dose of karma is that is the cause of his ailments.
They are probably only worried about any breaks in the chain of command down from China through Milley.
there is little reason to inform someone who is not in functional control of anything, is there?
That picture of Kirby lives forever! 🤣
Costco is ready to take him back, their shelves miss him
🎯😂😂😂😂
Clearly he looks to have been immuno-compromised for some time now.
that picture a strong argument for liposuction as the “elective procedure”.
Effn clown. FLA.
Never mind.
Girth Vader.
See, he’s force choking an entire foreign regiment at once!
The picture of Austin shaking hands with the Filipino president… kind of negates wearing the masks, no? 🤪
African Emperor Lloyd ‘Big Daddy’ Lumumba.
What also bothers me is the stance of those fellows in the line – aren’t they standing very lackadaisically?
More evidence of silos.
Expect more losses of effective coordination between silos and further erosion of competence in general.
It’s my understanding these transsexual procedures are dangerous. Just saying. How’s those vaccines workin for ya, ya rat bastard.
“ The Pentagon did not tell President Joe Biden and other top officials about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization for three days, three U.S. officials said.”
On the one hand, it isn’t like these clowns have us teetering on the edge of WWIII.
On the other, it’s possible many at the Puzzle Palace got some relief from daily DEI training.
Not sure what the concern is anyway since POTATUS has likely forgotten who the SecDef is.
The vaccination ????
That was my thought. Elective procedure…COVID booster shot….
I read about this earlier today. Shocking that no one knew. A bunch of stupid and illegal idiots at the helm of our stolen country.
51 former CIA officials would sign an affidavit that the Russians knew.
Yes, a bunch of idiots at the helm of of the USA. Not surprising; they are Obama picks. All they need to know is how to TAKE DOWN America.
Nobody missed the affirmative action hire. Just a figurehead like the Dean of Harvard.
It seems strange to me that his elective surgery was on a Holiday, or maybe the day before, a Sunday unless it was an emergency!
New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day do seem unlikely dates for elective surgery.
Elective DUI?
Sometimes those gerbels just don’t want to come out…
ARMAGEDDON!!
EEeeeuuuuuwwww!
My point, above.
No elective procedures on Sunday, or a Holiday, let alone a Holiday weekend.
Joe is dead and nobody told him.
This shouldn’t be a surprise. This is what the deep state hated Trump for. They were already used to doing their own thing and he wanted to control their actions. That’s why the President departing from “US policy” in matters of state was viewed as essentially treason. That’s why the general would call China behind Trump’s back.
My recollection is that simple DOD lied to PDJT about not following PDJT’s instruction (Command, as Commander in Chief) to reduce forces in Syria.
typo – “simply lied”
By the way, retired flag officers are able to be recalled to active duty, at which time Trump should court martial Milley and bust him down to a private.
Certainly they informed their marxist counterpart obama
No one knew who was in charge of the government, hence the lack of informing whoever was in charge.
This cabal does not even care one iota of the State of International politics and/or policies.
This rogue so-called government never fails to undermine We The People every chance they get. The question is how much longer will we put up with this banana republic way of life??? They are pi$$ing all over us and telling us it’s raining. Eff this regime. God please help us.
The icu stay wasn’t reported, because the procedure done, was brain surgery, however no brain was found.
They didn’t need surgery to determine that; it has been obvious since day #1.
We still do not know where Obama was during Benghazi. Quivering under his covers in the basement? With Basement Joe?
I doubt BHO was “quivering” anywhere. BHO was most likely doing whatever….. perhaps he was celebrating the horrendous murders and defeat of OUR Countrymen.
Wasn’t he already incapacitated?
How can they tell the difference?
The walls are closing in around these idiots. They believed a bunch of lies. They are whore-servants of the most Satanic oligarchy the world has ever seen. Most of the world hate them, not just Heritage America. The avalanche of the preference cascade gathers. The worst is yet to come for them: it appears that not only is the original COVID strain not natural, but neither are the many follow-on variants. What does this mean? It means that it is extraordinarily unlikely this started with a ‘Chinese Lab Leak’.
Tanaka and Miyazawa, August 2023:
Furthermore, the study of 35 recombinant isolates of Omicron variants BA.1 and BA.2, confirmed that Omicron variants were already present in 2020. The analysis we have shown here is that the Omicron variants are formed by an entirely new mechanism that cannot be explained by previous biology, and knowing the way how the SARS-CoV-2 variants were formed prompts a reconsideration of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
If it was not careless Chinese then who was it? Maybe it was the globalists who seek to enslave humanity in an empire of usury?
https://zenodo.org/records/8361577
Tanaka and Miyazawa … are BIG DAMN HEROES.
My guess is they aren’t done.
They are poisoning us with snake venom.
Yes, it sounds like a conspiracy theory, which, we all know, are things that never, ever come true — except for pretty much every other wacko thing we’ve heard over the last seven years (at least).
I never knew anything about Stu Peters, but I’m pretty sure he has a bad reputation, since few people want to have anything to do with him, his shows, what he says or what his guests have to say.
But ‘Watch the Water’ and ‘Watch the Water II’ are documentaries made by Stu and his guest, Bryan Ardis, and they tell in great detail how our government is poisoning us with snake venom.
Every water treatment plant in the U.S. gets the chemicals they add to the water from the same business in Germany. And in every batch of that chemical you will find snake venom.
So many people poopoo this documentary and the people who present it, but I encourage everyone to watch both documentaries remembering and realizing how we are being lied to, and how we all know they want to kill a lot of us, and do it soon.
Covid and its symptoms are caused by snake venom.
As a side note, in case you did not know or have not heard, big pharma has changed the name of the killer drug Remdesivir to Veklury, and Veklury is the only drug doctors are told to now give children who have covid.
Killers all.
J. A. B!!!! S!!!!!
Just goes to show that Joe or his administration is not running the show!
Silo’s work.
Was he ever in “command”?
He was feeling oppressed?
Too many jabs! And he’s had covid several times. Not a healthy man.
If we had a press they’d be all over this like maggots on a dead animal.
Somebody at Raytheon probably knew where Austin was.
Surely they must have noticed when he didn’t immediately answer the phone when they called this week.
Every day, I think I have heard it all…then I wake up the next day and say..nope, I had not heard it all yesterday.
Living in my own private Groundhog Day nightmare.
I know what you mean, it seems like everyday since the Scamdemic started, I would read the news at night shaking my head thinking it CAN’T get any crazier and I would wake up and sure enough it does.
It appears the Pentagon presumes that the President is on a need to know basis and Joe didn’t make the list.
Could just be a coincidence, but worth noting that yesterday, Friday 01/05/2024 a huge fire broke out in the Elizabeth warehouse in New Jersey. (unsourced) reports indicate that a large quantity of weapons that had been prepared to be sent to Ukraine burned in the fire.
John Kirby is the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Did he tell Karine Jean-Pierre about this. Probably not! All hell breaking loose in Biden White House.
Second Trump Rally Starting Now!!
PDJT just walked in.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/06/president-trump-maga-rallies-and-caucus-events-in-newton-and-clinton-iowa-begin-livestream-at-200pm-et/
Incompetence.
It’s HIPPA you know! Can’t violate that.
Have another jab, Lloyd
The silo system as you, Sundance, have so often described here.
This highlights the point made by Weinstein, that we are not dealing with brilliant masterminds here. Their mediocrity is further debilitated by the jealous guardians of the silo system.
I have been watching reports from Ukraine. Lately there has been missile strikes all over that country overwhelming Ukraine’s missile defenses.
Far be it for me to start a conspiracy theory, but did General Austin elect to have reconstructive surgery after visiting Ukraine?
Example: ~2:00 – ~6:00
These strikes happened all morning on the 1st.
Russian strikes today were in retaliation for Ukrainian missile strikes in Crimea on Thursday and Belgogrod yesterday.
Ukraine got introduced to the term FAFO.
Naw, it has been going on for about a week, maybe longer. Ever since Ukraine bombed a Russian city with cluster munitions.
That sounds exactly FAFO.
Yeah, it did.
It escalated after those attacks by Ukraine on Thursday and Friday I size, intensity and locations.
I follow it thoroughly EVERYDAY!
Dark Vader had elective surgery, then spent four days in the Walter Reed ICU? Somebody was using a dirty knife.
Word is it was gastric restrictive surgery where the stomach size is reduced to a couple of ounces of food. Apparently Dark Vader tried to gobble down his usual meal and literally busted his gut.