What America Needs is Virtuous Leaders.

 

I saw this on Townhall, and I really liked it, I snuck it in on my work 'puter :)  

   We as a society keep selecting leaders that don't have society's best interest at heart, we keep selecting career politicians that are in for their own pockets, you know that they somehow manage to become millionaires despite only making less than $200,000 a year.  Pelosi is the queen of insider trading and somehow she is shielded from investigation....I wonder why.

AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess the most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society, and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous while they continue to hold their public trust.”  James Madison 

If there is one thing America has not done, if there is one great principle the country has tossed out the window, if there is one great piece of advice and truth that is utterly ignored in the political ethos of the United States today, it is the words of James Madison above as written in “The Federalist,” no. 57.  And it’s why we are destroying ourselves.

Of course, firstly, to do what Madison said, a person must know what “virtue” and “wisdom” are, and most Americans don’t.  The godless Left has made licentiousness, decadence, perversion, and depravity so prevalent that a nuclear family is now “weird.”  And such is the reason why we elect people like Biden, Clinton, Obama, Pelosi, and every other Democrat in Washington and around the country—and most Republicans as well.  

If you give Evil the right to vote, do not be surprised when Evil is elected to public office.  If you give Madness the right to vote, do not be surprised when Knaves are elected to office.  If you give Selfishness the right to vote, do not be surprised when Selfish people are elected to office.  If you give Ignorance and Idiocy the right to vote, do not be surprised when tyrants rule over you.  “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”  But we have kicked God’s Word to the curb, and true wise men can see the horrendous consequences of that in our world today.

As James Madison so perceptively wrote, the first two crucial elements in any country, or, as he said, the “aim of every political constitution,” should be, first, to elect rulers of wisdom and virtue, those able to “discern” the “common good of society.”  Please note that last phrase:  “the COMMON good of society.”  Governments should benefit every citizen equally, not provide special privileges and benefits to people whom those in power favor and whose votes they want to purchase.  If you read the powers given Congress in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, you’ll see that those powers are neutral, benefitting all Americans equally.  There was no DEI, no money for some favored group paid for by those out of power.  No political parties are mentioned in the Constitution (and George Washington specifically warned against them) because parties are divisive, not unifying.  When Party D gets in power, it will benefit its members, paid for partly by Party R’s members who do not believe in those things.  And when Party R gets in power, it will reciprocate.  That isn’t unity. That is division; that isn’t “the COMMON good,” Madison said was the “first aim of a political constitution.”  And THAT, folks, is what really caused America’s civil war if you’ll take the time to study it and truly find out.

AND, further, “to compel a man to furnish funds [taxes] for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is tyrannical and sinful” (Thomas Jefferson).  Amen and Amen.  “Equal rights for all, special privileges for none” (Jefferson again).  Triple Amen.

But a “tyrannical and sinful” government is exactly what America has today, and it is exactly why the country is so horribly divided.  We have elected evil, degenerate rulers with no virtue and no wisdom who think only of themselves and how they can selfishly remain in power.  And they do it by granting financial and other favors to people they are trying to cajole into voting for them.  America has created a hideously unvirtuous political system that has been and is being ruthlessly exploited by godless tyrants who worship no god but power.  It has been happening for too long now, and even the great wisdom of our Founding Fathers hasn’t been able to protect us from our own lack of virtue and wisdom.

As always, our Founders were right.  America has given power to amoral narcissists, and the country is in dire straits because of it. It’s not new in history by any means, but it does seem to be a lesson that humans never learn.  

Madison’s second point in the opening quote is equally valid.  We must elect rulers of virtue and wisdom and “take the most effective precautions for keeping them virtuous while they continue to hold their public trust.”  “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Lord Acton).  Even the best of men can be tempted to abuse power. That is exactly why the Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution that gave national government officials very little power, putting most of it into the hands of state and local governments that the people can more easily monitor.  Impeachment and removal from office was a protection against unscrupulous leaders written into the Constitution, but such has proved very ineffectual.  How do you keep the wicked from being wicked?  Nobody, not our Founding Fathers, not even Jesus, has ever been able to solve that greatest of human dilemmas.

Thus, every great nation in history has eventually destroyed itself, firstly, from within with unvirtuous rulers, and secondly, by hungrier mouths who descend upon it to feast on its dying, decadent carcass (can you say, “illegal aliens”?).  Our Founders understood that perfectly.  They repeatedly warned us about it and tried desperately to protect us against it.  But nobody can fully protect against evil in the human heart.  Evil obviously has a vested interest in perpetuating itself.

Too many Americans no longer know virtue and wisdom; they only know evil and decadence, which is why evil and decadence rule much of America.

My Dream Car.. :)

 When I was a kid in the mid 70's, I made extra money cutting grass to support my comic addiction and one of my customers had a 1970 Torino GT, I loved that car, it to this day is my "Dream car" if I ever hit the lottery, that will be the car, I will buy, plus a couple of others. but that one for sure.

       You can see my model, I have it in my "Bonus" room behind one of my CD's of one of my favorite movies.  Well anyway I saw this "blurp" while surfing around and instead of posting a "rant", I decided to post a something about my "dream car.  I'm sure others have their own "dream car" and mine if I got it would be the "Grabber" green or the blue with the "Dog Dish" rims and the "Laser treatment on the side :)   yes I can dream ya know.  And as a side point, "My Atlanta Assembly Plant" built the Torino's in the 1970's

Ford did things a little differently than other manufacturers. While the GTO was all muscle, Ford’s version tended to be more sporty than muscle. In 1966, the Fairlane GT came standard with a 390, but that all changed in 1967 with a tepid 289 standard. With the all-new 1970 Torino GT,  a 302 was standard, but our Pick of the Day features the muscular 429 4V engine. It is listed for sale on ClassicCars.com by a dealership in Montreal, Quebec. (Click the link to view the listing)

The Torino series grew in size for 1970. Starting with the Fairlane 500, all closed two-door models were hardtops, including the Torino and Torino Brougham; the Torino Cobra and Torino GT were SportsRoof fastbacks. (There also was a mid-year Falcon, which was the only two-door post in the series.).

The 1970 Torino GT was only available as a SportsRoof and convertible, with the coupe being discontinued. The SportsRoof featured a rather severe roofline with a kamm tail complemented by a honeycomb inlay covering the full-width taillights, while the convertible shared the taillights but featured a more conventional rump. Up front, the GT featured the option of hidden headlights and a non-functional hood scoop. Along the sides, hash marks and a GT badge on the rear fender could be the launching point for the optional Laser stripes in contrasting colors.

There were several new engines as well. While the 351 4V was introduced in 1969, that was the Windsor version, while in 1970 a revamped “Cleveland” version included upgraded “porcupine” heads and beefier block due to a different cooling system. Also new was the 429, a replacement for the 428. While the 429 4V had existed since 1968, debuting as an option for the Thunderbird, it was new for Ford’s mid-size cars. The engine put out 360 horsepower and a very impressive 480 ft-lb of torque. Ford also offered a pair of all-new 429s with 370 horsepower: the 429 Cobra and 429 Cobra Jet Ram-Air. Both engines were identical aside of one having an air induction system though today both are referred to as the 429 Cobra Jet. The Shaker scoop was also available for the 351 2V and 4V engines though, strangely, it was not available with the 429 4V.

Some more Rants and Musings...

 Still working the Overtime:)  So I post when I can..

Well the Paris Olympics have started and it has hit with a splash.....

Apparently the French decided to cater to the transgender movement and insult the Christian faith all in one go, I will make several observations...they  can and will insult Christianity, but not Islam, Judaism  Buddhism, Shintoism, Sikh, Taoism, etc,etc, just Christianity get insulted. I guess most of the others they have to worry about is getting a "Fatwa" that usually means death for insulting the true faith, but some of the others will also scream outrage and get upset, but pissing off the Christians, no biggie, "we can ignore them, the Christians are weak, and will do nothing."  I keep drawing parallels to other civilizations that have fallen because the people in them have lost the backbone to stand fast during the hard times when they come, during WWII and during the "Great Depression" the American people as a whole relied on their character and their faith that things will get better and eventually it did.  The faith sustained them until things did improve, but now if something bad happens, many people don't have the faith to endure what will comes and trust in God that things will get better, all they have seen is the hedonistic bullshit that has been pushed on Western Civilization for the past 30 years, and only us older people know what it was like before the hedonism arrived in full flaming glory.  My belief was that what one did on the privacy of their bedroom was no ones else's business unless it involved kids, but now it seems like they push the envelope every year, what is coming next? screwing farm animals as an legitimate kink and bringing "nambla" out of the shadows?   I am afraid that when the bad times come and it will, we as a society will collapse like a wet paper sack because we don't have the resiliency anymore, we won't have the spine that faith and societal laws and norms gave us,  people and society has gotten soft, I know the cycle," Hard times create hard men, Hard men create good times, good times create soft men, soft men create hard times."  I fear what is coming down the pike, I am in the late summer of my life, but my son who is in the spring of his life is going to have to deal with an America that will bear no resemblance to the America I came of age in. 

Well more information is coming out that there was definitely a power play by the Donk power brokers to get "Joe" to back out, and the talk is that it was Obama and Pelosi behind it,  I still wonder what they had to offer Joe to get him to back down after he kept saying for weeks that he is "in it to win it", I can't

 see the Biden Family and the Puppet Master Dr Jill

 walking away from the privileges and money that the presidency and access to the upper echelons gave to the preeminent crime family of America next to the Clintons.  

    Biden went on Television and gave a 11 minute speech that kinda explained why he was stepping away from the race and halfheartedly threw his support to Harris, but you could tell from his speech that he under speech was not a happy man, so I keep wondering what the DNC had on him to force him to step aside.  Its funny that the party that is screeching that "evil Orange Cheeto man is a threat to democracy, and wants to be a dictator", turns out and wipes out the votes of 14 million democrat voters who elected Joe Biden to be their standard bearer in the General election, but the party bosses yank him out because they want to win so bad they toss out the rules in their quest to win and select his VEEP to legally access the money that is available for the election of "Team Joe" can be used by Kamala.

Meanwhile once Kamala announced that she accepted the "nomination" if you can call it that, the mainstream media immediately went in full "Kissass" mode, you have by now have see all the glowing reports about how great she is, and they are already burying all the gaffes, and errors she made both as an attorney general and as a the most liberal senator from California. And lots not talk about her not doing the first Job that Biden assigned her, you know...

   Yeah,,,That one.  Where she never went near the border because they WANTED over 15 million illegals to come over because the Democrats are looking for another loyal voting block that will you know..

    This was an older cartoon that I used during the Obungler years but it is still accurate as it was before, but even more so because of the porous border.   I honestly believe that us "local" people are too set in our ways and will not get with the program that the statist democrats want where they can by dint of their education and station get to tell others what to do and many coming across the border have come from places that have heavy handed central governments to they are used to having a central government tell them what to do and how to love especially when the same government gives them free stuff, whereas we locals know better and will not go along with the program of letting the central government tell us how to live and where to live because the government has done such a Steller job in the past and central planning has worked soo well in other countries.

Meanwhile the USSS had their hearing on capital hill and it wasn't pretty, both GOP and Democrats lambasted the head of the USSS Kimberly Cheatle and she couldn't answer the questions posed by Congress, and she also stonewalled the congressional inquiries at the behest of Merrick Garland, and that pissed off a lot of people, and when Uncle Joe stepped aside taking "Dr Jill with her, she saw her political cover history so guess what she did...

   You betcha, and a long time USSS senior agent got appointed to temporarily run the agency for the near future.

    But We know who runs the DNC and the party bosses, There is the Clinton wing and the Obama Wing with Pelosi mixed in there, 

   President Obama once he realized that Biden no longer cut the mustard and after their reaction to the debate a month ago(Has it been that long?) forced Biden out and now have Kamala Harris dancing to his tune.  She honestly believes that she is the anointed one and that she will be the next president and she can continue the agenda that her mentor Obama wants to push to finish transforming America. 

In a prior "Posting" I had mentioned the Queen of Corruption that she might throw her tainted tiara into the ring if Kamala doesn't select her as her VEEP, also another person also is waiting for the call to get called up,   Yep Pete Buttigieg is anxiously awaiting the call, and yes he checks off several boxes to the intersectional focused donks.   however ...

   The Democrats are having their convention in Chicago, and there are a lot of parallels from the 1968 version and the 2024 version, both from the incumbent president not running for reelection, to a lot of dissatisfied donk voters wanting to protest the policies of the Biden administration, like their predecessors before in 1968, but a lot of people are wondering if it looks like Kamala can't handle the Juggernaut known as the Trump Train despite the fawning media covering for her and trying to hide her past errors in judgments, the power brokers lead by Obama will push Kamala to the side and select some one else they think might have a go against Trump.  It will be interesting indeed.

   

 

Some additional rants and musings...

 First off,  something happened to a good chunk of the western world....

   Yeap, this was my "work 'puter"....Hard to do work, look up manuals, and process 8130's, ete,ete.   It has affected my employer, other airlines, and anybody else that uses a window's based operating system.  Apparently a Microsoft outsourced vendor uploaded a very buggy patch and it caused a lot of problems..I thought of several things...1st, who is going to pay for the millions of dollars people and companies lost because of this...and the second and more insidious...was this an intentional? meaning...because I'm so cynical, I can see this to either sink an election or on a bigger scale cripple the western based world in time for an attack by a hostile power.   This is the problem of having a computer driven society and the work is outsourced to foreign countries that allegiances are suspect.....or did I say that out loud....meanwhile my personal laptop wants me to restart to install the updates and I will not do that right now.

     

Some more information about the shooter is leaking out, but not from official .gov sources...wonder why...His classmates have told reporters that the asshole hated President Trump with a passion and he/she/it ranted about Trump all the time about how much a threat Trump was to America,  but for some reason the .gov agencies will not release the motive...

..*I smell Nashville shooter crap again, bad for the narrative  ya know*  but part of me can kinda get it, for almost half the kids life he was told this by the media.

      Celebrities, Donk politicians, and other people of note all over social media, that it saturates it and anybody that disagrees with it is buried and throttled so their message doesn't get out, and others that are in hollywood and other places can't say anything because the same people that say

Control the outrage page on social media and they can whip up the mob and get like minded sheep to scream and hurl feces at the offender for thinking or saying *wronghivethink* and ruin careers or worse so others stay silent.

      Meanwhile things are coming out that the current head of the USSC is a close friend of "Dr Jill" so FLOTUS pushed for her vegetable hubbie to get Kimberly Cheatle the USSS head honcho job.

     And the DEI over at the USSS hit the high gear, there have been complaints that they lowered the standards to entice and recruit more female and minority candidates, before this, there have been reports of certain female agents on VEEP Harris's detail getting upset and attacking her superiors with no repercussions because she is "of the protected class",  Well makes me think being with Harris would be a reason to lose your religion I suppose.  But the various meme's I have seen about the trials of the USSS and "sloped Roof's" have been comedic gold.   Meanwhile on ly last post I made on "Wednesday" I had made a comment " makes me wonder if someone was "encouraged" not to be as diligent as they should be for "career reasons"  I was listening to some of the commentary from Sirius/XM they had gotten news reports from sources that the head of Presidents Trump's detail was for years worked with the Bidens. And there have been documented reports and emails from the Trump agents asking for more resources and being repeatedly denied and there was a lot of strain between his agents and the higher ups of the USSS.  It kinda makes me wonder if someone was kinda encouraged to not be as diligent for "reasons", and add to the fact that a lot of his regular agents were assigned to "Dr Jills" rally in Pittsburgh so there was more of a reliance on local LEO's, but the reports are coming out that the communications between the USSS and the Locals was poor at best and the cops tried to confront the shooter the first time came from traffic detail.  Like I said, it was a soup sandwich and the .gov agencies are in full CYA mode.   There needs to be a outside the agencies investigation that will get to the bottom of what happened without softsoaping it, or covering it up or hiding it, because anything else will continue to fuel the mistrust that the American people have toward the American government.

 

    Meanwhile it all over "X" and other social media that the same people that  say that President Trump is being overdramatic about that big bandaid on his ear,  the same people you know....the formerly "CovidKarens" the far left faithful that can't openly say"Dang, the kid missed his shot:, so they make other disparaging comments, funny that....

        I was going to make a long musing about out current denizen at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, but according to the pundits, he decided to do a Johnson and not seek a second term and throw his support to Kamala...First thought was "How much did they promise him and "Dr Jill" to get them to step back from such a lucrative gig as the presidency", also I have an Idea who Kamala will publicly pick for her VEEP, and I will 'splain why I say what I said...

   I can see the power brokers of the party pushing the queen of corruption on Harris to "balance her out,", publicly to have the all Female Ticket to go against the all white male Ticket of the GOP, the intersectional donks will eat it up, to help give President Harris some foreign policy assistance with Clinton's experience in the foreign arena, she would be a vast asset.  My opinion, the power brokers know that Harris is unelectable, and will sacrifice her rather than take a chance of pissing off the legion of female black voters that is a huge loyal voting block for the donks. Getting her creamed will take her off the board for 2028 where a fresh slate of donks will have a chance to go up against JD Vance who right now don't have the star power of "the Donald".  Personally, if Harris wins, If I was her, I would hire a food taster if Hillary is my VEEP, she has a habit of "Arkancideing" her opponents.

Some Rants and Musings....

 

   On Saturday President Trump came within millimeters of getting assassinated  by a deranged 20 year old that according to reports that have come out later, had time to climb on the roof, use a range finder, and then set up on the roof and a cop saw him, and the guy pointed a rifle at him and the cop retreated down the ladder, meanwhile a lot of people were trying to get the attention of more law enforcement and the secret service about the guy on the roof but for some reason the information didn't seem to go anywhere.  Now here are a few things, I will include a link that has several tidbits of information for everyone that reads my blog.  Don Bongino "did a report on how badly the Secret Service screwed the pooch on this protection detail.", and the "CYA" mode they are in.  Dan Bongino was a Secret Service member for 10 years from 2001 until 2011 so he has some credibility.  Also there are links that a lot of Presidents Trumps detail were pulled to cover "Dr Jill's rally in Pittsburgh ". 

 

       My thoughts are that the aura of the invulnerability of the USSS is now toast, after the clown show that was witnessed on Saturday, by I honestly believe pure happenstance or divine intervention, the bullet fired by yon asshole would have gone into President Trump's cranium instead of his ear, and it would be a whole different conversation we would be having. Now this is my personal opinion, and yes I am very cynical, part of me wonders because of the clown show that was apparent on Saturday, the Secret Service looked like the Keystone Cops almost, makes me wonder if someone was "encouraged" not to be as diligent as they should be for "career reasons"  I had seen on social media earlier, don't know if it is true, but it makes me wonder there was a post on "X" and some of the others that the "Overwatch Sniper" team couldn't get clearance to shoot until the perp shot first, personally I find that hard to believe but after seeing the clown show from D.C I wonder if there is some truth to this.  I also know that if something had happened to President Trump, the discussion would have been much different, knowing the lefties, they would have been estactic and the rest of us would have been shocked, well we are shocked anyway, but it is almost expected because for 9 years now President Trump has been compared to well you get the picture...

      Go on Farcebook and and "X" and Insty and check out "Libs of TikTok", they have been going after all these lefties that have been wishing that the shooter had better aim, there is a lot of teachers, and other professionals in those ranks. These are the people teaching your kids...no wonder they are messed up including some staffers to several Donk politicians that use their congress critter "X" account to say unkind things and they got caught....darn....   Well anyway. like I said, there have been calls for the head of the USSS to resign, but she was a DEI hire from the Xiden Administration, as I recall, she came from Pepsi, and wasn't an internal hire, and they have really pushed the DEI for the past several years in the Secret Service, I wonder if this played a role in this debacle.  There needs to be an independent review, anything from the DOJ or DHS or the FBI will be spun to absolve them of any responsibility, do you know how I know...remember the Afghanistan withdrawal? after that shitshow, several general officers should have been cashiered out of the service...but nobody was punished despite the huge lose of prestige, equipment and worse of all 13 American G.I's lost their lives over a preventable event and none of the people in charge got punished.  Now you wonder why the people why here in flyover country don't want their kids signing up....they flat don't trust those self serving shits to give a damm about their solders....unless it is pride month...they are all over that crap because it part of their metrics that they are graded for promotions and assignments.

     

   This was discussed in prior post, but I will discuss it briefly, the left like to use violence as a volume knob, they turn it up or down to suit a political purpose, you notice after the assassination attempt on President Trump, there were no riots, no burning police cars, no burning apartments, or anything that would happen if the left were "Unhappy" about something, they would burn, loot and toss police cars, and the soft on crime DA's would give them a pass, that is how criminal justice system works here in the United States.  We on the right side of the aisle are not like the people on the left, now that being said, we do view President Trump as our last hope for our country, if something were to happen to him, the possibility of that switch being flipped is a heck of a lot closer, that is all I'm gonna say.  Do I want to live in spicy times....no, but who know what happens when it is decision time.

     I was in one of the Big box warehouse stores in my area and I saw this and I wanted to "ralph", I then commented, "This douche should have been in jail for all the lives he ruined", the jobs people lost, and families destroyed because of the junk science he pulled out of his ass, I remember the pressure I and others were under because we refused "The Jab"  and the resulting bullcrap that went along with it.

I was going to visit my brother from another mother to pass some BB Guns to him that belonged to the district, and I was in my subdivision, and I decided to stop for a moment, Sirius XM was playing my favorite song, and check out the temperature outside....*Dang*

   Was kinda warm...LOL

     Well anyway, My brother from another mother met me at the scout hut, he was driving his sons truck, yep my old truck, "The Precious" It was strange seeing my old truck, I like my new truck a lot, but I have a soft spot for my old truck, we had a lot adventures togethers, after putting the BB guns away in the scout hut, we BSed a bit then I took a picture of both trucks because I am weird that way...so there.

  I am still working all the overtime, I did this on my Sunday,   I will try to get more blogging in more often. I didn't realize that I had left my blog unattended this long, I will try to avoid this in the future.

"Fixing the Military requires a dying art called Leadership"

 

This ties in with the post I posted a week ago?, I shamelessly snagged this off "Townhall.com".  The rot started in the mid 90's under the Clinton administration with the "Political Zampolits" that Hillary was espousing pushing for women's rights even to the determent of the service. and it expanded its fiefdom as succeeding democrat presidents  and influential politicians pushed the agenda to be all encompassing. to include all "Marginalized groups" which means basically anyone that isn't white and male...unless you are gay.  Then people wonder why there is a huge recruiting gap when the red state kids ain't signing up because they ain't buying what you are selling.  

On this Independence Day, we all know our military has been shattered into fragments of what it was back in the early 1990s, when it was the undisputed most lethal force on earth and certainly one of the greatest armies in human history. America’s victory in Desert Storm, nearly forgotten by a force now more concerned with the strategic threat allegedly posed by warm weather and with catering to the gender-delusional, was on par with the victories of Hannibal, Alexander, and Caesar. That’s no exaggeration. A Cold War military that spent decades ready to hold the Fulda Gap against the red hordes annihilated a nation’s entire military in 100 hours and barely broke a sweat. But today, our military is a disaster. It can’t win wars and it can’t even convince normal Americans to join or stay very long if they do. This disaster has to be undone, and only a Trump victory can do that. Another Biden term and it’s over, but after President Golem botched the debate we have a good chance of getting Trump 2.0 and a shot at rescuing our men and women in uniform from the Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon.

So, how do you go about fixing the Pentagon? 

You start with leadership. Not just shinier stuff. Not smarter policies. Not better plans. Good, solid, old-fashioned leadership. That’s the key.

Yes, we have terrible procurement problems. Our equipment is aging, and we cannot seem to buy effective new gear for a reasonable price within a reasonable timeframe. And yes, we are a strategic mess, with a senior officer corps that has failed to grapple with our real enemies and instead focuses on the trendy boogeymen that terrify leftist civilian poobahs, like “extremism” and the climate hoax. But the most pressing issue our military faces is cultural. Without morale, and without a laser-focus on winning, you will fail. Our military today is less a military than a huge, woke HR department that occasionally drops bombs. 

War is a people business. Our people are alienated. They feel abused and betrayed because they have been. They sense our strategic drift. They do not trust our uniformed leaders, and not unreasonably. The generals’ and admirals’ grotesque betrayal of the troops during COVID was a disaster, but that was only one of many failures. Getting our troops killed in Kabul – with no accountability for the people in charge might I add – was another. Whoever put our magnificent warriors at Abbey Gate under those conditions should be making big rocks into little rocks at Leavenworth, not enjoying a cush retirement gig on the board of some outfit like Boeing.

But heaven forbid a trooper misplace his M4 – now that’s a real crisis!

We need real military leadership again, starting at the top. We need a new commander-in-chief, but we also need a new Secretary of Defense, one who leads our military instead of managing it. He cannot be a bureaucrat cloistered in a fancy office in the Pentagon and hope to fix this mess. The Secretary of Defense, though a civilian, is in the chain of command, so he should command. He must get his intent out there in no uncertain terms. He must expect that his orders reforming the military be swiftly and efficiently carried out. And he must nuke any resistance he gets without hesitation or mercy.

A commander who doesn’t command is no commander. He’s a joke, a clown, a Vindman. We’ve had far too many of them in the officer corps for far too long.

The next Secretary of Defense must be a veteran, someone who has commanded soldiers in uniform. Certainly, the task facing the next Trump SecDef is a bit more complex than that of a new company or battalion commander taking command, but the principles of leadership are the same. You take “command.” You don’t take “suggestion.” You don’t take “go along, get along.” You take command.

You get one chance to set the tone. Go in soft, and ramping up is nearly impossible when you find people are not doing what you direct. Go in hard. Firm. Clear. Not jerky, not obnoxious. Too often bad leaders mistake angry and mean for clear and firm. The troops want a commander who takes charge and sets out a clear and commonsense intent to accomplish the mission. He must give the orders – not suggestions – to move the military toward his objective, a lethal combat-oriented force. The new SecDef needs to do that on Day One.

How does this work in practice? What does it look like at the Pentagon on Day One of the Second Trump administration? 

He must immediately re-establish that the United States Armed Forces is a military organization and will function as such. This is a resource-tight environment – there’s no time or money for fluff or nonsense. Anything that does not go toward deterring or destroying America’s enemies must go. That’s the guiding principle, and he must take steps to implement that by making unequivocal changes to the current regime.

First, get rid of DEI. It’s done, over, gone. No more “X Month,” not more babble about how “diversity is our strength.” Our strength is our strength, meaning our ability to kill the enemy. The diversity pap posters come down, the civilian DEI personnel are terminated as excess, and any uniformed personnel in DEI slots are reassigned to real jobs. This will be accomplished in seven days; each joint chief will report personally to the SecDef that it has been done. When asked if his order has been carried out, the only acceptable answer is “Yes, sir.”

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Some of those joint chiefs will be new because some are getting retired on Day One. They are lucky – in the future, fired generals and admirals will not be allowed to retire at their current rank. Relieved officers will be retired at the rank at which they last served satisfactorily, and that’s never the rank they held when they were fired. This innovative personnel management policy will work wonders to focus the attention and action of our senior military leaders.

Second, the priority is fighting and the skills that go along with fighting. No more climate hoax nonsense, no more babble about green tanks, no more non-military military education—the military academies and war colleges have lost their way. Their job is to turn out killers. Too often, they turn out woke losers. Fire the heads of all the service schools and replace them with new leaders who get that their mission is to churn out fighters, not schmoozers.

Third, rebuild the trust the military lost because of its COVID policies and the pandemic of toxic leaders at the unit level. Focus on unit-level leadership. Make it clear that the noncommissioned officer corps is the backbone of the military – it’s what made our military work back when it did work. There is such thing as “NCO business” that officers should have no part of – officers don’t know how to conduct sergeant’s business, and when they try, they not only screw up but they tell their NCOs that they don’t trust them. The SecDef’s choice – he must make it his choice – for the senior enlisted advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (SEAC) is a critical one. The SecDef should snag the SEAC from the chairman and keep him close by his side as his personal sanity tester and bullSchiff detector.

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He must rebuild the officer corps. Too often, our troops see not warfighters but timeservers and ticket-punchers in command who chose their careers over taking care of their troops. That needs to end. Not everyone is fit to be a commander even if they hold the required rank – the formal board system to assign officers to command slots has failed. The new SecDef must take a hands-on approach to pick aggressive, capable future leaders within the force as George Marshall did with his legendary notebook of officers to watch. Scrap the boards and have the SecDef and his designees manage the officer corps directly. Personnel is policy. The SecDef must pick his team down to the O5 (lieutenant colonel and Navy commander) level. Some will call subjective assignments unfair; what’s unfair is saddling our troops with commanders who look good on paper but can’t lead or fight.

The bureaucracy will attempt to bury the SecDef in the bowels of the Pentagon so it can co-opt him using the mushroom treatment – keep him in the dark and feed him manure. He must physically break out of there and reserve blocks of time to visit the field. He should start Day One by walking the Pentagon halls and dropping in on his troops – it’s called “leadership by walking around,” and it works. 

He needs to make short-notice trips to see what’s really happening elsewhere. “Ladies and gentlemen, this afternoon I am flying to – let’s see – how about Newport News to look at ships? I want a helicopter on the pad in an hour. Don’t tell the base commander. It’ll be a surprise.” And then he needs to go, along with some Navy subject matter expert straphangers, and ask questions like, “Admiral, why is that destroyer covered in rust instead of gleaming? Wait, let me ask your second-in-command because he’s now in charge since you are relieved.”

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The SecDef cannot be everywhere, so he needs personal representatives outside of Pentagon channels to visit bases to find out the ground truth in the field and reinforce the SecDef’s intent. They should be pairs of retired senior officers and senior noncommissioned officers. Having NCO participation is critical. Private Jones knows the real story but he won’t tell some retired colonel. He will tell a retired first sergeant. These Special Representatives of the Secretary of Defense will be his independent eyes and ears. They need a travel budget and the credentials that make clear that they are present on the SecDef’s personal behalf. After the first general who tells the SecDef’s reps they can’t come onto his airbase gets relieved, that will be the end of the overt resistance.

But there will be covert resistance to the SecDef’s reforms. That’s why he must trim the Pentagon’s bloated civilian staff starting Day One. There is a lot of talk about how you cannot fire civil service personnel. That’s not so – you just have to do it right. And you don’t necessarily need to fire them – you can solve the problem by transferring them. Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska will get a bunch of new civilian workers. But mostly you have to work the system. Fire them or move them and then let them fight it. By the time their case is resolved, the SecDef will be retired and the lazy civil servant will be old.

There are many specific things the new SecDef must do, but a single general one. He must lead. This next Secretary of Defense cannot be a bureaucrat and hope to fix the primary problem with our military – the fact that it has stopped functioning like a military. This is why we fail to win wars. This is why our enlistees and junior officers leave the service. This is why vets dissuade young people from joining. We definitely cannot have another failure like Robert McNamara or Mark Esper. But we also do not necessarily need a George Patton or a Douglas MacArthur. Another George Marshall or Dwight Eisenhower, commanders who commanded without fanfare, would be great. Regardless, we need a real leader in the Pentagon. And starting Day One of Trump 2.0, he needs to lead.

Happy Birthday America!

 I will get a post up later, I am off for a couple of days :)

U.S. Military Has Turned Into ‘Vast DEI Bureaucracy’ Under Biden, Study Finds

   Still working all the OT. 

Word on the street is that the services are having a hard time getting recruits becuase the white guys don't want to join because they saw the DEI in action in school and they don't want to deal with the same crap in the service where they are blamed for everything and see people less qualified getting promoted because of "DEI". How can you get kids to defend your civilization after telling them for 12 years that they are the root of all evil in the world.

    I saw this article in the "Tampa Free Press"

The U.S. military and Pentagon have turned into a “vast DEI bureaucracy” under the Biden administration, according to a study released on Tuesday.

The Biden administration has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, which first started to be implemented roughly four decades ago, in the military since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.

A year-long study by the Arizona State University Center for American Institutions, examining online and published materials, alleges that current DEI policies and programs are creating a “race and sex-based scapegoating and stereotyping” environment in the military and hampering defense effectiveness.

“It’s no surprise that young people are turning away from military service in record numbers. As this comprehensive report illuminates, DEI indoctrination has become a core component of military training that begins for officers even at the service academies,” Matt Lohmeier, former Space Force commander, said in a statement on Tuesday. “How can we be prepared to confront our adversaries if our warfighters aren’t laser-focused on the mission but instead are divided and distracted by ideology?”

The study lists examples of DEI policies and initiatives among different branches; an Air Force Combat Command “toolkit” for training and holding “courageous conversations” about white privilege and unexamined bias. An Air Force article on retention advocates for servicemembers to “add personal pronouns to email signature blocks” because “it can influence whether someone will stay in their organization.

The study lists examples of DEI policies and initiatives among different branches; an Air Force Combat Command “toolkit” for training and holding “courageous conversations” about white privilege and unexamined bias. An Air Force article on retention advocates for servicemembers to “add personal pronouns to email signature blocks” because “it can influence whether someone will stay in their organization.

The Navy’s training for anti-extremism considers Black Lives Matter (BLM) a non-political topic, despite the BLM organization advocating for defunding the police, according to the study. The study also points to two high-level officers in the Marine Corps who advocated against racial “colorblindness” because it promoted racism and promoted white supremacy.

DEI policies also extend to service academies, which have diversity and equity offices that perform training and support racial and gender-based “affinity groups,” according to the study. “Eyes and ears” programs are implemented to encourage individuals to report anything they overhear that challenges DEI norms.

The study points to examples of DEI initiatives being implemented in service academies; a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filed by the watchdog group Justice Watch compelled the Air Force Academy to release coursework material advocating for critical race theory through the 1619 Project, a controversial project that claims America’s “true founding” was when slaves first arrived in 1619. The Naval Academy’s “peer education” program aims to recruit midshipmen to host mandatory conversations about DEI with their colleagues.

“Knowledge of the nation that cadets defend is elective. DEI is the core,” the study reads.

The study says that DEI’s focus on addressing “white supremism” as a core problem plaguing the military and country undermines servicemembers’ mission because it asks them “to defend a nation that is an alleged cesspit of racism and discrimination.” There is “little or no evidence” that white supremacy is a problem in the military, pointing to the Department of Defense only being able to identify 100 white supremacists among 2.1 million servicemembers in 2021.

The notion of dividing servicemembers into different racial and gender categories is “Orwellian” and “sows distrust and undermines unit cohesion and teamwork,” the study claims, because it undermines the goal of having a united military dedicated to protecting the country.

The study urges that the military return to the “outstanding tradition” of merit-based selections and promotions and enforcement of non-discrimination among races and genders. The study also calls for all training and coursework taught in social science and humanities at service academies to be made publicly available.

But “the surest way to eliminate the concerning trends we have identified, and the growth of race and sex-based scapegoating and stereotyping in the U.S. military, is to altogether end the DEI bureaucracy there,” the study reads.

The Pentagon didn’t immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Happy Dads Day

 I posted this back in 2021,   I decided to repost it, I am missing my Dad a bit today for some reason, my son moved out earlier this year and we are officially "Empty Nesters" now.  I know I did my job well, I raised my son properly as a dad should,he still calls me for work advice and some other things but I feel kinda lost I guess, if that makes sense.  for now all I do is work a lot of overtime, I have had to curtail my scouting activities back big time because of my work schedule right now.  I was looking at my older Fathers day post and for some reason this one seemed to *speak* to me.

 I want to wish all the Dads out there that are doing all the things out there and being all the things for their kids a Happy Fathers Day, you know the guys, they are the ones that are involved with their kids from all the football practices, homework, baseball practices, taking the kids fishing, shooting, camping, and being involved.  that takes a special person to do all those things.  The job continued after the kids are grown and the Dads are still the ones that can help fix things or give advice because how matter how old you are, you still talk to your Dad, as I did until very recently when St Peter Cut Orders for my Dad to report to Fiddlers Green, this Fathers Day will be more difficult for it will be my first Fathers Day without my Dad and it feels strange, I am used to picking up the phone and "rattling his cage" as the saying went and talking to him about most anything from politics, to regular things to one of my blog post, I used him as an "unofficial" advisor on my Vietnam post because I tried to be accurate,( especially with those post to honor that generation that served and got shat upon by the Hippie scum and other democrats) to how my son is doing, both of them likes to fish, whereas I didn't see the attraction... I guess the fishing gene missed a generation it seems.

 I would also like to throw an "Attaboy" to the Moms out there that are doing the double duty because the "Dad" ain't in the picture, I see it because as part of my scout duties, there are a lot of single moms and they put their boys in Scouts because they want to see their boys have a positive role model in their lives and we guys try our best to provide one.

                               

Again, I want to wish all my friends a "Happy Fathers Day".