The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

[dream big]

On 5/16/2021 at 5:36 PM, bfargin said:

"This decision was based on public comments made by Lt. Col. Lohmeier in a recent podcast," a Space Force spokesperson said in an email. "Lt. Gen. Whiting has initiated a Command Directed Investigation on whether these comments constituted prohibited partisan political activity."

I find this very problematic. So, lets fire the commander while we determine if his words are an issue/problem and violate any rules.

Yet my former squadron commander can send out Trump bashing articles to their squadron for “mentorship”..with zero consequences. 
 

Edit: This was while Trump was still POTUS.

Edited May 20, 2021 by dream big
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[Guardian]

Yet my former squadron commander can send out Trump bashing articles to their squadron for “mentorship”..with zero consequences. 
 
Edit: This was while Trump was still POTUS.

What community was that?

[Springer]

From Military.com:

MILITARY WATCHDOG -- I apologize in advance for this tome – the subject too critical for abbreviation.

I leave to the Air Force to determine the procedural compliance of LTC Lohmeier’s record setting (first printing sold out hard copy
and paperback) book “Irresistible Revolution “ sales which as of May 21 an 85 percent 5-star Amazon ratings and reviews and similar elsewhere; a pittance of 1-3 stars. Pay attention.

Most important is the crux of his book – exposing the purging of the military of all who stand up against critical race theory, 1619
nonsense, compulsive pseudo diversity, equality, inclusion and Marxist style indoctrination by a cadre of mostly BLM advocates in the Pentagon led by Bishop Garrison. He the architect of the purge as head of the Countering Extremism and Patriotism Task Force. Yes, there is such a thing. A position which he created.

Garrison is a military academy graduate (2002) with a short and less than distinguishable military career (which he elects to purge in any
articles about his service). Leaving the Army, Bishop found a way to milk lucrative Pentagon study contract funding as a Washington Beltway bandit. A shill who convinced his way into a senior executive service (SES) position absent requisite experience. That's called a political appointment. He is entwined with a tangled web of mutually supporting racial-enraged groups (Human Rights First) with self-supporting government contracts.

What really happened is that this group was successful, instrumental,inserting into the Defense Human Resources Activity Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide Fiscal Year (FYS) 2019-2020 President’s Budget, a Center of Excellence; $ millions.

“The Center of Excellence for training, education, research,and consultation in matters related to diversity and inclusion; military and civilian equal opportunity; and the prevention and response to sexual harassment, harassment, hazing and bullying across the total
force.” Yet Bishop regularly bullies.

They created their own program and their own positions and no one in the Pentagon smart enough to intervene. Biden and Austin
subscribed at once – Susan Rice told them too.

From his own bio: Garrison served in the Obama 2012 re-election Campaign. He served on the presidential campaign of Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton. These are his principal credentials for a key leadership position purging the military.

(I have no affiliation with Lohmeier)

[BashiChuni]

it's obvious what's going on within the DOD. in fact its so obvious it's hidden in plain sight. vote with your feet.

[kaputt]

2 hours ago, Springer said:

From Military.com:

MILITARY WATCHDOG -- I apologize in advance for this tome – the subject too critical for abbreviation.

Did this article get taken down? I can’t find it anywhere. 
 

I think it’s point is dead on. For that reason it wouldn’t shock me if it got purged. 

[Springer]

29 minutes ago, kaputt said:

Did this article get taken down? I can’t find it anywhere. 
 

I think it’s point is dead on. For that reason it wouldn’t shock me if it got purged. 

Kaputt it was in Miltary.com this morning in the comment section of the below article.  The comment was written under the name of MILTARY WATCHDOG.  You would have to dig through all the comments to find it.  I just now found it, so it has not been removed.  If you find his post click his name it will lead to other posting by him.  I could not include the link.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/05/20/space-force-co-fired-over-comments-about-marxism-military-now-subject-of-ig-probe.html?ESRC=eb_210521.nl

[Blue]

1 hour ago, Springer said:

Kaputt it was in Miltary.com this morning in the comment section of the below article.  The comment was written under the name of MILTARY WATCHDOG.  You would have to dig through all the comments to find it.  I just now found it, so it has not been removed.  If you find his post click his name it will lead to other posting by him.  I could not include the link.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/05/20/space-force-co-fired-over-comments-about-marxism-military-now-subject-of-ig-probe.html?ESRC=eb_210521.nl

Link to the Disqus page of "Military Watchdog." where you can see his comment (about three comments down), under article headline "Space Force CO Fired Over Comments About Marxism in the Military Now Subject of IG Probe."

@Springer, thanks for posting that.  Any kind of "comments section" of an article usually seems to be an exercise in sifting through the nonsense to find the occasional gem.  That particular comment is very insightful.

Edit to add:  Is it really possible that this one guy, Bishop Garrison, is the cause of all the Woke nonsense endemic in the DoD?

His Linkedin bio certainly support the assertation he's some kind of beltway bandit bullshit artist, who's spent the better part of the last 10 years running around DC as part of various Institutes, Policy Centers, etc, to include stints on Hillary's campaign and the Biden transition team.

Edited May 21, 2021 by Blue

[Blue]

3 hours ago, BashiChuni said:

it's obvious what's going on within the DOD. in fact its so obvious it's hidden in plain sight. vote with your feet.

Alright, it's not obvious to me.  What's going on within the DoD (serious question).

[Springer]

30 minutes ago, Blue said:

Link to the Disqus page of "Military Watchdog." where you can see his comment (about three comments down), under article headline "Space Force CO Fired Over Comments About Marxism in the Military Now Subject of IG Probe."

@Springer, thanks for posting that.  Any kind of "comments section" of an article usually seems to be an exercise in sifting through the nonsense to find the occasional gem.  That particular comment is very insightful.

Edit to add:  Is it really possible that this one guy, Bishop Garrison, is the cause of all the Woke nonsense endemic in the DoD?

His Linkedin bio certainly support the assertation he's some kind of beltway bandit bullshit artist, who's spent the better part of the last 10 years running around DC as part of various Institutes, Policy Centers, etc, to include stints on Hillary's campaign and the Biden transition team.

Thanks for the link Blue.  Great stuff by Military Watchdog.  Don't know who he is but here is another great one by him:

Military Watchdog  3 days ago

MILITARY WATCHDOG -- Memo to Bishop Garrison chief of inclusion, diversity, political purification, and other nitwittery for the Department of Defense and defender of the 1619 Project critical race theory propaganda and nuzzler of Black Lives Matter leadership. The United States military has suffered fools before and endured. So far you show no aptitude for understanding the problem. It is not the Armed Forces that stand, fly, and sail in formation, fight the battles, and defend the nation. We mostly get along just fine. No, the problem is you and others like you who find mutiny and conspiracy around every corner. You are paralyzed by Trump. The real problem is the ineptitude of Washington government, political sewage, particularly the Pentagon, and by extension the national intelligence community. You cannot solve that because you are part of it. The problem is a woke Congress who fails to believe in its military. You are insulting to all of us who wear or ever wore the uniform of this nation, the able bodied and irreparably wounded. You stand in front of mirrors in your WW II uniforms thinking you match their sacrifice and valor, you talk the talk, but cannot walk a straight line. You are ruining the military like a cancer. Kindly get out of our way and let the military be the military. Our military was called to protect against 23 different insurrections (act of 1807) since 1808 and never failed. The United States military is consistently polled the most respected (70 percent) government institution by the public; Not you or your minders. The Congress only 10 percent. Get out of our way, take your sycophants with you.

 

Edited May 21, 2021 by Springer

[Springer]

When Reckless Military Training Creates Preventable Deaths, Accountability Must Go to the Top | Military.com

 

Military Watchdog  a day ago

MILITARY WATCHDOG -- Seemingly every day we read stories like this. Today we pay the price for the principally Obama administration changing the long established and at least more successful, if not perfect, promotion criteria selecting senior officers and NCO from peer-superior ranked evaluation and performance rather than political fidelity and ideological servility. The result is philosopher and compliant generals more like Senior Executive Service (SES) than Lee and Grant, Eisenhower and Patton .......... Here we go again, lots of luck fighting the Chinese and Russians with the Austin-Garrison purge.

[Springer]

30 minutes ago, Blue said:

Alright, it's not obvious to me.  What's going on within the DoD (serious question).

Military Watchdog  4 days ago

MILITARY WATCHDOG -- Important article, important book, pay attention. Amazon Reviews: ( initially 66% 5-star, 33% 1-star, nothing in between). Book now 5/17 rated # 1 by Amazon for all book categories, not just military, and 75% 5-stars, 22% 1-star.

There is so much more: Concerned Veterans should article search for "SOCOM's Richard Torres-Estrad" and also DOD's "Meet Bishop Garrison: The Pentagon’s Hatchet Man in Charge of Purging MAGA Patriots and Installing Race Theory in the Military." "Pentagon's
operation against Trump supporters, conservatives, opponents of globalism is worse than imagined." DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, now a propaganda agency, recommended a brand new suspicious-soldier category called “Patriot Extremism” which occurs when a citizen believes the US government has become corrupt or “has overstepped its constitutional boundaries.”

Garrison, a Veteran and West Point graduate, is defended here: "Human Rights First by Bishop Garrison."

My point is this: make sure you understand what is really going on inside the military. You read, you decide. Oriana Pawlyk and Milcom did a good job with this article. Pentagon may have started fire it cannot put out.

 

 

[Lawman]

Alright, it's not obvious to me.  What's going on within the DoD (serious question).

You have leaders of key formations within SOCOM fielding questions like “why don’t you have more African Americans in your organization.”

Real talk... that was flat asked of the Seals, and when the command master chief pulled the national statistics on swimming ability and how key that is an early discriminatory factor on anybody, not just blacks people he was basically ignored. Showed them the numbers and how they line up with national demographics and was full stop ignored. The problem was obvious to the people asking the loaded question, it was a built in racial bias, and the final representation of racial demographics is then used to justify their position of the military harboring institutional racism.

These are the same people screaming “why aren’t their more female and minority generals” while failing to understand that the intake from start to finish on a General Officer is 30 years. We only started letting women into certain positions within the military capable of fielding a decent population of Flag rank officers 20 years ago. Combat Arms (the majority of Army/Marine upper echelons), 3 years ago... Its gonna take some time to see what they view as an epidemic of old and white men taper off.


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[dream big]

18 hours ago, Springer said:

When Reckless Military Training Creates Preventable Deaths, Accountability Must Go to the Top | Military.com

 

Military Watchdog  a day ago

MILITARY WATCHDOG -- Seemingly every day we read stories like this. Today we pay the price for the principally Obama administration changing the long established and at least more successful, if not perfect, promotion criteria selecting senior officers and NCO from peer-superior ranked evaluation and performance rather than political fidelity and ideological servility. The result is philosopher and compliant generals more like Senior Executive Service (SES) than Lee and Grant, Eisenhower and Patton .......... Here we go again, lots of luck fighting the Chinese and Russians with the Austin-Garrison purge.

This POS and his cohorts will have blood on their hands when we get our asses kicked by the Russians or Chinese.  But by god at least we don’t have mean tweets anymore!

[HeloDude]

When you design/build lethal tools that are used by white people to kill non-white people…but you’re still trying to show that you care.  Or something…

https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-lockheed-martin-forced-thousands-of-employees-to-undergo-white-male-re-education-training

[SocialD]

49 minutes ago, HeloDude said:

When you design/build lethal tools that are used by white people to kill non-white people…but you’re still trying to show that you care.  Or something…

https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-lockheed-martin-forced-thousands-of-employees-to-undergo-white-male-re-education-training

 

Lol, pure eyewash to appease the woke mafia.  Whether these companies believe in it or not, they'll be doing these things just to look good to the people they're trying to keep off their back.    

[VMFA187]

54 minutes ago, HeloDude said:

When you design/build lethal tools that are used by white people to kill non-white people…but you’re still trying to show that you care.  Or something…

https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-lockheed-martin-forced-thousands-of-employees-to-undergo-white-male-re-education-training

So I work for said company and other than an email about celebrating LGBTQalkdhfadsf+ month I haven't heard of any woke policies or courses being implemented. But I'm just a lowly CIP so who knows. 

[Pooter]

https://youtu.be/sSfejgwbDQ8

Jon Stewart on the lab leak theory. Absolute gold. 
 

A few thoughts in no particular order:

-I really miss Jon Stewart on tv and his show was genuinely the last time a parody news show was funny. Definitely didn't agree with him all the time but you could tell he thought critically about things and formed his own opinions. 

-Pretty wild that the lab leak theory is now mainstream after being a cancellable offense only a few weeks ago. 

-Maybe the lab leak would have been taken more seriously by everyone involved if trump and fringe right wingers hadn't immediately equated it with an intentional release of a bioweapon. That was one of trumps biggest weaknesses. He said plenty of true things but most of them were buried under a mountain of horsesh!t and/or packaged in the dumbest way imaginable. 

[kaputt]

7 minutes ago, Pooter said:

 

-Maybe the lab leak would have been taken more seriously by everyone involved if trump and fringe right wingers hadn't immediately equated it with an intentional release of a bioweapon. That was one of trumps biggest weaknesses. He said plenty of true things but most of them were buried under a mountain of horsesh!t and/or packaged in the dumbest way imaginable. 

The lab leak theory would have been taken more seriously if the powers that be in the media, big tech, etc… didn’t have such an out of control case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It doesn’t matter what dumb way Trump mouthed off about that; anyone with half a brain could put two and two together early in the Pandemic and realize that a lab leak, from a totalitarian nation with bio lab/research facility in that same city, was a legitimate possibility. Who cares how Trump phrased it, there are other adults in our political class that should have put their heads together and tried to find a way to get the world behind finding out the truth. 

Also the fact that talking about a lab leak was a silence-able offense and is now not just speaks to the MASSIVE hypocrisy many in positions of power have in this country. Big tech and political leaders went out of their way to silence legitimate discussion on the topic, but now that a certain orange man is out of power and Fauci’s emails have leaked, it’s okay to talk about again. Orwell much?

Regardless we’ve probably lost any opportunity to actually find out the truth. Whatever way the virus came to be it sure as hell worked out in China’s favor. 

[Pooter]

21 hours ago, kaputt said:

The lab leak theory would have been taken more seriously if the powers that be in the media, big tech, etc… didn’t have such an out of control case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It doesn’t matter what dumb way Trump mouthed off about that; anyone with half a brain could put two and two together early in the Pandemic and realize that a lab leak, from a totalitarian nation with bio lab/research facility in that same city, was a legitimate possibility. 

No. It does matter. The president of the United States cannot continuously spew garbage and then magically expect everyone to take him super duper serious when one tiny portion of what he's saying turns out to be true.  Trump is like a right wing idiot's Nostradamus. They think he's a genius and make constant excuses for him because he's right occasionally, while conveniently ignoring the mountain of chaff and nonsense.  
 

I agree that trump derangement syndrome is a thing and the media was looking for reasons to discount or oppose anything trump said.  But two things can be true at once. The media needs to uphold better journalistic standards and trump needed to uphold basic standards of truth and honesty as the president of the United States. 

[kaputt]

17 minutes ago, Pooter said:

No. It does matter. The president of the United States cannot continuously spew garbage and then magically expect everyone to take him super duper serious when one tiny portion of what he's saying turns out to be true.  Trump is like a right wing idiot's Nostradamus. They think he's a genius and make constant excuses for him because he's right occasionally, while conveniently ignoring the mountain of chaff and nonsense.  
 

I agree that trump derangement syndrome is a thing and the media was looking for reasons to discount or oppose anything trump said.  But two things can be true at once. The media needs to uphold better journalistic standards and trump needed to uphold basic standards of truth and honesty as the president of the United States. 

Well you've proven that your issue is with Trump (surprise surprise) and not the fact that the entire media, big tech, and democrat party complex tried to silence discussion on something that had a legitimate possibility of being true. 

That was the entire point of my post. The media, tech, democrats, etc... allowed zero discussion of the lab leak, even from commoners on Facebook, simply because the lab leak theory had a slight stain of orange on it. You could even be called racist if you so much as dared to insinuate such a thing was possible. Sorry, but its not the outlandish statements of Trump that stopped discussion of a totally possible theory, its the Orwellian efforts of those sitting on the left side of the aisle, using fear, threats, and actual force (technological force of platform bans) to have a narrative fit the only one they wanted at the time.

 

 

[lloyd christmas]

55 minutes ago, Pooter said:

No. It does matter. The president of the United States cannot continuously spew garbage and then magically expect everyone to take him super duper serious when one tiny portion of what he's saying turns out to be true.  Trump is like a right wing idiot's Nostradamus. They think he's a genius and make constant excuses for him because he's right occasionally, while conveniently ignoring the mountain of chaff and nonsense.  
 

I agree that trump derangement syndrome is a thing and the media was looking for reasons to discount or oppose anything trump said.  But two things can be true at once. The media needs to uphold better journalistic standards and trump needed to uphold basic standards of truth and honesty as the president of the United States. 

Your second paragraph explains the first.  

[Pooter]

39 minutes ago, kaputt said:

Well you've proven that your issue is with Trump (surprise surprise) and not the fact that the entire media, big tech, and democrat party complex tried to silence discussion on something that had a legitimate possibility of being true. 

That was the entire point of my post. The media, tech, democrats, etc... allowed zero discussion of the lab leak, even from commoners on Facebook, simply because the lab leak theory had a slight stain of orange on it. You could even be called racist if you so much as dared to insinuate such a thing was possible. Sorry, but its not the outlandish statements of Trump that stopped discussion of a totally possible theory, its the Orwellian efforts of those sitting on the left side of the aisle, using fear, threats, and actual force (technological force of platform bans) to have a narrative fit the only one they wanted at the time.

 

 

Yes, I understand your point and I completely agree big tech, media et al. are way out of line. This is truly some dystopian  1984 shit. But it's a wild oversimplification to pretend that one side is solely responsible. 
 

I think you need to ask yourself why you're holding social media companies to higher standards of truth and transparency than the literal elected leader of the free world. Factual, responsible discourse should start with the president and serve as an example to everyone else.

If you elect a troll, don't get upset when they get banned. 

Edited June 16, 2021 by Pooter

[HeloDude]

40 minutes ago, Pooter said:

If you elect a troll, don't get upset when they get banned. 

Fair enough—so why hasn’t AOC and Ilhan Omar been banned as well?

[brickhistory]

One of the all time most brilliant business moves I've ever heard of:

 

Quote

Victoria’s Secret is reportedly undergoing a “major overhaul,” dropping the Victoria’s Secret Angels and replacing them with what it calls the “VS Collective,” featuring women like soccer star Megan Rapinoe.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/06/16/patriarchal-sexist-victorias-secret-replacing-the-angels-with-soccer-star-megan-rapinoe-and-the-rest-of-the-vs-collective/

No doubt they'll soon be replacing silk bras and thongs with flannel shirts and hiking boots.

"Hello, LL Bean? I'd like to place an order..."

[ThreeHoler]

Well, at least there is a trans person.


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