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The Morning Rant
—OregonMuse
And another mask comes off.
For those of you not up to speed on this, Tucker Carlson poked a hornets’ nest the other day when he criticized the military for introducing flight suits (worn by pilots engaging in combat operations) for visibly pregnant women. The reaction by the Department of Defense was swift and fierce:
Defense.gov posted an article celebrating how “Press Secretary Smites Host that Dissed Diversity in the U.S. Military.” Carlson did nothing of the kind. He took issue with sending pregnant women to war, which is what is implied by designing flight suits for pregnant women.
Press Spokesman John Kirby, who knows better as a retired public affairs Navy admiral, could have issued a simple correction saying, “No, the U.S. military does not send pregnant women to war. Pilots may wear flight suits in day-to-day duties stateside and this does not imply we send pregnant women to war.” Instead, he chose to excoriate Carlson for what Carlson did not say, which was that women should not be sent to fight our nation’s wars.
You might notice that the military spokesmen are using the motte-and-bailey ruse to dishonestly attack Carlson. But more importantly, why go after Carlson at all? He’s just a political commentator on cable TV. The military’s job is to defend the country. How trying to silence Tucker Carlson contributes to this is not clear. But this was a coordinated social media attack on Carlson with the intent of shutting him up.
And get a load of this:
Now that’s some authentic ‘woke’ gibberish right there.
What has happened to our military? How did it get to be in such a disgusting condition that their language sounds like an Maoist struggle session or old-school Soviet show trial?
In one word: Obama.
The man corrupted everything he touched. It’s going to take years, maybe even decades, to clean out all of the progressive rot and filth he left behind, and that’s assuming we can even muster the will to do it. But I suspect he had his minions burrow into the Department of Defense, issue ‘woke’ directives that promoted ‘woke’ policy, and corrupted the officer corps by only promoting officers who backed the ‘woke’ guidelines and ignoring or reassigning those who refused. In such an environment, those who wanted to advance their career learned how to speak ‘woke’ real fast, or at least had the savvy to know how and when to regurgitate the ‘woke’ talking points du jour.
The purpose of progressivism is to infiltrate an institution and turn it into another appendage of the ‘woke’ hive mind. To “fundamentally transform it”, as they would describe the process. That’s what they do. And they were busy doing it in the military all throughout the Obama years, and also the Trump years. But now we can see. We’re at the point where the exterminator is at our house showing us where the termites are eating into the joists and floorboards.
As I said, cleaning out these Augean Stables is going to take years. And we’re going to have to develop and disseminate a self-consciously anti-progressive mindset in order to accomplish this Herculean task. And at this point, I wonder if this is even possible.
Meanwhile, In China, They’re Laughing Their Asses Off
