Posted on 02/06/2021 5:13:24 AM PST by MtnClimber
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is going to war against “extremism.”
On Wednesday, Austin decreed that over the next sixty days, the entire U.S. Armed forces must go through a stand-down period in order to address the supposed shadow army of fascists and racists who fill its ranks.
SNIP
What might that look like? An exclusive report from Breitbart on Thursday described how special forces were threatened with consequences for embracing “extremist” symbols like…Pepe the Frog:
Henry “told us that if anyone gets caught wearing, buying, selling, affiliated with in any way, any of those things on those list, that the first thing he’s going to do is chapter us out of the Army. The second thing is, he’s going to handle the investigation by sending it over to the DHS,” the source said. “He didn’t quite outright say that we would be arrested, he used the word ‘detained.’”
Some of the imagery on the slides clearly refer to hate symbols, such as a swastika or other Nazi-related symbols. However, also included is “Pepe the Frog” — an internet meme frequently posted by members of the political right to troll the political left. [Breitbart]
SNIP
There is a frightening precedent for all of this: The darkest days of Mao’s China.
After the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, Marshal Peng Dehuai was the country’s first defense minister. Although a committed Communist, Peng was also a professional soldier committed to building a strong People’s Liberation Army. Peng introduced a proper rank system, promoted skilled commanders rather than Communist political apparatchiks, emphasized discipline and proper training, and opposed the growing personality cult centered on Mao Zedong.
But Peng’s professionalism and independence were his downfall. In 1959, Peng was politically isolated and then removed by Mao, who replaced him with the more firmly loyal Lin Biao. Where Peng was committed to the PLA’s professionalism, Lin was the exact opposite. He undid many of Peng’s useful reforms, solely for political reasons. Rank was abolished as a capitalist artifact. Commanders seen as too friendly to the USSR or insufficiently loyal to Mao were purged. Instead of focusing on military matters, about forty percent of a soldier’s time was spent on political matters, being indoctrinated in the arcana of Maoism. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, the infamous Little Red Book that became the world’s best-selling non-religious book, began as a text Lin issued for PLA personnel. Eventually, the PLA’s indoctrination efforts led to it being labeled the “great school of Mao Zedong Thought,” and its methods were promoted within the civilian bureaucracy and wider Chinese society.
New US Military patterned after an African Rabble
Is that Che himself? Or just one of his evil followers?
That’s ok, trained pointy end of the spear soldiers who have just been red-pilled are welcome here on our side. :)
Operation Barbarossa didn’t begin until June, 1941.
It was the Winter War of 11/39-03/40 against the Finns that did in the Red army leadership. Unfortunately for the Red army they were up against a determined Finnish defense led by Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim that stopped them cold and made the Sovs go to the bargaining table.
As soon as the treaty was signed the humiliated Stalin purged his officer corp.
The maniacs are way out over the tips of their skis with their aggressiveness. The way they blindly go after victims, the way they pursue them with merry enthusiasm, the way their antics keep gelded cops far away from them.... any old grunt can predict with near certainty that they will eventually walk straight into an ambush.
When that 10 seconds of justified hell happens on TV, I’ll lift a toast and laugh.
Could care less anymore. The generals flipped Trump the finger for four years. They should starve in budgets until the leaders are loyal Americans again.
Isis was approved of and funded by us. That’s why they had a fleet of matching Toyotas. That’s why they had hundred vehicle convoys on MSRs in broad daylight.
It should have looked like the Stukas over Dunkirk or the highway of death in Desert Storm. It didn’t, and there is a reason.
Our leaders are Sunni
Yes, but it's more important to be "woke", tow the correct socialist party line, and be politically correct. Most importantly, you must be more ready to defend against climate change than invading armies.
/EXTREME SARC
Freedom = Extremism
Democrat party logic CCP winks
The leftists are already doing that with the police. They are calling them “social workers”
Some postulate that the communists can't kow 75 million conservatives. Not true.
All they have to do is dox and castigate 1 million Trumpers into jobless, homeless, broken marriage destitution
and have the media splash their plight on their propaganda platforms, then voila',
the rest will get the message - resist and get crushed.
you mean 1941..
Austin is going to find this to be a very hard road and one which may cost him everything.
I don’t recall where I got it from...FactCheck and Snopes claim it is false.
Which only confirms for me it is probably real. It is what they do. The Left doesn’t have real “Memory Holes” like they do in Orwell’s 1984, they have FactCheck, Snopes, CNN, the NYT and Washington Post instead.
These entities are the Left’s “Memory Holes”. This captures what Che really was and what he did.
The Left believes that if they can deny the photo, then they can deny he murdered people. It is how they roll.
I will too, but the levity won't make you or I despise them any less, that is for certain.
By the way, I very much admired the "out over the tips of their skis" reference. So spot on, and to anyone who has ever skied, an apt mental image.
Hopefully followed by a "Garage Sale" maneuver on their part.
Hehe....good story !
Yup, unfortunately!!
Yup, it was the CIA/feds who did it/funded it/led it/etc., AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT HAS HAPPENED AND WILL HAPPEN NATIONAL AND STATE AND LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL, ETC.
The CIA/feds. will do that and a HELL OF A LOT WORSE. One of their most dangerous weapons has been and continues to be psychological warfare against the American people and the world via the CIA/feds. controlled/run “news”, “media”, “entertainment”, etc.
I know kids are sometimes oblivious about these black parts of life, and that is not always a bad thing depending on the age. If I were a parent and my kid wore that no matter the age, I would most definitely say something to the kid, that’s for sure.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.