Posted on 07/27/2021 7:58:22 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe, commanding general of the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning lashed out at critics and asked his Twitter followers to “block and report” people he called “trolls” and “the disinformation tinfoil hat team,” after they criticized his tweet urging people to get vaccinated.
Hillsdale College graduate student and Marine veteran, Josiah Lippincott, responded, saying there were 26 military suicides in the 4th quarter of 2020 — the same number as total military deaths due to the coronavirus. “The lockdowns, liberty restrictions, quarantines, and general disruption of servicemember’s lives is a way bigger killer than the virus.”
Donahoe responded:
Your false equivalency of suicide compared to the virus doesn’t hold up. Why don’t you compare auto accidents while you’re at it.
Lippincott responded: “Suicide is an intentional act. Car accidents are not. When policy treats healthy soldiers as biological hazards we shouldn’t be surprised by an increase in suicide and psychological problems.”
Donahoe than tagged Hillsdale College and tweeted: “Hey @Hillsdale come get your boy.”
Donahoe than tweeted the following day: “Public Service Announcement. Block and report the trolls and the disinformation tinfoil hat team.”
Journalist Glenn Greenwald commented on Donahoe’s tone, calling it “trolling” and “highly politicized”:
Lippincott himself slammed Donahoe in an American Mind piece:
My interaction with the General serves as a microcosm of the American military’s cultural rot. Here we have a two-star General who spends his days on social media hyping a vaccine for an illness that poses minimal risk to his troops. When pressed on why America can’t win wars and why he embraces policies that treat healthy people like biohazards, his first response is to accuse his critics of treachery and then block them from view.
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Donahoe’s tweets drew public criticism, including from a congressman.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), a Navy reservist who has grilled top military leaders on their embrace of Critical Race Theory, tweeted:
Sadly, current Pentagon leadership models this behavior rather than deterring it among the ranks. Milley et al have done more to disintegrate the apolitical ethos of the military than any General officer leaders in history that I can think of.
Lippincott wrote:
A significant portion of our military leaders, like General Donahoe, are totally detached from reality. They face no consequences for losing wars or losing troops to preventable suicides. Many of them don’t really command anything at all.
They are so ensconced in layers of bureaucrats, staff, operations and logistics shops, briefs, intelligence reports, public affairs officials, and aides that there is usually no danger of the public uncovering their true character, lack of leadership, or empty careers.
These generals are stupid, arrogant and chickenshit.
WTH is he doing on Twatter in the first place? Not enough work?
Only hard core RATS talk like this.
Lippincott wrote:
My interaction with the General serves as a microcosm of the American military’s cultural rot.
Here we have a two-star General who spends his days on social media .
Why would an Army General HAVE a Twitter account?
When my son was a corporal in the USMC, they were pretty much banned from using any social media.
What a pussy. Typical of today’s Generals. Can anyone imagine Norman Schwarzkopf throwing a hissy fit like this? Or being on twitter?
Poofter. And he looks about 12 years old. No command bearing.
Patty Donahoe seems to have very thin skin for a military man. I wonder if he got that at Villanova or at Harvard? Toughen up, Patrick!
I wonder what the common denominator is with these suicides? Has the recruiting standards been revised to accept anyone to fill an opening when there aren’t many willing to join? Maybe the “US” prefix is in order again? (Rhet.)
“Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe, commanding general of the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning..”
Maneuver Center of Excellence? Indeed! Terminology like that could only be dreamed up by a pencil necked political handjob. Must strike fear in the hearts of the Russians, Chinese, and before that the Wehrmacht,Japanese Imperial Marines etc. We are so cornholed.
As a Sergeant Major, I used to counsel my officers to Stay TF off social media. There is no positive and plenty of negative. Unfortunately, most were narcissistic prima donnas
Woke, woke, woke. Everybody wants to be woke. We really need to come up with an flattering antonym and give people grounds to wake up to the woke crap.
[[Why would an Army General HAVE a Twitter account?]]
Craves attention and worries about what people think of him. Not exactly leadership material. No wonder the world laughs at our military these days (not saying most of the military is like this, they are not, but more and more wokie McWoksters are Infiltration our military these days, undermining the strength and integrity of the military, and just being a blight on the rest of the good folks there.)
Major General Patrick J. Donahoe
Little Patty looks like a mama’s boy.
Better a shill for Putin then a Shill for the Chicoms.
Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe, commanding general of the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence ...
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Center of Excellence? The general is acting like a 14 year old mean girl posting crap on Twitter.
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