How far our military leadership has fallen

  • Trump did not realize the extent, over trusted,  or simply ran out of time to make changes to head-off the woke culture infecting the military
  • Milley should be brought up on charges for what he did, now revealed in the Woodward book

The following was forwarded by reader HP, a retired brigade/ task-force level Special Forces combat veteran officer.  We have not verified the author’s credentials but the points made are unassailable.

OPEN LETTER TO
GENERAL MARK MILLEY
by: Quentin L. Smith
September 9, 2021

General Milley:
During testimony before the Congress of the United States you stated:
“I want to understand white rage, and I’m white…What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America?…I want to find that out.”

Well, General, I am a 76-year-old white man, a former officer in the United States Army (1967-70), and a retired Special Agent of the FBI with nearly 29 years of service (1971-1999). I attended Trump’s rally on January 6th, and I think I may be able to help you understand the reasons for “white rage.”

You impugn the motives of hundreds of thousands of patriotic citizens: whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, male, female, young and old. They weren’t trying to overturn the Constitution! They wanted nothing more than to make their voices heard and, if possible, delay the certification of an election they believed, with probable cause, was stolen. You and the media repeatedly claim Trump’s allegations of a “stolen election” are false. Neither you, I, nor anyone else know whether this is true or not because the evidence (hundreds of witness affidavits signed under penalty of perjury, pristine mail-in ballots, xeroxed ballots, the synchronized shutdown of ballot counting in 5 swing states until observers were removed from the election headquarters, etc.) has never been tested in court or disclosed to the people.

Apparently, my presence in Washington, DC on January 6th qualifies me, in your estimation, as one of those “outraged white people” you want to understand. Since you appear to be somewhat intellectually challenged, let me give you just 13 easy to understand reasons for my “white rage” as you like to call it.

1. I’m outraged that a duly elected President, the most effective President in my lifetime, was harassed, falsely accused of being a Russian agent, undermined, and lied about by “Deep State” career officials like yourself and a media that has become the mouthpiece of the Democrat Party, was impeached and acquitted, not once but twice, during his entire 4-year term of office on clearly fraudulent charges.

2. I’m outraged that BLM, Antifa, and other Marxists rioted during the summer of 2020 in cities across the country, and “heels-up” Kamala Harris led an effort to bail those who were arrested, out of jail. Over 500 people, arrested for trespassing and vandalism at the Capitol on January 6th, remain in jail without bail and, in some cases, are held in solitary confinement. This is not a defense of vandalism, but how does the damage from the riots of summer 2020 compare to that at the Capitol on January 6th?

3. I’m outraged that a president who accomplished more for the American people in four years than his three immediate predecessors did in 24 years having restored the US economy, cut taxes and regulations, made the US energy independent, brought unemployment rates down to their lowest level ever, destroyed ISIS, brokered peace deals between Israel and other Arab nations, defended our southern border, put America first, etc., etc., was fought every step of the way by Democrats and the Deep State.

4. I’m outraged that this same president, who received eleven million more votes than he did in 2016, was questionably defeated in an election in which election laws were unconstitutionally changed in the days, weeks, and months immediately preceding the election, supposedly because of a virus.

5. I’m outraged that a senile 78-year old career politician, who can’t put a coherent sentence together, who accomplished nothing during his 36 years in the US Senate and eight years as Vice President, who didn’t campaign and seldom left his basement during the campaign for President, and who could never draw a crowd of more than 200 people at one time, was declared the winner over a President who drew tens of thousands of enthusiastic supporters at each of his multiple rallies, daily, during the campaign.

6. I’m outraged that Candidate Biden bragged about having put together “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics” (it’s on video) during an interview on October 24, 2020, with Crooked Media, a left-leaning media company founded in 2017 by former Obama staffers, and the media says that Trump lies when he claims the election was stolen!?

7. I’m outraged that on January 28, 2018, before the Council on Foreign Relations, Joe Biden bragged how he once threatened to withhold $1 billion in authorized military aid to Ukraine unless the former President of Ukraine “fired” the prosecutor who was investigating the corrupt energy conglomerate, Burisma, by whom Biden’s son, Hunter, was being paid $84,000 per month to serve on the Board of Directors. Can you say, “quid pro quo?” But, when Trump congratulated the newly elected President of Ukraine, who campaigned on fighting corruption, and encouraged him to follow through on his campaign promise, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) blatantly lied about what Trump said, and Trump got impeached!

8. I’m outraged that the FBI was given Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop computer, the hard-drive of which contained emails reflecting the corrupt practices of the Biden family vis-a-vis Ukraine and China and the FBI did nothing with it since crazy ol’ Joe was running for President. Can you say: “Hillary Clinton and unauthorized servers containing top secret documents?” Do you see a pattern here?

9. I’m outraged that the “New Oligarchs” of high tech are censoring virologists of their right to voice their thoughts and opinions when those opinions conflict with the Democrat Party or the CDC.

10. I’m outraged that an agency for which I proudly worked for nearly 29 years was politicized and corrupted by James Comey who was accurately described as being “out of his mind” and a “crooked cop” by a former Deputy Director of the FBI.

11. I’m outraged that thirteen U.S. Marines were recently killed in Afghanistan by the Taliban just because our senile President was too arrogant to follow the blueprint put together by President Trump and his military advisers for the “conditioned” withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. Perhaps, you and our incompetent Secretary of Defense objected, but were either too cowardly or too busy promoting Critical Race Theory to push back and provide needed oversight of this withdrawal. You succumbed to “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and now, as a result, you have the blood of thirteen dead American Servicemen on your hands.

12. I’m outraged about how the precipitous withdrawal of U.S. military personnel from Afghanistan was carried out “before” securing the removal of tens of thousands of U.S. citizens, Afghan interpreters, and others who assisted the U.S. military over the past twenty years, leaving them and Afghan Christians to be tortured and killed by the Taliban. And you didn’t even give advance notice to our NATO allies.

13. I’m outraged that you and Lloyd Austin carried out the withdrawal of the U.S. military without first securing the removal of $85 billion worth of military equipment, weapons, ammunition, Humvees, and aircraft, which you left behind for the Taliban, al Qaeda, and a re-emerging ISIS to use. I agree with a retired British Colonel who recently publicly stated that President Biden shouldn’t be impeached, but rather he should be court martialed. You should be, as well, for dereliction of duty and cowardice.

I could go on, but I believe you get “my drift” as to why I and so many others – white, black, Hispanic, Asian, male and female, rich and poor, young and old – are experiencing flashes of “rage” and “anger” against this current administration. If you had any honor and decency, you would resign and retire.
Sincerely,
Quentin L. Smith

 

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Milley perhaps angling for “Generalissimo”

Another rumor about General Mark Milley V’PAC is privy to

The Chairman was just trying to assure Xi Jin Ping that, even though Trump didn’t like the Chinese, Milley himself had no “yellow rage” and he would let China know if US was planning an attack…to give them time to launch a “pre-emptive” strike.

“It’s what friends do”, Milley explained.

“Amen !”, said the devout Joe Biden
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From Uk’s Daily Mail:

Biden says he has ‘great confidence’ in Joint Chiefs chairman Milley despite him admitting he DID call China and lectured staff on nukes protocol: Trump’s defense secretary says he ‘did not’ authorize calls and general should resign
President Joe Biden said he has ‘great confidence’ in General Mark Milley after he admitted to holding calls with his Chinese counterpart working under Trump
Press Secretary Jen Psaki called Milley a ‘patriot’ when defending him
She said Biden has ‘complete confidence’ in Milley’s ‘fidelity to our Constitution’
Former Acting Pentagon chief said he ‘would never’ authorize the ‘secret’ calls
General Mark Milley confirmed the phone calls took place in a Wednesday statement via his spokesman Colonel Dave Butler
A new book claims Milley phoned his Chinese counterpart to give reassurances two days after the January 6 Capitol riot
Trump accused him of treason and Republicans are demanding he resign
The book’s revelations triggered a wave of concern that Milley had violated the chain of command and endangered national security
Milley was concerned Trump may take rogue action to stay in office
All of the above was detailed in ‘Peril’, an upcoming book about the 2020 presidential election by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa

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V’PAC obtains transcript of Gen Mark Milley from back in the day

(We obtained a transcript of a phone call from the Pentagon a number of years ago. Found it to be intriguing…maybe readers will too.)

Marshall von Runstedt*, this is Mark Milley calling. I’m good. How have you been?

As you know, General Eisenhower has put me in charge of the European Theater.

As I promised you and your boss, Adolph, I’m calling to give you a ‘heads-up’. Our American and allied forces are going to be invading Europe this week, at Normandy. It now appears, due to the weather, that our invasion will occur on 6 June. We’ve designated 5 beaches where US and allied amphibian forces will come ashore. I’ll send you the exact locations by courier later today.

Good luck, Marshall, and be well. I asured you that if we were going to attack, I’d call you ahead of time. Don’t want it to be a surprise.

Always a pleasure talking with you. If you have any questions, don’t call me directly…use our private contact procedure.Bye.                              dlh

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(This is a the call recently reported a book by Bob Woodward, It occurred much later.):

“General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable and everything is going to be okay,” Milley told him. “We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.”

In the book’s account, Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a US attack, stressing the rapport they’d established through a backchannel. “General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”

REPORT: Milley Told China in Secret Phone Call He Would Give the CCP Advance Warning if US Was Ever Going to Attack

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*All German armed forces in the West, on D-Day, came under Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, as Commander-in-Chief West (Oberbefehlshaber West or OB West). He had two Army Groups under his command – Army Group B in northern France and the Netherlands, and Army Group G in the South of France.

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Scott County Republicans ought to be very clear – no private organizations to run elections

  • Iowa Legislature did nothing about private organizations injecting themselves into the running of elections and prioritizing compliant County Auditors responsibilities

There is a Scott County Republican Central Committee meeting to be held this Wednesday September 15, 7:00 PM, at the Eastern Ave. Public Library in Davenport. Republicans concerned about the integrity of the vote and holding Republican lawmakers to task should be there.  A guest speaker  Roby Smith is expected to address election reform “achievements” during the last legislative session. The improvements were marginal, indeed rather pathetic given that Republicans hold both houses of the state legislature and the governorship.

It should be noted that somehow democracy in Iowa survived in earlier decades when absentee voting by mail and early voting was strictly controlled yet voter turn-out was as good or better than today.  Voting by mail is fraught with opportunities for mass fraud and individual privacy issues. Early voting is not conducive to the most informed vote.  It is simply good government to primarily rely on in-person voting with limited exceptions for absentee voting by mail and only in a period, as in back in the day, for at most ten days prior to Election Day.

Voter ID (of a sort) was passed in a previous session but the Republican dominated Iowa legislature failed, and leadership was a big part of that failure, to adequately address fraudulent and potentially fraudulent activity possible in Iowa similar to what was  exposed after the 2020 election.

Improvements were made in a couple of areas. The legislature reduced early voting to 20 days before the election but that is still almost three weeks prior — an eternity for potential political developments and revelations —  but it was all rather tepid given the continued promotion of vote by mail in spite of knowledge of the modus operandi of onesy-twosey cheaters and mass fraud opportunities.

There remain poor audit trail regulations and chain of custody security besides the remaining looseness in vote by mail. That same day voting registration continues to exist reflects an assumption by the legislature that their constituents do not take civic duty seriously.

But perhaps the most egregious failure was not outlawing private organizations the opportunity to target election activity to their partisan advantage using the color of official activity, indeed parlaying existing tax funded activity as a force multiplier for their get out the vote priorities.

That is what happened in Iowa to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars invested by CTCL  an organization run by partisan Democrat hacks, funded by a mega wealthy partisan creep targeting must win counties and other enclaves.  It does not matter how effective it was or was not.  The unprincipled matter of allowing it is what is at issue. And the Iowa legislature has not done anything to prevent it.   See our embedded links at the end of this commentary for related reading.

Dangling grants to County Auditors responsible for not only being above reproach but having a civic obligation to avoid appearance of partisan emphasis in running elections engenders cynicism toward the electoral process. That is not good and the legislature should not allow it.

Punishing by way of some dollar for dollar aid deletion to counties is inadequate to meet the potential for corruption as the most partisan Auditor offices would have no moral qualms about turning their offices over to partisan hacks. Such mega funded influence buying organizations would  be happy to own the processes and take over the running of county election operations. That is because  the most partisan counties might think ~~ well we get our partisan strategy paid for, so what if it is a wash financially because the state reduces something elsewhere.

It should be outlawed.  County Auditors must be above reproach in fact and appearance.

Some auditors including Republican may wrap themselves in some holier-than-though umbrage that they are above reproach (even in appearance) and  such grants as Zuckerberg offered is “found money” and would only be used in furtherance of their established program.

If counties are not adequately budgeting to run an election for their population in their proper roll of siting, being agents for securing the integrity of one man one vote, counting and providing auditable trails — then that county has problems everywhere. The state may need to step in with an emergency grant for those purposes.  However emphasizing early voting, voting by mail (the most insecure way to vote) and subtly  targeted turn-out-the-vote efforts, all of which are the emphasis of grant writing political hacks (frankly of both parties) ought not be a pass-through effort using official county government auspices or tax resources.

Nothing prevents the likes of Zuckerberg funded political operations from having get-out-the-vote efforts.  That is the warp and woof of political parties and PACS and any independent agenda driven organizations.  If they want to wrap themselves selves in a high-sounding “non-partisan” cloak and do the things their grant offers entailed, that is fine as well and have at it. It is a free country but they ought not be able to parlay tax money and official color to their activities. 

Some might regard our position from a partisan conservative perspective, to the effect ~~ what are you worried about, conservatives won the state, the Democrats took a beating in spite of Zuckerberg money, it was a waste of his money ~~.   Well to take that position would indeed be partisan (and shortsighted at that) however even with that in mind Democrats are way ahead of Republicans in gaming strategies and engendering corruptive influences.  It is just too sordid.

Our position is plain.  No outside organization charitable or otherwise no matter their partisan pedigree ought to be allowed to inject themselves into official electoral processes with targeted operational grant programing.  Passive Election Day allowance of building useage if tax supported entities have proven inadequate is an exception that should be very limited.

More on the implications of not preventing  the use of private money to run County Auditor election responsibilities in future post.

Related reading:

Robber Baron Zuckerberg’s role in influencing the election …

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Pithy interlude

This pithy interlude sponsored by TN:

 

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Judge Breyer confuses horse that left the barn with judicial temperment

Seems SCOTUS is “concerned” about being accused of being “political” —  one explanation for why it would not take the case of “Stolen election, 2020”.

In his appearance on “Fox News Sunday” Justice Breyer gave a truly mealy-mouthed answer to Chris Wallace as to why they refused to hear the case. The story appears below our comment.

It seems to us, bottom line, that however well-founded the court’s ‘concern’ might be, the accusation is just as likely in the 2020 election if it hears the case or declines to — either way they can still be accused of playing politics, as it turns out now, by sustaining one side by refusing to hear petitioners).   dlh
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Justice Breyer: Trump’s 2020 Election Case Did Not Meet ‘Normal Criteria’ for Supreme Court.

Wallace asks: In a video, former President Donald Trump said, “No judge has had the courage, including the Supreme Court — I am so disappointed in them — no judge, including the Supreme Court of the United States, has had the courage to allow it to be heard.”

Wallace than asked, “Why was that?”
Breyer said, “Why was it? Because they didn’t bring a case, I guess, that met the normal criteria for being heard. When we decide to take a case, there has to be four votes to take it, so I can’t go beyond that. What we do know is that there were not for (sic) votes to take it because it wasn’t taken. There are criteria, and if we don’t take a case, you know, the reason in all likelihood is that the criteria weren’t met.”
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“in all likelihood … the criteria weren’t met.”? ????????????????
What does that mean?
This “Supreme Court Justice” doesn’t know why the Court did not take a case dealing with possibly the most important matter in American history…. the fraudulently elected president of the United States !!??

MAYBE the “NORMAL CRITERIA” wasn’t met??????

Did I read this right? Justice Breyer doesn’t know why but speculates that maybe the “normal criteria” wasn’t met!

What’s the “Normal Criteria”? If he doesn’t know for sure why the Court voted not to hear the case but ‘opines’ as how maybe it didn’t meet the “normal criteria”, one must wonder if Justice Breyer knows what the “normal criteria” is.

Did Justice Breyer vote? If he did, could he tell us if he voted not to accept?
If he did, could he tell us why he voted not to accept? And, if he so voted, was it because the case didn’t “meet the normal criteria”? And, if it was, he should surely be able to share with us ignorant ’non-lawyers’what the “normal criteria” is.      dlh
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This is the story from Fox News as related by Breibart News:

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Remarks to 9/11 families we think Biden would’ve made . . .

. . . had his handlers allowed him more leeway 

President Visits 9/11 Sites

Updated 11:17 AM, CDT

Shares his ‘own anguish’

On Saturday, President Biden visited all three locations of the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

At each location he shared with the families of those lost on that day his own grief over the loss of his older son, Beau…who was not a victim of the 9/11 horror.

At Shanksville (PA): At great length, the president told families how much he shared their grief over the death of a son or daughter, a husband or wife, of grandchildren, cousins, aunts, uncles, or grandparents.

“My son, Beau, was not on Flight 93 that day”, he told the families, “but he did take a flight on a United Airlines plane once.

Flight 93, on which 188 people lost their lives on 9/11″, Biden noted, also was an aircraft owned by United Airlines.

“Thus”, the president said, “I mourn with you on this day, the loss of a loved one”.

Among the fond memories I have of Beau”, he added, “is what he said to me the first time we traveled on Air Force 2 . He said, “Dad, Let’s Roll!”.

At the Pentagon (Wash.D.C.): “I miss Beau”, Biden told the families of the military service and civilian personnel who were killed on that day. “Like many of your lost loved ones, Beau was in the military and he died, though not on that fateful day. Then, he ‘whispered’ to those gathered for the tragic occasion…”but I miss him as much as you miss your loved ones”.

At New York (NY), ‘Ground Zero’: “I join with you today to grieve the loss of a loved one on 9/11. I. too, lost a loved one though not on that day”, Biden said, “ but I share your grief and sadness as we gather at this place on this day. While my late son, Beau, was not among those who perished on 9/11, we have a close connection with you. Just weeks before that tragic day, my son, Beau, rode an elevator in the South Tower.”

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(President Biden did not deliver any extemporanious remarks on his visits Saturday, to the sites of those attacks on Sep. 11, 2001. But if he had, one can bet, they would have gone something like the above…which is why his ‘ handlers’ did not allow much latitude for him to speak to those gathered for the solemn occasion.).   dlh

However he did manage to get out some inanities at such events including rushing the receiving line to attack some kids in Trump hats

Biden Gets Booed at Ground Zero, Then Says More Offensive Things at Memorial.

Other related articles at RedState

 

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September 11, 2001 — a response as great as any “greatest” generation . . .

  • Hopefully not lost forever, something capable of being regained

There are many worthy tributes, reflections, lamentations in recent days regarding  the 20th anniversary of what has come to be simply referred to in American lexicon as 911.

Sebastian Gorka’s commentary at American Greatness does justice to those who responded to the 911 attack — risking, and so many loosing, life and limb, —  what their bravery and selflessness  reflected about American character, then.

His commentary goes on to explain what we agree should be the key lesson, totally lost on the usurpers of American heritage ensconced in Washington, academia, media, corporations . . . , a Christian heritage and understanding of mankind’s nature, lost or corrupted by much of our religious leaders as well,  that the great society, their great reset is a corrupted mirage with actual evil lurking within.

Rather than try to characterize or restate a succinct and profound statement that stands on its own any further, we commend Gorka’s commentary to you, set forth below.  But first to help set a mood as to what was at least true on 911 is this beautiful rendition  of America’s National Anthem by Victory Boyd, forwarded by SF.

Victory Boyd is a gifted musician and vocalist. Regrettably the backstory to why she was unable to present such a moving performance to NFL fans midfield in a stadium is a reflection of the fearful poorly led America, and Gorka’s  comments.

After being canceled for the NFL to perform the Anthem at the season opening game because of my vaccination status, I decided to sing anyways. Except this time not for the theatrics of a football game.. this time I sang for America. To remind her who she is… the land of the free and the home of the brave.  Victory Boyd

The Only Fact about 9/11 that Really Matters.   by Sebastian Gorka

Thanks to delusional, feckless cowards in Washington, there will be another 9/11 and only those who understand the true lesson of 20 years ago can save us from it.

Twenty years. A generation.

What is left to be said?

Haven’t we said it all? The names, the images, the stories of tragedy and heroism.

The lives lost, the lives changed forever.

God willing, the stories will be told for as long as there is someone to tell them—the individual tales that so encapsulate the things upon which our civilization is founded. The police officer, the firefighter, the chaplain, the office colleague who went back just one more time, the one who ran up the stairwell after the second impact, just to make sure that another innocent life, the life of a stranger, a colleague, a friend, a loved one, was rescued. The stories of those who died, sacrificing their lives in what our Lord and Savior instructed us is the ultimate act of love; “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

The West—our civilization—is unique and the greatest of all civilizations that have ever existed because it rejects the cultural selfishness of the East, where the collective decides what is of import and the individual is, ultimately, expendable. Likewise it rejects the culture of the Middle East, where all that matters is power, whose tribe or clan is the most feared, or which can destroy the most.

Ours is such a peculiar civilization in that it eschews the natural instinct to parochialism and power—jettisoning the seemingly genetically obvious “Me First!” instinct—replacing it with the exhortation “servus,” I am your servant, unto death if necessary. The mere fact that our Christian world’s greatest symbol is the Cross, a barbaric tool of torture and death, is remarkable. The persecuted are the saved. The persecuted are chosen. The persecuted, those marked for death, have already won. Forever.

For these reasons, I choose to see the heart of 9/11 this way, as the greatest affirmation since the Civil War of our Christian heritage and the Christian values built into the founding of this, the greatest nation on God’s Earth, peopled by the greatest and most self-sacrificial and grace-filled citizenry in the world. But this should be obvious to anyone who loves America and understands that the West truly is the apotheosis of human culture.

But remarkably, there is something missing in the conventional wisdom about September 11, an undeniable fact that the “elite” denied then and, incredibly, denies even more robustly today.

Man is fallen. He cannot be “perfected.” Ask anyone who actually lived under a regime which sees as its putative objective, the creation of a “better” man, be it Robespierre’s Paris Commune (a real insurrection), Lenin’s “Workers’ Paradise,” Mao’s China, or Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.

Man can choose—individually—to fight his innate and basest tendencies, but his natural state has been the same since the first Neanderthal prized his neighbor’s mate or coveted his hunting trophies and killed to obtain them. It matters not where or when it is, Man is always a fallen creature. Ask those herded into the concentration camps of the Balkans less than 30 years ago, or the Yazidi girls sold into sexual slavery by ISIS after Obama so precipitously withdrew our forces from Iraq just a decade ago.

And this is the most important lesson on the anniversary of the events from that sunny Tuesday morning 20 years ago. Evil is real. It lurks in the hearts of men, it walks the Earth and will until Judgment Day.

It is remarkable to think that 9/11 didn’t forever convince our “betters” of this truth. The imagery of people jumping from the Twin Towers to their deaths, the towers collapsing—the devastation jihadis brought to New York, D.C., and Pennsylvania. But it didn’t. Nor did the manual decapitation on camera of U.S. citizens, the mass murder of Egyptian Christians on the shores of an ISIS-controlled Caliphate, or even the broadcast immolation of a Jordanian pilot captured by those calling themselves warriors for Allah. Yet now we witness those self-same “experts” declare their hope for an inclusive Taliban government that will strive for “legitimacy.” This is worse than cretinism, it is a psychotic level of self-delusion.

Evil is real. It walks the Earth today and it must be met with courage and brute force until it is crushed, just as it was when we entered the White House to serve a commander-in-chief who vowed to destroy the physical caliphate of ISIS. Which we did in just five months, despite being told by Obama that it was a “generational threat” which we just had to get used to enduring. And now, just eight months after President Trump left the White House, the jihadis who protected and gave succor to 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden not only control Afghanistan, they have $83 billion worth of weapons Biden gave them, as well as new allies who also hate us, including the world’s greatest Communist dictatorship, China.

Thanks to delusional, feckless cowards in Washington, there will be another 9/11 and only those who understand the true lesson of 20 years ago can save us from it.

 

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The fruits of productivity increases are shared with workers . . .

  • Even when rank and file minimum wage labor is not remotely responsible 
  • Capital investment (capitalism) benefits workers
  • Employers recognize achievement by their workers and reward it, or they will fail as good workers migrate at first opportunity

Our earlier article  Crazy Economics was launched due to an article by the usual suspects advocating that fairness required that increased productivity be reflected in increased minimum wage. We believe those two particular concepts are not properly connected. The claim was made that a minimum wage of $26 an hour is justifiable based on productivity statistics that have little relation to those who initially work for minimum wage.  Besides the idea being absurdly inflationary the leftist thought process included this: “Equally important is how the fruits of productivity are divided”.

Indeed, it is important as to who, and how, the ‘fruits’ of productivity improvements are divided…but pay increases related to the percent of improvement in productivity is not the only, nor even the best, way.

Those who make the investments, their savings or their wealth, that is put into things like automation or better methods of production by which to achieve the scale, or cost reduction, of output, should certainly, and fairly, receive the rewards for their risk. The workers also should share the fruits of improved or increased product output…and they do, but it does not always mean higher pay matching percentage of increased output.

Workers share, almost invariably productivity improvement through better working conditions, less physical exertion, job satisfaction, and other valuable, though perhaps less measurable, or visible, rewards. Perhaps, as importantly, workers also do not share the risk which the investors take…sometimes efforts to increase productivity fail, or the demand for the product on which the investment is justified fails to materialize . Such risks are seldom shared by the workers, while the payoffs, if any, nearly always are.      dlh

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Trump coming to Des Moines October 9

Trump to Iowa

Sat, October 09, 2021
07:00 pm (CDT)
Doors Open: 02:00 pm

Iowa State Fairgrounds
3000 E Grand Ave
Des Moines, IA, 50317

Save America rally in Des Moines, IA. Live entertainment will begin at 2:00PM.

You may only register up to (2) tickets per mobile number per event. All tickets are subject to first come first serve basis.

https://events.donaldjtrump.com/events/save-america-rally-in-des-moines-iowa

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