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I spend a great deal of time, gentle readers, reading. I read because I enjoy reading, because I find inspiration there, and because as I’ve gotten older, I’ve become just barely wise enough to realize how very, very much I don’t know and will never learn. I do, however, do what I can to try to make up that deficit.
I also read to find ideas for my daily articles for this scruffy little blog. Other authors, and often, readers who take the time to comment, help provide those ideas, as is the case with regular reader/commenter “Doug,” who in response to The Second Civil War #25: Bad Will Is Cumulative, wrote:
If ‘it’ comes… there won’t be any liberty worth preserving. You still don’t get it. Whether it’s from the weather, someone playing with the electric grid, the Internet, disease taking out the distribution system, or goof balls thinking they are going to rescue America from itself by burning the place up… you got about five to seven days before the good old boys in Wyoming, and anywhere else, aren’t so good anymore. You’re missing the point. America is an all or nothing deal… and even the Founders understood that. The next civil war will be nothing more than a going out of business sale. Save the chest thumping cause you have a lot of guns. They won’t matter at all in trying to ‘restore’ any liberty.
There are alternatives… but you know those already.
The “it” to which Doug refers is a second civil war. It’s the topic of this series, which is a warning, not a wish list, in the hope of inspiring others to avoid such a conflagration. Still, we must keep in mind there are things worse than war. Doug’s premise, in part, appears to be that civil war would be so horrible it must be avoided. I agree. I don’t impute this to Doug unless he would like to own it, but D/S/Cs will sometimes spout the same premise with the sub premise that Normal Americans must, to avoid war, therefore submit to whatever they want, which will preserve “democracy,” not liberty, never liberty, not a representative republic, but “democracy.”
Our Republic is like Democracy in the sense of one man, one vote, but even that no longer holds, as one man—even if he doesn’t exist—can vote as often as he likes without bothering to ever darken the door of a polling place, and even non-citizens and the dead have the same privilege. D/S/Cs are doing all they can to set these principles of non-racist, liberated voting in granite, not that Americans may thereby enjoy greater liberty, but that America might become something else: a one-party socialist/communist state.
What they really want is a Democracy, where 50.00000000000001% rule: the Tyranny of the Majority. That’s why they keep calling our republic a democracy: to condition us to accept their destruction of liberty. In such a demos, there are no fundamental, unalienable rights; the people—the majority—rule, and they decide what privileges the minority may have. Rights are reserved for the majority. In such a polis, the most heavily punished crimes are crimes against the state and against the scientific communists who run it. Equity, which is never equal plenty, but always equal misery, is the rule, and rules and rulers must be obeyed. The minority will never become the majority; the majority will see to it by any means necessary, the more brutal, the better.
A favorite D/S/C aphorism goes something like: “violence never solved anything.” This premise is demonstrably, laughably false. We have the Constitution and the liberties we all—mostly—enjoy because enough colonists were willing to use violence to secure them. Mao, the greatest communist murderer of all time–thus far–observed “Power flows from the barrel of a gun.” Commies do tend to be concise when they’re being truthful, and they’re generally truthful about imposing their will on others with force. The Taliban have no doubt about the efficacy of violence, which these days they are happily applying with American weapons.
We have—in red states and cities—relative domestic peace because we have empowered the police to use violence on our behalf, so long as they do so reasonably and according to law. Criminals, knowing we will support the police, which means they’ll be arrested, prosecuted and punished, tend to do all they can to avoid those unpleasant alternatives. They also know citizens are more likely than the police to shoot them, which is why “hot” burglaries—burglaries committed when people are home—are rare. They also know when people shoot them, they’re more likely to get a medal than any grief, which also has a marked deterrent effect. Criminals have no doubt of the realities of violence, which does indeed solve things.
Two summers ago, D/S/Cs sent a small recon party of their thuggish civilian militia—Antifa—to the Sturgis Bike Rally. Apparently they thought their woke violence, trendy black clothing and powerful street theater would impress the assembled bikers, and the police would stand by and do nothing while they worked their revolutionary, Marxist magic. The police hastily hustled them out of town, saving their lives, while the bikers applauded and jeered. Antifa did not return to Sturgis this August, nor did Covid.
D/S/Cs, those who in varying degrees hate the Constitution, America and Americans, also understand the utility of power and the violence necessary to secure and hold it, which is why they are so desperate to disarm Normal Americans, the people who simply want to be left alone to raise their families under the rule of law. They’re becoming more and more alarmed at how many Americans have become first time gun owners in the last few years: women, minorities, people who bought guns because they’ve come to distrust government. When government shows them they were right, they aren’t going to want to lose those guns, and the “use it or lose it” aphorism will take on new meaning.
This is also why they want to pack the Supreme Court, to turn it into a D/S/C super legislature, no longer beholden to something as restrictive of their desires as the Constitution and the rule of law. They want their word to be law, and they want to impose it—changeable from moment to moment as political expediency dictates—on us all. Americans tend to have a dim view of that sort of thing and those sorts of people.
Some D/S/Cs understand all too well the Americans with lots of guns would not only come for them individually, but would prevail in any second civil war. That’s why they’ve been trying to take over our military since the Obama years. They’ve had considerable success in the highest ranks, far less in the mid to lower ranks. PJ Media reports on one true believer:
Woke Army Sergeant Cindy Bronson has a message for her fellow Americans in case martial law is declared: ‘Understand that if active duty military actually get deployed within the United States, that weapon is not just going to be pointed at other people, other countries, it’s pointed at you.’
‘If you do not get in your house when I tell you to,’ Bronson warned, ‘you become the enemy. Martial law. You know, when your rights get curtailed?’
Sgt. Bronson is quite young, and obviously, full of herself and revolutionary zeal. What she doesn’t recall is her oath to the Constitution, not to the Army, or the D/S/C Party, or any politician or officer. She also is not sufficiently experienced or wise to understand who and what she would be facing when she orders American into their houses. Having gotten used to liberty over the last 245 years, they tend to be stubborn about such things. Hopefully, senior NCOs have already had a meaningful talk with young Sgt. Bronson. Hopefully, she is willing to obey the Constitution and now understands her place in our military under the Constitution. If not, she, and anyone like her, must immediately become an ex-soldier.
America, as Doug tells us, is an all or nothing deal, and D/S/Cs want it all. They just expect people like Cindy Bronson to die for it. They really think they’ll be safe, will never be in danger and won’t have to dirty their hands. They’ll order the deaths of millions of Americans, and our military, federal police agencies, FEMA, and their allies on the state level will do the killing of the stupid, racist Normal Americans for them.
It’s not going to work out that way. One side is going to be fighting to destroy liberty, to impose Marxism. They’re going to be fighting to fundamentally transform America into something ugly, cruel and evil. The other side is going to be fighting not only to preserve, but eventually, to strengthen the Constitution, to return America to what is was designed to be and to what it must be–all or nothing.
Surely, some of our military, some of our federal agencies, some of our police will turn traitor. It’s an issue I’ve addressed in prior articles in this series. Whether out of a misguided sense of duty, like Sgt. Bronson, or because they think they’re going to be on the winning side, or because they’re just evil people, some are going to gladly take arms against Americans who want nothing other than to preserve the Constitution and the rule of law. But most won’t. Most aren’t going to kill their friends, families, neighbors and everyday, honest Americans on behalf of Marxism or the latest D/S/C messiah. They surely aren’t going to do it for Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.
For an entertaining exposition on how that would likely play out, one can buy Stephen Coonts’ Liberty’s Last Stand. Or take this link to an interesting, insightful article by Larry Correia.
Indeed, the Second Civil War would be nasty. Civil wars always are because of the inherent betrayal, because it’s very personal, and because the forces of Marxism would be invading the communities and homes of Americans who will not lay down for that kind of aggression. It would be bloody, but brief, and foreign enemies would surely take advantage of America’s absence on the world stage, just as they are planning to take advantage of the weakness they see in the White House today.
All of this is an excellent argument not to have a civil war, which is the point of this series. It’s an argument Normal, Flyover Country Americans accept, unless and until they’re pushed too far, when the people pushing make it personal. And when they are pushed too far, when it’s personal, they’re not going to honor restrictive rules of engagement. They’re not going to consult lawyers before they pull the trigger. They want to abolish the rule of law? Fine. Americans will play by their rules. They’ll do unto them before they can to unto Americans. They’re going to kill the enemies of freedom whenever and wherever they find them—and they will—and win. And when they do, they’ll strengthen the Constitution—strengthen individual liberty and strictly limit government in brutally unmistakable terms with equally brutal punishment for violating them–so they’ll never have to fight a Third Civil War. God help those who stand against them.
As to the alternatives Doug mentioned, the best is for all Americans to willingly accept American Constitutionalism. If everyone would simply be willing to be grateful for all that America is, all that we’ve accomplished, and the indescribable blessing that American citizenship is, we wouldn’t be talking about this. If legislators would honor their oaths of office and say: “yeah, I’d really like to do X, but the Constitution doesn’t allow it, so I’m not going to bring it up,” we would not be talking about this. If the moment any federal employee so much as looked like they had forgotten for whom they work, their supervisors had a serious chat with them about our constitutional scheme and their place in it, we wouldn’t be talking about this.
Most of all, if those who want to fundamentally transform America would just shut the hell up, sit the hell down, and live their lives the way they like—in constitutional America you get to do that as long as you’re not breaking the law—and leave everybody else alone, we wouldn’t be talking about this.
But they won’t. They’re going to push it until they’ve pushed too far, until they’ve made it oh so personal, and then all those people with lots of guns, and lots of training, and lots of ability instead of credentials will have to set things right, just like they did in the late 1700s. They’ll be fighting to keep America in business, and they’ll succeed, or things are going to get very, very ugly, not only for what remains of America, but for Mankind.
Well said Sir. In fact, said better than I have ever heard it said.
Dear Kevin:
You’re very kind. Let’s get busy doing what we can to see it never happens.
Mike, If enough audits in the swing states show wide spread cheating – enough to through the election to Trump, then the states could declare a constitutional convention to remedy things. I would think this type of situation falls under “all other powers are left to the states or the people” part of the Constitution. The founders did not envision this level of cheating. The power of the federal government is derived from the states cooperation, so if most states decide to do this, there is not that much the feds can do. Most federal resources are stationed in the states.
Dear Phil:
Should the mid terms or 2024 election look fraudulent, things are going to get bad fast.
I would say the real test will be next week’s CA recall vote. We have already seen two people caught with mail ballots that every registered vote have received. One criminal had 300 of them. We are also seeing now the amount in GA of illegal dumping of harvested mail in ballots. Harvesting ballots is illegal in GA. If there is wide spread fraud all hell could/should break out.
Dear Alan Reasin:
I would tend to agree, but this is California. They’re utterly corrupt and swirling down the drain by choice.
I pray, but I am not hopeful, and I am less certain than you, Mike. Imo, alot will depend on ex-military and present military if it comes down to it, but its amazing how few it takes, see Taliban.
As an aside, I would be interested to know how many of the 100K refugees are of the LGBTQ variety, or possibly child-fodder for sexual predators. I likely never will.
Dear Old Barn:
The one thing we can be sure of is the Taliban don’t fear Biden, and his handlers will do all they can to cover up the torture, rape and murder of hostage Americans. This is going to end very, very badly. Actually, there may be no end to it.
Who the hell is the “they” in all this?? More to the point, who or whom are the leaders of this “they” that we need to fear? Forget this cutsie D/S/C nonsense, Mike. the S and C in there means nothing. Gotta change the Constitution for that and I don’t see that happening any time soon, or en masse. The “D” in all that are the Democrats. So this “they” that wants to destroy the country, per Trumpian Conservatives, are fellow Americans as simply being the other political party. Frankly, I’m a bit curious… what has changed since Biden starting up that has threatened YOUR personal right to be an American? What liberties have been surrendered.. or lost.. by you personally? Who was responsible for taking those freedoms away from you?
I mean, it’s one thing if you and the others want to play war games and “what if” scenarios.. like that you might save the country from those godless Democrats by going on a secret mission to take over the local police station full of renegade Democrats.. or a traitorous group of rogue Dem GI’s guarding the local armory.. hey, have fun. Hell, go paintballing to have your fantasies.
Reality of any dimension of a civil war will be the end of the country.
(D/S/C’s want to pack the Supreme Court??? Trump just packed it for the next 20 years! Where do you get this stuff.)
Dear Doug:
You know very well about who I speak. I’ve explained multiple times, in detail precisely what D/S/C means and why I’ve taken to using that acronym.
I’ll cite merely a single example. Do you suggest violating the Constitution by putting all power to regulate elections in the Department of Justice and the Federal Government is not destructive to the country and liberty generally? OK, three: invalidating the First and Second Amendments, would that not be destructive? Are D/S/Cs not working very, very hard two do all of these things, and much more?
As to packing the Supreme Court, did you take the link I provided? Or alternately, merely google “court packing.” You’ll be busy for hours reading, and you’ll discover all the names you seek and their reasoning–such as it is–and plans. Oh, and it has become a common D/S/C narrative to suggest using the lawful mechanisms established under the Constitution to nominate and confirm judges is court packing. Only those seeking to actually pack the court, or the woefully uninformed, buy that lie.
No, No.. you’ve explained your use of D/S/C as some generic political dumping ground label. Yes.. you’ve explained that in the past. But You still haven’t provided a “who” specifically is leading all this.. a name, or names. Let’s get this out to the world on who is leading this Democratic destruction of the Constitution. I’d certainly like to know.
You’re afraid “someone” might expand the Court? I heard the same election mumblings you did and I see no movement at all to do that, much less dump the filibuster. Biden doesn’t even have an appetite for that. Who with any sort of power to influence such decisions wants to dump the First and Second Amendments??
You really need to reconsider linking and quoting from all those fringe sources you use if all you can pull from them is fear of “the other” and a mistrust of government in general.
You might want to keep in mind that Biden is not on trial here.. the entire country is.
Dear Doug:
Take the link to find what you suggest doesn’t really exist.
I read that Time article.. and even they stated plain as day that the election was not rigged. So Trumpians picked up on the word “cabal” and instantly made up their minds. Investigations across the board revealed no election tampering… even this goofy Arizona fiasco revealed nothing, crooked and fake as that company was who talked the state out of all that money. There’s no “gotcha” reflected in that Time story… no admission of a thing regarding anything illegal. But as the story indicated, we came close to a questionable election coupled with January 6th… and we are not out of the woods yet regarding the internal threat to the republic and democracy.
This is what you are hanging all this civil war nonsense on?
IOW…
I have to KNOW who is shooting at me, or it’s not actually happening.
And I have to WAIT until my own ‘personal liberty’ is stripped from me — and so should you, or there is no stripping going on.
And the federal government has done such a wonderful job in all its undertakings, that I ought to trust — and so should you — the nameless bureaucrats to secure elections.
And I should — and so should you — give that federal government my gun, my money, my ammo, and my fealty. It/they (whoever it/they is/are) will surely give me back what I need when I need it.
And even though the government ‘scientists’ stories have changed repeatedly since the release of the biological weapon known as COVID, I should — and so should you — dutifully go let someone I don’t know, inject into my body something that they nor I know what it is, so that I can stop COVID.
And I should relent — and so should you — to lockdowns, shutdowns, mask requirements, so-called social distancing, and hastily prepared non-vaccination because all of that is necessary for the public good. Liberty be damned.
It’s all clear to me now.
Malcontents, ‘insulters’, naysayers … interesting bunch of people. The one who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
Yeah, I know.. the whole world just ain’t fair, is it?
I’m still waiting for the names of the all-powerful who want to destroy the country.
Dear Doug:
I know you know better, but just for fun, to cite a single example, look up the names of the D/S/C members of congress who are trying to legislate vote fraud. That’s all but a handful at the moment. I think that would qualify, don’t you?
I shudder to think what new can of worms this might open, but…
Could NSW Australians have imagined this? Would *knowing the names* of the oppressors have helped prevent the oppression?
https://nypost.com/2021/09/07/australias-covid-rules-are-a-warning-to-rest-of-the-world/
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hundreds-arrested-fined-australia-lockdown-protests-79575174
We have Socialist and Communist members of Congress?? Ohh… these are members of Congress you FEEL should be Socialists and Communists given their political agendas you interpret as such. So what you are saying is that we need a civil war to stop certain members of Congress from carrying their destructive agenda of legislating vote fraud forward.. you referring to the For The People Act?
Ok.. so there is no single person running the “let’s destroy America” show you claim is going on right under our nose., but rather a whole buncha people you need to consider eliminating in this civil war you don’t wanna have but-they-better-watch-out-or-else. That must mean you have a list, like the Taliban.
I’ll wager your next lottery winnings that if you polled all your followers, Mike, that every person has their own definition of who comprises the “they” that everyone fears.
So many names, so little time.
https://vashiva.com/dr-shiva-at-mike-lindells-cyber-symposium-reveals-how-bigtech-is-really-government-tech/ [Presentation transcript with names and actions]
https://vashiva.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/11889-Exhibit-A-SECOND-AMENDED-COMPLAINT-07-22-2021.pdf [Image with names]
Dear TBS:
Quite so. We are not required to wait, one by one, until our personal liberties have been infringed, until our votes have been so diluted as to be meaningless, or are simply discarded, until we’ve been denied due process and imprisoned, until our guns have been seized. We are able, through our unalienable rights, which are merely acknowledged by the Constitution, not granted, to warn of coming storms that the damage may be prevented, and those that would fundamentally transform America are mocked, defeated, and if lawfully appropriate, jailed.
So.. you want to have a civil war just in case you lose a freedom in the future? Kind of a pre-emptive thing? Yeah.. that makes sense. :/
“‘…I’m talking about the real King of the Beasts, the only animal that is always dangerous, even when not hungry. The two-legged brute. Take a look around you!’ The instructor leaned forward. ‘I’ve said this nineteen dozen times but you still don’t believe it. Man is the one animal that can’t be tamed. He goes along for years as peaceful as a cow, when it suits him. Then when it suits him not to be, he makes a leopard look like a tabby cat. Which goes double for the female of the species.'”
— Heinlein, R.A. Tunnel in the Sky
Dear karllembke:
Indeed.
I will mention, though, tabby cats can be pretty dangerous too.
In fact my dad found out the hard way that even kittens can do serious damage. (It was feral.)
Tourist: I’ve always heard America’s a backward country.
Guide: Oh? How so?
Tourist: Well, your technology.
Guide: What about it?
Tourist: Well, for example. We use holoprojectors to light our streets and parks. You still use lampposts.
Guide: Let me explain out history, and you’ll appreciate that lampposts have more than one function.
Dear Otto Correct. Please don’t fix my paragraphs for me.
Dear karllembke:
Good one.
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We have a pretty good idea who is behind the cheating. Tech Billionaires such as Steve Jobs’s wife, various elected officials, and even some college professors. All of these people are making a great deal of money off business with China. Trump threatened that and he had to be stopped. There are probably some people at the top, but no one knows who they are. The money came from the tech people, the cannon fodder came from various disaffected groups that are pretty easy to manipulate. Then, of course, we have the MSM acing as the agitprop/pr arm. As to specifically who, that would take an organization such as the FBI, but they an’t home right now. If we knew for certain, we would probably not be having this discussion as it would have already been taken care of.
And how did “we” determine all this?
Dear Phil:
And of course, they, and Time, actually admitted it: https://newsrescue.com/time-admits-2020-us-election-was-rigged-by-cabal-biden-kamala-victory/
The D/S/Cs do not have a majority and inferring from some of the information I’ve read on the scale of cheating I suspect they are less than 40% of the population. This is tyranny by the squeakiest of wheels. Most of the “nice” people I know are disgusted with what is going on but still trying to be nice. If that would stop, those loud people will find out how little support they have. They mistake silence for support. Remember the D/S/Cs have a lot of useful idiots that are also trying to be nice. The problem is the apparent alternative to D/S/C is the stupid party. Notice any Patriot/Constitutionalist is marginalized and called crazy.
I wonder if they even teach the military why our oath was to the Constitution and not something else anymore?
Appreciated observations, Xoph.
Not quite as succinct, but RINO/DINO/S/C might be more fitting. Taken as a whole — the Republicans in name only, the Democrats in name only, Socialists, and Communists — there probably is an anti-American, anti-Constitution ‘majority’.
Yes. Patriot/Constitutionalists tend to be marginalized and called crazy. The Squeakiest of Wheels Gang has information dominance.
Not only are military trainees not taught about our oath to the Constitution, but the Constitution isn’t required reading in most law schools anymore. Furthermore… In the late 1990s, I conducted a poll of scores of students in a small school of law. The question posed: “The United States of America has what type of government?” Not one of the students responded with anything that had either the word ‘constitutional’ or ‘republic’. They all said ‘democracy’, or ‘not sure’.
I stand for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The alternatives Death, Bondage, and Perpetual Misery don’t appeal to me at all.
Be well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre
Mike:
Doug might actually be correct about how horrific a civil war is likely to be. The more radical elements in the Black Lives Matter movement and advocates of Critical Race Theory are already advocating genocide. If these people are allowed to implement these policies even minimally, they will provoke a civil war. In the extremely likely event that white conservatives prevail, America will never again revert to anything remotely resembling a liberal democracy. The best that might be hoped for would be a Republic with extreme restrictions on who is allowed to vote.
Dear Elmer Fudd:
I’ve never suggested a civil war would be anything but brutal, ugly and destructive. The issue is the people that start civil wars do so not only because they believe they’re intellectually and morally superior, because they deserve to rule lesser beings, but because they think they can win. I’m hoping to show them American are not at all like third world nations.
Indeed, some D/S/Cs understand how dangerous American are, which is why they’re trying to establish a one-party state, disarm the populace, etc., but many of them really don’t understand the realities of war. It’s these misconceptions I hope to correct, and I also hope to expose the malign intentions of those who want war.
“I’ve never suggested a civil war would be anything but brutal, ugly and destructive.”
No, you’re still not comprehending. You’re still thinking in terms of “this is a war for liberty and freedom and it will be destructive” as if there would be some level of a positive outcome and the death & destruction road that leads there will be acceptable given the value of the victory.
This isn’t the 19th century… or even the mid 20th century. If all your civil war activities takes out the Internet in all or a large segment of the country there is no more civil war.. it’s Armageddon-like chaos for survival within 5 days. Politics will vanish. If someone kills the electric grid for more than a few days.. the exact same thing will happen. If travel is disrupted making the distribution network impossible either because of traveling itself or scarcity of anyone willing to drive or operate rail… the exact same thing will happen. We are 3 to five days.. to maybe a week from who-cares-about-a-civil-war because I need to feed the family.
You cripple any part of the government to a point where people lose faith in its operation… Wall Street collapses… the same will happen. After the looting stops and there’s nothing more to loot from Walmart or the local Piggly Wiggly.. “they” will be coming for you and what you have. Matters little how many bullets you have, how many guns.,, or how professional you pull the trigger.
It’s like the WOPR computer running NORAD in War Games realized from the futility in playing tic-tac toe.. the only way to “win” in a civil war is not to start one… and learn to compromise.
Dear Doug:
I comprehend quite well. You don’t have to accept my suppositions, but it’s never wise to imagine your ideas are infallible. I certainly don’t.
For those of us who have read Robert Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers”, we have seen the idea of federal service – which in the story meant military service – as a prerequisite to the franchise. I did not get to know Heinlein, but I did get to know Jerry Pournelle very well and Jerry knew Heinlein very well. Pournelle told me Heinlein did not know how we got to required military service for the franchise without Ceaser first, I.E., a friend of the people rising up to take total control to correct the madness. I think we may have found the way. I also think Heinlein would be appalled. He did not envision the Crazy Years as this crazy.
Dear Phil:
Next week I’ll be posting the second of my reviews of the Kurt Schlichter Kelly Turnbull series. In that world of a split country, no one votes in the red without two years of mandatory military service. I rather like that idea.
Another more recent historical example of what the prospective civil war in America is likely to resemble:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
The spectacle of an active duty NCO gleefully talking about enforcing martial law and shooting civilians (as well as public officials implicitly threatening to use nukes against American citizens) is a lot more terrifying than a virus that has a 94% recovery rate even for people over 70, and a 99% recovery rate for people under 70.
Definitely causes for concern, Tom.
I was in service when the decision was made to equip the National Guard and the Reserves to the same level as active duty. This may have been one of the best decisions ever made after the formation of the all volunteer military. That dump shit buck Sargent will have to deal with a whole lot of older, more experienced – including combat- NCO’s in the guard and reserve.
Dear Phil:
In the military I’ve experienced and always known, that would be true. Whether senior NCOs are allowed to discipline the woke these days is an open question.
Just a general FYI for TV viewing consideration… I’ve obviously not seen this myself as it airs this Sunday evening. CNN is running a special on the history of the Afghan war.. of particular interest is that they have interviewed, and are showing those interviews, nearly all the available past theater commanders. Might prove interesting even if you think CNN is fake news.