The US army of Vietnam was a turning point
https://twitter.com/braxton_mccoy/status/1480034635614547969
As an avid fan of military history, I would agree, but with stipulations.
Vietnam was the first truly modern military we fielded, where we didn’t show up late to the game with old toys.
If you look at WWII, other than the M1 Garand, much of our early WWII weapons were lagging behind German military technology. Arguably, even the Garand wasn’t as good as it could have been because the Army wanted to use up its stash of 30 cal from WWI so we didn’t get a higher capacity, intermediate cartridge M1 like Garand wanted.
There was a large isolationist push going into WWII, and so our military developed lagged behind.
Once we committed to the war, we went in balls to the wall and caught up quick.
Vietnam was different.
Because of the Cold War, America was committed to maintaining a well trained and equipped standing army.
It had its hiccups, but what we fielded in Vietnam was incredibly well prepared.
But Vietnam was also a turning point.
The Military Industrial Complex was born from WWII any by Vietnam was in full swing.
Vietnam marked the first time career officers rose through the ranks alongside military contractors. It was also the first war that combined the military with a strategic intelligence community (CIA and DIA).
Lastly, it was the first war shown on nightly American TV.
Consequently, it was the first war in which the interests were more than generals achieving tactical victories and defeating the enemy.
While our troops on the ground may have been outperforming the Viet Cong tactically, the war was undermined politically and by officers who has post military careers in the MIC private sector.
That cancer in our military began in Vietnam and has metastasized since then and is now killing our military from the inside.
“COVID Theater Of Horror Does Not Exist!”
Don’t you feel better now that the experts have spoken? Trust the “Science”!
President empathy reminds people that their lives are just eggs to be broken for his Leftist omelet
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1480081899121000451
A thousand homes have been destroyed. For a thousand families, everything they had has been reduced to ashes. A lifetime of mementos, treasures, family heirlooms, all of it gone.
This is devastating, emotionally as well as financially.
But fuck ’em, because this will allow Biden to spend money to build giant, ugly, bird killing windmills, that don’t provide reliable power to the grid, and are resource wasteful, but are the ultimate edifice of environmentally conscious virtue signaling.
Present Empathy, the Grief Whisperer, couldn’t contain his joy that the material wealth thousand families has been wiped from this earth so he could build windmills.
The Left does not care about you and us happy to see the evidence of your existence purged from this world with fire so that they can build their utopia. This is the way it’s always been.
The FBI’s “Patriot Front” Theater was on tour in Chicago
The Federal Patriot Front is back, this time in Chicago ?
— Art TakingBack ?? (@ArtValley818_) January 8, 2022
1) Chicago? These people went to the Jussie Smollett’s School of Crisis Acting.
2) Nice way to treat the flags, you Fedeal commie assholes.
3) License plates taped over, and no LEO found in the Zip Code. If your plate loses a screw and looks askew, suddenly you have 3 counties worth of LEOs pulling you over for a ticket and a dog sniff.
Dear FBI: Just give it up.
The softest people create the hardest of times
The most salient thing I’ve noticed about people’s response to COVID is this:
The softer and easier a person’s life is, the more they over react to COVID.
Almost universally, the people who I see in real life and on social media who freak out over COVID, and want mandates and lockdowns, who get boosters and wear masks, are upper middle-class people who do their jobs in comfortable offices behind a laptop.
The most insane COVID responses are from the pampered, stay-at-home, wives of men described above.
People who lives lives that contain virtually no risk absolutely lose their shit in the face of a cough.
And almost universally, the people who I see in real life and on social media who just keep living their lives, maybe they got vaccinated or maybe they didn’t but are not lined up for boosters and don’t wear masks, are people who’s jobs and lives come with actual risk of injury or death.
Roughnecks, miners, machinists, petroleum workers, etc, the people who could get an arm ripped off or killed by machinery they work with every day simply don’t give a fuck about a cough.
Even within organizations, this is evident.
It’s a simple corollary: the more PPE an employee is required wear on the job the less likely they are willing to be masked or vaccinated and vice versa.
HR and admin are in masks, the rig-hand has never had the jab.
Children have had the lowest rates and virus transmission of any demographic. It’s teachers who work with children and just had two weeks off for Christmas break who are on strike demanding remote learning.
Truckers risk death every day on our highways. Most are unvaccinated.
Writers and pundits who do 100% of their jobs online from a home office with a VPN and a webcam are demanding another two weeks to slow the spread.
Absolutely the lowest risk job workers are demanding thr highest levels of COVID safety.
Even the military is like this. The military personnel pushing COVID compliance are AG officers and uniformed bureaucrats who command through PowerPoint. Combat arms personnel would rather discharge than vaccinate.
COVID compliance has been tyranny of the softest people with the easiest lives over those who do real and dangerous work for a living.
I keep saying I don’t want to return to normal and I want a reckoning.
This is why.
The people who live soft lives and have no idea how to process personal risk should not be the ones who get to decide how society operates.
Thats is how we end up where we are now, a neurotic society paralyzed by fear of a cough.