"...do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic..."

"For the good of the Air Force, for the good of the armed services and for the good of our country, I urge you to reject convention and careerism..."
- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Maxwell AFB, April 21, 2008

"You will need to challenge conventional wisdom and call things like you see them to subordinates and superiors alike."
- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, United States Air Force Academy, March 4, 2011

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Israel's Cheerleader is So Cozy with Leftist Fascists Despite Seeming Conservative

 

Whether it is NSPLYR the absolute king of leftist fascist fucktards who had to take a breather from his obvious propaganda, or this Disgruntled account, ClearedHot has a habit of being super cozy with the worst in the Digital Clown Show.  "Brother."  GTFOH, brother my ass.

There is something very not right about this retired O-6 who can't stop posting on a web forum in our age of massive domestic propaganda efforts by three letter agencies.  His combination of populist red meat and Zionist garbage while always extending an olive leaf to the worst-of-the-worst leftist fanatics ("we took the same oath") while pretending to be conservative despite fluffing his leftist friends who truly hate the Constitution is something to give one pause when reading his tripe.

And don't forget that in the early days he was fluffing Adam Kinzinger and talking about his personal conversations with him and how great he was.

Are there problems with Slife?  Most certainly.  His destruction of AFSOC's crown jewel community under the DEI flag is front and center.

But ClearedHot makes a poor representative for such critiques.  His readers should question his motivations.

ClearedHot shares Slife's ability to put his finger up and test the winds and then fashion himself accordingly unmoored by authenticity.  Yet ClearedHot lacked the ability to capitalize on that character deficiency beyond merely making O-6 and getting a contracting job.

Having listened to you for decades and having interacted with you and having been in your staff meetings (despite your recent erroneous comments about not "having dealings with him on active duty") here is my recommendation:  ClearedHot, find some authenticity or STFU.

Friday, January 24, 2025

Tyranny (Actual Tyranny) is Always Justified By "Safety"


Good on the BaseOps crowd for making me aware of this latest demonstration.  Couple of thoughts.

First, you could not have asked for a more compliant American than the driver who allegedly ran a red light when he thought it was yellow.  Second, the reason this driver was disarmed was because he dared question the cop's assertion that he ran a red light.  While many States wrongly and inexcusably "legalize" cops to unconstitutionally disarm Americans during routine traffic stops if they feel "unsafe," there is no way three armed cops in body armor actually felt unsafe from one driver who was, as the cop stated, totally compliant.  Third, notice how this "just for our safety despite you being totally cooperative" operation was conducted.  The driver was told "get out" without a hint of politeness and then made to face his vehicle with his hands on his hood.  The reason for this potentially-life-ending insanity was a variation of contempt of cop.  That's the only explanation.

This third point is related to the tyrannical decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Mimms, where they authorize police to force drivers to exit their vehicles and be subjected to being handcuffed during routine traffic stops if the police officer feels unsafe.  An American citizen who may have run a stoplight or have been over the speed limit must subject himself to being handcuffed by a stranger (with a small arsenal of weapons at his or her disposal) who is part of a profession that is filled with criminal behavior.  For safety.  But for the safety of whom?  Not for the safety of the American citizen, obviously, who pays the bills of the armed government actor, but for the safety of the government employee who is heralded as courageous and as a person who "risks their life" to "serve and protect."  Yet it is the American citizen who must subject himself to be shackled and disarmed and subjugated for a routine ticket offense while hoping the stranger does not do them more harm while they are immobilized and helpless for their routine traffic violation.  

The logic behind the Pennsylvania v. Mimms un-American ruling is that cops can use violence against people who might possibly be a threat to them.  The same logic would allow cops to tackle and arrest any person they walked by in a Wal-Mart because a person could produce a knife and stab them.  Just as a compliant driver who forgot to renew his license plate could present a similar threat despite a complete lack of evidence for such a thing.  The thugs in robes at the SCOTUS think the safety of government actors is more important than the actual safety of citizens who are not wearing body armor and who don't have tasers and weapons and attack dogs and qualified immunity.  That is not a matter of safety, it is a matter of tyranny.

As to the cop who shot the driver, that was pure incompetence.  The kind of incompetence that comes with knowing that you're untouchable and covered by qualified immunity.  The kind of disregard for common sense that is birthed from knowing the system values your convenience more than the life of American citizens.

Many years ago I was disarmed by a Texas State Trooper in Uvalde, Texas.  She pulled me over for speeding.  I was compliant.  She asked me where I was going and I told her Laughlin AFB.  She asked if I was military and I told her I was.  I also informed her I had a gun in my pocket as was required by Texas law at the time.  To my surprise, she made me get out and she disarmed me.  Fortunately in those days I did not carry a round in the chamber since I carried concealed in a cargo shorts pocket so I didn't have to bleed out due to her incompetence.  While troopers are normally a cut above city cops, this particular trooper was a complete moron much like the female cop in the video above.  Not only did she display the same stupidity of the cops in this video by feeling "unsafe" from a routine traffic stop and choosing to disarm me, she also displayed the stupidity the female cop in the video above demonstrated as I'll get to in a bit.

She took my weapon off me (she kept her weapon on her of course) and then she took out the magazine and took the slide off the weapon and scattered the pieces throughout my vehicle.  While I was compliant and had no issue for her stopping me for speeding, her decision to disarm me changed things.  While she was disarming me and scattering the pieces of my weapon I was berating her loudly for being so unprofessional and so cowardly that she had to violate the constitutional rights of an American military officer because she felt unsafe during a routine traffic stop.  Many unprofessional cops would have likely escalated the tyranny in response to my feedback on their incompetence, but fortunately she did not do so.

Instead, she gave me a warning.  A warning!

Oh, but it gets better.  Months later I was informed that I had a warrant for my arrest.  After going to the Uvalde court house to figure out why there was a warrant for my arrest, it turns out that this trooper had turned in a ticket for a different offense (failure to maintain insurance) with my name and since it went unpaid and unanswered, a warrant was issued.  The kicker...  She wrote the ticket with my name and not only for a different offense, but also for a completely different color and make of car with a different license plate.  Apparently paperwork was as challenging for her as feeling safe during routine traffic stops.  The judge cleared it up and I went on my way.  Fortunately I was able to walk away from the court house without a bullet in my leg.

Cops disarming Americans without due process (from a jury of peers) is unconstitutional and we Americans need to stop putting up with this tyranny that makes us unsafe from those who we pay to demonstrate courage in the line of duty.

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Its Task & Purpose is Propaganda and Weakening America


The space carved out for military-approved "media outlets" is filled with agenda driven motivation that is much darker that simply chasing a bottom line whether it be the Air Force Times or the new rag, Task & Purpose.  T&P recently made the public suggestion that the nominee to Undersecretary of the Air Force, Matt Lohmeier, was fired from command for publicly criticizing superiors while he was in uniform.  The accusation suggests, of course, criticism that runs afoul of the UCMJ.

Anybody who has paid attention to Lohmeier knows that he takes great care to remain professional while sticking his head out against the powers attempting to weaken our military.

Agenda-driven character attacks are SOP for Task & Purpose and I have firsthand experience.  When I successfully sued then-Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, JoAnne Bass, for violating the First Amendment on social media in pursuit of her DEI agenda, Task & Purpose wrote an article about me that wasn't quite flattering.  I won't link to it because they don't deserve the click.  But the real kicker was that the T&P article author dragged up an irrelevant quote from a lying politician who I had years prior also beaten in court from a previous successful lawsuit against Washington State for violating the First Amendment.  When I contacted the T&P writer and made it clear that I had beat that politician in court and the court ruling showed the politician's claim about me was false, the T&P writer still kept the irrelevant and untrue quote about me in his article.

Task & Purpose is a propaganda outlet.  Its task and purpose is to weaken America through character attacks on those who actually care about America and seek to defend it.

Lohmeier has a great deal of credibility when it comes to caring about America and risking to defend it and so this T&P smear campaign against him is expected.  I'm eagerly awaiting our new Undersecretary assisting our service with a course correction.  As such, I would expect much more yellow journalistic barbs from Task & Purpose.

Friday, January 10, 2025

Something I Very Rarely Do, Going to the Theatre to Watch a Movie: Homestead

 

I like the independent movie production vibe.  I like that "Buck Compton" from Band of Brothers stars in the movie.  I like the idea of trying to carve out a safe space in a sea of insanity, although I think such an effort is likely more fantastic than any special effects this movie might offer.  And I like that a guy I know from the old life is an extra in this flick.  Will report back with my thoughts.

Thursday, January 9, 2025

A Lifetime Ago in a Land Far, Far Away


Dusting off a near twenty-year old item from the vault of history...

Friday, January 3, 2025

2025 Promises Insanity from the Jump

Ever since 9/11 things have gotten more insane.  First it was the assault on our civil liberties resulting from the attack.  Then it was lying the nation into a war with Iraq.  But the past several years have been a headlong swan dive into batshit crazy from our politics devolving into Idiocracy levels, to a "debate" over men in women's locker rooms followed by a U.S. funded virus being unleashed upon the world and resulting lockdowns.

Meanwhile the foreign country that owns our puppet government is expanding in the Middle East, American taxpayers are still forced to fork over massive money to Ukraine (for, I dunno, reasons) while their government is headlong barreling into bankruptcy and while AI absolutely promises to make humans economically unviable (yeah, yeah, I don't care about any horse & carriage industry allegories because this is not even remotely close to the same thing).

Then in comes 2025.

We have had one terrorist attack (unclear who is actually responsible for it) and then...

... an active duty, nineteen year serving, Special Forces soldier with a newborn kills himself in a cybertruck next to a Trump tower.

If that's not enough, he also apparently sent out an email claiming the drones over our east coast (which I failed to mention in my list of crazy happenings) are some super technology employed by the Chinese.


Yeah, happy new year.  Don't forget to renew your NFL Season Ticket.