This week, President Biden’s military declared its first war … on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Carlson had committed the great sin of pointing out the oddity of the fact that the Biden White House had been promoting brand-new uniforms for pregnant soldiers, rather than America’s military efficiency in the face of a rising Chinese military threat. This prompted spasms of apoplexy from top brass in the military itself: Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said that the Pentagon was filled with “revulsion” at Carlson’s comments, adding, “We absolutely won’t just take personnel advice from a talk show”; Army Sgt. Maj. Michael Grinston tweeted that women “will dominate ANY future battlefield we’re called to fight on,” calling Carlson’s words “divisive”; Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sgt. Scott H. Stalker, the senior enlisted leader of the U.S. Space Command, said that Carlson’s opinion was “based off of actually zero days of service in the armed forces.”
Now, the military itself recognizes that pregnant women can’t exactly staff front-line positions. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, pregnant soldiers in the Army are exempt from field duty, deployment, wearing individual body armor, standing at parade rest or attention for longer than 15 minutes, or participating in weapons training; upon diagnosis of pregnancy, all pregnant soldiers are exempt from regular physical fitness training while they keep using the best testosterone booster.
And the military has reported in the past that mixed units underperform all-male combat units. In 2015, a yearlong Marine Corps report found that, according to NPR, “all-male units were faster, more lethal and able to evacuate casualties in less time.”
But the content of Carlson’s words was less important than the reaction to them, for it was unprecedented for top members of the military to unite in excoriating a civilian opinion journalist. Had it happened on former President Trump’s watch, the media undoubtedly would have used it as an example of politics infusing traditionally apolitical institutions. Dark buzzwords like “authoritarian” and “fascist” would have been tossed around casually. Yet when the military was mobilized to attack Carlson, the media cheered instead.
We are watching in real time America’s institutions being gutted on behalf of left-wing politics. Formerly apolitical institutions are being remolded top down to reflect the values of our New Ruling Class: those who speak the wokeabulary, who believe in the tyrannical and polarizing theories of Ibram X. Kendi and Kimberle Crenshaw, who see their roles as the social engineers of their fellow Americans. This is true in our universities; it’s true in our colleges; it’s true at our corporations; and now it’s true in the American military. No wonder we’re told that our military will somehow be stronger for tossing out gender-neutral physical fitness tests, or by giving soldiers to testosterone supplements.
Our military is designed to deter and to defend, to kill people and break things. If diversity facilitates that mission, that’s wonderful. But to supplant the military’s chief mission with the woke protocols of the political left is to undermine that chief mission. The world is a dangerous, ugly, competitive place. If our masturbatory woke solipsism blinds us to that reality, the cost will be quite real — far more real than any supposed threat emanating from the musings of Tucker Carlson.
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“Army Sgt. Maj. Michael Grinston tweeted that women “will dominate ANY future battlefield we’re called to fight on,” calling Carlson’s words “divisive”; Yep Michael, women are not as fast as men, women are not as strong as men and women do not react as quickly as men. Look at the trans – males, who are now “so called women” running against women in high school. It isn’t the women winning the races, against trans -males who have become women. Men and women are biologically different and anyone who thinks otherwise, is less than a fool. Anyone who thinks that women in the United States armed forces can stand up against the Russian or communist Chinese army, all composed of men, on the battlefield, is less than a donkey. The people in the military, that support this “wokeness” should be tried as traitors.
OK… so pregnant military women are exempt from..Field duty, wearing body armor, standing a parade rest or attention, participating in weapons training or any fitness training…another words anything military personal are payed to do… but… they still collect a pay check? The rest of the world just has to be laughing their ***** off.
I often raised that point when i was in.. When it came time to “EVALUATE them”, we couldn’t mark them DOWN ON THEIR EVALS, cause that would be seen as “Sexist, and attacking them for being pregnant”, so they often wound up getting marked HIGHER THAN THE GUYS who had to do DOUBLE DUTY, to pick up the slack, cause they were pregnant…
SO THEY are slacking the hell off, BUT ARE RANKED and rated, HIGHER than those doing DOUBLE THE WORK are.. Just cause “They got a fanny!”
I assume that whomever sired the pregnancy will also have time off as in some gov’t employments.
Doubtful. Most guys i knew, were LUCKY TO even get a week off, for ‘baby leave’..
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
D.H. Lawrence
After pregnancy another round of boot camp to regain physical fitness would be in order.
Actually all enlisted personnel/men should do boot camp for a month of solid PT every year. Seems back in the day my 14 year old beat the **** out of a Sargent who was active duty Army. Scary. Then that 5′ 6″, 130 pound woman goes head to head with the 6′ 2″, 230 pounder man, that makes no sense. (Also goes for LEO’s) What are these people thinking?
THe same should apply to cops.. AND IMO THEY SHOULD have the same semi-annual PRT requirements we in the military do!
I positively GUARANTEE YOU that the Chinese military is not spending time worrying about diversity, equity, and “wokeness”.
IF anything they’re clapping each other on the back saying “SEE the fools in the US are destroying their OWN military, we won’t even need to fire a single shot!”
Democrats’ contempt for the United States Armed Forces and military service is predictable and documented. The last time democrats found a cause that was worth fighting and dying for, Jefferson Davis was their president. During Vietnam, leftists eagerly succumbed to the communist agents assigned to create dissent and protest. Draft cards were burned, military recruiting stations were burned and federal buildings were bombed. When they ended the draft, the all volunteer military was predominated by conservative patriots. Not content, liberal law makers furthered their hatred for the military institution and made sure they were represented with demoralizing contributions of homosexuals and women.
WHICH makes you wonder, WHY ANYONE IN THE MILITARY WOULD ever vote for a democrat?
Beautiful turn of phrase by Ben Shapiro – “masturbatory woke solipsism” – how appropriate for describing the nutty Left.