Former President Donald Trump's use of a mashup of scenes from the 1987 Stanley Kubrick film, "Full Metal Jacket," interspersed with clips of today's military, has caused some outrage on the left, but mostly, it has caused consternation among some of the right people. I think it is inarguable that the military created by Joe Biden and Kamala is only fractionally as effective as the military under Trump. And even in Trump's first term, the rot of DEI and "gender equality" had already taken root. The failure of Biden and Harris is made clear every day as the only way the services make their manpower goals is by cutting end strength. We've seen the US Navy in the Western Pacific on the cusp of being unable to operate because of a lack of fleet oilers.RELATED: The United States Will Start 2024 With Its Smallest Military Since Before World War II – RedState BUZZ CUT: The U.S. Military's Pronouns Are 'We're/Screwed' – RedState The official and institutional embrace of sexual fetishes as a normal part of the military has been shocking. The clips Trump shows are nowhere near as bad as the situation really is. RELATED: Navy Recruitment: From Heroes to 'Harpy' the Drag-Queen – RedState Nevada Air Force Base Hosts Drag Show, and It's Part of a Softer, Gentler Military – RedState Trump's promise to fire the generals behind this insanity is viewed by Kamala's flailing and undirected campaign as a campaign issue.
Most of the commentary on the video is by room-temperature IQ intellectuals trying to explain that the video shows that Trump doesn't understand "Full Metal Jacket." This guy is real. He's not an AI parody, though he's exactly what an AI parody of a clueless leftist would look and sound like. The point is less that Trump doesn't understand a movie, than Trump's critics don't understand where R. Lee Ermey fits into popular culture. A guy who produces Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show says (see Why Trump’s vow to fire ‘woke’ U.S. generals matters (msnbc.com)):
I'd encourage this guy to review how Thomas Jefferson dealt with known Federalist Army officers or ponder the fact that the military is not the civil service. The military is not an independent power center that has "equities." The president is the commander-in-chief. Every commissioned officer is appointed at each step of his career by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. I have a copy of the Congressional Record when the Senate voted to make me a second lieutenant. No one is advocating a partisan military, but Trump and many of us would like to return to the days when active-duty general officers, or even retired general officers, stayed out of partisan politics and basic standards of civilized behavior adhered to; see General Mark Milley Reportedly Stocking Up on Brown Trousers in Case Trump Is Reelected – RedState. The president has the right, and I would argue the duty, to ensure that senior officers faithfully execute his will and not sandbag him behind his back.
There is nothing wrong with Trump doing just that, and the worst results of that process would not be as bad as what we've seen with the military being suborned on a wholesale level by the left. |
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