The Biden/Harris Department of Defense has methodically devitalized the US military through homosexualization, DEI, and ideological purging. But at least it acknowledged Veterans Day yesterday. Too bad this was done at a Democrat level of competence:

In a now-deleted post on Instagram and X, the F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office — whose very existence centers on the F-35 fighter jet — shared an image of an aircraft with the caption, “Today, and every day, we thank all Veterans and those currently serving for their service and sacrifice.”

Here’s why they had to delete it:

Not only was the aircraft pictured not American, it belongs to an adversarial, communist nation that some living veterans commemorated on Monday fought against in Korea. …

On closer examination, it appears as though the F-35 JPO actually posted an image of communist China’s J-35 stealth fighter aircraft, the People’s Liberation Army Air Force’s F-35 knockoff.

Maybe they couldn’t use an American jet because they gave them all to the Taliban.

The blunder is par for the course under Commander in Chief Joe Biden:

Stars and Stripes reported that the U.S. Pacific Fleet tweeted then deleted a Fourth of July message last year depicting a service member saluting silhouettes of a Russian Kashin-class destroyer and Russian Sukhoi-27 fighter jets.

At least the Veterans Day graphic didn’t have any drag queens in it.

It has become a cliché because it is so true: Democrats reflexively accuse their opponents of doing what they themselves are up to. In light of the recent revelation that the Biden/Harris regime has authorized the military to kill American citizens on US soil, this makes her otherwise incomprehensible allegation that Trump will use the military to silence political opponents alarming in the extreme:

Trump will win. Democrats will steal the election through brazen fraud. People will complain. Biden/Harris will call in the military to shut them up. Hopefully it won’t play out like this, but if it does, we won’t be able to say we couldn’t see it coming.

On a tip from Varla.

A candidate as conspicuously awful as Kamala Harris, representing a degenerate ruling class antithetical to the American people, is not likely to win a fair election against a successful former president, no matter how heavy a thumb the MSM and Big Tech lay on the scale. Other arrangements may have been made.

The preposterous hype over January 6 that Democrats dragged out for years was more than an attempt to discredit Trump through association with unruly supporters. Democrats have been laying the groundwork to respond with draconian force against those who protest against election fraud.

Coming just before the election, this may be more groundwork:

Biden’s corrupt Department of Justice has issued orders authorizing the U.S. military to use lethal force against American citizens as a video clip of Kamala Harris fantasizing about using force to censor free speech goes viral.

Cackala has made her authoritarianism explicit:

Federal Directive 5240.01 brings in the military. From the directive:

Defense Intelligence Components may provide personnel to assist a Federal department or agency, including a Federal law enforcement agency, or a State or local law enforcement agency when lives are in danger…

Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated.

Never mind the Posse Comitatus Act; the Biden/Harris regime has told the Pentagon it can kill US citizens on American soil.

If Democrats pull a steal in November, they may keep yapping about “Our Democracy,” but not even liberals will be expected to take it seriously. The USA will be a police state.

On tips from 100 Bravo, ABC of the ANC, and Wiggins.

A video played at Trump’s rally in Scranton Wednesday draws the contrast between the US military before and after the Biden/Harris regime temporarily (I hope) reduced it to a social engineering laboratory with the purpose of advancing LGBTism:

NRA board member R. Lee Ermey is missed. He was a Marine drill instructor in real life before playing the role in Full Metal Jacket.

The video is a compelling argument in favor of Trump, because if the current state of affairs is not reversed, America’s adversaries will inevitably take full advantage of it.

On a tip from Ed McAninch.

Moonbattery does not appear to be seaworthy. It isn’t only Germany’s solar ferry that has taken on water. Consider New Zealand’s navy:

HMNZS Manawanui, the Royal New Zealand Navy’s newly upgraded hydrographic salvage and support ship, ran aground [Saturday] night during a reef survey off the southern coast of Samoa. The vessel subsequently caught fire and sank, marking the first peacetime loss of a Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) ship. While no injuries were reported, the incident resulted in an oil spill.

Let’s hope the environment doesn’t mind.

The New Zealand Defence Force stated that the cause of the grounding is currently unknown and will require further investigation. …

While New Zealand officials are praising the ship’s commanding officer, Commander Yvonne Gray, for her swift action, some question whether more could have been done to save one of only five fully operational ships in the underfunded and overworked RNZN fleet.

Thanks to DEI, this may be the English woman’s foremost qualification to command a New Zealand naval vessel:

Commander Gray and her wife Sharon moved to New Zealand after falling in love with the country during a campervan holiday.

Any questions on why government officials are praising her?

On tips from KirklesWorth, Chris Neilson, and ABC of the ANC.

During the recent farce of a debate, the Democrat apparatchiks posing as moderators pointedly refused to fact-check Kamala Harris. So American troops stationed in harm’s way step forward to perform the task:

Is Skankala oblivious to current events despite being vice president for the past 4 years? Or is she the most arrogant liar in the history of politics? In either case, no patriotic American could want her to be commander in chief.

Speaking of the CiC, her statement that “there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world” calls to mind Joe Biden’s enraging claim in the previous debate that no troops had died under his administration — despite the 13 US servicemembers his incompetence killed during the botched surrender to the Taliban:

Small surprise that he forgot them. During a memorial service for the dead troops he went on to disavow, Biden wouldn’t stop looking at his watch:

Cackala was the “last person in the room” during the planning of the disastrous withdrawal.

ABC News thinks it might not yet be too late to salvage a few tattered remnants of credibility even after hosting the debate. Massachusetts’s moonbat governor Maura Healey probably never had any credibility to begin with. She is fun to laugh at though:

On tips from Varla and Mr. Freemarket.

According to the three laws of Robert Conquest, any institution that is not explicitly right-wing will become left-wing. That is, it will be subverted from within so as to promote moonbat degeneracy. Not even the American Legion is immune:

Womenfest, one of the country’s largest annual gatherings of LGBTQ women is happening in Key West through Sunday, Sept. 8, featuring a colorful roster of female festivities ranging from women-centric bike tours to watersports, saucy soirees and even a gala prom night.

The festivities also include “a clothing-optional sandbar and snorkel trip on the Blu Q catamaran.”

Saturday night brings Womenfest’s highlight event: the “Fire & Ice Fantasy Prom,” complete with all the trappings — and a Key West twist. Attendees will dress in prom attire, from gowns to tuxedos and everything in between, and dance the night away to tunes spun by the DJ Rude Girl. Hosted by the American Legion Post 168, 803 Emma St., the gala also will feature [yadda yadda yadda].

The American Legion was founded after World War I to support veterans. Not many knew they were fighting for Womenfest.

On a tip from Mike B.

Tim Walz bailed out of the National Guard when he learned his unit was headed to Iraq, thereby abandoning his men. Then he lied about his rank and about serving in combat, violating the Stolen Valor Act, for which he voted as a member of Congress.

Walz is contemptible even by Democrat standards. Don’t take my word for it. Vets who served with him weigh in:

Imagine an America in which Tim Awolz is next in line to be Commander in Chief, behind a Marxist ditz who was “the last person in the room” regarding the catastrophic Afghanistan withdraw.

Gold Star families don’t appear to be enthused about the Harris/Walz ticket either:

On tips from Anonymous and seaoh.

Some people have actually benefitted from Biden/Harris — for example, the Taliban:

The Taliban celebrated the third anniversary of their return to power Wednesday at a former U.S. air base in Afghanistan…

The Bagram parade was the Taliban’s grandest and most defiant since regaining control of the country in August 2021. …

The Bagram parade was also an opportunity to showcase some of the military hardware abandoned by U.S. and NATO-led forces after decades of war, including helicopters, Humvees and tanks.

You probably recall how our enemies got their hands on so much US ordnance:

The Biden-Harris administration’s poor planning and execution in Afghanistan resulted in the botched withdrawal that killed 13 US service members, left Americans stranded, and allowed billions of dollars in US military equipment to flow into the hands of the Taliban terror group.

Nice to see they are enjoying the gifts involuntarily bestowed upon them by US taxpayers:

The four-star hypocrite who served Biden/Harris as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, was granted an honorary knighthood by the British government, which explicitly cited his “leadership in Afghanistan.” As noted previously,

Aside from his catastrophic “leadership over Afghanistan,” Milley is best known for politicizing the military on behalf of the Democratic Party. Assuming Bob Woodward’s reporting to be accurate, Milley committed treason during the Trump Administration in collusion with communist China. He espouses antiwhite race hate and regards a large percentage of the US population to consist of enemies of the government.

Milley’s clever idea to give $billions worth of weapons to the Islamists who provided al Qaeda with a base of operations for 9/11 is not endorsed by Trump:

Trump probably doesn’t think much of Milley’s alleged treason either.

Speaking of treason, the Biden/Harris regime that surrendered to the Taliban continues to shovel our money at them — over $1 billion and counting.

On tips from seaoh, R F, ABC of the ANC, and WDS 2.0.

Never mind that Tim Walz is a child-endangering creep and a leftist kook. Unless moonbattery has corroded the USA to the point we find cowardice and stolen valor acceptable, this video will end his alarming political career (and that of Kamala Harris for selecting him) in just over 1 minute:

Hat tip: Revolver News.

If brought up on charges for violating the Stolen Valor Act that he voted for, maybe Tim AWalz can use the insanity defense:

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Turns out there is a limit to how outrageously a Democrat pol can prevaricate without getting called on it by the mainstream media:

“Well, here is Tim Walz, who enlisted when he was 17 years old. He served in the National Guard for 24 years. And I’m not aware of any military service that JD Vance has ever served. So let’s just make the comparison there,” [Senator Tina] Smith [D-MN] said.

Whoa. They are putting up the disgraceful military history of Tim Walz — who makes John Kerry look like Audie Murphy — against J.D. Vance.

Even the infamously partisan Jim Acosta choked on Smith’s B.S.:

“Well, he was in the Marines,” Acosta interjected.

Vance was deployed to Iraq. Walz was in the National Guard, but when it looked like he would have to go to Iraq, he slunk away, leaving his unit in the lurch.

It isn’t just right vs. left. It’s worthy vs. unworthy.

On a tip from Varla.

Tim Walz’s qualifications as a moonbat are impressive. His qualifications to be second in line for Commander in Chief, not so much.

Write Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr:

We, retired Command Sergeants Major of the Minnesota National Guard, feel it is our duty and responsibility to bring forth the truth as we know it concerning his service record. So, we have put together a timeline of his service post 9/11. …

On September 18th, 2001 Tim Walz reenlisted in the Minnesota Army National Guard for six years.

In early 2003 he was selected to attend the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy.

So that taxpayer money isn’t wasted training people for nothing, this came with the stipulation that he would serve for at least 2 years after graduation or promotion to Sergeant Major or Command Sergeant Major, whichever came later.

On September 17th, 2004 he was conditionally promoted to Command Sergeant Major.

This promotion became null and void after he failed to meet the conditions to which he had agreed.

In early 2005, a warning order was issued to the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, which included the position he was serving in, to prepare to be mobilized for active duty for a deployment to Iraq.

Uh oh. A guy could get hurt over there.

On May 16th, 2005 he quit, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war.

Walz gave the phony excuse that he was running for Congress. He did not need to go AWOL to do that.

If he had retired normally and respectfully, you would think he would have ensured his retirement documents were correctly filled out and signed, and that he would have ensured he was reduced to Master Sergeant for dropping out of the academy. Instead he waited for the paperwork to catch up to him. His official retirement document states, SOLDIER NOT AVAILABLE FOR SIGNATURE.

On September 10th, 2005 conditionally promoted Command Sergeant Major Walz was reduced to Master Sergeant. It took a while for the system to catch up to him as it was uncharted territory, literally no one quits in the position he was in, or drops out of the academy. Except him.

Nonetheless, we will have to listen to Walz boast about his heroic military service:

He claims to be the highest-ranking enlisted service member ever to serve in congress. Even though he was conditionally promoted to Command Sergeant Major less than eight months, quit before his obligations were met, and was reduced to Master Sergeant for retirement.

The servile mainstream media will back him up, if only by not exposing his shameful record.

On tips from 100 Bravo and Chuck A.

What Democrats did to the formerly respected Secret Service through politicization and a heavy emphasis on DEI, they are also inflicting on the armed forces. Destroying a military from within is more cost-effective than the tradition means of crushing it with superior force, but still costs money:

The Biden-Harris Defense Department paid outside organizations millions of taxpayer dollars to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, including race-based career advancement programs, in the U.S. military, documents shared exclusively with The Daily Wire reveal.

The documents, first obtained by the Functional Government Initiative, highlight the extent of the Pentagon’s efforts to embed leftwing, race-based ideology in the military, in partnership with academic institutions and consulting firms.

Per FGI spokesman Peter McGinnis,

“Rather than maximizing readiness training to ensure a capable military, the DOD’s training seems calculated to foster sowing internal discord with aggressive efforts to promote controversial ideologies.”

A house divided against itself cannot stand. That is the whole point of Cultural Marxism, or as it is currently euphemized, DEI.

For our money, Biden/Harris get more than the usual systematic discrimination against white guys who won’t proclaim themselves to be perverts. Consultants are paid to help suppress resistance. RAND Corporation produced something called “Research and Analysis Support for the Department of Defense Board on Diversity and Inclusion.”

RAND’s report offered the DOD advice on how to combat growing resistance to military DEI initiatives.

The report targets “xenophobic expressions” (i.e., politically incorrect speech) and “diversity defiance” (i.e., politically incorrect thought) for repression.

Goodthink is imposed in place of thoughtcrime:

The Defense Department paid DEI consulting agency BCT Partners just under $2 million in 2021 to create a “DEI Action Plan” for DOD-operated schools, called the DOD Education Activity.

In its performance work statement, BCT … notes that Critical Race Theory “is an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy” and “Systematic racism [that] is part of the American life.”

To translate out of the Liberalese, they are saying that the virulently pernicious brand of Cultural Marxist known as Critical Race Theory is to be wielded against the core population of a country they denounce as racist.

On tips from Mr. Freemarket.