Why does this CNN report from last week make me feel we are in deep shit?
“Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, Space Operations Command commander, relieved Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier of command of the 11th Space Warning Squadron, Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, May 14, due to loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead,” a Defense Department official told CNN.
Lohmeier, author of “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military,” had appeared on a conservative podcast alleging infilitration of the military by Marxist ideologies. And in our children’s schools!
Pressed to elaborate, “Lohmeier decried the New York Times 1619 Project, a historical look at how slavery formed America’s institutions, as ‘anti-American.'”
Something in the CNN report sounded really familiar (emphasis mine):
“Since taking command as a commander about 10 months ago, I saw what I consider fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives of what America was, is and should be,” Lohmeier said. “That wasn’t just prolific in social media, or throughout the country during this past year, but it was spreading throughout the United States military. And I had recognized those narratives as being Marxist in nature.
Ummm:
Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty six. Nineteen forty six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your postwar commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard core commie works.
Mandrake: Jack… Jack, listen, tell me, ah… when did you first become, well, develop this theory.
Ripper: Well, I ah, I I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
Mandrake: sighs fearfully
Ripper: Yes a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly: loss of essence.
Mandrake: Yes…
The day before CNN’s original story, I posted this in response to Rep. Elise Stefanik, the new House GOP Conference Chair, claiming she would lead their fight against the “radical Socialist Democrat agenda“:
I’ll say it again. When the Berlin Wall fell, Republicans declared Sir Ronald of Reagan had slain the Evil Empire and won the Cold War. Yet 30 years later in a different century, one they believe only they are fit to lead, Republicans are still warning of Commies hiding in woodpiles as though it is 1963.
(h/t Dave Johnson of Seeing the Forest)