Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Thank you for your service

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman has retired from the Army after 21 years, citing "bullying, intimidation and retaliation" by draft-dodger-in-chief Trump.  Vindman testified at the impeachment proceeding in February about Trump's attempt to extort the president of Ukraine by holding up money voted by Congress until provided with something he could use against Joe Biden.

Senator Tammy Duckworth called out Defense Secretary Mark Esper for his failure to protect Vindman and threatened to hold up all promotions until he grows a pair.  This prompted non-veteran and trust fund drone Tucker Carlson to call the double-amputee a "coward" and a "moron" who "hates America."

Trump was told about the Russian bounties on American troops in Afghanistan last February 27.  A review of White House records reveals that he had a play date with passionate supporters Diamond & Silk and Candace Owens that day and consequently paid less attention than usual to the person who gives him an oral precis of the Presidential Daily Briefing in five minutes or less.

"Gray-clad phoenix" and "martyr to the Lost Cause" are some of the phrases lavished on Jefferson Davis in a 1995 speech by Robert Willkie unearthed by a CNN investigation of neo-Confederates.  It only matters because Willkie is now Secretary of Veterans Affairs.  That would be the same VA that continues to administer the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to covid patients in its facilities, despite protests dating back to May and much evidence that it is dangerous and ineffective.

Brett Crozier, who went public in an attempt to keep crew members from dying of covid aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, will not be reinstated in command of that or any other ship, according to the Navy.

The military newspaper Stars and Stripes will lose the $15 million it gets from the federal government in next year's defense budget of  $705 billion.

Fifteen cadets ordered back to West Point in June to see Trump conquer the Ramp of Death have tested positive for coronavirus.

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