Ohhh, look at all those medals. A hero!! Ahhh, look at that dark skin. Diversity!! Mmm, look at those big lips. Ass kisser!!
We all know Generals become Generals because they kiss ass and fondle the testicles of those they can use up for their career advancements. In Gen. Austin’s case he was gifted one Major Beau Biden who was deployed in 2008 to Iraq. Beau was a lawyer in the Delaware National Guard and served on the staff of Gen. Austin. Austin became buddies with Beau where they both regularly attended Catholic services. Ass Kissing Mission accomplished.
Secretary of defense is historically a job expressly created for a civilian. It’s a terrible idea to allow a military goon to become SoD. The reason being that generals always present three options to a president; total war, surrender, and the option that they want. In other words, they are liars and manipulators who squash truth, independent thinking and fresh proposals. They prefer to wallow in the filth of Cold War strategy … a very lucrative endeavor. We must attack Russia, for we are always at war with Russia.
Gen. Austin is a buffoon. As head of Central Command during Obummer’s second term he was allotted $500 million dollars to organize a rebel army in Syria. He recruited only 60 fighters ! Only five remained after their first combat mission!! Austin was accused of slanting intelligence on ISIS to make the militia group seem weaker, and to make U.S. progress in the war against it seem farther along than was actually the case. (The Pentagon’s inspector general later cleared Austin of the charge. Naturally.)
Austin has a pension of around $250k … joined the board of Raytheon Technologies, the second largest military contractor in the world … was appointed to Nucor board of directors (Nucor steel armor plate is used for military vehicles, tanks, and equipment) … and was recently appointed as an independent director on the board of Tenet Healthcare. The Swamp is being rejuvenated to even greater swampiness than ever before.
Dementia Joe made this selection solely because of pressure from the Congressional Black Caucus to nominate more People Of A Certain Color to top Cabinet posts. Screw merit. Yeah diversity. Buh-bye white people.
The article below is by Caitlin Johnstone, a fine Australian writer who is best friends with our esteemed Llpoh.
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Biden’s prospective new defense secretary is another professional war profiteer
Joe Biden’s new secretary of defense pick may be celebrated by the MSM, but his nomination only serves to underline the grim truth: corporations are running America’s war machine, and they’re doing it for profit.
As has become the standard ritual for Biden’s cabinet picks, the mass media are holding a parade to celebrate the fact that Austin would be the first black chief of the US war machine, while virtually ignoring the murderous agendas he has facilitated throughout his career. As head of Central Command, Austin actively campaigned to resurrect the Pentagon’s spectacularly failed program of trying to arm “rebels” in Syria to fight ISIS, and in 2014 he backed immunity for US troops from war crimes prosecutions by the government of Afghanistan. He helped spearhead the Iraq invasion, and he is a member of the same private equity fund which invests in defense contractors as Flournoy and Biden’s warmongering pick for secretary of state, Tony Blinken.
Austin is also a member of the board of directors for the war profiteering corporation Raytheon, where he went immediately after his military career. Raytheon spends millions of dollars a year actively lobbying the US government to advance policies which are beneficial to the multibillion-dollar arms manufacturing giant, which of course means lobbying for military expansionism and interventionism. The previous secretary of defense, Mark Esper, also worked for Raytheon, spending years as one of the top corporate lobbyists in DC under the position of ‘Vice President for Government Relations‘.
And you know what? I say why not.
Seriously, why not? Why shouldn’t the head of the US murder machine come from a corporation which has made billions of dollars facilitating war crimes in Yemen? Why shouldn’t the most depraved and bloodthirsty regime on this planet have its depravity and bloodshed advanced by a professional war profiteer? The mass military slaughter of the US and its allies has only ever been about power and profit, so why not be honest about it?
Hell, why stop there? Why not make Raytheon itself the secretary of defense? Didn’t the Supreme Court rule that corporations are people anyway? Make Raytheon the secretary of defense, make Boeing secretary of state, make Goldman Sachs the secretary treasurer, make ExxonMobil the head of the EPA, make Amazon the CIA director, and Google the director of national intelligence. Then you’d have a completely honest face on the head of the US empire.
It’s absolutely insane that our world is being dominated by war profiteers who actively push for more violence and bloodshed because they make money selling the weapons used to perpetrate it. It’s no less evil than if plutocrats were cruising the world murdering people and selling their skins for money; the same number of people would be killed for the same profit incentive, yet people who would recoil in horror at that idea pay no mind to the fact that functionally the same thing is happening with corporate powers like Raytheon.
The only difference between the US war machine and a band of armed crooks murdering people for money is that the US war machine does it at a far greater scale. As long as that’s going on there’s no reason to pretend otherwise. Hopefully people start looking past the smiley-faced mask of the empire and begin opening their eyes to the blood-spattered face beneath it.
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Would you fly on an airplane with a diversity candidate pilot? Didn’t think so…..
The MIC is back baby! First Washington D.C. next Syria then the world. War is peace
Under Trump, the MIC never left. They are coming back with a vengeance to make up for lost time.
I honestly truly believe we will be in Big Wars under Joe and the Ho. Not ready to say a World War just yet … but, surely can’t rule it out.
In doing basic minor research on General Assclown, the general consensus among both Lefties and Righties is that Gen. Assclown was selected because he is a “yes” man, a company man, a ‘just following orders’ guy, a won’t rock the boat coward.
Just the kind of person who WILL push the nuke button if ordered to do so.
I know they never left, and I also see major profits for years to come in their futures
Like the “Mars Attacks” dude!
Reminds Auntie of when the Europeans – especially those Germans and French were greeting the invading hordes –
“Welcome Refugees!”
Haw haw haw.
I can’t get then portion where the General is bragging to his wife about how he got the job, kissing a– and shirking.
Will all those oil and tar-sand deposits, we’re confident that Venezuela is ripe for the plucking.
Trust us!
Mothers, don’t let your children grow up to be soldiers, they will only get used and forgotten.
Correct. And if they come back all blown up to shreds, with missing limbs or their guts destroyed, …. they’ll have to hope and pray some charity like Wounded Warriors will help. Because the government sure as fuck doesn’t give a shit over their long term care.
I’ve spoken bitterly about the military to my son since he was old enough to understand what a military is. He was not allowed to speak to any recruiters that showed up at his high school (and now at college).
In fact, last week, a letter came addressed to him from the National Guard, offering megabucks if he joined. Needless to say, he’ll never see that letter. It was burnt.
This guy is a gold plated shithead. In his hearing for SecDef he went on and on about the need to clean out the military of white people. If you believe him you think virtually every white person there is a Klan member, racist, the whole Hillary Deplorable list, Boogaloo Boy, Proud Boy, White Supremacist, Q Anon ad nauseam.
He is completely full of shit. Worse than Colin Powell which is really bad.
Get rid of whitey. That way the only fuckers left are allnthe remfs. Seeing as most of the diversity charity cases end up in admin/ support they wont have any combat arms folks to throw away lol. Diversity of experience, not skin color lmao.
Do you think he would hesitate to order airstrikes on white reactionary’s?
The Boogaloo Bois are leftists.
Who else would come up with a such a stupid name except the feds?
Raytheon provides the technology and weaponry required to defend our sorry butts from from evil in the world, one of the main tasks defined for the federal government by the Constitution. It is not the weapons manufacturers that start the numerous political wars we engage in.
Raytheon provides and sells the technology and weaponry required to spread war and misery across the planet//FIFY
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/16/raytheon-exec-on-sales-to-saudi-arabia-we-dont-make-policy.html
Whatever name you want to give the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower and JFK were warning us about. They are the bastards.
You mean the over-priced piece of shit hardware that was broken half the time on deployments? Or the shit software that wet the bed in the middle of a fire mission causing coms to go down? Yeah, milspec, over-priced Chinese parts put together by dick bags that milk the taxpayer tit.
No, the weapon manufacturers don’t start the wars. They merely pay their paid henchmen in Congress or, nowadays, the president to do it for them.
“Austin was accused of slanting intelligence…”
That’s some funny stuff right there.
I thought only chinks had slanting intelligence.
“Sranting interrigence” FIFY, Lound-Eyed Layssiss.
Every single conservative out there, heck, even lefties, need to keep their sons and daughters OUT OF THE MILITARY. It is just one more way to starve the beast.
As they proved last in Vietnam, if our sons and daughters choose college or careers over the military, they’ll just re-institute the draft in order to kill them. Unlike then, however, draft dodgers won’t be able to just skip over the borders (or have their politically-connected daddies stick them in the National Guard reserve).
Honestly, they probably won’t even need the military once Big PharmaTech has their way with us.
There’s a lot of military commander deaths by their own soldiers during a war with a draft. The government itself admitted it’s a bad idea.
How does a guy get a Silver Star but has no Combat Infantryman’s Badge on his blouse? That’s a real head scratcher…..
Musket,
I was looking at his “rack”. I can’t remember the awards but is that a good conduct ribbon, and an ArCom? Enlisted at one time?
Not very impressive. He must be missing a leg or 2 I can’t see for the Silver Star (lol).
Steve: No, they are on the third row from the left Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal (army)…….. He is a USMA grad and I do not think he was enlisted.
As a director of Raytheon, he gets $141K in cash and another $204K in stock.
Nucor is a little chintzier and he only gets $125K cash and $150K in stock
Add that to his military retirement as a 41 year 3 star and it is not a bad year’s earning
And we all get to thank him for our Freedom.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13803828/worst-cooks-in-america-winner-arrested-for-murder/
Yes.
God shall damn those sub-humans to Hell.
My granddaughter’s name is Victoria Rose. I will do anything for her and her brother. Who would allow the state to take away such a beautiful angel?
I knew of a POS Black Captain who made Major because of his skin color, and a Black Lt Col who was a sorry excuse for an Officer in my opinion; and a Black NCO who deserved an Article 15 but the Commander refused, and it had to be because of his skin color. My Commander called and wanted the name of my best Black NCO to send to OTS; the guy then said hell no I only want out. The Commander then said give me the name of your next best Black NCO. Frankly Scarlet, the whole MIC sucks but it starts with the POTUS, the SCOTUS, and Congress. Every Airman’s performance report must say: “(dipshit) supports the Equal Opportunity Program”.