“When I use the Constitution a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” – Alice in Wonderland
That’s a (then) Captain Lohmeier teaching a recruit to use solitaire. Note the clever use of camouflage.
A Lieutenant Colonel, Matthew Lohmeier, in the United States Space Force (“Starfleet”) has recently been relieved of command. As far as I could tell, his job was being in charge of the people who look at screens all day seeing if there are incoming missiles.
I supposed it is an important job because if there were incoming missiles, well, we would have to shoot missiles back or something. And, so they don’t mistake a snot fleck on their screen for an incoming Soviet-era RT-2PM Topol strategic missile inbound with up to four MIRV warheads, well, I bet they go through an awful lot of screen cleaner.
What did this particular Lieutenant Colonel do to be relieved of command?
Well, first, he wrote a book: Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military. It’s doing very well – the print version is sold out on Amazon®. For the record, I bought it on Kindle® just to put some money into Lohmeier’s pocket. If I have time to read it between now and then, I’ll do a review next Monday.
To the litterbox, and beyond!
If you buy his book, it won’t do anything but make people crazy who disagree with statements like this, which was from a quote from Lohmeier in a recent podcast:
“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. 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.”
Members of the military don’t lose their free speech, but they are prohibited from taking part in “partisan” political activities. Lohmeier was removed for taking part in partisan political activities, even though he noted in a statement to Military.com:
“My intent never has been to engage in partisan politics. I have written a book about a particular political ideology (Marxism) in the hope that our Defense Department might return to being politically non-partisan in the future as it has honorably done throughout history.”
We’ve all seen this taking place. All branches of the military have been ideologically swapped out during the last 12 or so years. The fact that Lt. Colonel Lohmeier was willing to (very likely) give up a job that pays somewhere between $95,000 to $140,000 a year with a guaranteed retirement and medical for life says that he is likely committed to what he says.
There’s probably a kernel of truth to that.
And it’s not like he came from nowhere: Lohmeier is a graduate of the Air Force Academy, and was an F-15C driver. He calls out “diversity and inclusion training” and “critical race theory” and the New York Times® 1619™ Project©, rightly, as Marxist in nature. The podcast is where he does that here (LINK), so you can listen to it and decide yourself.
There is no way that I could interpret anything that Lohmeier said as politically partisan, unless critical race theory is partisan. It clearly is not. It is ideological, not partisan. I mean, it’s all fun and games until someone loses an ideology, right?
Lt. Col. Lohmeier took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Clearly, Marxism is fundamentally incompatible with the Constitution as it is currently written. I would argue that any officer would have the duty to call it out, but some of them must have taken the hypocritical oath.
And to The Mrs.: I promise I’ll fix the problems around the house. You don’t have to keep reminding me every other year. That gets old.
But not many would turn down a career that pays pretty well, and also has a pretty good retirement. The goal is to not rock the boat until it’s time to become hired to a lucrative job by a defense industrial giant like Boeing or Lockheed and make money based on their connections.
Lohmeier won’t do that, since those doors will close pretty quickly. If his goal is to be a grafter on the system, he’s not doing a great job of it. Sure, he’ll make money from this book, but I bet it won’t be a lot of money. Also, Lohmeier might get hired on by Fox® to be a commentator, but that seems unlikely unless he sells out his convictions.
Time will tell. Oh, and if you buy this, I’m still not gonna make a dime.
But the scarcity of officers resisting the ideological destruction of the United States military tells us volumes already. When officers are punished with career-ending sanctions, well, the word will get around. The next officer will be less likely to speak up.
There weren’t any subtitles for the last 15 minutes of Titanic – that makes sense. I guess a good caption goes down with the ship.
Lohmeier got sacked from command for the biggest sin of all in a Marxist world: telling the truth. Of course the new goal of the military is diversity rather than their old goal of killing people and breaking things. Recently, a recruiting commercial for the Army had as a focus a young woman whose “parents” were two gay women.
Huh? Just watching this cartoon commercial, you’d get the idea that the mission of the United States military was to be a hiring program for children of gay people. As I recall, that’s exactly what the guys who hit Omaha Beach were fighting for, right?
Meanwhile, if you look at militaries around the world that actually have a mission that includes killing people and breaking things, well, they have commercials of muscled men doing hard, difficult training to do nearly impossible missions. Or of jet fighters and artillery pieces creating massive explosions.
Flannel footed pajamas and warm (not too hot!) cocoa – it’s the new Biden military!
Everyone in the United States can sleep more easily now. The mean guy who cared about the Constitution and rule of law is gone. We can have people who were hired for “diversity and inclusion” purposes scanning the heavens for incoming missiles. I mean, only troops that have been through diversity and inclusion training could do that well, right?
Sad, but true. Marxism is a self-limiting ideology over time though, so in some small number of years it will fail again and survivors can try to cobble up a government that isn’t so easily susceptible to takeover by the sociopaths. A daunting challenge, to be sure.
Well, there will come a time that when someone speaks up for Marxism that the people in their band will kick them out so that they can all be equal somewhere else.
In contrast to Space Force, there’s the woke CIA recruiting campaign that dropped last week, Humans Of CIA….
https://www.fastcompany.com/90633737/inside-the-cias-cringe-y-recruiting-strategy
It’s getting worse, and speeding up. Pretty soon the military won’t allow bullets.
Its a feature not a bug
You’re right – it is planned. Soon enough, the Library of Congress will be so converged they won’t know how to read.
I know that the law does not allow you to sue the military without their permission but I wonder if he has a legal case over the definition of “partisanship”.
Interesting that there are already people selling “used” copies of his book for $7 over the listing price (hardcover). There seems to be a scalping market for books.
He can go to court so he can end up in the same cell block as The George Floyd Fab Four once the feds get done with them.
That was my first thought too. Saying “nazis are bad” in the 1943 military wouldn’t be partisan because we were fighting nazis, but saying “democrats are bad” would be since that is a political party of the US. So saying “marxism is bad” in 2021 would only be partisan if marxism was a contending political force within the US…
I’m hoping this goes well for him. It’s a dangerous course.
So if your blog site goes dark, we can all assume that the Pentagon ordered a first strike on it. They seem to be touchy like that these days. Just ask Tucker Carlson.
Ha! When this place becomes the canary in the coalmine? It’s more likely that every major US city will be on fire and mothers will be out with Molotov milkbottles.
Every major city, and then some, are already on fire, and have been for some time.
And the 65 million plus aborted children, in the US alone, don’t need any bottles, milk or molotov.
But I’m going to need some stiff drinks, as I look into the abyss we’re all going into….
Yup. And we have nothing while they have burned their own homes. What happens when they head towards ours?
The military recruiting in 2021 is even worse than that. The two mommies ad.
How dare you assume the gender of the two parents in that ad!!!
LOL. Just quoting the empowered, finding herself, making a difference sorority girl. Henceforth all uses of flannel soy boy should read “isn’t that right, mommies?”
10/10.
Yup.
Meanwhile? The Russians are selling sweat, blood, and steel. Which group would you rather face?
Sadly I think we have more contenders out there than just those two.
You are right – Rome fell from more than one invader.
Since the united states military and the CIA are the organizations most likely to be ordered by Biden to oppress the american people, it’s good that they are becoming less competent.
The point is to drive out all the loyal, patriotic, trad-American officers and NCOs. So that the military WILL fire upon the people in defense of the ruling junta.
Yup. I hope that they start recruiting from mental institutions, prisons, and inner-city Minneapolis.
A)
re:
military recruits from prison
I am a former Corrections Officer.
I worked at three penitentiaries… including a max.
Some of the most intelligent individuals are prisoners.
The most intelligent of them are organized and exceptionally efficient in the use of violence and intimidation.
Although better people than me might question their primary loyalties — gang/club? or Constitution? — I would expect them to continue to hone their adaptive skills in a military setting.
In fact, I would anticipate them quickly establishing a hierarchy and running the joint in no time… while eliminating slackers.
Anybody they cannot eliminate, they recruit.
No middle ground, no spectators.
Two of my ‘adopted’ sons are also Corrections Officers.
Both are Marines, one was a SEAL.
Intelligent, competitive, dedicated, observant.
Ask around, you may discover your assumptions to be the opposite of reality.
And assumptions can get somebody hurt.
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B)
Military recruits from inner-city slums
Happens daily.
Pigment is no guarantee of inbred stupidity or ineffectiveness, however it is a guarantee of tribal acceptance.
Anybody not in the tribe is prey:
* If you are alone, they are five.
* If you are five, they are a faceless two hundred in a spontaneous leaderless non-thinking swarm… they act, then disperse into nothingness.
Similar to recruits from prison, these folks are effective at violence and intimidation.
Just do not expect complex thought processes resulting in traditional long-term ‘White Collar’ crimes.
Complex planning is not required for crimes of opportunity.
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C)
These A and B elements are not exclusive.
Expect cross-overs.
Flyers can ruin your afternoon.
You inspired a whole post. It goes up at 7:30 Eastern.
All this, plus Ramon Colon-Lopez of Task Force White recently praising BLM as a social justice movement.
We’re f*cked.
The country we were is gone. So, let’s go find the country that will come.
She will be beautiful.
How can we support and encourage this man?
You mean, besides hoping for a missile strike on the Pentagon…?
The last time there was a military this incompetent, Poe Dameron told Admiral Queeg she was nuts.
Ha! Well, there is always that.
Buy the book. He has a twitter, too. Leave positive reviews on Amazon (after you read it).
“Flannel footed pajamas and warm (not too hot!) cocoa – it’s the new Biden military!”
And good ‘ol Sarge, making us hot pockets for a snack after teaching us about D I V E R S I T Y !
Mmmm, juice boxes if we do a push up!
I can’t say just how highly I think of this man; whether or not he is right in his positions, he is – evidently, by his actions – highly principled.
Prolly why he is not suited for the New, Modern, Woke Military!
He’s pushing it. Which I admire. He’s putting it all on the line.
Well, if they purge all the competent, oath abiding patriots we’ll just have them on Team Civi then. The remainder will really suck at dodgeball.
Unless they’re promised participation trophies. Then? Look out!
IMO those that work for participation awards do not overlap with competent and oath abiding. We’re likely to find out the way things are going.
We are. And likely sooner than most people expect.
This is great, the more competent officers and enlisted men they kick out, the less effective the military will be when they inevitably turn them on “White supremacists”. I like my chances against some transvestites who joined for free gender reassignment surgery instead of Southern White guys who have been shooting since they were 3.
Oh, and bought his book on Kindle as well. Eager to check it out.
I made it through quite a few pages. Liked everything I’ve seen so far.
Well, when you put it that way, it makes Biden sound stupid.
Oh, wait . . .
Word. Let it all fall down. Never interrupt your adversaries when they are busy fighting with one another(H/T to Sun Tzu).
This may just open another door for the lieutenant colonel. Many in the occifer ranks who have demonstrated high intelligence and strong moral character have been approached by the “men in black”. Special Access Programs (SAP) and Waved Unacknowledged Special Access Programs (WUSAP) usually aviators but not always, are offered to men just like this. Regardless, I doubt the patriot in question will be in any unemployment line. I wish him a successful new future.
Well, yeah . . . but will he take the ticket?
Ohio Guy: That’s what I think. These things don’t happen without a reason. Especially not when a book publisher is involved. It’s the same with new movie releases (before Covid shut the theaters), when the names of actor who have been out of action suddenly explode all over the media–usually due to some contrived “controversy.” It’s all part of the game that the insiders play.
Lohmeier is obviously a smart and successful guy and a trained warrior. He’ll do just fine.
I could not read or post a comment on the WordPress Reader. Had to come to your actual website to tell you that this is great stuff!
Thank you so much for taking the extra effort!
We’ve got a great crowd here, don’t we?
Big Brass Cojones! God bless him for speaking truth to power
Amen.
Now Biden will speak power to truth.
US has Stage 4 cancer. Patient is walking and talking, but it doesn’t matter.
Yup. I was willing to give it a chance. But over the last 24 months, I think you’re right.
We are in hospice, monitors chirping, our caretakers overworked yet occasionally indulgent.
Our youngers stop-by our bed a couple times a month to patiently pretend to listen to us ramble unbelievable incoherent myths about ‘the good old days’ of cheap fuel and stocked grocery-stores and guns without papers.
I, for one, look forward to Tuesdays because of the second helping of Prune Whip!
If you come on a Tuesday, could you help me with my straw?
Marxism is about destroying functioning societies while the faculty lounge true believers can claim a faux moral high ground as they fundamentally transform a functioning system into the New Man utopia.
Military is a construct of the white male capitalist pig patriarchy as all comrades of the glorious Benetton Schwab utopia will be brothers in arms at the people’s favela under the protective (keep me safe!) watchful eye of the perfected nomenklatura apparatchik beings.
Forward! Build Wakanda back better. Yes we can.
The names! Genius! (Please keep it up!)
The one thing I really enjoy is that the faculty lounge will be the first up aagainst the wall.
True, true and true. So what you are saying is that the United states of America is now nazi occupied France. Which means we can be the OSS and SOE spreading death and destruction all around and setting north America ablaze…
Well, do you think the framers intended any of the nonsense that goes on today? Do you think George Washington would have wanted to intervene in Syria?
To paraphrase a fictional detective, ” Booting out service members for badthink, do you think that makes them less dangerous, …or more dangerous?” Beware the man or woman with nothing left to lose.
Yes. Which is why I think he’ll get offered “the ticket” to defang him. We’ll see.
I would think that the author of the book took into account his career situation before this whole thing blew up. I suspect his book publisher is very pleased with the outcome, much of which has probably been “encouraged” by paid publicists. The world of book publishing is every bit as dirty as the world of Hollywood. The way this whole story hit the fan last Sunday suggests to me it was a coordinated operation.
Lohmeier will be the winner in this. He appears to have the right stuff.
Yes, I hope so. I imagine he’ll sell tens of thousands of books. Perhaps he’ll even run for office?
building the army that will CONTROL, NOT PROTECT us all.
Yes. The NKVD is at hand.