By Michael Woyton
Have you ever been summoned to your boss’s office and you have no idea why the meeting was called? Then you sit there and have to listen to your boss drone on and on about things you couldn’t care less about.
Now imagine you are a professional military person with years in the field with more medals on your dress uniform than anyone can believe and you are forced to sit through a “speech” by President Donald J. Felon.
I would love to be a fly on the wall when those generals leave the speech and almost in unison say, “What the f*** was that? He’s our commander-in-chief?”
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It’s pretty certain that, if there haven’t already been those conversations, there is more than a few top generals and admirals who are saying, “Listen, call me if you get an order from this guy so we can talk it through.”
The more-than-one-hour speech was considerably incoherent. It was fashioned more as one of his campaign rallies, with a list of slights, imagined and otherwise, as well as numerous grievances. Except no one in the audience was applauding — that must have been unsettling for the former reality show host.
Some of the subjects of his “weaving” included: Sleepy Joe Biden, the autopen, Canada as the 51st state, the assembled military leaders looking as if they were out of central casting, the 1950s being “woke,” all the wars he’s settled since January, the Gulf of America, fake news CNN, and on and on.
Feel free to spend your time listening to this man who has criticized Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris for not being able to put together complete sentences. The link to C-Span’s video is here.
Perhaps the most startling thing the rambler-in-chief said, in light of saying over the weekend that the troops that were threatened to be deployed in Portland, Oregon, could use “full force” against the citizens, was seemingly setting up conditions that could lead to real violence.
“Discussing his efforts to send troops to American cities, he said: ‘We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military‘.” the New York Times said. (The link is not behind a paywall.)
As rambling as his entire appearance was, that statement stood out.
He knows he is unpopular, he knows his “policies” are unpopular, and he knows that he will lose what power he already has if he doesn’t find a way to keep people from voting in the midterms.
The United States is no longer at the threshold of a dictatorship. We are there.
He has fiddled with freedom of speech and that didn’t turn out the way he really wanted.
Having the military use liberal urban areas as “training grounds” means that freedom of assembly is on the table as well.
As I’ve said all along, anyone who voted for him thinking he would be a strong supporter of the second amendment must be surely be thinking that right is also on the chopping block. He will have to come up with a reason to get those guns off the streets.
Let’s hope the military leaders who had to sit through the nonsense from SecDef Pete Kegseth and the Mar-a-Lago makeup man realize that these are not people who have the best interests of the nation in mind and will actually uphold the Constitution.
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Remember this when you see on TV or read in the news that the Democrats are to blame for the government shutdown, which is highly likely at this point.
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Lead art: Screen grab from C-Span.org
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