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General Mark Milley
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The Nazi canard is still alive and stronger than ever in the post-Trump era. Even since Donald Trump came down the escalator, his many enemies have cried that his movement is the modern-day NSDAP. Much of this owes to Americans’ only historical reference being World War II. The other factor is that there exists no greater evil to the contemporary westerner than the Nazis. Not even Satan can compare.
While most of the Nazi comparisons were relegated to excitable talking heads and Resistance Twitter accounts, a number of serious people bought into this idea and definitely declared Trump and his movement “fascist.”
One of those serious people is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley. According to a new book written by Washington Post reporters Carole Leonning and Philip Rucker, Milley said Trump “preached the gospel of the Führer” and saw his supporters protesting the election as “Brownshirts in the streets.” He argued the post-election situation as a “Reichstag moment” and believed Trump was stoking an insurrection. When discussing security plans to protect the Capitol from imaginary threats following January 6, he said this of Trump supporters: “These guys are Nazis, they’re boogaloo boys, they’re Proud Boys. These are the same people we fought in World War II.”
That’s quite a statement from our nation’s highest-ranking military officer. This is a man who helms the most powerful military in the world, and he relishes the thought of unleashing it upon American citizens. The MAGA-hat wearing boomers are Nazis in Milley’s eyes — and they deserve the same fate as the Krauts in World War II. This isn’t just some Resistance clickbaiter; this is someone with the power of life and death. Mark Milley talks to the president and can impact policy.
The president of the United States shares a similar view of Trump supporters, but he doesn’t call them Nazis. Rather, he sees them as Confederates. In a speech last week on voting rights, he argued Republican election reforms present “the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War.” He even argued Trump supporters touring the Capitol without permission is worse than anything the Confederates ever did. “The Confederates, back then, never breached the Capitol as insurrectionists did on January the 6th,” he told reporters. “I’m not saying this to alarm you; I’m saying this because you should be alarmed.”
Biden seems awfully obsessed with Civil War allusions. In a June speech, he mocked gun owners for thinking they have what it takes to fight back against government tyranny. “If you wanted or if you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons,” he joked. The implication is that Biden would consider the nuking his own people if they rebelled. What a lovely idea.
Public commentators are more eager than before to declare the Trump movement as fascism. The Atlantic’s David Frum, a neocon, asserted this claim just a day before Milley’s comments were revealed. He claims he previously argued against calling Trumpism the “f-word” because it lacked key essentials to fascism. Namely, the cult of violence and contempt for legality. But Frum now claims Trumpism embodies these two factors after January 6. “Trump’s no Hitler, obviously. But they share some ways of thinking. The past never repeats itself. But it offers warnings. It’s time to start using the F-word again, not to defame — but to diagnose,” he concludes.
This isn’t serious analysis. Whatever Trumpism is, it’s not fascism — even by the dubious standards Frum sets. One protest that got out of hand is hardly a cult of violence. Challenging the election through the courts does not display a contempt for legality. The election itself, with the new revelations from Arizona and Georgia, shows a greater contempt for legality than anything Trump has said. But legality, or more importantly the pretense of legality, is determined by those who wield power. Those people are not Trump supporters. The contempt for legality really just means disrespect for the elites, the people that Frum serves as a mouthpiece for. You have to listen to what Gen. Milley, the CIA, the FBI, and the DOJ tell you. Only a fascist would doubt their wisdom.
The military leadership’s hatred for the average Trump supporter should disabuse the Right of some of its adoration for men in uniforms. These generals would gladly order their troops to shoot you for being a “racist.” They have no loyalty for the American people or its heritage. Milley supported the elimination of Confederate honors from military bases and vociferously defends Critical Race Theory. On the latter point, he says the military needs to learn it to understand “white rage.” Their primary loyalty is to the Empire of Nothing. It pays them well and offers them high status for subservience. They recognize no America outside of it. America is just an idea that mandates racial equity and gay pride parades. That’s the America Milley and the generals salute.
As an epithet, Nazi is grossly overused in our present age. But unlike other tired smears, it still carries meaning. Being called a Nazi marks you as a state enemy and the worst villain in society. The state feels justified in using violence against you if they can claim they fought against your kind in World War II. That’s all it takes.
The use of the phrase fascist or Nazi carries a more sinister meaning now. It no longer simply makes you a social pariah — it also casts you outside the body politic. Nazis are, apparently, an ever-present threat to the polis and they must be wiped out. In the past, Nazis would be granted a degree of peace in the country, no matter how extreme they were. They could march in brownshirt attire through Jewish neighborhoods with police protection. They were of course not liked by society, but military leaders didn’t summon the nation’s firepower against them. They were allowed to exist as a kooky fringe. Few outside the money-grubbers at the SPLC saw them as a threat to America.
That’s changed. Every society needs its demons — Nazis are ours. Just as reformation-era villagers demanded witch burnings, dramatic action is called for against our devils. The globalists want everyone to believe that racists are the number one threat to our society. As long as people respect the uniform, they will at least listen to the uniform’s argument.
It’s not a joyous thought to be part of the most hated class in American society. But there is an upside. It’s not just limited to “racists” and “white nationalists.” The Nazi label encompasses the entire base of Trump supporters. It doesn’t matter how much you deplore racism or Hitler — the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says you’re a Nazi. There’s an opportunity here. Persecution breeds contempt for the system, and the more hateful the system gets, the more its targets begin to question what they’re told. They may begin to wonder what these “Nazis” they’re lumped in with actually believe. They may discover they’re not Nazis at all, but people with common sense observations and solutions to the world around them. They may even see them as true patriots.
The only thing the Dissident Right has to do is not to satisfy the system’s Nazi fantasy. Persecuted villagers didn’t proudly declare themselves possessed by the devil. We shouldn’t play to type either. There’s nothing Gen. Milley would like more than to mow down actual brownshirts.
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Generals in the US Army are politicians. Milley managed to climb to the top by knowing which way the wind was blowing and he thinks it’s blowing to the left. Obviously not an intelligent man, he must be pretty clever to have gotten where he is. If the groups he supports rise in power, he and the rest of the White lefties will be in the camps right next to us. But make no mistake, whoever leads the military, if soldiers are given orders to fire on their fellow citizens, they will. Both MacArthur and Patton, undoubtedly patriots, led troops against American citizens. The crew of homosexuals, blacks and sissies at the top now will have no problem giving those orders.
I’m ashamed that my tax money pays the salary of that useless dope Milley. Although I think it’s wonderful that the government is doing something to help the intellectually disabled get jobs, that doesn’t mean they need to me made generals.
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Were/are you a Nazi ?
“No, actual Nazis do not exist. They haven’t been a political or social force anywhere in the world for more than 60 years.” – (Brenton Tarrant ‘The Great Replacement’, pg 14.)
Obvious tactical differences aside, this is perhaps the best response I have heard to that tired, old meaningless slur.
I would not take anything seriously from this new book. These kinds of sensationalist publications about what Trump supposedly does in private are ridiculous.
As for Milley, he is a typical bureaucrat doing what he’s told. Last year he was supportive of Trump, now he’s on team Biden. That’s his job.
You know, nuking the Deplorables is not entirely farfetched. The USA is already the only nation in human history to have used the bomb, and on civilians at that. Also, although dropped on the Japanese, the bomb was developed with an eye to using it on the dreaded Nazis; after they surrendered, it was used on Japan partly in a spirit of “let’s see what happens” and as a warning to the Soviets; which if anything makes it even more morally offensive.
So there is precedent, both for its use in general, and specifically for use on Nazis. So if the objection is, Yes, but they’d never drop it on the US citizens, well, what if the Deplorables are Nazis?
Do we still have those neutron bombs around? Remember, they were developed so that we could nuke the Soviets after they overran NATO, thus killing the commies but preserving the real estate and infrastructure. Use ’em on the domestic Nazis, wait a couple years, and resettle the areas with immigrants. Plenty of those to go around.
Farfetched? How “farfetched” would it seem ten years ago to be talking about transgender generals?
Of course, the groundwork for all this was laid by the Buckley “Better Dead than Red” conservatives during the Cold War. Is it implausible to imagine a Gen. Jack Ripper among the Woke? “It’s beginning to seem like Gen. Jane Ripper exceeded their authority”, with Peter Sellers as Pres. Biden.
I did a final paper in a military history class if dropping the bombs were actually necessary. I had two sources: one said it was necessary and the other said it wasn’t necessary because Japan was on its way to surrender. I had to analyze both their arguments and assess which one had the better argument. I was quite surprised, the author who argued that the atomic bombings weren’t necessary I felt made the better case. The other author who thought the bombing was necessary mentioned a study that was also mentioned in the other source saying that the Japanese were bound to surrender by the December 1945. That was what I based my conclusion on regarding who had the better argument.
It is a common misconception among the Right (everywhere) to think of the military as somehow “on our side” and expect them to act accordingly, and even put some faith in them to stop the decline, via a romantic coup d’etat. This is a dangerous error. Military personnel, everywhere, only care about their monthly paycheck, and think only in terms of pleasing those who sign it.
They are not on our side. They are not even Conservatives. They will kill you and your family with no hesitation if their jewish masters told them to do so. They are mercenaries for the jews and Israel at best, or spineless bureaucrats at worst and they are not, never were, and never will be on our side.
No Majorian or Flavius Aetius figure on the horizon.
The military has changed from what it once was. Part of this is due to diversity and the widespread cultural incoctrination in the U.S. that has taken place over the last several decades. Admirals and generals from the other branches of the military have done and said several things similar to Miley in the past few years. Using nuclear weapons on anyone at any place is not at all realistic, this includes the nueutron bomb. How exactly would the military use any weapons against the so called deplorables? None of what biden says is realistic. No self respecting white person should join the military, not with the promotion of critical race theory and other types of politica indoctrination. I wonder if the same trend will continue in the military that has happened in law enforcement, that is many people leaving and few coming in. If that happens, it will have negative effects in the long run.
“Persecuted villagers didn’t proudly declare themselves possessed by the devil.”
I recall an Edward Dutton video in which he said that most ‘witches’ were convicted on the basis of their own public testimony.
Exactly, this ends when some commune of cucky whites pull a Devils of Loudun. Then the self immolation will be assessed accurately. Waco for example. Half the cult were black. The FBI EFFECTIVELY diverted from this awkward reality by sponsoring McVeigh to make a silly reprisal. Who at this point can doubt he wasn’t groomed by informants?
“The butcher thinks about how he will cut his meat. The lamb only thinks about the knife.”
Which do we chose to be? Lambs who can only have eyes for the knife that the system is sharpening? Or do we continue to have minds unchained by fear and think about how that knife will look in our own hands.
People like Milley serve to put the fear into the enemy of the system. Let him put his money where his mouth is, let him start shooting a bunch of old MAGA boomers. Let’s see how long the system will last when 65 million Americans realize they have nothing left to lose.
“The Confederates, back then, never breached the Capitol as insurrectionists did on January the 6th,”
Actually, I think that Bedford Forrest or one of his compatriots did breach the capitol, can we get someone who really knows his civil war history to weigh in on this?
That was a typical dumb and ignorant statement by the current POTUS. If the Confederate Army had reached the Capitol, you can be damned sure that they would have breached it! But, Biden, and his supporters aren’t likely to have ever considered that likely possibility. We’re not talking brilliant when it comes to them.
Jubal Early’s raid in 1864 got into the northern part of DC, near Fort Stevens and Fort Derussy, but they did not get near the Capitol, the building. Lincoln got some photo ops (engraving ops?) by visiting the battle while it happened and supposedly peeking over the Union walls and exposing himself to fire.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/early-s-raid.htm
When everyone is saying what it takes to get ahead, then people forget about what’s actually being said. When everyone is focused on how best to look, people stop noticing what’s actually going on. The real problems the military needs to solve are the invasion from Mexico and overpopulation in Africa. Stopping these two things would be best for America and the world, but military leaders seem more concerned with virtue signaling their good goy status to Zionist Jews and the center left in America.
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