HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(1/n) 🧵
As the #AmericaFirst movement of #WWII once again rears its head and gears up for the next elections, it is much better prepared than in 2016 and the #Midterms of 2022.
A racist utterance of a #US military 🪖 leader made me remember a thread I had published on the Birdsite in Sept. 2022.
It focused on the strategic use of #veterans by the #MAGA movement.
As it will happen again, I am republishing...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
Is anybody aware if #SteveBannon et al are doing a re-run of the 2016 and 2022 ops regarding veterans?
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(2/n)
...this thread here for anyone involved in #US elections:
"The contest for control of the #Senate, the #House of #Representatives, and key #gubernatorial seats in the November midterm elections may rest to a large degree on the dozens of far-right military #veterans contesting seats in #SwingStates.
👉Drawn largely from the elite#CombatUnits of the armed forces,...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(3/n)
"...they are backed by #DonaldTrump, a new cluster of military-oriented political action committees (#PACs), and leading members of the secretive #CouncilForNationalPolicy.👈 If elected, they would pose an alarming threat to #American " democracy.
As the campaign against the “#WokeMilitary” by #TuckerCarlson and others at #FoxNews gathered momentum in the spring of 2021, #Bannon upped the ante with an...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(4/n)
"...extended series of seven shows over the two weeks leading up to Memorial Day. The immediate trigger was the publication of a 👉letter by a group of more than 100 retired generals and admirals👈 calling themselves #FlagOfficers4America1. They had already published one such letter just before the 2020 election, calling it “the most important election since our country was founded.”
Now they issued a second, a stern warning...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(6/n)
"...the #Senate.
#Boykin is perhaps the most notorious of the far-right retired generals and #admirals. Rarely making an effort to conceal his bigotry, he is best known for his views on Christianity (“God led me into the #DeltaForce”) and #Islam (“the enemy is a guy named #Satan”). He is also a fierce opponent of #LGBTQ rights, which he describes as an “evil”that must be eradicated by “God’s army.” In April 2021,...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(7/n)
"...as the “#WokeMilitary” campaign intensified, he was a keynote speaker at the relaunch of the #PromiseKeepers, a long-dormant group dedicated to “Biblical masculinity” that brought hundreds of thousands of supporters onto the streets of #Washington, D.C., in the 1990s.
#Bannon described the group as part of the “warrior men idea.” The purpose of its resuscitation, the president of the #PromiseKeepers said, was to “call...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(8/n)
"...Christian men to fight against the #LGBTQ agenda.
A review of many hours of exchanges between #Bannon and his #WarRoom guests makes it clear that #CRT [#CriticalRaceTheory] is now presented on the far right as an existential threat to the constitutional foundations of the republic, and therefore something to be fought—above all by #veterans from the #military’s elite units—by any means...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(9/n)
"...necessary 👉The imminent threat is from an unholy combination of #China and #CriticalRaceTheory. There is no room for compromise here, #Bannon insists: #👈“We don’t seek competition. 👉We don’t want confrontation, we want total and complete destruction root and branch of the #Chinese #Communist Party.” [#CCP]👈
“You ask anybody in the #SpecialForces, the broad Special Forces community, I’m talking...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(10/n)
"...about the #Navy, the #MarineForceRecon, the #GreenBerets, all our special operators, and the #CIA...
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14/n
"...foreign countries, but we would come back here and teach it to our troops and be ready for these cultural revolutions of #Marxism.”
...the strategy #Bannon outlines is absolutely rooted in the real world of practical politics...👉taking out the enemy is a two-stage process. The first...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(11/n)
"...is to purge the #GOP of “#RINOs,” [#Repuplicans in Name Only]👈 even by the most cautious estimates, at least 20 right-wing #veterans, most of them from the elite units favored by #Bannon, could win seats in November, and the #Republicans need a net gain of only six to flip the chamber and strengthen its most extreme voices—think a #MAGA military caucus of #Marjorie Taylor Greenes [#MTG] and Jim...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(12/n)
"...Jordans in camo...
Steve #Bannon’s grandiose vision.👉 “I believe that we will destroy the #DemocraticParty as a national political institution,”👈 he declared in June outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal #Courthouse, during his trial on charges of contempt of #Congress.
“We will govern for a hundred years after we win a hundred seats.”
Over the past two years, the largest known donation to a political advocacy group...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(13/n)
"...in U.S. history, $1.6 billion, has been made to #LeonardLeo, co-chair of the #FederalistSociety and one of the #CNP’s [Center for National Policy] most prominent members.
Leo is a Catholic. The donor, a secretive #Chicago businessman named Barre #Seid, is Jewish.
👉The multi-ethnic make-up of the veterans running for Congress in November,as well their...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(14/n)
...gender diversity, is crucial. 👈 #Veterans for #AmericaFirst, the new incarnation of #VeteransForTrump, highlights 42 endorsements on its website; 17 are for women, and 13 are for people of color. #Bannon might also have added Asian-Americans to his list,...
👉#LiberalDemocrats, as well as much of the legacy media, have alienated many conservative and swing voters in the #Latino/ #Hispanic community by their insistence...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(15/n)
"...on the gender-neutral catch-all word #Latinx. 👈
👉#Bannon, meanwhile, has focused on that community’s greatly increased voter turnout in 2020, and how its internal diversity and segmentation accounted for a significant movement toward Trump👈—anti-Communist #CubanAmericans in #Florida, #MexicanAmericans in the #Texas borderlands eager to restrict illegal #immigration, and the...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(16/n)
"...many others of all national origins who embrace historically #conservative social values...
But if there is a single 👉poster child for #Bannon’s vision of a diverse working-class party that has transcended old ethnic and gender prejudices and has the #military at its center👈, it is probably #AnnaPaulinaLuna. Like Cory Mills, she is the...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(17/n)
"...beneficiary of #RonDeSantis’s [#RDS] #redistricting in #Florida, where she is strongly favored to take the 13th District seat currently occupied by #Democrat #CharlieCrist, who is running against DeSantis for governor.
...,👉 #Luna has the potential to become the #Alexandria #Ocasio-Cortez [#AOC] of the far right👈...
However, there may also be a cascade effect that goes much deeper than these short-term...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(18/n)
"...theatrics, 👉extending to the highest levels of the military establishment.👈
#Congressional offices are stacked with ambitious young staffers with aspirations to greater things: high-level appointments to the executive branch...Forces Col. #ChristopherMiller.
👉If #Trump had had his way, #Patel would have been named acting director of the #CIA.👈
The main reason this did not come to pass, other than the generalized chaos...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(19/n)
"...in #Trumpworld, was 👉last-ditch resistance from within the government, notably by #CIA director #GinaHaspel and Gen. #MarkMilley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whom she warned that 👉“We are on the way to a right-wing coup.”👈 Exactly what #Patel himself was doing during those final days of the administration remains unknown,...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(20/n)
"...since his cell-phone records were wiped on January 22nd, followed by those of #Miller #Trumpworld, was 👉last-ditch resistance from within the government, notably by #CIA director #GinaHaspel and Gen. #MarkMilley, chairman of the #JointChiefsOfStaff, whom she warned that 👉“We are on the way to a right-wing coup.”👈 Exactly what #Patel himself was doing during those final days of the administration...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(21/n)
"...remains unknown, since his cell-phone records were wiped on January 22nd, followed by those of #Miller, #ArmySecretary #RyanMcCarthy, a former #ArmyRanger with U.S. #SpecialOperationsCommand in #Afghanistan, and perhaps also #ArmyChiefOfStaff Gen. #JamesMcConville, a former helicopter pilot.
👉All of these developments raise fundamental...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(22/n)
"...questions about the role of the military, as well as the intelligence agencies and other key government departments, in any future constitutional crisis👈...
But the questions to be answered in a future #Republican administration go well beyond guarantees of 👉unswerving loyalty from high-level political appointees.👈 They also 👉implicate the fate of tens of thousands of career members of the...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(23/n)
"...federal civil service, the heart of the “administrative state” that #SteveBannon is intent on dismembering. 👈
Civil war...
political appointees. They also implicate the 👉Public Religion Research Institute found that 30 percent of #Republicans agreed with the statement “Because things have gotten so far off track, true #American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” 👈 Among...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(24/n)
"...those who believed that the 2020 election was stolen, the figure rose to 39 percent. That computes to 20 million people...
#AmericanEnterpriseInstitute posed a slightly different question than the other polls:
“If elected leaders will not protect #America, the people must do it themselves, even if it requires violent action.” Seventeen percent of #Democrats agreed with that, as did 31...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(25/n)
"...percent of independent voters. (The figure among #Republicans was 39 percent.)...
👉If troops were sent in to quell these protests, the unit of choice—explicitly demanded by #Trump and backed last time by #TomCotton—would most likely be the #82ndAirborne, whose graduates include generals #MikeFlynn, #KeithKellogg, and #DonBolduc, as well as the riot-control specialist and likely future #Florida congressman #CoryMills...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
(26/26
the first remedy for "...dealing with a *nightmare* is to *wake up*."
/END (to be continued)
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
I had forgotten about this.
Insane, but you're right.
Bernd Paysan R.I.P Natenom 🕯️
@HistoPol Star Trek promised us the second civil war in 2026, just before the start of WW III.
Looks like everything is ready.
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