The Commander’s analysis is worth reading, especially Part III to understand the good news and the bad news and what happened:
Part 1: Reading the NDAA Tealeaves
I could spend all week just picking apart the NDAA, but … no.
Instead, I’ll let you plow through it in all its glory if you so wish. There are some aspects I’ll bring up on Thursday though…
Until then, let’s see what the press is reporting on it. The Hill is always useful to see what is of greatest concern to the DC nomenklatura. What do they have to say?
Of note:
• The revamped bill doesn’t contain an amendment the House GOP passed earlier this year to block the Pentagon’s new paid leave policy for service members traveling for abortions.
• Also missing are amendments from the House-passed bill that sought to block the Defense Department from funding drag shows, gender-affirming health care for transgender service members and the purchase of books with certain LGBTQ themes for the department’s school system.
• House Republicans did get some COVID-19 provisions they wanted. The bill orders the department to consider reinstating service members who were discharged for not getting vaccinated if they request reinstatement.
Of course; abortion uber alles, and by all means we need military-sponsored drag shows, military facilities should be sterilizing men and women and then signing them up for expensive and unending medications on the government dime – not to mention all sorts of issues when they decided to de-transition, and DOD schools to be pushing what is in effect gay pr0n for children. I’ve seen the books. That is exactly what they are.
This is what happens when you nominate unelectable candidates for very competitive Senate seats and you lose the Senate. Elections have consequences. . . . . (read more)
Part 2: Reading the NDAA Tealeaves II: Electric Boogaloo
Let’s pick up where we left off yesterday and dig a little more in to the NDAA.
Where is the money going, and what does that tell us? What comes out of conference, imperfectly, can tell you what is worth selling and what is worth buying. . . . (read more)
Part 3: Reading the NDAA Tealeaves III
As promised on Tuesday, we’ll close out our review of the NDAA to see what is happening in regard to the pushback against the cancer of DEI, CRT, ESG, and related afflictions injected in to DOD over the last few decades as we’ve chronicled here and at the OG blog.
Elections have consequences and divided government gives you conflicting feelings. Your warm rush of joy can be washed away by a cold collapse of sadness – all in proportion of what percentage of government your team has control of.
Today will be a few things, but first the good news.
For a very long time there was no pushback against the cancer of division, sectarianism, and hate that is the military’s branch of the diversity industry.
As I will probably cover next week, one of the few positive tertiary effects of the nightmarish events of October 7th is that the rotten and toxic core of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) commissariat have been opened up for all to see and smell.
It is indeed a positive turning point, but only one decisive point along a very complicated and long-time-dwell line of operation to move towards a more just society based on individual merit and the content of people’s character. There are many steps to take on this journey, and it is only now starting.
The bad news?
The Democrat Party has DEI and its adjacent cults as a core of their ideology and coalition.
As the pushback gains momentum – and it has that momentum – they will only defend their position more. They are used to turning back any opposition – if there were any – with simply a glance or a casually thrown slur, but that no longer works.
As such, as long as they have political power, they will blunt any pushback. The Republicans have not always pushed back.
As a matter of fact, until very recently, they were as much of a problem as the Democrats in this area. Somewhere south of 49.9% of the Republican leadership is still unreliable in the drive towards equal treatment for all, but that cohort is shrinking year by year.
Even though the (R) have a wafer thin margin in the House – the 2024 NDAA that went in to conference had a whole bevy of wonderful corrective items in it. Some items we have wanted for decades but never risked hoping we’d see any time soon. Give it a read.
We cannot send enough praise to the Representatives and their Staff for pulling what they did through the House.
There were some even better items which were left on the cutting room floor that didn’t make it in to Conference with the Senate – but that is how our government works. You can’t demand perfect, but you sure can ask for good, and this was better than good.
Oh, I mentioned “…Conference with the Senate…” didn’t I?
Well, here is the dark side of today’s post. You’re going to learn to hate this simple phrase, “The House recedes.” That phrase means the (D) controlled Senate blocked it. It ain’t going to happen.
Let’s look at what could have been, and what almost will be … but… sigh. Here’s the Conference Report you can dive through for reference.
Let’s start with what are three partial victories. . . . (read more)
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