This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

I can’t get the big Pentagon meeting out of my head. I can’t help but think some new territory was reached and breached. Maybe someday history might call it a tipping point. Did putrid Pete Hegseth even know who he was speaking to? Barney Fife lecturing the new deputies on working at the rock. But to call generals and admirals and scold them about their weight? To make them drop what they are doing and fly half-way around the world only to be scolded like school children about their fitness and wokeness by a dry drunk and his geriatric orange grandpa?

I guess that’s why it bothers me so much. I can only imagine how I’d feel if I had worked some place for twenty or thirty years. When some piss ant comes along with nine months of experience and starts lecturing me about how I should do my job. Especially an alcoholic who was fired from his last job as a weekend anchor at Fox News.

But then this geriatric orange puss ball of a confused and meandering old man follows up with nonsense. Dim! But not too dim to know the message was not well received. Telling the assembled officers, they could laugh when they wanted, when they only wanted to run. A look at the tense somber faces said all which needed to be said.

I heard one ranting critic say the administration would use facial recognition software to scan those faces to see who they could trust to follow their orders. Save your computer power. That would be nobody. Me thinks 86 proof Pete went a wee bit overboard. And the results achieved are contrary to their intended goals. I think highball Pete’s little talk unified the generals, but not in the way he had hoped. Grandpa’s ramblings and meandering also had an undesired effect and only confirmed their worst suspicions.

As a general rule, browbeating and threatening is the lowest form of team building. I cannot imagine the nerve and the gall, not to mention the blind raging ignorance of Pete Hegseth. The flaming truth of gross incompetence shining brightly for all to see! Best described as “All you really need to know.”

The Pete and Don Crazy Time hour did more to unify the military than swimming naked in the mall reflecting pool. This administration has lost the military, and it’s doubtful they will ever get them back. These people have been immersed in group think for decades. Did they really think one hyperbolic speech from a political nobody appointee could really change that? These officers are patriots who swore allegiance to the Constitution. Not to Pete or Don.

Anyone ever seen the film “The Caine Mutiny?” The President is the commander and chief. However, under the military justice, if officers feel a commander is not well or is mentally unfit. They can remove them and assume their duties. Then, they hold a court martial to see if that removal was legitimate. You begin to see the danger of complaining about strawberries, obesity or wokeness. The Chinese have an expression for that which says, “The Emperor’s power ends at the palace gate.”

An independent military is a strength of our system. Trying to subvert it is a recipe for disaster. They will follow lawful orders. They aren’t automatons who can be goaded like Hitler’s generals. What was it General Yamamoto once allegedly said? “You have awakened a sleeping giant.” If you thought they disliked you before, you can only imagine how much they dislike you now.  

The generals and admirals see this move for what it is, a power grab. A threat to their system and to their way of life. The administration’s plan to streamline the chain of command is a plan to reduce the pentagon’s role in decision making. The military brass isn’t stupid and can see where this is all leading. They watched the military parade nobody wanted except for an out of touch babbling old draft dodging turd. The excruciating cluelessness of it all, illustrating the less than sane nature of the leadership.

The Bush administration (Bush the stupid not the elderly) had wanted to bomb Iran. Military resistance kept it from happening by explaining, Iran is bigger than Texas. It’s far, far away from here. Unless you’re willing to go nuclear, you can’t do enough damage to sway them. Either you start World War 3, or you leave them alone.

Trump bombs Iran and only pisses them off. It solved nothing and only made things worse. Just like they told him it would. Bombing the Houthis accomplished nothing. The orange Krampus waffled like an Eggo on a Sunday morning on Ukraine. On today and off tomorrow. You can have this, but you can’t have that. Then Krampus held his stick up in Alaska.

If Russia would sign over 20% of their oil industry, Krampus would help them in their troubles with Ukraine. But Vladimir said, “NYET!” But did you notice? Krampus is now giving Ukraine everything! “You gotta learn the hard way, don’t you, Vladimir? We could have solved this amicably, but you don’t want to play  ball. So, now you are going to get it Vladimir! Sign the paper!”

Through the orange abominations direct actions, the world stumbles towards a world war in Europe and in Asia, and in the Middle East. Not just incidentally wobbling, but directly by the actions of Krampus and Sugar Pops Pete. Add all of these exponents together. What sum do you reach?

Who is the real threat to America? Russia or Krampus? China or Krampus? Iran or Krampus? How can you save the world from a third world war? (Author’s note; Churchill maintained the American revolution was actually the first world war.) How can the Pentagon best save the United States from the next disastrous world war? By bombing Iran or removing the president from office?

The President and his powder monkey gave the brass hats illegal and unconstitutional orders. That’s grounds enough for removal. The king can make all the illegal orders he wants, but the pentagon doesn’t have to answer the phone. One little note delivered by courier to the White House.

The Pentagon declares your administration unlawful and will no longer follow your orders.

“Can’t stop a Nazi with a lawbook.”
― Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny

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“I do not think that in those early days of September, Hitler was fully aware that he had irrevocably unleashed a world war. He had merely meant to move one step further. To be sure, he was ready to accept the risk associated with that step, just as he had been a year before during the Czech crisis; but he had prepared himself only for the risk, not really for the great war.” ― Albert Speer