The Drudge Report, the deep-state’s electronic bulletin board, promoted an NYT column it ran under General Stanley McChrystal’s name: “Why Kamala Harris Has Won Me Over.”
"Ms. Harris has the strength, the temperament and, importantly, the values...."
Please excuse me while I retch in my pocket - and not "retch"ing in the way my high school buddy Kenny meant when looking for his pocket knife.
An ex-marine told me yesterday that the U.S. has over a thousand generals. McChrystal is one of them. My first move as King would be to reduce that number to 25. Make that 10.
09/27/24: I smell someone in the Pentagon calling Benedict McChrystal and strongly hinting that the payroll department has found (non-existent) "irregularities" in his pension payments and AHEM by the way, there's this endorsement that we would like you to make...
Do the same thing to the other federal bureaucracies, while you're at it. The Secretaries, the Assistant Secretaries, the Deputy Assistant Secretaries, Assistants to the Deputy Assistant Secretaries, and so on. Better and cleaner yet, abolish most of the agencies, most of which have no Constitutionally authorized purpose; it could be very entertaining, watching how the inmates scramble to find an honest way to make a living.
Of course if Trump wins his image will be further tarnished, if the bimbo wins he will be further lauded. Gee… wonder why his conscious picked the bimbo?
09/27/24: I met guys like Chrystal when I was in the Army. It was a terrible experience to realize how craven and devoid of principles they (regardless of rank) were. Fast forward 50 years. Nothing has changed.
“ I’ve concluded that it isn’t political slogans or cultural tribalism; it is the best president my vote might help select. So I have cast my vote for character, and that vote is for Vice President Kamala Harris.”
So he votes for the Cackler on the basis of her character. Perhaps the general is unaware of Kamala’s other name, ‘Heels Up Harris.’ It seems that the general’s TDS has destroyed his ability to make any rational decisions.
Morals have nothing to do with McChystal's endorsement. Most retired generals, especially four star generals, join the military-industrial complex as board members or high level officers of corporations. Trump is on the other team, so he has to be opposed at every turn. Just look at what they did to Trump during his first term in office.
I truly hope that none of his granddaughters is ever raped or murdered by any of the foreign filth crawling across our southern border - under Biden AND Harris's "leadership".
And I hope none of them emulate Kamala's "character" and prostitute themselves to gain power and influence.
The power is out here in my part of coastal South Carolina. We had some lawn furniture blown around and tornado warnings, but I got my coffee brewed before we lost power so all is well for us. I have memories of Hurricane Hugo and remember that EBS was one of the first things to go down. But the important thing is that I am able to read this Substack as the sun comes up.
Love gas. The pipeline was supposed to go through my county - with a tap for us - but when Alleged President Joe Stolen was installed, of course he nixed it to please the Greenies. Hopefully after January 20 I can get that new gas cooktop I've been saving for and coveting. Life will be good; you might say that I'll be cooking with gas.
We are in the Chattanooga area and our situation is similar. My rain gauge was full this morning and the pond behind us a full again after three months of drought. Hopefully, the winds will die down in the next few hours, but so far Helene has been oversold, at least in our area.
Y'all notice we have a lot very liberal characters come out of the military? Didn't McChrystal cop to dropping acid to get perspective or whatever? That guy in Austin that gave us the rah rah about making his bed every morning? A Navy admiral that's a man wearing a dress fronting as our surgeon general. It seems a military background and experience ain't exactly the shining star it used to be.
During the Clinton years I had a brother-in-law that made full bird colonel in his Army career. He ended up in the "Communications Detail" that has apparently morphed into a current USSS group. Back then it was under the US Army command. They were eight teams that ran in front of Clinton, Hillary and the Gores planned events and they surveyed it for security and ran front end planning and security during the events. He was pretty closed lip during his run but opened up a little when he got diagnosed with cancer toward the end (died a few months after Bush the Lesser came into office). A couple of years before he died one of my sons was considering joining the military after getting introduced to recruiters as a junior in HS. So I called him to ask what he thought about that. He told me the military was no longer welcoming white male recruits and to tell his nephew he had much better options. He was emphatic about it even. His stories about working with the Clinton/Gore administration is another discussion. Cancer aside it sure was a sad way to end his career with that assignment.
Any member of the Joint Chiefs that doesn’t disavow McChrystal should be canned by end of Trump’s first week back from Sabbatical. (Too much to do the first day- firing the FBI will take at least all morning)
The second week should include cleansing the Augean Stables our military academies have become.
All Jan 6ers (beside the most egregious knuckleheads) should be freed by end of 1st week. That’ll give the BOP (my old landlords, the Bureau of Prisons [God bless ‘em, every one]) time to freshen them up for the fed plants from Jan 6.
Two decades training Afghanistan’s military and it folded faster than Kenny Rogers could sing “The Gambler”. Afghanistan’s occupation and “development” outed the military industrial complex as the frauds they are.
Always assumed McChrystal was full of himself but walked the talk. Later realized that any Field Grade officer after B. Hussein took power was irrevocably corrupted by politics. Stanley was roasted on X by GWOT vets who seemed to think…poorly of his leadership. As a fan of the late, great Col. David Hackworth I always err on the side of abiding by the perspectives of NCOs and company grade officers over brass. Looks like McChrystal stuck around too long at the cost of his reputation. I’m sure his soul was left behind long ago.
"Obama's Military Coup Purges 197 Officers In Five Years" We can now look back and see the actual "DEI damage" to our military. Nose rings and pink hair will not cut it on the battlefield.
I had an email exchange once with a very notable (forgotten who) defense expert I heard on some talk radio show.
Remember a flash-in-the-pan military expert on Fox News some 20 yrs ago, LtCol (Ret) Ralph Peters? I asked this expert (back before that term was so badly devalued) about some things Peters said in a book, which my son (who was in Iraq at the time as a boots-on-the/ground Army E-4) vociferously disagreed with.
He told me Retired LtCols are a dime a dozen, but he would value my sons assessment more highly any day.
For your amusement, here’s the two thing that made me (and later Tim Boggs, my son) throw Peter’s book Never Quit the Fight, across the room:
1) He blamed the problems in the Middle East on American evangelical Christians.
2) He used the F-22 as an example of a boondoggle. I asked my son’s brother-in-law, who then flew F-15s, what he thought of the F-22.
He said it was so frickin awesome that in exercises they had to put 5 F-15s on one F-22, just to make it a fair fight. And even then, they’d never beaten a F-22.
(Good dude- he went on the command the 94th Fighter Squadron- the F-22 unit out of Langley. [This was descended from Eddie Rickenbacker’s 94th Aero Squadron. Both Eddie & our friend are/were natives of Columbus OH-IO])
The Dems must really be worried that Kaballah can't win this thing if they're trying to prop up her failing campaign with deep staters like McChrystal...
I don't want to disparage our military in general nor anyone who has served, but as a student of history, it is not hard to find other examples of generals suddenly coming to the belief that they stand aloof from the chain of command. The prime example of this is George B. McClellan, who was the Army of the Potomac's commanding general for the early part of the War Between the States, until President Lincoln sacked him for incompetence and insubordination. McClellan, like McChrystal came to believe he knew better what the country needed both militarily as well as politically. He was vocal in his private criticism of Lincoln and he did not hesitate to publicly show his disrespect for his C-in-C. After he failed to pursue Lee's Army of Northern Virginia following the "victory" at Antietam (a pyrrhic one, for sure, setting a terrible record for the most casualties ever in battle) Lincoln relieved him of command. McClellan resigned from the army shortly thereafter and pursued his political ambitions, becoming the democrat party candidate for president in 1864. (Even then, democrats were the party of anti-Americanism!) After he lost, he sulked in Europe for a bit, eventually returning and being elected governor of New Jersey. (New Jersey's democrat proclivities are hardly a modern phenomenon!) When one views McClellan's official portraits, one cannot help but form an impression of a vainglorious specimen, so typical of the upper echelons of our military (Marines being the notable exception). I suppose it is hard to remain anchored in reality when everyone is compelled to salute you and obey your orders in the course of your daily routine. When such a person suddenly faces opposition, they naturally tend to believe it is wrong and misguided and that their own opinion is always superior. In the case of McChrystal, his egotism was so highly developed that he was capable of disrespecting both Obama and Trump, thereby proving that it had and has nothing to do with politics, patriotism or global strategery, and everything to do with narcissistic self-promotion over patriotism. McChrystal is a bum. Perhaps he should run for governor of New Jersey.
You may not believe in what your Commanding Officer wants to do but you do not disparage him, ever. You follow orders. The number of incidents involving a ball-bearing fondling, strawberry ice cream fanatic being in charge or rare. And Trump ain't that guy.
What is it with all these ‘McGenerals’? McClellan, McCrystal? Then there was MacArthur who made President Truman prickly. He was right about one thing though, “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.” In the above cases I say, good. When MacArthur said this (I think before Congress) he generated public sympathy based in his past glory. I thought it was boo-hoo pitiful. They always seem to have enough bruised ego left to believe they can rescue their stained reputations. It just doesn’t work that way as McCrystal will FAFO.
Maybe his buddie Gen BetrayUs will weigh in next? Like most of our recent retired and disgraced General Officers that got their hidden miss-deeds or ChiCom payoffs exposed to the public when they became disposable to the DC Blob, did he every marry that gal he was dating on the side?
McChrystal is a widget in the military industrial complex Eisenhour warned us about. We won't need all the generals we have - especially him - if war occurs very infrequently.
"Ms. Harris has the strength, the temperament and, importantly, the values...."
Please excuse me while I retch in my pocket - and not "retch"ing in the way my high school buddy Kenny meant when looking for his pocket knife.
An ex-marine told me yesterday that the U.S. has over a thousand generals. McChrystal is one of them. My first move as King would be to reduce that number to 25. Make that 10.
“Ms. Harris has the strength, the temperament and, importantly, the values...."
Objection: assumes facts not in evidence
I'll go a step further. He is either out of his mind insane or is taking mind altering drugs rendering him unfit for duty.
09/27/24: I smell someone in the Pentagon calling Benedict McChrystal and strongly hinting that the payroll department has found (non-existent) "irregularities" in his pension payments and AHEM by the way, there's this endorsement that we would like you to make...
"Cackle, cackle, cackle!"
Don't stop her now, we still need the eggs. (old farm joke)
09/27/24: The only thing to emerge from Kookamunga Harris's eggs would be winged serpents and rapacious reptiles.
Ha! 👍
Do the same thing to the other federal bureaucracies, while you're at it. The Secretaries, the Assistant Secretaries, the Deputy Assistant Secretaries, Assistants to the Deputy Assistant Secretaries, and so on. Better and cleaner yet, abolish most of the agencies, most of which have no Constitutionally authorized purpose; it could be very entertaining, watching how the inmates scramble to find an honest way to make a living.
They can learn to code.
... and don't forget the chief assistants to the Assistant Chief.
"Better and cleaner yet, abolish most of the agencies, most of which have no Constitutionally authorized purpose"
*considers writing in de Vriend for Prez*
"it could be very entertaining"
*goes long on Orville Redenbacher stock*
Thanks, but I couldn't qualify.
I respect your humility.
On the other hand, it's difficult in retrospect to name a president in the last 30 years who _was_ qualified.
It's not that I'm particularly modest. It's because the the Constitution specifies that only native-born Americans can be President.
Ah.
I'm also not native born. But I doubt anyone here has thought, " Dag - that Pi Guy's Serious Prez Material!"
You can no longer make that sort of claim.
Kicking the ant hill open...
Hey, is he the one who invented McChrystal Meth?
Your can order that at the drive thru with your McWhiskey:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ronswanson/comments/ghl03r/ron_swanson_at_mcdonalds/
Of course if Trump wins his image will be further tarnished, if the bimbo wins he will be further lauded. Gee… wonder why his conscious picked the bimbo?
She said it pays to advertise.
09/27/24: I met guys like Chrystal when I was in the Army. It was a terrible experience to realize how craven and devoid of principles they (regardless of rank) were. Fast forward 50 years. Nothing has changed.
And court martial a few
“ I’ve concluded that it isn’t political slogans or cultural tribalism; it is the best president my vote might help select. So I have cast my vote for character, and that vote is for Vice President Kamala Harris.”
So he votes for the Cackler on the basis of her character. Perhaps the general is unaware of Kamala’s other name, ‘Heels Up Harris.’ It seems that the general’s TDS has destroyed his ability to make any rational decisions.
Maybe Kamala got down on her knees for McCrystal…
Morals have nothing to do with McChystal's endorsement. Most retired generals, especially four star generals, join the military-industrial complex as board members or high level officers of corporations. Trump is on the other team, so he has to be opposed at every turn. Just look at what they did to Trump during his first term in office.
I truly hope that none of his granddaughters is ever raped or murdered by any of the foreign filth crawling across our southern border - under Biden AND Harris's "leadership".
And I hope none of them emulate Kamala's "character" and prostitute themselves to gain power and influence.
The man is delusional.
Exactly what I was thinking.
The power is out here in my part of coastal South Carolina. We had some lawn furniture blown around and tornado warnings, but I got my coffee brewed before we lost power so all is well for us. I have memories of Hurricane Hugo and remember that EBS was one of the first things to go down. But the important thing is that I am able to read this Substack as the sun comes up.
I’m here also… been out since about 2 AM. But I have gas so was able to make coffee!!
Your priorities are in the right place.
Love gas. The pipeline was supposed to go through my county - with a tap for us - but when Alleged President Joe Stolen was installed, of course he nixed it to please the Greenies. Hopefully after January 20 I can get that new gas cooktop I've been saving for and coveting. Life will be good; you might say that I'll be cooking with gas.
Nooooo! Joe Biden says gas stoves are dangerous!!!!
The White House Kitchen cooks with gas. If gas is good enough for a State Dinner it is good enough for me
I just checked radar and cannot believe how quickly that storm roared north overnight.
Coffee and Surber in the morning, two of life’s essentials. I’m glad you are all faring well and able to enjoy both this morning!
the thing I remember about Hugo is the price of plywood spiked severely in Texas
In a blatant plea for sympathy, I want all of you to know that due to the power failure my electric recliner will not recline.
as Big Mike would say, "What a shtruggle!"
Will this event dampen the Global Warming/Global Cooling Fairy Tale?” Confirmation Bias is a hellova drug
Amen to safety for all of you in this storm's path.
We need all our Surberites to be well and able to continue to press the fight.
We are in the Chattanooga area and our situation is similar. My rain gauge was full this morning and the pond behind us a full again after three months of drought. Hopefully, the winds will die down in the next few hours, but so far Helene has been oversold, at least in our area.
Y'all notice we have a lot very liberal characters come out of the military? Didn't McChrystal cop to dropping acid to get perspective or whatever? That guy in Austin that gave us the rah rah about making his bed every morning? A Navy admiral that's a man wearing a dress fronting as our surgeon general. It seems a military background and experience ain't exactly the shining star it used to be.
Maybe he has indulged in the Diddy “freak off” orgies!
this was the obvious objective and inevitable result of slick willy's worse-than-demonic "don't ask" policy.
It's cray-cray for sure.
During the Clinton years I had a brother-in-law that made full bird colonel in his Army career. He ended up in the "Communications Detail" that has apparently morphed into a current USSS group. Back then it was under the US Army command. They were eight teams that ran in front of Clinton, Hillary and the Gores planned events and they surveyed it for security and ran front end planning and security during the events. He was pretty closed lip during his run but opened up a little when he got diagnosed with cancer toward the end (died a few months after Bush the Lesser came into office). A couple of years before he died one of my sons was considering joining the military after getting introduced to recruiters as a junior in HS. So I called him to ask what he thought about that. He told me the military was no longer welcoming white male recruits and to tell his nephew he had much better options. He was emphatic about it even. His stories about working with the Clinton/Gore administration is another discussion. Cancer aside it sure was a sad way to end his career with that assignment.
Clintons loathed the military and treated them as such. They were not allowed to wear uniforms at White House. Disgusting people.
This makes my blood boil!
Any member of the Joint Chiefs that doesn’t disavow McChrystal should be canned by end of Trump’s first week back from Sabbatical. (Too much to do the first day- firing the FBI will take at least all morning)
The second week should include cleansing the Augean Stables our military academies have become.
All Jan 6ers (beside the most egregious knuckleheads) should be freed by end of 1st week. That’ll give the BOP (my old landlords, the Bureau of Prisons [God bless ‘em, every one]) time to freshen them up for the fed plants from Jan 6.
A boy can dream, can’t he?
Damn! I surely do like your dream!
I intuit that Bannon is preparing to-do lists from his cell.
Two decades training Afghanistan’s military and it folded faster than Kenny Rogers could sing “The Gambler”. Afghanistan’s occupation and “development” outed the military industrial complex as the frauds they are.
Always assumed McChrystal was full of himself but walked the talk. Later realized that any Field Grade officer after B. Hussein took power was irrevocably corrupted by politics. Stanley was roasted on X by GWOT vets who seemed to think…poorly of his leadership. As a fan of the late, great Col. David Hackworth I always err on the side of abiding by the perspectives of NCOs and company grade officers over brass. Looks like McChrystal stuck around too long at the cost of his reputation. I’m sure his soul was left behind long ago.
"Obama's Military Coup Purges 197 Officers In Five Years" We can now look back and see the actual "DEI damage" to our military. Nose rings and pink hair will not cut it on the battlefield.
Well, the pink hair will make it easier for the enemy snipers to see. Natural selection.
I had an email exchange once with a very notable (forgotten who) defense expert I heard on some talk radio show.
Remember a flash-in-the-pan military expert on Fox News some 20 yrs ago, LtCol (Ret) Ralph Peters? I asked this expert (back before that term was so badly devalued) about some things Peters said in a book, which my son (who was in Iraq at the time as a boots-on-the/ground Army E-4) vociferously disagreed with.
He told me Retired LtCols are a dime a dozen, but he would value my sons assessment more highly any day.
I used to like Ralph Peters back in the day before he developed TDS and lost his ever-loving mind.
For your amusement, here’s the two thing that made me (and later Tim Boggs, my son) throw Peter’s book Never Quit the Fight, across the room:
1) He blamed the problems in the Middle East on American evangelical Christians.
2) He used the F-22 as an example of a boondoggle. I asked my son’s brother-in-law, who then flew F-15s, what he thought of the F-22.
He said it was so frickin awesome that in exercises they had to put 5 F-15s on one F-22, just to make it a fair fight. And even then, they’d never beaten a F-22.
(Good dude- he went on the command the 94th Fighter Squadron- the F-22 unit out of Langley. [This was descended from Eddie Rickenbacker’s 94th Aero Squadron. Both Eddie & our friend are/were natives of Columbus OH-IO])
Dude was never a warfighter, he was a Soviet analyst. A nice illustration of the need to stay in one’s lane when professionally opining.
The Dems must really be worried that Kaballah can't win this thing if they're trying to prop up her failing campaign with deep staters like McChrystal...
I don't want to disparage our military in general nor anyone who has served, but as a student of history, it is not hard to find other examples of generals suddenly coming to the belief that they stand aloof from the chain of command. The prime example of this is George B. McClellan, who was the Army of the Potomac's commanding general for the early part of the War Between the States, until President Lincoln sacked him for incompetence and insubordination. McClellan, like McChrystal came to believe he knew better what the country needed both militarily as well as politically. He was vocal in his private criticism of Lincoln and he did not hesitate to publicly show his disrespect for his C-in-C. After he failed to pursue Lee's Army of Northern Virginia following the "victory" at Antietam (a pyrrhic one, for sure, setting a terrible record for the most casualties ever in battle) Lincoln relieved him of command. McClellan resigned from the army shortly thereafter and pursued his political ambitions, becoming the democrat party candidate for president in 1864. (Even then, democrats were the party of anti-Americanism!) After he lost, he sulked in Europe for a bit, eventually returning and being elected governor of New Jersey. (New Jersey's democrat proclivities are hardly a modern phenomenon!) When one views McClellan's official portraits, one cannot help but form an impression of a vainglorious specimen, so typical of the upper echelons of our military (Marines being the notable exception). I suppose it is hard to remain anchored in reality when everyone is compelled to salute you and obey your orders in the course of your daily routine. When such a person suddenly faces opposition, they naturally tend to believe it is wrong and misguided and that their own opinion is always superior. In the case of McChrystal, his egotism was so highly developed that he was capable of disrespecting both Obama and Trump, thereby proving that it had and has nothing to do with politics, patriotism or global strategery, and everything to do with narcissistic self-promotion over patriotism. McChrystal is a bum. Perhaps he should run for governor of New Jersey.
You may not believe in what your Commanding Officer wants to do but you do not disparage him, ever. You follow orders. The number of incidents involving a ball-bearing fondling, strawberry ice cream fanatic being in charge or rare. And Trump ain't that guy.
What is it with all these ‘McGenerals’? McClellan, McCrystal? Then there was MacArthur who made President Truman prickly. He was right about one thing though, “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.” In the above cases I say, good. When MacArthur said this (I think before Congress) he generated public sympathy based in his past glory. I thought it was boo-hoo pitiful. They always seem to have enough bruised ego left to believe they can rescue their stained reputations. It just doesn’t work that way as McCrystal will FAFO.
Maybe his buddie Gen BetrayUs will weigh in next? Like most of our recent retired and disgraced General Officers that got their hidden miss-deeds or ChiCom payoffs exposed to the public when they became disposable to the DC Blob, did he every marry that gal he was dating on the side?
McCrystal’s endorsement of the Democratic ticket necessitates an endorsement of Tim Wirtz. That is shameful.
McShameful
General malaise.
Ha!
When McChrystal says it's not tribal? It's tribal.
Yeah, good rule of thumb these days is whatever a rabid Dem says the exact opposite is where you will find the truth.
McChrystal is a widget in the military industrial complex Eisenhour warned us about. We won't need all the generals we have - especially him - if war occurs very infrequently.
And THAT may be the #1 reason he's endorsing the War Queen.
Obama looks like a woman.
The neck has always been odd to me.
Nothing NYT’s readers love more than to read vacuous elite speak from Never Trumper’s.