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The United States military is the greatest the world has ever seen because of its diversity, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said during a news briefing this morning.
Kirby addressed this because a Fox cable show host used his show to denigrate the contributions of women in the military and to say the Chinese military is catching up to the U.S. military because it does not allow women to serve in the percentage the United States does.
Kirby addressed the insults to the entire U.S. military straight on. "I want to be very clear right up front, that the diversity of our military is one of our greatest strengths," he said. "I've seen it for myself in long months at sea and in the combat waged by our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. I've seen it up on Capitol Hill just this past month. And I see it every day here right at the Pentagon."
Kirby shared a personal note. "One of the best decisions I ever made was becoming a Navy spouse myself, married to a terrific young naval officer who gave birth to our first child, and then went right back to work doing civil engineering for an air force base in Jacksonville," he said.
Kirby reiterated Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's assertion that the American military works best when it represents all the American people. This is more than just having token minorities but having "the moral courage to include other perspectives and ideas into our decision making — perspectives that as the secretary himself noted Monday, are based on lived experience," Kirby said. "It's that experience and the professionalism and commitment of our people that has always been our decisive advantage."
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The Justice Department and FBI are gathering evidence to try to build a large conspiracy indictment against members of the Oath Keepers for their roles in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to people familiar with the matter, but the group’s sometimes fractious and fantasy-laden internal workings may complicate efforts to bring such a case.
In the wake of the short-lived insurrection, the Oath Keepers is the most high-profile self-styled militia group in the country. While members use the jargon and trappings of a paramilitary organization, in daily practice the group is often more akin to a collection of local chapters with a similar, disinformation-fueled ideology about what they view as the inevitable collapse of the U.S. government as it becomes more tyrannical.
“This was not a well-trained army or a disciplined military unit; this was a loose structure,” said Karl Schmae, who dealt with the Oath Keepers when he was an FBI negotiator responding to the 2016 occupation of a wildlife refuge building in eastern Oregon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/oathkeepers-charged-capitol-riot/2021/02/19/ac41f692-72ce-11eb-b8a9-b9467510f0fe_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_7 (The Oath Keepers group is a major target of the sprawling FBI investigation) into the riot at the U.S. Capitol, along with another militant group, the Proud Boys, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. How aggressively the Justice Department pursues such extremists will be a major test not only of the Biden administration’s pledge to combat domestic terrorism, but also the law and the courts.
Twelve alleged Oath Keepers members or associates have already been arrested on charges related to the Jan. 6 riot. In court documents, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/stewart-rhodes-oathkeepers-capitol-riot/2021/03/09/2c3d7fd8-808a-11eb-9ca6-54e187ee4939_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_8 (the group’s founder, Stewart Rhodes), is usually referred to not by name but as “Person One.” The people familiar with the case said agents are working to see if a conspiracy case can be made against Rhodes and other senior members of the group.
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A simple formula, or what we might call a neat magic trick, allows Republican Party leaders to retain the support of their "base" even as they enact policies that hurt their own voters. Two competing storylines highlight exactly how this is playing out right now.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who also did not vote for the bill, said that if workers received $1,400 they might not go to work — as if anyone could retire on a single payment of $1,400. Kentucky is one of America's eight poorest states. In fact, seven of the eight poorest states are red states: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi and West Virginia. Yet the Republican Party enjoys the support of its so-called base in red states, even as — to quote Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker — "https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/08/study-political-economy-red-states/ (Red America is falling farther behind)."
In other words, Republicans have (quietly) worked hard to undermine a Covid-19 relief bill that would obviously help struggling conservative constituents pay bills, shop for food, keep their pensions and enjoy access to health care in a pandemic. And yet, those constituents continue — at least for the time being — to vote Republican. How is this possible?
In a nutshell: Republicans are very good at inventing enemies. Made-up enemies are safest. That's why, to paraphrase George Orwell, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
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In a nutshell, you can't have a white grievance party if your constituents aren't grieving. Policy that keeps the rank and file in pain keeps them angry, and perversely that can help you at the ballot box by directing their anger at "made-up enemies" who — so the story goes — are powered by Democrats who are out to ruin (cancel) American culture. The formula creates a brutal political incentive to embrace policies that hurt their own constituents.
Snyder explains that this formula is commonly used by modern-day oligarchs and would-be oligarchs. If you're a would-be oligarch — if you want both wealth and power — you have no incentive to give more real power to the people but every incentive to make it look like you are fighting for them publicly.
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An accused Capitol rioter’s coworkers say he “talked constantly about Jewish people” and thought “Hitler should have finished the job,” according to new court documents filed by federal prosecutors. Investigators said the Naval Criminal Investigative Service interviewed Army reservist Timothy Hale-Cusanelli’s coworkers at a New Jersey naval facility. Hale-Cusanelli has been in jail since his arrest on Jan. 15 and prosecutors allege he’s an avowed white supremacist who shared his views on YouTube.
In Friday’s report, 34 out of 44 of the security contractor’s coworkers interviewed thought he held “extremist or radical views pertaining to the Jewish people, minorities, and women.” One colleague said Hale-Cusanelli made hateful comments about Jewish people every day and a supervisor reprimanded him for wearing a “Hitler” mustache. Prosecutors are asking that he be kept in jail until his trial due to his dangerous “fantasy of participating in another Civil War.”
