I'm sorry, but as a US Army Combat Arms veteran, I cannot urge my children to enlist.

While our enemies train full time to kill us, the US Department of Defense trains full time to socially engineer us.

The insanity is obvious to most anyone who ever served.

Hopefully, change will come soon enough to get rid of the reliance on fringe-left, peace-not-war mentalities infesting the US Military today so we can get back to training for the business of destroying the militaries who would cheerfully obliterate us.

And with dependence on militaries like the one it's becoming increasingly clear we must rely on now?

Our government is making that task easier.

Here are two military recruitment videos.

One from Russia. One from the US. Watch them both. Then ask yourself: in a hand-to-hand situation, what would the snowflake Corporal Emma portrayed in the second commercial be capable of doing to the Russian soldier portrayed in the first?

Beyond the series of very unpleasant things that would happen to her, since she is a little cute she?

Rest assured that our enemies are not wasting time trying to convince their gay or alphabet populations to enlist.

Congrats to our lame duck governor, Jay Inslee: you've made Washington State #1 In gasoline prices!

Well, like most leftists, we know Jay Inslee isn't beyond lying to get what he wants. In this case, punishing those who drive internal combustion engine cars.

Inslee, following the lead of democrat pols everywhere, is a liar. He's quoted as claiming his gas tax scam would cost: "pennies."

Reminiscent of Obama's Obamacare lie ("If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, etc.") Inslee stupidly claimed both the low cost AND the bizarre idea that "not all of this would be passed off to the consumer."

Anyone with functioning brain synapses knows better. Jacking up a gasoline tax at the refinery level AUTOMATICALLY means that ALL of this rip off is being passed to us: why wouldn't they do that?

"This is going to have a minimal impact if any. Pennies. We are talking about pennies," the Governor said. "Potentially, not all of this would be passed off to the consumer and what they would (pass on), would be pennies."

His stupidity in yoking us with a massive tax increase, (Adding just under 50 cents per gallon to the price of gas/diesel) which we will not only pay to drive our cars and trucks, but also pay in higher prices everywhere else, is a deliberate act that was done to make ICE vehicle users and consumers hurt.

For leftists, it has the additional benefit of flooding hundreds of millions more into their fringe-left programs that wouldn't otherwise survive, like SB 5599, where the state uses taxpayer dollars to pay to mutilate your children through gender butchery.

Lame duck Jay Inslee, hurting millions in Washington State

Yesterday, driving to the coast in Oregon, I was watching gasoline prices.

Our local Shell station was charging $5.29 per gallon in Kalama.

A Shell station on the highway to Astoria?

$4.79

This gas tax increase, imposed on the refiners, is purely to raise revenue that the leftist caucuses can use however they see fit. The net effect is obviously inflationary and impacts everything we use or buy, as transportation charges explode and ALL of those cost increases are passed along to us, the consumer... even those low-income individuals and families who can afford it the least.

The irony is that even the privileged who can afford the stupidity of EV's get stung by this insanity: all of the goods and services THEY use are more expensive now as well, DIRECTLY as a result of this Putinesque effort to whip the population in line.

And this result is not collateral damage. It's DELIBERATE damage.

Whatever the public justification for this insanity, the end result is "pain."

And the democrats don't care.

This is a major in the US Army who is mentally ill.

We've had mentally ill majors in the past. One of them shot up Ft. Hood if memory serves.

What these two have in common is one simple connection: neither should have been allowed to remain in the military.

Equally insane was the Army's insistence on taking this mentally ill, definitely out-of-shape field grade officer who wouldn't pass tape or likely pass a PT test (and one wonders: which standard is he required to meet? The male standard or the much less strenuous female standard?) and making him into some sort of symbol.

Maj. Rachel Jones USASC, Chief, Cyber Division G6 (Information management)

And there is no question: he is definitely a symbol.

He's a symbol of everything wrong with the military today. He's a symbol of a total lack of professionalism AND he's a symbol of how everyone ELSE is SUPPOSED to support HIS mental illness by referring to him as something he is not and never will be, no matter how deluded or mutilated he may happen to be.

He is, by definition, just that: mentally ill. Generally, mental illness disqualifies one from service in the US Military. This, then, is a symptom of the leftist disease infesting the US military today. Our enemies were likely at first astounded, and then much more accepting of the insanity of yet another moronic Biden policy designed to reduce/eliminate our effectiveness as an armed force.

Rest assured, the forces opposing us do not waste their time, effort, energy or money accommodating a sick individual who should have been long since discharged.

The claim that his ability to devolve from male standards and despoil the uniform by playing female is something to either be proud of or cheer for is insane on its face. It's the Klinger Philosophy come to life.

The utterly bogus claim that his ability to wear women's clothes on active duty somehow "saved his life" is the most insane aspect of all of this insanity... as is the false claim he's somehow "living authentically."

He's no more "living authentically" then anyone else with a mental illness.

But it is the variety of insane policy that Bidenistas are known for as we're led by political generals instead of military generals.

And we are going to suffer for it.

In fact, we already are.

As, once again, the Army fails to meet their recruiting/retention goals, don't even believe for a moment that garbage such as this does not play a substantial role in the upcoming demise of the all-volunteer military and the re-implementation of the draft.

A sampling of my 4th of July messages over the years. I just couldn't do one this year.

 Some of my 4th of July messages over the years.

And now we're worse than ever.

I was going to do one specific to this year, but the thought was depressing enough to make me want to scream...

14 years of messages, and this sample of 4 of them merely serves to show that we're even worse now than we were when I first wrote one.

https://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-this-4th-of-july-what-are-you.html

https://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2011/07/4th-of-july.html

https://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2015/07/its-fourth-of-july.html

https://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2017/07/4th-of-july-and-nation-divided.html

Is this irony or what? Roberts sites Pelosi in burying Biden's student loan vote-buying scam

 Snork:

As if leftists care about the Constitution?

In the opinion, Roberts cited then-Speaker Pelosi’s words saying the president did not have the power to cancel federal student loan debt.

“As then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi explained: ‘People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not,’” Roberts quoted Pelosi’s July 28, 2021, press conference. “‘He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress.’”