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Daily Broadside | New Book Says Milley Usurped Trump’s Authority

Daily Verse | Daniel 12:3
“Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.”

Happy mid-week my friends. The gnome in my garden won’t give me back my copy of The Hobbit.

We live in an increasingly lawless land, led by men and women who not only overstep the boundaries of their constitutional roles, but actively undermine duly elected leaders. It is not too much to say that the United States cannot function as designed if some “leaders” disregard the rule of law and other “leaders” let them get away with doing so. Not only can our nation not function, it will fall apart and land most heavily on innocent civilians who are considered the “out group” — namely, anyone who questions or resists what the party in power is doing.

The latest troubling example of this lawlessness is a claim in a new book that US Army General Mark Milley-Vanillie, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, secretly reassured the Chinese that he would warn them if President Donald J. Trump planned to attack them.

Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “was certain that Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election,” authors Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of the Washington Post write in their forthcoming book, “Peril,” set for release on September 21.

For the record, I think Woodward is a hack. But if this is true, it’s big. Milley, an Army general, plays psychologist and takes matters into his own hands.

These reports suggest that Milley may have over-stepped his role as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a role that advises the president and defense secretary but is not part of the chain of command for operational decisions like the launching of nuclear weapons.

He “may have” overstepped his role? Ya think? A role that “advises” the Commander in Chief and his defense secretary, but isn’t “part of the chain of command” goes behind his Commander’s back and conducts diplomacy without anyone’s knowledge based on his lone psychological assessment of a sitting president?

Milley was so concerned that Trump might start a war with China, he privately called his Chinese counterpart twice to assure him that the US would not strike, per the book.

Who’s running the country? Not Milley — he wasn’t elected. He went rogue. He doesn’t have the authority to be making policy. This is treasonous behavior. He actually interfered with the military action Trump could take as president.

But hey, why not? The Deep State had wrapped itself around Trump’s ankles for five years.

This is the same guy who “advised” the dementia patient currently in the White House about Afghanistan and I don’t hear him fretting by saying he is certain that Biden has “gone into a serious mental decline,” even though everyone else and the family dog can see it.

And get a load of this further reporting by CNN (with my emphasis):

Milley’s fear that Trump could do something unpredictable came from experience. Right after Trump lost the election, Milley discovered the President had signed a military order to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by January 15, 2021, before he left the White House.

The memo had been secretly drafted by two Trump loyalists. No one on the national security team knew about it, according to the book. The memo was eventually nullified, but Milley could not forget that Trump had done an end run around his top military advisers.

“Trump had done an end run around his top military advisers.” Can’t have the duly elected president and COMMANDER IN CHIEF making decisions about troop movements!

Pulling the troops out between November and January 15 may not have been smart military strategy, but that’s not for an “adviser” to decide! It’s certainly not an “end run,” as though the president needed their approval to proceed — it’s the president’s authority and responsibility as the military commander!

Here is the key graph: “The authors write, ‘Milley was overseeing the mobilization of America’s national security state without the knowledge of the American people or the rest of the world.'” And, I might add, the President!

This is frightening. Who, exactly, is in charge? How do we know? If we have military brass operating on their own, outside the chain of command (and definitely outside the scope of the U.S. Constitution), then we can’t ever be sure that there won’t be a coup next time a Republican is in office because some general decides that the president is in “mental decline” according to his own personal observations.

We are heading pell mell into a world of hurt right now.

Brace yourselves for impact.

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Daily Broadside | America the Beautiful is Like a Home for Crack Addicts Now

Daily Verse | 2 Samuel 24:24
“I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”

It’s Monday, the day after Easter Sunday. The news out of Jerusalem was indeed good, and Jesus spent the next forty days interacting with his apostles, giving many “convincing proofs” that he was alive (Acts 1:3). His presence should be a great comfort to us who believe, as the destruction of our country continues apace without any sign of human or divine intervention on its way.

Let’s check in on what’s been happening in the last week.

Dementia Joe, the figurehead of the junta that was put in charge by our domestic enemies, continues to weakly read his scripted nonsense and issue directives that are aimed at undermining government of, by and for The People. While we were reminding ourselves last week that Jesus Christ is King and that one day all of His enemies will be put under His feet, the anti-Americans in Washington, D.C. were putting We, The People, under the feet of our international enemies, including Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

PJ Media’s Richard Fernandez:

While Biden-Harris sees itself as “back” in charge, recent Great Power challenges treat them as a fading, decadent relic. At a top-level diplomatic meeting in Alaska, the Chinese envoy said: “The United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength” according to the New York Times.

The disparity is more than one of mere perception that can be fixed by good coverage in the press and social media. Great Power attitudes are not driven by articles in the NYT and the Wapo but by cold-eyed projections of their rival’s capability. America’s foes have extrapolated the Biden-Harris trend of open borders, high taxes, patronage giveaways and unlimited government spending and concluded they can take the ruin that remains. They may be mistaken but that is apparently their judgment.

Mm-K. So international relations isn’t the Biden crime family’s strong suit. How’s it going domestically? Let’s start with “immigration.” It seems Resident Biden is allowing illegal aliens to invade our soil without restraint, including a record number of children.

The number of migrants at the U.S. southern border spiked to 171,000 in March after 100,000 were apprehended in February. More concerning, a record number of unaccompanied children arrived at the border, overwhelming authorities who can’t handle the influx as it is. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says that 18,800 children were taken into custody in March. The highest number of migrant children showing up at the border unaccompanied during the 2019 border crisis was 11,861. March’s apprehensions of children were an all-time record.

And guess how they’re getting here. Did you see this one?

Here’s how enemy of The People The Washington Post headlined the story:

Screen capture via washingtonpost.com

I wish I could access the whole article, but I refuse to financially support this deranged Democrat front group, which is killing “Democracy” in broad daylight. I’m sure it would be enlightening, though, because they’d have to explain how two grown men dropping two toddlers over the wall are a “reminder” of the “dangers” “migrants” face.

Do they mean the dangers the two human traffickers face? Apart from one maybe losing his balance, it didn’t look like they were in too much trouble. I mean, I suppose he could’ve twisted an ankle jumping down off the top of the wall. But, no, after dropping the kids like sacks of potatoes, they literally ran back into Mexico.

Or do they mean the dangers small children face, like being abandoned by their parents, dropped over a wall by two coyotes, and left to fend for themselves against the real, fur-coated coyotes? Or maybe they mean the wall itself being a “danger” to illegals wanting to illegally enter the United States because they’re “forced” to do inhumane $#!+ like that?

I’m old enough to remember when we elected a president who eliminated the incentives for illegals to cross the border illegally. But at least there’s no more mean tweets with the new guy, right? Only 3- and 5-year-old girls being tossed over a wall without any adult or civilization nearby. Truly, the people who would do that to little kids are exactly the kind I want flooding into my country.

Well, maybe let’s get closer to home with a look at sports. Baseball enthusiast Joseph Robinette Biden enthusiastically supports Major League Baseball moving this year’s All-Star Game out of Georgia because “racism.”

“This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they’re doing in Georgia and 40 other states.” — Resident Joe Biden

You know it’s a sham when they accuse conservatives and Republicans (I do not repeat myself) of racism for drafting an election integrity law. Caving to the woke mob and further shredding “American’s favorite pastime,” MLB commissar Robert D. Manfred, Jr. said, “I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft.”

“Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,” Manfred said. “In 2020, MLB became the first professional sports league to join the non-partisan Civic Alliance to help build a future in which everyone participates in shaping the United States. We proudly used our platform to encourage baseball fans and communities throughout our country to perform their civic duty and actively participate in the voting process. Fair access to voting continues to have our game’s unwavering support.”

Weird. The new legislation doesn’t restrict anyone’s access to the ballot box, unless you talking about unverified voters being “restricted.” Nor does it undermine “voting rights for all Americans.” The ankle biters are teed off that the new law requires voters to show an ID. But the Left and MLB (apparently one and the same now) claim this somehow disenfranchises black voters—which studies prove doesn’t happen. Probably those same black voters who have to show an ID when they pick up their ballgame tickets from Will Call.

Finally, a Capitol Hill Police Officer was killed after alleged jihadist Noah Green intentionally rammed his car into officers, jumped out with a knife, and was shot dead. The progressive twitterati immediately assumed it was a white Trump supporter with a gun.

But nope—Green was black and a follower of the ‘Nation of Islam’ and its leader, Louis Farrakhan. He had “recently posted on his Facebook account, which has now been taken down by the social media network, that he had been unemployed and facing fear, hunger, and loss of wealth. The messages were captured by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist media and tracks online activity.”

If it had been a white male Trump supporter with a knife, we’d be back to total Capitol lockdown with Nancy Pelosi swaying before the media, Chuck Schumer looking over his glasses and down his nose at us and John Brennan fantasizing about how Normals were just like “the insurgency movements that we’ve seen overseas.”

Meanwhile, Muslims with “mental problems” are shooting up grocery stores and attacking the Capitol but the media is like, “Hey, Georgia is raaaaaaasist!”

Not going so well, is it Joe? I’d give your illegal “administration” a big, fat F for its massive failures so far.

Here’s the real deal, fellow Americans. We’re being sold out by a cadre of evil anti-Americans who are only interested in maintaining and keeping power so that they are eaten last. They only way out of this mess is for every red-blooded American patriot in every locale to start resisting and protesting and ousting the woke folk who are in power in their villages, towns, cities, counties and states.

Unless you’re waiting for the Second Coming of Christ, don’t expect some other “savior” to lead the way out. It’s going to have to be every man and woman who loves this country getting involved. Do it now—for yourselves and for your children and for your children’s children.