Right-Wingers Freak Out About Pentagon's Anti-Extremist Initiative

[LetMyPeopleVote]

I am glad that the military is purging right wing nut jobs from the military

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Predictable as ever, conservatives are gearing up to defend their increasingly extremist voter base in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection by trotting out their timeworn “bloody shirt” trope—you know, the one that “makes a victim out of the bully and a bully out of the victim”—even as government officials try to grapple with the fallout from the manifest reality of a far-right-wing insurgency on our doorsteps. As always, the problem isn’t far-right seditionist violence, the problem is the people calling it out and trying to reel it in.

Right-wing pundits are currently attempting to repeat the travesty of 2009, when conservative media claimed a Department of Homeland Security memo warning of an increase in far-right organizing and recruitment, particularly directed at military veterans, was proof of plans to persecute conservatives. This time, they’re directing the same sort of self-owning complaints at the military’s announced efforts to root out far-right extremists—the kind who would participate in an armed insurrection—from their ranks.

In the aftermath of Jan. 6—and the realization that one in five of the riotous insurgents arrested for their roles in it were military veterans—the Biden administration, led by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, announced that it would tackle the long-running issue of radicalization within the ranks of the U.S. military, first by ordering a 60-day stand-down in all six branches of the service to attempt to assess how far-reaching the problem really is. Exactly how those orders will play out remains up in the air, but leaders at every military base are currently figuring that out.

[hlthe2b]

1. Their 2009 tactics won't work this time. Jan 06 ensures so.

The problem will be the police forces who subsequently hire them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I fully support what the Pentagon is trying to do.

The riotous insurgents must go!

[iluvtennis]

8. Ditto. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Twitter reply :

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[Turbineguy]

4. The RW should ignore that.

It's just the same shit they pulled during WWII but with better computers.

[The Magistrate]

5. You Know, Sir

If I say 'get racist seditionists, incipient traitors, and insurrectionists out of the armed services' and someone hears that as 'you're attacking conservatives', I confess I am willing to accept their view that conservatives are racist seditionists, incipient traitors, and insurrectionists....

[Leith]

7. Good point

nt

[crickets]

9. Impeccable logic. nt

[judesedit]

10. Exactly right

[Cha]

6. Rt.. Elections have Consequences..

in this case.. righteous ones! TY