NY Times Erases Biden’s Wokeification of the Military in Article Bashing Trump
“Milley politicizing DoD isn’t political, but taking down his portrait is. Hiring an ineffective & pro-DEI service chief isn’t, but firing her is. Open borders aren’t, but securing them is. Firing troops over the vaccine isn’t, but rehiring them is.”
In any article on the political and cultural wars taking place within the United States military, one would expect former President Joe Biden’s name to be featured prominently.
The reason for that, of course, is because of the degradation of our fighting forces under Biden’s watch due in part to a dangerous obsession with implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the name of woke, emphasizing them over actual merit, readiness, and fitness to lead.
Legal Insurrection extensively documented this during Biden’s four years in office. Examples:
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly vowed to undo the damage Biden had done by, among other things, setting up a task force that would be charged with dismantling DEI in the military.
It’s something he followed through with after the election in part by nominating Iraq/Afghanistan wars veteran and DEI critic Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary and by nominating former Space Force Lieutenant Colonel squadron commander Matt Lohmeier to be the Under Secretary of the Air Force.
Lohmeier, as Legal Insurrection has reported, was — under Joe Biden’s leadership —”fired, forced to resign without a pension just before his retirement date and subjected to an Inspector General investigation within the Pentagon after” publishing a best-selling book that shined an unflattering spotlight on the wokeification within the military.
With all of that in mind, we turn to an article from the New York Times which took the gaslighting to the extremes by accusing Trump of, I kid you not, pulling “the military back into the political and culture wars” over actions he’s taken to expressly remove them from it:
The military is back where it has historically not wanted to be: in the middle of political and culture wars that could erode bipartisan support and, eventually, the public’s support for a military that is supposed to be apolitical w/@helenecooper https://t.co/vAEFPTHqwE
— Eric Schmitt (@EricSchmittNYT) January 24, 2025
From the piece:
In his early-days blitz, President Trump fired the first woman to ever lead a military service branch, signed an order to send active-duty U.S. troops to the border and said he was reinstating, with back pay, former service members who had refused to take Covid vaccinations, a breach of military health rules.
And a portrait of his former senior military adviser, whom Mr. Trump has accused of disloyalty, was swiftly taken down at the Pentagon.
Mr. Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said at his confirmation hearing last week that the president wanted a military “laser-focused on lethality, meritocracy, warfighting, accountability and readiness.”
It is not starting off that way.
Instead, the military is back where it has historically not wanted to be: in the middle of political and culture wars that could erode bipartisan support and, eventually, the public’s support for a military that is supposed to be apolitical.
Are you kidding me?
Here’s the leftwing playbook. Milley politicizing DoD isn’t political, but taking down his portrait is. Hiring an ineffective & pro-DEI service chief isn’t, but firing her is. Open borders aren’t, but securing them is. Firing troops over the vaccine isn’t, but rehiring them is.
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— Jerry Dunleavy IV
(@JerryDunleavy) January 24, 2025
Exactly right. When the Left is in power, nothing they do is political, politicizing, weaponizing, or culture-warring.
When the right is elected and reverses the Left, everything they so is all of these. https://t.co/GQZADgNa0U
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) January 24, 2025
To be sure, there is always some degree of politicizing and culture warring in the military no matter who the Commander in Chief is. However, the media treating Trump as though he’s the main offender in this scenario when he’s not even close to that —while not even giving Joe Biden one single mention despite the absolute havoc he wreaked on our armed forces — is just flat-out nuts.
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Media are scum. They will go full court press with the lying and dissembling. About everything.
That explains their rapidly increasing popularity and approval ratings.
Gonna be fun to watch. The legacy media does NOT have a clue what’s coming at them. The jig is up. They blew it … big time.
Hopefully with the President being Commander in Chief, the Cultural Marxists won’t have a leg to stand on.
And don’t expect the Democrats Propaganda Ministry to do anything but fight it.
It is the Times…trash.
Yes, but still useful for wrapping fish. And lining birdcages.
Other newspapers are just as good for that. Including the free ones.
Speaking of which, who actually sells fish wrapped in newsprint? Wouldn’t it get ink all over it? When I buy fish from the fishmonger rather than the supermarket, they wrap it in butcher paper.
Everyone should cancel their subscription to the NYT.
Why does anyone have one in the first place? I canceled mine in 2002.
NYT should go directly from the presses to the bottom of the birdcage.
From the presses, to a toilet, to a septic tank.
Always interesting to see how the lapdog legacy media frame the pendulum swings of policy changes; when d/prog make changes they are described as positive but changes initiated by the GoP are reactionary, rolling back progress. These outlets are dying off b/c their blatant partisanship and ‘advocacy journalism’ begins by alienating half the Nation then disappointing the other half when their partisan fairy tales are proven false.
It’s a version of “Republicans pounce”
Izvestia on the Hudson, printing all its views as if they’re news
All my New York Times pearls got clutched to powder years ago.
A guy on Farcebook who I’ve known since high school kept advocating for the NYT. Probably at least 90% of the replies to his posts were sarcasm, derision, and laughter. I don’t know if he eventually saw the light or just got tired of swimming upstream but I haven’t seen any more of them in a couple of years.
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The brazen lie that these greasy, dishonest and despicable Dhimmi-crat media shills/lapdogs/trained seals/stenographers are peddling is the farcical notion that DoD was allegedly “apolitical,” under Biden-Harris. They make the same claim with respect to the FBI, by the way — that the agency is an alleged paragon of apolitical neutrality, as opposed to the corrupt and viciously Dhimmi-crat organization that it has become.
The Dhimmi-crats always do this. Any time conservatives push back on the Dhimmi-crats’ decade-long sowing of pervasive and entrenched moral, cultural and Marxist/Maoist rot throughout our schools and institutions, it’s the conservatives/GOP who come in for criticism for daring to confront this corruption and rot, but, the Dhimmi-crats’ machinations are never subjected to a scintilla of criticism or opprobrium.
There is an *EXCELLENT* book called “The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History” (Rindsberg).
It lists a ton of coverups and outright lies the NY Times has spun over the years, all the way from having literal communist propaganda agents on their staff, to claiming that it was really Poland that invaded Hitler’s Germany (!!!!)
They’re all well researched and documented.
How anyone can take the NY Times seriously is beyond me.