The commander of a United States Space Force unit has been relieved of his duties after making comments in a conservative podcast alleging that Marxist ideologies are becoming widespread in the U.S. military.
According to Military.com, the fired Lt Col. Matthew Lohmeier was the commander of the 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, which is responsible for monitoring the launch of ballistic missiles.
Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the head of Space Operations Command, dismissed Lohmeier due to “a loss of confidence in his ability to lead,” the outlet reported.Advertisement – story continues below
“This decision was based on public comments made by Lt. Col. Lohmeier in a recent podcast,” a Space Force spokesperson told Military.com in an email. “Lt. Gen. Whiting has initiated a Command Directed Investigation on whether these comments constituted prohibited partisan political activity.”
Lohmeier, a former Air Force combat pilot, and instructor joined the Space this May after being transferred. He had self-published a book named “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military.”
“Irresistible Revolution is a timely and bold contribution from an active-duty Space Force lieutenant colonel who sees the impact of a neo-Marxist agenda at the ground level within our armed forces,” the book’s Amazon.com description reads.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow revealed on her show on Friday that she is scared of people who aren’t vaccinated, calling unmasked people a “threat.”
Maddow spoke on her show following an appearance from Dr Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, who discussed the new guidelines from the organisation that vaccinated people should no longer wear a face mask, except from in very specific and exceptional situations. Maddow said that she had “very personal feelings” about the new mask guidelines, and would have to rework her thinking.
“Part of it is that I feel like I’m going to have to rewire myself so that when I see somebody out in the world who’s not wearing a mask I don’t instantly think ‘you are a threat,’ or ‘you are selfish’ or ‘you are a Covid denier’ and you definitely haven’t been vaccinated,” Maddow said, revealing she considered unvaccinated people to be a “threat” to her own health:
We are really going to have to rewire the way that we look at each other because the CDC’s guidance… is that if you’re vaccinated you don’t need to wear a mask except in very specific circumstances, and so that means as we change that as a country we are going to look at each other differently, and we have to unwire our preconceptions about what a mask or a lack of a mask means.
The CNN doctor questioned, “How do we know that people are telling the truth” about their vaccination status.
A medical doctor and professor who writes columns and regularly appears as a guest on CNN slammed the CDC’s decision to let vaccinated people stop wearing masks, and suggested there should be a mechanism in place – like a vaccine passport – to keep those who choose not to take the vaccine from appearing in public.
No. I don’t mean that Woke Gender Identity Ideology (WGII) causes the individual who believes WGII to be suicidal. If Sally believes in WGII, WGII can’t force her to do anything. Ideas can’t force anyone to do anything. What I mean is that the idea, or concept, of WGII itself is a fatally flawed one. It kills itself philosophically. And is therefore necessarily false. Which means no one should believe it.
Let me explain.
What is WGII? WGII says that an individual is what they identify as.
For example, Linkedin published an article titled “15 Gender Identity Terms You need to Know to Build an Inclusive Workplace.” In it, the author says that gender is less about biology or physiology than it is about one’s “lived experience.”
“So when we talk about a person’s gender identity,” she writes, “we’re talking about their own deeply felt understanding of who they are.”
In other words, an individual isn’t what they are biologically or physiologically—they are what they identify as.
Here’s how to prove Woke Gender Identity Ideology is false.
A claim is false if it contradicts itself. “A square is a circle,” “A bachelor is a married man,” “1 is 2,” “A is B,” are all claims that contradict themselves. Because a square is not a circle—a square is a square. A bachelor is not a married man—a bachelor is an unmarried man. 1 is not 2—1 is 1. A is not B—A is A. WGII leads to contradictions which make it as untrue as the claim “1 is 2.”
Think about it:
If an individual’s identifying as something makes that individual that thing, then if I identify as a person who lives in a world in which WGII does not exist, then WGII should not exist. But it does exist (because the Woke Left still claims it’s true in the world), therefore WGII is false.
Or, if I identify as a person who lives in a world in which there are no individuals who identify as the sex they biologically are not, there should not be any individuals who identify as the sex they biologically are not. But there are individuals in the world who identify as the sex they biologically are not. Therefore, WGII is false.
Or—try this one on for size!—if I identify as a person who lives in a world in which WGII is false, then WGII should be false in this world. But if WGII is false in this world, then it is false and no one should believe it.
Use your imagination to identify as a person who lives in any kind of world that is not the real world: a world with unicorns; with flying pigs; with no light; with bank accounts for everyone with a balance of $10 million. If the world doesn’t immediately match what you identify as, then the claim that “an individual is what they identify as,” and therefore WGII, is not true.
Ideologies like Woke Gender Identity Ideology lead to absurd conclusions that render them necessarily false ideologies. In other words, WGII refutes itself like the claim “1 is 2” refutes itself. WGII is fatally flawed because it kills itself. A philosopher would say that WGII is “self-referentially incoherent.” I just say it’s dead on arrival.
And the Woke Left agrees with me, they just don’t know it yet.
For example, the Woke Left support strict COVID-19 lockdowns. They (sometimes agressively) support the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s guidance to wear a mask in public and to get the Moderna or Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson mRNA “vaccine.” But what if I, as someone who isn’t wearing a mask and who isn’t vaccinated, were to identify as someone who is wearing a mask and who is vaccinated? Would the Woke Left accept me as that which I identify? I don’t think they’d be as tolerant and inclusive in that case as they claim to be.
Why? Because simply identifying as masked and vaccinated doesn’t make me physiologically mask and vaccinated. The Woke Left would still consider me a threat to the safety of their health.
But—and, ironically—that’s the same argument conservatives make against Woke Gender Identity Ideology. Though a man claims to be a woman, that man is not in fact physiologically a woman. Though a woman claims to be a man, that woman is not in fact physiologically a man. Conservatives would still consider the destruction of conservative, Christian family values a threat to Western civilization, and therefore a threat to the progress and flourishing of humanity.
So if my identifying as masked and vaccinated doesn’t make me masked and vaccinated, then a man’s identifying as a woman doesn’t make him a woman, and a woman’s identifying as a man doesn’t make her a man. The Woke Left can’t have their cake and eat it too.
This is because saying—or even believing—something doesn’t make it true. Saying something that matches reality makes it true. But if we can’t just claim things into reality, then Woke Gender Identity Ideology is false.
Worse, it kills itself.
Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology scrubbed the U.S. National Institutes of Health as one of its research partners from its website in early 2021. The revelation comes despite Dr. Anthony Fauci insisting no relationship existed between the institutions.
Archived versions of the Wuhan lab’s site also reveal a research update – “Will SARS Come Back?” – appearing to describe gain-of-function research being conducted at the institute by entities funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
On March 21st, 2021, the lab’s website listed six U.S.-based research partners: University of Alabama, University of North Texas, EcoHealth Alliance, Harvard University, The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States, and the National Wildlife Federation.
House Republicans introduced a bill that would require the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information pertaining to the origin of COVID-19, focusing on the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Introduced by Representative Mike Gallagher, the bill posits there is “reason to believe the COVID–19 pandemic may have originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” It would, therefore, require the “Director of National Intelligence to declassify information relating to the origin of COVID–19” – specifically the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The bill follows a Trump-era State Department fact sheet linking the virus to the Wuhan lab, requiring the declassification of “any and all information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19.
Decision challenged as ‘wildly inappropriate and offensive’
A military officer has decided, for a chaplain under his command, what his “religious beliefs” must be, a decision that is being challenged by First Liberty Institute as “wildly inappropriate and offensive.”
The problem developed when a news “report” described how Joe Biden was planning to drop President Trump’s “military transgender ban.”
Chaplain Andrew Calvert then, while the ban still was the military’s policy and practice, wrote on his own social media account, which explained it was not representative of the Department of Defense, questions about the proposed change.
A doctor from the Philippines is defending the use of ivermectin for preventing and treating Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) infection despite attempts by the country’s regulatory authorities to restrict its use. In an interview with Philippine television station ABS-CBN, orthopedic surgeon and President of the Concerned Doctors and Citizens of the Philippines, Dr. Benigno Agbayani cited 80 clinical studies that show the anti-parasitic drug is 89 percent effective at preventing infection and 80 percent effective at treating COVID-19.
“I think I’ve read more than anyone on COVID-19,” he said when questioned on his medical credentials. According to him, he spends several hours almost every day reading scientific literature pertaining to the coronavirus. Among the topics he has read the most about is the use of ivermectin against COVID-19.
Agbayani claims to have already prescribed the anti-parasitic drug to over 300 of his own patients with tremendous success. But he did not talk about his own patients during the interview. Instead, he highlighted the success rate reported by many studies, which, according to him, is what his recommendations are based on. (Related: FDA-approved anti-parasitic drug ivermectin can kill the coronavirus within 48 hours, reports new study.)
“As much as anecdotal [pieces of evidence] are good – and we have many – I really prefer that we stick to the science,” said Agbayani. “People are trying to scare us from taking ivermectin. It’s one of the safest drugs in the world.”
Parents of children who attend Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia have launched a new ad campaign to fight the teaching of critical race theory in their schools and oust the school board.
Elicia Brandy and Cheryl Onderchain, two mothers of children in the school district, were interviewed on “Fox & Friends” Friday about their efforts to recall six members of the school board. Loudoun County schools are embroiled in controversy as fed-up parents have objected to pornographic material being read in the 9th grade curriculum and tenets of critical race theory being prioritized while the district has been slow to reopen for in-person learning.
“I really believe that our school board has really lost their way,” Brandy told “Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy. “For this reason and for adding the parents who want our kids to go back to school to a hit list, but also yes. I don’t want critical theory, not just critical race theory, but critical theory taught in our classrooms.
