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DOGE-ing toward the best Department of Defense ever

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President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth have made it very clear. The United States will have the best Military in the world, bar none.  This goal is being established to deter and prevent conflict, not start it, slip into it, or perpetuate it.  The President and Secretary of Defense have also said we will grow the military and also cut inefficient spending.  This message is not an oxymoron – with the DOGE raids on other departments, the horror stories of fraud, waste, and abuse are far worse than we thought.

In one of his first public comments on the impending arrival of DOGE to DOD, Secretary Hegseth made it clear that attacking fraud, waste, and abuse would happen on a scale never before seen in the notoriously inefficient DOD.  Secretary Hegseth said that DOGE is “here, and they’re going to be incorporated into what we’re doing at DOD to find fraud, waste and abuse in the largest discretionary budget in the federal government,”.  The Secretary said full system access would be given to DOGE, “with proper safeguards and classifications” to ensure redundancies are identified, eliminated, and that non-core priorities and activities would relentlessly be ridden from the DOD.  Secretary Hegseth said, “With DOGE, we are focusing as much as we can on headquarters and fat and top-line stuff that allows us to reinvest elsewhere”

Appointing the best Military Leadership

In the tradition of “Plucking”, which has ample legal and historic precedent, a whole new slate of uniformed and career Senior Executives are needed across the DOD.  Although spending close to $1 Trillion a year, the situation is dire.  The bases look shabby, the number of aircraft, ships, and missiles is shrinking, deterrence is failing, and until the election of Donald J. Trump, there was a recruiting and retention crisis.  It all begins with leadership and many need to go.  The initial top five list of firings could include:

General “C.Q.” Brown (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff):  The Pentagon has run aground, and the Skipper is always relieved in these situations (as the Captain of the U.S.S. Truman just experienced).  General Brown has been front and center in promoting the toxic and cancerous DEI culture and that culture has been fired by Secretary of Defense Hegseth, hence General Brown’s services are no longer needed.

Admiral Lisa Franchetti (Chief of Naval Operations):  The Navy should be the lead service in building deterrence to China.  Yes, the Navy had a perfect badminton score in the two large missile attacks by Iran on Israel and the Houthis in the Red Sea, but the Navy is in bad shape.  The ship numbers are dwindling, collisions are occurring, the Navy is shooting down its own aircraft, use of autonomy is lethargic, and there is more rust than paint on most Navy ships.  The once mighty U.S. Navy is a shadow of what it was.  Admiral Franchetti has DEI roots, time for a new Skipper.

General Randy George (Army Chief of Staff):  The Army needs to radically transform into a new, smaller force structure and needs fresh leadership to conduct this process.  The term, “Transform” has routinely been used by Army leadership.  “Transform” usually means a perpetuation of stodgy, passive aggressive behavior to shield the traditional Army structure from cuts.  Those days are gone, and new leadership is needed.  The Army may shrink drastically and even transfer entire units to the Navy and Air Force; traditional Army think will fight this tooth and nail.  Sergeant Major of the Army Michael R. Weimer has shown distinct leadership and may serve well as acting or permanent Army Chief of Staff.

General David W. Allvin (Air Force Chief of Staff):  The Air Force will be the key partner with Navy as deterrence is built in the Western Pacific.  The Air Force needs to disperse, harden, and camouflage post haste while building force structure with pervasive autonomy and AI.  New leadership is needed to do this with alacrity.

All the uppity O6s who mouthed off with Woke, DEI, and Trump Derangement Syndrome Blather:  Colonel Christina Bembenek, current Commander of the 66th Military Intelligence Brigade in Germany is a poster child for this behavior.  She and others were coddled and encouraged in their hateful virtue signaling.  Time for them to go before a retention board before they are forced out.

Schwacking the Overhead

When I started on the Office of the Secretary of Defense Staff, I had one person working for me.  When I left, I had up to 75 personnel on my staff.  I felt far more effective with three to five sharp staffers than with 50 to 75 (and most of thm were well above average).  Most uniformed or civilian bureaucrats learn the gameplay really quick.  More staff and more funding means more success and prestige, ergo, grow everything no matter what the question.  Get a new task?  Demand more staff and resources.  Those days are over.

The deepest part of the Deep State in the National Security World are the Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs).  In theory, they were supposed to work the hard, technical problem sets.  Unfortunately, they have become the jobs program to employ Democrats when they are out of office.  I can say this as a material witness for six years while with one FFRDC.  The big three are Mitre, Rand, and The Aerospace Corporation.  Billions can be saved downsizing these organizations that are overflowing from the C-Suites with woke ideology which clouds their thinking and thus outcomes.

Eliminating the dysfunction of the Acquisition Process

Even the layperson knows the Department of Defense Acquisition Process is broken.  The high religion of dysfunction within DOD has been the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS).  This is the insane system that transforms requirements into programs that are supposed to deliver aircraft, ships, tanks, etc.  Since the end of World War II, this process has brought the outcome of yesterday’s solutions, delivered tomorrow, at unaffordable costs to a venerated high art form.

The Hudson Institute has bravely stepped forward and instead of the tired “let’s reform it” gibberish, they put it very simply, “burn it down” and start over.  Having had to participate in the torture of JCIDS for 100s of meetings, no question JCIDS has to be eliminated.  The spectacle of this process was little different than the bloodshed of the Roman Coliseum or the chaos of Wipeout USA.  President Trump and Secretary Hegseth are correct.  We can build a far bigger and better Military with far less.

All viewpoints are personal and do not reflect the viewpoints of any organization.

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Black Lives Matter Activist in Boston Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud Charges – Scammed Donors to Fund Her Lifestyle

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A Black Lives Matter activist in Boston named Monica Cannon-Grant pleaded guilty to federal charges this week, admitting that she scammed donors and used their money to fund her own lavish lifestyle.

Cannon-Grant was previously held up as an admired figure. The city of Boston named her the Bostonian of the year at one point for her ‘social justice activism’ and she was even recognized by the Boston Celtics basketball team for her efforts.

She is now facing a minimum of two years in prison.

The New York Post reports:

BLM-linked activist admits conning donors to fund her lavish lifestyle

A once-celebrated Boston social activist has pleaded guilty to defrauding donors — including Black Lives Matter — out of thousands of dollars that she used as a personal piggy bank.

Monica Cannon-Grant, 44, pleaded guilty Monday to 18 counts of fraud-related crimes that she committed with her late husband while operating their Violence in Boston (VIB) activists group, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.

The activist scammed money — including $3,000 from a BLM group — while claiming it was to help feed children and run protests like one in 2020 over the murder of George Floyd and police violence.

Cannon-Grant also conned her way into getting $100,000 in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits — which she used to pay off her personal auto loan and car insurance policy.

But she has now confessed to transferring funds to personal bank accounts to pay for rent, shopping sprees, delivery meals, visits to a nail salon — and even a summer vacation to Maryland.

Just amazing.

Here’s a local video report:

She should pay back every penny.

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Keith Olbermann Backpedals Furiously With Apology for Threatening CNN’s Scott Jennings – Jennings Responds (VIDEO)

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As the Gateway Pundit reported yesterday, former MSNBC host and generally unhinged leftist Keith Olbermann, appeared to threaten CNN’s conservative pundit Scott Jennings on Twitter saying, ‘You’re next motherf**ker.’

Well, Olbermann may have gotten a phone call or a visit from the FBI because today he walked back those comments with a full-throated apology.

RedState has an update:

To quickly recap, Scott Jennings, a Salem Media Network radio host and conservative CNN political commentator, reacted to breaking news on Monday that Kimmel had been reinstated by tweeting, “So basically his employer suspended him for being an insensitive pr**k, and we don’t live in an authoritarian regime? Got it.”

This enraged Olbermann, who proceeded to tweet what many, including Jennings, perceived to be a threat. “You’re next, motherf**ker. But keep mugging to the camera.” Jennings tagged Patel and included a screengrab of the tweets in response.

Though the FBI hasn’t commented as to whether an investigation was launched, Olbermann ostensibly appears to have thought twice about what he tweeted and deleted, apologizing profusely in tweets posted on Tuesday and claiming what he wrote was “misinterpreted”:

See Olbermann’s tweet below:

Scott Jennings, always a class act, offered this hilarious response:

Keith Olbermann really needs help. The guy is just so out of control.

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Where is Lance Twiggs? Kirk Assassin’s Transgender Lover Has Vanished

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Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson and roommate Lance Twiggs

Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner – a male-to-female trans named Lance “Luna” Twiggs.

The FBI used Robinson’s texts with his transgender partner to solidify that Robinson was the assassin. Lance Twiggs has not been charged with any crime; however, federal authorities are still investigating.

Last week, Utah authorities released the text exchange between Tyler Robinson and his transgender lover, Lance Twiggs, sent shortly after Kirk’s assassination.

Utah County District Attorney Jeff Gray announced seven charges against Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson. They will also be seeking the death penalty.

Robinson was charged with:

– Count 1: Aggravated murder (capital offense)
– Count 2: Felony reckless discharge of a firearm causing bodily injury
– Count 3: Felony obstruction of justice for hiding the firearm
– Count 4: Felony obstruction of justice for discarding the clothing he wore during the shooting
– Count 5: Witness tampering for asking roommate to delete incriminating messages
– Count 6: Witness temperating for demanding trans roommate stay silent, and not speak to police
– Count 7: Commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child

Jeff Gray released the chilling texts between Tyler Robinson and his “love” Lance Twiggs.

Read the text exchange here:

Tyler Robinson texts with transgender lover Lance Twiggs / 1
Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson texts with transgender lover Lance Twiggs / 2

Lance Twiggs was reportedly cooperating with the FBI, however, according to the Daily Mail he has seemingly vanished.

“If [Lance Twiggs] ever comes back, it will be in a body bag,” a neighbor said to the Daily Mail. “That’s not a threat – I’m just saying that there are so many people who want a piece of him he’d be mad to show his face in public again. This was a generational event.”

The Daily Mail reported:

The Trans boyfriend of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin has fled their former lovenest – and locals tell the Daily Mail they never want to see him again.

Lance Twiggs, 22, was led away for questioning when police swooped on the smart three-bed condo he shared with accused gunman Tyler Robinson, 22.

Shaken neighbors say the part time plumber has not been back to the $320,000 property in St. George, Utah – one declaring: ‘Good riddance. I never want to see either of them again.’

His beaten-up Infinity compact is still parked in his space with his work gear tossed across the back seat and a sandwich wrapper and a drink on the front passenger seat.

Upstairs lights have been left on for more than a week and notes and Amazon packages are piling up outside the home owned by Twiggs’s devout Mormon family.

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