Tucker: Our military leadership has gone 'woke'

good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight here's an amazing story yesterday the pentagon special operations command made an announcement from its official twitter account special operations command is a very significant thing in the u.s military and in our country it oversees delta force the seal teams and the rest of our most celebrated best-trained most lethal war fighters so the tweet announced that a man called richard torres estrada is now the quote chief of diversity and inclusion of america's special forces and they included his picture with the announcement then at the very top of its website the special operations command included a link to its extensive it's quite long new diversity and inclusion strategic plan now the one thing we know about that plan is that it will result in the dramatic lowering of standards within our elite ranks it probably already has so how will that make america safer well the generals never said you couldn't find that on the website instead they told us that quote all of us understand that diversity and inclusion are operational imperatives they didn't say how they just said their imperatives so this is the initiative that richard torres estrada will be running so the question is who exactly is richard torres estrada will his facebook page give some indication of who he is on it you will find an attack on the police as racists you'll find crude blm propaganda you will find a photograph of donald trump holding a bible in front of a church next to trump is a photograph of adolf hitler the point is they're the same so this is the guy who now oversees hiring for the navy seals if you're wondering whether our military leadership has gone woke you can consider that question settled for good the pentagon is now the yale faculty lounge but with cruise missiles and that should concern you meanwhile the rest of the world rolls on and gets more menacing by the day tonight for example the suez canal one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world is blocked by a stranded container ship was it an accident maybe maybe not we don't know what we do know is that the suez canal is vital to the world's economy that's not an overstatement the suez canal is one of only about a dozen strategic choke points that control virtually all global trade and now it's closed so this is a challenge to america's critical national interests how is the pentagon responding to that well they're occupied with other things right now for the last month the entire u.s military has been operating under a so-called stand down order that was issued by the new secretary of defense lloyd austin the defense contractor now running the military lloyd austin believes the real threat to america is not the chinese government or paralyzed global trade the real threat to this country is people who didn't vote for joe biden watch and if confirmed i will fight hard to stamp out sexual assault and to rid our ranks of racist and extremists the job of the department of defense is to keep america safe from our enemies but we can't do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks so republicans voted to confirm him he is himself an extremist and they have said virtually nothing about lloyd austin since because they're paralyzed they're paralyzed because lloyd austin has no problem calling his opponents racist immediately ridding our ranks of racists and extremists the key question is how does lloyd austin define a racist or an extremist the definition matters this show has been denounced as a dangerous white supremacist organ for the crime of reading martin luther king quotes on the year so it's worth finding out what those words mean but lloyd austin doesn't provide a definition and that's not accidental because what you're seeing is not an attempt to make the military better what you're seeing is a political purge of the military consider what has been happening during the military's training on quote extremism a lot of enlisted soldiers have asked a pretty basic question hey wait a minute weren't the blm and antifa rioters this summer extremists seems like they were they murdered people they murdered a lot more people than died at the capitol on january 6th a lot more they burn businesses they wrecked cities in some places it took the national guard to stop them so why aren't these people quote extremists hmm good question well a man called ramon colon lopez was called in to explain why to tell the troops why they were wrong colon lopez is the senior insist enlisted adviser to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff these questions he conceded are quote coming from every echelon that we're talking to some people may think all right so the events of 6th of january happened how come you're not looking at the situation that was going on in seattle prior to that well yeah exactly kind of an obvious question well ramon colon lopez has an answer actually it's more of a threat quote i am concerned about the way that some people are looking at the current environment and what they are thinking they can do and act upon based upon their personal beliefs oh in other words if you ask questions like these obvious questions you are by definition dangerous clone lopez said he was working hard to quote make sure that military members understand the difference between seattle and washington dc all right what are those differences exactly well here's one blm clone lopez explained is a quote social injustice organization and therefore it's not extreme also quote when the military called upon us to go ahead and support an effort in washington we did we never got called for the law enforcement issue that was happening in seattle oh so the mayor of seattle never called the national guard to put down antifa therefore antifa is not an extremist organization well that's ludicrous obviously in fact it's not even true actually the national guard did deploy to seattle during the riots last summer but whatever colon lopez's job isn't to make sense it's to send a political message from the joe biden administration we're in charge now this week we spoke to a dea agent who was fired for being in washington on january 6th he didn't riot he never even went into the capitol building in fact he defended the cops outside against the writers he's on video doing that but it didn't matter he didn't vote for joe biden so he's gone and he's hardly alone earlier this month the fbi arrested a man from oklahoma called anthony alfred griffith according to the fbi here's anthony alfred griffith's crime he walked into the capitol building through open doors and took pictures then he handed those pictures to federal investigators here's the fbi's criminal complaint against griffith accuses him quote of witnessing multiple people trying to break down a door oh he saw it happen so for the crime of witnessing other people of trying to break down a door anthony alfred griffith now faces seven years in prison but don't worry people like anthony alfred griffith our leaders tell us are extremists they're white supremacists and our military needs to be laser focused on making certain that no one who votes like these people do can ever serve in the armed forces again we absolutely need to look at uh any type of white supremacists that are still members of the military and how they're being targeted for recruitment by white supremacist groups and we need to weed this out this whole idea of a police officer on police officer violence with those officers who have been turned by white extremists is really scary to me and i know it's got to be scary for the other police officers i am considering legislation to create a stand-alone a punitive article in the uniform court of military justice to it to address violent extremism in the ranks and to send a message of deterrence that this kind of conduct will not be tolerated in the military we've seen a lot of reports highlighting how many of the attackers were veterans and there's been really a growing recognition that the military has to do more to address extremism in its ranks it's really an amazing clip the first two people you saw speaking hirono and duckworth are extremists they're the most extreme members of the u.s senate they went on television this week to tell us that people with the wrong skin color couldn't be hired for federal jobs did anyone at the capitol on january 6 call for that not one person that we're aware of and we denounce it immediately so they're extremists by definition and they're lecturing us about extremism the military has to do more to address extremism and in a way they're doing that by aggressively promoting extremism every two months senior enlisted leaders in the military gather for something called the commanding general stewardship of the army profession forum in january that forum included a quote professional dialogue on the racist hate tract white fragility written by lunatic robin d'angelo no one condemned robin deangelo's obvious extremism they celebrated it just last month someone called lieutenant general brad webb the commander of the air force education and training command made it very explicit he acknowledged that the air force was recruiting candidates with a private pilot's license now that might seem like a wise course flying planes is what the air force does but to lieutenant general brad webb no that's systemic racism one of the other areas in line with that has been aptitude tests yes and in fact the chief mentioned that one as well uh in his talk the other day uh but we are deep uh uh underway in uh updating uh pilot tests and also officer qualification tests that that at its root you know you you get uh you get a weighted score if you have a private pilot's license well that's a socio-economic uh influencer in other words if you're rich enough to afford to have private pilot time you can get a license that ought not be you know weighted right in such a way that you exclude uh you know you know various uh ethnic groups so the real question is how did a doughy like that end up with an important job of the military this isn't the department of transportation that's not the dmv this is a serious thing this is the federal agency to which we give the most money that exists to protect the rest of us from foreign threats and guys like that have power that guy's the commander of air force education and it's not just him in october the head of the air force recruiting office major general ed thomas published a piece on yahoo called 86 of air force pilots are white men here's why that needs to change so you read this and you've got to wonder with the families of the thousands of american white pilots who have died defending this country over the last hundred years thought of that ed thomas wants them so that their husbands and fathers and sons should have been flying planes in the first place because they were the wrong color pretty remarkable we actually called ed thomas after his piece came out to ask about this he was kind enough to talk to us had a long conversation he never explained the only thing that matters how his race mongering makes this country safer he obviously didn't care clearly hadn't even thought about it how did someone like that get power in the u.s military there are a lot of generals like that well matt gates represents thousands of military personnel these are people who join the services because they love the country and they want to protect it these are the people who are getting crushed by this stuff in the u.s military the enlisted people and no one's speaking up for them right now so at a hearing in congress the other day matt gates did how long until make america great again hats are considered an extremist symbol how long until catholic or pro-life groups or those who believe in two genders are too extreme for the ruling woktopians today is about nothing more than cancel culture coming for our military and it is disgusting disgusting he said well disgusting is usually hyperbole but in this case it's understatement now

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Id: mSCSzqJcm9w

Length: 12min 16sec (736 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 26 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Being opposed to abortion (murder) is now “radical”.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s now called “Everyone”Forces not “Special” Forces?

I remember going through the Q course and the cadre always saying this ain’t “everybody” forces we don’t need you, you’re not special.

[u/public_masticator]

I mean it only makes sense. On the left it gives the military industrial complex the wars it wants and the MIC does whatever the left says.

[u/lunchtrey84]

That article they are proposing isn’t going to be used the way they think it is

[u/Luckyboy947]

Watched part of the video. Wow how he tells you what to think.

[u/zeporscheguy]

Our military leadership are a bunch of pussies.