{"id":82799,"date":"2022-07-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82799"},"modified":"2022-07-14T04:15:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T09:15:26","slug":"recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82799","title":{"rendered":"Recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:l<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Best possible news for our nation:<a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2022\/07\/u-s-army-boots-over-60000-national-guard-and-reservists-who-remain-unvaccinated-from-covid\/\"> Lesko Brandon kicks out 60,000 unvaxx military members<\/a>.  All those trained professional warriors just became part of The Resistance.  It&#8217;s not only us Wolverines anymore.  Excellent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Meanwhile, the military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2022\/06\/24\/army-drops-requirement-high-school-diploma-amid-recruiting-crisis.html\">is reducing standards again<\/a>, desperate to find bodies to replace the trained professional warriors they just let go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guns.com\/news\/2022\/06\/03\/11-million-may-gun-sales-numbers-3rd-highest-on-record\">Civilian gun sales continue unabated<\/a>, the better to face off against Lesko Brandon&#8217;s Wokesters in Uniform.  The next Insurrection should be a real doozy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m going to break with Joe on this one for a bit.  I\u2019m going to suggest that if we ever have a <em>real<\/em> insurrection, the military will be the least of the problems, as they are overwhelmingly not drawn from the \u201cblue\u201c elites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Robert Kaplan noted in his excellent (albeit a generation old) imperial Grunts, an 18-year-old from East Texas is 32 times as likely to serve in the military as one from New York City (and that New Yorker is much more likely a Puerto Rican kid from the Bronx, or a blue-collar Irish kid from Staten Island, as opposed to a WASP trust fund baby from Manhattan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Call me naive, but that\u2019s where I put my faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:l Best possible news for our nation: Lesko Brandon kicks out 60,000 unvaxx military members. All those trained professional warriors just became part of The Resistance. It&#8217;s not only us Wolverines anymore. Excellent. Meanwhile, the military is reducing standards again, desperate to find bodies to replace the trained professional warriors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82800,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82799\/revisions\/82800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}