Author name: Jacob Burns

On April 8, Sean Parnell, the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesman, announced that SecDef Pete Hegseth had removed U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield as the U.S. representative to NATO’s Military Committee.

Parnell explained that her removal was due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead but thanked her for many years of service.

“Secretary Hegseth has removed U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield from her position as U.S. representative to NATO’s military committee due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead. The Defense Department is grateful for her many years of military service.”

Texas Democrat congresswoman Jasmine Crockett attempted to spin the narrative, only to end up potentially justifying her termination. The far-left squad member claimed that Chatfield was removed for refusing to hang President Trump’s and Hegseth’s portraits. 

“They fired Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield—not because she couldn’t do the job, but because she wouldn’t hang up pictures of Trump and Hegseth. This ain’t about merit—it’s about ego.”

However, the Pentagon Spokesman did not hesitate to school her about the military’s code of conduct. Unlike the rudderless, leaderless, and lawless Democratic Party, the military has a strict policy on insubordination and refusal to follow lawful orders.

“Congresswoman, I realize this may be a foreign concept to you but here at the DoD if you disrespect the chain of command & don’t do your job, you will be replaced. Period.”

By virtue of Trump being elected as President, who is also the Commander in Chief, and Hegseth being confirmed by Congress as the Secretary of Defense, they both have the authority to issue non-negotiable orders. If Chatfield refused to hang the portraits as ordered, it surely does not make sense for her to continue serving an institution whose leaders she does not recognize. 

While she may not approve of what Trump and Hegseth are doing with the military, she is obligated to obey lawful orders regardless of personal political beliefs. The military cannot tolerate rebellious officials as that undermines its readiness and warfighting capabilities, which Trump and Hegseth promised to restore. 

Meanwhile, Chatfield’s firing might be related to the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to de-Wokify the military. The president had promised to remove woke officials from top military positions, and Chatfield was likely hired under Biden’s DEI policies and was advocating for the same. 

“I want to see members of this team offer each other respect for differences, for diversity, for the dialogue from which ideas and collaboration emerge,” Chatfield said in 2019. 

The admiral was also the first female president of the Naval War College, which she joined in 2019, and she rose through the ranks rather too quickly. Her continued presence in the military was likely a relic of a bygone woke era.

Chatfield’s removal is the third seemingly woke-related termination of female officers. Earlier, Trump had fired Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. C.Q. Brown.

A former President Joe Biden’s senior advisor has faulted the 82-year-old for fumbling the presidential debate, abandoning the race, and melting the party’s dream, costing Democrats the presidential election.

Mike Donilon recently discussed the elections at Harvard University, where he blamed the former president for melting the party’s dream after his well-deserved fumbles. “Now, lots of people have terrible debates. Lots of people have terrible debates. Usually, the party doesn’t lose its mind, but that’s what happened here. It melted down,” Donilon said.

Numerous left-leaning media outlets, including the notorious CNN and BBC, agree with Donilon that Biden fumbled the presidential debate, which was the last straw for his second-term presidential ambitions.

“If Joe Biden loses November’s election, history will record that it took just 10 minutes to destroy a presidency. It was clear a political disaster was about to unfold as soon as the 81-year-old commander in chief stiffly shuffled on stage in Atlanta,” CNN’s senior reporter Stephen Collinson wrote.

Ironically, Democrats would rather blame demented Biden than take responsibility for spurring the dead horse longer than it was necessary. If they held open and democratic primaries, a better candidate would have emerged and challenged Trump equally. Kamala Harris would also not have been rigged in, driving the party’s last nail in the coffin. 

Nonetheless, deluded Donilon blames the Democratic Party for abandoning mentally incapacitated Biden because of his age. While age was not necessarily a disqualifying factor, Biden seems to have been suffering from more than old age. But he somehow, the Democrat found an excuse to blame Trump for his party’s failures.

“They will say they’re worried about Biden’s age, but they’ll also say something else,” Donilon continued. “They were really worried about Trump. They were worried about the fact he said he wouldn’t accept the results of the election. 

“They were worried that he said, ‘I had nothing to do with Jan. 6.’ The sense from him was that he was not on the side of people. 

“I said this to Biden the morning after the debate: Sometimes you can lose the campaign about the campaign. And that’s what happened to us.”

Nobody believed that Biden would beat Trump – CNN reported that three-quarters of American voters believed Democrats could retake the White House if they fronted anybody other than Biden. “Three-quarters of US voters say the Democratic Party would have a better shot at holding the presidency in 2024 with someone other than President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket,” the network reported, citing an SSRS poll [pdf].

However, nobody likely expected that person to be Kamala Harris, an even worse candidate than demented Joe. 

Meanwhile, Trump continues to steamroll Democrats with a barrage of executive orders, more than CNN’s audience, according to VP JD Vance, that the media cannot keep up with. Recently, Democratic political strategist James Carville admitted that the Left was overwhelmed while Trump’s America First agenda sailed through.

“We’re getting overwhelmed,” Carville told the “Politics War Room” podcast co-host Al Hunt.

“Things that we thought that would kill a political career, would be poisonous for whatever reason, this guy keeps chugging along.”

Nonetheless, Democrats continue to hold on to the outdated past instead of aligning their political ideology with most American voters, who strongly asserted that they want secure borders, reduced government waste, and above all common sense.

Democrats and Republicans in the Michigan House of Representatives passed a bipartisan amendment to the state’s K-12 budget containing a provision that encourages students to report on their parents for “improperly” stored firearms, the Detroit Free Press reported.

School leaders around the state were skeptical of the fiscal year 2025 school budget that the state legislature passed and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed in July, and so the Democrats rammed through HB 5503, a budget amendment to the 2025 budget, with the help of some Republicans.

Addressing those demands for more money, lawmakers moved to sweeten the deal for public schools by adding $126 million, $125 million of which is allocated to mental health programs, which are often ways in which public schools promote the LGBT agenda, and school safety programs.

The final $1 million in the bill–ostensibly a part of the school safety aspect of the bill–will create a “tip line” number which children could call in order to anonymously tell on their parents for engaging in alleged improper firearm storage practices.

“This amendment was inserted into the conference committee report of the Michigan School Aid bill (HB 5503 CR-1) today,’ the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners tweeted. “The conference committee report is expected to be voted on immediately in the House and Senate with no testimony allowed.”

The tweet continued: “This amendment would allow ISDs to establish a tip hotline for students to anonymously report parents who improperly store a firearm. While we all support responsible firearms storage, this is the type of thing we’d expect to see from a totalitarian police state.”

Despite the alleged safety provision, the bill passed Tuesday in the state House by a 98-11 margin, and the Senate by a 23-15 margin.

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