Thursday, May 22, 2025

Mini-Post: Vengeance Is Mine Saith Trump

Trump is like an elephant... he never forgets!

You cross him and you go down in Trump little book.
Reuters 
By Nate Raymond and Ted Hesson
May 22, 2025


Summary
  • Homeland secretary Noem orders termination of Harvard student visa program
  • Cites alleged antisemitism and coordination with Chinese Communist Party
  • Harvard calls move unlawful, pledges support for foreign students
  • Noem warns other universities could face similar actions
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students on Thursday, and is forcing existing students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status, while also threatening to expand the crackdown to other schools.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered the department to terminate Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, the department said in a statement. Noem accused the university of "fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party."

Harvard said the move by the Trump administration - which affects thousands of students - was illegal and amounted to retaliation.
And of course when the courts strike Trump & Company will blame the activist liberal courts.



Long May It Wave

There is a trans flag flying over Yosemite's El Capitan!
The group of LGBTQ activist climbers said the flag, which is 55 feet by 35 feet, is the largest ever displayed on the face of the world-famous rock climbing destination.
NBC News
By Jo Yurcaba
May 20, 2025


A group of LGBTQ climbers and advocates hung a large transgender pride flag in the middle of Yosemite’s famous El Capitan rock formation on Tuesday.

Trans Is Natural, which describes itself as a coalition of transgender, queer and ally climbers, said in a statement that its members unfurled the flag “in an act of solidarity and resistance.” 

[...]

They said the trans pride flag, which is 55 feet by 35 feet, is the largest flag ever displayed on El Capitan. The climbers hung the flag 1,500 feet up El Capitan, on the granite monolith’s “Heart Ledges,” between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. PT and displayed it until around noon, when park officials directed that it be removed, though the climbers said they were not told that they had broken any park rules, according Jess Fiaschetti, the group’s media contact.

A spokesperson for Yosemite National Park said in an emailed statement Wednesday that park officials are "aware of the unauthorized display" and "the flag was removed a soon as possible."
Aw... spoil sports!

Adventure magazine headline couldn't have said it better...
"Let this flag fly higher than hate" – Yosemite LGBTQ+ climbers display transgender pride flag on El Capitan following controversial update on National Park Service website
The article says,
Trans is Natural, a group of trans, queer and allied climbers, is said to have hung the trans pride flag in an act of solidarity and resistance following the removal of referrals to 'transgender' and 'intersex' people from US government websites. This includes the National Park Service Stonewall Monument website. The Stonewall Monument is the first US monument dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights and history.
Long may it wave!












Establishment of Religion

But it doesn't say anything if religion discriminants others. What happens when when a persons religion is used to discriminate others?
Ephesians 6:5, which states: “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ."
Was used to justify slavery... what would happen if someone would use that to justify having slaves... would the courts allow slavery again? What about stoning to death for adultery? 

Do you think if the court ruled discrimination against Black is religious freedom? So when we see discrimination against us and they claim "Religious Freedom" is bogus! So with fear I worry that Trump's Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias will take aim at us, the trans community and whole LGBTQ+ community.


President Donald Trump is stepping up efforts to combat what he describes as a rising wave of anti-Christian discrimination in the United States. Amid a series of events in Washington last week surrounding the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump signed an executive order establishing a new task force dedicated to addressing and eliminating anti-Christian bias within the federal government.

The executive order draws attention to an increase in vandalism targeting conservative churches and pro-life pregnancy centers, particularly following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The move aligns with a key initiative in the Republican Party's 2024 campaign platform. 

At the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump took direct aim at several key federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, the IRS, and the FBI. As part of the newly established initiative, Trump has appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the task force. The group's mandate will include identifying discriminatory policies and practices across federal agencies and recommending further executive or legislative action.
Um... Ah... It was a pro-abortion facility that was bombed! Not a pro-life center?

AP News writes that people are worried that task forces will tear down the First Amendment separation of church and state.
Critics are even more aghast that he’s questioning a core understanding of the First Amendment. “They say ‘separation between church and state,’” Trump said at the prayer day gathering, when he talked about establishing the White House Faith Office. “I said, all right, let’s forget about that for one time.”

Trump’s creation of these various bodies is “definitely not normal, and it’s very important to not look at them as individual entities,” said the Rev. Shannon Fleck, executive director of Faithful America, a progressive Christian advocacy organization.

“They are indicative of an entire system that is being constructed at the national level,” she said. “It’s a system specifically designed to guide and shape culture in the U.S.”

Fleck worries about the combined effect of Trump administration actions and a spate of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years. The court, now with three Trump appointees, has lowered barriers between church and state in its interpretations of the First Amendment’s ban on any congressionally recognized establishment of religion.
The goal of the Trump administration and the Republican party is to create a Christian Nation. And it is not just any Christian Nation but one of evangelicals Christian, in other words... "Born Agains" Christians.
“My freedom of religion runs right up to the point when yours begins, and if I am then trying to establish something that’s going to affect your right to practice your faith, that is against the First Amendment,” Fleck said.
So when does religion become a "national religion?" Axios writes that,
State of play: The order for federal workers to report any "anti-Christian bias" came after that meeting.

VA Secretary Doug Collins sent a department-wide email last month asking employees to "submit any instance of anti-Christian discrimination."

He said examples would include "any retaliatory actions taken in response to religious holiday observances," and "any observations of mistreatment for not participating in events or activities inconsistent with Christian views."

The VA is still figuring out what happens next.

The agency is "staffing the anti-Christian bias task force and developing a framework for handling issues flagged by VA employees," VA Press Secretary, Pete Kasperowicz said in an email to Axios.

"If there is bias, we want to find it, we want to make it right," a White House official told Axios.
Question: When does recognizing other religions become "anti-Christian bias"? Would celebrating Ramadan be considered "anti-Christian bias"? Meanwhile The New Republic sees it as a stepping stone for a Christian.
The administration plans to boost the political agenda of Christian nationalists while rolling back the civil liberties of everyone else.
By Katherine Stewart
May 7, 2025


On April 22, Attorney General Pam Bondi hosted the first meeting of the “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the Federal Government.” Attendees included the secretaries of Defense, State, Homeland Security, Health & Human Services, Veterans Affairs, Education, and Labor, as well as over a dozen high-ranking officials in the administration. Those attending didn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that no evidence of such widespread bias exists. That’s because they weren’t there to solve a problem but to create one. The Task Force claimed to be standing up for “religious liberty,” but its real goal is to amplify the persecution complex of the Trump administration’s Christian nationalist allies and base—and then to use groundless claims of religious discrimination as the basis for the suppression of dissent.
But where is this so called persecution of Christians? How you seen any anti-abortion clinics being bombed? Have you seen any church firebombed like synagogues have been?
In the United States, attacks on Christians continue to occur at far lower rates than those targeted at other religious groups, including Jews, Muslims, and Sikhs. The Task Force’s exclusive focus on Christian victims exposes its rhetoric about defending “religious liberty” as transparently insincere.

Instances of alleged “anti-Christian bias” cited in the executive order that established the Task Force are even more revealing. The first and most prominent example of bias provided is the conviction of anti-abortion activists in connection with their violations of laws intended to protect the rights of individuals seeking health care services—a group that Trump pardoned in his first days in office. The second example is an internal FBI memo from 2023 that identified certain extremist Catholic groups as potential terror threats—even though an internal FBI review of the memo in 2024 concluded that there was no evidence the memo targeted or resulted in the targeting of anyone on account of their religious beliefs, Catholic or otherwise.
Religion-Based Crimes: There were 2,699 reported incidents based on religion. More than half of these (1,832) were driven by anti-Jewish bias. Incidents involving anti-Muslim (236) sentiments rose from last year, while anti-Sikh (156) incidents fell slightly compared to 2022.
As a trans person and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I am very concerned that they will use this task force to discriminate against us in the name of religious persecution because they have to put up with us.

As the Wendy's commercial from the 1980s said...
 
Where's the discrimination?

If anything, they are the ones doing the religious persecution of affirming churches! 

Mini-Post: Why We Have Pride

This meme has been circulating on Facebook and this also is why we have Pride...


A man and teen are accused of severely beating a woman over her sexual orientation at a suburban McDonald’s.

Police responded to a report of a fight in progress at a McDonald’s, located in the 1660 block of South Kennedy Drive, on May 13.

Authorities allege John Kammrad, 19, of Elgin, and a juvenile boy made derogatory remarks about a woman’s sexual orientation.

The incident escalated into a fight, according to police.

The woman, ______, took to GoFundMe and posted pictures of her injuries. She was transported to a local hospital in serious condition, where she was released.
That is why we have Pride.

 Pride is about love, liberation, and the right to exist without fear or discrimination.

Mini-Post: The Head Of Department of Homeland Security

Had no idea what a writ of 'habeas corpus' is, now I am not a lawyer but if you watch one cops & robber shows you would know what a writ of 'habeas corpus' literally "Show the body"
By Lauren Villagran
May 20, 2025


Secretary Kristi Noem of the Department of Homeland Security couldn't define a key constitutional right when asked about it in a Senate hearing.

"Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country," Noem told a Senate committee on May 20, in a response to a senator's question.

But "habeas corpus" means the opposite.

According to the glossary of the U.S. Courts, habeas corpus, requires law enforcement to justify a prisoner's continued confinement, a right enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

The Trump administration is considering suspending the right to habeas corpus for detained immigrants. As Homeland Security chief, Noem oversees U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that is currently holding nearly 50,000 immigrants in detention.
Real folks. This says a lot about the quality of Trump's appointees?




Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Mini-Post: You Got What You Voted For!

Now you are reaping the results of your your voting...
Several conservative states have been forced to wait for disaster relief, with lawmakers publicly groveling for federal assistance
Rolling Stone
By Nikki McCann Ramirez
May 20, 2025


Senators grilled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem today over her management of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and how the agency — which President Donald Trump has sought to dismantle — is responding to a series of devastating storms across the southern United States. 

During a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) asked Noem what she would do about pending federal disaster declaration requests for the state of Missouri — which has been wracked by a series of deadly tornadoes — that have not been approved by the president. Mississippi, which is still recovering from extreme weather events in March, is also waiting for approval on months-old disaster relief declarations. 

“The state has pending three requests for major disaster declarations from earlier storms we’ve lost over a dozen people. Well, actually, if you count the folks we lost just on Friday, we’ve lost almost 20 people now in major storms just in the last two months in Missouri,” Hawley said.
And Alabama is in a tizzy also, ABC New reported that;mi
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the state's entire GOP congressional delegation are urging President Donald Trump to reconsider after the Federal Emergency Management denied the state's request for federal disaster relief following a series of deadly storms last month.

After severe storms hit the state in mid-March, Sanders applied for disaster relief through FEMA, under what's known as a major disaster declaration. The request was denied.
Well the MAGA people are always say to us... you lost so shut up! I say shut up you got what you voted for!

Well What Did You Expect?

You know that saying, "If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas." Well if you go to a religious school you have to follow their rules!
Senior Emily Wright was just weeks away from graduating.
LGBTQ Nation
By Greg Owen Tuesday
May 20, 2025


A Christian school in Georgia has forced a student to withdraw for bringing a transgender date to prom, just weeks before the senior was scheduled to graduate.

North Cobb Christian School in the Atlanta area recently held their prom off campus. But 10 days later, the principal called senior Emily Wright into their office.

“I was asked, ‘Is there anything we should know about the guest you brought to prom?’ Emily told Fox 5 News. “And I knew exactly what they were talking about, so I said, ‘Yes, he’s transgender.”  

Her mother Tricia continued: “I got a call from the principal who said, ‘Ms. Wright, I’ve been informed that Emily brought a transgender guest to prom. Were you aware of that?’ I said yes. She said, ‘Well, I’m sorry, Ms. Wright.”

With that, Emily was forced to withdraw from the school.
Now she might have a case... but it is an iffy case...
The Wrights are still in shock. North Cobb Christian School won’t comment on the decision.

“It was off property. I did sign a form allowing her to bring a guest,” said Emily’s mom. The only limitation on the form was related to the guest’s age, she said.

Nothing in the school’s prom guidelines or the student code of conduct explicitly states LGBTQ+ individuals are not allowed to attend events, she told Atlanta News First.

“I feared this might happen,” said Tricia, but she thought the worst that could happen would be Emily’s removal from the dance.

“I cried very hard. I was just thinking that my entire future was in jeopardy,” Emily said. “‘Where am I going to go to school? Where am I going to graduate?'”
That might be the key to getting her diploma, there was nothing in the school code of conduct about it so that might give them some leverage.

But religious schools are exempt from discrimination laws! So I don't like it especially if they are getting public funding but the courts have over and over said that religious schools can discriminate! 

Now The Bad News!

Yesterday I gave you reprieve from the bad news.. but now,
AP New
By  CLAIRE SAVAGE
May 16, 2025


A federal judge in Texas struck down guidance from a government agency establishing protections against workplace harassment based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Thursday determined that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission exceeded its statutory authority when the agency issued guidance to employers against deliberately using the wrong pronouns for an employee, refusing them access to bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity, and barring employees from wearing dress code-compliant clothing according to their gender identity because they may constitute forms of workplace harassment.
This flies in the face of a half a dozen or so Supreme Court ruling not only by other justices but also those appointed by Trump.
The EEOC, which enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws, had updated its guidance on workplace harassment in April of last year under President Joe Biden for the first time in 25 years. It followed a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that gay, lesbian and transgender people are protected from employment discrimination.
In another AP News article they report,
The court decided by a 6-3 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as Title VII that bars job discrimination because of sex, among other reasons, encompasses bias against LGBT workers.

“An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the court. “Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.”
Hey... a Supreme Court ruling doesn't mean anything to a Republican!

You may remember that last week the Supreme Court heard cases on judges that was about banning judges from issuing nationwide rulings? Them writes...
A Trump-appointed federal district judge in Texas has struck down portions of an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance document that was issued to protect transgender people from harassment in the workplace.
It is hypocritical for the Trump administration to argue against nationwide injunctions by judges while not addressing Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk's recent ruling invalidating EEOC protections for transgender workers. 

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

A Military Loyal To Trump & A Christian Nation.

One of the things about a Christian military is that it will be loyal to their leader and not the Constitution! This will lead to blind obedience to their supreme leader!
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison
The Rutherford Institution
John & Nisha Whitehead
May 06, 2025


We are being frog-marched into tyranny at the end of a loaded gun. Or rather, hundreds of thousands of loaded guns.

Let’s not mince words: President Trump’s April 28 executive order is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook: martial law masquerading as law and order.

Officially titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens,” this order is a “heil Hitler” wrapped in the goosestepping, despotic trappings of national security.

Don’t be fooled by Trump’s tough-on-crime rhetoric, cloaked in patriotic language and the promise of safety.

This is the language of every strongman who’s ever ruled by force.

The White House claims the order will “empower state and local law enforcement to relentlessly pursue criminals and protect American communities.” But under this administration, “criminal” increasingly includes anyone who dares to exercise their constitutional rights.

The order doesn’t merely expand policing—it institutionalizes repression.

It sets us squarely on the road to martial law.
So lets stop for a minute and think about...
  • Trump & Company on their first day, they fired Admiral Fagan. Then one after another the generals and admirals were let go. General Charles Q. Brown Jr.: Fired as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Lisa Franchetti: Dismissed as Chief of Naval Operations, General James Slife: Removed from his position as Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the Judge Advocates General (JAGs): The top military lawyers for the Army, Navy, and Air Force were also dismissed.
  • They were replaced with Trump loyalist.
  • Purging trans servicemembers from the military.
  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth opposes women in combat roles.
The Army Times writes that,
In the two months since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration has cleared the military of most of its top female ranking officers, disappointing many women veterans and active-duty personnel.

Trump touted plans during his campaign to flush out military leadership. And following a series of high-profile departures in recent weeks, the U.S. military was without a single woman in a four-star general or admiral leadership position.

The president’s actions have since raised serious questions from women veterans and service members about whether his administration’s trademark campaign on abolishing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives played a role. In addition, some troops have begun to express concern about whether the firings could signal a growing vacuum of support for its female officers.

[...]

After she was fired, Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran and Purple Heart recipient, wrote on her X account that Fagan was “more qualified to serve in her role than Pete Hegseth is to be Defense Secretary.” She added that “Trump would rather appear ‘anti-woke’ than keep our military strong.”
The Rutherford Institution article goes on to report,
The order doesn’t merely expand policing—it institutionalizes repression.

It sets us squarely on the road to martial law.

If allowed to stand, Trump’s executive order completes our shift from a nation of laws—where even the least among us had the right to due process—to a nation of enforcers: vigilantes with badges who treat “we the people” as suspects and subordinates.

Without invoking the Insurrection Act or deploying active-duty military forces, Trump has accelerated the transformation of domestic police into his own paramilitary force.

With the stroke of his presidential pen, he has laid the groundwork for a stealth version of martial law by:

Expanding police powers and legal protections;
  • Authorizing the DOJ to defend officers accused of civil rights violations;
  • Increasing the transfer of military equipment to local police;
  • Shielding law enforcement from judicial oversight;
  • Prioritizing law enforcement protection over civil liberties;
  • Embedding DHS and federal agents more deeply into local policing.
Since taking office in January 2025, Trump has moved systematically to dismantle what little accountability remains:
  • Terminating the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database;
  • Halting DOJ investigations into abusive police departments;
  • Expanding immigration enforcement while eliminating oversight;
  • Dismissing internal watchdogs at DOJ and DHS;
  • Weakening civil rights tools and body camera requirements;
  • Suspending or eliminating consent decrees nationwide.
All of this has occurred without congressional debate, judicial review, or constitutional scrutiny.
Couple all this with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth who has articulated a vision for the U.S. military that intertwines religious identity, particularly a conservative Christian worldview, with national defense. Freedom From Religion Foundation reports...
Fox News host Peter Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s shocking choice to head the Department of Defense, has no experience as a lawmaker or in defense policy and the Senate must not approve him.

Hegseth has immersed himself in a culture of right-wing Christianity and political extremism. The Department of Defense is tasked with protecting our nation, upholding the Constitution, and preserving all Americans’ rights — regardless of religious belief or lack thereof. But if Hegseth were to be helming the Pentagon, we could see it weaponized for his Christian crusade.

Hegseth has been associated with multiple prominent Christian nationalists, including Doug Wilson, who has set up a Christian nationalist community in Moscow, Idaho, and Joshua Haymes, who believes that surrogacy should be banned and that abortion and gender-affirming care should be punishable by death.

Hegseth has at least two controversial tattoos raising concerns, including the Jerusalem Cross (Crusaders’ Cross) on his chest, which reportedly prevented him from being part of the security detail for President Biden’s inauguration. A fellow National Guard member said Hegseth’s  “Deus vult” tattoo raised alarms about his motivations. “Deus vult” translates to “God wills it,” and Thomas Lecaque, a historian focusing on religion and political violence, describes the phrase as “a First Crusade battle cry … There is no other way you can interpret this. This is not some warm and fuzzy ‘we should, you know, pray and do acts of service’ — this is a call to religious violence.”
I don't know about you, but I am very concerned where we as a nation is heading!



As you are reading this, I'm on a Zoom meeting for the legislative LGBTQ+ Justice & Opportunity Network. The network was created by an act of the state legislature. Somehow, I don't see Republican states creating a committee like this.

No Choice

There is no choice this morning. To find articles I search Google News for articles but this morning they are all one topic.


The Defense Department will begin screening troops for gender dysphoria during their routine physicals in an effort to boot transgender service members from the armed forces.

In a memo published Thursday, the Pentagon’s acting head of personnel and readiness tasked unit commanders to help implement the policy “immediately.”

“Commanders who are aware of service members in their units with gender dysphoria, a history of gender dysphoria or symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria will direct individualized medical record reviews of such service members to confirm compliance with medical standards,” the memo states.
Whoa! They are hunting not only those of us who have transitioned but also symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria... Boy what a witch hunt that will turn into. Will they root-out feminine men or butch women... what about gays and lesbian?

They are bribing us to do the "Right think"
Active duty service members now have until June 6 to voluntarily identify, and reserve members have until July 7. If they do not do so by then, the official said, they will receive a lower severance package and face involuntary removal.
NPR Heard on All Things Considered
By Ailsa Chang, Patrick Jarenwattananon, and Alejandra Marquez Janse
May 13, 2025


Col. Bree Fram, an openly transgender member of the U.S. Space Force, is also one of the highest-ranking transgender service members in the armed forces.

All Things Considered host Ailsa Chang spoke with Fram about how this moment affects her life and job.

Fram told NPR she was speaking in a personal capacity and her views "are not necessarily reflective of the Department of Defense."

[...]

Bree Fram: Well, I was devastated and heartbroken by the decision because it doesn't take into account the real harm that is occurring right now, not just to individual transgender service members, but also to this nation and to our national defense now and far into the future. Because lives are being upended and even if the court cases continue to play out, we are going to lose thousands of highly trained, highly capable skilled individuals that are serving their nation and doing everything that is being asked of them right now here at home and deployed all around the world.

Chang: What about you, Col. Fram? The Trump administration has given active duty trans service members until early next month, right, to leave voluntarily? Have you reached a personal decision about what you will do? What can you tell us?

Fram: One thing I want to make clear is this is not a choice. No one is going to voluntarily choose to leave. We have been told that we are not wanted. And if this policy was not here, no one would be saying, "I'm out." But right now, we're in the space where people have to make the best decision for them and for their families. And that includes me.
All the NATO countries have trans servicemembers and have no problems with military readiness... it just more of Trump lies, trans troops severed in combat for almost tens years and their performance has excelled! 

The Denver Gazette from  writes...
 Fort Carson Sgt. Mason Benavides is leaving an army that no longer wants him.

He is one of about 1,000 military service members voluntarily leaving, the Department of Defense announced Thursday after a Supreme Court order that said the Trump administration’s ban on transgender soldiers could be enforced.

[...]

After nearly six years in the Army , Benavides found it insulting. He’s previously received positive feedback from his leadership team, who have told him he is a valuable asset as a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear specialist.

“It said I was unfit to serve with integrity,” he said. Later that day, he hit a new personal record lifting weights because he was so mad

[...]

After the Supreme Court issued its decision, the plaintiffs in the case called it discriminatory.

“We remain steadfast in our belief that this ban violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection and will ultimately be struck down,” Lambda Legal and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation said in a statement.
It is one big lie coming out of the White House that we are not combat ready, that we hold back the performance of the military which is one big lie! You can see the lie by looking at their performance of trans soldiers for the last nine years and also by looking at our performance in the NATO militaries.

Axios writes
What they're saying: Alaina Kupec, a former Naval intelligence officer, told Axios she thinks "this is a path toward don't ask, don't tell again — and it starts with the transgender community."

"If we use the logic of the president and the secretary of defense, they can make a decision on who is best to serve based on what they think, not what's based on fact," she said.
I believe that eventually women will be removed from combat roles, the removal of all LGBTQ+ servicemembers. The promotion of Christian Nationalist will lead to the alignment of a pro-Christian military. 

Here is my concern, with the expulsion of us, the possible targeting of gays and lesbians in the military, and with discharge of high level officers and the replacing them with Christian Nationalist that they are making the military loyal to Trump and not the Constitution.