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Cultural Marxism, War for Space and More

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Matthew Lohmeier was interviewed by Mark, the host of the Before Skool channel (and artist of the popular After Skool channel):

Matthew Lohmeier is a public speaker and author of the bestselling book Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military. He is also host of The Matt Lohmeier Show.

His book Irresistible Revolution was published in May 2021, at which time Matt was a respected active-duty commander in the newly formed US Space Force. For publishing and speaking about his book, then Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeier was relieved of his command and subjected to an Inspector General investigation launched from the Pentagon. He subsequently joined the nation’s biggest media personalities to discuss the proliferation of marxist ideology in the military and its divisive impact. Matt separated from active duty on September 1, 2021, and is now a highly sought public speaker and consultant on matters of Marxist ideology and tactics, CRT, military culture, and the preservation of liberty.

A 2006 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Matt began his active-duty military career as a fighter pilot, flying over 1,200 hours in the T-38 as an instructor pilot followed by flying the F-15C. After flying, he cross-trained into space operations and gained expertise in space-based missile warning. Matt promoted two years below the zone to lieutenant colonel, graduated at the top of his classes earning him the distinguished graduate (DG) award at four different Air Force schools, and served as aide-de-camp for a four-star general for one year. In October 2020, he transferred into the United States Space Force and was placed in command of our nation’s space-based missile warning.

0:00 – 3:08 – Introduction, Who is Matt Lohmeier
3:08 – 6:48 – The Desire for Power
6:48 – 16:09 – Polybius – Why Civilizations Fail
16:09 – 28:40 – Why is Marxism so Irresistible?
28:40 – 40:12 – Human Nature
40:12 – 49:58 – What does Space Force do?
49:58 – 1:01:28 – Threats to planet earth from outer space
1:01:28 – 1:13:40 – ET life, UFOs, Alien Encounter
1:13:40 – 1:21:50 – Freedom of expression in the military
1:21:50 – 1:41:40 – Can a country survive without a common belief system?
1:41:40 – 1:50:20 – Cultural shift since 2021

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DEI in Military with Matt Lohmeier

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Matt Lohmeier was on GSD Nation’s “Programming Lions” discussing a variety of topics (see below).

GSD Nation is “a movement started by a father and his kids, on a mission to build more producers* by thinking objectively, rationally and critically. We break down complex topics and engage with all ages, encouraging ways to become a more productive member of society and Get Sh!t Done.”

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TIMELINE
00:00 Intro
01:15 UFOs and Weather
07:39 Joining military
13:00 Being a fighter pilot
28:40 Marxism
37:09 Greed & capitalism
41:26 Space force activism
44:18 Fired for speaking out
46:28 Upcoming movie
48:06 Meeting Trump
51:50 STARRS
53:02 Rapid Fire

* In Atlas Shrugged, producers are the people who create value through businesses, products, services, art, and invention. They are the protagonists of the novel and represent Ayn Rand’s vision of the human ideal. The producers’ conflict with looters and parasites is a central theme of the novel, and represents Rand’s belief in an eternal conflict in human life. In the novel, producers are vilified by politicians, social justice activists, intellectual critics, and even family members. These groups are supported and funded by the profits that producers earn. However, it’s actually the parasites who are the true “greedy” ones, seeking something for nothing.

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“We fought a Cold War over the Containment of Communism and Marxist ideology”

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We just can’t shy away from calling things what they are. . . . We’ve got to call it what it is that we’re fighting: Marxism.

Matthew Lohmeier was recently on Frank Gaffney’s show, “Securing America” on Real America’s Voice channel talking about Marxism, his book, his interaction with President Trump, the National Space Council, the US Space Force and more.

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Frank Gaffney
We’re back. And we’re back with someone I’ve come to admire tremendously, both for his service in uniform and his service to our country. Since he was obliged to take it off. His name is Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Longmire, United States Air Force of the former pilot, a man who, was an instructor pilot as well. He was also, in command of a unit of the US Space Force early in its incarnation under Donald Trump.

He had an opportunity to interact with the former president, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, last week. And I was anxious to catch up with him because I understand that, something very important may have come of their interactions on stage there. But before we get into all of that, I want to ask Matt to sort of level set with us a bit about his background and why he was, obliged to leave the service and, and a really important book that, should be required reading for everybody in the United States military, especially in leadership positions.

It’s entitled The Irresistible Revolution Marxism, Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of America’s Military. Matt, it’s good to have you back, sir. Welcome, board.

Matt Lohmeier
I’m happy to be back with you, Frank. Thanks for having me.

Frank Gaffney
Good to see you. It’s been too long. So this book is about Marxism, a subject that is unfortunately not, unique to what’s happened to the military. It just happens to be particularly ominous that it is metastasizing in our armed forces. Talk a little bit about your experience of it in uniform. And, what’s come of your warnings about it?

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. Thank you. I just, in fact, spoke in Arizona, several weeks ago, and, I mentioned Cultural Marxism, Marxist ideology, as I am wont to do these days as I take a stage. And there was a veteran gentleman that approached me afterward and said, you know, I think you’re really missing the mark by calling this Marxism. You ought to find a different word for this. And I just told them, sorry, brother, you need to get caught up to speed because it’s no mystery anymore to people that are paying attention, that that’s precisely what what’s at stake. And and, you know, there comes a point at which we just can’t shy away from calling things what they are.

The left has done a phenomenal job over the past, well over its history, at inserting ideology into every arena so that we are rapidly changing language and confounding tongues for Americans, for the Western civilization. And we can’t do that. We have to say what it is.

Frank Gaffney
I just make a quick comment on. Yeah, because I have had this discussion endlessly with people in the, you know, sort of political arena who are saying, well, yes, we understand it’s Marxism, but we have to call it socialism or big government socialism or big government. Something else. I couldn’t agree with you more, Matt. We’ve got to call it what it is.

And the fact that we refrained from doing so simply compounds the peril that we’re facing. So talk a little bit about it in the military in particular, and what you saw of it during your time in it.

Matt Lohmeier
Fortunately, before coming into command and the space forces you mentioned, I had had several years of dedicated study of Marxism. And so when I showed up in command in the summer months of 2020, it was in the the couple of months after George Floyd’s death and the BLM and Antifa riots that the American people were seeing on TV.

They saw the windows being smashed, the raised fists, the people kneeling and apologizing, for their white guilt or anything else that they could be coerced into confessing. And I recognize that impulse as Marxist. It was a part of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. You can ask those who participated in that there. And of course, Marxism wears different masks and it goes by different names depending on which organization is pushing it or how it appears on a syllabus in a college campus.

However, I chose to call it Marxism. I chose to at first before ever publishing a book, share feedback with my chain of command all the way up to a member of the Joint Chiefs, General Jay Raymond, who is, I considered a friend of mine, and I was his aide de camp during the stand up of the Space Force.

I had private phone conversations with General Raymond, sharing with him what I was seeing.

It was what I what I can still very honestly characterize as both anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-American rhetoric coming out of, young troops on the base, but in particular, what I was most concerned about was a base commander who was sharing, he was using this moment in history to push his political worldview, which was very leftist in nature.

And I said, there’s this is undeniably Marxist. There’s Black Lives Matter propaganda showing up on the base, which was an avowed Marxist organization. Its founders were Marxist, and he expressed support for my concern, General Raymond did, and said, this has got to stop. Shortly thereafter, President Trump issued an executive order banning critical race theory and diversity and inclusion trainings in the federal agencies and in the uniform services, so they recognize that this is a problem.

And yet it didn’t seem to completely stop the problem, especially after the election and the Biden Harris regime came to power, which is what compelled me to write a book about it, you know?

Frank Gaffney
And, it was an extraordinarily well done book, by the way. Obviously bearing, the, the fruits of your labors and studying the matter, but also your courage and clarity in describing it and your comments in the, early years of the, new administration obviously brought you into conflict with those who were promoting this culture and Marxism in the uniform ranks, both, and the officer corps side, I guess, as well as the civilian side.

Just quickly, what befell you as a result?

Matt Lohmeier
Unfortunately. So I ended up being relieved of my command literally the week after the book was published. And it’s a print on demand self-published book. I doubt they could have got their hands on it and read it that quickly. And in fact, that included all of the legal caveats I needed to in the front, middle, and end of the book, saying that this represents my own views and not the views of the Defense Department, which, by the way, I need to add.

It’s ironic that I even have to say that in relation to this topic, that we fought a Cold War over, which was the containment of communism and Marxist ideology.

And the book is not, it genuinely not intended to be politically partisan. It is pro-American and it is anti Marxist. You would think that, both major political parties in this country would be anti Marxist, but allegedly or apparently I should say they are not.

And the fact that I was fired for alleged political partisanship is really telling about the state of, American politics at the moment. It was deemed that I’m too conservative and too pro-Republican because I’m anti Marxist and I am very conservative and I am a registered Republican. But that didn’t matter. It was the fact that they deemed the attack on Marxism as partisan, which tells you something about where the Democrat Party has landed.

I couldn’t say it that boldly when I was in uniform and I didn’t, but I was fired nevertheless. There shouldn’t be that partisan. I mean, we should all be anti-communist if we’re Americans and we love our country and we love our history, and we love where we need to go.

Frank Gaffney
But especially Matt and just, you know, develop this thought if you would, when you’re talking about the United States military, whose sole mission is to protect the country from enemies like the Chinese Communist Party, for example, if it is being indoctrinated, if it is actually being subverted, I would argue, by cultural Marxism right out of Mao’s playbook, which is a divide and conquer strategy.

Right? It creates a, a parallel, as I say, for the country and not just for the institution of the military, but for the country as well. Does it not?

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. You know, our senior defense officials should recognize at once that our greatest I’m reluctant to just call it a military threat. I mean, a one of our grand competitors, perhaps the grand competitors, China and XI Jinping, who exert tremendous influence on the world stage. And XI Jinping has become a kind of de facto emperor of communist, the Chinese Communist Party, and will continue to be in power as long as he can control that party.

And the fact is, they’re communist. They would love nothing more than to insert communism and Marxist thought and Maoist thought into the American system, into the American political debate. One thing they’re not focused on is DEI initiatives, critical race theory. There were purges back in the in the Cultural Revolution to be sure, but there is an enforced uniformity there where they can where they can do so, but they love they know exactly what to do to tamper with the American political dialog.

They know exactly what to do to upend culture, to destroy the religious communities, to make the religious people think that they have no place in the political sphere. And, to demonize the man, the man that made America great. You know, I’m not talking about the orange man bad Trump.

I’m talking about men and manliness. I’m talking about, the manly ethos, the warrior ethos. They’ve undermined all of that, and we do it to ourselves when we allow for those narratives and rhetoric that have so pervaded the universities for decades to infect an institution that’s been long trusted, like the United States military.

Frank Gaffney
So this brings us of and we’ve only got about a minute and a half before we have to take a break. But, just introduce what happened on the stage, with President Trump in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Matt Lohmeier
Yes, I, I ended up last, Friday getting a chance to meet President Trump on stage. I didn’t expect it. I didn’t seek for the opportunity. It was really, it was an orchestration beyond my control, which I’d like to share with you the background of. But I ended up having a face to face dialog with President Trump on the stage that turned into something quite promising.

Frank Gaffney
That is, the subject of, I guess, you know, everything else we’re going to talk about, it’s it’s looking forward, not back. It’s looking, to help correct some of the things that you personally were subjected to and have been warning about, and it’s extremely exciting to hear that, you not only made that connection with him, but, I’ve heard a little bit of the back story and, and, there’s only one explanation for how it all came to pass.

It seems to me. And that is, true, that the hand of God. So when we come back up from the other side of this short break. But I was going to tell us a little bit about that interaction with President Trump and what we hope may come of it.

Welcome back. And a special welcome once again to Matthew Lohmeier, Lieutenant Colonel, forced out of the military for warning about the penetration and subversion of an institution in which he served with great distinction over Marxism and what it was doing to the uniformed services of our country, as well as, I would argue, to the country more generally.

And, Matt, you were just telling us about, an interaction that you had with former President Donald Trump on the stage at, in Fayetteville. Not too far from what was formerly known as Fort Bragg, I gather. He said he’s going to call it Fort Bragg again. He’s, put back in office. Tell us a little bit about your interaction with him.

I understand that it didn’t go exactly according to plan, but, it seems like a higher purpose was very much served.

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. You know, I got a call on a Wednesday night, and the event was on Friday, and, it’s no small trip for me to get out to North Carolina. And, I suppose everyone was told last second to maybe try and make it out, but I was invited to come out and basically be a plant to ask a question with a number of other veterans who are invited to come out.

I have to tell you this, you know, many people in the public haven’t yet heard this, and I think you’ll appreciate this. The woman who had given me the phone call said that she had called another retired general officer as her last selection to be on the stage. She didn’t know who I was, and, she she called this general and said, hey, can you make it out?

He said, I’m sorry, I just can’t make it. And she said, well, I need to find one more person who can join me on stage. And right as she said that, an email came in on her computer screen in front of her from another woman, that she’d never met before and never heard from or never heard of, and said, you have to get Matt Lohmeier at this event with Trump.

She asks the retired general officer, she said, do you know who this Matt Lohmeier guy is? I’ve never heard of him. And he said, oh, yeah, I can’t say enough good things about Matt. You need to have him take my place. So she called me. She gets me out there.

I fly out the very next morning, and the whole day and a half lead up to that event, I’m getting text messages from her saying things like, no guarantee you’ll get into the event. No guarantee we’ll get you, a microphone to ask a question. And I’m thinking, what am I doing out here? But I end up getting there backstage several hours before the event, and, all of us were kind of separated out. Some of us got to sit in the audience, and some of us were told, we get to join President Trump on stage.

I was selected to go on stage. And then we were given these three by five note cards that had canned questions on them. And and no doubt my question was an important one. I didn’t, frankly, like the way that it was worded, but it was something like, hi, I’m Matthew, how will you help us avoid World War Three?

In the right context, I suppose that’s a pretty important question, but I thought, you know, I’m not here to ask that question. I don’t believe this was orchestrated. So I can come have him leave here not knowing who I am, whether certain missions, in my mind, that needs to be accomplished.

I sat there for an hour during that town hall, listening to him as best I could hear him (it was hard to hear where I was sitting), say things about Ukraine and Russia, say things about Iran and Israel, say things about China, Taiwan and World War three. And I thought, they haven’t even let me ask my question. He’s already touched upon all of the the, tinder boxes. That could be World War Three. I don’t want to revisit it and look like an idiot.

So I wrestled there on the stage. I thought, why am I here? What’s my purpose here? And it was to speak to the man from the heart, tell him who I am, and that he mentioned firing woke generals.

I don’t think that’s far enough. With respect, you’re going to need some consistent, persistent overwatch of the of the Defense Department for the next four years to make sure that this monster that we call DEI and critical race theory and cultural Marxism doesn’t rear its ugly head again in the in the uniform services on your watch.

As I was speaking to him, he were four feet from each other. And he’s looking in my eyes and I can tell I mean, metaphorically speaking, he’s scanning me up and down, sizing me up, and he’s making a judgment call. I and I had the strong impression he’s about to hire me for that very job. And he did on the stage.

I couldn’t even hear him. That’s the funny part. It was after I left the stage and watched a video clip of what had happened. Then I heard the whole interaction, but, but he said, this after after that interaction, the cameras were rolling. He came up to me and hit me on the shoulder and we were now very close.

He he pointed at me. He says, I know my men. When I find them, you’re coming with me to the White House. And then he said, heaven willing, I will be in the white House and you’re coming with me. So I, I think he means it. And I’ve been in touch with his transition team, point man for Defense Department issues, related matters. I got on my resume and information they’ve asked for, it’s sitting at Mar-A-Lago right now.

Frank Gaffney
Fantastic. Well, not all I can say is, thanks be to God, because that’s the only way that would have happened. And I think so. Thank you for it. Thank you for your willingness to schlep across the country. Just to see what the Lord had in mind. Let me just ask you this because it, it goes to the heart of what you might yet have a chance to do.

The Marxists know what they’re doing, as you understand, better than just about anybody, certainly outside of the Marxist camp. Is it not conceivably too late for the United States military to be reformed? You couldn’t be more right that you’re going to have to be monitoring, you know, the people being pulled up the ranks. But those ranks have now been inseminated with people who’ve been going along to get along the starting, I would argue, with the joint chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a perfect example of a DEI proponent who has been elevated to the highest position in the military.

What are your thoughts about, what if you were in the Trump White House or the Trump Pentagon? You could do to, scramble these eggs?

Matt Lohmeier
There have been many months in the past couple of years where I’ve been totally discouraged at that. The path that we’re on to the point where I think, I don’t know if it’s possible to reclaim what’s happened here in this short period of time and what administration really. It’s been multiple administrations, but I’ve had a glimmer of hope for the first time after that interaction, and because of the response of our troops to seeing that interaction, on stage, I have been flooded with my phone’s been blowing up for 72 hours, and there are people that I haven’t talked to for many years reaching out to assure me they’re the good guys.

First off, it’s like, okay, now you’re my friend right now. Everyone wants to be my friend. It was too of it was too scary to reach out showing support when, the Biden Harris regime was firmly implanted. But there’s the sense that many people have that, hey, the tide might be changing. And and maybe there’s maybe there’s some hope that we might turn some things around and they’re reaching out, wanting to. They’re applying for jobs with me, and I be on the task force, to hire them. And so I think people sense hope. And that’s that’s really positive because maybe, maybe there’s some time that we can buy, maybe there’s some change that can be introduced. Some things can be quick, quickly fixed within, like the first day.

Frank Gaffney
It starts with leadership. And I ask you to hold the thought and we’ll come back to it on the other side of this final break with Matthew Longmire, a lieutenant colonel, no longer a in the military, but we’ll see where he’s going next. Stay tuned for more right after this.

Welcome back. We are having a fascinating conversation with one of the men I admire most. With a military background. His name is Matthew Longmire. He served as a, among other things, a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force Space Command. And we’re going to talk in a moment about what’s the status of our space capabilities. But before we do, Matt, just to round out the conversation we just had about, your extraordinary, truly providential conversation with Donald Trump, and the hope that you sense people are beginning to feel that there may be a change, that there may be fresh leadership.

Is it enough, do you think, to allow this thing to be turned around?

Matt Lohmeier
Well, there are some things that you can fix very quickly in a matter of a day or a week. Things by executive order. You can abolish CRT and DNI trainings and agencies.

Frank Gaffney
And that’s critical. And then the diversity, equity, inclusion, the catch words for these, Marxist programs. Yeah.

Matt Lohmeier
Yes, yes. You know, one thing that President Trump could take care of on day one, for example, is to make sure that there are no more, purple braided, rope wearing cadet, dye czars at the US Air Force Academy or at any of our other military service academies. Those positions go away in an instant. The problem is, is that it takes time to regain the trust of the American people.

It takes time to, properly, incentivize young men and women who are capable and who are patriots to, to think that they are interested in serving their country. Again, we’ve so damaged our reputation and it extends beyond that. It takes time to to repair our relationships with our allies and our, the perceptions that our enemies have of us on the world stage.

Frank Gaffney
Right. All of those are hugely important, needless to say. Well, your leadership could be incalculably important, so I’m appreciative of your willingness to serve if the opportunity presents itself. Yeah. I want to talk about the last portfolio that you had for a moment, that you, served in a command position in the nascent U.S. Space Force.

You have an appreciation for, the threats that we now face in and from space. They are real. Chances are, I think very high. That is, in the event there is conflict with the Chinese Communist Party and or its friends. It will involve, war in space. I did want to give you an opportunity, both to comment on that, but maybe for starters, to talk about one of the other jobs that Vice President Kamala Harris had, as vice president, namely as the chairman of the National Space Council.

Yeah, hugely important position, especially against that backdrop. What do you know about how she comported herself in that role? And, whether she’s fit to be commander in chief, especially, guard of the space threat?

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. We don’t talk about this in mainstream media. I suppose there’s a thousand things we could talk about, and we only get to the fact that she’s a failed borders. Which they’ve even denied. She was in charge of the National Space Council is an exceptionally important, counsel that was resurrected by the Trump administration. There was, a director of the National Space Council there in the Trump administration.

I think it was stood up again in 2017. It had been disbanded since the Clinton administration, 1993, when we were really taking space seriously up until the end of the Cold War, the Trump administration, research institutes, or Reestablishes, the national Space Council, and they’re meeting, semi frequent. They’re the meeting frequently quarterly, in fact, to figure out the state of the threat and space and to advise the president of the United States and how we ought to be shaping our policy in order to respond to China, the China threat and the Russia threat in space.

Kamala Harris is the chair of the National Space Council, which during the last four years has met three times. And I hear two of those three times was to discuss how we further advance the DTI, the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda in our space exploration and military space programs, which was a joke to those who are currently sitting on the council.

And another third time was for a photo op that lasted ten minutes. They have not taken the space threat seriously at all. China, on the other hand, has been steadily marching to a 50 year plan that includes, military supremacy from the space domain. They’ve sent, several of their landers to the far side of the moon, near where there’s water ice, which is absolutely vital resource for the further development of space, space manufacturing capabilities and a military threat from space.

The United States has backed far away since since the Biden-Harris regime came to power from its serious attitude towards the China threat in space. It’s a big problem, and she’s not fit to be a commander in chief who doesn’t take that threat seriously.

Frank Gaffney
Amen. Let me just ask you, Am I correct in your estimation that, the Chinese in particular, but the Russians as well, and they’re they’re partnered up, but we forget they are part of our viewing space as just another theater of military operations, and one that is absolutely essential to the United States military’s terrestrial operations. If they can gain dominance there, set aside Mars or even the moon for that matter. But just in the, you know, high altitude orbit, they can, in fact, materially degrade our military’s capability, can they not? So you can’t can there be any other recourse to this, but to take this matter with the utmost seriousness.

Matt Lohmeier
The creation of the US Space Force, which was a congressional act, but it was championed by Donald Trump, have been a bipartisan, supported issue for many years. They thought Trump would kill it when he got excited about the idea, in fact, made it happen. And there was bipartisan support for this idea precisely because China and Russia and partnering in that arena had become such a threat to the United States and our national security, that we thought a separate branch of the military ought to be exclusively focused on both the budget and the development of, our of national security space, our economic, prospects in and through space.

And so you’re absolutely right in suggesting that that’s something that deserves our utmost attention. China has been taking it seriously, even when we are not. It’s tends to meet its goals, and it tends to stay on task and meet its timeline objectives. And we have not. We were supposed to have them back on the moon in 2024 under the Trump pence, policy that was shifted now to 2026.

My suspicion is if Trump doesn’t end up back in office, it’ll it’ll forever be off the table. Why does it matter? That’s a conversation for another day, but we’re not taking it seriously enough.

Frank Gaffney
A conversation for another day. It’s another place in which a few are back inside the military in some form or fashion. Matt, I know you will make an outsized contribution as well. We look forward to further visits with you and all of this. My friend. Thank you for taking some time. I know how busy you are now that you’re, a rock star. And, the Donald Trump world. But, we’ll look forward to it.

Matt Lohmeier
We’ll see what happens if.

Frank Gaffney
You have a chance. Yeah. Please, God. Thank you, thank you. Come back to us soon. I hope the rest of you do the same next time. Until then, go forth and multiply.

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Matt Lohmeier: DEI is the Manifestation of Marxism in America

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On the Feds for Freedom podcast, Vice-President Cameron Hamilton spoke with Matthew Lohmeier about the overt politicization of our Military and the Federal Government’s propensity to assume anti-liberty positions due to a culture of intrusion.

Lt Col Matthew Lohmeier, USAF fighter pilot and a former space-based missile warning squadron commander with the US Space Force, is a public speaker, consultant, and author of a bestselling book. He currently serves as the Executive Vice President of STARRS, an organization of US military veterans and citizens concerned about the divisive racist and radical CRT/DEI/Woke ideology and agenda infiltrating the military. They seek to expose, stand up against, and eliminate it in order to keep our country safe.

Matt’s book Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military was published in May 2021, at which time he was a respected active-duty commander in the newly formed US Space Force. For publishing and speaking about his book, then-Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeier was relieved of his command and subjected to an Inspector General investigation launched from the Pentagon.

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Matthew Lohmeier on the Military Justice Today Podcast

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On this episode of Military Justice Today, attorney Robert Capovilla interviews former space-based missile squadron commander and author, Matthew Lohmeier.

Topics include his best-selling book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military, as well as his opinions about the impact of CRT/DEI/Woke ideology on the U.S. Military’s operational readiness.

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DEI ideology creating havoc in universities and the military

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We are witnessing the divisive effects of the DEI agenda that is creating havoc at universities and colleges as well as in the military, says Matt Lohmeier.

“Securing America” show hosted by Frank Gaffney on Real America’s Voice network interviewed STARRS Chairman Lt. General Rod Bishop (USAF ret), who then introduced Lt Col Matt Lohmeier, formerly with the US Space Force, US Air Force and 2006 Air Force Academy graduate. He is a member of the STARRS Board of Advisors.

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Frank Gaffney

Welcome to Securing America with me, Frank Gaffney. The program is a owners manual for protecting the country we love against all enemies, foreign and domestic, to the glory of God and His Kingdom. We have a very special show. I think if Ed Sullivan were still with us, he would call it a “Really Big Shew”, and it is going to be all of that because we have five extraordinarily impressive people who are going to be contributing to each of our segments.

We have a co-host who is a Lieutenant General, United States Air Force, retired. All of them have served in uniform. All of them are still in the fight, I’m very proud to say, in particular, trying to speak on behalf of men and women they served with and who are still in uniform, whose voices are generally not heard on matters of public policy, even those that are making a horrifically serious, indeed dangerous impact on the readiness the morale, the fighting trim, and the deterrent capability of our military. We actually have a still- serving member of the armed forces. We’ll be introducing her in a moment, but the rest are retired. We’re going to start with my co-host for this program, Lieutenant General Rod Bishop, United States Air Force, retired.

He is a man who, in his day, commanded the Third US Air Force, as well as was the Air Commander for Europe. Got a very formidable pedigree, and I want to thank him, especially for the work that he’s done post his time in uniform. Launching STARRS, which stands for Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services. It has helped spawn a new coalition, which he’s going to tell us about. I’m proud to be part of it and delighted to showcase it here on Securing America. General, we’re delighted to have you with us, sir. Over to you.

LTG Rod Bishop

Hey, Frank. Thanks so much for having us on and for hosting this and helping us organize it. I think one of the things I’m most proud of today, you mentioned this coalition. That coalition in less than a week is at 19 organizations from around our country who understand exactly what you just said, the harmful effects that this poisonous ideology that is infecting our military is happening.

I’m happy to have five In fact, all six of us, including you, are members of that coalition. All six, oh, by the way, are either members of our Board of Advisors at STARRS or a Board of Directors, except for Bibi, and I’m on her board. Our first guest, to cut to the chase….

Frank Gaffney

It’s close enough for government work, as they say. Before you do, sir, I do want you to mention the name of the new coalition.

LTG Rod Bishop

The new coalition is the Military Readiness and Merit Coalition. Again, 19 organizations, 10 of us had hoped to be at a meeting today at the DACODAI, the Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. But the door was shut on us on Monday for attending in person. That meeting is going on right now. We filled up the room electronically. Nobody else can get in. So hopefully, the message is getting through.

So to our first guest, Frank, I’d like to introduce someone most of the audience probably already knows. That’s Matt Lohmeier. His biography–he’s too humble in it–he was the number one of 700 plus majors in US Space Force. That’s the talent that we are losing because Matt was fired from his command when he wrote a book called “Irresistible Revolution: A Marxist Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military”. There’s nobody that knows more about this. He studied it for two years back to back at Air and War College and the School of Advanced Air and Space Sciences. Matt, yours is the only book I’ve ever read twice, I think, in my life. So over to you, sir.

LTC Matt Lohmeier

General Bishop, thanks for the introduction. Because it cut out just briefly when I was listening to you, I’m going to restate the title of book, “Irresistible Revolution”.

I want to change gears from my own past career to something I’ve experienced just this week that’s of interest and relevant to the things that we’re talking about today with the destruction, deliberate destruction I think, of merit, meritocracy and its impact on readiness.

Just this week, literally this week, for two different events, I’ve have been either uninvited or the event has been canceled as a consequence of viewpoint discrimination, in my view. One was the before mentioned DACODAI meeting that the Pentagon had invited folks out to attend, and the other was an event at a college campus.

I was invited as a guest speaker at University of San Diego this week. Incidentally, I was supposed to be speaking there right now, and funding was approved to bring me out. A group of College Republicans had invited me out. There’s a very small group of bullies on the campus who get to decide whether or not to trump decisions about what guest speakers come out. I was found in violation of their transgender and queer hate speech policies, which is totally bogus. And of course, they’re not obligated to provide any specific example as to why I’ve been uninvited.

But we’ve seen now as Americans, and the reason I bring it up, we’ve seen now as Americans the failure, collapse that comes as a consequence of ideology permeating the university campuses.

It’s been in the headlines for a week, and now we’re facing and have been, and some of us have been shouting about it for a couple of years now, the same indoctrination and ideology that for decades has infiltrated and subverted the university campuses.

It’s wreaking havoc in the military, whether or not people yet aware of the destructive influence that it is.

What I want to say up front is that this censorship, a deliberate silencing of a large majority of people in this country who love their country, is a harbinger of societal failure. It’s a harbinger of military failure and weakness.

I think that the problem with censorship as a whole in a free society is that it impoverishes the intellect of society and stifles a material substantive view of a large portion of the population so that decision makers, and I’ll speak specifically of the Defense Department now.

Decision-makers are left making foolish errors and foolish decisions based on foolish opinions of a relatively small group, foolish ideas of a relatively small group of people. We see it time and time again. This group is well aware of that, and that’s what we’re trying to wake up Americans to.

Frank Gaffney

Matt, could I just ask you, the question of ideology, you’ve literally written the book on Marxism inside our military. Is there any doubt in your mind that the diversity, equity, inclusion, the critical race theory, the identity, the pronouns, all of this stuff, is in fact part of a cultural Marxist attack on our armed forces?

You mentioned it’s wreaking havoc in the military. Is it diminishing its readiness? Is it endangering its deterrent capabilities as well as warfighting? Should it come to that?

LTC Matt Lohmeier

There is no doubt in my mind that, first off, critical race theory is rooted in Marxism, and therefore, the entirety of the diversity, equity, and inclusion industry and complex has an ideological bent that favors Marxism, that attacks America and its founding, and those with, at the moment, conservative values, regardless of the race, by the way.

I want to share a story with you just briefly. It’s that while I was in command, and this is several years ago, when I had begun to suspect the divisive impact and then began to witness it firsthand of the diversity and inclusion trainings that were being offered to our military service members, I had a married couple in my unit who were black, and the wife was believing the trainings, buying into them, and beginning to have resentment not only for her unit, her fellow unit members, and for the United States, and for the uniform that she wore, but for her own husband, who was skeptical of the trainings, who thought that they ran contrary to everything he had been trained to think and believe in the United States military.

So I saw division within a single home, to say nothing of the impacts on a unit or a broader society.

Frank Gaffney

General Bishop, we got to wrap with Matt Lohmier. Thank you for this incredibly important set of insights about both what you’re seeing in the larger society as well as, of course, inside the military and for identifying the toxic brew that is Marxism. We’ll be right back with more. Stay tuned, folks.

 

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Matt Lohmeier on Bitcoin Veterans podcast

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I was happy to spend time with @BitcoinVeterans for this interview. I don’t usually come away from an interview with a genuine interest in learning some new thing. But these guys planted the Bitcoin bug and I’ve not shaken it since.

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The Military’s Woke Agenda Is Terrifying

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In this “Chicks on the Right” episode, The Chicks are joined by special guest Matt Lohmeier, a former lieutenant colonel commander in the Space Force.

Lohmeier shares his story of being released from command after speaking out against the politicization of the military.

He discusses the rise of Marxist critical race theory and the negative impact it has on military readiness.

Lohmeier explains how he was fired for writing a book that called for greater accountability and the elimination of partisanship in the military workplace.

Despite the challenges he faced, Lohmeier remains committed to speaking the truth and raising awareness about the dangers of wokeism in the military.

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FLAT EARTH DEBATE: Jeran Campanella vs Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier

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In this episode of “Prime Time with Alex Stein,” we have a debate for the ages: Is the Earth flat?

Famous flat-earther Jeran Campanella, aka @jeranism, returns to the show to defend his beliefs against former Space Force Commander Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier.

Will Jeran finally be convinced that the Earth is a globe? Or will this space commander shock the world and admit that the earth is flat?

Don’t miss this episode of “Prime Time with Alex Stein”!

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Former US Space Force Commander EXPOSES What’s Really Happening

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Matt Lohmeier joined Jimmy Corsetti for a live session on Jimmy’s Bright Insight channel and talked about a lot of things: Matt’s story, the infiltration of Marxism in our country and military, UFO/UAP’s, and many other consequential topics:

or watch the first half on YouTube:

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Excerpt from the interview:

“Communism predates Karl Marx. The Communist League asked Karl Marx if he would pen a declaration or a manifesto for them that would state articulately their views, and Marx published what is now known as the Communist Manifesto.

Marx wrote his young, bright ideas down about how he best thought it was possible to incite the working class in his day to a violent revolution against the bourgeoisie.

He divided up his narrative of human events into two groups: an oppressor class--this is all in part one of the Communist Manifesto–and an oppressed class that was respectively the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

He gave the proletariat sufficient reason in the manifesto that they needed to unite as workers and if necessary, violently throw off their oppressor, the modern capitalist.

One of the things that I saw when I began to study Marxism, the ideology that was permeating all of the countries across the globe in the late 19th century and surely throughout all of the Cold War, was that there was an emphasis on pitting one class or group of people against each other for whatever reason.

In the mid the late 19th century, it is about economic class stratification. Later it was usurped and today it has been usurped to be about race relations and an oppressor class versus an oppressed group or class of people– the spirit of it all is the same.

But the narrative has been adapted to our modern circumstances in the United States because it’s the best narrative of human events that can be leveraged to create anger and hatred, sufficient to get people to unite together in violence against the other, the evil other. That is what I want to emphasize.

So as a starting point, I’ll say that is Marxist ideology or Marxist thought. The idea in the end is that it brings about a revolution that will allow for a communist state to be established. The first successful revolution, by the way, that led to a successful establishment of a communist state was the Bolshevik Revolution.”

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BOOK: Irresistible Revolution

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Can the Military be saved from far-Left indoctrination?

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LTC Matthew Lohmeier, USAFA graduate and author of a best-selling book about the infiltration of Marxist ideology into the US military, was interviewed by former Marine Corps University professor and White House advisor Dr. Sebastian Gorka on the America First with Sebastian Gorka show.

They discuss whether or not the U.S. military can be saved from the far-left indoctrination efforts of the Biden regime.

Watch or read the transcript:

Referenced:

How Cultural Marxism Threatens the United States and How Americans Can Fight It (Heritage Foundation)

Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military by Matthew Lohmeier

TRANSCRIPT

Sebastian Gorka

Look at what the Navy did recently, they have a drag queen quote, “artiste” put into a combat uniform. To do what? Recruit more drag queens. What does our enemy think about that? They’re laughing at us. Dear friends, it’s serious business. A man who knows just how badly the neo-Marxist rot has penetrated the armed forces is the man who calls himself the first veteran of the Space Force. And that’s not for a good reason. He is a patriot. His name is Matthew Lohmeier. Matthew, welcome back to America First.

Matthew Lohmeier

Happy to be back. Thanks.

Sebastian Gorka

Tell people who missed your story and haven’t read your book, why are you the first veteran of Space Force? How did that happen?

Matthew Lohmeier

I was one of the first sessions into the Space Force when it was first stood up. December 2019 is when the Space Force became a reality, thanks to President Trump and Pence championing the idea that had been a bipartisan idea for quite some time before they came into office. I end up transitioning out of the Air Force into that Space Force.

I had flown F-15s, I had done space-based missile warning for the Air Force, which was responsible for most of our national security space assets, and then transitioned into the Space Force and was placed in command of our nation’s space-based missile warning out in Colorado.

Unfortunately, the time I came into command– fortunately, I suppose, depending on how one looks at it — is that was a time in the summer of 2020 that we had just seen George Floyd’s death reported in the news, and you saw what was literally a neo-Marxist activism hit the streets in this country.

It looked to the American observer like Black Lives Matter, Antifa and others who seemed to be craving some kind of new purpose in their lives, smashing police cars, smashing the windows on buildings, and terrorizing the American people. Unfortunately, that impulse, which is really a spiritual impulse of sorts, was prolific.

All of a sudden, for the first time in my military career, throughout the Defense Department, you had activists high and low of various ranks, of various races, who seized the opportunity to join in their voices with the other activists, whether it be online or in the military workplace and politicize.

Sebastian Gorka

The political activism in uniform was rescinded in general, so Trump hats could be worn and people could talk about the Bible.

Matthew Lohmeier

Yeah, it is a good idea that our military remain relatively apolitical, at least in the workplace. Now senior leaders have a roughly speaking, political job. But no, absolutely, the obligation is to be rather apolitical.

And yet there was a left wing — and make no mistake about it, that’s precisely what it was — it was a radical left-wing politicization of the military workplace.

Now it’s turned into not just a politicization, but a sexualization of the military workplace. When we talk about hiring a drag queen to be the digital ambassador for the United States Navy, I mean, it’s really getting out of hand quickly. Despite the fact that both service members and the American people are waking up to this problem that we’re facing — not just in American society, but in the military.

Let me mention this one more thing. Here’s the unfortunate reality. It is deemed non-political to spout the left-wing talking points when wearing the uniform of your country. It’s like, well, that’s just “be accepting, be inclusive”.

But if you have someone that speaks up and identifies these talking points as a problem in the military workplace, they have a label slapped on them immediately. It’s, well, they’re politically partisan. They’re ‘alt-right’. They’re ‘white supremacist’.

I’ll tell you, it has really disincentivized our men and women in uniform from either continued service or young men and women who had aspirations to join the military from joining.

After all, people are really disappointed by what they’re seeing right now. So we have to fix this problem.

Sebastian Gorka

My wife and her former colleague at the Heritage Foundation, Mike Gonzalez, have written a piece. I commend it to all of you. It’s titled How Cultural Marxism Threatens the United States and How Americans Can Fight It. Katie and Mike came up with this concept of Next-Gen Marxist. This is a new kind of Marxism. It pits us against each other, not based on class and socioeconomic background, but gender, skin color, and what have you.

You wrote the book. It’s “Irresistible Revolution“. Everybody needs to read this. “Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and Unmaking of the American Military”.

You may have left Space Force, but you’re not giving up. So tell us a little bit, as much as you can about this new project that you have ventured upon.

Matthew Lohmeier

I have been, ever since I separated in the fall of 2021, tried to stay in touch with our service members of all branches of the military, first off, and I interact with them still. Some of them still reach out to me. As recently as this week, two new service members have reached out to me saying, hey, please help. I’m in a bind here because of the politics at my base. That’s been things like the COVID shot mandate, which is now gone fortunately, but also just the race talk and the sexualization of the workplace. So there’s that, and that has not stopped.

I’ve been speaking around the country, but there’s another project that I’m throwing my energy into at the moment. I think it’s going to be very impactful. It won’t be seen publicly by the American people probably in the next couple of months, but they will hear about it soon. I’m hoping to try and solve some of the problems as well as educate all American people, regardless of where they sit on the political spectrum, frankly, because everyone — Democrat, Republican and unaffiliated — need to be willing to learn about how this is affecting the military soldier.

So I’m working on a documentary film, and I’ve got an exceptionally talented documentary filmmaking crew.

Sebastian Gorka

So you have faith that this is salvageable, that the US military is salvageable?

Matthew Lohmeier

Yes. If certain things take place, we need people speaking up no matter what their sphere of influence is. But I don’t know that it’s possible with the current administration, quite frankly, because . . . . .

Sebastian Gorka

Their objective is the opposite.

Matthew Lohmeier

Their policy is the opposite. Senior military leaders, both civilian and uniform wearing, are able to point to the administration and lay blame upon the administration, whether they support the agenda or they don’t.

Sebastian Gorka

And your take when the most senior military individual in the United States says, “I don’t know what CRT is, but I think it’s great that West Point is teaching it,” or when Mark Milley says, “I’m white and I want to know what white rage is.” They’ve won. Haven’t the Marxists won?

Matthew Lohmeier

Well, they are winning when that happens.

Let me tell you what’s more concerning to me is that people who once had the respect of the entire force instantly lose credibility with men and women in uniform — instantly — and it’s hard to get back.

So you cannot be a political animal while you’re in uniform if you expect to maintain the trust and respect and loyalty of the entire force. And that’s precisely what they’re doing wrong at the moment.

Sebastian Gorka

All right. He’s a brave man. You’ve got to read the book. It is “Irresistible Revolution“. Follow him right now @MatthewLohmeier.

He has endeavored to bring us a new product. He can’t release all of the information right now, but he said to me outside, this is part and parcel of how we recover the US military.

Have faith, dear friends, even if you’re still in uniform. Why? We’ve been here before. Not this bad, but if you remember the Carter years, it was bad. It was drug use. It was all kinds of things inside the military. It was a loss of faith in the institutions. But thanks to Ronald Reagan, we recovered. We can do it again if we have the requisite leadership and truth tellers like Matt.

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Can The US Military Be Saved?

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Watch The Liberty Monks Roundtable featuring LTC Matt Lohmeier, Major General Joe Arbuckle (USA ret) and retired Lt. General Rod Bishop (USAF ret).

The Liberty Monks welcome the founders of STARRS which educates our fellow Americans on the dangers of racist and radical ideologies infiltrating our military in order to eliminate these divisive influences and maintain a unified and cohesive fighting force.

Lt Gen Rod Bishop, USAF (Ret.) is the founder of STARRS and served on active duty for 34 years as an aircraft commander, instructor pilot, and flight examiner. He commanded airmen at every operational level, including two squadrons, an operations group, an airlift wing, and a numbered air force. General Bishop’s last assignment was as Commander, 3rd Air Force, United States Air Forces in Europe at Ramstein Airbase in Germany, where he oversaw all American air and space activities in 93 countries in Europe and Africa.

MG Joe Arbuckle, USA (Ret.) first enlisted in the Army in 1968, and was later commissioned in the Ordnance Corps upon graduating from Officer Candidate School in 1970. Having volunteered for duty as an Infantry Officer, he served a year in Vietnam as an Advisory Team Detachment Commander and as an Assistant District Senior Advisor. He has commanded troops at multiple levels, including as Commanding General of the Joint Ground Task Force, which included an Army and Marine Brigade, as well as Commanding General of Industrial Operations Command (IOC), which was later redesignated the US Army Operations Support Command. General Arbuckle retired after 30 years of dedicated service.

Matthew Lohmeier (Former Lt. Col) is author of the bestselling book Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military. His book was published in May 2021, at which time Matt was a respected active-duty commander in the newly formed US Space Force. For publishing and speaking about his book, then-Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeier was relieved of his command and subjected to an Inspector General investigation launched from the Pentagon. He subsequently joined the nation’s biggest media personalities to discuss the proliferation of Marxist-rooted critical race theory (CRT) in the military and its divisive impact on the force and mission. Matt separated from active duty on September 1, 2021, and is now a highly sought public speaker and private consultant on matters of Marxist ideology and tactics, CRT, the betterment of military culture, and the preservation of our liberties.

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