Byron York’s Daily Memo: Cotton pursues woke Lockheed Martin

President Joe Biden surprised some observers this week when, addressing U.S. military forces at the Royal Air Force base in Mildenhall, England, he said that the nation’s top military leaders told him the “greatest threat” facing America is global warming.

Biden described going to a meeting in 2009 — he had just been elected vice president — in “The Tank,” which is the super-secure Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting room in the Pentagon. “And this is not a joke,” Biden said. “You know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest threat facing America was? Global warming.” Biden said that was because warming would cause “significant population movements,” leading to “fights over land.”

Given the actual military threats the United States faces today from China, Russia, North Korea, and a host of other bad actors around the globe, Biden’s statement seemed crazy. Is the new administration really so woke that it in a military setting — speaking to U.S. troops — the president would say that global warming (Biden used the older term rather than the more commonly-used “climate change”) is the greatest threat facing the United States? The answer is yes. And Biden’s remarks were consistent with those of Vice President Kamala Harris, who in a recent commencement speech at the Naval Academy placed climate change — along with pandemics and hacking — as the threats today’s military must deal with.

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Biden was never the brightest bulb in the box but he seems now to have lost most of his political cunning, such as it was. Madame Vic President is neither the great illuminator nor especially cunning. She is however a BIPOC (Am I using that term correctly?) which means she gets four years to see how much harm she can do. But don’t fret. Our odds of survival are at least 50/50.