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2021-03-29 Home Front: Politix
Special Operations Command investigating new diversity zampolit's posts berating Trump, Cruz
[Just The News] The U.S. Special Operations Command is investigating social media posts from its newly hired executive who spread anti-Donald Trump memes and compared the former president to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, a spokesperson told Just the News.
One picture, a thousand words.
"We are aware of the situation, and the command has initiated an investigation," Special Operations Command spokesman Ken McGraw wrote in a Sunday email.

The executive, Richard Torres-Estrada, recently was hired to be the first Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the vast Tampa, Florida-based command, known as SOCOM.

"Mr. Torres-Estrada has nearly two decades worth of experience working diversity and inclusion programs and activities in federal agencies," SOCOM managers announced Friday on Facebook and Instagram. Noting that the new position dovetails with an overall plan for the command, the managers wrote: "We look forward to Mr. Torres-Estrada’s contribution in enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of #SOF through diversity of talent, helping us recruit the best of the best."

Media sleuths quickly found, though, that Torres-Estrada had shared a number of political posts some considered to be non-inclusive.

One meme on a Facebook page that appears to belong to Torres-Estrada features a photograph of a saluting Hitler juxtaposed with a photo of Trump holding up a Bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church. Another meme is a photo of Trump surrounded by quotes attributed to former advisers calling Trump "an idiot," "a dope," and "a moron."

Another meme purports to be a "missing" poster for Sen. Ted Cruz, describing him as having "weird" facial hair and as having left his state "in the middle of a natural disaster."
Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-29 02:57|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 "We are aware of the situation, and the command has initiated an investigation.....

...to sanitize the drop zone.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-29 03:06||   2021-03-29 03:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Can't they just take him out into the field, and ...?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-29 04:46||   2021-03-29 04:46|| Front Page Top

#3 After Jan 6 the radical left realized Deep State is too small. They realize they need an army.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-03-29 05:59||   2021-03-29 05:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Deep State failed to learn the lesson of Iraq that when you replace your officer corps with 'politically' connected officers and throw out competent ones, it only took a second rate varsity team to nearly take it all if it hadn't received outside help.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-03-29 07:13||   2021-03-29 07:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh, I don't know... looking at his picture he has SOCOM just written all over him. Zampolit.
Posted by Mercutio 2021-03-29 07:21||   2021-03-29 07:21|| Front Page Top

#6 if your task is to 'promote diversity' when do you know you have accomplished said task?

Is an NFL football team diverse enough?

Is an NHL hockey team diverse enough?
Posted by Blossom Wittlesbach3196 2021-03-29 08:06||   2021-03-29 08:06|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 - HR Dweeb
Posted by Frank G 2021-03-29 08:43||   2021-03-29 08:43|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Note the cool tie, massive knot, and clasp, but the 'eyes' definitely have it.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-29 08:52||   2021-03-29 08:52|| Front Page Top

#9 #5 Antifa cleaned up, with a Windsor-knot necktie
Posted by Slineger Flons8995 2021-03-29 08:53||   2021-03-29 08:53|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Boy Scout leader material? You must decide.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-29 08:54||   2021-03-29 08:54|| Front Page Top

#11 #8 haha... yes that massive knot is what a Eurofag or GQ reader would sport. And this guy was hired by not just DoD but SOCOM. To reconstitute our elite warrior cadres. Unf'ingbelievable.
Posted by Wheans the Unfortunately Complexioned5833 2021-03-29 08:56||   2021-03-29 08:56|| Front Page Top

#12 When the Civil War goes kinetic, most of the good troops will fight for the states that leave and what is left will be taken out by an angry girl scout troop.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-03-29 08:57||   2021-03-29 08:57|| Front Page Top

#13 /\ Eurofag or GQ

Please, this is a 'family' blog....whahahaa
Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-29 08:59||   2021-03-29 08:59|| Front Page Top

#14 If, as has been suggested, he really IS the guy from Office Space, he can be neutralized with a shiny red stapler.
Posted by Cesare 2021-03-29 09:01||   2021-03-29 09:01|| Front Page Top

#15 The only missing from this dork's ensemble is the bowtie.
Posted by Raj 2021-03-29 10:42||   2021-03-29 10:42|| Front Page Top

#16 Ah, an "investigation." The simplest and surest way to bury everything in an impenetrable bureaucratic morass.
Posted by Tom 2021-03-29 11:09||   2021-03-29 11:09|| Front Page Top

#17 In 1966 the No. 1 hit single was "Ballad of the Green Berets" by Sgt. Barry Sadler. Which would now have to be rewritten as something like:

"Fighting diversity and inclusion executives from the sky..."
Posted by Matt 2021-03-29 11:44||   2021-03-29 11:44|| Front Page Top

#18 "Ours is not to do their D-I-E...
Or to wear a ghey necktie..."
Posted by Ebbating Forkbeard6899 2021-03-29 11:57||   2021-03-29 11:57|| Front Page Top

#19  cool tie, massive knot,

The large knot is necessary to fill in the space of the spread collar, a subtle choice to make his face and neck look less pudgy. Someone needs to tell him that if he is going to colour his hair to hide the grey, he needs to do his eyebrows to match.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-29 12:38||   2021-03-29 12:38|| Front Page Top

#20 Someone needs to tell him

... his husband?
Posted by Crash Juter8198 2021-03-29 13:25||   2021-03-29 13:25|| Front Page Top

#21 # 19 I personally prefer the Windsor knot, but lambchop here has to push it far enough to cover the collar button. Also, his jacket is bunched especially around the right shoulder. Pro tip: Pull the jacket tight or sit on the jacket tails before you take a seated photo. And if you're going to wear a tie clasp an an homage to the '70's, get it out of the photo frame.
Posted by Matt 2021-03-29 14:13||   2021-03-29 14:13|| Front Page Top

#22 bunched around the shoulder, maybe. Or else he has no real shoulders ... an upper body shaped like a clothes hanger
Posted by Angager Prince of the Sith3115 2021-03-29 15:04||   2021-03-29 15:04|| Front Page Top

#23 Here's Dick's work history, for the last five years:

Equal Employment Opportunity Officer at WMATA
November 25, 2019 - Present· Washington, D.C.

Former Director, Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Virginia Department of Human Resource Management (DHRM)January 10, 2019 - August 2019·Richmond, Virginia

Worked at Defense Commissary Agency
July 2017 - January 2019

Worked at U.S. Department of Agriculture
June 2015 - July 2017·Washington D.C.

Working his way up, or can't hold a job?
Posted by Bobby 2021-03-29 15:32||   2021-03-29 15:32|| Front Page Top

#24 Sounds like the guy the Lieutenant is always offering to send to another platoon.
Posted by Matt 2021-03-29 16:22||   2021-03-29 16:22|| Front Page Top

#25 Looks like Agent Smith after eating a bag of dks.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-03-29 17:31||   2021-03-29 17:31|| Front Page Top

#26 what was that line.... something like "the banality of evil"
Posted by Mercutio 2021-03-29 18:24||   2021-03-29 18:24|| Front Page Top

#27 I'm betting Agent Smith has more personality...
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-03-29 18:52||   2021-03-29 18:52|| Front Page Top

#28 @ #23 - Yeah, I thought he looked familiar. I tipped him once for bagging my groceries.
Posted by Clem 2021-03-29 20:33||   2021-03-29 20:33|| Front Page Top

#29 Could we in a show of solidarity put him through spetsnaz training? I'm sure the Russian instructors will be extra gentle with him.
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-03-29 21:14||   2021-03-29 21:14|| Front Page Top

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