Dr. Nola Haynes

It's one thing to sign up to fight for your country, but it's another thing to sign up and fight at the behest of another country.

And for a president, I'm all for, you know, civilians being in the security and defense apparatus, you know, like myself.

But when you have a civilian who's in charge, who doesn't respect the military, that is what I have a problem with.

And because if people like, say, for instance, if if people volunteering to go into the military, if that number continues to dip and there really is no incentive for a black person to sign up to serve under Trump.

And then say if they institute the draft, we all know that his youngest child is not going.

We know that.

They don't want us.

I got to say a prayer because, you know.

First of all, first of all, I will never in my Black life refer to DOD as Department of War.

And secondly, it is so clear that what they are trying to do is so clear, blurring the lines between church and state.

And there was a case a couple years ago, I cannot remember that case, where I was like, okay, it was a church and state case, and

At that time, I was like, OK, this is going to be a problem.

This is going to be dangerous.

And one of the reasons we are one of the ways we're seeing this is what Hexeth and what he's trying to to do with the military.

Now, part part of this kind of comes out of out of the totalitarian playbook.

You want to nationalize, you know, the military.

You want to nationalize education.

You want people out there fighting under a specific ideology, not necessarily protecting U.S.

interests and keeping us safe domestically and abroad.

But you want to bring in this kind of nationalistic perspective.