And welcome back to The Factor Uncensored, an update from
Capitol Hill.
The House has passed a defense bill that automatically registers
men.
Register men who are between the ages of 18 to
26 for the military draft.
This is part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act.
As of now, the Selective Service is already mandatory for
men between 18 and 24 years old.
There's no military draft in place right now, but Congress
and the president can reinstate the draft and force men
to serve in the event of a national emergency or
war.
This hasn't been invoked in more than half century.
Some people on social media appear to have misunderstood this
and believe a draft is coming or that they are
automatically going into the military.
Yeah.
Who is it?
We're here for the military draft.
Draft.
That's correct.
Are you talking about my TikTok draft?
They're a little embarrassing.
No, no, no, young man, you are getting drafted.
Oh, the draft.
Yeah.
It's a little windy in here.
You talking about the war?
You are going to war.
Identify as a war.
Let's talk about it on this social media Monday.
Joining us now, our social media expert Karen Diamond and
University of Houston downtown professor, Doctor Dietrich von Beatenfeld.
So, Karen, I mean, you get videos like that and
then you hear or you see the post that the
Congress is drafting people and it's in some instances intentionally
misleading people on social media.
What have you seen out there?
Man, It is awesome.
Just from a social media users perspective.
The tick tokers understood the assignment and Cardi B called
them out, she said.
These people don't want to go to war.
They're tick tokers, you know, and so they're just putting
on their best, doing skits like what we just saw
and in in a way, making a little bit of
a mockery, right, of the situation.
But research will believe that, correct?
And so there's now it's creating a social media war
about going to war because of the giraffe that the
law hasn't really changed.
It is just now an automatic enrollment.
But you know, people don't read.
People get all up in their social media feelings and
they just go go into it with their skits.
And that's what I'm seeing.
A lot of people just that, you know, are are
saying I'm getting drafted, They're doing skits and people in
the comments are going in on them saying, oh, you're
a coward.
And, you know, you people don't really want to go
to war.
And so it's older generation chiming in on the comments,
making fun of them.
They never really considered there is no war for us
right now in the United States.
But Doctor Dietrich von Beatenfeld, let's go over this.
What is happening?
I can remember when I turned 18 back in slavery
days and I actually had to go to the post
office and fill out the form.
But now it's much easier.
And this will make it even easier for those because
you're required.
Well, you tell us the law.
Well, you've always been required if you're a male between
18 and that 2425 to you between that age range,
you could be subject to more than $250,000 in various
costs as well as possible federal incarceration if you didn't
fulfill that mandatory requirement.
However, now this is going to automate that.
So instead of people having to manually do this, it'll
reduce the advertising expenses for the Department of Defense reminding
people of this obligation.
So it's a little bit more of a streamlined process,
or the intention is at least to not only add
an extra year of range and increase some equity because
people have circumvented it.
So they're trying to integrate systems to make sure that
people sort of like the IRS always make sure that
they can find you when they want your money, right?
At the end of the day, this is a way
for them to say, well, you could be eligible.
We haven't had one since 73, but we could make
you go to war.
Of course, you know, it's Monday.
So the only draft I'm worried about is that flying
saucer.
But and you have a gold plate on the wall.
But for those who are wondering, like the current situation
is like you sign up when you're getting your driver's
license now.
How does that work now versus automatic?
When you turn 18, you're in the system right?
As of now, when you file your voter registration, driver's
license, those things depending on how late you waited to
get your license, but your voter registration as a mail,
a Social Security card, things like that, they remind you
and they have to send out mailers which are expensive
and so they ask you to self select and remind
them.
But this system is intended to again integrate databases of
Social Security Administration, Department of Treasury and Department of Defense
under this Authorization Organization Act to allow you not to
even have to think about it.
And for them not to think about it when they
press that button and say, actually, we do need your
military ServiceNow button pressed show up.
All right, we want to thank you both for joining
us here on The Factor for Karen Social Media Monday.