My brother refers to everything Trump tweets as “the latest thing to believe”. So, consider yourself lucky!
Well, no, as below:
Good to know that the President may be the Commander in Chief but is still subject to following military procedures when issuing orders. Something, something rule of law.
But as with Bill Barr, give him time, and he will find someone who follows the rule of men.
Give him time.
Give him another 4 years and he will show you what he can do to democracy.
You are absolutely right about that.
Guess we shouldn’t give him 4 more years.
We have a way to prevent that. Trump has a razor thin path to victory that requires all of the rust belt states he won in 2016. A increase in voter turnout in those states of less than 10% eliminates that, even accounting for social media rat-fucking and electoral districting shenanigans.
Any and all GOTV efforts help produce that turnout. Anyone who works against those efforts, by discouragement or disparagement of those who promote the efforts, shouldn’t be given room to spread their bullshit.
You with us?
NYT:
Hugh Thompson Jr. Remember him? Helicopter pilot who threatened to open fire on the soldiers committing the atrocity at My Lai, and later testified against them. Who were all either acquitted or pardoned. His life turned to shit in reward.
War destroys minds and souls. Your call which is worse.
I think that this is probably just the beginning. It won’t be long before he starts claiming that there are deep state actors in the military who need to be rooted out.
I wonder what kind of options the SEALs would have if Trump says this guy must stay a SEAL? Permanent latrine duty in Thule, Greenland? An order to infiltrate a nuclear facility in North Korea all by himself? I’m sure they’ll think of something.
Yup. He’ll get the assignment with least amount of responsibility and most amount of tedium until such time as he decides to retire. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he decides to retire soonest.
Trump backs down for now, will not intervene.
Secretary of Navy says Trump’s tweet is not a formal order | AP News
He wants the military to be personally loyal to him, the Bonespur Coward. He wants it to be his own personal political tool, his own private goon squad.
Never mind that there is a reason the oath is to the Constitution, NOT to any person.
I guarantee it.
A guy who was a cowardly draft dodger, a guy who sells us out on an daily basis to line his own pockets, a guy who undermines national security for personal gain and to stroke his own ego, has the balls to attack the people who ARE loyal to the country,
And the flag waving phonies in his base and the GOP are OK with it,
for NOW, but subject to repeated change at any time, for no reason at all.
Jonathan Lemire, AP:
Rebecca Ballhaus, WSJ:
I agree - I think this is temporary…sanity? Or maybe a stopped clock that happens to be right? Whatever, I think he’ll pull something else later. He’s already destroying other agencies with conspiracy theories and the DoD won’t be any different.
Well then, there you have it.
Didn’t take long to prove SteveG1 and me correct.
The hyper-politicization of the military is underway.
My money is that the president is getting ready to implement the 2006 reauthorization act, which essentially gave the president sweeping powers to ‘restore order’ in the event of an emergency…which could be literally anything that the WH deems serious. The president can take control of national guards in any or in all 50 states.
In order to do this, however, you have to have a military leadership that understands it cannot question the president. That means getting rid of the professionals and replacing them with ambitious idiots, which the president seems to do pretty well across all of the agencies in his dominion.
Jake Tapper, CNN: