Thanks for posting this. I think it’s very insightful.
No, that was Al Stewart.
Correct. Trump has been very effective at convincing a lot of voters that he’s fighting for “the little guy.” Insomuch as anyone in a SEAL platoon can be considered “the little guy”, I guess that’s still what said enlisted sailor amounts to when compared to the vast bureaucracy of the Navy. I can already hear Trump saying “Eddie Gallagher, folks” at his next rally and the crowd erupting in applause.
Aside from smearing his character on Twitter and at rallies, there’s nothing more Trump can do to Spencer now that he’s been fired, right?
I think you’ve absolutely hit the nail on the head with this. Well done (to you. Not to Lid’l’ Donny Drumpf).
Trump wants Eddie Gallagher to campaign alongside him in 2020 (The Daily Beast).
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A fine idea! He can parade his pet war criminal around, bragging about how the guy murdered so many people his own unit was scared of him. Ya gotta be a Real American to scare SEALs, right? A brilliant tactical move, it’ll have the base pulling at their beards even harder while any Americans who still haven’t learned Trump’s not fit to shovel shit from one place to another will get a chance to find out.
I wonder how many other Eddie Gallaghers are out there, willing to go on Fox News and usurp their chain of command. Militaries can’t function like this. The Republicans who enable this are fucking traitors.
I don’t give a fuck what people have to say about my opinions. My extreme rhetoric is justified, and you all know it. I’m right. I always have been. We have to be ready for the attack on freedom and the constitution. We have to be prepared for when democracy and freedom are ignored.
If you are not outraged, if you are not full of piss, if you don’t hate those who are doing this to your country, then you’re the problem. Rage isn’t wrong.
Reading the article
How does pardon = “now cleared”? (doesn’t that imply innocent as opposed to pardoned?)
#Ready&Prepared
#CirclesMakeTheBestFiringSquads
#Warblegarble
CMC fnord!
Jesus Christ, the guy shot a kid and other civilians. His own guys sabotaged his weapon—and then turned him in. And those are just the things that he did in front of witnesses.
Reminds me of a shitty NCO I had. First, he put an inexperienced driver behind the wheel of a Humvee, then tried to outrun an ambush on a difficult road. Three dead or permanently disabled, and the fucker didn’t even get the only one still walking from his vehicle her Purple Heart.
Saw him with a shaky hyper pale sweaty twig of a kid after Fallujah. His influence was obvious: the kid bragged about thirteen “kills”, but he already had that thousand-yard stare and he shivered like a caffeinated Chihuahua in a thunderstorm.
Meanwhile, our CO told us to take one more breath. He saved me some nightmares when I wound up looking down the barrel at a driver who’d rammed our front passenger side, just like a suicide bomber. One breath gives you time to realize he wasn’t a suicide bomber, he was just a dumbass. There were more than the two flavors of terrorist or…bewildering person in what certain types called a “mandress.”
Not sure, probably a typo/error.
Politico: Trump’s strain with Pentagon inspires talk of more departures
There’s lots of reasons for the US military to be annoyed at Trump/the White House:
• Syria (overruling military advice, no advance warning, strategic retreat with tail between legs, ceding strategic influence to rivals, abandoning Kurdish allies)
• war crimes clemencies (and politicized championing of perpetrators)
• orchestrated White House attacks on active duty Lt. Col. Vindman
• weakening NATO and relationships with NATO allies
• pulling out of international agreement and bringing US military to brink of war with Iran
• hiking prices for South Korean allies and cozying with North Korea
• cozying with strategic enemy Putin/Russia
• US military used as mercenary force in Saudi Arabia
• banning transgender people from serving in the military
• redirecting military forces and funding to the U.S.-Mexico border
• weighing in publicly on individual military procurement projects
• the White House may have sought to conceal the name of the destroyer USS John S. McCain when Trump was visiting Japan last spring.
• demanding that the Navy switch back to old-fashioned steam catapults for its next generation of aircraft carriers
Probably missed a few.
He’s not so much an authoritarian as a me-tarian, though. There’s two kinds of people who get labeled “authoritarian”, but they’re very different ones. On one hand, you have those who have a lot of faith in authority; people who truly and sincerely believe that the boss is always right (1). On the other, you have those who reject any authority but their own, but who will quickly cry to mommy when the chips fall down. SovCits, armchair anarchists and just general assholes with no particular political beliefs other than “you can’t tell ME what to do!”.
His followers have a mixture of both.
1: often, when these are made boss they totally freak out, as being made boss has not provided them with absolute wisdom. Rather than realize that other bosses also do not possess a pet Athena sitting on their shoulder, they think it must be them who are doing something wrong, or their subordinates who are being recalcitrant. They’re not merely bossy, they’re micromanagers.
This is so incredibly fucked up.
As I’ve said, this is the politicization of the military: it’s the most dangerous step a sitting president can make. It’s the greatest danger to the American republic - full stop. This danger cannot be overstated.
It also naturally plays right into Putin’s (and China’s) hands. They get to sit back and watch as traitors dressed up as members of congress peddle a narrative that stands in complete polar opposition to the reality as pieced together by intelligence officials, which in turns causes political fractures.
That pee tape must be vivid.
Not necessarily. It could be caballero.