So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.
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"A great purge is necessary to cleanse the government of those who sabotage progress"
- Stalin
"We don’t want generals who are too good at their jobs. We want generals who are loyal."
— Joseph Stalin
"I need the kind of generals that Hitler had." - Trump
1 Campaign on Autocracy
2 Purge the Bureaucracy
3 Ignore the Courts
4 Co-Opt the Congress
5 Centralise Police and Powers
6 Shut Down Elite Media and Academic Institutions
7 Turn Out the People
After everything Americans gave up to pay for this monstrosity, the #@GOP and #@SCOTUS intends to turn it on us and our allies.
We see you at @housegop and #@@senategop
The PLAN is coming together.
They swore an oath
Lindsey loves to JAG it when Donald is near!
As a southerner, I continue to be unimpressed by so many of our plantation pols.
AND don’t forget, they also fired Admiral Linda Fagan, the first Woman Commandant of the Coast Guard.
This is also a War on Women.
And it won't work. He'll just drop bombs on states that try it.
Voters have power. Fear of losing elections will change Republican minds.
But all they can do is delay. They can’t block.
Trump can do whatever he wants to whomever he wants, and there’s no one or nothing in a nation of 330 million people who can do a single thing to stop this madness?
Democrats should study that.
Tell me they aren't preparing for Marshal Law.... please!
Want to worry? Start with the National Guards—-their CINC is the governor. And I don’t trust about half of them
The AD military will stay out of it. But I don’t trust the NG. They are state-based and answer to governors. They are something to worry about.
A wild card here is the Insurrection Act. If Trump invokes it, it could complicate matters. But I still think the AD will stay out of it.
I still think they will turn to the NG…whose loyalty I don’t trust.
Now I see why if caught this would come in handy, hand picking your JAG! Sly dogs got caught red-handed working with Putin!
will be subject to the war fantasies of Musk and Trump.
I wonder if Chicago or Copenhagen will be their first target?
Just kidding. Gallows humor is a survival tactic
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It has to be BAD.
Blue States do NOT have their own “tanks and guns and a military”. The national guard and the reserves are components of the U.S. military - not independent state armies that Governors can order to attack Trump or the active duty component.
They don't need a JAG to remind them that military actions against US citizens is unconstitutional.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/29/milley-farewell-speech-trump-dictator-00119130#:~:text=Mark%20Milley%20used%20his%20final,should%20be%20put%20to%20death.
https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/400358/russell-vought-omb-doge-project-2025
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cant-you-just-shoot-them-former-defense-secretary-says-trump-wanted-violence-against-floyd-protesters-151957658.html
but that said, no one in the military takes an oath to the president, but instead, the constitution
courts have no authority here, it's up to service members themselves
No crime. We’re the good guys!
You know your country is in crisis when hope shapes itself as a military coup.
They will defy court orders soon and it would be preferable to be on something unambiguously unconstitutional.
He could have appointed Steve Bannon as Chairman, or as a junior officer. His power is pretty unfettered in this area.
He will crunch right down through the ranks and his hand picked JAG will threaten anyone who refuses an order with a court martial, with potentially horrific penalties.
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This shithead:
Are we at the start of something new?
He has the house, senate, Supreme Court and now all the heads of the military!!