Being a vet myself I would HOPE that most commanders especially the Joint Chiefs would say no to that level of absurdity and bullshit. If it came down to it yes he could relieve commanders till he found someone to follow his orders, but if that happened I would almost assume a coup would take place because the CIC is trying to subvert the Constitution and every Service Member is charged with upholding said document.
Now getting a 3 letter agency to do it…is another matter entirely, but again any federal employee is sworn to uphold the Constitution and not the man. I just feel those 3 letters can be swayed a little bit easier.
The problem is, most people don’t think he’ll actually do it- because they have the attention span of goldfish.
The rest of us know full-well to assume he is dead serious.
People forget that under Trump, he sent in unmarked federal officers who took protesters from the street without any named justification against state and local officals wishes
Last week [July, 2020], federal officers started cracking down on crowds gathering in the city against the wishes of state and local officials, drawing widespread criticism and legal challenges.
Federal officers in unmarked vehicles appeared to forcefully seize protesters from the streets and detain them without justification. They have also fired tear gas and less-lethal munitions into crowds of demonstrators.
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The role of federal troops sent to Portland is the subject of intense speculation at the moment. Numerous widely-shared videos show troops in camouflaged combat-style uniform arresting protesters, transporting them away in apparently unmarked vehicles.
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They belong to a new federal force created last month in an executive order signed by President Trump which tasks them to protect historic monuments, memorials, statues, and federal facilities.
I do feel surprised that Trump’s comments on using the military against Americans isn’t all over the news.
It’s like a sewer backing up; you can’t count the turds as fast as they fly out. For every one they scoop out they’ve got five more passing by unseen.
It’s Trump’s schtick. He spews out a constant stream of nonsense. His supporters are conditioned to ignore it.
Because he says so much bat shit crazy things that none of them stick and the outrage just goes from 1 thing to another
the news is like 80% run by billionaires who want to pay less taxes. They didn’t even drill him on any of the insane shit he’s said when the last debate came up.
But what about the economy
that trump left Biden
. What about MEEEEEEEEE.
- 49% of the country literally right now.
Say this literally every time you have a chance, the data overwhelmingly show that Republicans are bad for the economy
Economic policy has a 3-4 year lag time until it’s felt by the average citizen.
Biden has been picking up the pieces and putting the economy back together after the fiasco that was Trump. Just like Obama had to pick up the pieces after Bush, and Clinton had to after Reagan and Bush Sr.
To a lesser extent, Carter had to do the same, but Nixon and Ford didn’t fuck the economy as hard as Reagan.
And if you go back a bit further, FDR pulled us out of the depression caused by Hoover, Coolidge and Harding.
The crash was due to the policy of Coolidge and Harding, but the depression, that was pure Hoover. He made a bad situation so much worse.
Kind of like Trump taking a pandemic, and making it worse.
Almost seems to be a pattern there, but I can’t put my finger on it…
Neither can 49% of Americans!
I like his line “If he was your Grandpa, you’d take away his keys”
There is nothing normal about the Nazi Trump.
Alright. I’m starting to like this guy.
Yes Walz, we were already aware. Someone should warn Kamala against normalizing participation in far right wing war crimes when you’re trying to run in an ostensibly left leaning party. If you could get on that for us, coach thatd be swell.
Nuance? In this economy??
If you can have nuance about a genocide, what’s so terrible about using the military on your citizens? That can be nuanced too, right?
Not to diminish the seriousness of Trump’s rhetoric, but threatening to use the military against citizens is one of the few issues that is actually a ‘both sides’ problem.
And, by the way, if they want to think they — it’s to take on government if we get out of line, which they’re talking again about — well, guess what? They need F-15s. They don’t need a rifle.
I don’t usually agree with my Trump culty neighbor’s FJB flag, but it’s not unlike a broken clock.
Nobody is threatening to use F-15s. It’s a rhetorical device meant to show how stupid stockpiling rifles “in case of tyranny” is in the modern age.
Trump is actively saying he wants to use the military against the people.
The difference is so wide there a “yo momma” joke could fit between them.
No, Biden didn’t threaten to use F-15s, he just said that if you want to resist his hit squads you’ll have to do better than Bryan Malinowski.
Biden has “hit squads”?
What fucking reality do you live in?
The one where a federal agency got a search warrant for a man’s house (not an arrest warrant for him) and called off the raid when they found out he wouldn’t be home, so they could try again when he was there to create a situation where they could justify murdering him. Look it up, it’s fucking wild.
Yup. I did. No mention of a second raid. But he did illegally sell guns that were recovered from crime scenes. Sounds like if they did that they wanted to arrest him at the same time so he couldn’t run.
At any rate there’s still zero evidence any Democrat is going after Americans with the military.
Zero evidence? The DOD just released a memo last month saying they can provide potentially lethal assistance to law enforcement. They might not have used the military to go after anyone yet, but they’re laying the groundwork.
DOD DIRECTIVE 5240.01
(2) The decision to approve requests for these types of permissible assistance described in Paragraph 3.2. to law enforcement agencies and other civil authorities are reserved to the Secretary of Defense:
© Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated. Such use of force must be in accordance with DoDD 5210.56, potentially as further restricted based on the specifics of the requested support.
Either your source is biased or you have some reading comprehension issues. He didn’t illegally sell guns and only fell afoul of ATF rules after they changed the rules without any input from Congress. There was only one raid because they postponed it when they found out he wouldn’t be there. He didn’t need to be there for them to execute their warrant, but he did need to be there for an extrajudicial execution.
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