TRUMP'S MILITARY PLOT TO TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT - 2.24.25

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

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orleans (35,643 posts)
Mon Feb 24, 2025, 02:00 AM
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TRUMP'S MILITARY PLOT TO TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT - 2.24.25

-keith olbermann/countdown

https://omny.fm/shows/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/trumps-military-plot-to-take-over-the-government-2


A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and replaced him with a junior officer he brought back from retirement whom HE claims once wore a MAGA cap in his presence. Then he fired the Judge Advocate of the army, the Judge Advocate of the Navy, and the Judge Advocate of the Air Force.

What you have been told by news organizations – even ones that still have good reporters – that this is part of the Trump Racism Orgy. The fired Joint Chiefs Chairman Charles Q. Brown is black. The Chief of Naval Operations was a woman. Their identities are cover stories and red meat for the Trump cult. Trump looked at the top lawyers at the Army, Navy and Air Force, the ones who would tell him, no, you can’t have the Army shoot civilians, and you can’t have the Navy blockade Vancouver and Greenland and the Panama Canal, and you can’t bomb the next Democratic convention… and he fired them.

At least six different reporters and commentators on the military beat said the same thing. Firing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is bad and a red flag. Firing the T-JAGS, the Judge Advocates, the lawyers who tell you when something you are going to do with the military is illegal… can mean only one thing… you are planning to do something with the military that is illegal. You fire the people who would SAY it’s illegal and replace them with people who would say it ISN’T illegal.

There are degrees of nightmare ahead. They all amount to different versions of Trump's plot to permanently take over the government by using the military.

B-Block (26:20) THE FIRING OF JOY REID: Yes, firing her is racist and maybe worse yes it is designed to keep out people who might think differently and it is designed to reward professional political salespeople like party chairmen and press secretaries. But most of all, since they also fired Alex Wagner, it means that four women of color have solo hosted prominent shows ON MSNBC and all four of them have now been fired.

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2. CJCS is subject to Senate confirmation
Reply to orleans (Original post)
Mon Feb 24, 2025, 02:20 AM
Democrats should as him pointed questions:

Would you obey an order to institute martial law?

Would you transmit an order by the president for troops to fire on American civilians?

Would you transmit an order by the president to invade or otherwise attack a country we are at peace with?

Anything but an unequivocal "No," would at least flush his intentions out in the open and may cause a couple of GOP Senators to grow a backbone and vote against the nomination.

These are the same people who ringed the Capitol building with troops and dance on the grave of Ashli Babbit. These are the same people who had no problem with Obama using drones on weddings in non-belligerent nations or a 16-year-old US citizen.

[SVPete]

More accurately:

orleans (35,643 posts)
Mon Feb 24, 2025, 02:00 AM
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TRUMP'S MILITARY PLOT TO TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT - 2.24.25

-keith olbermann/countdown

[SVPete]

As I pointed out to a FB Friend who seemed to be trying to divert from something I'd posted:

The Chairman of the JCS is a military officer - the President is commander in Chief -and serves as the Chairman under the President's authority. The termination complied with the Constitution.

[Airwolf]

Once again, the Dump proves that they still think the military is filled with mindless drones looking to kill anyone at the drop of a hat.

[Dark Powers]

Think Allen West put it nicely.

For all the leftists and politicized military pundits lamenting the dismissal of General Charles Q. Brown, where was your wailing about national security when Barack Hussein Obama fired nearly 200 Generals in five years? General Brown was released because he felt it more important to delve into matters of social justice than national security. He also commented that he preferred only a certain % of pilots be white in the Air Force. He was an acolyte of cultural Marxist philosophy known as DEI/CRT.

And for you chuckleheads, General Pete Schoomaker was recalled from retirement, promoted from LTG to Four Star General, and became the 35th Chief of Staff of the Army. Memo to progressive socialists, y’all lost and Major Generals and above are political appointees and serve at the behest of the Commander in Chief. And Article II of the Constitution designates that person as the President of the United States.

So have a nice hot cup of Shut the Hell Up because no one cares about your unrighteous indignation and laughable hypocrisy.

[EDITED TO ADD: Correction, Schoomaker had been a Four Star USSOCOM Commander but was brought back out of retirement]

[BamaMoose]

I find it interesting that none of the people screaming racism over the dismissal of General Brown seem to know that he was nominated to his previous position, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, by none other than Donald Trump.  That nomination, and subsequent confirmation, made him the first African American to lead a branch of the US Armed Forces and led to him becoming the Chairman of the JCS.  Seems like that fact might make them consider looking beyond the color of General Brown's skin.  But that might require thinking.  And besides, screaming racist at anyone who doesn't think exactly like you do is just so damn easy and such a winning strategy.  Look at how successful it was for Kamala.