Trump Draft Executive Order Would Create Board to Purge Generals | Panel could upend military review process and raise concerns about politicization of military
Trump Draft Executive Order Would Create Board to Purge Generals | Panel could upend military review process and raise concerns about politicization of military
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So much for people who didn't believe the warnings that Trump is a fascist who admires Hitler.
Non-voters and Green Party voters, thanks for making this possible!
But the Democrats didn't reach out to me, personally, and massage my feet while talking to me about my pet issue! So, really, there's plenty of blame to share. /s
Write this for me professionally and factually correct: The Green Party’s votes did not have enough voters to secure a win for Harris in this election cycle if those votes went to Harris instead of Stein. This was Hillary 2.0, but at least Harris had some policy.
As an independent voter, I cast my vote for Harris, believing she was the most suitable candidate for individuals like myself. However, it's important to acknowledge that the Democratic Party bears responsibility for this outcome.
Harris focused her efforts on appealing to Republicans rather than progressive voters, which was an unexpected approach. The sense of entitlement from the party leadership, and party loyalists, is, frankly, quite astonishing.
What do you expect would happen?
She failed to criticize Biden, and failed to better address the Israel-Gaza conflict.
The swing states that decided it had record breaking turn outs except Pennsylvania where it was just shy. She lost last i check on Friday by just over 250k votes in 4 states. Around 250k votes flipped causing her to lose. No 3rd party votes for green party would have flipped this election last I checked
Non-voters? 100 percent.
Third party voters? I don't think anybody who votes for a third party ever had any intention of voting for one of the big party candidates.
It's almost like the reasoning music industry execs used back in the Napster days. "Oh we've lost a bagillion dollars because people downloaded those songs instead of buying the album" when most of those folks doing the downloading never had any intention (or ability) to buy the song.
Well yeah, if Trump fills the military with loyalists, he can order a coup to avoid losing power.
It doesn't matter as much what Trump is planning to do with his powers. He's old and on the way out whether he likes it or not. The real problem is what the people set to take over when he's gone plan to do with them. Does Trump set up his successor or does his ego force him to shut the door behind him? Our best chance at normalcy in a post Trump world might just be that he's so unbelievably mean spirited that he takes his potential rivals down with him when the time comes.
What coup, my dude? He already has power. There is no need for a coup. Why would there need to be a coup for him to keep power, he's already there?!
What he is doing is preventing a military coup that could possibly save us if we were lucky.
Why not both? He prevents a coup against him and orders a coup to stay in power after his term runs out.
This is the one time I wish we could have a military coup organized by some patriotic generals to arrest the incoming administration, and immediately hold a new set of elections. It won't happen, but it's nice to think about.
And when the military decides your favorite isn't good enough?
We become the next Egypt.
I agree. It would be nice for the joint chiefs to court marshal trump.
And who gets to define what patriotic is? Trumper fuckeads will disagree with your definition and your scenario opens up a nasty can of worms and slippery slopes.
The reality is, as soon as someone proves he violates the Constitution, the military can only act against the Executive Branch through a unanimous act of Congress because that's who pays the bills and can legally issue their orders to tactically execute.
Take a guess which political party completely sweeped up all the nations votes and soon controls all aspects of the Legislative Branch?
I'll bet you 10 Dogecoin that Trump names Michael Flynn to this....
Russian assets in charge of firing our military leaders. Just when im able to start getting more than 4 hours of sleep since Black Tuesday i see this shit.
That reminds me, I feel like we need to hide whoever tried to stop that photo op in Arlington National Cemetery before they are disappeared
So what's the military got to say about this? Lol not that they can do much. I for one am excited to see Trump give all the current generals nothing to do but plot a rebellion.
Don't get it twisted, the military can choose to do whatever they want about this, up to and including execution of the full trump administration on day one. They represent the largest portion of the State's monopoly on force.
What they can do legally is another matter entirely, but we're well past legal or not at this point.
The Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that establishes a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership.
Doesn't the Commander in Chief already have that authority?
Yes, and this is the exercise of that power. In practice, most of the things the President has power to do is delegated, and doubly so when Trump is lazy as shit. Executive Orders are the process of delegating those powers and setting guidelines.
This just isn't normally done because Presidents usually aren't afraid that their illegal orders will be ignored.
We're watching a political thriller irl in real time. Grab your popcorns, because you wont be getting anymore popcorn when the tariffs hit.
raise concerns about politicization of military
Yeah cause a global empire of military bases and secret wars is completely unpolitical. lol.
BuT PaLeNsTiNE!!!!
This is literally why the dems lost. People really don't like genocidal creeps.
But they got one anyway.