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Then the US military is no longer worthy of respect.
Trump is correcting a mistake he made the first term. In order to have a successful coup, you require military support. This term the Trump team started immediately filling the DoD with yesmen. I have zero doubt that by the time this term ends, if Trump wants to stay in office, the military will not intervene.
I doubt there will even be legit elections anyway. More like a referendum: "Do you like Trump. YES or no"
I'm thinking you're both correct.
More like the Russian Annexion referendums:
"Do you want to enjoy our big-handed god emperor Donald Jesus Trump's power permanently? ☐ Yes"
He also had a rally in front of the enlisted masses and riled them up with divisive rhetoric. And they loved it.
I reviewed the reporting on that - the West Point commencement was reported as ‘scattered’ applause from families for his demented ramblings, and normal applause for references to Schwarzkopf and Patton.
I couldn’t find itbut there was some report about the graduates being chosen for “looks” somewhere. Which fits, of course.
Yeah. I'm confident he did that for optics and propaganda. My concern is that the military inherently attracts the Own The Libs crowd. Trump wants the military loyal to him because, well, he's already showing his hand but he's getting them used to being commanded by his whimsy. He will continue to escalate his involvement with the military and then ask them to break their oath. Then, the plan to execute a coup will be in full swing. The loyalists that Hegseth has appointed will do their dirt to enable Trump and unless they have overestimated their hand, they will be successful.
The US military hasn't done anything here yet. They largely don't have a choice in this ceremony.
I do hope they do what they can within reason.
Are they slaves? Or robots? No?
Then they have chosen to offer military funeral honors for a seditionist and a traitor. A sub-human creature who willingly participated in an attempted violent overthrow of our government. This thing's name was Ashli Babbitt.
If they choose to honor seditionists and traitors, fine. But I can't wait to see all the surprised pikachu faces they put on when they're treated as seditionists and traitors themselves.
Yeah, kinda. When you sign up for military service, they then own you.
Some people in the military have chosen. They won't be the ones standing outside.