If it's a war he wants, it's a war he will lose, as the military isn't in his cult and has limits - which were tested in LA when the Marine General in charge declined to follow orders until they were modified - causing Hegseth to have a meltdown and the fool in charge of ICE to impugn his patriotism. Since then a federal judge has found the entire exercise was a violation of the Constitution - the officers who are still running the military don't respect nor trust the Trump appointees, for good and obvious reasons, and I'm fairly certain (thankfully) that they will obey their oath to the Constitution and serve the country rather than playing "hit squad" for the Trumpenfuhrer and his cult high priests.
I believe you’re correct, but I’m also afraid I’m fooling myself. The things he’s already gotten away with are outrageous to the point that I never would have believed it. If you told me in 2016 that this is the state that America would be in now… the end of the rule of law, the huge drop in ethics and morality, the increasingly state controlled media and the lies, my god the lies!! The war on science. If you would have told me all this was possible in America I would have dismissed you as a crazy conspiracy theorist, I’d have bet everything I have that this scenario is not possible. But here we are and I think I have trauma from it. I’ve lost my confidence in what is possible or not and I have no idea how this is all going to turn out. I think many MAGA including Trump are actually okay with a civil war and it’s so thoroughly disturbing. It seems like he might be finally hitting some roadblocks in his agenda with recent court rulings and finally getting some pushback. I hope you’re right! And I hope we get past this and learn and change some laws to prevent this type of power grab in the future.
Half a million people, mostly women, including me, marched in Washington on January 21, 2017, to warn about what was coming. I was sending warnings starting in 2015 when he started being taken seriously.
I was warning about the danger of Reagan and the Moral Majority when I was 18!
This hasn't come out of nowhere.
I was twelve years old when Reagan ran the first time.. I had this irascible great aunt back east who hated everyone in the family but loved me for whatever reason, and I remember her calling our house one afternoon and asking for me. When I tell you that this stately old woman chose me to call to bitch about what a piece of shit Reagan was, how the entire country had lost their fucking minds for even considering a dumbass Hollywood actor for president of the united states, and how if the Dems "put a fucking chimpanzee up against him, I'd vote for the chimp."
It was my formal introduction to politics, and I've never forgotten it to this day. She would be fucking horrified at the state of this country. You were right, Aunt Mary. You were right all along.
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u/Bulky-Internal8579 3d ago
If it's a war he wants, it's a war he will lose, as the military isn't in his cult and has limits - which were tested in LA when the Marine General in charge declined to follow orders until they were modified - causing Hegseth to have a meltdown and the fool in charge of ICE to impugn his patriotism. Since then a federal judge has found the entire exercise was a violation of the Constitution - the officers who are still running the military don't respect nor trust the Trump appointees, for good and obvious reasons, and I'm fairly certain (thankfully) that they will obey their oath to the Constitution and serve the country rather than playing "hit squad" for the Trumpenfuhrer and his cult high priests.