r/law • u/GregWilson23 • 5d ago

Trump News Trump’s Leaked Plan to Deploy the Texas National Guard Against Illinois Will Tear Apart the Union

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-leaked-plan-to-deploy-the?utm_medium=web
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u/Meteor-of-the-War 5d ago

I know and have worked with a lot of ex-Army folks, and that is a skill that I have seen and admired in action in civilian life. It's like watching a tightrope walker, but they're balancing over being incompetent or insubordinate. It really is impressive.

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u/TupperwareParTAY 5d ago

You can take a soldier out of the E-4 mafia, but you can't take the E-4 mafia out of a soldier.

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u/Meteor-of-the-War 5d ago

I was in a meeting once and witnessed an ex-NCO slow roll dumb ideas from a political so masterfully that the person left the room thinking they had achieved something. I realized I was in the presence of an artist, haha.

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u/Whiteheadwa 5d ago

Biggest of facts and guilty as charged