A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon
A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon
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A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon
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THESE ARE ALL IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES!
Congress needs to step up and keep filing articles of impeachment. Get the republicans on record defending every criminal act, and then beat them in the midterms.
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Congress is controlled by the same party as the president. Why the fuck would they even introduce impeachment articles?
The only way out of this is through means that cannot be mentioned due to this .world instance rules.
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At the very least to signal that they think it is wrong. To make the Republicans go on record saying they condone it.
And not only that, make everything they are doing in Congress just that much harder. Those small sabotage of the other harmful work they are doing.
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Impeachment? Midterms? Those words are meaningless now. The system has been broken and dismantled. You can't vote your way out of fascism. The fight needs to be fought on every front, including those ones, but they will not save you.
The only way out is for the population to rise up in mass protest.
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I think well get 4 impeachments for Trump over his next 8 years in office. They'll probably all fail
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All the top officers have been in the military for over 20 years. They have seen Presidents come and go, and are loyal to their fellow service people. Even if they like Trump, firing for political reasons isn't going to go down well.
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Genuinely, I do think the only way out of this is starting to look like a military coup by some sort of cadre of non-insane officers from across the services. Based on the performance and reactions of every single part of the government - specifically including the alphabet agencies - I don’t think we’re going to snap out of fascism any other way.
It looks like the legislative and judicial branches, and all of the agencies, have simply decided to do nothing and follow the rules while Trump just gives illegal directives that are then enacted by eel-on-musk’s imbecile intern wünderkinds, and everyone just stands around saying “I’m just following orders”. It’s fucking embarrassing.
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Trump is going after senior military officers AND Social Security AND doing an end run around Congress all at once. I just hope that he doesn't have enough fingers for the dike.
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Problem is I don’t see any person in military doing this. They’re been brainwashed to love their country and their president since birth.
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Even independent LGBT orgs have immediately given up on supporting trans people, just from the threat of the loss of federal funding. It's sickening
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I don't want to destroy any illusions, but I don't believe that much resistance can be expected from the military. The command principle applies here and the president is the Commander-in-Chief. I don't see why any civil disobedience could be expected here in particular. Besides, it's not as if those who actually make up the majority of soldiers would have much say in military affairs. If that were the case, there might be a chance, but the military is also run by old, greedy, white men - just like any other US institution.
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But like DEI. Meritocracy, and other things Fox News told me
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That's nice, we can set it beside the "Thursday night massacre" of the DoJ that happened last week. Only slightly higher, so we get a nice two-level effect with a path going down the middle and HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS WHY AREN'T THERE MILLIONS OF US RIOTING IN THE STREETS RIGHT NOW‽‽
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About 97% of my coworkers have no idea any of this is even happening. I'd imagine the majority of the US public has no clue what is happening.
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Because Muricans are sheep dressed in chicken hawk costumes
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Would be helpful to people who currently don't know, and to people in the future, if you link to the Thursday night massacre of the doj, Google only showed me articles talking about the Friday one
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You know why we aren't rioting...
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Well, my algorithm says everything is peachy
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need a leader
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Or elect a Congress that will remove him
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How dare he be black.
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Instead of giving no answer they literally said they're getting rid of him because diversity is bad. They were talking about diversity programs he implemented but it's pretty damn clear.
Funny (not really) story- I worked extensively with an incel alt right piece of shit about five or six years ago. During one conversation early on, he said "...diversity, but like the good kind." I said what kind of diversity could be bad? He did not answer. He assumed since I am white in appearance I would understand.
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Climate? Ban. Diversity? Ban.
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Lol, the list of banned words and phrases is about 100 words longer than that.
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The word “Women” is on that list at the bottom…women exist. I have proof.
Also, if you have a list that long, it doesn’t mean you are powerful enough to ban words, it means you are dumb enough to WANT to stay uneducated.
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Bias. We're not allowed to use the word "bias"
wtf
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We're gonna start seeing social media style workarounds. Show me papers on wmen and mnor*ties
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…argued that he was too “woke” and too concerned with diversity in the armed forces.
Soooo… that’s exactly what the world needs:
A military comprised of American klansmen, hell bent on purifying the bloodlines of every country they set a jackbooted foot in.
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Americans can’t take a day off to protest.
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Oh, this will surely end well.
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Maybe it’s because I’m just very sensitive to these sorts of issues but when somebody fires a black man because they think he’s “woke”, it makes me believe that they didn’t fire him because he was woke. They fired him because he was black.
2nd. Is Trump just out there firing the people that will stand up to him ? If yes, we are in for a world of pain, this may not be how dictators are made, but it’s how they sustain their power 
How is this even a question? Yes, of course that's what he's doing. He's literally following the playbook right wing think tanks wrote before the election. They've stated openly that this is all part of their plan. Purge the government of everyone but loyalists, and then act with impunity because the people whose job is to act as a check on executive power will rubber stamp everything.
God, Americans should be panicking right now and you're all just sleepwalking into this.
Panicked and panicking, I felt helpless
As Tucker Carlson might say “I’m just asking the question “
You are not wrong on either. This is exactly how a dictatorship begins. I only hope that the American public can see this for what it is. But I doubt it. Literacy is not a strong point.
I’m still hoping that James Bond like character from the British government will take him out for us, but that might just be because I’m in the middle of a James Bond movie marathon
The issue is I think enough of us want that. A "benevolent" dictator. They are already too lost and I think the only possible education will be difficult, painful, and generational in length.
They pronounce "Woke" with the hard R
Donald Trump has no fucking clue what is going on other than what is being whispered in his ear by the people who are orchastrating this whole thing.
Exactly why I keep saying in other threads that this problem doesn't die with Trump. The damage is done, and the whisperers just need a new puppet once Trump kicks the bucket.
DUH