Milley says the military doesn’t swear oath to a ‘wannabe dictator’ in apparent swipe at Trump
Milley says the military doesn’t swear oath to a ‘wannabe dictator’ in apparent swipe at Trump
In an impassioned and at times furious speech, departing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley defiantly proclaimed that the US military does not swear an oath to a “wannabe dictator.”
In an impassioned and at times furious speech, departing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley defiantly proclaimed that the US military does not swear an oath to a “wannabe dictator.”
It was a bitter and pointed swipe that appeared unmistakably targeted at former President Donald Trump, who has in recent days accused Milley of “treason” and suggested that he should be put to death for his conduct surrounding Trump’s bid in 2021 to remain in office despite losing the presidential election.
“We are unique among the world’s militaries,” Milley said. “We don’t take an oath to a country, we don’t take an oath to a tribe, we don’t take an oath to a religion. We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, or a tyrant or a dictator.”
• Trump- a twice/impeached treasonous draft-dodging rapist coward is accusing a decorated military general of treason.
THAT is how stupid this guy is.
• close to half of America is voting for a twice/impeached treasonous draft-dodging rapist coward.
THAT is how stupid America is.
109close to half of America is voting for a twice/impeached treasonous draft-dodging rapist coward.
It's more like a third that has an outsized influence due to gerrymandering and disincentivizing voters. Still, the fact that it is that many and Trump actually stands a chance of re-election shows what a dumpster fire the country is.
34While I question the intelligence of the MAGA crowd as well, I feel like I have to constantly remind people that the other half of the people who would vote for him are really voting against neoliberalism, even tho they can't describe it as such.
They'll say globalism, they might even take a swipe at wall street or corporations. NAFTA, "Elites" etc etc.
They're struggling just like everyone else due to late stage capitalism and they don't care how it ends, just that it does.
Mind you theyre also statistically white and think they'll be in the in group when our money becomes less valuable than toilet paper and weather it all fine, which is delusional.
There's the haves and the have nots. Even security for the rich, after the walls fell, will still be servants, not equals.
I say all this so those inclined can see there is actually a good amount of material we all agree on, and if you can approach it without instigating their pearl clutch reflex, some can even be brought into the light.
26They deserve nothing less than ridicule and shame for their beliefs. They have the same access to information as everyone else, and they CHOSE to be ignorant to it. They CHOSE to ignore it. I have no sympathy or compassion for these nitwits.
And for the record- they’ll clutch their pearls without the need of anything to initiate a reflex. It’s their default stance to everything.
Fuck them. The gloves are off. They deserve nothing more then to be drowned in the swamp their beloved leaders created to drain.
21It's so funny to read this cause I've seen similar posts in conservative communities, only inverted.
3That's a great point. Seeing the current state of US politics this way might be the first step in steering it towards some sort of normalcy.
2It's a problem of the left being incapable of effectively communicating with the working class. Leftists are self obsessed and are seeking approval of of other leftists. They want to be lauded for being the smartest people in the room, and don't actually care about the working class. They want to be congratulated (and sometimes well paid) for pretending to care about the working class
While leftists talk about the working class being too stupid to recognize them as the people they should put in positions of power, they don't consider the possibility that no one trusts someone that assumes that they're too stupid to understand what's best for them. And when you consider how incompetent leftists are in communicating with the people they're supposedly trying to help, who's actually the stupid people in this whole thing?
Biden's push in promoting unions and prosecuting anti-trust will help the working class and lessen the power of the corporations far more than anything all of the leftists will accomplish in their entire lives.
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well technically between a fifth and a quarter of America voted for Trump last time.
12THAT is how stupid America is.
Democracy as usual. The real problem is that they either vote for personalities or for policies, while it should be both - a wrong personality plainly won't deliver, a wrong policy is wrong no matter the personality.
People who were voting for him after Obama's time voted against weakness, hypocrisy, establishment, general perceived progress slowing down (in the 90-s and early 00-s there were many cool things on TV, in computer industry, in space, in art etc, while during Obama's years it was all the same, boring and corporate, and the Web among other things was enshittened in that time period).
Now the second time I guess it's as good as protest voting, and some are really just stupid.
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That's why he wants to get back in, to finish the job and become an actual dictator.
106From Limp Dick Potato to Dictator - The Donald Trump Story
33Decades from now, I'll think of this comment with regret for not heeding your warning, as I breathe my last breaths hiding in some steampunk cave, hunted by stormtrooper drones, starving and without any resources, the last outpost of hope.. then the lights dim as the power runs out. "Fucking potato.." final breath.. eyes close.
6I hear it was more of a mushroom dick.
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President Donald Trump, who has in recent days accused Milley of “treason” and suggested that he should be put to death for his conduct surrounding Trump’s bid in 2021 to remain in office despite losing the presidential election.
no u.
It's comically simple how transparent fuckheads like him become once you tune into the pattern. Accusations are confessions, gaslight, obstruct, project, and all that
31... We'll see. There's a lot of anti-American MAGAts in law enforcement and paramilitary organizations.
We have an infestation of Republican fascists, and no one can say how that's going to play out over the next couple of years.
26Trump's military followers don't give a shit about the constitution, they believe America and it's government is about what they as Americans (the real ones) want.
They act like they believe the constitution is a magical document able to agree with them no matter how they charge their opinion, adapting to internal inconsistencies and all. And if the constitution agrees with them no matter what, it doesn't matter beyond being an authority to appeal to for the sake of controlling others.
17They act like they believe the constitution is a magical document able to agree with them no matter how they charge their opinion, adapting to internal inconsistencies and all.
Hey, that's also exactly how they treat the Bible!
18Don't need literacy when you have imagination and confidence.
It's very convenient that god would speak to them through such accessible means.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In an impassioned and at times furious speech, departing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley defiantly proclaimed that the US military does not swear an oath to a “wannabe dictator.”
And his tenure as chairman has provoked fierce debate among military experts: Was Milley too willing to wade into the realm of domestic politics, or did he stand in the breach to protect a democracy in peril?
On Friday, as he handed over the reins of the chairmanship to Gen. CQ Brown, the embattled Army general gave a fierce defense of his view of the military’s defining ethos: to defend, if necessary with the life’s blood of those in uniform, the Constitution of the United States.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appears to lack the votes to pass a last-ditch stopgap bill to extend government funding beyond Saturday.
Two days after the attack on the Capitol, Milley – concerned that Trump “had gone into a serious mental decline” and might “go rogue” – instructed senior operations officers from the National Military Command Center not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved, according to Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s book, “Peril.”
He also made a now-controversial phone call in the days following the attack intended to reassure Beijing that the United States was stable and that it was not considering a military strike on China.
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5Relevant Beau of the Fifth Column:
1So... if they don't swear an oath to a country, to whom are they sworn?
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United States Army Oath of Enlistment
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God"
35The swear an oath to uphold the constitution. It’s a relatively minor difference between swearing to a country. Basically, soldiers have a duty to refuse orders that they know to be illegal, even if those orders are coming from the POTUS. So if the POTUS tries to order all of the generals to DSP something against the constitution, they have a duty to refuse; Because they haven’t sworn an oath to the POTUS; They’ve sworn an oath to the constitution.
10If you read past the heading, you might find out.
7Ya know, fair. I offered the same suggestion to someone on another post just the other day.
That being said, providing summaries that stop one sentence short of relevant information to turn them into clickbait, not that helpful.
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To the Constitution of the United States.
5Why is this being downvoted? Not everyone is an army nerd and knows all this shit.
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