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Simultaneous purging of the chief generals of all three branches.
They are ensuring the military has no cohesiveness to stage a future coup against the Executive Branch, and are replacing all control with their own loyalists.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is to ensure the military won't be able to stop them. Expect much more and worse soon

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

No doubt on the advice directly from Putin.

[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

Waiting for Trump to put the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers into these positions.

[–] Devanismyname@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

So is this even legal? Are there seriously no checks and balances for this kinda stuff?

[–] the_q@lemm.ee 17 points 7 hours ago

Dude, legality has lost all meaning.

[–] cashsky@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 hours ago

Lol checks and balances is an illusion to keep the masses from revolting

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 57 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 children)

Imagine helping to protect your country for 40 years, only to have a felon who is offended over the existence of people with any skin colour besides white take all that away from you. I predict that a white man will be offered to take Brown's place and will be far less qualified.

That's what all of this anti "DEI" (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) is about, purging anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white male.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I see this in every thread. He was a felon when he was running. People voted for a felon. The American people wanted a criminal in the white house. The guy all previous generals who worked with him warned against. 77 million people are responsible for these firings, plus whatever many stayed home and didn't vote. His campaign promise was to replace everyone with loyalists.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I call for the dissolution of the secret ballot.

I want everyone to have to account to their vote to the country.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

But then you can purchase votes and/or be pressured by employers to vote their way.

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

It's not like the Trump voters are silently voting. They're load and clear?

[–] MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Careful. The Nazis may use this to decide you go to a camp in the future.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Who the fuck cares. Fuck the Nazis, I'm on paper saying as much and I'll fucking end as many as I can if they want to try me.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 hours ago

Amen. It’s necessary.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I agree with the person you respond with. I haven't voted for a Republican once and I'm very much here saying the people who didn't vote "because the democrats didn't give us a reason to" are as culpable... but I also live in a very red state and one of the few saving graces is in order to participate in the primaries one doesn't have to be registered to a party. Something I've avoided, but also something the state is trying to get rid of. I'm seriously considering registering Republican just to keep targets off my back.

Plus I think we may be passed elections anyways so those not "of the party" are likely to be targeted anyways.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I don't negotiate with, or knuckle under for terrorists.

[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

*besides white and orange

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

offended over the existence of people with any skin colour besides white take all that away from you

This isn’t the problem here, it’s military leadership that may disobey him

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

Two things can be true. Remember the white supremacists he called "very fine people"? The "shithole countries"? Kamala Harris "turned black"? Remember when he claimed Haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump

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[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 39 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I hope the joint Chiefs already had plans in place as a contingency for this. Now is the time for a military coup. The sooner it's done, the less messy things will get

[–] n1ck_n4m3@lemmy.world 30 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Every single member of the military I've talked to, somehow, for some reason seems to support Trump. I'm fucking stunned by it, but it seems he has their support.

[–] DarthKaren@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

it's about a 50/50 at my local base. The vets, on the other hand, tend to lean towards tRUmp. I have never gotten it either. Our regional congressman, or ex now, never did jack shit for us. We were a tool to get her elected every time. She didn't really do anything to help. When she left, what did they do? Idiots voted in another useless GOP.

When PACT was first shot down, I had to actually explain why that was a bad thing and that we needed it. They bought every last fake talking point. I had actually read the measure. Anyone that did had seen why it was a good thing.

We have a problem of propagation of fake news on bases. A lot of them show faux on the TVs in waiting areas. On top of that, it tends to be conservatives that join. Officers do tend to be less red. I really don't know what would happen if the military actually fulfilled its oath to protect against the domestic threat part of our oath.

It is disgusting hearing fellow vets with the "I got mine" attitude, or other attitudes that are directly against the nature of service. That isn't what we were serving for.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 17 points 13 hours ago

Also, the "I got mine" group is about to lose all of what they got.

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[–] ryegye24@midwest.social 41 points 17 hours ago

Remember a few months ago when Trump said he needed generals like Hitler had

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 50 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

I was just talking to a friend yesterday who mentioned that the conditions for China to invade Taiwan will be optimal in three weeks based on the ocean conditions and ship movements.

I said even if Trump wants to be the "president of peace" and avoid interfering, the generals wouldn't allow the inaction. I think my exact words were, "he would have to fire them all in the next two weeks."

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

One absolutely doesn't prepare such a large operation at such a short notice.

For an intelligence analyst, signs of an invasion are typically detectable 3 months ahead. If one performs a maritime invasion at a notice of weeks, failure is likely. (For reference, the D-Day needed years of planning and months of moving resources to work.)

Also, I trust that Taiwan has infiltrated China just as deeply as China has infiltrated Taiwan - they likely cannot keep massive secrets from each other.

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