Why Gen. Mark Milley should be court-martialed - Washington Times - "Gen. Milley called his communist Chinese military counterpart in October 2020 and January 2021 with unauthorized promises and assurances of advanced warnings of U.S. military intentions and actions... Gen. Milley admitted to making the calls. A spokesman for Gen. Milley stated that Gen. Milley acted within his authority as the senior military adviser to the president and the secretary of defense, yet Gen. Milley failed to consult any civilian authority, a fact confirmed by Christopher Miller, the former acting secretary of defense, and by former President Donald Trump. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a graduate of West Point and an Army officer, as well as a lawyer, congressman and former director of the CIA, described Gen. Milley’s actions: “If you had a senior military leader, who is simply an adviser, tell the Chinese Communist Party that they would get notice of an attack, this rivals anything we’ve seen in our nation’s history.”... Mr. Baker and Ms. Glasser make clear that Gen. Milley loathed Mr. Trump and was grossly insubordinate. The authors quote Gen. Milley saying, “F—- that s—-, I’ll just fight him” [President Trump], and, “If they want to court-martial me, or put me in prison, have at it. But I will fight from the inside.” A general “fighting from the inside” against the president is the very definition of subversion."
No, Milley Didn't 'Protect The Constitution' From Donald Trump - "It’s remarkable how often protecting “democracy” from the clutches of Donald Trump means engaging in anti-democratic activities. “The Patriot: How General Mark Milley protected the Constitution from Donald Trump” is Jeffrey Goldberg’s 6,500-word ode in The Atlantic to the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Although the article also suffers from cloying revisionism, its biggest flaw is failing to provide a single instance proving its proposition—quite the contrary... Yet not even The Atlantic’s retelling of Milley’s heroic tale offers any evidence that Trump attempted to escalate tensions with any “nuclear-armed adversaries,” or anyone else, to provoke an “eruption of wars” or any conflict before or after the election chaos of 2020. Or even that Milley dissuaded him from trying. Say what you want about Trump, but his alleged capitulation to a nuclear-armed adversary in Russia was one of the top reasons we were told he was unfit to be president. The entire Russian “collusion” deception, a favorite of The Atlantic magazine, was predicated on that belief. While Trump didn’t launch any nukes, Milley, caught up in the hysterics of the election, did make two phone calls to our top geopolitical foes in China, promising to give them a heads-up should the United States attack — a clear subversion of civilian authority over the military... He tells us Christopher Miller “had been informed of the January call,” intimating that the then-secretary of defense was OK with it, when in reality he said it was a “disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination” and called on Milley to resign. Of course, if Milley was interested in de-escalating tensions, he could have informed the Chicoms that election results are often challenged in free nations, but such events have no bearing on military decisions. Instead, he reportedly told Gen. Li Zuocheng, “If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time.” Zuocheng must have been relieved... nowhere in the Atlantic article is there any instance of Trump, or anyone in the administration, asking a military leader to engage in illegality during the pre- or post-election chaos, much less participate in a coup. (Although Milley did, apparently, promise administration officials they “would see the world ‘from behind bars’ if they did anything illegal to prevent Joe Biden from taking the oath of office on January 20” — as if it’s a general’s job to adjudicate such things.) In any event, Milley conceded recently that he never received an “illegal order” from former president Trump after the 2020 election. So, again, what part of the constitutional order did the general protect?... Milley is free to believe as he likes, but not free to act as he likes. If leading generals are convinced that Biden is a doddering, pathological liar with authoritarian tendencies who not only recklessly undermines the Constitution but weaponizes the DOJ — as there’s some evidence to believe — should they feel free to circumvent civilian oversight of the military? Or does this kind of thing have to be sanctioned by panelists at the Aspen Ideas Festival? Now, if like me, you read the Atlantic article as a legacy-saving hagiography of Milley, it makes much more sense. Because while Milley is a dynamo at preventing theoretical threats, he failed when asked to stop real ones. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he was in charge during the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal that left 13 dead soldiers and hundreds of Americans stranded in Talibanistan. Milley called the event “a logistical success but a strategic failure.” No one was fired, and no one resigned. Nor was anyone fired when what seemed very much like a performative airstrike killed 10 Afghans six days later. Not one of the dead, as it turned out, was an “ISIS facilitator,” as Milley had assured the American people. Nor was the strike “valid” or “righteous,” nor was it based on “very good intelligence” that “went through the same level of rigor that we’ve done for years.” Rather, we reportedly killed a man who worked for a U.S. aid group and seven children. Why did we get it so wrong? Was there political pressure to respond quickly to the Kabul airport bombing? No real explanation was ever given. After the withdrawal debacle, Joe Biden told the media that every military leader had concurred with his withdrawal plan — which was, predictably, another lie. ..
'It would be an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because my advice is not taken. This country doesn’t want generals, figuring out what orders we’re going to accept and do or not. That’s not our job.'
But, of course, that is exactly what Milley did when it served his political fortunes."
Meme - Liberal: *NO PRISONS* "ABOLISH PRISONS. OUR PRISONS ARE CRUEL AND INHUMANE"
"TRUMP FACES UP TO 7,000 YEARS IN PRISON"
Liberal: "OUR PRISONS ARE CRUEL AND INHUMANE"
Meme - *Trump* "whenever I hear his voice or see his face on TV" *vomits*
They're obsessed
Georgia Trump trial proposed to start the day before Super Tuesday, the biggest day in the primaries, but it's about "justice" not politics 🙄 - "Legal experts called the six month timetable overly optimistic; very, very ambitious; and not really realistic... If it were purely a case of serving justice, the speed and date wouldn't matter all that much. However, it's pretty clear to everyone at this point that this has very little to do with justice, and everything to do with politics.
Canadian woman who sent poison-laced letter to Trump sentenced to 21 years - "A Canadian national who sent a letter laced with the deadly toxin ricin to former President Donald Trump at the White House was sentenced Thursday to over 21 years in prison. Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, 56, a dual citizen of Canada and France, pleaded guilty in January to sending the homemade poison-laced letters to Trump and eight Texas law enforcement officials from her home in Quebec in September of 2020... Ferrier told the judge prior to sentencing that she's a grandmother of four and an "activist," not a terrorist. "The ricin I made didn’t have a harmful concentration. It was just a strong warning. I did not target innocent people. It was never my attention to harm innocent people, and in fact I did not harm anyone," she said. She added that her "only regret" is that Trump didn't heed her warning "and I couldn’t stop Trump before he put in action his plans to try to stay in power.""
Liberal rhetoric can be as violent as possible, and they still will see no problem with it
Meme - "I've noticed whenever I post anything anti-child trafficking or against sexualizing of children, the immediate response tends to be "LOL, you must be a Trump supporter!" Why is this? Why do people immediately make this connection like it's some sort of epic own?"
The prosecution of Trump is an assault on democracy - "Whether Trump’s claims about the election cross the line into criminal behaviour will depend on proving criminal intent among Trump and his co-conspirators. His defence is likely to be simple: that he genuinely believed in the claims of electoral fraud that were circulating at the time. He may also have a free-speech defence. The indictment acknowledges that Trump, like any American, has a First Amendment right to say whatever he pleases about the outcome of an election, even if his views are based on falsehoods. There is a bigger problem with the indictment and the discussion around it, too – namely, the role of politics and double standards. For one thing, Trump is certainly not the first politician to have lied to voters about election interference. Consider the so-called Russiagate scandal. After losing the presidential election in 2016, Hillary Clinton and her supporters alleged that Russia had interfered in the election to gift the presidency to Trump. House Democrats then commissioned special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the claims. Yet when he delivered his report in 2019, Mueller concluded that the evidence ‘did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government’. In other words, Clinton and others propagated a false narrative about Trump owing his election win to the Russian state. Funnily enough, a year ago Trump launched a lawsuit against Clinton, accusing her of spreading lies about the 2016 election. The paperwork in that case sounds eerily like the latest indictment against him... The timing of the new Trump indictment is significant, too. Trump is right to find it suspicious that prosecutors have waited for over two years to indict him, and yet now special counsel Jack Smith is pushing for a ‘speedy trial’. This means the trial could end up taking place during the presidential elections. This is not the only trial Trump is facing in the run-up to 2024, either. In March next year, he will face trial in New York over allegations that he covered up ‘hush money’ payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. Then, in May, he faces trial for allegedly hiding documents from the Department of Justice. The growing list of indictments against Trump is unprecedented. And yet the legal substance of these indictments – particularly the New York one, and this most recent one – is flimsy to say the least. You don’t have to be a Trumpist to see how questionable and political all this is. Smith’s press conference yesterday should also have raised some eyebrows. The special counsel tried to draw an explicit link between the indictment and the ‘January 6’ riot at the Capitol in 2021. But there is nothing in the actual indictment that charges Trump with inciting the riot. To many, this will look like an attempt to politicise the trial and to rile up Trump’s opponents. We should always be worried when the judicial system comes into conflict with the democratic process. We cannot pretend that Trump is just like any other defendant. He is the presumptive Republican nominee for the next presidential election. Putting him on trial is bound to distort the campaign (although, if his current success in the polls is anything to go by, it might also work in his favour). The American people have the chance to judge Trump’s actions when they go to the ballot box in 2024"
Donald Trump Is Guilty – Foreign Policy - "The only remaining question is what exactly he’s guilty of."
From 2017. Perfect illustration of TDS. Liberals will claim that innocent until proven guilty doesn't apply here because this is totally different, since they don't understand the importance of universalisability of principles and mock me whenever I apply that to problematise their claims (e.g. on rape and precautions)
Opinion | Trump’s white-nationalist dog whistles in Warsaw - The Washington Post
From 2017. If you don't hate white civilisation, you're racist
This mommy blogger committed the unpardonable sin: Donating to Trump's campaign. Now many of the people she's helped are joining forces to cancel her. - "The world of motherhood Instagram accounts is vast, deep, and apparently vicious... The creator of the popular TakingCaraBabies reportedly donated to Donald Trump's campaign with *gasp* her and her husband's own money! TakingCaraBabies is an account dedicated to, um, Taking Care of Babies. The founder of the brand & business, Cara Dumaplin, is a Neonatal Nurse and Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant. She has 1.3 million followers on Instagram and many Instagram-famous (and real life famous) followers sing her praises for helping them survive the little years."
Brandon Straka on Twitter: "•No consequences for the Clintons. Byron York's Daily Memo: Christopher Steele's hugger-mugger spy talk - "Steele is standing behind the dossier and standing by even its most preposterous, unsupported allegations... Cohen said, "I eagerly await [Steele's] next secret dossier which proves the existence of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and that Elvis is still alive." Truth be told, Steele might try to prove those very things if he thought it would bring down Trump." Robert Reich on Twitter - "By the way, Trump deregulated banks like Silicon Valley Bank, which failed Friday."
Showtime's 'Lincoln Project' Series Shows How Anti-Trump Fixation Leads to Bad Policy - "in the memorable phrasing of Wilson's 2018 bestseller, Everything Trump Touches Dies. Such bumper-sticker cynicism can be great for campaign commercials and MSNBC hits, but it has considerably less utility when assessing life-or-death policy decisions. In September 2020, there were at least two huge COVID judgment calls—on vaccines and reopening schools—that Democrats and the Lincoln Project got largely wrong, because they couldn't bring themselves to consider that Trump might be right... widespread skepticism about the presumedly politicized "speed" in Operation Warp Speed led directly to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that same September delaying the time-window for checking vaccine efficacy by 18 days, from 42 to 60—effectively kicking the results of Pfizer's successful clinical trial until six days after the presidential election. There is little doubt that that decision cost thousands of American lives; the main question is how many... An even more damning tale can be told when it comes to school reopening. By July 2020 it was clear, as I wrote then, that "elementary school-age children rarely contract [COVID-19], rarely succumb to it, and rarely transmit it." But, to the nearly audible glee of teachers unions, the politically polarizing figures of Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos came out foursquare in favor reopening school doors (Trump's inevitable tweet: "SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!"), so Democrats quickly rallied around keeping them mostly shut... An entire generation will suffer for years from the political polarization of public school COVID policies. The single biggest determinant of whether schools were open in the 2020–21 school year was not the level of community spread, nor mortality figures, but how said community voted in the presidential election. Deep red states kept schools open, deep blue states kept them closed. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in ordering his K-12s open that fall, was widely derided as "DeathSantis." Yet on that critical question, DeSantis was right, and his Democratic critics were wrong. How has the Lincoln Project responded to the rise of DeSantis, who, after all, is literally the biggest Republican challenger to Donald Trump? By calling him "Governor Freedumb," accusing him of "trying to out-MAGA MAGA," and releasing ads all but calling DeSantis a child-killer... In addition to the hyperbolic COVID scaremongering and the eagerness to tar every half-promising Republican with the MAGA brush, a year ago the Lincoln Project infamously staged tiki torch-wielding young men outside of Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin's bus—a vile attempt to smear Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe's eventually victorious opponent as a racist. Youngkin won in part because enough Democratic parents got fed up with pandemic school closures and other questionable K-12 policies; all that Democrats and the Lincoln Project could counter with (besides a career party apparatchik) were the words "Trump" and "racist."... Like far too many nonprofits, the Lincoln Project aims to convert my political animus into no-strings-attached donations, which it can then spend on viral attack ads against my enemies, and generational wealth for its founders. "Is making money out of an outrage machine helping democracy or is it hurting it?" ex-Lincoln Project board member and longtime California GOP strategist Mike Madrid muses near the end of the Showtime documentary. "And after 30 years, does it wear on your soul? Fuck, yeah.""
Will 🇺🇸 🍢 on Twitter - "Breaking: The FBI uncovered evidence that Trump Meme - ""A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution." — Donald Trump Niche Gamer on Twitter - "Lol Sam Harris didn't REALLY feel the need to record a 2.5 hour incoherent rambling session, about why he left Twitter did he? I refuse to believe this is real, and not just a meme screenshot, that I found on Discord just now. ~cwb
Meme - "TRUMP NEEDS TO TONE DOWN THE RHETORIC BEFORE SOMEONE GETS KILLED *violence and violent imagery from anti-Trump people*"
Leo Terrell: Trump has done more for blacks than Obama - "Lifelong Democrat and civil rights attorney Leo Terrell said Thursday that he thinks President Donald Trump has done more in three years for the black community than the Obama-Biden administration accomplished in eight... Terrell also pushed back against the notion that politicians who are “fair” and treat people “equally” have to be Democrat. “The party that provides equality, fairness, personal liberty is the Republican Party,” he contended. He later added that part of drinking the Democratic “Kool-Aid” is buying the assumption that only Democrats do things for black people and minorities... Those include the Trump administration’s Opportunity Zone initiative, Trump signing a bill restoring funding to historically black colleges and universities, the administration’s funding school choice opportunities for low-income students to attend private schools and the signing of the historic bipartisan criminal justice reform bill FIRST STEP Act... Despite being a lifelong Democrat, Terrell argued that school choice is the “key” to ending the cycle of poverty found in a lot of minority communities. “Why in the world are Democrats against school choice?” Terrell asked. “Public schools are bought and paid for by teacher unions. They are the ones who want to keep people of color — all Americans — trapped in public schools. Donald Trump and the Republican Party want school choice. I want school choice. School choice and education is the key to break the poverty cycle.”... The attorney, who in the past has provided legal analysis on several television networks, also criticized the response of state and local Democratic politicians to riots, violence and looting that have taken place in many cities across the country in the wake of the death of African-American George Floyd in police custody on Memorial Day. “What happened in Seattle is not protesting. What goes on in Portland is not protesting. What goes on Chicago is not protesting. That is crime. That is criminal misconduct. But the Democrats look the other way and call it peaceful protesting,” he said. “I am a civil rights attorney. That is criminal misconduct.”... He also claimed that it is a “lie” that there is “systemic discrimination” in the U.S. “How can you have systemic discrimination in cities run by people of color?” he asked. “That is when the whole system is racist. Chicago? Atlanta? They are run by Democrats.” Terrell claimed that Democrats want to “play the race game” and want to “pander to race.” “They don’t want you to think. They want you to get angry,” he said. “I won’t play that game anymore. This country is too important. This country is at a crossroads.”"
Public policy and health in the Trump era - "This report by the Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era assesses the repercussions of President Donald Trump's health-related policies and examines the failures and social schisms that enabled his election. Trump exploited low and middle-income white people's anger over their deteriorating life prospects to mobilise racial animus and xenophobia and enlist their support for policies that benefit high-income people and corporations and threaten health. His signature legislative achievement, a trillion-dollar tax cut for corporations and high-income individuals, opened a budget hole that he used to justify cutting food subsidies and health care. His appeals to racism, nativism, and religious bigotry have emboldened white nationalists and vigilantes, and encouraged police violence and, at the end of his term in office, insurrection. He chose judges for US courts who are dismissive of affirmative action and reproductive, labour, civil, and voting rights; ordered the mass detention of immigrants in hazardous conditions; and promulgated regulations that reduce access to abortion and contraception in the USA and globally. Although his effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed, he weakened its coverage and increased the number of uninsured people by 2·3 million, even before the mass dislocation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has accelerated the privatisation of government health programmes. Trump's hostility to environmental regulations has already worsened pollution—resulting in more than 22 000 extra deaths in 2019 alone—hastened global warming, and despoiled national monuments and lands sacred to Native people. Disdain for science and cuts to global health programmes and public health agencies have impeded the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and imperil advances against HIV and other diseases. And Trump's bellicose trade, defence, and foreign policies have led to economic disruption and threaten an upswing in armed conflict."
lol this is gonna make people mad. Trump is the "most admired man" in America according to a Gallup poll. - "Obama was the most admired man for 12 years straight, but what's this? Here comes Donald J. to unseat him."
The Trump Era Sucks and Needs to Be Over - "The question, “What is Trump thinking?” is the wrong one. He’s not thinking, he’s selling. What’s he selling? Whatever pops into his head. The beauty of politics from his point of view, compared to every other damn thing he’s sold in his life — steaks, ties, pillows, college degrees, chandeliers, hotels, condominiums, wine, eyeglasses, deodorant, perfume (SUCCESS by Trump!), mattresses, etc. — is that there’s no product. The pitch is the product, and you can give different pitches to different people and they all buy... The paradox ensnaring America since November, 2016 is that Trump never intended to govern, while his opponents never intended to let him try. In an alternate universe where a post-election Donald had enough self-awareness to admit he was out of his depth, and the D.C. establishment agreed to recognize his administration as legitimate for appearances’ sake, Trump might have escaped four years with the profile of a conventionally crappy president, or perhaps a few notches below that — way below average, maybe, but survivable. Instead it was decided even before he was elected that admitting the president was the president was “normalizing” him. Normally no news is good news, and the anchorman is encouraged to smile on a day without war, earthquakes, terror attacks, or stock market crashes. Under Trump it became taboo to have a slow news day. A lack of an emergency was a failure of reporting, since Trump’s very presence in office was crisis. We spent four years moving from panic to panic, from the pee story to the Muslim ban to Michael Flynn’s firing to the Schiff hearings in March 2017 to Jim Comey’s dismissal to Treason in Helsinki to Charlottesville to the caravan to the Kavanaugh hearings and beyond. When Trump fired Jeff Sessions, perhaps the most determined enemy of police reform in recent history — one of his last acts as Attorney General was issuing an order undermining federal civil rights investigations — liberal America exploded in media-driven street protests. The problem was this all played into Trump’s hands. Instead of crafting a coherent, accessible plan to address the despair and cynicism that moved voters to even consider someone like Trump in the first place, Democrats instead turned politics into a paranoiac’s dream, imbuing Trump’s every move with earth-shattering importance as America became a single, never-ending, televised referendum on His Orangeness"
Meme - Ptan Rua: "I don't know why I keep seeing pictures of Obama so much on my feed as a hero right now.
•No consequences for the Bidens.
•No consequences for antifa.
•No consequences for 8 months of BLM rioting, looting, violence, and murder.
•Trump= nonstop bogus investigations which Durham report has proven to be blatantly corrupt.
•Trump= indicted repeatedly on nonsense non-crimes
•Trump supporters= nonviolent trespassing treated as acts of domestic terrorism
Sure, Merrick Garland. The DOJ is not corrupt and biased. Sure."
From 2021
Joe Concha on Twitter - "Trump has been out of office for 26 months. During that time Democrats of controlled the House Senate, and White House. Otherwise, great argument..."
Everything that goes wrong till the next Republican President is Trump's fault
- Deleted 33k emails after subpeoned
- Smashed Blackberrys & other devices to hide evidence
- Had an illegal private server in his basement
- Had the server bleached to destroy evidence Nah, I’m just kidding. That was Hillary."
Donald Trump was NOT suggesting to terminate the Constitution. What he ACTUALLY said was this: The election fraud of 2020 was so massive and of such magnitude that IT canceled (and thus allowed) the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. NOWHERE did Donald Trump even remotely suggest doing away with the Constitution. He was defining how the massive fraud of the 2020 election NEGATED the Constitution."
He should've went for the far more simple and succint route. Just 45 seconds would've done it, tops.
*Mic comes on*
''Orange man and electric car man....bad!''
*Cue Sam Harris loudly sobbing into his hands for 30 seconds, then end*
~cwb"
Elon Musk on Twitter - "Sam used to be so rational! There is such a thing as too much meditation …"
stevenmarkryan on Twitter - "1000%. I'd been a reader of Sam's since The End Of Faith. Dude was a bastion of logic, reason and intellectual honesty. Then orange man bad was elected and the man began to IMMEDIATELY suffer the most intense, all-consuming form of Trump Derangement Syndrome I've ever witnessed."
Elon Musk on Twitter - "Sam lost me when he said that any lies at all would justify Trump losing. I mean … Sam literally wrote a book about why lying is evil!"
"Trust the "science"". Because "science" is "neutral", "objective" and "apolitical"
*He contributed to the militarization of police
*He continued the patriot act, and even made spying on citizens without a warrant more invasive
*He deported more people than any president before him
*He bombed brown people every single day of his presidency
*He expanded the war on terror from 2 countries to 7
*He bombed 2 American citizens overseas without due process
*He is not different, just more eloquent than Trump, which I would argue is even more dangerous. He helped set the stage for Trump."
