The US military has keep it’s own council during the Trump admin…
It has never trusted a boss that has been cozy with their perennial adversary …Russia…
Time and again when President Donald Trump has pushed to have United States military cow tow to “HIS” personal whims?
They have objected….
Polls have shown that the troops themselves do NOT approve of his efforts to bed the organisation to his liking like the Justice Dept….
The mail in votes form several states went strongly for Joe Biden not Trump….
Trump tried to butter up the general’s in the beginning of his term …
But when that did NOT get the desired results?
He fired them…
ALL of them…
Now with just two months left in office?
It appears that Trump is gonna give things one last try to bend the leadership into his puppets, something that the system was set up NOT to do and has worked…
It will be up to the general’s for three two month to hunker down and hold the beach from their boss and keep and eye on the foreign adversaries....
One would suspect that the back channels to the incoming Biden people are active…
The sweeping changes include the departure of James Anderson, who resigned as the Pentagon’s acting policy chief on Tuesday. “I leave knowing that the team will persevere, regardless of what lies ahead,” he told his staff in a departing message that encouraged them “to remain mission focused, apolitical, and never to forget your oath of office.” It was not immediately clear whether Anderson’s resignation came at the White House’s behest, though he has reportedly clashed with the administration over its previous attempts to install Trump loyalists at DoD. Anderson was replaced by retired Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, who was nominated to become under secretary of defense for policy earlier this year but had his nomination withdrawn after CNN uncovered a trove of Islamophobic and offensive comments he had made in addition to pushing “deep state” conspiracy theories. In 2018, Tata tweeted that Obama was a “terrorist leader” who did more to harm the U.S. “and help Islamic countries than any president in history.”
Tuesday also marked the departure of retired Navy Vice Adm. Joseph Kernan, the Pentagon’s top intelligence official, as well as the chief of staff to the Defense Secretary. According to CNN, multiple civilian and military officials inside the department fear how the overhaul could undermine national security by allowing Trump to use “his final weeks in office to potentially again call for initiatives he wants to pursue that the Pentagon opposes,” CNN reports, such as again invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy active duty forces against future protests or flout military advice and withdraw troops from Afghanistan by Christmas. Officials also fear that the Trump loyalists at the helm lack the necessary experience for the job, including Esper’s replacement, Christopher Miller, who was heading the National Counterterrorism Center before he was placed in the role in an acting capacity. “Miller is in over his head,” in part because he was a relatively low-level official with an expertise focused on counterterrorism, one official told CNN, describing Miller as a “tool” and “vassal of the [National Security Council].”…
image….BBC.Com
It’s now 282 days, or 40 weeks, or about 9 months and a week, since the Iowa caucuses on February 3rd.
That may seem forever, but it ain’t over yet. We still have 55 days (8 weeks) before the new Congress counts the Electoral votes on January 6th of next year.
Yea it is DSD….
Joe Biden has won ….
Donald Trump true to form is trying to bend reality to fit ‘his’ alternate reality…
The media is somewhat carrying the water for him….
Just in the last 24 hours the focus has come back to the virus which Trump don’t give a rats ass about and Biden has to wait while people die….
There is a far-fetched but possible scenario that terrifies me.
As Trump (liberated by no longer waiting for the election) seizes control of the United States’ military, security, intelligence and legal apparatus, there’s also this huge GOP = DJT effort to deligitimize the election, both legally and before (parts of) public opinion.
Trump ignorantly imagines (1) that discrepancies (in his view fraud) in the collection and counting will be great enough to affect the Electoral College’s choice and (2) that he will both be able to bring this before the Supreme Court of the United States and also (if so) that the Justices he’s appointed will automatically take his side.
But, parallel with this forlorn hope, is also the distinct possibility (given Trump’s mentality) that he and the Right-wing apparatus will be able to egg on his more-fanatical and better-armed supporters to cause enough trouble or threat that there will be a (legal, peaceful or otherwise — it matters not to Trump) counter-mobilization from the Left and minority communities, which Trump and the GOP can characterize as some kind of dangerous insurrection.
All that’s necessary for Trump is the excuse (plausible at least to his followers) to mobilize all that Federal power that Trump is now accreting to Save our wonderful, beautiful Republic from all those Antifa, Commnist, Islamo-fascist hordes. All the DoD, DHS and DoJ executives and officers who baulked at invoking the Insurrection Act and other extreme measures will be gone.
Career military officers (at least below flag rank) will try hard to obey the Constitution when it conflicts with the orders of the Commander-in-Chief, but while I don’t think that such a coup d’état or putsch would succeed, it could still tear the country apart in blood.
Yup DSD your worry what the media is using to keep u coming to them for more….
Problem is the general’s and the troops themselves do NOT like or approve of Trump and his cronies….
Even McConnell has to afraid of this since such a grab would likely throw America into a civil war putting the country in danger of coming apart….
I’ve thought about this also…
But?
That happening would leave Republican’s with NOTHING….
In the end?
Republicans will have to stop paying lip service to Trump and embrace the orderly transfer of power…
They have NO choice….
But the media IS gonna ride the chaos thing till Biden gets sworn in….