This SOB Deserves A Military Tribunal And A Firing Squad

[Rightguide]

The Nation, Mother Jones, In These Times, Alternet, Salon -- any of those would be better.

Commie rags, always have been.

 

[pecksniff]

Commie rags, always have been.

And yet better than NR, which has consistently taken the wrong side of almost every issue -- including the civil rights movement -- since Buckley founded it.

 

[Rightguide]

Well, they weren't planning to shoot or arrest Trump and replace him with Pence or anybody else.

They were plotting to subvert his chain of command and thus effect a coup. There was zero reason to this other than their contempt for Trump, the Constitution, and the American people. They had more concern for a national enemy and aid them in killing our people if war were to break out. Pelosi and Milley both need to go to jail, but they won't. They, like Jane Fonda, will always carry the wet blanket of treason over their reputations in the eyes of millions the rest of their lives.

 

[Rightguide]

And yet better than NR, which has consistently taken the wrong side of almost every issue -- including the civil rights movement -- since Buckley founded it.

That's bullshit. Find something un-factual or without reason in the article I posted.

 

[CornusKousa]

That's bullshit. Find something un-factual or without reason in the article I posted.

He can't, ad hom and deflections are the best peck has.

 

[pecksniff]

They were plotting to subvert his chain of command and thus effect a coup. There was zero reason to this other than their contempt for Trump, the Constitution, and the American people. They had more concern for a national enemy and aid them in killing our people if war were to break out.

No, they were concerned that war should not break out. And China is not a "national enemy." China is no more than a competitor -- for global economic hegemony and for regional political hegemony. And don't RWs approve of competition?

Pelosi and Milley both need to go to jail, but they won't. They, like Jane Fonda, will always carry the wet blanket of treason over their reputations in the eyes of millions the rest of their lives.

All three of them are better than you -- better people, and better patriots. Including Hanoi Jane.

 

[Rightguide]

No, they were concerned that war should not break out. And China is not a "national enemy." China is no more than a competitor -- for global economic hegemony and for regional political hegemony. And don't RWs approve of competition?

Mark Milley had no authority to do so. Probably violated the Logan Act, you know the one you tried to nail Flynn with.

All three of them are better than you -- better people, and better patriots. Including Hanoi Jane.

Bullshit. I've done more for this country just obeying the laws and paying taxes than they have with their anti-American machinations.

 

[phrodeau]

Mark Milley had no authority to do so. Probably violated the Logan Act, you know the one you tried to nail Flynn with.






Bullshit. I've done more for this country just obeying the laws and paying taxes than they have with their anti-American machinations.

Thank you for doing the rock-bottom least you could possibly do for your country.

 

[pecksniff]

Mark Milley had no authority to do so. Probably violated the Logan Act, you know the one you tried to nail Flynn with.

Cut him some slack for extreme extenuating circumstances. Certainly Trump was never a warhawk and would not have started shit just for kicks -- OTOH, he was so clearly desperate to remain in the WH that he might have grasped at anything.

 

[Lazaran]

Cut him some slack for extreme extenuating circumstances. Certainly Trump was never a warhawk and would not have started shit just for kicks -- OTOH, he was so clearly desperate to remain in the WH that he might have grasped at anything.

The traitor in chief approved the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani.

Nuff said.

 

[jomar]

Cut him some slack for extreme extenuating circumstances. Certainly Trump was never a warhawk and would not have started shit just for kicks -- OTOH, he was so clearly desperate to remain in the WH that he might have grasped at anything.

RG ignores the fact that high ranking staff members intervened with some regularity to avert/avoid his crazy ass impulses

 

[YDB95]

Milley saw how unhinged and irrational trump was being after his humiliating loss to president biden. Nobody except a trumptard could disagree that trump was acting like a retarded version of klownguide after his pummelling.
In this circumstance I think it was wise to let other nations know that someone who is level headed will control the situation.
Trump is still crying like a little bitch about it.

My thoughts exactly. From overseas, the news we were getting on January 6 (or really the morning of January 7 in China, and also Australia) were probably even more alarming than they were at home (since most people weren't so familiar with how riled up the deplorables had become since Trump took office). Communicating with foreign leaders in the way Milley did is perfectly normal for a person in his position, and it was certainly beneficial to our national security to send out the signal that - to some degree at least - the grownups were in charge.

 

[pecksniff]

Rogue general vs. rogue president: GOP cultists willing to defend Trump destroying the world

Consider this narrative: A crazed and out of control president, viewed by political rivals and military leaders as so unstable he might start a war — even a nuclear conflict — to gratify his ego and hold onto political power. He has launched a coup attempt, which remains unresolved. But a few brave and patriotic souls are willing to stop this president in order to save the country and the world from catastrophe and potential annihilation.

That comes rather too close to the plot of the 1965 thriller novel "Night of Camp David." Unfortunately, these events are not fictional. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other senior military and civilian leaders felt it necessary to prevent Donald Trump from acting out his most destructive impulses after losing the 2020 election, fearing the risks of a new world war.

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In a conversation with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Woodward and Costa report, Milley agreed with her characterization that Trump was "crazy" and had been so "for a long time." The authors write that after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Milley "felt no absolute certainty that the military could control or trust Trump and believed it was his job as the senior military officer to think the unthinkable and take any and all necessary precautions," calling it the "absolute darkest moment of theoretical possibility."

According to Woodward and Costa, national security officials appointed by Trump agreed. Then-CIA director Gina Haspel told Milley, "We are on the way to a right-wing coup. The whole thing is insanity. He is acting out like a six-year-old with a tantrum." Even Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who had refused to acknowledge in public that Biden had won the election, told Milley that Trump was "in a very dark place right now."

Trump's supporters in the Republican Party are predictably focused on a single detail: CNN's report that Milley had "two back-channel phone calls with China's top general, who was on high alert over the chaos in the U.S.," in an effort to prevent a military incident between the two nuclear-armed nations. The right-wing disinformation machine is not interested in any form of accountability for Donald Trump, of course. Instead, leading Republicans and conservative pundits are demanding that Milley resign and be punished for alleged "treason." Trump himself has publicly declared Milley to be a traitor.

 

[Rightguide]

Cut him some slack for extreme extenuating circumstances. Certainly Trump was never a warhawk and would not have started shit just for kicks -- OTOH, he was so clearly desperate to remain in the WH that he might have grasped at anything.

None of that gave Milley the right to break the chain of command, none. When he assembled those officers and made them agree to submit to his plan. He did three things, he initiated a conspiracy against the United States, the Constitution, and the CinC, he violated Article 88 of the UCMJ, he inserted himself unlawfully into the chain of command, taking unto himself authority denied to him by specific federal statute. Those officers who agreed with him did so as well. That just for openers.

 

[pecksniff]

None of that gave Milley the right to break the chain of command, none. When he assembled those officers and made them agree to submit to his plan. He did three things, he initiated a conspiracy against the United States, the Constitution, and the CinC, he violated Article 88 of the UCMJ, he inserted himself unlawfully into the chain of command, taking unto himself authority denied to him by specific federal statute. Those officers who agreed with him did so as well. That just for openers.

See post #63.

 

[ShyBiGuy954]

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[ll74]

We were at war with Germany

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Milley was an advisor, nothing more. He's not even in the chain of command, as he asserted to the military officers. This was an actual coup, and actual insurrection, against the lawful, constitutional authority of the President.

If true, Milley needs to be court-martialed, tried and thrown in the brig for the rest of his life.

 

[Rightguide]

See post #63.

The President was not crazed or out of control. So that narrative is entirely invented. When Milley agreed with the assessments of the mentally disturbed Speaker he violated Article 88 of the UCMJ. Neither of those two are medical doctors. Pelosi and Milley have no role in the operational military chain of command. None.

 

[ll74]

Milley was an advisor, nothing more. He's not even in the chain of command, as he asserted to the military officers. This was an actual coup, and actual insurrection, against the lawful, constitutional authority of the President.

If true, Milley needs to be court-martialed, tried and thrown in the brig for the rest of his life.

Overdramatic trumpie says what?

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Overdramatic trumpie says what?

The truth.

 

[ll74]

The truth.

Lol...good one.

 

[ShyBiGuy954]

We were at war with Germany

Open your eyes, we're at war with China.

 

[ll74]

Open your eyes, we're at war with China.

Open your eyes, no we're not.

Perhaps look up how we go to war with other countries

 

[pecksniff]

Milley was an advisor, nothing more. He's not even in the chain of command, as he asserted to the military officers.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is in the chain of command.