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Dellenr's avatar

Thanks for your input. This is pretty scary stuff! (EHS’78)🩷

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TomL's avatar
Sep 26Edited

Lots of scummy actors running the military show in the Trump circles. #2 at DoD is the hideous

Cerberus company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Feinberg

They could be re-aligning with Russia or China or demanding loyalty with Israel. Plenty of Epstein File list creeps are in the Trump orbit, why he is trying to create constant confusion.

Hypocritical Christian radicals demand loyalty, which we've never seen demanded in a real church, only cults.

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Chris Fagg's avatar

Hegseth wants to buy insurance against any military intervention on Constitutional grounds in the Trumpist programme to create Trump as Supreme Leader.

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John Kelley's avatar

Agree

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

It’s likely about loyalty to Trump, hopefully not religious right wing mouthpiece nonsense!

Excellent piece Nina!

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Joanne Pfaff's avatar

Thank you .its awful that this is happening. Will pass it on.

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Theda DeBacker's avatar

"Right now morale is gone. Mid-level officers are trying to get ahead, clawing over everybody’s back by turning in more senior officers..." When they replaced all the top military brass with ones who swore allegiance to Trump their objective was evident. As things have worsened since then, I'd hoped/wished/fantasized that some brave career mid-level officer(s) would take a stand and obey their sworn oath -- to the Constitution. From Weinstein's observation, it sounds like the only stand they're taking is to get a toehold on the backs of their bosses.

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Golden Hue's avatar

Someone in my network went to a leadership academy at the Army War College in June of this year. The agenda he received in February did not have a worship service on it, but when they arrived at the weeklong academy, it did have a worship service on the agenda. Enoogh time had transpired to get these Christian nationalist strategies in place. So I think this is happening at bases and installations across the country, not only at the pentagon.

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JP MEYER's avatar

what ever he's got scheming you can believe it is not for the benefit of the American public. He will extract more pounds of flesh from our Mililtary leaders

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Dana Bennett's avatar

Wow. The Japanese turnedBack to Shintoism. We turned to Christianity. This is BAD.

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Ron Ashmore's avatar

It’s not true Christianity that is the problem here. No true Christian would have the feel he has the right to impose his religion in the functioning of government. No true Christians would impose their religion in the a society.

We, as followers of Christ’s doctrine, believe that every man has the right agency to choose what, if any religion, to follow.

These hard core extremists, Right Wing Evangelical Republicans are not true Christians. They hide behind the Title of being Christian to excuse their actions against anyone who doesn’t agree with them or believes their enforcement of their religion should be condemned. The are hypocrites and commit blasphemy against the teachings and example that Christ has given us.

I would not want to be one of them when their judgement day comes!

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Franky Dyson's avatar

I really wonder— if you Americans know how pathetic you all look, to the outside world. You fight amongst yourselves.. Democrats V Republicans, black vs. white, religion against religion, actually you all fight over every single topic. From an outside perspective, you're like the bullies in the sand pit.. You think you should be number one, with every other country below you but never equal to you right? What're your saying?.. God bless America and no one else Right? You create the weapons, the war and interfere in every other country on the planet. “You're the eternal agitators”.. And not since Trump but since “ALWAYS”. It's clear anyway that no president is in charge. There is something much more sinister going on behind the scenes. All that money going to defence budgets and it should be providing every damn citizen— with Free healthcare, number one priority today.. Food in your stomach, number two.. No more of this bull shit, war mongering, money drainers. You want all your kids 18+ sent overseas to these wars? Dem or Rep— The only time your sons and daughters should be getting ready for war, is if you need to fight an invasion on your own soil.. And that could definitely happen 99% of the world's problems are caused by the American oligarchy/elite class. You all should be embarrassed to call yourself American, the world is really starting to hate you all. And for you Democrats.. the way you carry on like little children, sore little losers of the election.. And you guys fucking sucked— when you held all the seats and all the power.. Fucking disgusting all of you.

Get it together or there will be suffering on this planet like never before and you will be to blame..

Fuck make America great again, how about make the world great again— 2000 years of peace, is what you all should be fighting for.. Abolish the insurance companies.. Stop letting corporations and billionaires run the show..

Stand up for yourself for fuck sake.

Much love to the peacekeepers..

From a New Zealand Grandmother

(with free healthcare and a 4% unemployment rate) You could have that too, if you work together.. Dumb ass’s.

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HowardNYC's avatar

"here's a knife, sharpened to razor's keenness, coated in noxious pastes each toxic to a traitor's intent... if the soldier standing next to you refuses to swear unthinking loyalty onto Our Orange Overlord, slay him!"

if Shakespeare wrote about these years...

...he'd call it "Trump II: Decline And Fail"

done as a sequel to "Trump I: Delusions of Godhood"

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Dana Bennett's avatar

Thank you, Mikey Weinstein!

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