Thanks for Saving Our Asses, Gen Milley! …

… now, let’s court-martial the sum’bitch!

lmao

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/14/gen-mark-milley-worried-trump-could-launch-nuclear-attack/8334915002/

Saved our asses from what? Something that didn't and wouldn't happen?

Meanwhile... China, Russia, N. Korea... etc are running over Biden just like Obama.

You milquetoast leftists know nothing about the real world. You deserve to be enslaved.

Looking to the future, Blinken said a new pledge of $64 million in U.S. assistance to Afghanistan would circumvent the Taliban and go directly to nongovernmental organizations and U.N. agencies providing relief to impoverished Afghans.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) expressed concern about the aid getting into the hands of the Taliban. “How are you accounting for that?” he asked Blinken.

“As we do around the world in places of conflict . . . working through the U.N., working through NGOs with long-tested methods,” Blinken said. “This aid will not flow through the government.”

The Real Crime General Milley Exposed Laid Bare

If the GOP had the courage of the Senate Republicans in 1974, Milley never would have been in a position to worry that an American president might start a nuclear war just to hang on to power

Thom Hartmann
September 16, 2021


Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley stepped outside the realm of his constitutional power to prevent Donald Trump from starting nuclear war with China or Iran. It was definitely unconstitutional and probably illegal. But he’s not the true villain in this story; the true villain is almost never mentioned in the press.

Trump’s advisors aren’t the villains, either, although Trump was just the latest Republican president advised by Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, whose partner in the years after they advised Nixon, Lee Atwater, had passed away from brain cancer after making a public apology for all the damage he did to our nation in the service of Nixon’s party and, later, George HW Bush (Willie Horton, et al).

And Nixon, too, presented such a threat to world peace and democracy in America that his own Defense Secretary, James Schlesinger, took actions remarkably similar to Milley’s, as was revealed by the Washington Post on August 22, 1974. Schlesinger and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs George S. Brown (who’d just taken that post on July 1, 1974), the Post wrote, “kept a close watch to make certain that no orders were given to military units outside the normal chain of command.”

Specifically, Schlesinger and Brown were worried that Nixon would start a nuclear war to stay in power as he became increasingly under siege in the Watergate scandal. Congress relieved them of that burden when Barry Goldwater walked over to the White House and informed Nixon that both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate were going to vote to impeach and remove him from office if he didn’t resign immediately.

Which highlights the true villains in the General Mark Milley story who are almost always overlooked in the press: 50 Republicans in the US Senate, led by Mitch McConnell, who twice refused to remove Trump from office after the House had impeached him.

It’s not like these senators didn’t know that Trump was an unstable narcissist who had both loyalties and financial ties to autocrats in Russia, Turkey and multiple other foreign countries. They not only knew but were informed in great detail during the first opportunity they were given to remove Trump from office in December of 2019.

The impeachment managers laid out in excruciating detail the evidence that Trump had repeated for the 2020 election what he and his children had tried to do with Russia in 2016: solicit foreign interference in a US election, this time by trying to bribe the president of Ukraine with the promise of American weapons. At any other time in American history that would have been prosecuted as outright treason.

For example, in the election of 1800, then-Vice President Thomas Jefferson benefitted from what we’d today call a tabloid journalist, James Callender, publishing stories about the XYZ Affair that explicitly suggested his opponent, then-President John Adams, had provoked the cold naval war with France that came out of the scandal just to help his reelection chances. The charges of treason hurt Adams badly in that election, helping hand it to Jefferson.

While Adams almost certainly hadn’t committed treason to stay in office, Trump almost certainly did, or something close to it. But the Republicans in the Senate were apparently unconcerned.

They knew by then that Trump and his family had both openly and secretly solicited and received Russian help in the 2016 election, that he’d trashed American intelligence agencies while elevating Russia’s in a public meeting with President Putin in Helsinki way back in July of 2018, and that he’d tried to strong-arm the president of Ukraine to manufacture dirt on Joe Biden.

Compared to Richard Nixon paying to bug the DNC headquarters in the Watergate complex and then lie about it afterwards, Trump’s behaviors were monstrous. But Republicans gave him a pass on his criminal behavior. Twice.

If even a bit over a dozen of them had had the courage of the senate Republicans in 1974, Milley never would have been in a position to worry that an American president might start a nuclear war just to hang onto power and thus avoid prosecution.

But Senate Republicans are proudly lacking in courage, patriotism or any sense of loyalty to our nation or its ideals; their only loyalties are to their own power and the billions their donors use to seduce and control them.

Milley (and then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper) shouldn’t have had to take actions that may well have saved the republic if Trump had played out what he was considering.

And the American media needs to put the blame for that squarely where it belongs: fifty Republicans in the US Senate who chose their own self-interest over our county when Trump’s impeached fate was in their hands.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-real-crime-general-milley-exposed?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo3NTEzMTIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjQxMzgzMDY1LCJfIjoiN3cwa2wiLCJpYXQiOjE2MzE4MDI1MjAsImV4cCI6MTYzMTgwNjEyMCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTMwMjI4OCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.Tg3VdCCF2DX2W1ZplEFKJ--_15MZWAoEWwOXd8YmTBo

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Sal wrote:
Yah, …

Trump “didn’t” serve as Putin’s cock-holster for four solid years …

Trump “wouldn’t” exchange love letters with a murderous tyrant like Kim Jong-un …

Trump “didn’t” wage a disastrous tariff war with one of the world’s largest trade partners that exclusively hurt American businesses and consumers …

That would be insanity, amirite???

Why wouldn’t everyone be comfortable with a steady genius like that having the codes to unleash thermonuclear war?

Well, you’re right about one thing - Trump sure as hell wouldn’t have given two shits about what happens to innocent Afghans. He “didn’t” prove that with the Kurds.

Thanks for the real world lessons, dimwit.

He's ridiculous. I dunno why you even talk to him.

Dude's notorious for such bad judgement he can barely scrape together a card-table's worth of people he hasn't let down yet for Thanksgiving anymore, and he's gonna expect us to buy that a self-obsessed psychopath like Trump could be trusted not to start a war to stay in office? On his say-so? Hell.

Dude undoubtedly would've sneered at us on January 5th if we'd warned him there might be a coup attempt tomorrow. He's not someone I'd take advice from about anything, much less predictions of what a guy like Trump is and is not capable of. Milley was in the room with Trump and talking to him a whole lot, it was part of his job, but we're supposed to dismiss Milley's concerns because some low-watt degenerate gambler dope addict on the internet who was probably Googling how to have sex with a ham sandwich ten minutes before he logged in here says he "knows better." And he's talking about "enslavement" while he's defending a guy who literally incited his cult to try to overthrow the democratic process in a coup attempt. I mean, whooo, that's silly. He fucking carries water for a would-be dictator, and we're the ones courting "enslavement"? You can't even make up stuff that stupid. I don't know who's in charge of looking after this jag-off, but they're not doing any better of a job than the mother who was supposed to raise him to be a decent citizen. Boy did she fuck that up.

Just hoo-raw this clown-ass troll and stop giving him the time of day. Taunts don't mean anything coming from such an imbecilic failure, anyway. Talking to him is like squeezing a colostomy bag -- you're only going to get one thing out of it, and it's not anything anybody wants.