Well, they’re for Law & Order when it means making “those people” shut up and work until they die. But I think you’re right about their feelings about democracy.
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They don’t care about “woke-ism” as such; that’s just the latest rebranding of their more generalized hate of some groups and historic love of authoritarianism.
They want power- they want us to not have power. And they want the power to erase and eliminate some of us.
They don’t think that those people other than trans people includes them. So it’s a good thing to them.
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Tuberville’s freeze on promotions of general staff officers unless the federal government denies reproductive health services – abortions – to women in the military has significantly disrupted readiness, upended the chain of command and otherwise endangered national security. Of 852 general and flag officers, he has placed 387 holds so far. By the end of the year, 90% of generals and admirals will be out of position.
Idiots can still be useful idiots. There are larger purposes involved in his scam kulturkampf. His subversion of the military is not just collateral damage. It is not the unintended consequence, but the overriding motive. His abortion ban is both context and pretext. Tuberville has opened Trump’s strategy for a second term to replace the professional class of officers pledged to the constitution with a collection of flunkies who will salute his command, legal or not. Tuberville is a blunt instrument, but, however crude, he is the available tool.
The Heritage Foundation – which has produced a blueprint for a Trump second term, the 2025 Transition Project, which includes firing the entire federal civil service and replacing it with Trump loyalists, and invoking the Insurrection Act on day one of Trump II to deploy the military against political dissidents – has evidently been behind Tuberville’s attack on the military.
JFC! its quite the read;
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Call me undemocratic, but I just dont trust people to vote in their own best interests anymore.
“Give the people what they want…”
Was going to link to that for people sanguine about what the military would do in the face of a fascist coup. If you have to rely on them, history is not comforting.
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Heritage published an article by one of its fellows claiming that Tuberville is the “one man” standing in the way of a dastardly conspiracy led by Biden: “Replacing the officer class of police and military ranks with politicized ideologues who will bend to a transformative dogma is a strategy that has worked in places like the Soviet Union, Cuba and Venezuela … Tuberville, thus, is stopping the promotion of woke apparatchiks.” Like Trump, the Heritage cadres project their own scheme on to their enemies.
It’s a cliché by now but it really is projection.
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Last night’s results suggest you may be wrong and that democracy still works. Giving up on it empowers the authoritarians. Getting angry and involved scares the piss out of them i favor the latter.
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I was surprised and relieve to see this response first for this thread. I’m used to seeing people double down on the blame-the-voters strategy at the heart of the Democratic party’s 2024 campaign.
Piece of shit articles like this may be great for nodding along with, but they sure AF aren’t convincing anybody. Mark, do you honestly imagine an alienated voter reading this thing calling them a “shitty child” and saying “well, I better give that author what they want”? What’s the emotional logic to that?
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