Jesus Mary and Joseph no, if a Trump stooge was Secretary of Defense he would have let Trump kill Assad and "the fucking lot of them".
Just shoot the bastard, Jim.
Well kiss whatever support Trump has from the military goodbye if the Mad-Dog steps down. Or hell, anyone in general.
He's the only sane man and person who actually feels like they give a shit about this country, and accepts that Climate change is in fact a threat to the US and the world.
Many officials inside the White House and around the administration had already expected that Mattis would leave his post sometime over the next few months, completing a respectably long two-year stint at the helm of the Defense Department.
Can somebody explain to me why would they expect him to step down? I though 4 years-ish was the typical term length for secretaries.
Also the wording indicates this is unrelated to Woodward's upcoming book.
2 years is abnormally long for this administration, even if 4 years is typical for a real administration.
If what the Bob Woodward excerpts are saying are true, prepare for War with any combination of:
North Korea
Syria
Venezuela
Iran
After insulting McCain, a gold star mother and represents the party which constantly attacks their benefits and leaves them to suffer with mental illness, I highly doubt this will effect the military vote much.
He's the only person in the presidential succession chain that would be capable of running the show.
Also probably Canada, Mexico, the European Union, or some combination.
'short list'
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/John_R._Bolton_official_photo.jpg
funny, very funny.
The idea of a fucking military coup grows more appealing every day.
no it doesnt. it wont solve any of the problems that got us here
Yes Trump. Fire the most respected person in your entire administration.
You're joking, right?
It's really scary that I'm not.
'I'm sure replacing a semi-authoritarian bent government with a proven to be violent authoritarian government is a good idea.'
Eat your wheaties my fellow american.
I wish you were too, military coups are terrible and have an extremely long proven history of backfiring so bad that the countries end up significantly worse than they were beforehand.
name 1 (one) example of a military coupe making any country on the planet in the past hundred years better than it was before
Sadly this kind of thinking is what got the US a Trump Presidency to begin with. "Fuck all these guys I want this populist wolf in wolf's clothing riding on the coattails of neo-fascists and corporate whores at least he's honest about wanting to eat us"
That said if it came to the crunch I'd feel far more comfortable with a sole surviving Mattis as President than any of the other clowns in that cabinet.
Colbert's animated show about Trump seems pretty generic but I saw a clip with John Bolton where he just goes "CAN WE INVADE IRAN YET?" He seriously looks like some sad old dude who's really flustered because Iran stole his lunch money.
My main concern with Trump is the instability he brings to the nature of our republic. An actual military coup just converts the possibility of tragedy to a reality.
If a military junta were to form, I'd hope for some Cincinnatus-like figure to take charge.
(Cincinnatus was a Roman senator who became famous because, after he had taken control of the Empire in an effort to protect it, he decided to hand it back over to the Senate, as he felt that his only duty was to PROTECT the Empire, not rule it.)
((Or at least that's how I learned it in H.S.))
Yeah if they were a military coup I'd flee the country immediately. It would be the last step towards a comptent facist dictator as opposed to a bumbling idiot who thinks hes one.
Normally I'd entirely agree with you, but it's become pretty evident that the entire US Government is woefully unequipped for modern times. Trump walked in, much like Hitler, and has rapidly dismantled many of the checks and balances that are in place to limit his powers, thanks to a Republican majority in both chambers of congress(that was in itself unlawfully attained thanks to Gerrymandering).
I don't see how American citizens can help to prevent this from happening in the future by fixing it lawfully, when the actual governing bodies responsible for fixing it are currently occupied by a party directly benefiting from how broken it is. Can't ungerrymander states if they're run by the folks gerrymandering them, and you can't reinforce the checks and balances when they're currently being broken down by the people in charge of maintaining them.
Having said that, I don't support the modern Ultra-Conservative US military at all, and they are one of the worst case scenarios available; but I do think the US people need to take their country back, and if it's shown to be impossible in these coming midterms(due to almost guaranteed voter fraud), then it needs to happen by force unfortunately.
The best I got is South Korea, and that's not even a direct example, they went through a dictatorship first complete with protest massacres.
I guess it would depend on what qualifies as better. Both Turkey and Portugal experienced military coup's that replaced an unstable, ineffective government with an authoritarian dictatorship that came down on civil rights and freedom of expression but brought stability and economic rejuvenation.
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