Trump Claims He Can Send “Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines” Into US Cities
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Here’s the thing: he can because nobody with any semblance of power in this “government by the people” ever stops him from doing anything.
It's not that he 'can'
It's that the US government and thousands of officials leading this dumb country allow him to do all these things. It also conveniently removes everyone's responsibility. As soon as things go terribly wrong .... everyone will just point the thing on Trump and blame him for everything ... meanwhile the people, powers and systems that enabled all this get a free pass.
The US system is literally broken .... and it's being covered up with a big fat orange mess.
Been saying that once he dies, no successor can carry the load of all this bullshit. Say Vance takes over. He gets all the heat for all of it.
"The Great American Experiment" has failed so badly that the only thing to do is reset. You hear that, overlords who's running this simulation?
I want to see a warship in Las Vegas!
I believe one of the ships from Treasure Island are still there.
well las vegas almost a ghost town, sending any people there would be a a real waste.
Would any US general or staff member really refuse to comply with that order?
I'm not American, and I think this might be another one of the many things Hollywood has lied to me about.
Disobeying illegal orders is not as easy as lemmy makes it out.
Short version: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iK957YMJhRc
Longer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwPLqGkYnBA
I find it very interesting, and also quite logical, a private soldier is not the one who should start reflecting on the legality of an order unless it is really obvious.
But I wasn't talking about them, I don't think the common soldiers should disobey those orders, I was talking about the senior generals, those who run the Pentagon, they have plenty of knowledge, time and advisors to know when an order is unconstitutional and the intellectual and economic capacity to resist a court-martial if necessary. If they don't do it, it is out of pure cowardice or ideological harmony with the orders and I don't know which is worse.
Then states should act to rid themselves of military facilities in their borders.