Purge of J.A.G. officers

[Bulldogs1974]

next thing you know, they'll disrupt the military getting rid of the top brass and replace them with lackeys and yes men..

We'll what do you know....

 

[cohawk]

Neutral military - sure. But there is no harm in sending the radicals packing.

Who are the radicals? Do they even exist? This is being done to insert loyalists who won't apply the law.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

If you folks don't see everything that is going on as a complete eradication of a democratic republic, you are dead wrong.

This isn't a joke. Save your talking points for another time.

 

[goldmom]

Keep it up lady.... you'll get what is coming for you. Broken hip, bad eyes, hearing loss.... you never know at your age

I do wear reading glasses and I have a 25% hearing loss in one ear…my hips work just fine…
What else you got, honey?

 

[Jimmy McGill]

I do wear reading glasses and I have a 25% hearing loss in one ear…my hips work just fine…
What else you got, honey?

How about the post-mortem menopause, low bone density, and facial hair? You are making this too fun for me

 

[Jimmy McGill]

I'm just having fun with you....don't take it personal

 

[lucas80]

That may be, but again, trump is not going to be looking to jag for that sort of direction on those sorts of issues, he's going to be looking to doj, and specifically probably to olc.

A side note - when this thread started, i hadn't seen the reports of the senior officials specified, and assume this was more of the same broad based stuff. As noted, i think the broad based stuff is bad, because jag does a lot of stuff that supports line soldiers in a lot of mundane but important ways. As to the senior types, i don't like it either (for the reasons you note), but i also simply don't think these are the types of people from whom he'll get the advice on the types of questions that have been underlying some of the hypotheticals here. That's olc, who have been, and always will be, much more political.

For example, the abu graib memos were jay bybee at olc.

Sure. To paraphrase the late, great Denny Green, Trump is who we think he is. I don't know if you are truly naive, approve of these actions, or are just avoiding reality at this point. Trump is doing this for a reason. He, or the powers behind him, want this for a reason. It might be specific to the military, or it might also have broader applications if they succeed here.
You at times seem very confident there are guardrails in place to preserve the rule of law, and to preserve our shared democratic norms and ideals. Trump is taking down the guardrails.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Sure. To paraphrase the late, great Denny Green, Trump is who we think he is. I don't know if you are truly naive, approve of these actions, or are just avoiding reality at this point. Trump is doing this for a reason. He, or the powers behind him, want this for a reason. It might be specific to the military, or it might also have broader applications if they succeed here.
You at times seem very confident there are guardrails in place to preserve the rule of law, and to preserve our shared democratic norms and ideals. Trump is taking down the guardrails.

He is not taking down the guardrails.....he is bulldozing them

 

[Aardvark86]

Sure. To paraphrase the late, great Denny Green, Trump is who we think he is. I don't know if you are truly naive, approve of these actions, or are just avoiding reality at this point. Trump is doing this for a reason. He, or the powers behind him, want this for a reason. It might be specific to the military, or it might also have broader applications if they succeed here.
You at times seem very confident there are guardrails in place to preserve the rule of law, and to preserve our shared democratic norms and ideals. Trump is taking down the guardrails.

Honestly, it is more that I am just as inclined to believe left wing histrionics about fascist takeovers as I am to believe right wing histrionics about communist takeovers. Which is to say not inclined.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Honestly, it is more that I am just as inclined to believe left wing histrionics about fascist takeovers as I am to believe right wing histrionics about communist takeovers. Which is to say not inclined.

mush, mush, mush...way to take a stand

 

[Aardvark86]

mush, mush, mush...way to take a stand

I have. I am, and always will be, a long.

 

[desihawk]

ive always had a very good impression of jag officers since i first laid eyes on one on tv

 

[goldmom]

How about the post-mortem menopause, low bone density, and facial hair? You are making this too fun for me

Post mortem? 😉 I’m old but not yet cold…
You know, you sound interested.

 

[hawksurprize]

Neutral military - sure. But there is no harm in sending the radicals packing.

Ya you're wrong there.

 

[hawksurprize]

Is Abu Gharib close to Abu Ghraib?

sick burn.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Post mortem? 😉 I’m old but not yet cold…
You know, you sound interested.

I can only imagine your flawda retirement community. I'd be all the beeswax .

 

[goldmom]

I can only imagine your flawda retirement community. I'd be all the beeswax .

LOL. I’m not there yet…

 

[Jimmy McGill]

LOL. I’m not there yet…

It is election day at the condo association...

 

[goldmom]

It is election day at the condo association...

Look at you trying to find out if I live in a condo or a SFH.

 

[lucas80]

Honestly, it is more that I am just as inclined to believe left wing histrionics about fascist takeovers as I am to believe right wing histrionics about communist takeovers. Which is to say not inclined.

Why don't you just believe what Trump is doing in front of your own eyes, and why don't you believe what he is telling us he intends to do? Did you think it was histrionics when some of us waned that Trump was talking about pardoning the 1/6 coup members? Trump said he was going to do it, and he did it.
I think more and more about Michael Cohen, and how he talked about Trump corrupting people little by little. Seeing how far they'd go for him. He's doing it in real time in front of your eyes, and he isn't being secretive. I just find it weird you cannot be inclined to believe what Trump is telling us, when his track record is doing what he says he says.