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GCG

(95 posts)
1. Don't bet on it!
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 12:24 PM
Yesterday

The US military and the US Congress have one thing in common...no guts!!!

displacedvermoter

(4,611 posts)
3. We probably wouldn't hear about it if they did, for some time to come,
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 12:30 PM
Yesterday

as the generals would likely keep it close to the vest, and the White House and Hegseth wouldn't advertise it. Some other god-awful military, but marginally lawful, operation could certainly get thrown in as part of the cover-up.

Baitball Blogger

(52,413 posts)
4. If I were a jetfighter who couldn't back out of taking off from the tarmack,
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 12:34 PM
Yesterday

I would steer off course and unload my weapons in a remote, unpopulated area and claim systems failure.

Javaman

(65,799 posts)
6. piss drunk pete stacked the deck when he fired the top brass.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 12:37 PM
Yesterday

he just wants loyal robots.

they know exactly what they are doing.

stopdiggin

(15,488 posts)
7. It is extremely unlikely. And even MORE extremely unlikely that anything of the sort would happen enmass
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 12:40 PM
Yesterday

Refusal of orders has always been a very, very rare event in the services ...
Talk to people you know who served - find out how many times they observed anything like that happening ...

( and it's probably about time that we stopped raising expectations .. ? ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

crud

(1,267 posts)
8. When he orders them to fire on protestors
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 12:43 PM
Yesterday

That's when he will be gone. not impeached, not resigned, not 25th amendment. He will need to be driven from office, by the people. So we need to get ready for that.

Bettie

(19,740 posts)
9. If the protestors aren't "his" people
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 12:51 PM
Yesterday

nothing will happen there either.

Fact is, it isn't the people who run this country. It's a handful of billionaires who found a monster they think they can control.

JBTaurus83

(1,457 posts)
10. Never going to happen
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 12:58 PM
Yesterday

Hegseth has promoted lunatics, and many right wingers have joined the military and police forces across the nation. If ICE does what it does to our own citizens with no internal pushback, don’t expect much pushback when it comes to bombing a middle eastern country.

mucholderthandirt

(1,788 posts)
13. We don't. There's a reason people are getting purged, and it ain't because they're Trump allies.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 01:25 PM
Yesterday

The regime is working hard to destroy the military leadership that would refuse unlawful orders, because they intend to turn the military on us eventually. Anyone who still thinks we're going to have midterm elections is fooling themselves. War times means sacrifice, can't change horses mid-stream, insert whatever nonsense Trump spouts nightly, blah, blah, blah.

Simeon Salus

(1,640 posts)
14. Mop heads, pillows, and blankets didn't suddenly plug the USS Gerald R. Ford 's entire black water system by themselves
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 01:46 PM
Yesterday

The closest thing to mutiny on a US Navy ship in my lifetime.

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