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Andrea's avatar

The chilling postscript to this may be the news reported today that there is an executive order draft floating around - and I'm wording it vaguely because he's not actually in a position to issue one, and who knows what level of detail he himself pays attention to - that would appoint a 'review board' of retired military leaders who would then recommend that generals they deemed - unclear what - should be removed.

If this were to happen? An outside board accountable only to the person who appointed them making recommendations, and a Sec. of Defense who is on record as saying he wants to get rid of the military leaders who've had any part in any "woke shit?"

I don't think it is hyperbole to say that if the elected president purges the military of people who won't obey his orders, and has the added benefit of a ragtag bunch of paramilitary cosplayers ready to back him up with their bullets, that this would be an extremely dire situation.

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A difference between the magas and the Nazis of the 1930s is that there were tens of thousands of German veterans who had survived the trenches of WW I. They were the Freikorps which were the core and muscle of the brownshirts and the SA. But they were well trained and pre-armed. Our brownshirts (proud boys, whatever) may contain some veterans, but far fewer and less hardened.

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