on Wednesday, two senators and four representatives — all of them Democrats, and all of them veterans — released a video in which they reminded members of the military that they have a sworn Constitutional duty to disobey illegal orders.
as I pointed out yesterday, the only thing remarkable about that statement is that it needed to be said at all.
let’s just pause to consider how surreal this moment we’re living in is, where elected officials need to remind soldiers that when the president orders them to open fire on civilians in a US city, that shit’s a Bozo no-no.
seriously, Preznit Fuckwit spent the entire morning on his crappy app, posting and reposting one overwrought blurt after another.
spoiler alert: George Washington, once you got him to understand what ‘the internet’ and ‘videos’ were, would not have ‘hung them.’ if anything, he would have turned to our current president and asked ‘what the fuck is wrong with you?’
because seriously, what the fuck?
it must be said: stating a fact — that unlawful orders must be disobeyed — is not sedition, no matter how much the convicted criminal in the Oval Bordello imagines it is.
“There is no insurrection or sedition without the use of force. Disobeying a lawful order is insubordination, not insurrection or sedition. Disobeying an unlawful order is required. That is all.”
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar released the following statement.
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The President’s violent and unhinged rhetoric against American patriots is consistent with his well-documented history of attacking prisoners of war, Gold Star families and war heroes. There is no bottom when it comes to Donald Trump.
We have been in contact with the House Sergeant at Arms and the United States Capitol Police to ensure the safety of these Members and their families. Donald Trump must immediately delete these unhinged social media posts and recant his violent rhetoric before he gets someone killed.
look: the only reason for Donny to get bent out of shape over the military being told that they have a duty to refuse illegal orders is because he intends to issue illegal orders. it’s that simple.
the military is not Donny’s personal plaything. I know he likes to imagine it is, but our armed forces swore an oath to obey the Constitution, not some fuckbrained felon.
“the President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. ‘HANG THEM,’ he posted. if you’re a person of influence in this country and you haven’t picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.”
Republicans, you’ll be shocked to learn, have picked the wrong fucking side.
“what I read was he was defining the crime of sedition. that is a factual statement, but obviously attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that.”
what the fuck kind of non-answer is that?where did Holy Mike ‘read’ that Donny was ‘defining the crime of sedition’? that’s not even a credible lie. Holy Mike is just phoning this shit in now. he’s not even trying.
why do we even have a House Speaker at this point? can’t we just replace Holy Mike with a leaky bag of wet noodles hooked up to oh, I don’t know — how about Joe Biden’s autopen?
I’m sure we could retrofit Biden’s autopen to hold the Speaker’s gavel. if that autopen can write the Epstein Files, it can certainly gavel the House in and out of session. this isn’t rocket science.
we’d be saving the taxpayers Holy Mike’s salary. how’s that for efficiency in government?
“Murkowski on Trump saying some Democrats committed treason punishable by death ‘So I was just explaining somebody out on the steps that I’ve just come back from Vice President Cheney’s services, and I have not looked at my phone since 1030 this morning.’ I offered to show my phone.”
come on, Lisa. let’s take you at your word, that you didn’t know about what Donny said because you were too busy watching Dick Cheney get put in the ground. well, you just found out.how hard is it to say “really? he said what? that’s some fucked-up bullshit right there.” hello? Lisa?
“TRUMP DOES NOT WANT TO EXECUTE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, WHITE HOUSE SAYS”
shut the fuck up, NewsWire. you’re not helping.
I’m sorry, but the press can’t just normalize this, as they do everything else. they can’t tousle Donny’s rat’s nest of hair and go ‘yeah, what an irrepressible scamp.’ not this time.
these are the same fuckfaces who shit a massive brick after misshapen garden gnome Charlie Kirk was murdered, and spent weeks lecturing Democrats about curbing their ‘violent political rhetoric.’
where are those overheated editorials decrying violent rhetoric now? Preznit Fuckwit is obviously unfit for office. he proves it every day. where are the calls for his impeachment? where are the calls for Donny to resign?
back when Joe Biden was president, the press would go ape-shit every time he mispronounced someone’s name, and would call for Biden to immediately step down, for the good of the country.
how is some rotting-brained dictator-wannabe calling for the execution of Democrats not a thousand times worse?
oh no, it’s happening again.
sorry, folks. as I glue the pieces of my head back together, here’s a lighter story with which to end today’s post.
hey, did you know we invaded Mexico a couple of days ago? I shit you not.
on Monday, a boatload of American military contractors landed on Mexican soil just south of the border, at a beach called Playa Bagdad (look, don’t ask me — I don’t name these things), and put up a bunch of signs.
The signs read in English and Spanish, “Warning: Restricted Area,” and went on to explain that it was Department of Defense property and had been declared restricted by “the commander.” It said there could be no unauthorized access, photography or drawings of the area.
so, Playa Bagdad, Mexico is now ‘Department of Defense’ property, according to ‘the commander’? somehow that doesn’t sound quite … legal.
what happened next was that the Mexican Navy showed up and threw the signs in the trash — after which, Mexico phoned the US Embassy in Mexico City, and were all ‘what the fuck, pendejos?’
the Pentagon had to admit that it was all just a big mistake, no harm, no foul. here’s their bullshit excuse for being on the wrong side of the border:
“Changes in water depth and topography altered the perception of the international boundary’s location.”
really? how about changes in blood-alcohol level? might that not alter some perception as well?
anyway, the Pentagon promised to be really really really careful next time, and they pinky-swore to never accidentally invade another country ever again.
so there’s your incompetent Secretary of Whatever The Fuck He Imagines Himself To Be This Week. we already knew that can’t keep from drunk-texting classified war plans to reporters. now we’re learning he can’t read a map.
there’s really only one thing our dunk-tank clown SecDef is good at. if you ever need someone to flip a skateboard up into their own nuts, Piss-Drunk Pete Kegstand is definitely your man.
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isn't it weird that our invasion of Mexico happened four days ago and it didn't make the slightest ripple in the press? I didn't hear about it until yesterday
isn't it weird that our invasion of Mexico happened four days ago and it didn't make the slightest ripple in the press? I didn't hear about it until yesterday
As for the invading Mexico’s borders:
As a veteran, this hits different.
U.S. contractors putting “DoD Property” signs on a Mexican beach isn’t a mistake — it’s a warning sign.
Borders don’t “accidentally move themselves.”
Sovereignty doesn’t get “confused.”
This is what creeping authoritarianism looks like: testing lines to see who pushes back.
Mexico did.
We need to pay attention.
This is the shit Putin does.