• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      1 day ago

      Yeah, where are all those generals that were fired so ignominiously? Why aren’t they speaking out?

      I have been harboring a fantasy that they’re deliberately lying low. They know MAGA is virtuosically incompetent, and if they stay quiet, MAGA will forget about them. In the meantime, they are talking to each other, and making plans for the moment that Trump decides he’s staying in office, no matter what the elections say. Then they’ll make their move.

      Maybe it’s a fantasy, but these guys spent their entire lives devoted to protecting this country, and they know a traitor and an enemy when they see one. Their silence speaks very loudly. I think it’s a much better chance that they are planning, and not just sitting on the lanai, sipping cocktails as the country they defended burns down around them.

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        Yeah, where are all those generals that were fired so ignominiously? Why aren’t they speaking out?

        Because they don’t want to lose their 7 figure ‘consultant’ job at a private military contractor that every general officer has waiting for them when they retire.

        Most generals in the modern US military are jut like CEOs and billionaires; ie they simply wouldn’t get that high on the latter without being a slimy piece of shit.