Simultaneous purging of the chief generals of all three branches.
They are ensuring the military has no cohesiveness to stage a future coup against the Executive Branch, and are replacing all control with their own loyalists.
I was just talking to a friend yesterday who mentioned that the conditions for China to invade Taiwan will be optimal in three weeks based on the ocean conditions and ship movements.
I said even if Trump wants to be the “president of peace” and avoid interfering, the generals wouldn’t allow the inaction. I think my exact words were, “he would have to fire them all in the next two weeks.”
America is toast. Best we can hope for is a military coup. Military purge is in progress. At this point I think threatening to nuke Canada is the red line and only if prevailing winds are on my side.
Left and right are living in alternate realuties and this can only lead to violence. If the military chooses right then it’s world war 3.
The non-violent alternative is for the left is to do an economic coup by halting consumption.
In my dreams
halting all work and transportation too. EDSA worked because the protests blockaded the capital
One absolutely doesn’t prepare such a large operation at such a short notice.
For an intelligence analyst, signs of an invasion are typically detectable 3 months ahead. If one performs a maritime invasion at a notice of weeks, failure is likely. (For reference, the D-Day needed years of planning and months of moving resources to work.)
Also, I trust that Taiwan has infiltrated China just as deeply as China has infiltrated Taiwan - they likely cannot keep massive secrets from each other.
You assume that I haven’t already been planning. for months or years.
so the Purge is coming to fruition.
This is some dark shit. Removing proven leaders to promote cronies is both detrimental to our military strength and a massive red flag to our democracy. How this entire fascist takeover is being allowed is baffling to me. I genuinely fear for America.
Our democracy ended on January 20th.
This shit is moving so fast. And any pushback initiative to the insanity moves so slow. I hope there will be real elections again in a few years, but it feels like game-over tbh
This is game over. They control the information flow and narrative. They have control of all branches of government. They will be able to do whatever they want because the people in charge of telling you something is wrong are all compromised. Nobody will be able to organize and even if they could, they would be instantly crushed with violent force and the ones who are supposed to stop that violent force will the ones doing it and nobody will bat an eye because half your country is fucking insane. And I doubt your country will be stopped by any other country because you are the most militarily powerful country on earth and the only competitors to you on earth are China and Russia, both of which benefit from this whole thing. It’s too late. We are totally fucked unless you guys have a civil war like, tomorrow.
Yeah, people abroad are wondering why Americans won’t just stand up, but the reality is that the country is massive and you need an incredible organizing effort to offer any real, organized resistance.
And sure, some groups have tried, but you really need your opposition party, or some kind of major celebrity, or someone else with major reach to organize something that reaches every American and pulls them together to action.
And that just hasn’t happened. Some people have spoken out, but nobody has been willing to lead that next step and really lead a movement. Words aren’t gonna be enough to counter this.
I’m hoping that blue states file state level treason charges for Trump, and every one of his appointees and co-conspirators, and begins to use the national guard and special task forces to find and capture them. If anything, wait until they are already in the state, then announce charges, and surround them before they can leave.
Also, make sure to look at the list of the biggest personal donors to the Trump campaign. Many of them probably live around you, and they paved the way for this bullshit
but the reality is that the country is massive and you need an incredible organizing effort to offer any real, organized resistance.
That’s no problem.
The protests that brought down East Germany weren’t that much organized at first. People went to the street every monday and that was it. Internet and instant messenger didn’t exist back then. Most didn’t even had a telephone at home and TV was censored by the state.
Children were pretty successful too. The whole worldwide protest grew from a single child.The USA is big, yes, but the population live in the cities not in between them.
Now you know what to do:
Pick a day and go protest every week on that day in your city. Politics eventually will feel the pressure.I don’t disagree that it could work, but I’m also not sure it’s that simple either.
There’s a big difference in trying to get people to protest for the threat that is over the horizon than the one in power for 40 years. People just aren’t good at conceptualizing the weight of that future pain against what they currently stand to lose.
And they could lose a lot - their job first, which also means their house and their health insurance. Not to mention plenty of laws criminalizing most protest already, where you are bound to be caught on camera or via other digital surveillance, and a single arrest on your permanent record means no future employment, and missed payments on your credit history means no future economic prospects.
And believe me I know the risk of that is worth it, and the risks you’d have in the future are even worse, but most people in the country still aren’t ready to make that trade - hell, most still deny the direction things are headed.
And they could lose a lot - their job first, which also means their house and their health insurance. Not to mention plenty of laws criminalizing most protest already, where you are bound to be caught on camera or via other digital surveillance, and a single arrest on your permanent record means no future employment, and missed payments on your credit history means no future economic prospects.
It’s astounding you aren’t already rioting! People in my country would tar and feder the guy who’s responsible for that or anyone who doesn’t want to change that.
The USA is big, yes, but the population live in the cities not in between them.
Some of us are a 2 hour drive from a small city, 4 from a big one. My state capital building is almost 3 hours from me.
A generation from now, they’ll ask you why you didn’t help stop fascism and your reply with be “well grandson, it was a 3 hour drive”? That’s your excuse?
This isn’t going to be easy! You can’t fight fascism from your couch. You have to do something to stop it. And right now all it’ll take is driving 3 hours. That won’t always be the case as they solidify their power and crack down on dissent. And you’ll sit there as the brownshirts drag people out of their homes and wish all you had to do was drive 3 hours.
ITT: Europeans thinking they know what a big country is.
It’s the same strategy used by Hitler and the nazis to seize control of Germany. They initially only got control of some of the smaller, “less important” government departments. And then they just started drastically expanding the reach of existing departments, declaring themselves to be in charge of other departments, consolidating loyalists, etc…
The idea is that by the time opponents have time to push back, you have already seized control and are already ousting them. Court battles take months or years, but the takeover was done in a few days.
This is to ensure the military won’t be able to stop them. Expect much more and worse soon
No doubt on the advice directly from Putin.
And so his purge of bipartisan and democratic leaders of the military allows him to ensconce lackeys that won’t question or refuse orders to invade other countries, like Canada.
People keep on saying that America won’t invade other countries, like Panama or Canada. THIS IS WHY THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO SO.
He’s also about to fire all the JAGS, so they can court-martial anyone who isn’t a loyalist and pardon war criminals who are.
It’s time to remind the military that the only moral response to an unethical order is to ignore it.
Can only hope they show at the minimum the same type of malicious compliance that South Korea did during their president’s attempted coup. But Americans don’t seem to value democracy as much, and haven’t had to keep fighting for it to have the fire to do such a thing.
That is why this step is so important. Leadership is nearly everything in the military. Removing ethical leadership it makes it very hard for decisions to be challenged. This is the start, in 2 years when this is down the command chain you’d need thousands of officers to disobey orders at the same time and be filling to physically attack and defend from officers who don’t.
How many Silas Soule’s do you think are still in the military? Not many, I imagine
Anyone who thinks it won’t happen at this point is not paying attention or is fully balls deep in conservative media.
Ugh … ENLISTED MEN WOULD HAVE LISTENED TO YOU! YOU COULD HAVE STOPPED HIM!!
This is when we need the educated officers in our military to step the fuck up and end this shit.
Unfortunately, Military Academy costs like $40,000 a year in the USA and mostly they just teach racism.
Yeah, those generals should find some backers, ask their loyalists down the chain to come with them, and march on Washington.
Defending against enemies foriegn (Musk/Putin) and domestic (Trump/Musk).
General Brown was abruptly dismissed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on February 21, 2025 by President Donald Trump. Trump subsequently announced that Brown would be replaced with John D. Caine, who did not meet the legal prerequisites for the position, and who, according to Trump, had pledged “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.”, while wearing a MAGA hat.
Cool, cool cool cool cool…
This will turn out well…
If they don’t meed the legal prerequisites, they don’t get the job. dafuq!
Have you met this, or the previous trump administrations? The don’t care about the law.
So a Conservative DEI hire?
In a manner of speaking, yes. Should bring this up in c/conservative. We’ve already established that an unelected H1B immigrant from S. Africa is dismantling our government.
And unfortunately, us normies don’t have a prayer against a modern military intent on enforcing fascism.
Have you tried voting harder? /s
Our guns will surely save us! Or did anyone think ahead and use the second amendment to exercise their right bear fighter jets and nuclear arms?
But seriously, I think our only hope is general strike.
Do we have a right to bear Predator drones?
You and I may have, but this country is teetering on the brink right now precisely because people didn’t care enough to vote against this administration.
You don’t fight the military or face them head on.
You target leaders/members of the fascist government and Luigi them.
We don’t have to win, we have to lose slowly enough to bankrupt their war machine.
Hey Americans if you were looking for a red line this should probably be it…
Too many Americans are still comfortable and have a job, food, shelter, etc. Things will probably change once all of these things kick into motion and cause huge recessions, but by that point it’ll be too late. That’s the paradox of prevention.
I think america is just dying with a whimper
Is this country worth fighting for? The people are…but this country?
Yes it is, warts and all.
And a lot of the people… Maybe not so much. They put us here.
Do you have any idea how much greater the harm across the globe will be, the more power these fascists get?
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Remember a few months ago when Trump said he needed generals like Hitler had
I hope the joint Chiefs already had plans in place as a contingency for this. Now is the time for a military coup. The sooner it’s done, the less messy things will get
Every single member of the military I’ve talked to, somehow, for some reason seems to support Trump. I’m fucking stunned by it, but it seems he has their support.
it’s about a 50/50 at my local base. The vets, on the other hand, tend to lean towards tRUmp. I have never gotten it either. Our regional congressman, or ex now, never did jack shit for us. We were a tool to get her elected every time. She didn’t really do anything to help. When she left, what did they do? Idiots voted in another useless GOP.
When PACT was first shot down, I had to actually explain why that was a bad thing and that we needed it. They bought every last fake talking point. I had actually read the measure. Anyone that did had seen why it was a good thing.
We have a problem of propagation of fake news on bases. A lot of them show faux on the TVs in waiting areas. On top of that, it tends to be conservatives that join. Officers do tend to be less red. I really don’t know what would happen if the military actually fulfilled its oath to protect against the domestic threat part of our oath.
It is disgusting hearing fellow vets with the “I got mine” attitude, or other attitudes that are directly against the nature of service. That isn’t what we were serving for.
This is a really dark thing to say and I might delete it if it’s too off base, but as a vet that decidedly does not support trump, I wonder if the ones that don’t are too suicidal
I would honestly not be surprised to see the suicide rate increase. Especially among the marginalized veterans. We’ve already seen a couple. I remember the one who jumped off of the VA building wherever they were at. It’s been mentioned a few times on the reddit vet board, and I’m noticing an increase in vets posting that they’re at their limit and contemplating ending it all.
My BIL is a vet as well. He was having a mental break last week. I was able to talk him into going to the ER. He’s getting better, but we’re all worried about events going down. We’re trying to prep as best we can. We feel as though something really bad is coming up. I told him to take a step back from the news and social media. I had to for a bit as well.
Yeah it’s tough out here for folks. I’m just waiting for when they’re going to stop covering my gender affirming care. Nothing yet, but it is inevitable. Your BIL is lucky to have you. I hope he’s able to get the help that he needs <3
Also, the “I got mine” group is about to lose all of what they got.
This is an internal coup, there’s no doubt about it. I’m not sure how the oligarchs are letting this happen. It’s insane. Their regret will not make me happy.
Wealth != intelligence
The oligarchy wants the collapse of the US so they can bring about their own style of techno feudalism and the “dark enlightenment”
They’re letting it happen because he is supporting me oligarchy, giving tax breaks to people who don’t need them, etc.
It’s literally the oligarchs making it happen. Trump is not the main player here.
It’s being funded by the Oligarchs, why would they want to stop it?
Oligarchs are not unified. Some companies are heavily disaffected like pharmaceuticals thanks to RFK. Tariffs will also hurt most businesses’ bottomline. Trump’s policies only benefit certain oligarchs (tech companies and Musk) so the other oligarchs who get pissed off will band together to support someone friendlier.
The oncoming recession is going to hurt most businesses.
And their employees worse.
But not the owners. They’ll be able to buy up those tasty, cheap stocks.
Exactly. In every crisis, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Out of the last several financial crises, who’s come out for the better? All I see is the widening of the gap between rich and poor.
Makes me wonder about the rhetoric against violence and how ‘we need to be above that’. Where has that message come from?
Where indeed.
Two places:
1: We are supposed to be nice people. 2: The wealthy are evil, and want people to be too gentle to resist.
The rich amplify the ‘kind’ part of protests (MLK), while trying to stifle the ‘harsh’ (Malcom X, Panthers), to ensure that resistance is toothless. IMO, the answer isn’t to ditch ‘kindness’, but rather to understand protest movements as two pieces that work together…
Hammer, and Anvil. One is a promise of unyielding violence if things don’t change, while the other is a solid foundation that offers an alternative. Protestors shouldn’t seek peace at all costs, that isn’t how an effective negotiation works. Power only respects power.
When we protest, the understanding needs to be there that we’ll become militant if they ignore us. If we don’t get our way and just peacefully go home, there’s no point to protest in the first place.
Chaining ourselves to their gates, hunger striking, throwing bricks, burning effigies, etc – these tactics are often decried as not peaceful enough, but they show we’re not going to stop at words. That we’re prepared to escalate. We need to make them afraid. We need to show them if they don’t listen very soon, their heads will literally roll. And then we must be willing to follow through. If we don’t, we may as well start heiling now.
‘we need to be above that’. Where has that message come from?
From the same oligarchs who wants people to remain passive.
Imagine helping to protect your country for 40 years, only to have a felon who is offended over the existence of people with any skin colour besides white take all that away from you. I predict that a white man will be offered to take Brown’s place and will be far less qualified.
That’s what all of this anti “DEI” (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) is about, purging anyone who isn’t a straight, able-bodied white male.
offended over the existence of people with any skin colour besides white take all that away from you
This isn’t the problem here, it’s military leadership that may disobey him
Two things can be true. Remember the white supremacists he called “very fine people”? The “shithole countries”? Kamala Harris “turned black”? Remember when he claimed Haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs?
I see this in every thread. He was a felon when he was running. People voted for a felon. The American people wanted a criminal in the white house. The guy all previous generals who worked with him warned against. 77 million people are responsible for these firings, plus whatever many stayed home and didn’t vote. His campaign promise was to replace everyone with loyalists.
I call for the dissolution of the secret ballot.
I want everyone to have to account to their vote to the country.
Careful. The Nazis may use this to decide you go to a camp in the future.
Who the fuck cares. Fuck the Nazis, I’m on paper saying as much and I’ll fucking end as many as I can if they want to try me.
I agree with the person you respond with. I haven’t voted for a Republican once and I’m very much here saying the people who didn’t vote “because the democrats didn’t give us a reason to” are as culpable… but I also live in a very red state and one of the few saving graces is in order to participate in the primaries one doesn’t have to be registered to a party. Something I’ve avoided, but also something the state is trying to get rid of. I’m seriously considering registering Republican just to keep targets off my back.
Plus I think we may be passed elections anyways so those not “of the party” are likely to be targeted anyways.
I don’t negotiate with, or knuckle under for terrorists.
Amen. It’s necessary.
But then you can purchase votes and/or be pressured by employers to vote their way.
Imagine helping to
protect yourcommit war crimes for country for 40 years,*besides white and orange
As a Canadian, this looks worryingly like he’s lining up the military leadership who will be prepared to invade Canada - not to mention Gaza, Greenland, Panama, and any parts of Europe Putin doesn’t want yet.
As an American, I concur
It’s a two front offensive. One front is the American people, the other is other countries that Trump wants or doesn’t see as allies (i.e. other nations with fascist leaders).
What the hell is Canada supposed to do if Americans roll up on the borders. What the hell can the Canadian military — or the American people for that matter — do if they forced Canada to capitulate or face a nuclear threat? That might be an alarmist what-if… but is it, really?
They have the second amendment across the border, would be more than time that they wake the fuck up…
This. If Americans want real freedom, then that’s the hill they’re willing to die on. As an American, I recognize that we Americans currently have yet to reconcile the gravity of that requirement. We have to be willing to stand up to our military, our government, and each other, and to be willing to die for a future we’ll never see.
I really doubt there will ever be an invasion of Canada. Barely anyone in America would go along with a massive war (and that’s what it would require). Congress doesn’t want it — not even Republicans. The business community doesn’t want it. Maybe a few hardcore MAGA types would be willing to fight for him but in reality, most MAGA types are old, fat slobs, not young people of fighting age.
Plus, we couldn’t occupy Iraq and Afghanistan. There’s no way we’d be able to occupy all of Canada. (Especially Quebec. It seems like they’d sooner fight to the death than become Americans.)
When the cost of disobeying a direct order during “wartime” is prison or even execution, most soldiers will obey.
Especially since most of the American military is deeply conservative and ChristoFascist in the first place.
It doesn’t start as a massive war but as small interventions about next to nothing. It suddenly became massive war, in hindsight, viewed from 15 years later.
There’s really no way we could invade half of those places and still fight the unrest that will be happening inside the US. I bet you’d find plenty of Americans willing to defect and fight for Canada.
As a halfie, I certainly wouldn’t be staying put. That said, I’d probably be busy in an interment camp.
I would hope that Republicans in Congress would mostly go against this. We’d need 2/3 of Congress to vote and take their power back. I wonder where they draw the line or if a line even exists.
Congress has already shown they have no power over Trump. They gave away the power to fight him already by going along with everything he’s said and done. It’s too late for them to try and rein him in at this point.
