This news — you know, the stuff that shows National Guard troops aren’t exactly happy to be expendable pieces in Trump revenge schemes — is unsurprising. No one signed up for this…
Going and hanging out in DC is not an illegal order.
Stirring resentment among the military is the absolute best route to making sure that when they start issuing actually illegal orders (which they are definitely planning to do), they won’t be followed. The fascism isn’t good, but the fact that is has this particular footshooting nature is pretty excellent. Also, the people doing stuff like setting up loudspeakers in DC to play Gen. Milley’s speech about Trump, dictators, and the role of the military in a free democracy are doing the good lord’s work in every single way.
Also, I’m pretty skeptical that this is accidental. All kinds of convenient little accidents start happening when people start strongly resenting the position they’re being put in and there are easy things they can do to spread the word.
Going and hanging out in DC is not an illegal order.
Stirring resentment among the military is the absolute best route to making sure that when they start issuing actually illegal orders (which they are definitely planning to do), they won’t be followed. The fascism isn’t good, but the fact that is has this particular footshooting nature is pretty excellent. Also, the people doing stuff like setting up loudspeakers in DC to play Gen. Milley’s speech about Trump, dictators, and the role of the military in a free democracy are doing the good lord’s work in every single way.
Also, I’m pretty skeptical that this is accidental. All kinds of convenient little accidents start happening when people start strongly resenting the position they’re being put in and there are easy things they can do to spread the word.