Here's the 11-minute podcast version of the Military is Split piece below. Lots of extras including the reason the Ukraine thing was in the Republican platform last year. #
A bit of breakage had accumulated in the podcatch.com back end. Spent the morning modernizing, it's all working again, or so it seems. 💥#
I could see Kelly launching a first strike at N Korea because they weren't properly respecting some insane thing he's clutching for security.#
Thank you. I needed that slap in the face. I was starting to beginning to almost thinking about possibly someday maybe under some circumstances rooting for them. Not gonna happen. #
- It's just like the Electoral College, and the RNC before it. Letting the process go forward is always easier and safer than standing in its way. Maybe someone else will do it. But each time we don't do the hard thing, it'll be harder the next time. We'll look back and say "if only we had.." This isn't the first time. We will look back on this moment too as a time when it would have been much easier to put a stop to Trump. #
We found out something pretty horrifying in the last couple of days, and it's important to absorb it before it passes in whatever controversy comes up next. #- We saw the actual personality of the White House Chief of Staff for the first time. He's a general. And he's one of the most powerful people in civilian oversight of the military. Maybe second only to the president. And he doesn't believe in the Constitution. #
- He walked all over the First Amendment in his presser. There must be others in the military that see this (they watch TV too). So now we have two factions, one that believes in the Constitution and civilian oversight, and the other that doesn't. And it appears that the one that doesn't has vastly more power than the others. It's in the White House. #
- Kelly is not a stupid man. He couldn't be where he is if he was. He knows what he said and did, and the message not only went out to the public, it went out to the military. It signaled in ways that can't be signaled through the chain of command, how the country is now being governed. So there's a pretty good chance we're on the other side of a military takeover. Seems almost tautological. It's visible now, if you believe what you saw on TV, and is likely to become more visible. #
- BTW, I also don't think it's a coincidence that both Obama and Bush spoke yesterday, saying basically the same thing. We are not a fascist country. I suspect they were also talking to the military.#