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2021-07-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-
'You're surrounded by total incompetence. Hang in there': Friend warned Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley about trouble on election night because of 'fourth-rate people at the Pentagon and fifth-rate people at the White House'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley received a warning call from a retired military buddy on election night 2020 as returns were coming in

  • 'You’re surrounded by total incompetence,' the friend warned. 'There's fourth-rate people at the Pentagon. And you have fifth-rate people at the White House'
    Is he fighting all that incompetence, or standing at attention and saluting?
  • The friend wanted to impress upon Milley that he was 'an island unto yourself right now. You are not tethered. Your loyalty is to the Constitution'
    Which means what to him in this situation?
  • Milley's election night was chronicled in the new book, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker

  • It also said that Defense Secretary Mark Esper got an NBC News story killed because his firing could have 'worrisome repercussions' amid election turmoil

  • Esper had been on the chopping block with Trump since June when he refused to use the Insurrection Act on Black Lives Matter protesters

  • The authors write that it was Rudy Giuliani who encouraged Trump to announce himself the winner of the election before the full results were in

  • The journalists also wrote that Trump 'seemed to truly believe he had been winning,' before mail-in ballots put Biden ahead
    That’s “mail-in ballots”, because they were fake votes of various kinds. Had they been real they would have put Biden ahead, but they weren’t.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-14 00:21|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top

#1 I kinda rate the pentagon brass just below used car salesmen.
Posted by Xyz 2021-07-14 00:50||   2021-07-14 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 ..insulting used car salesmen?
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-14 06:46||   2021-07-14 06:46|| Front Page Top

#3 yeah yeah yeah!
Posted by Jiling Gravitch9209 v 2021-07-14 11:23||   2021-07-14 11:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Esper had been on the chopping block with Trump since June when he refused to use the Insurrection Act on Black Lives Matter protesters

Dereliction of duty, IMHO.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-07-14 13:17||   2021-07-14 13:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Armed anarchists (AKA Antifa) declaring parts of major cities their own is (quote) non-violent protest (un-quote) and not 'insurrection' ???
Posted by magpie 2021-07-14 17:43||   2021-07-14 17:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Milley, as far as I can tell, is a Commie. The 'person' warning him can be no less.
Posted by Varmint Black8273 2021-07-14 19:00||   2021-07-14 19:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Right, either
1) this is all bullshit, or
2) Milley is ass-covering, or
3) a Minion is leaking NatSec
Posted by Frank G 2021-07-14 19:44||   2021-07-14 19:44|| Front Page Top

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