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Every time he replaces an experienced government leader/ worker with a loyalist, he gives the Resistance the Gift of Competence.
The military is now run by absolute morons, while the previous leadership, who is highly experienced, moral, serious, and COMPETENT, are all on our side. Do you think they are all just hanging out on the back porch, drinking scotch and waiting for Wheel of Fortune to come on? Just ignoring the oath they actually took seriously, as the nuclear inventory that they spent their lives and highly successful careers protecting, is in the hands of the most corrupt traitors in American history?
We haven't heard a word from those people, and it can't be because they just don't care. They are definitely making plans for the day that HitlerPig declares Martial Law, and suspends elections, habeus corpus, due process, etc. When they call for the current military members to make a choice between the MAGA wannabees, and operating under real military leaders, most will choose Competence over Chaos.
Unsubstantiated bullshit dreams like this keep real resistance from forming.
"Someone else will save me!"
No, they won't. There's no "competent cabal" just waiting to make their move and pretending that there is keeps you from forming or joining the resistance yourself.
No one is going to save you or the people you love, and the price of waiting for Superman is suffering and death.
Maybe. Or maybe they're as powerless as the rest of us and are doing the same nervous doom scrolling we are. There's no reason whatsoever to suggest that there's some secret gang of competent former govt employees banding together to form the resistance.
It can be. Or it can be because they're out looking for new jobs in a shitty economy.
This is pure fantasy. Come on, be realistic here.
Realistic? Realistically, those military leaders are not the kind of people who are just going to accept this. They have spent their entire lives protecting America, amd our nuclear arsenal from threats. I doubt they are going to just fold up in the face of comically blustery MAGA Nazi intimidation.
Pure fantasy is thinking that somehow this situation is going to resolve on its own, or believing that these guys held normal jobs, and are now on Indeed, sending out resumes, and going to job interviews.
This won't resolve in a positive direction without tough leadership, and the best military leadership in the world has been benched. I'm sure they'd love to get back into the game, especially with such an important objective in the line.