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   Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 06:15:00 JST Patricia Aas

   This is probably among the scariest things happening right now:

   The Wall Street Journal: “The Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that establishes a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership.

   If Donald Trump approves the order, it could fast-track the removal of generals and admirals found to be “lacking in requisite leadership qualities,” according to a draft of the order reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. But it could also create a chilling effect on top military officers, given the president-elect’s past vow to fire “woke generals,” referring to officers seen as promoting diversity in the ranks at the expense of military readiness.”
   https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-draft-executive-order-would-create-board-to-purge-generals-7ebaa606

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 16:23:58 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @Grumblesock @Patricia @ChristinWhite
     Oh my god. Skinwalkers are real.
     I thought they were just a tale to scare the kids.

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     Christin White (christinwhite@toot.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 16:23:59 JST Christin White

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     @Patricia this may be the most terrifying thing I've seen so far.

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     Grumblesock (grumblesock@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 16:23:59 JST Grumblesock

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     You look at this 👇🏻 in the mirror every day and yet this terrifies you?? Fucken troons are out of your damned minds.
     
     YWNBAW KYS. :blob_hang:
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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:15:48 JST Patricia Aas

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     This isn’t about “woke” anything. This is the draft of a plan to take over the last power structure he does not yet fully control. The same force he has repeatedly said he wants to use against the American civilian population.

     Børge repeated this.
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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:15:48 JST Patricia Aas

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     “Former generals who have worked for Trump say that the sole military virtue he prizes is obedience. As his presidency drew to a close, and in the years since, he has become more and more interested in the advantages of dictatorship, and the absolute control over the military that he believes it would deliver. “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” Trump said in a private conversation in the White House, according to two people who heard him say this. “People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.””
     https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:15:49 JST Patricia Aas

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     🙃
     https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/113464837816023089

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:15:49 JST Patricia Aas

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     This is part of what has had me worried the last few days
     https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/113482206215664623

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:15:49 JST Patricia Aas

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     I have to believe that the state governments are not going to go along with this, that they’re not this nuts. But are we really at the stage where we are tabletop gaming out a civil war?
     https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/113482122372369427

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:15:50 JST Patricia Aas

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     When people in all seriousness put their faith in military personnel refusing orders… then we’re in a precarious situation.

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:15:50 JST Patricia Aas

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     Full video
     https://www.youtube.com/live/ORiQqcLfpxc?si=sJfnRe7l1WT-qrZi

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:15:50 JST Patricia Aas

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     “This is why Donald Trump is trying to purge the military of good honorable generals”

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:15:51 JST Patricia Aas

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     There is still very little talk about it, probably because he threw a whole pile of handgranades this week.
     https://youtu.be/rF5xvO2uqJo?si=6UXUBxH64cRjGnfe

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:15:51 JST Patricia Aas

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     Lol, the title of the video is confident but the video itself is anything but

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:16:54 JST Patricia Aas

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     This video had a nice graphic, not done watching it yet.
     https://youtu.be/eGhj2XRhWwI?si=0XPAHgPBPI08YjrA

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:16:54 JST Patricia Aas

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     Found the video because it was referenced from this short by msnbc
     https://youtube.com/shorts/q0uaZzlZbVc?si=rrgq2XHN8WnI_fLa

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:16:54 JST Patricia Aas

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     And there you have it. Trump confirms that he will deploy the US military inside the US.
     https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/18/trump-administration-transition/

     Børge repeated this.
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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:16:55 JST Patricia Aas

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     “Gen Mark Milley, the top US military leader, resisted Donald Trump’s demands that his forces “crack skulls” and “beat the fuck out” of protesters marching against police brutality and structural racism, according to a much-trailed new book. “Just shoot them,” the president reportedly said.”
     https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/25/donald-trump-general-mark-milley-crack-skulls

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:17:52 JST Patricia Aas

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     As wild as it sounds, I’m starting to root for variation on Costa Rica’s “Civil War” : arrest Trump and call a new election.
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rican_Civil_War

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:17:53 JST Patricia Aas

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     So I guess the Democrats are just going to hand over the country to a despot because that’s what you do when you play by the rules? Good luck with that. Good luck with history recording you as the Good Guys that handed over the nation to a fascist dictator.

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:17:53 JST Patricia Aas

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     He should’ve been in jail years ago, and here you are.

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:17:53 JST Patricia Aas

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     You want to be scared? Watch Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa talk about how fast institutions were dismantled in the Philippines, after pointing out that they had modeled their constitution and democracy on America.
     https://youtu.be/RtSTBoPloqI?si=fEzzaN1sAouWLSWw

     Børge repeated this.