So What Kinds Of Illegal Orders Is Pete Hegseth Planning On Obeying?

[Zorro]

Firing military lawyers is BIG UH OH.

In 2020, Hair Furor was super pissed that Gen. Mark Milley, his own choice for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, broke the bad news to him that active duty troops could not be dispatched into the streets of DC to shoot protestors “in the legs or something.” Donald Trump was forced to settle for tear-gassing them and menacing them with low-flying National Guard medical helicopters instead.

The military is not legally allowed to be used against the American people, at all, not even to shoot the messenger, and not even on undocumented immigrants. The military is supposed to protect us from outside threats, not protect President Bone Spurs from getting his feelings hurt.

Draft-dodger Trump also also flew into a white rage in 2022, when Milley explained to then-GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz what Critical Race Theory actually is, and why having students at West Point learn diverse perspectives and not to be racist to each other is good for military readiness, actually.

So, it’s fucking horrifying, but probably not surprising, that Trump 2.0 has kicked off with a Friday-night purge at the top ranks of the Defense Department, getting rid of anyone who might tell Trump or his DUI hire Shitfaced Pete “no,” or “that’s illegal, idiot.”

Trump fired chairman of the Joint Chiefs chairman Charles “CQ” Brown — a guy who has been serving in the military since Pete Hegseth was four years old — and also five other Pentagon officials: Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy; Gen. James Slife, the vice chief of the Air Force; and most chilling of all, the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force. Sure sounds like somebody is mighty hot to trot to break the law. Pete Hegseth even admitted as much, telling Fox News he wants lawyers that “don’t exist to attempt to be roadblocks to anything that happens in their spots. [...] it’s time for fresh blood.”

Anything that happens.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/so-what-kinds-of-illegal-orders-is

I can sense what's going to happen from a mile away...

[Irish_Dem]

1. Looks like Trump is planning on something nasty. What will it be?

[dweller]

4. I think something

Is going to be soon at the pace everything is escalating
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[Irish_Dem]

5. I think he has a number of things in mind. Foreign and domestic.

[Moostache]

2. When its time to hang this traitorous piece of shit, I volunteer to pull the level. (n/t)

[Tanuki]

3. He's pro-war crimes.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/military-officers-worry-pete-hegseth-turn-blind-eye-us-war-crimes-rcna183732
..."But some current and former military officers say Hegseth’s strident statements about war crimes prosecutions of U.S. troops — and his advocacy for service members who were convicted by fellow service members — risk undermining core principles that have shaped the American military for decades.

A current military officer who asked not to be named said Hegseth's stance "should be disqualifying." And Paul Eaton, a retired Army major general, said Hegseth’s support for service members accused of — or convicted of — crimes on the battlefield could have ripple effects through the military.

“He condoned murder and execution,” Eaton said, referring to Hegseth's interventions in cases as a Fox News contributor. “That will create a stunning problem for every senior noncommissioned officer out there, every leader down to the squad leader.”
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"There have to be limits on the conduct of those who are fighting,” said Gary Solis, a Marine veteran who served in Vietnam and taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point. “Otherwise it becomes nothing more than murder.”...(more)

[dem4decades]

6. Planning on obeying? All of them, that's the plan.

[Wuddles440]

7. "it's time for fresh blood"...

may not just be referring to the new MAGAT zombies who he's hiring, but something dramatically more sinister...