And the absolute crazy people
First, CNN reported:
The top US military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley, was so shaken that then-President Donald Trump and his allies might attempt a coup or take other dangerous or illegal measures after the November election that Milley and other top officials informally planned for different ways to stop Trump, according to excerpts [from] an upcoming book obtained by CNN.
The book, from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, describes how Milley and the other Joint Chiefs discussed a plan to resign, one by one, rather than carry out orders from Trump that they considered to be illegal, dangerous or ill-advised.
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Milley viewed Trump as “the classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose,” the authors write, and he saw parallels between Adolf Hitler’s rhetoric as a victim and savior and Trump’s false claims of election fraud.
Nothing to lose and nothing to inhibit, either – no scruples, no conscience, no sense of obligation, no understanding of history, no wisdom, no humility, no feeling of responsibility.
Second, Trump issued a “statement.”
Despite massive Voter Fraud and Irregularities during the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, that we are now seeing play out in very big and important States, I never threatened, or spoke about, to anyone, a coup of our Government.
He’s such an elegant stylist, isn’t he?
So ridiculous! Sorry to inform you, but an Election is my form of “coup,” and if I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley. He got his job only because the world’s most overrated general, James Mattis, could not stand him, had no respect for him, and would not recommend him. To me the fact that Mattis didn’t like him, just like Obama didn’t like him and actually fired Milley, was a good thing, not a bad thing. I often act counter to people’s advice who I don’t respect.
Wut?
I’d never wanna do a coup with Milley, who this other terrible general hated him and so did I hate both of them so I hired the one because the other hated him, plus besides also Obama hated him too so that’s why I hired him, a good thing, not a bad thing.
I lost respect for Milley when we walked together to St. John’s Church (which was still smoldering from a Radical Left fire set the day before), side by side, a walk that has now been proven to be totally appropriate—and the following day Milley choked like a dog in front of the Fake News when they told him they thought he should not have been walking with the President, which turned out to be incorrect.
How can a walk be proven to be totally appropriate? What would that even mean? And what is choking like a dog? And what turned out to be incorrect?
In fact, around the same time Milley, in a conversation, was an advocate of changing all of the names of our Military Forts and Bases. I realized then, also, he was a much different person than I had hoped.
Yeah he wanted a general who would rub those Confederate generals in everybody’s faces, like a real man.
But never during my Administration did Milley display what he is showing now. He was not “woke.” Actually, I don’t believe he ever was, but the way I look at Milley, he’s just a better politician than a general, trying to curry favor with the Radical Left and the absolute crazy people espousing a philosophy which will destroy our Country!
Ok then!
Another beautifully crafted former-presidential Statement for the record books.
At first I thought that that might be a parody of the orange loser’s style, but on following the link I’m amazed to see that he really issue that Statement.
The government used to pay people to polish his “statements” but now it doesn’t, and he certainly doesn’t. He’s illiterate.
Why can’t he borrow money to pay someone to polish his “statements”? Or simply hire someone and promise to pay, but never actually pay?
He thinks they’re brilliant!
The government used to pay people to polish his “statements”, because the government was embarrassed by them.
Trump isn’t embarrassed by them. Trump thinks they are fine. If he didn’t, he would have written something else.
Are there people with any sense of style who would still work for him? I guess there are people that craven, but I can’t imagine they would be able to improve things all that much?
‘like a dog’
Among all his other bizarre verbal tics this one stands out to me–the first petless President has got some weird thing about dogs. I’d actually like to know what this is all about.
Dogs are submissive to humans. It’s part of how we manage them as domesticated animals. Dogs that are aggressive towards humans are considered unmanageable and unsuitable as either pets, work animals, or service animals.
Trump sees all relationships in terms of dominance and submission; winners and losers. To him, a dog is the epitome of a loser: a creature that is always submissive to others. His go-to image when he wants to denigrate someone is to say they did something (died, lost, choked, whatever) “like a dog”.
@8 interesting take.
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… and even more interesting when you consider that Trump doesn’t seem to like dogs. I wonder what that says about how they view him in their dominance hierarchy…
But he’s used “choke like a dog” more than once. I’ve never encountered that phrase from anyone else. I’d freely assume that he was in the habit of choking dogs if it weren’t for the fact that no dog is ever likely to go near him, if it can help it.
Another aspect to that is that dogs are affectionate toward humans, and a dog that is aggressive instead of submissive is also hostile instead of affectionate. The point of dogs as pets is the bond (and the bond is useful for working dogs too), so if the dog is hostile there is no point.
It’s not clear that Trump even knows what “affection” and “bonding” mean.
My finger-in-the-air guess is that Trump got this vague idea that “like a dog” is an insult, he has no idea what it means or where it’s appropriate, and doesn’t care. I don’t think it has anything to do with actual dogs.
I think you’re right about the generic insult thing – and I think it is one to some extent – “die like a dog” sounds familiar to me, maybe from old war movies? Or old gangster movies? But even so, it’s that random insult that stuck as opposed to a different one, so it could still have to do with a weird hatred of dogs.
And I think it’s FINE to overthink this. Abs’ly fine.