A distinguished group of retired four-star generals and admirals from the U.S. military have argued in a brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that Donald Trump’s claims of absolute “presidential immunity” from criminal prosecution tied to Jan. 6 is an “assault” on the “foundational commitments” underpinning democracy and if his argument is allowed to succeed before them later this month, it threatens “to subvert the careful balance between the executive and legislative branches struck in the Constitution.”
The 38-page amicus brief features 19 authors, all of them decorated retired admirals, generals or secretaries from branches of the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force respectively. On April 25, the high court is poised to hear Trump’s question of immunity against prosecution for his alleged criminal conspiracy to subvert the results of the 2020 election. and according to the brief, these are arguments that should be approached with extreme caution.
A group of retired Generals/Admirals are the ones who convinced Congress to repeal DADT back in 2011 so our LGBTQ+ brethren could openly serve.
I understand that the entire Government has changed since then, and it’s an entirely different branch of the Government that they’re petitioning, but fuck, this gives me hope.
These people do still have some sort of influence, and they’re attempting to use it for good. That makes me happy.
Your hope in a democracy is for the military lol you Americans are so fucked
Or, lol, what’s really happening here, is that we’re all going “Oh yay, they’re using their influence for something good. That’s one more tool to fight the MAGAts with.”
But I forgot, this is the internet and we should just be straight up pessimistic and ask “Why are they even bothering? Don’t they know it’s useless?!?!Silly Generals, Democracy is dead.”
You’re going to learn the hard way. I don’t care. All militaries are evil and anti-democratic. Democracy in the US died in 1789 when your evil slave holding founders built in the electoral college and designed the entire government in a way that is essentially non functional. Try reading a book for once https://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Republic-Constitution-Paralyzing-Democracy/dp/0156004941
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Catalonia
Even these guys?
Were they successful?
No. The other liberal nations betrayed the Spanish Republic and Stalin wasn’t interested in supplying the Republican coalition for free (or without purging dissenters to Soviet hegemony) like Hitler and Mussolini were supplying the fascists.
Personally, I just also don’t tend to criticize people for fighting the war against fascism just because they lost a battle.
There is no way to win a war. Everyone loses, especially the most vulnerable. You have to stop it before it gets to there. Militarism is inherently evil and designed to project violence. Violence always leads to power vacuum even in the best case. Fascists will have the upper hand to fill the power vacuum. This is what happened in my home country when we overthrew the Shah. Fascists need to be removed before they come to power and before you are fighting a war with them because fascists will always win the war. Look what happened to the US after WW2, they literally became the Nazis in order to win. Then we all lost the cold war. (read: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691019413/we-all-lost-the-cold-war)
Lets say the premise here was true and that the US wasn’t already a fascist empire (which it is) and it was a democracy in danger of becoming fascist, unless you deal with the fascists before they emerge either by smothering them out or having a functional society you have no recourse. If people were serious in the US and actually aware, which they aren’t, you would just get rid of your lifetime appointed
mullahssupreme court justices and put a bullet in trumps face before it was military action.Ah, yes, simply convince all Americans to be okay with the assassination of Trump without responding with violence themselves, so easy, so simple, definitely won’t create the war you’re on your high horse about avoiding lol
Not that I disagree that Trump deserves a death sentence for crimes against democracy and the American people. I just think the war is unavoidable, regardless of who holds the reigns of the Republican Party. But, hey, maybe not.
Lolol you’re big mad, huh?
Chizie ke mano ‘big mad’ mikone ine ke hameye vagheiat-haye Amrikai ro hameye zaman be man goosh midam
K thanks, bye.
Most notable, though, is that they face no jeopardy for speaking out. None of them could do this while serving.
This is true, to an extent. They can be much more vocal (publicly) than anyone currently serving, without fear of reprisal/loss of benefits.
However, these retired O’s definitely have enough money that should they want to abandon ship and move their family elsewhere, they absolutely could. They don’t have to get involved anymore, so I like that they’re taking the time to do so. It shows that they still gaf.