• Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    As the other person who responded shared, the D.C. National guard is unique. You can whine and insinuate all you want but it doesn’t change anything. Just makes you look ignorant.

    1. The Guard aren’t cops. They don’t get to show up guns blazing without orders. Which is a good thing.

    2. The D.C. Guard was created before there was a local government. There had never been an issue like this for it’s 120 years of reporting to the President directly. The Pentagon already reviewed and changed the rules back in 2021.

    3. But on Jan 6th, after realizing a Trump crony had deceived them, Pentagon leadership started going further down the chain to get authorization to act.

    I’m not really saying this for you though. It’s clear you’re being dumb about this instead of reading. But it’s here for others who’d like to understand.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      11 months ago

      The crux of your argument is:

      They were legally in the right to allow a violent tyrant to lead an insurrection and attempt to murder the only people who could uphold the Constitution and get him out of office at the end of his term

      They thought hard about if they will do that again.

      None of which does anything to support the narrative of

      the military purposely must remain loyal only to the Consitution, not to a political party or individual. Anyone in the military who acts in support of Trump is subject to a Dishonorable Discharge, life in prison, or execution. If Trump issues an illegal order like to suppress free speech or free assembly any military member who follows that order would face harsh punishment and a long jail tim

      If you want me to add a bunch of “hash tag, support the troops” in my condemnation of them supporting a violent insurrection against the US Government then sure. I don’t want that smoke. But you have no point beyond that.

      Because the only difference between our arguments is you are deciding they were heroes for actively not protecting the VPOTUS, Speaker of the House, or the rest of Congress and instead relying on the courage of police officers which… jesus christ how do we still have a country?