Arranging the Chess Pieces

Last week's forced gathering of all the military generals was one of the scariest events I could have imagined. And I'm just glad it wasn't worse.

I was afraid Whiskey Pete and the Would-be King were going to demand an oath of allegiance. Fortunately, it stopped just short of that. However, what did happen was quite severe, especially for the Republic. There may not have been an oath, but they made it clear that the military would be expected to do whatever His Highness told them to do, Constitution be damned. It was not met with enthusiasm.

In fact, you could hear a pin drop in between all those stony faces. TFG learned right away that this wasn’t going to be like one of his staged pep rallies. His only ego-boost would have to be internal, by forcing all the generals to sit there and listen to him.

I can only imagine how this part went over:

I bet they were all thinking, “Great, now, every time one of our guys gets shot down or captured, he can expect to be tortured to death in retaliation. That’ll be great for morale.”

But as we know, TFG doesn’t care about POWs. As he said, he only” likes the ones who don’t get captured.”

Whiskey Pete also decreed that there be no facial hair in the military. (Technical term: beardos.”) Don’t think for a second that’s about efficiency or uniformity. This is completely about ridding the services of people of color and non-Christians. The reason the beard regulations were loosened in the first place is that Black men have beard hairs that are often barbed, which can create rashes when they grow back into the skin. Also, this eliminates the appearance of Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims who follow their religions’ beard requirements. And by heightening the physical minimum standards, they can drive out most of the women, thus leaving a military primarily made up of white Christian men. They want an army of undereducated white men who will gladly follow orders to storm US cities, round up whomever they decide are criminals that week, and shoot anyone who dares get in the way.

You can see the timing of current events lining up for the creation of an authoritarian state.

They have now defined terrorists as anyone who resists the current hijacking of the government. Despite a complete lack of evidence, they are pushing a narrative that liberal violence is out of hand. And it totally is, as long as you count proven MAGA-driven violence as liberal, which is now standard procedure. The above article even mentions the shooting of several detainees outside an ICE location and calls it an attack on ICE. Only in the MAGA world is a shooting in which the people who get shot are responsible for the shooting. So naturally, it was some liberal Antifa who blew up that judge’s home in South Carolina, after she made a ruling against the Administration. Just our liberal way of saying “good job,” I guess.

On the other side of the government, we have one of the MAGA Six softening us up for the complete disregard of precedent.

That’s just his way of saying same sex marriage is next, along with creating a presidency of more than two terms, eliminating the right to birth control, and privacy of any nature.

The way they are entrenching their position, there’s no way they'll give up the power without a physical fight. You don’t dig in this far and upset so many apple carts only to walk away peacefully after merely losing a vote. These guys are strapped in it until it’s wrestled away from them, regardless of trivialities, like the will of The People.