It's time for those of us who took the oath to step up to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; [and] bear true faith and allegiance to the same".
@homofloridensis I just really hope that the young soldiers of today know enough to realize how fortunate we are to be in such a delicate system that relies on everyone putting the Constitution before anything else. If we lose this, we'll be lucky if we ever get it back.
@@Mustapha1963 It depends on if the government is going to use probationary asylum, which was used in the majority of administrations, or political asylum be granted before entering the country. I believe there are times for probationary asylum to be used and not to be used and I think during this last administration it was used far too much. That being said, it is ridiculous that we don't fund enough political asylum officials to process claims in a timely manner. It's utterly ridiculous that someone should wait longer than 30 days in what can often be life or death situations. In the end, did the Biden administration go against the Constitution? No, but only because probationary asylum is legal. That being said, they abused it and didn't get serious about it until it was too late. By that time, there was no way Trump was going to let them go through with a bill that would have solved the majority of what people were upset about. But I believe that's the Democrats fault. They should have tackled that in their first two years and by not doing so was a huge failure. But that doesn't mean that we should ever abandon the Constitution or not put it first. Politicians are always going to push the envelope of what they can get away with and that's part of the delicate nature of our system.
@@NobodyCares6996 I would disagree with you strongly that the Biden Administration did not violate the Constitution. a claim of "asylum" is valid ONLY if the government of a country is causing harm to the person seeking asylum. If a country with a majority religion is using the power of government to suppress members of the minority religion (or looking the other way while other groups do so), that is a valid case for seeking asylum. But it is NOT valid to seek asylum merely because the economy in your home country is terrible. Further, asylum claims must be made in the next "safe" country. Are you telling me that there are no "safe countries" between Venezuela and the United States? Or between Nigeria and the United States? Or between the PRC and the United States? Just because someone wants to come to the United States via the asylum process does not give them an absolute right to do so.
The change hasn't happened in just the political environment, it's happened in society as a whole. The vulgarity and crassness have permeated everything.
When the wealthy developer intimidates and persecutes professional staff with their city council and commissioner buddies, wealth above everything, this is the result. Only toadies are allowed.
That was never said by him. The gaslighting never ends it seems. Under Biden we had one of the worst military disasters in American history, the Afghan withdrawal. None of the top military leaders took responsibility much less disciplined or fired. A lower ranked US Marine spoke out and was kicked out of the Marine Corps.
Decorated military major of wars with distinguished medaled service. But you do you in your echo chamber. DEI is going to be ripped out of the military. Thoroughly. And weaker gender standards will be gone. Military is not a lefty playground.
@dallastaylor5479 maybe. I was in the military for Jan 6th. If he hadn't left I was prepared to put my papers in. The peaceful transfer of power is what keeps our democratic republic intact. Now, if he manufactures a crisis that requires an "all hand s on deck" approach that might get the military more involved in civil affairs but Germans in 1933 were bound by mostly blood, not just culture. America is such a melting pot of that as well as culture (including the military) that it would be difficult to get any significant amount of dissenters that would go full Nazi. At least that's how I see it.
Trump - total lunar eclipse - June 14,1946 - Revelation 13:1 Mike Johnson - total lunar eclipse - January 30,1972 - Revelation 13:11 " There will be signs in the sun and moon and the stars." Luke 21:25 🌙 The 45th President. 45×45 = 2025. 🔥
I can't think of a reason why draft dodgers shouldn't be allowed to play with models or get into strategic tabletop war gaming. If you mean the cheap, green toy soldiers, I can't think of why he would want to play with those unless it's for bits for kitbashing.
The best discussion and break down of the most important positions that dictate our future. Concise and to the point. I hope that much more of this level of discussion continues as all of this moves forward. I hold the GOP responsible for most of this mess, and they had better step up to the reality they have foisted upon this country.
Take a breath folks: the early seventies were WAY crazier than this, in every category. Nations go through phases, and then they pass, as will this one. Never overestimate the entirely temporary power of a zeitgeist.
@@pogo1140 Nixon who? The nation is way more than the person of its chief executive or the condition of the office. I am referring to the mass chaos which beset the entire country throughout those years, from Kent State and other heavy-handed abuses of police powers, to almost daily occurrences of domestic terror including kidnappings, hijackings and bombings under the banner of quasi-political causes so obscure as to be irrelevant; not to mention the deterioration of the war effort in southeast Asia and the return of veterans to face abuse, mockery and rejection by the country they had fought for; not to mention the mass orgies of radical consumerism known as 'concerts' and 'festivals' which often resulted in rapes, overdoses, stampedes and near-riots; the almost simultaneous legalization of abortion on demand nationwide along with the dismantling of the military draft, which put together propelled a form of moral anarchy characterized by such juvenile sentiments as 'if it feels good, do it' and ten-year-olds wearing T-shirts advertising drug abuse to school, and on and on and on.
@victorjcano yep, it was U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., U.S. House Minority Leader John Rhodes, R-Ariz., and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, R-Pa., who told Nixon that there were enough Republicans in the House and Senate who were going to vote to impeach and convict him. Nixon resigned the next day.
Yeah, and he did the most craziest thing by authorizing drone, strikes on weddings and on bakeries on doctors and individuals in the proximity of a person just being there don’t forget that.
@@philbarone4603 and Trump doubled the number of drone strikes during his 1st term and ordered that they stop reporting the number of casualties from those strikes.
Jez to add to the Cleptocracic, Fascistic and plain looney tunes vocab we get Kakistocracy. We get what we deserve and voted FOR. 🤪🌋 Women tolerated self destruction too, the givers of life🙃
@ComeCleanAmerica Think back: He ready did. In his first term, generals had to explain to Trump why that was a bad idea when Trump wanted a parade of the military on Pennsylvania Ave. The man wants to parade the US military around. Like Kim, Putin, or Xi.
@ComeCleanAmerica Respects to you for your service - Do you have a problem with military parades at presidential inaugurations? I think that's been going on forever.
One of the many tenets of authoritarianism is a focus on loyalty. You have to be loyal enough to forego morals to do as the great leader commands. Expect this to be a cornerstone of a Trump regime.
@tekteam26 The US military is not, and never has been loyal to the Commander in Chief. They have sworn oaths to protect the freedoms and liberties in the Constitution. Donald Trump's ideology runs counter to those freedoms and liberties. So, you make the call.
Talk about Twilight zone. Americans CHOSE a criminal con man felon who literally belongs in prison for several reasons...the worst of human kind...and a majority CHOSE that. Just give up because hope is GONE for America and we HAVE lost democracy .
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And somewhere in the company of Mussolini, Caligula, and Nero, but a uniquely damaged individual in different times and history doesn't provide a precise template of what to expect. It won't be good for the many because it's all about him.
Trump's return in 2025 will be the fulfillment of Revelation chapter 17 verses 10 -11. He will be the eighth and of the seven GOP Presidents since President Eisenhower. 👑 The 45th President. 45×45 = 2025. 🔥
No. You don't get to give up. That is cowardly. How do you keep going? That's a question for you to find the answer to. It may mean meditating a little bit, it may mean lying low, it may mean self-improvement, it may mean getting deeper into an activity that you've always loved, until the time comes when you know what needs to be done with this administration. How to push back. What struggle to join. But giving up = helping the enemy. I canvased for Harris in a battleground state for a week and I'm not giving up. Those who flipped for Trump or just didn't vote because they didn't feel right will be quickly chastened. And there is going to be resistance. Be ready for it.
Well, we have been teetering for some time and our demise was inevitable. Republicans have been chipping away at this great rock since that vile Reagan garbage. This country once chose a mediocre actor to run it and now it has chosen a vile reality klown to run what's left into the ground. No one seems to understand just how fragile and sensitive democracies are, look at Iran and Afghanistan. Our arrogance will be our downfall.
They did this because Trump made them feel good. And Biden and Kamala made them feel inferior. They were lied to by Trump. Elon Musk supercharged AI to target those individuals and make them angry towards Biden and Kamala, and comforted by Trump. They felt largely ignored for their cost of living issues. It's that simple.
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Trump isn't America's square mustache wannabe, he's closer to a Nero.
If Trump somehow manages to convince some military members to be loyal to him & turn them against the people, my concern is with the Trump supporters who will support those actions instead of waking up & changing their minds
Someone please explain how his methods are any different from any other president?? And more importantly how did the previous administration do so poorly that the American people chose this president.
The UK system is very different to the US but I recall a very heated debate when I was a student at the Advanced Command & Staff Course in the UK. As an officer in the British Army I swore allegiance to the monarch - the Queen at the time. But the monarch has no political power or constitutional power. However, the monarch represents the embodiment of the sovereignty of the country. So the debate was, if the Queen dropped by your office and said arrest the Prime Minister - the head of government - would we do so? We split about 50:50. Those who would arrest basically said our oath was to the monarch. Those who said they wouldn’t believed the sovereignty of the people rested in the elected parliament in which the Prime Minister is ‘first among equals’. Our civil war was essentially about where sovereignty lay, with the monarch or parliament. It’s an issue as a nation we have never resolved.
Many, many thanks to Tom Nichols and the interviewer for an incisive and thoroughly thoughtful discussion. Very witty, informative, well researched, and really intelligent conversation telling us exactly what is going on in DC and just how incredibly disturbing and dysfunctional it all is. Thanks again!
Its really become apparent to me that Americans want to be entertained by the president. They loved the drama of his last term, and found Biden boring. WWF is what the people want, bread and circuses
Not this person and not half the people who voted. I hate WWF and despise this chaos. Let’s not forget that he won by a slim margin and many people didn’t vote.
@James No, bread and circuses were a distraction from the Marxist agenda. Hopefully, objective standards of excellence will be more important than "diversity"
You guys should be ashamed how you talk about our president in American people who you going to do better for our military than any president beside Reagan
@williamdyer5086 These people have no clue what they are ever talking about. Also Biden also got deferment to avoid the draft, it was common among both parties.
Watching how everyone is starting to try to "normalize" trump is frightening. Germany actually just kept normalizing into oblivion. Guess it's our turn.😢😢
The military goes where politicians send them with no accountability for those doing the sending. Illegal wars, occupations, regime change, and proxy wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.
Hitler's SS unit and wermacht were two separate entities. North Korean military is one unit based on loyalty to Kim and his party. If, partisanship is involved in US military, it will be very interesting to see the outcome.🤔
I'm curious about Hegseth's bronze star awards. The bronze star can be earned in 2 ways, by merit or by valor. Did he earn either of his in combat? Just curious.
Consider that if the American colonies had just allowed Britain to grant them independence like other Commonwealth countries, the US would have a Parliamentary Democracy and not a Republic modeled on the French one which was tossed out anyway. You would have a proper separation of powers, the President could not rule by executive order and the President would be elected by the people as a member of parliament, and then chosen from elected MPs. The insitiution of Parliament would be above the President in authority and none of this would be able to happen. But they didn't. And look where you are now. Best of luck.
Actually, a parliamentary democracy doesn't have separation of powers. The executive is at the mercy of the legislature in a parliamentary government. What you have in the U.K. is Parliamentary supremacy where parliament is basically sovereign and the common man has no rights vis-a-vis government. This has show to be even worse than the United States.
Her helo took a direct hit from an RPG while they 10ft off the ground at over 100knots The RPG hit near her right leg, disintegrating it, left her left leg hanging by the skin, severely injured right arm.
She needs to be just like Trump Start doing rallies now Tell people she's running now Everything he does, she should tell people how she'd be different .
Authoritarian control has been happening with our government with Democrats in control. They started by instituting their own religious morailty (DEI wokeism) into government/society and controlling free speech with terms like "misinformation" and "disinformation" and calling anyone who questions the narrative names and shunning them. It's essentially replacing and twisting our first amendment rights into a leftist vision and control of our religion and speech.
Honorable, serving men and women that are eligible to retire sooner rather than later, will retire. Honorable potential recruits, will likely choose another career path.
@smarties If the military would get rid of the politically correct "Woke" nonsense, and concentrate on objective standards of excellence, you'd have more volunteers. Not being involved in endless wars that have no vital US interests would also help.
Can i ask these experts the one question that has bothered me for awhile. Why would it have been okay to call out the troops on the January 6th mob storming the capitol when it was not right to do it when the BLM 2020 rioters were attempting to storm the White House? Not that i would want to try to get in the head of Trump (God forbid), but maybe that's what he was thinking on January 6th - they(the general's) didnt want him to call for military intervention in 2020, so why are they so anxious for me to do it now in 2021. Just saying.
@judybargenquast7669 I think you're right. I was just trying to give the idiots some ammunition to fight back with next time they start harping about Jan.6
You guys really need to read "Jesus and John Wayne" by Kristen Kobes du Mez. She has some one hour interviews on RUclips where she presents her picture.
Pretending these generals are beholding to the Constitution and not the military industrial complex is crazy. But what's even more crazy is pretending the president isn't the commander and chief.
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." He's a rich kid from NY with it seems he has no memorie of the 1967 Detroit Race Riots where the state called in US Army combat troops to stop the riots. The headquarters company of the 101st Airborne and also the 82 Airborne... I sorry that people voted for this fool!
I think you maybe underestimating the resolve and character of a majority of America's military leadership. Illegal orders won't be followed. Full stop.
But in a way it will work for them. Create a problem that doesn't actually exist. Do some show stuff.... which could be scary for some individuals that spoke out against him. Don't really do anything much. Control the media. Bombard with lies. Some will love it. But so many are completely switched off. It's been a decade of his bs. The only thing that matters is the dollars, and until that gets worse, nothing will happen.
So let’s see what do you see ? Did you think telling China to relax instead of doing a preemptive launch was treason , prefer death for billions do we ?
I don't think Rick Scott loves the Senate, John Thune I think loves the Senate but wats to play nice with Trump, if anyone wants to advice him tell he can't do both. Tell him he has to make a choice and for the sake of normalcy it better not be enabling and empowerment acts like they did in El Salvador.
The military should be under the command of the president, but loyal to the constitution. Otherwise the president has the authority to order the military to do anything, including destroying the constitution and democratic government and making the president into a dictator.
@@Mrbobinge That was a stupid, irrelevant remark. We're LESS likely to get in a nuclear war if we have a strong leader (Trump) that's feared by any of our adversaries
Lets see recruitment way down. We have airforce officers who think they are women. We threw out peole that wouldnt take an experimental jab and then said my bad you can come back. As a recruitment tool we host drag shows...yeah the military needs to be reworked.
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This is bad. Anyone in government needs to be loyal to the Constitution not a person or party.
It's time for those of us who took the oath to step up to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; [and] bear true faith and allegiance to the same".
@homofloridensis I just really hope that the young soldiers of today know enough to realize how fortunate we are to be in such a delicate system that relies on everyone putting the Constitution before anything else. If we lose this, we'll be lucky if we ever get it back.
And that loyalty to the Constitution would include securing our borders and enforcing, rather than ignoring, immigration law.
@@Mustapha1963 It depends on if the government is going to use probationary asylum, which was used in the majority of administrations, or political asylum be granted before entering the country. I believe there are times for probationary asylum to be used and not to be used and I think during this last administration it was used far too much. That being said, it is ridiculous that we don't fund enough political asylum officials to process claims in a timely manner. It's utterly ridiculous that someone should wait longer than 30 days in what can often be life or death situations.
In the end, did the Biden administration go against the Constitution? No, but only because probationary asylum is legal. That being said, they abused it and didn't get serious about it until it was too late. By that time, there was no way Trump was going to let them go through with a bill that would have solved the majority of what people were upset about. But I believe that's the Democrats fault. They should have tackled that in their first two years and by not doing so was a huge failure.
But that doesn't mean that we should ever abandon the Constitution or not put it first. Politicians are always going to push the envelope of what they can get away with and that's part of the delicate nature of our system.
@@NobodyCares6996 I would disagree with you strongly that the Biden Administration did not violate the Constitution.
a claim of "asylum" is valid ONLY if the government of a country is causing harm to the person seeking asylum. If a country with a majority religion is using the power of government to suppress members of the minority religion (or looking the other way while other groups do so), that is a valid case for seeking asylum. But it is NOT valid to seek asylum merely because the economy in your home country is terrible.
Further, asylum claims must be made in the next "safe" country. Are you telling me that there are no "safe countries" between Venezuela and the United States? Or between Nigeria and the United States? Or between the PRC and the United States? Just because someone wants to come to the United States via the asylum process does not give them an absolute right to do so.
The change hasn't happened in just the political environment, it's happened in society as a whole. The vulgarity and crassness have permeated everything.
Completely agree. I would add mediocrity.
Because that's what they need to control everything.
When the wealthy developer intimidates and persecutes professional staff with their city council and commissioner buddies, wealth above everything, this is the result. Only toadies are allowed.
Make America Civil Again
It's worse than that. It's newspeak with the perversion of meaning. So-called conservatives aren't conservative anymore.
You mean the guy who's done NOTHING WHATSOEVER but berated those in military service as "suckers and losers"? THAT guy?
Yeah, the old hobbled man who can’t walk talk complete sentence and those damn bone spurs…
That was never said by him. The gaslighting never ends it seems. Under Biden we had one of the worst military disasters in American history, the Afghan withdrawal. None of the top military leaders took responsibility much less disciplined or fired. A lower ranked US Marine spoke out and was kicked out of the Marine Corps.
Decorated military major of wars with distinguished medaled service. But you do you in your echo chamber. DEI is going to be ripped out of the military. Thoroughly. And weaker gender standards will be gone. Military is not a lefty playground.
Come on Rachel?...you can still Play Admiral.,.until January
Oh no! You mean he might actually screw this country up?
We will see who has the backbone to stand up to a dictator.
I pray to God that the military will stand firm for the Constitution and resist Trump’s bullying tactics and his MAGA agenda.
No praying to ANY deity in the US please, we need to stay alert and act as soon as anything goes awry.
They won't. This is how it happens. Welcome to Germany 1933. Enjoy your stay.
@dallastaylor5479 maybe. I was in the military for Jan 6th. If he hadn't left I was prepared to put my papers in. The peaceful transfer of power is what keeps our democratic republic intact. Now, if he manufactures a crisis that requires an "all hand s on deck" approach that might get the military more involved in civil affairs but Germans in 1933 were bound by mostly blood, not just culture. America is such a melting pot of that as well as culture (including the military) that it would be difficult to get any significant amount of dissenters that would go full Nazi. At least that's how I see it.
@@iantercero5380 Keep in mind that there is an increasing MAGAization in the military which has been going on for years.
That would be mutiny.
As a Navy veteran this scares the shit out of me.
Trump - total lunar eclipse - June 14,1946 - Revelation 13:1
Mike Johnson - total lunar eclipse - January 30,1972 - Revelation 13:11
" There will be signs in the sun and moon and the stars." Luke 21:25 🌙
The 45th President. 45×45 = 2025. 🔥
@MartinJ-t7y I'm familiar, also I go with my experience and my gut. Peace 🕊️
@@Mach11976 USN ⚓ 1984 - 1989. ✌️
@MartinJ-t7y USS Albany CG 10 flagship of Sixth Fleet Gaeta Italy 77-80 I was a BT
why?
Donnie thinks he knows more than the generals. Our National Security is a HIGH Risk w/ this nutso job.
When I say torture, you torture! When I say milkshake, you milkshake!
WOW, what DO we call both together? Schitzoids Red Party💔
The guy who dodged serving 3 times and shouldn't even be allowed around toy soldiers.
5x
Depends why they dodged, a principled conscientious objector would make a good leader. Trump is merely a coward, so he would not.
Didn't Bush junior and Clinton also find ways to avoid going to Vietnam?
I can't think of a reason why draft dodgers shouldn't be allowed to play with models or get into strategic tabletop war gaming. If you mean the cheap, green toy soldiers, I can't think of why he would want to play with those unless it's for bits for kitbashing.
I bet that you loved Joe Biden who got a draft deferment for asthma but was in good enough health to work at the same time as a lifeguard.
The best discussion and break down of the most important positions that dictate our future. Concise and to the point. I hope that much more of this level of discussion continues as all of this moves forward. I hold the GOP responsible for most of this mess, and they had better step up to the reality they have foisted upon this country.
Take a breath folks: the early seventies were WAY crazier than this, in every category. Nations go through phases, and then they pass, as will this one. Never overestimate the entirely temporary power of a zeitgeist.
Early 70's Nixon knew to resign.
@@pogo1140 Nixon who? The nation is way more than the person of its chief executive or the condition of the office. I am referring to the mass chaos which beset the entire country throughout those years, from Kent State and other heavy-handed abuses of police powers, to almost daily occurrences of domestic terror including kidnappings, hijackings and bombings under the banner of quasi-political causes so obscure as to be irrelevant; not to mention the deterioration of the war effort in southeast Asia and the return of veterans to face abuse, mockery and rejection by the country they had fought for; not to mention the mass orgies of radical consumerism known as 'concerts' and 'festivals' which often resulted in rapes, overdoses, stampedes and near-riots; the almost simultaneous legalization of abortion on demand nationwide along with the dismantling of the military draft, which put together propelled a form of moral anarchy characterized by such juvenile sentiments as 'if it feels good, do it' and ten-year-olds wearing T-shirts advertising drug abuse to school, and on and on and on.
@@pogo1140 and most Republicans were still patriots. Backed in they had some balls.
@victorjcano yep, it was U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., U.S. House Minority Leader John Rhodes, R-Ariz., and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, R-Pa., who told Nixon that there were enough Republicans in the House and Senate who were going to vote to impeach and convict him. Nixon resigned the next day.
Let's hope temporary is four years and not his remaining lifetime.
Look what they did to the commander of the uss Roosevelt for asking for help with COVID-19 outbreak.
I could tell you what Trump military would look like. A strong military with our military people be treated with honor
Heartbreaking photo
It turns my stomach and breaks my heart.
Why is it? Most people in the military voted and support Trump. Also he is President, the commander and chief, you salute the rank, no matter what.
Trumpy thinks the real military is the same as military school, where he tried to develop his bully skill,per daddy's demand.
Bronze stars for officers don't mean sh*t. A bronze star is the lowest medal they can get while deployed. It just means he deployed twice.
The proudest moment I ever had was when Obama rebuked the Bush enhanced interrogation and said that is not who we are.
Yeah, and he did the most craziest thing by authorizing drone, strikes on weddings and on bakeries on doctors and individuals in the proximity of a person just being there don’t forget that.
Yeah but he killed an awful lot of innocent people with drones
@@philbarone4603 and Trump doubled the number of drone strikes during his 1st term and ordered that they stop reporting the number of casualties from those strikes.
Kept screaming, "This GITMO is against Geneva Conventions" under Chaney, Rumsfeld and the comatose dude.
Israel and Ukraine were not about Biden. 💔🇺🇲
"Martial law in America is hovering in the air". Think about it.
Thank you for being on Tom! Invaluable insight.
Well, Ben, we couldn’t keep it. Here we have the kakistocracy trifecta: stupidity, hypocrisy, mendacity.
Jez to add to the Cleptocracic, Fascistic and plain looney tunes vocab we get Kakistocracy.
We get what we deserve and voted FOR. 🤪🌋
Women tolerated self destruction too, the givers of life🙃
Don't forget too... mediocracy
Tom is an excellent mouthpiece for the wishes of the Washington establishment. Inspired effort Tom! Good for you!
What will the military do when Trump demands parades of goosestepping troops? I'm a Vietnam Vet, 5th SF Det B-36 3rd Mobile Strike Force.
@ComeCleanAmerica Think back: He ready did. In his first term, generals had to explain to Trump why that was a bad idea when Trump wanted a parade of the military on Pennsylvania Ave.
The man wants to parade the US military around. Like Kim, Putin, or Xi.
@ComeCleanAmerica Respects to you for your service - Do you have a problem with military parades at presidential inaugurations? I think that's been going on forever.
One of the many tenets of authoritarianism is a focus on loyalty. You have to be loyal enough to forego morals to do as the great leader commands. Expect this to be a cornerstone of a Trump regime.
So you are saying that our military should be DISLOYAL to its commander in chief?
@tekteam26 The US military is not, and never has been loyal to the Commander in Chief. They have sworn oaths to protect the freedoms and liberties in the Constitution. Donald Trump's ideology runs counter to those freedoms and liberties. So, you make the call.
The military should be Loyal.
@@tekteam26 If they need to be.
Talk about Twilight zone. Americans CHOSE a criminal con man felon who literally belongs in prison for several reasons...the worst of human kind...and a majority CHOSE that. Just give up because hope is GONE for America and we HAVE lost democracy .
And somewhere in the company of Mussolini, Caligula, and Nero, but a uniquely damaged individual in different times and history doesn't provide a precise template of what to expect. It won't be good for the many because it's all about him.
Trump's return in 2025 will be the fulfillment of Revelation chapter 17 verses 10 -11. He will be the eighth and of the seven GOP Presidents since President Eisenhower. 👑
The 45th President. 45×45 = 2025. 🔥
No. You don't get to give up. That is cowardly.
How do you keep going? That's a question for you to find the answer to. It may mean meditating a little bit, it may mean lying low, it may mean self-improvement, it may mean getting deeper into an activity that you've always loved, until the time comes when you know what needs to be done with this administration. How to push back. What struggle to join.
But giving up = helping the enemy. I canvased for Harris in a battleground state for a week and I'm not giving up. Those who flipped for Trump or just didn't vote because they didn't feel right will be quickly chastened. And there is going to be resistance. Be ready for it.
Well, we have been teetering for some time and our demise was inevitable. Republicans have been chipping away at this great rock since that vile Reagan garbage. This country once chose a mediocre actor to run it and now it has chosen a vile reality klown to run what's left into the ground.
No one seems to understand just how fragile and sensitive democracies are, look at Iran and Afghanistan. Our arrogance will be our downfall.
They did this because Trump made them feel good. And Biden and Kamala made them feel inferior. They were lied to by Trump. Elon Musk supercharged AI to target those individuals and make them angry towards Biden and Kamala, and comforted by Trump. They felt largely ignored for their cost of living issues. It's that simple.
Trump isn't America's square mustache wannabe, he's closer to a Nero.
I see him as a Mussolini.
We have inflicted this upon ourselves...
A bonespur coward should be nowhere near our war fighters.
But he loved his "master" at military reform school.
Boys stayed away from Trump.
Did you have an issue with Biden?
@MARfilms ABSOLUTELY. SLEEZY COWARDS ARE SLEZZY COWARDS AND YOU VOTED FOR A PERVERTED FELONY LEVEL SLEEZY COWARD.
When his picture is on gov buildings and the troops are goosestepping we're done. We all are subjects to our nearest abusers.
If Trump somehow manages to convince some military members to be loyal to him & turn them against the people, my concern is with the Trump supporters who will support those actions instead of waking up & changing their minds
"The people", you mean rioters, and criminals by and large.
Someone please explain how his methods are any different from any other president?? And more importantly how did the previous administration do so poorly that the American people chose this president.
NO!
You don't actually want to hear the factual answer. You just want to be edgy and upsetting, like all MAGAts.
Old Bone Spurs will show them how it is done.
This army veteran voted for the woman
Trump should be in jail 🐍
Unconstitutional presidency.
Time to rewatch that old DoD film Duck and Cover.
The UK system is very different to the US but I recall a very heated debate when I was a student at the Advanced Command & Staff Course in the UK. As an officer in the British Army I swore allegiance to the monarch - the Queen at the time. But the monarch has no political power or constitutional power. However, the monarch represents the embodiment of the sovereignty of the country. So the debate was, if the Queen dropped by your office and said arrest the Prime Minister - the head of government - would we do so? We split about 50:50. Those who would arrest basically said our oath was to the monarch. Those who said they wouldn’t believed the sovereignty of the people rested in the elected parliament in which the Prime Minister is ‘first among equals’. Our civil war was essentially about where sovereignty lay, with the monarch or parliament. It’s an issue as a nation we have never resolved.
Merely eliminating the current focus on DEI will do wonders for the military.
Many, many thanks to Tom Nichols and the interviewer for an incisive and thoroughly thoughtful discussion. Very witty, informative, well researched, and really intelligent conversation telling us exactly what is going on in DC and just how incredibly disturbing and dysfunctional it all is. Thanks again!
Its really become apparent to me that Americans want to be entertained by the president. They loved the drama of his last term, and found Biden boring. WWF is what the people want, bread and circuses
But it's always been like that.
and . . . increase the dole!
Not this person and not half the people who voted. I hate WWF and despise this chaos. Let’s not forget that he won by a slim margin and many people didn’t vote.
@James No, bread and circuses were a distraction from the Marxist agenda. Hopefully, objective standards of excellence will be more important than "diversity"
You guys should be ashamed how you talk about our president in American people who you going to do better for our military than any president beside Reagan
Is he going to make sure to create a waiver for people with bone spurs?
No. Bone spurs was an exemption for him and now it’s time to roll up that ladder for others.
Trump opposes the draft.
@williamdyer5086 These people have no clue what they are ever talking about. Also Biden also got deferment to avoid the draft, it was common among both parties.
Actual title: Putin's Vision to Remake the Military
Term limits
Keep up the good work 👏
We as a country saying "Are we being punked?"
We voted him in by and large and agree with him.
This is all from a guy who wimped out of joining the military himself.
Watching how everyone is starting to try to "normalize" trump is frightening. Germany actually just kept normalizing into oblivion. Guess it's our turn.😢😢
He is normal. You guess are the odd jobs by and large.
The military goes where politicians send them with no accountability for those doing the sending. Illegal wars, occupations, regime change, and proxy wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.
I'm not sure you know what the word proxy means.
Syria…CIA Operation “Timber Sycamore” 2012-2017
Hitler's SS unit and wermacht were two separate entities.
North Korean military is one unit based on loyalty to Kim and his party.
If, partisanship is involved in US military, it will be very interesting to see the outcome.🤔
I'm curious about Hegseth's bronze star awards. The bronze star can be earned in 2 ways, by merit or by valor. Did he earn either of his in combat? Just curious.
@johnslaughter One is for valor, with a "V" device.
22:42 Justice, Military and Intelligence. Oh my😱😰🤮
Consider that if the American colonies had just allowed Britain to grant them independence like other Commonwealth countries, the US would have a Parliamentary Democracy and not a Republic modeled on the French one which was tossed out anyway. You would have a proper separation of powers, the President could not rule by executive order and the President would be elected by the people as a member of parliament, and then chosen from elected MPs. The insitiution of Parliament would be above the President in authority and none of this would be able to happen.
But they didn't. And look where you are now. Best of luck.
I'll take a Constitutional Republic with our 1st Amendment guarantee of rights that they don't have in the UK, Canada, and Australia.
Actually, a parliamentary democracy doesn't have separation of powers. The executive is at the mercy of the legislature in a parliamentary government. What you have in the U.K. is Parliamentary supremacy where parliament is basically sovereign and the common man has no rights vis-a-vis government. This has show to be even worse than the United States.
Tammy Duckworth was injured in combat I think. Not nearby
Her helo took a direct hit from an RPG while they 10ft off the ground at over 100knots
The RPG hit near her right leg, disintegrating it, left her left leg hanging by the skin, severely injured right arm.
A Bronze Star WITHOUT a 'V' device is just a "trumped up" Good Conduct Medal
@Pudentame One of his Bronze Stars is for valor. Easy to look up.
Maybe contrasting this McCarthyite with Rumsfeld isn’t the best case you could make.
I sense oppositional defiance disorder 😂
Vision? Give me a break. A blind man has more “vision”
She needs to be just like Trump
Start doing rallies now
Tell people she's running now
Everything he does, she should tell people how she'd be different .
It seems like Trump wants an attractive "central casting" figurehead and have people like Bannon telling them what to say and do.
Autocracies evolve - and suddenly the people realize they have given all their rights away. Well..,. Don’t look now!!!!
Authoritarian control has been happening with our government with Democrats in control. They started by instituting their own religious morailty (DEI wokeism) into government/society and controlling free speech with terms like "misinformation" and "disinformation" and calling anyone who questions the narrative names and shunning them. It's essentially replacing and twisting our first amendment rights into a leftist vision and control of our religion and speech.
Honorable, serving men and women that are eligible to retire sooner rather than later, will retire.
Honorable potential recruits, will likely choose another career path.
They were already doing that under Biden, and recurtment plummeted under Biden as well. It will likely go up under Trump.
@smarties If the military would get rid of the politically correct "Woke" nonsense, and concentrate on objective standards of excellence, you'd have more volunteers. Not being involved in endless wars that have no vital US interests would also help.
Can i ask these experts the one question that has bothered me for awhile. Why would it have been okay to call out the troops on the January 6th mob storming the capitol when it was not right to do it when the BLM 2020 rioters were attempting to storm the White House? Not that i would want to try to get in the head of Trump (God forbid), but maybe that's what he was thinking on January 6th - they(the general's) didnt want him to call for military intervention in 2020, so why are they so anxious for me to do it now in 2021. Just saying.
I guarantee you Trump did not consider that on Jan 6. He loved the violence that favored him.
@judybargenquast7669 I think you're right. I was just trying to give the idiots some ammunition to fight back with next time they start harping about Jan.6
BLM wasn't at J6. Read the already prosecuted and jailed cases.
Ya been duped AGAIN
Yes Judy, just like he attends Vegas Fights. The guy is sadistic and VERY UNWELL 🤪
@@jannichi6431 Evil.
You guys really need to read "Jesus and John Wayne" by Kristen Kobes du Mez. She has some one hour interviews on RUclips where she presents her picture.
6:20 "A few bad men."
We deserve everything he's gonna do. We're so stupid.
Pretending these generals are beholding to the Constitution and not the military industrial complex is crazy. But what's even more crazy is pretending the president isn't the commander and chief.
Ah, Incoming ICBMs! Can we discuss this later.
Scary
Good luck with recruiting and retention.
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." He's a rich kid from NY with it seems he has no memorie of the 1967 Detroit Race Riots where the state called in US Army combat troops to stop the riots. The headquarters company of the 101st Airborne and also the 82 Airborne... I sorry that people voted for this fool!
“vision” … 🥸
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A pert reminder to smiling fun lovers. Election is over and done. Only four years. Buckle up and enjoy the ride - just like last time.
I doubt either read the book...
Was Obama the most experienced politician running the first time he was elected to the presidency? What about Lincoln, was he?
Obama never claimed to be a better general than all the generals in the US armed forces.
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What will he do with women fighter pilots?
Like a video game
And watch military bend over for it
I think you maybe underestimating the resolve and character of a majority of America's military leadership. Illegal orders won't be followed. Full stop.
If you follow an illegal order, you will suffer consequences. The arguement of "I was only following orders..." does not cut it. It never did.
@ hmmmm….. well i would hope so, but now there really are no “illegal” orders…. thanks to SCOTUS
But in a way it will work for them. Create a problem that doesn't actually exist. Do some show stuff.... which could be scary for some individuals that spoke out against him.
Don't really do anything much.
Control the media. Bombard with lies.
Some will love it. But so many are completely switched off. It's been a decade of his bs.
The only thing that matters is the dollars, and until that gets worse, nothing will happen.
I thought he was going to jail?
This will all end in collapse.
Captain Bone Spurs 😂
Cadet Bonespurs
WITHOUT THE MILITARY
We are DONE under this Admin.
What a disingenuous report/discussion.
Wow! Perspective really is EVERYTHING! 🥴
So let’s see what do you see ?
Did you think telling China to relax instead of doing a preemptive launch was treason , prefer death for billions do we ?
Is is Doge or Dodge the Draft?
Dodgy
@@donotRussiamyMerica Doge, Dodgy, and Dodge
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Dems ... you're now ( wasn't always this way) all Disney Land Pacifists, leave the foreign policy to the adults!
Not a video
I don't think Rick Scott loves the Senate, John Thune I think loves the Senate but wats to play nice with Trump, if anyone wants to advice him tell he can't do both. Tell him he has to make a choice and for the sake of normalcy it better not be enabling and empowerment acts like they did in El Salvador.
According to the constitution, the military should be loyal to the President, no? What am i missing here?
The military should be under the command of the president, but loyal to the constitution. Otherwise the president has the authority to order the military to do anything, including destroying the constitution and democratic government and making the president into a dictator.
@@hydra70 Meanwhile, those ICBMs will arrive in 3.5 minutes. Oops, I meant 2.5
@@Mrbobinge That was a stupid, irrelevant remark. We're LESS likely to get in a nuclear war if we have a strong leader (Trump) that's feared by any of our adversaries
“…who got in his way about…shooting protesters…”
I stopped listening after this BS.
A show for the ignorant!
A whole podcast that shows clearly why the left is losing.
Hilarious that you think there is a “left” in this country.
@@Gminor7there in fact is.
@@Gminor7 What's hilarious about it? The emphasis on "diversity" is nothing but Marxism (group identity politics)
"vison" to "remake" ? my god you demons just stop pretending and put on your arm bands already
@prismpyre I believe Obama said he had a vision to fundamentally remake America
Captain bonespurs .
Just what Putin ordered.
that is not what is happening at all. deranged gossip.
No big deal. People voted for that. He needs to get to work on the things he was hired to do.
So Biden didn't appoint people who were LOYALISTS? Stop with the hyperbole guys.
@John Smith Hyperbole and hypocrisy
So the way both of these people talked about HUD is pretty gross, demeaning and made me actively angry while listening.
Lets see recruitment way down. We have airforce officers who think they are women. We threw out peole that wouldnt take an experimental jab and then said my bad you can come back. As a recruitment tool we host drag shows...yeah the military needs to be reworked.
Fire everyone of them that pushed dei in the military?
Hell yes
Mr felon bone spurs is going to remake the military? World leaders are laughing.