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The US government's chief export is corruption.
What the ever-loving fuck. >

And these are the few that we hear about. >


Abate and Hellonen also received promotions in rank following the Capitol riot, according to the Corps.

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Coomer had posted photos from inside the Capitol on January 6 to his personal account, with the caption: “Glad to be apart [sic] of history.” In a separate Instagram conversation on January 31, 2021, Coomer said that “everything in this country is corrupt. We honestly need a fresh restart. I’m waiting for the boogaloo.”
“What’s a boogaloo,” the user he was talking to asked, according to the government’s complaint.
“Civil war 2,” Coomer replied.
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The Pentagon’s efforts are now being impeded by congressional Republicans, who are seeking to block initiatives to oust right-wing radicals from the military

We should probably stop expecting our institutions to steer us back towards sanity. >

It's what Putin wanted and probably what he meant when he said, "Americas already lost, they just don't see it yet." >

Cite this quote please.
Edit- we take as disinformation all that cannot be cited. >

I can't cite that quote, or this one; I just wanted to contribute.
"America lacks the tools to deal with the kind of organized disinformation the Russians have been used to for decades.
"It will have to develop them."
Not mine. >

America’s institutional rot is decades in the making and has nothing to do with Putin. >

You don't think it has anything to do with the KGB at all?? They knew they couldn't beat us in traditional warfare so they shifted their tactics. Pretty sure there's articles and a YouTube video explaining this. >

No I don’t believe an organisation that hasn’t existed for 32 years has anything to do with American institutional collapse. >

So Putin who is ex KGB isn't infiltrating and influencing American politics with disinformation with groups like the NRA? We've had politicians now saying Ukrainian land belongs to Russia... I have to disagree with you. I have thought we've been breaking down for decades too but there has to be a driving force behind that. >

Of course Putin is doing that too. However, the reality is that the breaking down of American institutions is caused by the economy. Ever since NAFTA, average normal Americans have been becoming poorer. Manufacturing has died out and the 2008 financial crisis destroyed the housing market. 
Putin has just been helping out the fire that already exists. In my opinion the US would not fundamentally be too different if Putin had done nothing. America has mainly fucked itself by deregulating and with a obsession with the free market. >

You think NAFTA caused that? Do explain lol. >

They’re definitely preparing for a Part 2 and I’m not looking forward to it >

It was an extreme blunder for the secessionists, who fought for the right to own people, to be allowed to reintegrate back into society without holding them all accountable. >

You can blame Lincoln's VP and Ulysses S. Grant for that. >

Even 100 years ago the left was trying to reach across the aisle and ended with the President having a hole in the back of his head. >

Fucking Nazis all over again and Im tired of being told it’s not. 
It is exactly what happened in Germanys government. >

yep. and we're all sitting around watching it calmly unfold. isn't it clear at this point that those in power who are supposed to protect us from this threat have no intention of doing so? >

The people in power do what their voters want them to do.  Most Americans don't want to acknowledge a problem.  Democrats get voted out of office every time they're seen to be "too extreme".  Meanwhile, Republicans get voted out of office every time they're seen to be "not extreme enough". >

The people in power largely do what rich people want, not voters. The impact of average voters on policy is practically zero. >

Corruption is Legal in America >


Abate and Hellonen also received promotions in rank following the Capitol riot, according to the Corps.

These traitorous soldiers got promotions after attempting to install a dictator, while patriot Vindman got denied a promotion and forced into retirement.
The US military has some fucked up fascist tendencies. >

Some promotions are automatic.  However, I'm confused.  There's no mention of any Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) charges against the Marines. 
The story also mentions that several other active duty military members in intelligence fields were also present on 6 Jan.  Where are they now?
Something smells fishy. >

I just asked in regards to conduct unbecoming. This seems to fit that bill, right? >

Ideally with the traditional punishment. >

Wow this is definitely something I am writing my senators about. This is completely unacceptable. >

I would write mine, but he's a Republican traitor, so pretty sure he's not going to do a fucking thing. >

Both of my Senators are GOP cucks. They go by the names Rick Scott and Marco Rubio. I wish FL didn't suck so hard. >

I have Grassley and Ernst.
I do hope they strip our first status away from us despite how much money that will cost our state. However, I think a lot of that money as fueled a very incompetent IDP. Maybe with less spotlight and pressure on the state, people will engage more rather than bunker down from the avalanche of phone calls, texts, and door knocks. >

Grassley is such a piece of shit. So bad for the state and country. >

Take a look at Louis DeJoy.  Look at the man selected by Trump that ripped sorting machines from many post offices with the intent to affect the outcome of the election.  This man ripped up thousands of the blue heavy metal mail boxes throughout the U.S.  This sorry evil piece of crap is still Postmaster General.   Nothing surprises me anymore. >

WtactualF?
“Coomer had posted photos from inside the Capitol on January 6 to his personal account, with the caption: “Glad to be apart [sic] of history.” In a separate Instagram conversation on January 31, 2021, Coomer said that “everything in this country is corrupt. We honestly need a fresh restart. I’m waiting for the boogaloo.”
“What’s a boogaloo,” the user he was talking to asked, according to the government’s complaint.
“Civil war 2,” Coomer replied.”
You’d think that would prohibit them from getting many jobs in the private sector, but for that to come up in a background check for the the US intelligence agency and that’s just fine? That’s the kind of chatter the NSA is listening in on, right? Clearly just for recruitment purposes. >

He shouldn't be eligible to be a marine just because he spells like a five year old >

Others would say that’s exactly what qualifies him to be a Marine. >

I'm sorry but how the hell were they not immeditiately court martialed and drummed out with full dishonorable discharge from the Marines for conduct unbecoming? They broke their oath to defend the constitution and actively impeded congress from fulfill its Consitutional duty. Same applies for all active and former military personelle that day who invaded Congress: they should be stripped of any and all benefits from military service, and or be recalled to active service and courtmartialed and dishonorable discharged with all their medals and honors seized. >

If true, this is fucking nuts >

Trump is still a free man. >

Well, of course he is.  Garland hasn't even brought an indictment yet. >

I'm still waiting for Nixon, Reagan and W's trials. >

I'm sure Nixon and Reagan don't care one way or the other. >

W probably wouldn't care either. >

It was a planned attempt to overthrow us democracy. It wasn't a bunch of yahoos showing up and rioting. It was carefully timed and planned and involved many people who were and still are involved in the federal government. 
So yeah this isn't surprising. They rearranged the march so that it would occur before the vote so trump could give the speech. They delayed the military response from the national guard. Several capitol police allowed them in. They were all allowed to leave instead of mass arrests. 
Its bad. >

Hi.  Retired AF officer, who has held some clearances in the past.
It’s fucking INEXCUSABLE some fucking NCO participated in an attempted overthrow of the government of the United States and was not only not frog marched off base and kicked out with a DD, but, placed in a highly sensitive position at Ft Meade?
Meanwhile if they find THC in your piss, you’re not only NOT getting a clearance, you’re getting kicked out.
I’m not sure who does security screening for the Marines, NCIS, FBI, NIS etc.
But it needs to be investigated and some people need to be made unemployed. >


I’m not sure who does security screening for the Marines, NCIS, FBI, NIS etc.

It's FBI for security clearances - not sure the specific branch/department. >


And Cpl. Micah Coomer was assigned to…

You can’t make this shit up.
Also, two of them were promoted after being reassigned. >

WTF! Should be in Leavenworth DB. >

I’d say investigate the people that put them in those positions cuz it don’t pass the smell test. >

Failing upward.  The older I get, the more I see it. >

So many previously reasonable high school friends went into the military decades ago and I just didn’t know them anymore when they got out. My Facebook feed was filled with tons of crazy conspiracy theories and Hillary is the Devil posts until I just had to start blocking them all and burning all those bridges. 
I hope we can get some sort of grip on the right-wing propaganda machine that so many gullible people get sucked in and brainwashed by. It’s gone way too far. >

Nothing surprises me about this country any longer. Our government is corrupt to the core. >


Our government is corrupt to the core.

Apparently it's also corrupt to the corps. >

It’s cool, Charles Flynn, brother of insurrectionist and Russian agent Michael Flynn, got promoted to
Command the Pacific fleet after the insurrection where he withheld military response to the insurrection... No penalties. 🤡 >

Marines MUST be better than this. Their job is to protect the left and the right. Americans and democracy. 
Scary AF that they do NOT get this. >

Well, they're not.  What's your plan?  This is your own military we're talking about. >

I’m fully aware-but they aren’t planning a coup. >

Precisely.
Canada and the US are neighbours.
“Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”
Pierre Trudeau >

A Canadian commenter mentioned "closeted Americans" in their provincial govt. 
A hilarious and not-so-hilarious reference. >

I don't understand. What is you mean to say? >

Cool cool. Give them “spy jobs” and send them in to Russia to “gather intel” >

There needs to be investigation into this, as other commentators have said some promotions are automatic, but im curious about the lack of UCMJ proceedings from the Marine Corps. I want to know if this was a unwitting appointment by the Marine Corps or if they had known what these Marines had done and attempted to sweep it under the rug. >

The NSA hired a traitor? This country is a joke >


Capital riot

Not "riot", Insurrection. There was a coordinated seditious conspiracy to stop the peaceful transfer of power and install trump as an authoritarian dictator. >

“Capitol Riot” is what it was called before there was sufficient evidence to call it an insurrection. Now that the evidence has been meticulously laid out and made public, the history books will know it as the January 6th Insurrection. >

This is America >

Don’t catch you slippin’ now >

The military was involved in the coup plot. One of the greatest failings of the jan. 6th committe was in failing to investigate the entirety of the plot only focusing on trump. Which ironically has made it tougher to prosecute Trump, yes they don't do the actual prosecution but elements of the fbi and doj were also involved in the plot so they're not gonna move to prosecute their own unless there's public pressure >

Indeed. And it was from the top down:
On November 9, 2020, just six days after he lost the 2020 Presidential election, Trump fired Mark Esper and named Chris Miller the Acting Secretary of Defense.
On Jan 4th, 2021, just 2 days before the attack, that same Acting Secretary of Defense, Chris Miller, released a detailed memo requiring his “personal authorization” for DC National Guard to deploy, to employ weapons, riot control agents & other tactics at Jan. 6
Miller's Memo SPECIFICALLY STATED:
*DCNG may not be "issued weapons, ammunition, bayonets, batons, or ballistic protection equipment such as helmets and body armor" ... so they can't have any weapons or armor, which they might need in case of a riot.
*DCNG would not be allowed to "interact physically with protestors, except when necessary in self-defense or defense with others" ... so they would not be allowed to in ANY WAY prevent the insurrectionists from, say, storming the Capitol.
*DCNG would not be allowed to "employ any riot control agents" ... so they'd get no pepper spray or water cannons or shields or rubber bullets.
*DCNG would not be allowed "to share equipment with law enforcement agencies" ... so DCNG, which had armor and riot control agents it couldn't use, couldn't give any of that to DC police or Capitol Police or Maryland's National Guard.
*DCNG couldn't "use Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets" or "conduct ISR or Incident, Awareness, and Assessment activities" ... so they couldn't try to find out what was going on beyond what they could immediately see.
*DCNG couldn't "employ helicopters or any other air assets" ... so, again, they couldn't get eyes above the city to see what was happening, or to move troops people rapidly around.
*DCNG couldn't "conduct searches, seizures, arrests, or other similar direct law enforcement activity" Military forces usually can't do law enforcement, but Miller's telling them they can't even detain insurrectionist terrorists. Have to just let them do what they do.
*DCNG can't "seek support from any non-DCNG National Guard units" ... so they couldn't ask Maryland or Virginia National Guard (which didn't have these restrictions) to help them.
So let's be clear:
Acting Secretary of Defense Miller put out a memo on Jan 4 - ORDERING THE DC NATIONAL GUARD TO DO NOTHING on Jan 6, and denied them ANY possibility of being able to respond to Trump's upcoming insurrection. 
This was after the FBI and other intelligence agencies informed Miller about multiple right-wing terrorist organizations planning to riot in DC on Jan 6.
Still shocking it's not a bigger story. >

These people should be in Guantanamo for treason.  In unmarked cells. >

No; they should be in regular federal prisons or supermax, and Guantanamo Bay should be shut down. >

I am more than willing to keep it open just for trump and his traitor minions. >

So you're willing to be no better than they are. Got it. >

Yeah, I didn’t try to overthrow democracy in the USA.  I will always be better than trumptrash.  Fact is, these people are traitors and don’t deserve prison or even Guantanamo. >


eah, I didn’t try to overthrow democracy in the USA.

No, you just want to imprison people you don't like in a place where they can be held indefinitely without trial, and where they aren't protected by the constitution due to its location. >

Not “people I don’t like.” Fucking traitors. >

They committed acts against the constitution, and you want to do the same. 
How are y'all any different? >

Charge every single one of the Jan 6 Terrorist. These Marines violated their oath on the word of the traitor Disgraced Former President. >

Part of the problem is cultural. Teens and young men from conservative parts of the country are more likely to join the armed forces than their liberal counterparts. 
For the sake of our democracy, the military needs to figure out to recruit more liberals and keep the idealogical mix of the troops balanced.
If the military and its leadership gets too conservative, a coup gets much more likely. To be fair, if things were reversed, a too politically liberal leaning military would also be dangerous. 
This is an issue that I hope gets talked about more. >

As a liberal vet, you'd have to change everything about it.
It's too brutish of an environment for most liberals, some of it by design, some of it due to the nasty chest-thumping machismo culture. And it flows from the top down.
As much as I hate rules (liberal) I think they work well on conservatives and recruits just need to understand how drastic the consequences for sedition are. In order to do that a lot of housecleaning would have to take place many levels up. I don't think we're close to a solution with this one. >

(Fellow lefty vet) - Well some of it depends on the branch as well. I will say if you hadn't told me the branch of the offenders, the Marines still would have been my first guess. I don't know what they do over there, but I'm generally not impressed with their average enlisted guy that I've dealt with over the years. >

The military is “the original” old boys club. >

What in the hell?
How were they even allowed to remain marines after not only actively participating in a political 'protest' (putting an attempt to overthrow democracy and the constitution in an act of treasonous insurrection very lightly) but also breaking several laws!? >

OF COURSE they did.   Republicans run the military.    What’s a little cop-beating terrorism,   a little feces-smearing, eye-gouging,  bear-spraying sedition? >

If we do have a civil war 2, it’ll be bc our government totally failed dealing with treasonous behavior. It was almost encouraged >

How the fuck have they not been court martialed? When I was in the Navy we weren't even allowed to go to protests. >

They should make one of the qualifications to being in intelligence, idk, being intelligent. >


The reassignments raise serious new questions about the ability of both the military and the U.S. intelligence community to identify right-wing extremists in their midst.

That may be the understatement of the year. >

...And then they said "the red ones are delicious" >

So is America over? Where else can I go that has diversity and strength? >

Calm down >

OMG the marines have traitors in key intelligence roles.  Congress is protecting them.  Garland is losing control of America.