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If if’s and buts were candies and nuts…
Is Michael Flynn's brother mentioned in the report?
He was NOT in the chain of command but somehow managed to delay the deployment of the National Guard. >

My biggest question is why did the Pentagon straight up lie about Charlie Flynn being involved in the process?  They went from saying he wasn't involved at all, to saying he was in the room but didn't really do anything, to finally admitting that he was one of the two leading voices advocating against deploying the National Guard. >

Then bundled him out of Washington and off to a Pacific command. >

A significant promotion, I would like to add. 
He was rewarded for his behavior. 
Meanwhile, an actual patriot named Alexander Vindman was forced out of the military for bringing attention to Trump’s illegal behavior with Ukraine and his brother had his military career sidelined and promotions denied. >

PACFLEET is the WORST tho >

Six figure salary for an all-expenses paid trip to an island paradise? Truly ye have not known suffering. >

Spoken like someone who has never spent time working in PACFLEET.
Anyone who calls being stationed in one of these places "an island paradise" doesn't know how quickly paradise turns to hell when your command tortures you because you're living in paradise.
You get it from both sides. >

Thankfully Biden & the Capitol police took steps to prevent this from happening agian.
Jan. 6 insurrection prompts year of change for U.S. Capitol Police | PBS | 2022
Biden signs law streamlining Capitol Police emergency response after Guard delays on Jan. 6 | NBC News | 2021 >

.... not that we need to worry about Biden attempting a coup, but it's good to know in the future. >

If biden or another democrat wins in 2024, and the MAGA/Q crowd tries another insurrection in 2025, then at least we’ll know they’ll deploy the Guard this time. >

Trump couldn't have tried the insurrection without being the incumbent, and any incumbent will be free to ignore this new policy. >

It's good that he didn't send them in.  That would have given Trump cover to invoke the insurrection act and sent the military in there.  That would have been a real shit show. >


It's good that he didn't send them in.  That would have given Trump cover to invoke the insurrection act and sent the military in there.  That would have been a real shit show.

I don't understand.
"It's a good thing the DC National Guard did not respond because that would've given Trump cover to send in other military units."
Am i reading your comment correctly? >

He could have sent the military to fight the National guard. >


He could have sent the military to fight the National guard.

Y'all need to go find a U.S. military officer in real life to explain how that absolutely would not have been the result. >

The ridiculousness of the scenario aside, the Insurrection Act is a thing. Normally Federal troops can't be deployed to assist with law enforcement due to Posse Comitatus. That's what the Air/National Guard is for. If the Insurrection Act is invoked, that goes out the window. Trump threatened to use it during the George Floyd riots after local law enforcement and Guard units were perceived as not doing a good enough job of quelling unrest by his standards. >

He should have. Fucking traitors smeared literal shit on the people's house >

Then he would have been accused of breaking the chain of command and attempting to overthrow the government by breaking that chain. >

In my mind, there's another chain of command with us - the people - at the top. And the one who tried breaking that was former President Trump. >

That is what the chain of command should be. >

That's literally what it is. The Constitution is granted legitimacy by democratic consent of the governed. If democracy goes, the Constitution goes with it. That's what Trump attempted: he was trying to steal the government of the US from the people by force.
Your vote is the single most important, most powerful tool you have at your disposal as a citizen. Billions of dollars are spent every year trying to convince you to use your voice in the vote, and Republicans are trying every single unethical, illegal trick in the book they can get away with to twist the results of every election at every level to their benefit. None of this would happen if votes weren't profoundly valuable. 
The vote is the expressed will of the people that grants authority to the rule of law. It is the social contract that both grants and revokes authority by law. Every single power of the American government, every weapon in the American arsenal, every military force, every court of law, every bar, every statehouse, even, every single dollar derive their legitimacy from the people, and only the people. >

It is still scary just every day with this, just how much evidence there is piling up that the Trump administration and allies were doing everything they could to keep that attack going. >

We know damn well that if he had of sent them, he would have been Court Martialed, tried for sedition, and jailed for firing on American Citizens (ironically). Fox News and the rest of the GOP would have also been able to claim that they were attacked by their own troops and it probably would have escalated this shit into an actual all-out civil war. >

When a mob of fascists stormed the National Assembly in France in the 1930's, the guards shot the fascists immediately and their little insurrection ended right there, and they never tried it again. >

It’s bad optics for the rest of the world if that happened on January 6th. We would not be in a better place. >

I'm not sure I agree
We've shown the world we will tolerate quite a lot of terrorism as long as the perpetrators are white, and at worst a few of them get a few years in prison
Our soft response to this insurrection all but ensures it will happen again. >

Yes, but he didn’t. >

Without orders the soldiers aren’t covered in case something happens to them and it’s a whole legal shitshow. If one gets injured and they didn’t receive the official order then they would have to pay for their own bill and can’t claim to VA the injury. >

If Trump actually pulled off the coup and remained in power he would have quickly been deposed or worse by the military. What did Trump think was going to happen if he overturned the election and forced himself into power? Coup of the stupid. >

Really?  Pretty much anybody in any position of authority or power seems completely unwilling to enforce a consequence on trump. >

I mean, the whole point of the article was that this General was right on the cusp of sending the Guard in there to fuck the Insurrectionists up. Obviously he didn’t, but it was a close call. If Trump actually tried making the announcement that he wasn’t leaving office and they were going to institute martial law, it doesn’t sound like the General was just going to sit on his hands for that shit. >

I think if the General had ordered his forces to the Capital, it would have given Trump the cover to say that he was no longer is control of the armed forces and a coup AGAINST him was underway. 
The thing underlying all the events of the 6th is that we came extraordinarily close the union completely falling apart and maybe we had the best case or near to it scenario play out that day. >

Yes. There are many ways it could’ve gone far worse. The casualties were surprisingly low and the official proceedings were eventually carried out. It was a surprisingly good outcome all things considered. >

It's kind of depressing that my first thought reading that headline was "on what side, though?" >

But they didn’t