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Disgusting: Democratic members of Congress are now actively encouraging troops to disobey their commanders.
That’s the clear thrust of the one-minute video launched Tuesday that includes Sens. Elissa Slotkin (Mich) and Mark Kelly (Ariz.) warning “This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals . . . against American citizens.”
Other veterans now serving within the House chime in: “Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders,” pronounce Reps. Chris Deluzio (Pa.), Maggie Goodlander (NH), Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.) and Rep. Jason Crow (Colo.).
Yes, they’re all emphasizing the responsibility to disobey unlawful orders — but when they really noticed any actual signal that the president or different high commander is issuing such orders, they’d be doing a lot more than simply reducing an advert.
Indeed, they plainly don’t consider one phrase they’re saying, or they’d element precisely what unlawful orders Team Trump has issued.
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All of them know that the fashionable US army takes great care to lay out what constitutes an unlawful order; no one now in uniform has the least need for added instruction about it.
The actual target market is the Bluesky addicts and so forth who’ll wallow on this propaganda porn — a fantasy that pretends President Donald Trump is an out-of-control dictator poised to sic the army on civilians in some type of coup, and so panders to progressives’ determined need to see themselves as stalwart patriots resisting an outlaw regime.
It’s a shame that these veterans are milking their own service to rally partisan assist (and raise funds down the road, no doubt) by insinuating that the sitting president is ordering service members to violate the Constitution.
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Worse is the actual and apparent hazard that some in decrease ranks may take this nonsense significantly, and assume they’ve a responsibility to take pleasure in quiet acts of mutiny — disobeying reputable orders as a result of they foolishly trust a US senator to play it sq. with them.
That is: Two members of the Senate and 4 of the House are all however calling on troopers, sailors, Marines and airmen to defy legal orders — or, say, leak categorized information or in any other case sabotage the chain of command.
Until now, we’ve revered Kelly and Slotkin; it’s appalling to see them sink so low.
This isn’t merely a cynical stunt; it’s a contemptible gambit that tiptoes to the sting of sedition. For disgrace.
