Kurt wrote:I am hoping Trump goes all in with this.
Barry McCaffrey said yesterday that if he was viewing a CIA report on this without the country name being given he would assume that it was an attempt to overthrow the elected government.
Rumor in DC is that Republican Senators and Congressmen are reaching out to their Democratic colleagues telling them to pass on congrats to Biden because they don't want to piss off Trump.
Which is hilarious on many levels.
I want them to reveal names of course, just so we know for sure it is not Democrat made up BS and also to see who the chickenshits are.
Like two levels of chickenshit. Scared of Trump and Scared of Biden.
The Pentagon purge is interesting. Some claim it is an attempt to remove troops from the middle east and Korea. I hope he pulls it off as I think that has been a drain on us financially for some time, but I am sure Trump thinks that if members of the military come home they will be loyal to him.
Loyalty is an odd thing and it seems habitually disloyal people are always trying to figure it out but it has three components.
Loyalty out of love.
Loyalty out of fear.
Loyalty out of duty.
Fear really is not loyalty but it can mimic loyalty. I think we are seeing this in the Republicans who don't want to piss off Trump but at the same time they don't want to be known as not acknowledging as the rightful President elect.
But, once someone is afraid you know their loyalty can always be had if you present them with a more fearful option or protection from what it is that they fear.
This is what the FBI does with Mafia informants, they make them afraid of legal penalties from RICO AND offer them protection in the witness program.
They still are not "Loyal" but given shelter and the threat of the pimp hand they will act like a loyal person.
With the military I am sure Trump imagines that they will back him both out of love and out of duty. It will be funny to see how that goes titsup, so I hope that he tries it.
Lets see how the loyalty of fear plays out now.
More scared of getting "Primary-ed" by MAGAs or more afraid of the actual repercussions from storming the Capital.