#NoKingsDay

Local Facebook group is full of MAGATs screaming about the planned "riots" today. They are convinced that this will be a repeat of 2020. Can't wait for them to angrily eat crow tonight when millions of people take to the streets against their orange god and nothing bad happens.
 
Pavement’s rendition of “No More Kings” seems apropos this morning.



Everyone stay safe out there. I’ll be hosting a joint birthday party for my mom (80 today) and her brother (77 later this week), so a bit removed from the day’s events.
 

Trump Relishes Troops in American Streets While Shunning Conflict Overseas​

The seemingly disparate postures of recent days speak to the president’s complicated relationship with the military.

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“… This is the day Mr. Trump has coveted for years. He wanted a similar display of military might for his first inauguration in 2017, and when that did not work out, he grew even more fixated on the idea later in the year when he visited France for its Bastille Day celebration. But military officers, including his second White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, resisted, convinced that it was not in keeping with American tradition and would instead evoke the kinds of displays favored in autocratic countries like Russia, North Korea and Iran.

Mr. Kelly concluded that Mr. Trump had a warped view of the military. The president grew frustrated that senior officers were not in his view loyal to him politically and personally. “Why can’t you be like the German generals?” he once asked, referring to Hitler’s generals, according to Mr. Kelly. Once, during another trip to France, he skipped a visit to a cemetery for American troops killed in World War I, saying it was “filled with losers.” Mr. Trump denied both accounts.

In the final year of his first term, he wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act to send active-duty troops into the streets of cities where protests against the murder of George Floyd had become violent, only to be rebuffed by Mark T. Esper, his defense secretary, and Gen. Mark A. Milley, his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

After the 2020 election, retired Gen. Michael T. Flynn and other allies showed up at the Oval Office urging him to order the military to seize voting machines and rerun elections in states where he lost, an idea he considered but did not follow through on, knowing that General Milley would resist.…”
 
nycfan said:

Trump Relishes Troops in American Streets While Shunning Conflict Overseas​

The seemingly disparate postures of recent days speak to the president’s complicated relationship with the military.

🎁. —> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/...e_code=1.O08.sq5k.AedvnbW_t_cy&smid=url-share

“… This is the day Mr. Trump has coveted for years. He wanted a similar display of military might for his first inauguration in 2017, and when that did not work out, he grew even more fixated on the idea later in the year when he visited France for its Bastille Day celebration. But military officers, including his second White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, resisted, convinced that it was not in keeping with American tradition and would instead evoke the kinds of displays favored in autocratic countries like Russia, North Korea and Iran.

Mr. Kelly concluded that Mr. Trump had a warped view of the military. The president grew frustrated that senior officers were not in his view loyal to him politically and personally. “Why can’t you be like the German generals?” he once asked, referring to Hitler’s generals, according to Mr. Kelly. Once, during another trip to France, he skipped a visit to a cemetery for American troops killed in World War I, saying it was “filled with losers.” Mr. Trump denied both accounts.

In the final year of his first term, he wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act to send active-duty troops into the streets of cities where protests against the murder of George Floyd had become violent, only to be rebuffed by Mark T. Esper, his defense secretary, and Gen. Mark A. Milley, his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

After the 2020 election, retired Gen. Michael T. Flynn and other allies showed up at the Oval Office urging him to order the military to seize voting machines and rerun elections in states where he lost, an idea he considered but did not follow through on, knowing that General Milley would resist.…”
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“… To critics, Mr. Trump, who uses words like “invasion” and “occupation” to justify the troop deployment to Los Angeles, is manufacturing fake wars at home to suppress domestic dissent, heralding what some fear is a creeping military dictatorship. What is striking is that Mr. Trump does not seem to worry about giving that impression. He has done nothing to dispel it or reassure Americans that his use of the military against domestic unrest is a limited effort that should not concern them.

“They say, oh, that’s not nice,” Mr. Trump said of his critics during his speech this week at Fort Bragg. “Well, if we didn’t do it, there wouldn’t be a Los Angeles.” He added: “Under the Trump administration, this anarchy will not stand. We will not allow federal agents to be attacked, and we will not allow an American city to be invaded and conquered by a foreign enemy. And that’s what they are.”

… None of which should be a surprise given his history. Discussing threats to the nation during last year’s campaign, Mr. Trump said that “the enemy from within” was more dangerous than foreign adversaries and advocated using the military to deal with “radical left lunatics” who in his view got out of control.

Yet the demonstration of military might on American streets this week feels jarring coming at the same time as a full-blown Middle East crisis in which the United States has taken a backseat. Mr. Trump has been trying to negotiate an agreement with Iran to end its nuclear program peacefully, only to be overtaken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who decided to take matters into his own hands with a ferocious bombardment.

Mr. Trump publicly complimented the Israelis on their success on Friday but did not endorse further military action, instead reaching out to Iran to resume talks. Some Republican hawks expressed consternation that he would not be willing to more directly support Israel’s military campaign.…”
 
Callatoroy said:
says the guy who supported a turnip for potus despite being told he was a turnip but was to brainwashed to believe what was easily seen and heard.
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In this great country of ours we elected a turnip who turned out to be the most successful 1st term president in the last 60 years.

I have some doubt that the death cap mushroom we elected will enjoy the same success.
 
The Asheville protest has apparently turned into a march with cars stuck in the middle of the crowds. Not sure where they’re going.
 
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