Oh wow they have covid in addition to herpes chlamydia gonorrhea and AIDS?

What they need is radiation therapy.

Huh?

#9 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Ah, that's what'll be on your tombstone, dumbfuq.

The police instigated lasers in their eyes, fireworks and blunt objects thrown at them, arson, looting, assault and even murder?

I bet they have a lot of good stuff to pick at the estate sale.

Oh, and give him a big military parade with jets that fly over Mad-a-Lardo

No you are getting stupid.

Huh?

Bellringer why don't you got catch a bullet in DC?

I'm not outraged at all. This is a stupid and unnecessary measure but that's par for the course with our government. Do this in advance of a BLM rally and progressives would lose their minds.

Imagine the outrage if these measures were taken in advance of a BLM rally.

#3 what if it ends up being a simple, nonviolent protest?

#4 Covid is showing some promise as a treatment.

The lawsuit was started on a wing and a prayer. More lawyers feathering their beds, no doubt. Cluck 'em all.

humanity...an experiment that likes to run wild, with,
little to no forethought on how to properly live...

Yea, like opening a border to make a country even more crowded.

Overcrowding causes the worst conditions, so why would be take on more people?

Imagine the outrage if these measures were taken in advance of a BLM rally.

#5 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

They were-see the post above from QCP.

What do you use to ring that bell, your head?

If Gloria Swanson lived another couple of decades, piled on the pounds by negotiating the continuum between "sloth" and "sloth," decided she was a makeup artist in addition to being the World's Foremost Authority, kept muttering lines from Sunset Boulevard about how the "pictures have gotten smaller," and then warbled, "I'm ready when you are, CB!" then you, too, have been to Mar-a-Lardo.

As the article said, weed has been used to quell nausea. But when you scarf down a bag of Doritos, a pound of M&Ms, an eclair with a pickle and mashed potatoes in the center, and a three day old tuna sandwich from the 7-11 because of the munchies, your gut it going to complain and purge itself.

"The past three months that are historically next to nothing influenza wise? What's the point of asking that question?"

Maybe legallyyourdead will chime in and answer.

"What a stupid post. We know exactly why flu cases were down last year: people staying at home during the onset of the pandemic and being uber cautious when they went out."

Really?

Staying home resulted in a 99.996% decrease in flu cases?

OK.

Would it be safe to assume that prohibiting human interaction would have had a similar effect on other contagious diseases?

107:
"Per my last email ...
Thanks,
Rsty"

How many have died of the flu in the past three months?

No need.

Seasonal flu is extinct.

There were 1500 cases in the 2020-2021 flu season. Down from between 39,000,000-56,000,000 in 2019-2020.

But if you are going to get it, you may as well get vaccinated against Yellow Fever, Rabies, and the Bubonic Plague.

And all of the other things that are far more dangerous than the flu.

I got one last year, no problemo. I've missed maybe 2 in the last 15 years or so.

Of course, this year I understand drinking turpentine cures the flu, so...

I'm not a Democrat. I'm not liberal. I am relieved to know we had some adults in the room reaffirming the nuclear safeguards already in place, and keeping other countries reassured those safeguards remained in place. From what I read of Milley did, nothing was outside of the authority he already had.

#123 | Posted by El_Buscador

Its refreshing to have a sane conservative on this site.

But you must know that you are no longer welcome in your party, and they are attempting to oust everyone like you from power and replace you with obedient fascist cult members.

Miley's call was perfect!

And since we are not at war with China, treason isn't an option either.
China has favored trading status, not really an enemy but an adversary at this point.

There are not other military officers here, so I likely know more than all of you. I likely know more than the person who wrote the article.

First, military officers have zero obligation to show loyalty to a president. Unlike the monarchies or grand socialist empires of the last century, US military officers take an oath to the constitution. Not a person or a party. In fact an officer would be obligated to crush a president who was a threat to the constitution, or violate their oath of office.

Second, the assertion that Milley did something he shouldn't have assumes that China has been declared a hostile force (like ISIS). They have not. So notifying Xi Jinping of an imminent nuclear attack launched by by an off-kilter, Greg Stillson-like president would be no different than notifying Macron, Johnson, or Merkel. Which few outside of the strict Trump circles would regard as even remotely treasonous.

Ultimately it will be up to Biden to decide whether he wants a guy who favors what he sees as doing the right thing over someone who favors loyalty uber alles.

If I were Biden, I'd tell Milley to put a bullet in my ------- brain if I ever acted even remotely Trumpian. It would be an order.

True Believers have no problem threatening, or even taking, someone's life. After all, the dispensers of justice have the Truth and the Light on their side. They are, truly, the Amerikan Taliban.

Medal of Freedom, obviously.

The ability of a renegade President to reach down into command structure of the military and issue an illegitimate order was much higher than it normally would be.

[M]y understanding at least is that Milley was acting on intelligence which suggested China believed we might be about to launch a military attack. Just what did that intelligence say and how credible was it? We can't evaluate Milley's actions without knowing more about that.

The other point is that Milley appeared to be acting on the belief that Trump was dangerously unstable and capable of committing grave crimes either out of spite or in an effort to retain his hold on power. So we need to know just what information he was operating on. What had he seen? What had he been told? Again, we can't evaluate his actions without those details. There's a very good chance those details are much worse than we anticipate.

In short, we can't evaluate Milley's actions which are certainly highly irregular without a searching investigation of the events of the winter of 2020-21. It's almost comical to think we can do so without one.

Based on what we know I think Milley was operating within his oath. But let's find out the details. It's important not only for evaluating Milley's actions. But it also will force us to contend with the unfinished business of Trump's attempted coup which too many of us are trying to sweep under the rug.

One cannot be properly or effectively judged without an equal dissection of the other.

Republican propaganda is the cancer. Trump was just the biggest most harmful lump created by the cancer so far.

He'd never have been elected without rupert murdoch rotting the minds of americans for 20 years beforehand.

Thank you for your definition of treason. Here is the real one:

Yes, one from some dictionary which is irrelevant when considering whether the crime of Treason has been committed.

The real ones:

Republicans in Congress should be very careful about demanding that we get to the bottom of what Milley was doing and why, because in order to answer those questions, rocks will have to be overturned and they may not like what crawls out from under them since some of that vermin might be sitting next to them in the House and Senate chambers.

OCU

When this shakes out a bit more, it will be surprising if Miley isn't found to have acted within the guardrails and well within his authority. I'm far more concerned about lickspittle yes-men ad yes-women enabling a mentally unbalanced president.

Great minds read and ignore
Average minds scroll past
Small minds use killfiles

MB, we don't see eye to eye on many things, but on this one I can't give you enough newsworthy flags. It sickens me how so many continue to be willfully blind to the difference between serving the Constitution and serving a mentally-unwell President who's actively violating the Constitution.

The direct bluntness of your comments hopefully will correct any misgivings as to the duty of American military personnel and especially high ranking officials setting the example for the rest of their troops. Milley didn't act as a Democrat nor a Republican, he acted as his oath commanded and did his level best to protect this nation, its people, and our soldiers potentially in the line of fire, by following the dictates of his oath of allegiance and his superiors in the chain of command who were doing the exact same things.

"Donald Trump did not hijack American conservatism; in him it reached its logical culmination. The defining characteristics of post-1980 conservatism"its authoritarianism; denigration of reason and education; obsession with power at all costs; Manichean, black and white thinking; apocalyptic, religious fundamentalist mentality; paranoia and sense of being besieged even when in power; and gangsterish deceit, bad faith, and lack of principle, whether practiced by a transparent swindler like Trump or a supposed intellectual like Newt Gingrich"must lead to nihilism and mindless destruction."

Mike Lofgren

#116 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

I'm not a Democrat. I'm not liberal. I am relieved to know we had some adults in the room reaffirming the nuclear safeguards already in place, and keeping other countries reassured those safeguards remained in place. From what I read of Milley did, nothing was outside of the authority he already had.

I notice that the Right wishes to address the General's actions without opining upon whether Trump was an active threat to the country at that time.

I've noticed that living Trumpites never mourn the dead ones. They will castigate the rest of us for making a deal out of those deaths, but they never say that they are sorry for them.

The Right sees death differently than other people.

"health care rationing"

If you have a vaccination card (or a medical exemption letter signed by an MD) you can get care.

If you don't, you can't.

Anyone have a problem with this approach to rationing?

Tell me you're a troll without telling me you're a troll:

Biden's start to his term with failures in everything the guy has touched. Trump's first 3 years brought the US back to greatness but he has undone by the Chinese pandemic

Thank you for your participation.

Here's hoping the arrests begin later that day.

#21 | Posted by Skeptical
#23 | Posted by jakester

Two more that don't have a d**n clue.

Treason has a definition, both Constitutional and statutory. It involves waging war against the country or giving aid and comfort to an "enemy." Enemy in that context basically means one with whom we are involved in a shooting war.

Milley's actions may or may not violate some other law; however, there is no doubt his actions are not treason, it's that plain and simple.

Treason also requires action, words alone are not Treason. So, no Polosi's comments are not Treason. See also the First Amendment.

Yes, it is a clear cut case of treason for Milley.

Is the US in a state of war with any nation right now? Then it's not treason. Treason has a specific definition tied to an active state of war, not what you want it to be.

Uhhh, there's something wrong here. One person had sole access to financial data from donations? He ran the operation with custom-built, self-developed software? Uh Huh. This story is not over yet. My inner cynic says we are about to hear about this guy living larger than he should have, that funds are 'missing', he had multiple romantic partners and knew all the girls at the local gentlemen's clubs, and that the Grand Poohbahs at the local GOP organization never liked him. All those stories will start coming out in 3, 2, 1...

How can anyone expect Republicans to manage the country when they cant even manage their own organization

At least three un-vaccinated persons I know have loved ones recently dead or near dead because of COVID. No, not one of them is changing their minds about getting the shots.

Craziest damned thing I've seen in my lifetime. If you can't be convinced by the Grim Reaper you are one stubborn SOB. You won't catch me crying if he asks you to come with him next time.