Admirals, while extremely high up, aren’t the top of the food chain. He was being commanded to do bad stuff. His choices were to A) follow orders, B) not follow orders and be fired with a dishonorable discharge and all of his benefits for his family removed, C) follow orders but in a bad way that still kills innocent civilians while also slowly makes things slightly worse for his boss, D) retire honorably.
Or: the moment he had to consider doing something that was against The People, he honorably left. You seem to have this rather naive and ridiculous notion that some colonel has access to some network of willing soldiers who will gladly become a ragtag group of unstoppable superheroes against a million strong military that for the most part loves what the President is doing. Yeah, there are a lot of individuals who hate what Trump is doing, but those are mostly officers who have a stronger sense of duty than the people whom they command. And colonels don’t wield all that much power, either.
Also, since you seem to think he should have done something to “serve” The People in his role, what concrete ideas do you have for him to have done?
While in service, he is bound by duty to follow orders that are legal… and the Supreme Court said anything the President does is legal. Once out of service, he can choose to follow his own conscious and fight how he sees fit.
Wait, what are you going on about with religion? What does that have to do with hate crimes against disabled people? Nothing in this story is about religion.
She likes making wishes come true… for the right people.
If they can’t find violent criminals in Chicago, then they are looking in the wrong areas. The vast majority of Chicago is completely safe and pretty awesome. But let’s not pretend there aren’t violent parts of the city, it’s just that those dangerous areas don’t correlate to areas with high rates of undocumented immigrants.
Their point wasn’t that they didn’t care. It’s that polls don’t matter to a president that is trying to take over the country as a dictatorship.
I look at all the insane shit that has happened in just over 9 months and think about what things could still happen in the 13 months before the midterm elections. I don’t have much hope that political momentum is going to matter.
Also, polling doesn’t mean everything, especially not this far away. Trump was losing the polls in two of his three elections. He won both of those times.
Let’s assume your horrific understanding of basic logic was correct: combine the numbers that blame both equally with those that blame the Republicans.
Is that number more or less than the number you are saying blame the Democrats?
I’ll help you out. The number is 59 vs 53. Guess which number is larger.
Yes. They are currently protected from race-based gerrymandering. The Supreme Court already allowed politics-based gerrymandering, which was race-based by another name, so this won’t change things much more than that. But it will change what color the people are who get elected. They could change 2 majority R districts that are both mostly black into one majority white R district and one majority black R district.
Seriously. Just go into /r/conservative and look what “news” they are reading. It is all rage-bait stories about violence in the world caused by people of color or immigrants or leftists. There are no stories at all about the shutdown. I was flying home from vacation two days ago and could see the Fox News stories on a guy’s TV in front of me. It was all rage-bait with no actual news stories, not even fake news stories blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
I didn’t say anything about the enforcement of the rule or how dumb it was. I was only pointing out that it should not be a surprise to any green card holder that they need to be carrying it.
My friend got her green card about 20 years ago, and she said they made it very clear she needed to carry it at all times.
Wow, they turned something most people couldn’t give a shit about into a religious battle. Most people only cared about calling in Columbus Day because that is what they are used to calling it. Changing the name only annoyed them because it was a minor alteration in their language, and the alternative was a name that seemed too PC for them. They didn’t hate it, but they didn’t like it, either.
Now they are full on Christofascist about the name, turning someone who was seen as disgustingly bad even by the standards of his own time into some sort of saint.
but the core idea is one of prosociality and female safety
No, it isn’t. That’s not at all why the separation of sexes exists for Muslims.
It’s about the fact that once a woman reaches a certain age, she is now eligible for being owned by someone other than her father and must be treated as exclusive property that only one man can own. Restricting their movements and not giving them the right to drive a car or vote or do other “normal adult” things is all the same as separating the sexes and making women wear certain clothing.
Goddamn, that hits hard.
Yes, this will definitely protect farmers. I mean, it won’t, but at least they will FEEL like it protects them.
People eat veggie burgers for a reason, and it isn’t because they think it is actually meat. You can call it whatever you want.
That’s not his point. His point was that “law” doesn’t matter any more.
Whoof, the bit he did about Bill Cosby has not aged well at all.
No, I’m trying to justify him NOT serving a rapist. You seemed to be angry that he chose to stop serving a rapist. Now you are saying I’m a boot licker because I am happy he is no longer serving a rapist and isn’t doing stuff that is oppressing people??? He is no longer “just following orders,” so why are you angry? Your anger is kind of all over the place.
You also never answered my request for what concrete steps do you want him to do other than retire. You are one of those people who get all angry and complain but then don’t have any recommended solutions.