President Donald Trump fired Chair of the Joint Chiefs Gen. C.Q. Brown on Friday night, and said he intends to dismiss the Navy’s top admiral and the Air Force’s second in command — an unprecedented shakeup of the Pentagon’s top brass that will trigger ripple effects throughout the military.
Trump, in a Truth Social post, said he was nominating retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to take Brown’s place. Caine is a partner at Shield Capital, a venture capital firm.
Trump also has claimed Caine donned a ‘MAGA’ hat during their 2018 meeting in Iraq, which is against military regulations.
Unprecedented? Soooo many fascist precedents. Pick a fascism.
Do you have anything that doesn’t have any fascism in it? I don’t like fascism.
I think unprecedented is fair for US contexts, but it’s certainly not a shakeup.
I would substitute fascist with authoritarian. Not that fascist is wrong, it’s just incomplete. Left and center authoritarians have the same playbook.
What centre authoritarians are there?
I guess it depends on who you consider center. That opinion varies greatly. Some might put Nancy Pelosi there, some would call her right wing. Mainstream Republicans would call her a radical leftist. My personal politics are more anti-authoritarian than left or right. And left, right, or center, most of the people in power lean authoritarian. I’m always advocating for the people to tell the government to fuck off, no matter who is in power.