SaysWho? Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 "Esper has been terminated" is unusually blunt in terms of Trump explicitly calling it a firing in one of these firing tweets, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 So what awful thing is Trump attempting to do that he had to fire Esper to make it happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 19 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said: So what awful thing is Trump attempting to do that he had to fire Esper to make it happen? He probably wanted the military out at Democratic polling places cracking heads and Esper refused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarSolo Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 What’s the point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Just now, mclumber1 said: He probably wanted the military out at Democratic polling places cracking heads and Esper refused. Probably the best case scenario. 75% chance it is just petty revenge, 25% he is trying to kneecap America's national defense to allow Russia to Red Dawn us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 2 minutes ago, MarSolo said: What’s the point? Either he's just being a petulant bitch like always, or he's trying to do something that Esper was refusing to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, mclumber1 said: He probably wanted the military out at Democratic polling places cracking heads and Esper refused. That's best case scenario, but probably not the case. I mean, I could really imagine a scenario where Trump did make that request and now he's blaming Esper for his loss. That said, I'd really imagine he'd be a lot more vocal about this being part of the reason for all the "rampant voter fraud". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 It's purely payback for Esper's refusal to deploy active-duty personnel during the civil unrest this past summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 He's going to save the government a month's worth of money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finaljedi Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 18 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: It's purely payback for Esper's refusal to deploy active-duty personnel during the civil unrest this past summer. I was going to say, I imagine he's still sore about Esper not deploying active duty and for publicly looking into taking traitor names off Army bases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 I feel like getting fired by Trump assures many a role in a Biden administration? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Found the real reason he got canned: he wasn't a total kiss-ass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Esper: NOT an ass man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 3 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Found the real reason he got canned: he wasn't a total kiss-ass He also wasn't a hero. This is a guy that said there would be no retribution against Vindman and then stood by and did nothing when there was retribution against Vindman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 The inevitable conclusion of explicitly packing the courts to insulate against democratically elected policy is to cut out the middle man and do away with real representative democracy. Democratic autocracy, a la Russia, here we come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5timechamp Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 can we just start the Coup already? all this preliminary stuff is tiring... the GOP already has buy in from half the nation... get on with it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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