Pentagon in shock as Trump's new defense chief orders a department-wide halt to cooperation with...

[Soph0571]

...Biden’s transition team

Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller has ordered the Pentagon to “halt cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden” — a move that has Defense Department officials baffled.

“A top Biden official was unaware of the directive. Administration officials left open the possibility cooperation would resume after a holiday pause. The officials were unsure what prompted Miller’s action, or whether President Trump approved,” Axios reported.
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“Blocking the transition could have slowed down vaccine rollout. But they didn’t care,” the group said in a tweet. “Pausing Pentagon cooperation with the transition could put people in danger. But they don’t care.”

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/pentagon-in-shock-as-trumps-new-defense-chief-orders-a-department-wide-halt-to-cooperation-with-bidens-transition-team-report/|]

In the middle of a Pandemic and a massive Russian hack sure lets just national security even more at risk, cause nazi fuckers be nazi fuckers... heh.

[Wicked Blue]

1. On Putin's orders?

They really want to destroy our country, seems to me.

[Delmette2.0]

2. It just Dipshit paying off his debt to Putin.

[2naSalit]

27. It's both. ...nt

[paleotn]

36. In its current form? Yes, they do. By all means necessary.

This is what we've been dealing with for decades. The only difference is they're open about it. They want to turn us into the greatest authoritarian kleptocracy the planet has ever seen.

We all need to wake up to the fact that these people are the sworn enemies of democracy. And should be treated as such. Not congress people or senators. Sworn enemies.

[RAB910]

3. Trump is trying to cover up his criminal negligence over the Russian hacking disaster

that attack was worse than Pearl Harbor and will harm our nations for at least a decade. I wonder how many bitcoins it will cost President Biden to get all our nation's top secrets back from Putin

[Marcuse]

21. You never get a secret back. At most you get half a secret. We need to go offline like it's 1969.

[wnylib]

48. Criminal negligence? Criminal, yes. Negligent, no.

It was deliberate. It was planned. It was treasonous.

[RAB910]

49. I am not going to argue

[Jim__]

4. They don't care. Period.

[BSdetect]

5. How much treason is too much? Is it not like being a little bit pregnant?

drumpf ought to have been indicted after Mueller and removed after indictment by the House / Senate

Hundreds of thousands have died due to his incompetence and murderous petty mind.

[rickyhall]

16. It's like murder. If you commit murder, no matter how many more you commit, you're still a murderer.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

6. Beginning January 20, 2021 there will no longer be a psychopath in the Oval Office.

At this point it seems a long ways away but it will happen.
Then the problem will be to deal with the millions of his voters who have bought his lies and propaganda. I personally know some of them very well. They're not going to change their minds. This administration completed the job of reprogramming their brains over the last 4 years - the job that Fox, Limbaugh, Carlson and televangelists began some time ago.

[Cosmo Blues]

7. Showing people how incompetent you are isn't easy

Other people will find out about your cooperation with the Saudis in war crimes in Yemen, leaking nuclear secrets to the Saudis, the deals they have made with Arab countries to acknowledge the existence of Israel, are only a few of the things that if made public would be embarrassing. That doesn't even begin to lift the lid on the depth of the cooperation with Russia

[Baclava]

8. Martial Law, Flynn and the far right about to try to keep him in power by force? Stay tuned...

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Sadly, I expect them to try. Wouldn't be surprised if they got support from foreign gov'ts. Overtly

[Evolve Dammit]

17. Covertly. sorry. 45 has no future if he loses power (in his damaged mind)

[Marcuse]

25. Russian "Peacekeepers" on Alaska's North Shore.

[Evolve Dammit]

32. Jim Brown could stop it!

[Bucky]

34. That's a great movie.

Even if it's weird how many Russian spies are able to get onboard a submarine.

[Curtis]

41. I've been asking about this on Twitter and elsewhere

When enough US troops refuse to do Trump's bidding, and Putin tells Trump, "hey, I have an army that will back you." What is going to happen then?

[dware]

53. ...

What is going to happen then?

What would happen then?
Here's what would happen, any foreign army headed towards the US would be destroyed long before they reached US shores, or even airspace.

The US military will not stand by and let foreign troops invade, much less occupy, America, it's ridiculous to think otherwise.

[blue-wave]

31. Bingo!

They have been talking about invoking the Insurrection Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807 to keep Trump in office.


This is NOT a joke. People need to start taking this seriously:

MAGA leaders call for the troops to keep Trump in office

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/18/trump-insurrection-act-presidency-447986

[Turin_C3PO]

35. Not afraid of that.

I'm not going to lose sleep based on some MAGA loons' crazy ideas. Biden will take office Jan. 20th, right on schedule. Bookmark this thread.

[blue-wave]

37. 10-4 that!

And yes, I will bookmark!

[OnlinePoker]

45. What would be the point?

If martial law was ever instituted, every pro-Democratic website would be shut down. They would lock down and control the internet in a heart beat.

[calimary]

43. That assumes we'll all just lay down and submit.

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Just my suspicion. But if it’s the operative mentality here, I say FUCK THAT SHIT.

trump has used intimidation and his dearest love (DOMINANCE, DAMMIT!!!) to force his will on others. When it was just bullying and short-sheeting contractors and subcontractors on his damn hotel projects or creditors he can’t pay or simply doesn’t want to/doesn’t think he should have to, that’s what’s always worked before.

He’s not used to anyone saying “NO” to him. Everybody/Everything has always bowed to him, accommodated him/given him what he demanded. Until now.

Now, he faces an absolute. Now he faces something he can’t bully or threaten or make deals for or lie and distort his way out of. The calendar says he’s OVER AND OUT at NOON ON JANUARY 20th. And there is NOTHING - repeat - NOTHING - he can do to change that or stop it or even delay it.

For the first time, he’s facing something that is WAY bigger than he is, and that he can’t manipulate or bend to his will, and which he can do NOTHING to change.

And let me tell ya - he does NOT like being put into a position of helplessness.

[blue-wave]

46. Our military will never go for it

My guess is this is his way of keeping the base riled up until after the senate election in Georgia.

[dware]

54. That's exactly what it is, another grift. nt.

[LiberalLovinLug]

52. I think people laugh at this to their own peril

Just because its never happened here, does not mean it won't. After 2016, and since, how can anyone be so sure?

McEnany scares me with how confident she seemed about Trump's second term. And a few others, like Pompeo.

For the sake of argument, lets say he gets enough Trump supporting generals to obey the order. Promised to have a privileged position in the new Trump Gilead States of America. And his SCOTUS even comes through for him, after they realize the opportunity.

That Mitch, Lindsey, all the GOP leadership sees this is the "now or never" moment. Maybe they have crimes that will be exposed under a Biden administration. Even treasonous crimes working with Russia. So much so that they are willing to go "all in".

All it would take ls a handful of influential power laden officials, just as all it took was one principled general to squash a coup attempt ie Gen. Smedley Butler back in 1933.

I think many would be out on the streets. But whatever violence, property damage occurs, would be highlighted in order to get more public sympathy to quell the "riots". Republicans have set up that narrative already. And if you thought the Proud Boys, and the other White supremacists, and militias were bold now, just wait until they are presented with the call to arms by THEIR President, the legitimate President, to defend the streets from wild crazy communist AntiFa terrorists?

[yonder]

9. Chris Miller: Stephen's alter ego?

Hatched from the same clutch in any case.

[spanone]

10. E V I L

[spanone]

11. E V I L

[Mme. Defarge]

12. From Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.nl/trumps-new-defense-secretary-has-reportedly-ordered-the-pentagon-to-halt-biden-transition-cooperation/

Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller has ordered the Pentagon to halt cooperation with the Biden transition team, Axios reported Friday.
A Pentagon official said that the reason was that the staff involved in the transition is “overwhelmed.”
The start of the transition was delayed, limiting the time to complete necessary tasks, and the senior Pentagon leader in charge of the transition was installed after a purge of the department’s civilian leadership and has been on the job a little over a month.
Cooperation will likely restart sometime after the holidays, a Pentagon official told Axios.

[Marcuse]

26. They've been overwhelmed for 4 years.

[NoMoreRepugs]

30. Excuses from the Pentagon??? What's next - "Don't attack us just yet - we aren't quite ready."

[Tanuki]

58. Great. Let's just announce to the entire world including adversaries that our Defense Department

is too "overwhelmed," incompetent, and chaotic to do anything at all, even schedule some routine meetings to insure that the upcoming transition goes smoothly. They've also made it clear that this is one more thing about which they will reflexively lie.

[BobTheSubgenius]

13. This MUST be unprecedented.

Does anyone know for sure?

[DFW]

14. The biggest beneficiary of this move sits behind the Kremlin walls

Where are all our supposedly „anti-rooski“ Republican heroes now?

Why, cheering it all on.

So much for their „anti-kommanism.“

[jcgoldie]

18. Need to take a break to shred some more stuff

... before anyone sees it.

[c-rational]

19. This is what MSM should be reporting, but no, they speak of the transition in disarray. We need new

regulations regarding the spread of disinformation, and better means of spreading truth.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. I wonder what's next

Targeting the electric grid? How about massive credit card meddling - if everyone suddenly has 300 bogus charges on their cards we'd spend months cleaning it up. How about the USPS. They seemingly can't move much mail, everything I've mailed sits for 7-10 days going nowhere. Have they been hacked? Because they're updating tracking info infrequently.

Flynn advises to declare martial law? Are Russian troops on the way to help keep the peace? This just goes more off the rails every day. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

[Evolve Dammit]

44. "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride." Perfect. This is all planned and we're along for the ride. Hope it ends well

[Nevilledog]

22. ...

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
Yamiche Alcindor
@Yamiche
Confirming @jonathanvswan's reporting: Officials tell me Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller's actions are NOT routine. This could have an impact on distributing the COVID vaccine and with the US in multiple wars and fielding daily threats, the transition needs to be smooth.

Jonathan Swan
@jonathanvswan
Contrary to this Pentagon spin, there was NOTHING routine about this decision. Senior Trump officials have been furious at the Biden team, privately blaming them for leaks, and this decision was discussed last night with the White House.

Link to tweet

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9:52 AM · Dec 18, 2020

[Diraven]

47. So the military gets a two week Christmas vacation?

That doesn't seem like it would be good for national security...

[Stuart G]

23. Direct Orders from Donald Trump...(my opinion)

Treason, but Trump doesn't care...

[LaMouffette]

24. In light of the Russian hack, this obstruction must be stopped! Can Pentagon officials refuse,

and claim that telling them to halt cooperation is an illegal order?

[malaise]

28. 2545

That is all

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

56. And do it by yesterday!

How much more evidence could possibly be necessary?

[Bucky]

29. Trump only has 4 1/2 weeks left to directly vandalize the government

After that, he'll go back to undermining democracy and basic civility, as per usual.

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

33. Every Trump civil servant needs to be fired on day one, precedent or job protections be damned

Just say they’re suspected foreign actors or say they’ve committed gross misconduct (by aligning with Trump, that is genuinely irrefutable) and get rid. I no longer think they should be reassigned to poop scooper or paper shredder - even those roles are too dangerous.

[JHB]

39. "Needs to be", sure. Able to do so by anyone concerned with not tearing things up more?

For some of them, no.

But what can happen is isolating them, like a cyst: assign them to some division or project in separate facilities with no access nor ability to affect real information and policy. And then, gosh, that project gets zeroed out of the budget as a cost-cutting measure and they have to move on.

[McCamy Taylor]

38. This is to protect the Russian hack

[TygrBright]

40. They need time to find and destroy evidence of treason, obvs. n/t

[ehrnst]

42. They don't want the public to know what a disorganized shit show the Trump leadership is

before they're out of there in January.

Also, makes it much easier for Trump to sell classified info with no interference.

[marlakay]

50. Must keep all hidden until after the

Election of the senators....

[LiberalFighter]

51. He needs to wish he had never been born.

[AntiFascist]

55. "Breath-taking", "stunning", "unprecedented"...

the media always sounds like they are reviewing a Project Runway avant-garde collection!

What about describing it like it is: "seditious!"

[UCmeNdc]

57. Trump is hiding something. They are destroying computer data and Russian contacts.

Before the Biden people can see them.

That is why Trump put his own lackeys in as heads of their respective departments.