Subject: Weaponizing govt, part 24
on Friday, Piss-Drunk Pete Hegseth fired a bunch of top military brass and replaced them with unqualified loyalists. that’s troubling as fuck — but even more worrisome was Pete’s shitcanning of top military lawyers. firing military lawyers is extremely problematical, because — well, let’s let Fox New’s Shannon Bream lay it out.

Bream: “for people who may not know, they give advice to the military about what is lawful and what isn’t. not surprisingly, there’s been some backlash, from those who are worried about their removal. one Georgetown law professor says, ‘Trump also firing the Army, Navy and Air Force JAGs. in some ways that’s even more chilling then firing the four stars. it’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might slow you down.’”

Hegseth: “ultimately we want lawyers who give sound, constitutional advice, and don’t exist to attempt to be roadblocks to anything that happens.”

Bream gives Hegseth every opportunity to bullshit his way out of it, and Pete just goes right ahead and says the quiet part out loud: lawyers shouldn’t be ‘roadblocks to anything that happens’ — which is christofascist shitweaselspeak for ‘we’re definitely going to be doing a lot of illegal shit, and the last thing we need is some lawyer telling us we can’t.’

fuck every Republican who voted to confirm this unhinged zealot. when shit goes sideways, and human rights end up on the wrong end of a firing squad, these fuckface Senators are never going to be able to wash the bloodstains off their hands. Tiedrich