Post by Jess Piper / Redsky

The new chairman of the Joint Chiefs is on the board of a big crypto currency firm. If he's on board with the Republican ideology, then it might not be him who runs a coup against Trump. Musk however is another matter.

mar 4, 2025, 8:18 pm • 1 0 • view

Trump called dead solders “suckers and losers”. They don’t really give a shit about soldiers, they’re just props to the GOP.

mar 4, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view

Ouch @meidastouch.com can put this clip on repeat. @jimacosta.bsky.social

mar 4, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view

He called veterans “suckers and losers”, refused to honor US veterans because his hair might get wet, used Arlington Cemetery as a prop during the campaign and they still voted for him.

mar 4, 2025, 7:52 pm • 8 0 • view

Agreed they voted for him… this is what happens… I can’t feel sorry….

mar 4, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view

They act like this because they believe they will never lose power. Putin degraded and demoralized his military so Trump will do the same

mar 4, 2025, 7:50 pm • 27 1 • view

She said that??!!?? Good god…😡

mar 4, 2025, 9:50 pm • 0 0 • view

How did they get MAGA to be so ANTI American?

mar 4, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view

Then again, Trump has already fired a lot of important military personnel.

mar 4, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view

I remember, but had to look up the exact words. Welch to McCarthy: “You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”

mar 4, 2025, 7:54 pm • 2 0 • view

My people have been in Military Service since The Revolution. My uncle’s somewhere off the beaches of Normandy. She needs to STFU! Ya know what they say about a bunch of lawyers at the bottom of the Ocean, Alina? Yeah, it’s a start!

mar 4, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view

Ughh 🤬

mar 5, 2025, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view

Fuck her all the way to hell

mar 4, 2025, 10:18 pm • 2 0 • view

Oddly there’s that thread between McCarthy and Trump we don’t talk enough about.

mar 5, 2025, 12:13 am • 0 0 • view

Spoken like the terroristic shill she truly is. Your oppression is their profession.

mar 4, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view

Wtf does that supposed to mean?

mar 4, 2025, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view

I cannot fucking believe that habba said that! They are on the wrong side of everything!!

mar 4, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view

Sure but the sec of def hadn’t just fired all the top brass and military attorneys in McCarthy times - but I also do hope. This may be our only way out atp

mar 4, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view

Too late for the Joseph Welch moment, as there's no evidence of them ever having had any sense of decency

mar 4, 2025, 7:49 pm • 2 0 • view

That part.

mar 4, 2025, 7:50 pm • 3 0 • view

Well, Elon is firing a bunch of people from the FBI / CIA…….would they count?

mar 4, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view

From your blue sky to gods ears!!!

mar 5, 2025, 2:10 am • 0 0 • view

i still can't help but see the movie "civil war" the new one coming to life. if so i hope it's the last scenes

mar 4, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view

We can say the same thing of Alina.

mar 4, 2025, 7:47 pm • 2 0 • view

Yep. I keep wondering when someone is going to channel their inner Joseph Welch (Army counsel) and say, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"

mar 4, 2025, 9:24 pm • 1 1 • view

Thinking about the fact that we have US military bases throughout continental Europe and our government leadership is now aligned with their enemy Russia .... Will our soldiers obey orders if they are told to attack their host countries? Europe is not ready to defend against this.

mar 4, 2025, 8:05 pm • 5 2 • view

Holy shit. I was at RAF Lakenheath and was thinking the other day how long Europe will have us over there.

mar 4, 2025, 8:25 pm • 2 0 • view

www.cfr.org/article/wher....

mar 4, 2025, 8:32 pm • 1 0 • view

Same same

mar 4, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view

I wasted zero seconds posting that clip everywhere

mar 4, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view

Our army isn’t up for the task. If they were they would have stopped the coup by now. They do not protect the constitution and they do not protect us. Stop the delusion. They work for Putin and there are probably juuuust enough right wing fascist bootlickers in the military to follow those orders.

mar 5, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view

Well, we know you weren't fit to represent Donald Trump in court as you always lost the case as his lawyer. But, he still keeps you around. For what? is anyone's guess...

mar 5, 2025, 9:09 am • 1 0 • view

Two of my father’s first cousins had to leave the country.

mar 5, 2025, 3:09 am • 0 0 • view

JHC she’s an ogre

mar 4, 2025, 7:46 pm • 15 0 • view

What a fvcker. KARMA PLEASE

mar 4, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 0 • view

Ya know, you would think that some of these mooks would realize that veterans have been trained for combat and have actually been in combat.

mar 4, 2025, 7:52 pm • 3 0 • view

We aren't operating with a construction now given Trump's been ruled above the law. Better than even odds that things will get rough for these overly confident mooks. We AREN'T Russian citizens used to being ruled.

mar 4, 2025, 7:59 pm • 3 0 • view

fudge...consTITUTION

mar 4, 2025, 8:11 pm • 1 0 • view

All the nasty is out in the world. Where have all the nasty people come from? They are out of their coffins or lairs?

mar 4, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view

She’s not fit to have a job at any moment.

mar 4, 2025, 10:50 pm • 1 0 • view

mar 4, 2025, 8:06 pm • 4 1 • view

That sounds pretty hateful from where I’m sitting as a military spouse.

mar 4, 2025, 10:29 pm • 2 0 • view

I can understand how you feel about what I just said, however, while there are indeed some very good people in today’s Army, there are none the less some that are as I described, they who imho if ordered by DT to turn on the American people would not question nor hesitate to do so.

mar 4, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view

I think there have always been hateful people in the military and generally in society. But there have also been and continue to be good ones. I can tell you right now that there a lot of angry military members watching their trans friends being booted, their accomplishments as women being erased…

mar 4, 2025, 11:49 pm • 1 1 • view

But, will members of th military honor their sworn oaths and refuse any orders that r in conflict w our constitution? This is a question I believe w soon b forthcoming. It remains 2 b seen how th good members of the military will handle any orders that are in direct conflict w our constitution.

mar 5, 2025, 3:19 am • 1 0 • view

That is indeed the million dollar question 😓

mar 5, 2025, 5:21 am • 1 1 • view

Well I reckon we won’t have to wait too long to find out..

mar 5, 2025, 5:23 am • 0 0 • view

I love how Republicans just casually and repeatedly question the fitness of military personnel, including combat veterans who have literally put their lives on the line for their country.

mar 4, 2025, 8:59 pm • 1 0 • view

Yea, this one is too easy. We are asking that question right now; yet, its about all you Nazi party members.

mar 4, 2025, 7:46 pm • 2 0 • view

We can't win with these mother fuckers. What the fuck do they want? Oh yeah, they want the people they consider useless to just die and stop consuming their resources. Fuck those Nazis.

mar 4, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view

Amen to that … if we are going to be treated like a third world country it’s time to act like one

mar 5, 2025, 1:21 pm • 2 0 • view

But he couldn’t get rid of the military leadership like Trump has.

mar 5, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view

Of ALL people to talk about competency... Alina Habba is an idiot...

mar 4, 2025, 7:52 pm • 2 0 • view

Sad part is the Army and pretty much a decent majority of the military is pro-MAGA. So, not much hope there.

mar 4, 2025, 8:41 pm • 0 0 • view

This useless lawyer needs to STFU

mar 4, 2025, 8:52 pm • 1 0 • view

Again - where are the armed forces? Constitution first. And what did I see Marine One ferrying around that South African Nazi?

mar 4, 2025, 7:48 pm • 2 0 • view

Me too✌🏾

mar 4, 2025, 7:48 pm • 2 0 • view

👀

mar 5, 2025, 1:03 am • 0 0 • view

Dear Alina, yes I agree. These people were willing to give up life and limb to serve their country, constitution and citizens ( sadly your one) you don’t get more unqualified then what they were willing to give up to have your 1st amendment right to be a total moron. All my best, mark

mar 4, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view

Disgraceful! These people in Trumps administration and orbit and down right un-American. All of them, including maga congress and senators are fleecing this country for their own greed and Putin’s delight. They must be tried with treason and receive the worst possible punishment.

mar 4, 2025, 7:49 pm • 15 0 • view

What I’d love to know is what qualifications does anyone in this administration have? I am yet to see anyone “fit” for their position. The women are all Barbie dolls or billionaires. And the men are all just undercover supremacists

mar 5, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view

My 88 year old Dad is a West Point career Colonel. He has dementia. (I am his only raging liberal child)I count it a blessing that he's not very aware of where we are as it would destroy him.

mar 4, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 1 • view

Well, I've got a hammer And I've got a bell And I've got a song to sing All over this land It's the hammer of justice It's the bell of freedom It's a song about love between My brothers and my sisters All over this land

mar 4, 2025, 10:21 pm • 2 0 • view

Thank you for sharing! 💜

mar 4, 2025, 10:32 pm • 1 0 • view

I thought J.D. Vance assured us all that they weren't going to listen to the experts. Because, when it comes to being unfit for a job they are doing....this lady is an expert.

mar 4, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view

Habba cost Trump millions with her poor lawyering. She’s a gas bag.

mar 4, 2025, 7:51 pm • 2 0 • view

Must be nice to hold a high paying government job using knee pads.

mar 4, 2025, 8:51 pm • 1 0 • view

Traitor!

mar 5, 2025, 1:03 am • 0 0 • view

This is going to go over as well as a fart in church. Am i right, or am i right.

mar 4, 2025, 7:48 pm • 5 0 • view

Tailgunner Joe

mar 4, 2025, 7:53 pm • 1 0 • view

And I keep thinking of Joseph N. Welsh asking MAGAts like Habba ""Have you no sense of decency ... at long last?" and her ilk laughing in his face and saying "Hell, no!"

mar 4, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view

🤛 right in the mouth!

mar 4, 2025, 9:02 pm • 1 0 • view

Projection. She isn’t fit to be quoted, someone in the press is always willing to do it.

mar 4, 2025, 7:56 pm • 2 0 • view

Good point. These people are acting like they will never have any accountability. Garland syndrome.

mar 5, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view

F$ck this mobster administration.

mar 4, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view

Only corrupt sycophantic cowards are fit for a job in this regime!

mar 4, 2025, 7:48 pm • 9 0 • view

That is my hope as well. The problem is that the army is much more diverse now which makes it more acceptable for racists to not care about veterans.

mar 5, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view

As a veteran I can say. She is clueless

mar 4, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view

I mean, he died of alcoholism in his 40s, so who knows what else he would’ve gotten away with? Based on season two of Rachel Maddow’s Ultra, I feel like McCarthy’s death spared us having a dictator.

mar 4, 2025, 8:49 pm • 1 1 • view

He drank himself to death shortly after he was no longer getting public attention. He only picked communism as his cause because he wanted attention. He didn’t believe the shit coming out of his mouth. He was always a liar 🤥. “TAILGUNNER JOE”

mar 4, 2025, 9:38 pm • 1 0 • view

He was also a Nazi. He rose to prominence “investigating” impropriety in the Nuremberg prosecutions on the basis that the prosecutors were Jewish. However, when he died, he still had a rabid following who wanted him to be president.

mar 4, 2025, 9:55 pm • 3 0 • view

I’m delighted he drank himself to death at age 49. He had no redeeming qualities.

mar 4, 2025, 10:08 pm • 2 0 • view

Oooh, you are correct. Let’s go, ye folks in green!

mar 4, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view

I mean, she did work her way from parking lot lawyer to getting paid lots of taxpayer dollars for whatever the hell she does for Trump now so she's certainly earned the right to call out veterans who haven't earned the right to continue serving the country. Or something like that.

mar 5, 2025, 3:38 am • 0 0 • view

Haba needs to make up her mind. Are they not fit for their jobs right now or do they need to get back to work?

mar 4, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view

What exactly does Alina do? Steam his pants?

mar 4, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view

Fuck you habba - you’re not fit for polite society

mar 4, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view

I would love to see Vance face to face with UK Troops that he disrespected yesterday. He would run a mile, he’s just a coward.

mar 4, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view

At the moment, she’s not fit for the job

mar 4, 2025, 8:44 pm • 2 0 • view

MAGA keeps contradicting themselves. They want to create job requirements for Medicaid and SNAP (which already exist) so ppl don't get aid without working, but they are also ok with making thousands of gov workers (including vets) unemployed. Do they or don't they want people working?

mar 4, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view

@rieckhoff.bsky.social

mar 4, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view

🤞

mar 4, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view

My husband, and army vet, is deeply confident that there will be a breaking point where the buck ends with enlisted refusing orders. I pray he's right.

mar 4, 2025, 7:59 pm • 2 0 • view

Says she who would casually knock your parking ticket down to first degree aggravated murder… that competent attorney speaks?

mar 4, 2025, 7:48 pm • 3 0 • view

Twunt

mar 5, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view

Don't know. Republicans treat veterans like crap for ages now. And they keep electing them.

mar 4, 2025, 7:48 pm • 2 0 • view

Screw you lady! You’re not fit to be a human you POS!

mar 4, 2025, 7:49 pm • 13 0 • view

They fear US Veterans

mar 4, 2025, 8:51 pm • 2 0 • view

They SHOULD. They are very good at using firearms and stuff!

mar 4, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view

Think our Vets are gonna have to lead the way out of this

mar 4, 2025, 11:09 pm • 1 0 • view

Hey alina…..🖕

mar 4, 2025, 10:00 pm • 1 0 • view

A whole lot of the clustertrump that we’re experiencing right now started with Joseph McCarthy.

mar 4, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view

Have you no sense of decency, Alina?

mar 4, 2025, 7:48 pm • 9 0 • view

Ohhhhh…

mar 4, 2025, 7:50 pm • 5 0 • view

Sadly, I wonder about the odds of a military coup.

mar 4, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view

🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

mar 4, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view

Did she really?!

mar 4, 2025, 7:49 pm • 3 0 • view

No. The military is not the place to go for help. Especially now that the “warfighter” guy is in charge.

mar 4, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view

ignoramus extraordinaire

mar 4, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view

she is still dumb

mar 4, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 1 • view

Well said. We shall see ; )

mar 4, 2025, 7:49 pm • 2 0 • view

Felon47 has been fucking with the Army and the other military services for years. Many of them have gone out and voted for him - twice.

mar 4, 2025, 8:09 pm • 1 0 • view

I am just waiting for them to react!!

mar 5, 2025, 5:10 am • 0 0 • view

Republicans have been fuckin' with the military for ages now. Trump has been shown to have contempt for the military, their families, and their service. And they STILL vote for him. Maybe stop wasting time thinking they're gonna do the right thing, when they always do the rightwing thing.

mar 4, 2025, 8:41 pm • 1 0 • view

This statement is truly pathetic

mar 5, 2025, 12:53 am • 0 0 • view

May remind everyone that veterans my a wide margin voted for Trump. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

mar 5, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view

People are not going to join military if they are treated this way. My son was sold a bunch of bullshit that got him to join in 2002, ended up in Iraq, waits months for medical appointments. No reimbursement for college, they said something about paperwork, it’s all bs.

mar 4, 2025, 7:54 pm • 5 0 • view

Sounds like she isn’t fit for this position.

mar 4, 2025, 10:38 pm • 1 0 • view

No one with half a brain or conscience is.

mar 4, 2025, 7:58 pm • 2 0 • view

Is this as close as we come to the chaos of McCarthyism to date?

mar 4, 2025, 7:45 pm • 6 0 • view

The congressional "investigations" led by Jim Jordan, James Comer and the rest of his House Oversight Committee were just practice. No evidence necessary, just all allegations all the time. They love brow-beating subpoenaed witnesses and egging on their Russian agents/assets. Performance politics.

mar 4, 2025, 8:31 pm • 3 0 • view

Let them eat cake

mar 4, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view

but they've been conditioning them with FOX News for a long time....I'm really scared how that will change things.

mar 4, 2025, 7:48 pm • 2 0 • view

It’s time for the army to step in.

mar 4, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view

True, but there’s a reason why they have been playing Fox News on all the army bases for the past 20 years. The brainwashing has been outstanding.

mar 4, 2025, 8:05 pm • 6 0 • view

“Fit”? Fuck her.

mar 4, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view

Imagine McCarthyism with Fox News already around for a few decades before it started.

mar 4, 2025, 7:48 pm • 15 0 • view

In a world of Burt Lancasters, be a Kirk Douglas…

mar 4, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 0 • view

True that. Unfortunately, most don't know who Joseph McCarthy was, much less Roy Cohn. 😕

mar 4, 2025, 8:50 pm • 3 1 • view

then we explain bsky.app/profile/lanc...

mar 4, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view

And he died in his late 40s, drowned in alcohol. I think about that a lot.

mar 4, 2025, 8:44 pm • 1 0 • view

I pray that our military and vets remember their oath and take these people out of power soon. By whatever means necessary.

mar 4, 2025, 8:01 pm • 1 0 • view

It’s frustrating how many better are diehard MAGAts considering he called them suckers and losers.

mar 5, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view

I’m desperately wanting to find somebody who can answer this question – – do you think the military will hold in the end?

mar 4, 2025, 8:38 pm • 0 0 • view

I hope you’re right, but teflon Don gets the most loyalty from those indoctrinated into our fascist military.

mar 4, 2025, 8:06 pm • 2 0 • view

Just boggles my mind they send out this parking lot lawyer wannabe cunt to get their message across and it’s an absolute tire fire.

mar 4, 2025, 7:59 pm • 2 0 • view

Trump mocked John McCain for being a POW, and conservative veterans voted for him 3 straight times. They won't care about this at all.

mar 4, 2025, 8:49 pm • 7 3 • view

The Army vs McCarthy hearings was one of the classic "the Emperor has no clothes" moments. The angry WW II bullshitter and bully was shown to be a very small man, and his entire impact disappeared.

mar 5, 2025, 12:17 am • 0 0 • view

Alina Habba isn’t fit to have a job if that’s the case.

mar 4, 2025, 8:08 pm • 2 0 • view

trump has already started firing all the women and BlPoC from the military & getting rid of jag lawyers that won't go his way. So far, the military seems remarkably unbothered. They've had a ⚪️ sup problem, by their own admission, for a long time. Let's see what happens I guess

mar 4, 2025, 10:21 pm • 6 0 • view