More retired Generals write coup porn fiction

| January 1, 2022

US Army Major General Paul Eaton (Ret)

Yet more former flag officers are “sounding the alarm” that the military might overthrow the US government. Calling the 6 Jan 2021 riot an “insurrection” and an attempted coup. The generals write at the Washington Post;

As we approach the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, we — all of us former senior military officials — are increasingly concerned about the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election and the potential for lethal chaos inside our military, which would put all Americans at severe risk.

In short: We are chilled to our bones at the thought of a coup succeeding next time.

This presupposes that one believes what happened last year was an actual attempt at a coup. Only the most deranged, disconnected from reality leftists make such a claim. Even saying it was an “insurrection” seems a stretch, but I’ll give them it at least meets the definition. The BLM/Antifa “Summer of Love” was an insurrection, but I wouldn’t call it a coup attempt.

Recently, and perhaps more worrying, Brig. Gen. Thomas Mancino, the commanding general of the Oklahoma National Guard, refused an order from President Biden mandating that all National Guard members be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Mancino claimed that while the Oklahoma Guard is not federally mobilized, his commander in chief is the Republican governor of the state, not the president.

Well, the generals are again showing their ignorance. Since they were flag officers of the US Army, I’ll assume this is intentional and not because of inadequate training and education.

The National Guard falls under both federal and state control, with the primary control resting with the state. When not activated to federal duty, the Guard of a state falls under the authority of the governor. It’s a complicated relationship, as during regular drill weekends and annual training the Guard is paid by the federal government, and thus is arguably under their authority and control.

However the whole reason for the National Guard is to have a state controlled military force, as it makes up part of the militia as defined in the Constitution and federal law. The federal government, after the Civil War and the Spanish-American War created the current National Guard system to facilitate better equipment, better training, and standardized doctrine between the organized militias (previously wholly state funded) and the standing US Army.

NPR has an interview with MG Eaton. You might recall Eaton from his time in the media shit talking Presidents G.W. Bush and Trump or his association with the far-leftist VoteVets.org campaign. Here’s all you need to know about the man’s opinion;

I’m a huge fan of Secretary [of Defense Lloyd] Austin, a huge fan of the team that he has put together and the uniformed military under [Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark] Milley. They’re just superb. And I am confident that the best men and women in the U.S. and in our military will be outstanding. I just don’t want the doubt that has compromised or infected the greater population of the United States to infect our military.

I do agree with the general when he says;

I had a conversation with somebody about my age, and we were talking about civics lessons, liberal arts education and the development of the philosophical underpinnings of the U.S. Constitution. And I believe that bears a reteach to make sure that each and every 18-year-old American truly understands the Constitution of the United States, how we got there, how we developed it and what our forefathers wanted us to understand years down the road. That’s an important bit of education that I think that we need to readdress.

But then he talks about conducting a “war-game” to plan out a response to a 6 Jan-style incident. Which doesn’t sound ominous at all, right?

Back to the opinion piece at WaPo, the generals spell out a plan for re-education of the troops to ensure they understand “unity of command” and they call for stepped up spying on our own troops and to combat “misinformation”. In sum, the generals’ message is:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

How about we return to the time when the military stayed out of politics? Time was when a general started to get into politics, he was sent packing (MacArthur), the Revolt of the Admirals, and/or court martialed (Mitchell).

These generals, in publishing this alarmist fever dream of a military coup against the United States Government, only foment that which they claim to be combating.

Category: Army, General Whackos, Politics, YGBSM!!

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QMC

Most of these guys are just like the rest of the elitists in Business, Media, and Politics.

They stopped being the warrior decades ago, and now live in their own neat little bubble of reality.

Atlanticcoast63

…My takeaway here – and this is IMHO, YMMV, of course – is that a LOT of people suddenly and simultaneously realized that there’s some SERIOUS firepower under the control of Governors who may not Do What They’re Told.

Graybeard

Yep

Green Thumb

If he cannot bench press 225 then he needs to shut up and move on.

Carlton

I’m willing to allow 200 on the bench for someone over 60, if and only if that person can squat 325 and deadlift 450.

Green Thumb

What is the run time for that age group?

Carlton

Not sure what it is officially, but I would be willing to accept a 6:45 mile for that group.

More than likely, his spokesperson will just say that “The General ‘maxed’ his APFT.” 🙄

Skivvy Stacker

Well, I’m 64, and I can make it to the bathroom from my bed in less than 10 seconds. Of course, it’s close by, and I’ve usually got a damn good reason for moving that fast at that time of night.

timactual

“run”??

26Limabeans

“NPR”

A Proud Infidel®™

So by now I assume that to gain Flag Rank one has to babble liberal D-rat propaganda like an NPR talking head!

A Proud Infidel®™

What’s next, “political reeducation” for Vets?

UpNorth

Now that you ask, API, yes, take your seat in the boxcar and prepare for your trip to the camp.
It appears that flag officers now have to sound like they’re auditioning for slots on CNN.

A Proud Infidel®™

Either CNN, NPR, PBS or MSDNC!

KoB

Surprised the genr’l was able to talk thru an interview, what with Lloyd Vadar and Silli Milli taking turns teabagging him. Once a warrior and now a cuck? Name’s appropriate…I got a BoD he can Eat on.

CDR D

ROFL. IIRC the National Guard was created in 1903 pursuant to the “DICK” Act. He can EAT ON that.

Trapperfrank

I remember him when I was stationed at Ft. Benning. His son 2LT Paul Eaton was going through Ranger School and complained to dad the the Ranger Instructors were cursing in front of the students and talking mean to them. Dad looked into it and had a number of people relieved.

rgr769

Yes, the first thing I noted in that pic of him is the lack of a CIB. Bet the only time he heard a fired shot was at the rifle range.

rgr769

Just checked his bio; the bastard is a Clintonista. He worked on the Hildabeast’s campaign in 2016. That is all that needs to be said.

A Proud Infidel®™

“Blue falcon chow thief-level BS” indeed, now that little cupcake of a General’s Kid gets to be remembered for that!

Roh-Dog

That is the rumor. Do you remember the time frame?

Had a LT in my Battalion that looked like this fool.

Hack Stone

“And I am confident that the best men and women in the U.S. and in our military will be outstanding.”

What about the other 55 genders (and counting)? Don’t they have anything to contribute to making this the finest fighting force in the history of the world? Major General Eaton, your micro=-aggression is showing.

Stacy0311

So these are the GOs who didn’t get the Lloyd Austin level gig with a major defense contractor. Got to do something to fill the rice bowl. Maybe if they suck hard enough on the “insurrection/coup” crack pipe, they’ll get that sweet retirement board of directors position.

On the other hand, these are the kind of officers that would normally be a fragging statistic

Andy11M

A loyalty/ ideology test will be implemented before the next election, and these writings from all these generals will be the excuse. Probably be a questionare with 50 -100 questions. Depending on how you answer you will be dismissed, retrained, or deemed loyal to the regiem.

Commissar

Stop trying to pretend a mob didn’t try to overthrown our election and install a despot based entirely on a cult-like submission to a sociopathic clown.

Several Republican politicians not only committed overt acts to overthrow the election…they are still pushing the bullshit lies that they used as an excuse mechanism.

Fyrfighter

Welcome back Commissar. Glad to see that you haven’t changed a bit for the New Year

SFC D

A platoon of Boy Scouts could’ve made a better attempt than the unorganized grabastic mob of dumbasses that stormed the capital. Overthrow and insurrection requires organization and leadership. The “investigation” is showing that neither one of those existed.

rgr769

It also requires some weapons, i.e., firearms. From everything reported, the only people with firearms were the fed LEO’s, one of whom fired the only shot, the one that killed Mrs. Babbit.

The commie cuttlefish is a thoroughly indoctrinated, brain dead proglodyte.

rgr769

One of those charged was an ATF agent who was carrying his badge and duty pistol, as was his FBI agent brother who has not been charged. I think the brother wasn’t charged because there were other armed FBI agents there. The ATF brother was charged after he appeared on TuCa’s show. Is this a corrupt regime or what?

11B-Mailclerk

Who bot dis is?

E4 Mafia '83-'87

He’s so full of shit. The Dems tried to overthrow the duly elected President with a Democrat funded, Clinton approved, and Russian supplied fake dossier. The tried another coup when a former Ukrainian, sub-par Army Col. tried lied about a phone call trying to curry favor for his own role in the new Ukraine administration. Their third attempt came when the country should have been gearing for a pandemic, but Drunk-ass Nancy wanted more political theater.
A bunch a people whipped into a frenzy by Federal Agent Provocateurs/un-named conspirators smashed a few windows and stole a lectern does not an insurrection make. The only person killed was an unarmed 5’2″ woman. Back, back under your rock.

A Proud Infidel®™

You’re countering his cream puff propaganda with facts and logic, two things that Major Moonbat is deathly allergic to and ignores.

Berliner

“Several Republican politicians”… You are omitting the “FBI plant” and pANTIFA insider(s) who, despite photo and video evidence of their presence and directing activities, are no longer being actively sought nor are imprisoned.

https://archive.is/2021.06.05-153552/https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2021/01/11/fbi-capitol-investigation-arizona-trump-supporter/6624406002/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10347577/Ex-Marine-accused-FBI-plant-sent-incite-Jan-6-riot-pictured-ranch.html

UpNorth

Stop trying to pretend that mobs didn’t try to overthrow the nation over the past year or so. You know, Portland, Seattle, Minnemogadishu, NYC, Kenosha, Wi, Chiraq, and numerous other cities.
Just about all demorat polictians have given Black Lies Matter and PantiFa a pass on all of their overt acts and rioting.

UpNorth

That was addressed to the resident commie, Commissar.

PavePusher

If you think that’s what “overthrow(ing) our election” looks like, you’ve never actually experienced a real revolution or coup attempt. I have. Up close and personal. And they’re a LOT bloodier and messier than that.

Was there a riot? Yes.

Were the rioters idiots? Yes.

But that’s literally the maximum exent of it.

And for the record, I detest Trump, didn’t vote for him, and don’t support the rioters. But I have no need to invent bovine excrement out of thin air to push political agendas. You should cease doing so.

Poetrooper

Where’ve you been, Lars, in detox? Not unexpected to see your brain’s still as fried as it ever was.

Ol’ Poe can understand how drugs affect your thinking as his cancer meds tend to fog him up a good bit.

But on his worst day, ol’ Poe never gets things as assbackwards as you do…

USMC Steve

No, buttmunch, a herd of undercover FBI operatives, antifa and black lives don’t matter clowns did. You would not know a false flag / provocation operation when you see one though, given your mental instability.

Your version of reality must be a really sucky place.

Roh-Dog

Where doth the power of our nation lay?

Until you get that answer correctly, without caveats or addendum, you can *specifically* STFU, herr general.

Roh-Dog

Oh, this guy is a piece of work.

“So, Mr. Trump, come 3 November, we’re all voting for a real patriot: Joe Biden,” Eaton said, then urged others to do the same. “Our country’s honor depends on it.”

I wonder how the be-stared clown feels about our ‘honor’ after that lovely exfil of the ‘gan, or the current medical experimentation on our troops? I wonder how he’ll feel when this intently built up animus spills over…

What an asshole.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-eaton-trump-military-losers_n_5f51da86c5b6578026cbe159

Roh-Dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx-gZTcD4QI

One story has been refuted by the people that were there, the other is on video.

What say you ‘Mister’ Eaton?

Berliner

After the attempted assassination of President Reagan, his Secretary of State, General (retired) Al Haig, holding the position of Secretary of State, announced “I’m in charge here!!”.

Downhill he went after that. He resigned 2 years later and sought nomination for President in the 1988 primaries and later withdrew following poor polling.

PavePusher

“Deadly Insurrection”?!?!

ONE person was killed.

ONE.

That doesn’t indicate a trend or an overwhelming tide of violence, though numerous idiots were certainly violent.

The author of the subject article is a raving Progressive loon pushing a political agenda.

A Proud Infidel®™️

“…a raving Progressive loon…”
Much like Major Moonbat, I mean Lars!

rgr769

The bottom line is that the protester/rioters didn’t kill anyone. Although the media tried to convince us officer Sipnick was killed by a rioter (irrefutably fake news, as he died of a brain aneurysm on 1/7 and was never hit in the head).

Deckie

And today you have Harris comparing 1/6/21 to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 as dates of infamy.

Scumbags, the lot of them… and if that day scared them so much then good.. they should be scared.