If you're saying "refuse illegal orders" is a rebellion that's uh...preeeetty telling on what sort of orders you're planning on giving.
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'Rebellion!' Stephen Miller flips out after Dems tell troops to 'refuse illegal orders'
(www.rawstory.com)
I carry a little glimmer of satisfaction knowing that as soon as this administration crumbles, be it political fallout from Epstein or Trump just finally keeling over one day, Miller is most likely going to become the fall-guy for a massive portion of the wrongs committed by the administration. Rightfully too.
But the point is, he's not liked. He is disgusting and off-putting and the only reason he has any station or power at all is because he learned how to wormtongue Trump and has no qualms about acting as sycophantic as he acts fascist.
Nobody likes working with him, nobody wants to be around him, and everyone is happy to let him do the talking because he seems to think he's invincible and will never face consequences. He doesn't fit into modern politics, it's just that we're surrounded by so much other nonsense daily that he seems to just blend into the background. When Trump's power wanes, he will stick out like a swollen, festering, sore thumb and the sharks will smell blood.
This. I don't think Miller knows just how much his own side doesn't like him. He does have people over him with more power who keep him around because he's useful, and they protect him because he's useful, but once he's outlived his usefulness, they'll wash their hands of him.
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If it walks like a Stephen Miller and quacks like a Stephen Miller, it is probably a nazi.
I don't know whether Stephen Miller quacks, but I am pretty sure that he goose steps.
He, also suffers from the same genital defects as Hitler. Fun fact.
::sigh:: I don't want details, but what defects?
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An admission that orders issued soon will be illegal
Already are
Also true
Still are, used to too.
Miller fails to recognize the Nuremberg Trials, Following illegal orders is inexcusable in a courtroom.
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"It is insurrection, plainly, directly, without question," Miller later told Fox News. "It's a general call for rebellion from the CIA and the armed services of the United States by Democrat lawmakers, saying that you have not only the right, but the duty and the obligation to defy orders of the commander-in-chief that those who carry weapons in America's name should defy their chain of command and engage in open acts of insurrection."
It's a short article that's mostly his quotes, worth the read.
That mouth looks like it does the same things as Trump’s mouth
Rapes women and children or the sucking presidential dick?
Yes.
"It is insurrection, plainly, directly, without question," Miller later told Fox News. "It's a general call for rebellion from the CIA and the armed services of the United States by Democrat lawmakers, saying that you have not only the right, but the duty and the obligation to defy orders of the commander-in-chief that those who carry weapons in America's name should defy their chain of command and engage in open acts of insurrection."
Always lovely how on Fox news you can twist words, twist reality, outright lie, it's all fine, because as they claim themselves z they're not a news channel but an entertainment channel. Even sued the government to be able to lie...
And these magats just eat it up like cupcakes
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Good soldiers know they are fighting for the constitution and the american citizenry. I don't think we need to be worried about Stefan Mueller for too much longer.
Miller has a face that makes it clear he has a micro penis
Mhm. Resting dickless face.
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I challenged Stephen Miller to a fist fight, but that chicken fucker didn’t respond.
He probably just didn't hear you, you should go ahead with it anyway. I'm sure he's prepared and will be a mighty opponent.
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It's pretty fucked up that we're at the point of relying on service members to decide that an order is unlawful. The Uniform Code of Military Justice doesn't exactly side with the military members in this instance, but it also doesn't explicitly prohibit it. Here are some crib notes from the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
United States v. Sterling, 75 M.J. 407 (a lawful order must relate to military duty, which includes all activities reasonably necessary to accomplish a military mission, or safeguard or promote the morale, discipline, and usefulness of members of a command and directly connected with the maintenance of good order in the service).
(the dictates of a person’s conscience, religion, or personal philosophy cannot justify or excuse the disobedience of an otherwise lawful order).
(an order is presumed to be lawful, and the accused bears the burden of rebutting the presumption).
(to be lawful, an order must (1) have a valid military purpose, and (2) be clear, specific, and narrowly drawn; in addition, the order must not conflict with the statutory or constitutional rights of the person receiving the order).
If chain of command is always followed, then the orders will be neutered before they can be carried out.
While any superior officer can circumvent subordinates, as far as I understand it, this would be highly unusual, insulting, and self-disparaging. Technically Miller himself could give the orders to specific troops to carry out, but as soon as his orders are issued, the troops commanding officer can belay those and issue their own.
There is a reason tyrants don't like chain of command.
Edit: Stephen Miller is just Policy Chief of Staff. Basically a talking head at this point. No actual ability to give orders
"Rebellion!" Screams the chronic angry man who is giving illegal orders that would be treason, regardless of who is giving the order.
After all this is over and Stephen Miller is placed under arrest or whatever else it may be, I will celebrate in the streets.
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They need to make Miller sit down in an austere interrogation room with only a recording of Charlie Kirk talking about how executions need to be televised and force children to watch.
And over that audio recording an AI video of... well... whatever is it you imagine it should be.
Raving lunatic
Oh Stephen miller is in the news?
Perfect! Over a year old but by God there's no better Stephen miller interview.
Only watch if you want to see Stephen miller shoutting getting red in the face yelling at a very calm persistent venezuelan journalist.
He‘s wrong on so many levels. He doesn’t even get the name of the party right. It’s the Democrat_**ic **_ party.
They do that deliberately. You see that a lot among Republicans. I assume it's similar motivations as when they say the US is "a republic, not a democracy". Apparently it irks them that they have democracy in the name.
Yeah, I know. It seems so childish.
They have been doing it for decades. I'm fairly certain Newt got them to do it as part of his intentional strategy to divide Washington (then, in lockstep, all these fuckers started talking about how "divisive" Obama is, imagine that) with his GOPAC training.
But it predates even that by decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
It annoys me because every time I hear some brat of a Republican in a high position use it, they sound exactly like that stupid kid that knew that "ain't" is not a word, but they'd say it anyway to annoy teachers (or anyone that knows the English language, really). Or when you hear someone who has probably been corrected a thousand times on words like "supposedly" still say "supposably".
It just sounds like a defiant jackass demonstrating the Peter principle.
I wish to Zeus that reporters would make a pact to ALL start asking Republicans that do this simple questions such as: "You don't know the proper name of the DemocratIC Party?" or "Surely you know the name is the DemocratIC Party? Why don't you say the right name?" or "Do realize how childish your entire party comes off when you cannot even say 'the DemocratIC Party'?"
Really just shame these motherfuckers. At every chance when they do this. I wish Democratic Senators and Reps would do it on the floor, too. Same with guests on outlets like Faux, because Faux does it, too.
It's not a huge thing, but the complete childishness of the Republicans ALL doing it nearly uniformly should be pointed out as the childish and juvenile bullshit that it is.
Troops don't have Trumpy immunity, they should tread carefully when ordered to violate the constitution while orange Hitler bypasses congress in his new wars
I don't know how to archive videos on x, but here it is: https://x.com/SenatorSlotkin/status/1990774492356902948
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ᛋᛋtephen Miller is a piece of shit
Classic FOX blaming the "Democrats" from the civil war, which were in fact what we call today Republicans.
The sexual matador really wants to go full Nazi.
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