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That's quite a read, Thom - and necessarily so. The tariff topic is not a black and white issue. Thanks for always looking to the horizon in search of better tomorrow's - you're a strategic warrior, not a tactical martyr. We need more of that.

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I wish I could be hopeful as you Jon, But I have read Project 2025, have listened to Kevin Roberts, Trump, JD Vance, Stephen Miller and believe them. I look at Trump's cabinet picks, and know that if one backs out, as Gaetz did, that someone worse will step into fill the slot. He will sign a slew of Executive Orders, already written and awaiiting his signature, He will recreate Schedule F, which Biden so foolishly revoked when he could have and should have use it, to eject the Trump humping employees he injected in his last weeks like David Weiss who was so eager to prosecute Hunter.

Plans are to fire 50,000 independent and career civil servants and replace them with MAGAts, which his team are already take applications for and screening.

He will fire the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the pentagon and all generals who will not swear loyalty to him, and they are legion. He already has one loyalist General that could head the JCS, Gen Charles Flynn, Mike Flynn's brother,whom Joe Biden promoted, though he was a Jan 6th co conspirator.

He will use any civil disturbance as an excuse to declare martial law and mobilize the military, and federalize the 50 national guards

Am I wrong, where am I wrong? There is a belief in the officer corps, and it's oath to the constitution, well there is Charles Flynn, Col Martha McNalley, Lt Col Tulsi Gabbard, Maj Pete Hegseth,Captain Tom Cotton

According to recent data, around 98 members of the 118th Congress have served in the military, representing roughly 18.1% of the total membership, which would include commissioned officers from various branches; . 80 Are Republicans, 18 are Democrats.

And how many of the 98 still retain their commissions though not on active duty? And how many of them are Regular Officers.

I am a regular officer on the retired rolls and still subject to the UCMJ, and can be recalled at any time and be court martialed, as can Lt Gen Michael Flynn, for violating his oath to the constitution.

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Thanks, it is good to see that you can read the 2025 Plan and the “Day One Dictator” plot clearly.

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