Announcing your coup isn’t a good plan for success.
As someone unfamiliar with Air Force ranks, I tried to look up how big a deal the rank of major is. Is this something that is after a year or two in the service? A decade? Are there hundreds of majors in the Air Force? Thousands? Tens of thousands?
Generally, an officer starts with that first gold bar then moves on to the second, silver bar after finishing school (4 years). Sometime within 2 years after that they’re likely to move up again, and after that it becomes politics where it could be anywhere from 2 years to the rest of your career before another promotion depending on how much people like you
TIL the US Air force uses army ranks for its officers instead of Carpet Cleaner, Squadron Leader, Wing Commander, Tailfin Director or whatever the Commonwealth uses.
Fairly big as they are very close to the top. You’d have to go to a military academy and be in for over a decade.
very is relative.
A true patriot.
Finally, someone in the US military with integrity and a backbone.
He won’t be in there much longer unfortunately.
Can I be on his jury?
We have to make Jury Nullification so common, that wrongly arrested people won’t take plea bargains, because they stand a better chance with juries that have shown themselves willing to fuck up political prosecutions.
We need to start talking about Jury Nullification, and preparing potential jurors for the massive wave of prosecutions that is coming. We just saw a group of suburbanites sentenced to decades in jail for exercising their 1st Amendment rights, as ANTIFA Terrorists. We’re going to see a lot more of that after the Midterms, when they can’t get what they want from Congress, so they will have to pivot to controlling and punishing through the weaponization of law enforcement.
They’ve got all these profitable concentration camps filled with people who are bringing in a daily stipend from the government. Now that SCOTUS has given permission to deport them all, they MUST be replaced, and “ANTIFA Terrorists” are the perfect boogymen.
They tried to prosecute a guy for starting the big California fires, and 10 jurors said No, a pretty clear indication that the government didn’t have a case, and counted on the jury to just go along with it. Unfortunately, two of them did go along, probably MAGA CHUDS, but ultimately it was a mistrial.
Many federal cases have been shot down at the Grand Jury level, something that was incredibly rare until MAGA came along, and arrogantly thought they’d force everybody else to play along with their atrocities.
MAGA is now using the system to attack normal Americans, not just other politicians that we generally hate anyway. It’s hard to get upset when a Comey or Bolton get slapped around, they deserve it, but when they start throwing soccer moms in prison for decades, just because she had Leftist poetry in her car, it’s time to start destroying the system.
Newsweek has an image, credited to YouTube/Jessica Denson:
There’s a Spotfund by “DOOR LLC”, I’m not familiar with the platform or the sponsor.
Idk anything about DOOR LLC, but one must admire a soldier actually committing to his oath.
One must also hope that if this one soldier is standing up to make this statement, that there’s thousands more who share the sentiment too, and he haven’t heard from them yet.
With any luck, this’ll become a trend.
Veterans have been speaking out this whole time. The media probably tries to keep that quiet, and alternative streams of information probably don’t focus much on what vets say, unless they’re specifically vet-focused in which case most people in leftist spaces probably don’t hear about them. But vets have been speaking up all along.
It’s more rare for someone active duty, because not only are they prohibited by the UCMJ from speaking against the President, VP, or SecDef (since they’re in the chain of command), but also it’s prohibited to take part in any political activity in uniform. The reasoning is basically that anyone in uniform is a representative of the military itself, and therefore not supposed to take part in partisan activities or express a political opinion in the capacity of being a service member.
Active duty can go to protests and do all that, but they’re supposed to do so in civilian attire and not bring attention to their military status.
So my thoughts are a lot of servicemembers are opposed to what’s happening, but even if they’re protesting they’re keeping quiet about their military status. Also to avoid bringing attention to themselves, cause if their chain of command finds out they can make their lives hell even without hitting them with the book.
So what this guy is doing is ballsy. He could very easily be stripped of rank, lose his commission, or be sent to the brig. Honestly the latter is most likely because the other two would take an act of congress since he’s an officer, but with this congress I wouldn’t be surprised to see it.
That man is going to be breaking rocks. I hope, instead of something worse; as didn’t the current administration purge military leadership to install loyalists?
Fuck yeah its a great photo though.
§934. Art. 134. General article
Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special, or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court.
I doubt it, at least not for very long. He may get convicted, especially if it’s a military court, but the next Democratic president will pardon him.
I hope he is pardoned.
Yupp only gotta engage in back breaking grueling labor at a military prison camp for 3 more years or so!
Prob if he was enlisted, officers typically get the kids gloves. My money would be on forced retirement, if they really want to make an example of him they might dismiss him after being court marshalled.
That man is going to be breaking rocks.
He’s going to be doing the Joe Rogan circuit for a month. He’ll have a dozen book deals by January.
I guarantee his actual politics is dogshit. Willing to bet he’s going to be running for Congress on the “America didn’t bomb Iran hard enough” inside the next election cycle.
Maybe after. The UCMJ is no joke.
I agree with his sentiment, but I don’t think it’s a good thing for a military to be political.
He did his protest while in uniform, which means he’s representing the military while making political statement.
Even a political military that agrees with me is bad, because they might someday not agree with me. They have more guns than me, so they’d be the ones making political decisions without any regard to whether I agree with them.
He seems to be raising money on sites like gofundme, and will probably start a podcast after he’s discharged. I’m guessing that’s his play. He knows full well this is the end of his military career. Saying he’s “risking everything” seems a little silly. He’s knowingly changing careers.
Tell that to ICE.
Military is always political, whether they commit war-crimes on foreign land as they masters told them to, or whether they commit war-crimes on their own land as describes definition of Coup d’état
Yes they follow the orders of the civilian leadership which are democratically elected. The democratically elected civilian leadership is political but that’s fine since they can be removed from power via democratic elections.
The problem with having a military making political decisions is how do you remove them from power if you disagree with their political decisions?
A lack of political statement by those with the power to help remedy is a statement of politics all on its own.
The lack of Americans voting for people to effect the remedy is an even bigger statement.
Americans are too narcissistic to ever consider that they may have made any bad decisions and so won’t change their own actions to make things better. Instead they just sit around blaming democracy, the free press, the Jews, etc. and slide further into fascism.
Please direct me to the nearest “vote right now” station
Thinking democracy is supposed to be about “having it your way and right away” is why democracy is failing in the US. That’s the Burger King slogan, not how democracy works.
Americans don’t approach voting as making a decision, y’all think of it more like buying a product. You act like consumers, not like citizens with a duty.
Democracy is a grind. You vote in every election over decades. You hold your nose and vote for the least worst option so there will be a better least worst option in the next election. You’re supposed to vote as part of your duty as a citizen, to be the ultimate check on power. Authoritarian populists lie and say “vote for me and you’ll never need to vote again” to appeal to the entitled laziness of Americans, and it works.
The narcissism of Americans mean they can’t compromise and vote for someone unless they like them, want to have a beer with them, say the right slogans, or whatever. It’s all about being coded to whatever aesthetic the base likes. Policies, checks on power, rights, these things don’t motivate Americans to vote. Americans are primarily motivated by narcissism so they vote (or not vote) according to how it will appear to their peer group.
That takes guts, Major Jason Watson.
While I can appreciate that, someone finally made this call publicly, calling for a president who has been committing hundreds of felonies every day that he has been president to finally be impeached?
That takes no courage at all. Finally, at long last, someone has finally stood up and called for the most criminally corrupt president to finally be impeached. That takes no courage at all.
It is, in fact, a great matter of shame that it did not happen on day one, and every day since.
Did you lose this /s ?
It takes no courage to effectively end your career? Give me a break. This guy isn’t some random on tiktok, Hegseth will almost certainly punish him for this.
More than career ending.
UCMJ Article 88 (Contempt toward officials)
- Prohibits using “contemptuous words” against the President, Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, military department secretaries, governors, and certain other officials.
- Maximum punishment can include dismissal from the service, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for up to one year.
Add that Trump will probably try to call it Treason.
Yeah, not brave at all. People that talk shit online don’t have a clue what they are talking about.
Where the fuck where you?
You poor loser…
Why the hell you are getting donvoted ?
Because he’s insulting someone who’s finally doing what’s right, and disregarding the risk? Why the hell don’t you see that?
Because the moron just said that someone speaking out, when they are almost assured to go to prison for it, has no courage.
Because he’s talking like NOBODY has ever called for Trump’s impeachment before, when we’ve already impeached him TWICE. The only reason they don’t impeach him every day is because it’s pointless without a conviction. Do you want to be like the useless Republican Congress that tried to vote out Obamacare 157 times?
I’m glad the guy is taking this brave stand, but he’s one of MANY saying these things, he’s not the first, and he won’t be the last. It was the drama of who he is, that was the story, not what he said.
And how many of those people risked their career by calling for impeachment?
He who saves his country breaks no laws
We need more of this, and higher ranks.
Yeah, where are all those generals that were fired so ignominiously? Why aren’t they speaking out?
I have been harboring a fantasy that they’re deliberately lying low. They know MAGA is virtuosically incompetent, and if they stay quiet, MAGA will forget about them. In the meantime, they are talking to each other, and making plans for the moment that Trump decides he’s staying in office, no matter what the elections say. Then they’ll make their move.
Maybe it’s a fantasy, but these guys spent their entire lives devoted to protecting this country, and they know a traitor and an enemy when they see one. Their silence speaks very loudly. I think it’s a much better chance that they are planning, and not just sitting on the lanai, sipping cocktails as the country they defended burns down around them.
Yeah, where are all those generals that were fired so ignominiously? Why aren’t they speaking out?
Because they don’t want to lose their 7 figure ‘consultant’ job at a private military contractor that every general officer has waiting for them when they retire.
Most generals in the modern US military are jut like CEOs and billionaires; ie they simply wouldn’t get that high on the latter without being a slimy piece of shit.
U.S. military regulations impose strict limitations on service members’ political activities, especially in uniform, and Article 88 forbids officers from using contemptuous words against the President or Vice President.
As a civilian I don’t think calling for legal impeachment is contemptuous, nor is peaceful First Amendment Activity. The GOP-majority congress has let us all down, choosing party and Trump over country.
A few bullet points is a pretty sad excuse for an article. Here is one with more information.
Thanks, wasn’t paywalled for me.
There is no article. It’s just bullet points…
You want President Mike Johnson? Because that’s how you get President Mike Johnson.
Though it’s probably the only way they’d get impeached. I don’t see Republicans allowing a democratic SotH to become president.
MJ would be better than Trump, simply because he doesn’t have Trump’s cult following. The GOP would be weaker with Johnson as president.
Johnson would also exacerbate the divide between the christofascists and tech fascists. The only thing keeping them from clawing each other’s eyes out is the Trump cult.
And compared to Trump, Johnson has no clue how to manipulate the press with Trump-style gish gallop. Even on right leaning outlets, practically every story you see about him is him fucking something up or saying something awkward and weird. He has no ability to spin things like Trump does.
It probably wouldn’t happen that way. Both Trump and Vance would have to be removed simultaneously for Johnson to get it.
If Trump is found guilty first, Vance advances to the presidency, and appoints a VP. If Vance is then convicted, his VP becomes president without ever being elected.
OR, Vance is convicted first, Trump appoints a new VP, who advances to the Presidency when Trump is convicted, without ever being elected. That’s exactly what happened when Ford became VP when Agnew resigned, the became president after Nixon resigned.
Both Trump and Vance would probably have to die simultaneously for Johnson to get it.
