Message from @Maw

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2020-11-19 18:16:03 UTC  

Man man strategy for the 2010s would be The Retarded Man strategy.

2020-11-19 18:16:07 UTC  

@Maw, you just advanced to level 7!

2020-11-19 18:16:40 UTC  

It is also easy to burn paper.

2020-11-19 18:17:09 UTC  

It burns at Fahrenheit 451.

2020-11-19 18:17:46 UTC  

Whoa...

2020-11-19 18:18:38 UTC  

I'm glad I had to re-read that book in college technical writing classes.

2020-11-19 18:18:47 UTC  

It made more sense when I was a bit more mature.

2020-11-19 18:20:05 UTC  

I meant he was going to fire disloyal generals in order to facilitate his own seizure of power btw.

2020-11-19 18:20:42 UTC  

I don't believe he has any authority to fire people not in the executive branch.

2020-11-19 18:21:07 UTC  

He can fire generals all day long, I think.

2020-11-19 18:21:21 UTC  

They don't really have much authority over the military.

2020-11-19 18:21:29 UTC  

They're primarily an advisory role.

2020-11-19 18:21:38 UTC  

JCS has more authority.

2020-11-19 18:21:43 UTC  

But it still isn't much.

2020-11-19 18:22:15 UTC  

Well he can have his people there do it...but I still think he can. Google time.

2020-11-19 18:22:45 UTC  

Congress has the general control over the military.

2020-11-19 18:22:48 UTC  

Pretty sure.

2020-11-19 18:22:51 UTC  

Not the president.

2020-11-19 18:24:46 UTC  

First one on the google search. Duke U.

2020-11-19 18:25:30 UTC  

Rather, some jurispundit published by Duke.

2020-11-19 18:27:06 UTC  

And if there is any question about his supreme authority, we could expect him to not try, of course.

2020-11-19 18:28:01 UTC  

No pattern of behavior or direct proclamation to the contrary or anything. Lol

2020-11-19 18:28:27 UTC  

Unfortunately the presidency does come with a lot of powers these days, which has been the slow degradation of the constitution over time.

2020-11-19 18:28:42 UTC  

But they are still restricted as to what they can do with the military.

2020-11-19 18:28:49 UTC  

For good reason, obviously.

2020-11-19 18:29:04 UTC  

They intentionally wanted the military to remain a-political.

2020-11-19 18:29:20 UTC  

He would never try something so brash anyway. It's not in his character.

2020-11-19 18:30:24 UTC  

By the time anyone could rule on it, it could be game over.

2020-11-19 18:30:47 UTC  

The degradation has been going strong and the garnering of more and more presidential power has been happening since roughly Lincoln I think.

2020-11-19 18:31:22 UTC  

When he suspended habeas corpus.

2020-11-19 18:32:09 UTC  

Bill Barr is about a extreme as it gets, in regard to presidential power. Like, frighteningly so. It's not even a secret.

2020-11-19 18:32:26 UTC  

I have mixed feelings about Barr.

2020-11-19 18:32:34 UTC  

I do not. Lol

2020-11-19 18:32:37 UTC  

His stance on Snowden irritates me greatly.

2020-11-19 18:33:00 UTC  

I personally think Snowden is a hero and should be pardoned.

2020-11-19 18:33:39 UTC  

He knew the price and did it anyway. He's a hero that is lucky to be alive.

2020-11-19 18:34:26 UTC  

I really hope he is pardoned by Biden/Harris.