President Donald Trump fired Chair of the Joint Chiefs Gen. C.Q. Brown on Friday night, and said he intends to dismiss the Navy’s top admiral and the Air Force’s second in command — an unprecedented shakeup of the Pentagon’s top brass that will trigger ripple effects throughout the military.

Trump, in a Truth Social post, said he was nominating retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to take Brown’s place. Caine is a partner at Shield Capital, a venture capital firm.

Trump also has claimed Caine donned a ‘MAGA’ hat during their 2018 meeting in Iraq, which is against military regulations.

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      You have about the same power as a US citizen at this point to stop it. Why are you just watching it happen?

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        Ahh, yes. Me, in another country has the same power as the folks living in that country.

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          Yes. Yes you do. Americans have power through voting. There’s no election. They can protest. They are. Fuck off you keyboard warrior. You’re not helping

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            Ive seen bigger protests over a library closing than what america has shown with their democracy falling. You let your leader run his mouth about other countries, prepare to hear shit about your own!

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              Ive seen bigger protests

              Says someone who lives in another country. Big words from someone whose only source of info is the corrupt media.

              What do you know about what you’ve seen? What exactly have you seen?

              You don’t know shit.

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                It’s about what I haven’t seen

                You talk a lot for someone who doesn’t know shit about me!

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          That’s the point. Someone living in California has the same amount of sway with the president as someone from Bangladesh.

          What do you think they’re going to do? Go Join Wick on a state thousands of miles away? Send our representatives an angry letter? Succeed and be rolled back to the stone age? Lose their job so they can hold a sign just about everyone already agrees with in the snow? Pick a fight with every cop they see?

          Make a Venn diagram. Put everything that’s effective and realistic on one side and televising a revolution so joey in his mother’s basement in Liverpool can feel like he’s watching an Avengers movie on the other. You’ll have two circles.

          I stg these Europeans would be mad at Luke Skywalker if he didn’t explain what he was doing and didn’t live streamed the trench run. Go google what OpSec is and, please, shut the fuck up.

          This is like yelling at the hostages in a bank robbery that they’re not trying hard enough to be saved while the police watch outside with popcorn. All despite the fact that the bank robbers are going to come outside and be a problem for the police next.

          You are in the same boat as the hostages. You have the same responsibility. You will not be able to explain to the boot that it’s not your job. I know decades of not having to provide for your own defense had addled the tactical and reasonable sides of your brains, but it’s time for you to get a little perspective.

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            The israel that the us is supplying with weapons so the genocided can now be the genociders? That israel? The one that is killing innocent children?

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              Yeah, the one that I have no control over because I live in a sham democracy where people are too caught up in their day to day lives to see what is being done to us.

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          Vigilantism is the only way this is going to end - no need to be a citizen for that. If you can afford a ride to whichever golf course he frequents, then yes your power to fix this is about the same as the average 'murican.

          …and honestly, a foreigner doing it would be much less divisive - you may just save us from a civil war.

          But yeah, whatever spine the colonists had that built our country has melted into a nice moldable putty for our oppressors to play with. If you’ve still got a few vertebrae, we could use a hand.