Refusing to Be Silent

Excellent:

                

Forget the Republican Party, whose members- aside from Representatives Massie, Mace, and Boebert, and Greene- were set to vote against the release of the Epstein files until the latter resisted pressure from President Trump. This is the real Republican Party:

This is sickening. Democrats started by encouraging attacks on law enforcement. Now they’re urging officers to violate the chain of command and ignore the law—a direct attack on our constitutional republic. pic.twitter.com/X2YCof82BT

— Senator Ashley Moody (@SenAshleyMoody) November 20, 2025

"They" must be a chapter name in the GOP playbook. As was the case with many conservatives, such as Senator Mike Lee of Utah, it was "they" who killed Charlie Kirk. Now, Florida's Senator Moody says, in the video below, "They were hinting at it when they were encouraging people to attack our officers in the middle of cities." Seen in the context of the Senator's response to the question, the "they" clearly does not refer to the six Senators. It refers to, well, "them." 

Nonetheless, nothing says "Republican" more these days than "lie." Moody claims Democrats are urging officers to "ignore the law." 

But the ad speaks only of illegal orders. Senators Slotkin and Kelly assert "you can refuse illegal orders." Representative Crow- legally correctly notes "you must refuse illegal orders." 

It's ironic that presidential press secretary Karoline Leavitt would weigh in as she did on the same day as the funeral service for former Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney was (still is) the public official most associated with the unitary executive theory, in which the President commands total and personal control over the entire executive branch.

And so it was that Lying Leavitt, asked about President Trump's threat against the Democratic congress members, would maintain at the news conference on Thursday

Why aren't you talking about what these members of Congress are doing, to encourage and incite violence? They are literally saying to 1.3 million active duty servicemembers to defy the chain of command, not to follow lawful orders.... Every single order that is given to the United States military by this Commander in Chief and through this chain of command, through the Secretary of War, is lawful. And the courts have proven that.

BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt got brutally fact checked in real time, accusing Democrats of telling the military not to follow lawful orders. Reporter: Actually they said illegal orders.

More live fact-checks, please.pic.twitter.com/s38g4qwNvY

— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) November 20, 2025

Nevertheless, the lies keep coming because that's the way the President wants it and the assorted enablers and sycophants pay no price.  Yet, if Donald Trump is to accomplish his goal of complete despotic control, he'll eventually need the support of the military. That would require officers and enlisted men and women to comply with one or more illegal orders and there are at least six Democratic Senators and Representatives who are sounding the alarm.

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