Dick F*cking Cheney Signed This Thing

[David Morris]

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35119794/secretaries-of-defense-op-ed-trump-election-military/

Hey, DICK FCKING CHENEY SIGNED THIS THING!

As senior Defense Department leaders have noted
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/as-election-nears-pentagon-leaders-goal-of-staying-out-of-elections-is-tested/2020/10/14/cbf20c6a-0e2a-11eb-bfcf-b1893e2c51b4_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_8__;!!Ivohdkk!36LzaO2RrDd8CurrVjvXDP17VBYPCops9HtGbBHVJXOD2ziQcxSQIdnyW5Owo86t%24>,
“there’s no role for the U.S. military in determining the outcome of a U.S.
election.” Efforts to involve the U.S. armed forces in resolving election
disputes would take us into dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional
territory. Civilian and military officials who direct or carry out such
measures would be accountable, including potentially facing criminal
penalties, for the grave consequences of their actions on our republic.

I don't think you could get these guys together to sign off on a breakfast
order, let alone an op-ed in which they tell the incumbent president* to
get stuffed. Unless, of course, one or several of them know something that
scares the daylights out of them. And if you start putting the context
together—the decapitation of the civilian leadership at the Pentagon in
favor of unqualified cronies, the current blustering centered on Iran, the
simple fact that El Caudillo Del Mar-a-Lago is capable of anything—it's
easy to concoct scenarios that are halfway between Seven Days In May and Duck
Soup. I feel very sure that this group did not get together in order to
defend some vague love for the constitutional order. I think something made
them go cold down to their toes