Court-martial Flynn's worthless seditious ass
You're not going to believe the video they showed before he called for a coup in Dallas
Lock him up
He’s ba-a-a-a-a-ck. That’s right. Your favorite admitted, convicted, pardoned felon, one of Trump’s high-flyin’, Russian-butt-sniffin’, congenital lyin’, absolutely flat-out bonkers conspiratorialists is back in the news.
On Sunday, Flynn appeared as a speaker at something held in Dallas called “The God and Country Patriot Round-up” alongside such right-wing nut jobs as Sidney “The Kraken” Powell and Lin “Trump won Georgia” Wood and appeared to suggest that the United States military should undertake a coup to install Donald Trump as president. The event, held in a ballroom at the Omni hotel, looked like the floor of a Republican convention if it was populated exclusively by Q Anon followers, which come to think of it, probably describes exactly what the next Republican national convention will look like.
One of the red-white-and-blue attired attendees called out to Flynn from the floor, "I want to know why what happened in Minamar can't happen here?" The questioner was apparently referring to Myanmar and the military coup that took place there in February. The retired general officer, who took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic and had led the chant at the 2016 Republican convention to “lock her up” referring of course to Hillary Clinton, replied: "No reason, I mean, it should happen here. No reason. That's right."
The coup in Myanmar, which deposed president Aung San Suu Kyi and installed Senior General Min Aung Hlaing as head of some sort of makeshift “governing body,” has resulted in more than 800 deaths of civilians. More than 4,000 Myanmar citizens have been arrested and are being held by the military in detention without trial. Aung San Suu Kyi has herself been charged with multiple criminal offenses and is under house arrest. That’s how the coup Flynn endorsed is going in Myanmar.
According to CNN, Flynn also falsely claimed in his speech to the drooling loons in Dallas that "Trump won. He won the popular vote, and he won the Electoral College vote." Cheers erupted from the crowd in response to both of Flynn’s remarks.
You will recall that back in December of 2020, after the Electoral College had reported that Joe Biden won the election, Flynn went on a NewsMax online news show and suggested that Trump should deploy the military to “re-run” the election and use soldiers to seize voting machines from the tightly contested swing states that Trump lost. Flynn, who made his career when he wrote a widely praised (within the military) intelligence plan for winning the war in Afghanistan in 2010, was appointed by Barack Obama to head up the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012. He was fired in 2014 reportedly for his chaotic management style and his cozy relations with a Russian woman who was suspected of being a spy. The war in Afghanistan that Flynn so expertly wrote the big plan to win was of course officially lost this year.
Flynn has spent the last 24 hours frantically back-tracking from his comments at the Dallas loon convention, calling the reporting of his exact words “fake news” and denying that what he said could be construed as calling for a coup against the government.
Here’s the problem with outrageous half-wits like Michael Flynn: they get listened to. Trump listened to him. Hell, he appointed him as his first national security adviser. He used him as his chief cut-out to Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn was designated by Trump to carry messages back and forth to the man who reported directly to Vladimir Putin, a job he carried out faithfully throughout the 2016 campaign. That Flynn lasted only 24 days in his job as national security adviser was a fluke caused by the fact that the FBI was engaged in an on-going counter-intelligence investigation of the Trump campaign that neither Flynn nor Trump was aware of at the time. You may recall that knowledge of the existence of the FBI investigation wouldn’t be revealed until May of 2017 when FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Intelligence Committee and off-handedly confirmed that the Trump campaign was under investigation.
Washington D.C. is overrun with incompetent lunatics like Michael Flynn. They percolate through the ranks of various bureaucracies until they bubble to the surface where they actually have power and can affect government policy. Trump staffed every department of his government with these loons. It is a miracle that Flynn was caught in his own lies and stopped before he could do further damage to the country he was sworn to faithfully serve.
Just look at him now! He’s out there running around talking to conventions of Q Anon fanatics recommending that this country is in dire need of a military coup! If you don’t think he was listened to when he suggested back in 2020 that voting machines should be “seized,” just look at where the voting machines of Maricopa County Arizona are today. They’re scattered around the floor of some decaying sports venue in Phoenix, seized on the orders of that state’s Republican senators, where they are being gone through by some company called “Cyber Ninjas,” in a so-called “audit” that is not being overseen by state election officials and is being paid for by donations from right-wing political donors, the identities of whom are being kept from us because the whole operation is in effect a coup against the legitimate, legal voting system of the state of Arizona. When the so-called “audit” is complete, the seized voting machines will have to be scrapped and replaced by new ones because no one in authority in the state of Arizona knows a bloody thing about what has been done to the machines, or by whom, or for what purpose.
This is why when raving loons like Michael Flynn start popping off about coups and seizing voting machines, we need to pay attention to them. There are enough of their fellow raving loons out there that the “suggestions” they make are being acted on.
That’s why the senior leadership of the military needs to take its Constitutional responsibilities seriously and consider charging Flynn with violating the UCMJ by calling for a military coup against the United States government. General Mark Milley, then the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was alarmed enough by calls on the right for military involvement in arbitrating any sort of disputed election that in late October, he gave an interview to NPR and said, “I would tell you that in my mind, if there’s a disputed election — it’s not in my mind, it’s in the law — if there’s a disputed election, that’ll be handled by Congress and the courts,” he said. “There’s no role for the U.S. military in determining the outcome of a U.S. election. Zero, there is no role there.”
Flynn is calling for a military coup because in his mind, and in the mind of the man who pardoned him, Donald Trump, the election still is in dispute. That’s what the insurrection at the Capitol was about. Trump’s army of right-wing crazies wanted to overturn the results of the November election and install him as president before Biden could be inaugurated. According to a recent federal indictment of one of the leaders of the Oath Keepers, they were prepared for a “bloody civil war” if necessary. The indictment quotes encrypted text messages sent between Oath Keeper leaders saying, “You can call it an insurrection or you can call it a war or fight. I’m willing to sacrifice myself for that. Let the fight start there. That will give President Trump what he needs, frankly. We want him to declare an insurrection, and to call us up as the militia.”
These guys from groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys…they look up to men who had three stars on their shoulders like Michael Flynn. He was going on NewsMax and whipping up the loons with stuff about “seizing” voting machines and using the military to “re-run” the election in December of last year. Less than a month later, the Oath Keepers were breaking down the doors of the Capitol.
People like Flynn and Sidney Powell and Lin Wood are laughable goofs until they’re not, and they’re not anymore. Powell and Wood need their licenses to practice law challenged with their bar associations and Flynn needs to be hauled into a military court house and face punishment for calling for the overthrow of the government by force. We fail take these people seriously at our peril. And folks, we are in peril.
This is what they showed at the “God and Country Patriot Round-up” in Dallas before Flynn spoke: https://www.facebook.com/heidihuebelhitt/videos/10223491176205636
There is a cure for Michael Flynn-to be recalled to service and then court-martialed for conduct unbecoming an officer and being dishonorably discharged-stripped of his rank, awards, medals and pension from the Army. Oh, also being put into prison for advocating the overthrow of the United States.
That ought to shut up the little lying asshole. Why the Army or the Joint Chiefs do not recommend such an action is beyond me. They have the power to do this.
I can't look at the link becasue my Facebook account has been disabled. I have no idea what I said or wroite that could have done it, but you can bet it wasn't advocating sedition...