<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt">Spike wrote:</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt">"Journalist Bob Woodward has accused a top general of treason and insurrection.  The accusation  is either true or not true.  It’s either Woody or Milley.  One of those two is going down hard.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt">When Journalists do this kinda thing, they better have a really tall pile of evidence.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt">John, which do you believe it will be?"</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt">I strongly suspect that due to Trump's well known instability towards the end, and due to Biden being in the White House, that the general will get away with what he did. I do think that ideally, even though what he did was in a sense noble, that it still sets a bad precedent, and so Milley should be asked to immediately resign. What would really impress me, is the general resigning without an order to do so, after he explains to the American people about the possible very negative long term ramifications of what he did. When it comes to Woodward, this will only strengthen his already legendary career.</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt">I recommend everyone here read the novel, "The Profession," by the award winning Steven Pressfield. It tells the story of an America in great decline, and a USMC general/war hero who wins the presidential election against the very president who fired him for nearly starting a nuclear war. The general is the quality of man Trump could only dream of being. Handsome, highly intelligent and shrewd, worldly wise, extremely charismatic, loyal to one woman, and adored by much of the public, he wins by a landslide and then goes to work remaking the nation in his image. Having been a former dirty tricks master for the U.S. intelligence community, he actually has his loyal henchmen assassinate any journalists, business leaders or politicians who dare to successfully oppose him. There is a chilling scene where a leading senator who keeps blocking the president is kidnapped and killed by lethal injection, with the new president watching, approvingly. Even as many Americans sense something is very wrong in the country, they see the positive changes helping the average citizen, and so they look the other way. The book has a great ending that I will not reveal. I hope one day this novel is adapted into a quality film.  </span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt">John </span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 9:16 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Grigg via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Report: Gen. Milley held top-secret meeting to block Trump’s nuke access; told staff to disobey all but his orders<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">>…<span style="color:black">I find this disturbing, and yet I do understand that the general's motivations were good and the actions needed... I just hope this does not become a trend...<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">>…<span style="color:black">"In the days following the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley held a top-secret meeting with senior military officials to take action against then Commander-in-chief Donald Trump</span>….<span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt">Journalist Bob Woodward has accused a top general of treason and insurrection.  The accusation  is either true or not true.  It’s either Woody or Milley.  One of those two is going down hard.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt">When Journalists do this kinda thing, they better have a really tall pile of evidence.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt">John, which do you believe it will be?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.8pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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