When do we get to the part where the military refuses illegal orders?

[Amaryllis]

[GCG]

1. Don't bet on it!

The US military and the US Congress have one thing in common...no guts!!!

[OC375]

2. We don't. Maybe some, but "enough" seems unlikely.

[displacedvermoter]

3. We probably wouldn't hear about it if they did, for some time to come,

as the generals would likely keep it close to the vest, and the White House and Hegseth wouldn't advertise it. Some other god-awful military, but marginally lawful, operation could certainly get thrown in as part of the cover-up.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. If I were a jetfighter who couldn't back out of taking off from the tarmack,

I would steer off course and unload my weapons in a remote, unpopulated area and claim systems failure.

[leftstreet]

5. Military: Why won't Congress impeach this psycho? n/t

[Javaman]

6. piss drunk pete stacked the deck when he fired the top brass.

he just wants loyal robots.

they know exactly what they are doing.

[stopdiggin]

7. It is extremely unlikely. And even MORE extremely unlikely that anything of the sort would happen enmass

Refusal of orders has always been a very, very rare event in the services ...
Talk to people you know who served - find out how many times they observed anything like that happening ...

( and it's probably about time that we stopped raising expectations .. ? ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[crud]

8. When he orders them to fire on protestors

That's when he will be gone. not impeached, not resigned, not 25th amendment. He will need to be driven from office, by the people. So we need to get ready for that.

[Bettie]

9. If the protestors aren't "his" people

nothing will happen there either.

Fact is, it isn't the people who run this country. It's a handful of billionaires who found a monster they think they can control.

[JBTaurus83]

10. Never going to happen

Hegseth has promoted lunatics, and many right wingers have joined the military and police forces across the nation. If ICE does what it does to our own citizens with no internal pushback, don’t expect much pushback when it comes to bombing a middle eastern country.

[-misanthroptimist]

11. We don't get to that part

He fired everyone who might oppose him.

[GaYellowDawg]

12. We don't.

After Smegbreath's purges, only the cultists are left.

[mucholderthandirt]

13. We don't. There's a reason people are getting purged, and it ain't because they're Trump allies.

The regime is working hard to destroy the military leadership that would refuse unlawful orders, because they intend to turn the military on us eventually. Anyone who still thinks we're going to have midterm elections is fooling themselves. War times means sacrifice, can't change horses mid-stream, insert whatever nonsense Trump spouts nightly, blah, blah, blah.

[Simeon Salus]

14. Mop heads, pillows, and blankets didn't suddenly plug the USS Gerald R. Ford 's entire black water system by themselves

The closest thing to mutiny on a US Navy ship in my lifetime.