The administration claims to love veterans and the military, yet that's how they treat them.
Even worse, in the Iran thread, they were celebrating it
I agree that its fucked up and he didn't deserve that; but on another note (not saying this justifies it, obv) if you put on your uniform to make political statements you are a stinky fucking nigger.
I agree with the sentiments of all three of these posts.
I'd say my take on the subject is that this marine is speaking the truth, but the way he went about it was probably not the smartest, or most tactful. I don't think a uniform should be used to make political statements, it sets a bad precedent. Nor is it wise to go into the Senate chamber and start screaming at the top of your lungs. But we are in such extraordinary times, they have made our legislature into a total farce, more or less a rubber stamp machine. Congress is supposed to check the power of the Executive, and yet they are enabling the Executive branch by refusing to do anything when it exercises powers that are intended for the Legislative branch.
As it stands right now, all three branches of government, the Legislature, Judiciary, and the Executive are in the pockets of one single party, and effectively one man. The Supreme Court, for instance, six are Trump allies, and of those six, three were directly appointed by Trump. They made a big show of mass firing employees of the Federal government, these people worked for departments under the Executive branch, meaning they've effectively purged resistance in the Executive Branch. A slim majority of Congress is Republican, and I can imagine that at least some of those Republicans don't want to work with Trump, but say they go against him? He will pull out the checkbook and make sure that representative is slandered and smeared, they will run thousands of ads against him, they will drown him out, demonize him, and replace him with a loyalist. So any non-MAGA Republican is putting his ass on the line if he speaks out or votes wrong.
The system has been thoroughly broken, not by a coup, not by the end of, or rigging of elections (Though I find it pretty scary the comments they make), but simply through concentration of power by one party. In times like these, how can I blame a veteran for acting out, when all other avenues of reasonable protest have been closed? When we are being dragged into a war that no sensible person wants, by a man who promised to us, "No new wars"? When they could not care less about hearing us out?
Frankly, they should be thankful that a marine is protesting peacefully, in other countries, upset veterans overthrow the government. It has almost happened here before, as well, several times. Silver lining is that this is not the first time we have had our government compromised like this, but it was by men of a higher caliber. Lincoln, Roosevelt, say what you want of some of their choices, but they were men who valued our institutions, and had legitimate reasons for the power they wielded. They exercised noblesse oblige, I doubt Trump even knows the meaning of that phrase. We have rooted out one party rule before, but when it has happened before, the potential for damage wasn't nearly so high.