Translation: There are too many other sources with which to check our results, so we realized we can't just LIE and report great numbers. So, we're going to pretend we can't produce a report. Which is just another way of saying we are too incompetent to keep our jobs and should be fired, forthwith.

By "fun people" she means the world's worst criminals lining their own pockets at the expense of the American taxpayer.

You know, people like herself.

Yes, yes, they have. Dozens of well-designed studies covering thousands of patients have shown, over the course of YEARS that infant vaccines do not cause autism.

Parents, of children who suffer harm from not being vaccinated, prepare to sue Bobby Junior for practicing medicine without a license.

And they WILL receive a full Big Chicken Dinner (Bad Conduct Discharge), which will send them to United States Disciplinary Barracks (Leavenworth) for several years.

So, yeah, it's "easy" to say no, but the consequences make it really, really hard.

You're asking a LOT from a 23 year-old E-4.

The TAC calls a master at arms who places the crewman who refused under arrest and conveys them to the brig where they await disciplinary action which, because this was a combat operation, WILL NOT be handled under article 15.

They WILL be court-martialed when the ship returns to port.

Does that shut anything down? No, of course not. Every rating on the ship is multiply redundant, if only because they need to fill six watches a day with trained personnel.

So, if someone refuses to obey a command, they just turn to the next guy and follow through.

And then what?

Fire Controlmen (FC) and Gunner's Mates (GM) in the CIC input the target's position, course, and speed into the missile's guidance system. Then, they await the final order to fire and initiate the firing command when so ordered.

Anyone in this chain of command can refuse to obey. But then what?

Not if you want to keep yourself out of the brig.

Look, firing a missile from a ship is a medium complex evolution. Orders come from the Captain to the XO to the Ops officer, who relays them to the Combat Information Center (CIC) where the Tactical Action Officer initiates the procedure to fire.

Completely unacceptable behavior.

But he did time it well to get a break in the traffic to get away.

So, F on what he did, but B+ for execution.

So tired of these buffoons cosplaying their jobs.

This entire administration sounds like they are 11 year-old children parroting bad dialogue from the worst television shows ever penned by Hollywood's most incompetent keyboard slappers.

It's all a performative con job designed to distract idiots.

Sorry Lyndsay. You aided and abetted Donald Trump in the commission of a federal crime. You can' sue law enforcement for doing their job investigating your criminal acts.

Sadly, I think he's referring to the two months they were all on vacation at full pay.

Johnson imagines Congress as a rubber stamp for Trump. And as such, they don't actually need to do anything, or even show up for work.

Military law is required as part of basic training. It is also a mandatory yearly training for everyone in the military for exactly this reason.

Of course it is very difficult for a sailor to disobey a direct order from their CO. And doing so will not stop the order from being carried out.

The law of the United States, and International law, do NOT allow summary execution of people merely suspected or randomly accused of drug smuggling.

Trump is ordering the US Navy to commit crimes under UCMJ and US federal law.

Every captain and fire control crew are at risk of criminal penalties.

Literally, under the law, the US is the one committing acts of piracy in these instances.

According to the US The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, the applicable law in these cases, Individuals caught with illegal drugs at sea can be brought back to the United States for trial and imprisonment.

Wrong!

The legal definition of piracy, from the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), is any illegal act of violence, detention, or depredation for private ends, committed on the high seas or outside any state's jurisdiction.

The US is not a signatory to the ICC. Basically, for this very reason as this and previous administrations have not wanted the US to be constrained by international law.

The US has committed felony murder in the past, but Trump is taking it to a new level of rogue nation criminality.

Congrats!

I love events like this. A new chapter in human history being written as we watch.

Apparently, government by Fox News MAGA grifters might not be the smoothly-running miracle machine we were told it would be... on Fox News, by MAGA grifters.

Funny, that.

Well, if that isn't worth a trillion dollars, I don't know what is!

Sadly, far too many Americans believe they should be able to punish people who disagree with them.

It's toxic narcissism, the inability to endure a world that is not a perpetually flattering validation of themselves.

And the belief they are entitled to REVENGE because of being disagreed with.

So a software that axiomatically can't do math and hallucinates and lies in our new national tax accountant?

What could possibly go wrong?™

It was always about the batshit insanity that is racism.

It was always about fascism needing enemies of the state to focus the irrational rage of the idiotic, gullible proles.

It was always just about Trump wanting to stay out of prison, where he belongs.

Apparently the Official Monster Raving Loony Party (previously known as the GOP) now thinks doing business with Soros and/or being a Democrat is illegal.

But being best buddies with Epstein isn't. Nor is groveling to MBS. Being Putin's poodle, etc...

How odd.

What Trump meant: "Please don't annoy the man who is going to give billions of dollars personally for the job I'm doing for him as president. Also, let's all pretend this is not corrupt as all fuck out."

Could that be ruled a suicide?

Baby steps...

Tired of the legislative branch writing themselves out of the laws against graft.

This is a brilliant observation.