The commander of the base wrote, “I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the US administration discussed by Vice-President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base.” in an email and was thus dismissed. In dismissing her, the Pentagon stated this reason. “Actions [that] undermine the chain of command or to subvert President [Donald] Trump’s agenda will not be tolerated at the Department of Defense.”
JD Vance exudes weakness.
The patron saint of yes-men.
I heard he recently hit it off with a chaise lahegaounge
Edit: I’m so, so torn on whether to put those last two words into an imagegen
I mean, if you’re the Vice President, it’s kind of hard to put much pressure on the President. The Vice President has virtually no power or formal responsibilities other than what the President chooses to delegate to him. I mean, if he annoys the President, the President can very readily leave him with nothing other than a bit of prestige and a tie-breaking vote in the Senate.
Though the President can’t actually remove the Vice President, no matter how unhappy with him he is.
So what you’re saying is that he’s possibly the one person in the country that can tell the fascist fartknocker the truth and not be removed from office? Poor guy, I’m glad he’s doing the right thing instead.
Well, he might not be removed from office, but how much is holding the office actually worth if it has no political power?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nance_Garner
John Nance Garner III (November 22, 1868 – November 7, 1967), known among his contemporaries as “Cactus Jack”, was the 32nd vice president of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1941, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Like most vice presidents in this era, Garner had little to do and little influence on the president’s policies. He famously described the vice presidency as being “not worth a bucket of warm piss” (for many years, this quote was bowdlerized as “warm spit”).
Alternatively, the President can’t actually remove the Vice President, no matter how unhappy with him he is.
He can be impeached, especially with a house that is under the president’s thumb.
It does create an odd situation in the senate about voting him out. I think dems would refuse a farce impeachment, even against the opposing party, but either way its a win for them.
undermining
Prior to the base commander commenting and destroying his effort, Vance was on totally firm ground and had pretty much convinced the entire population of Greenland.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they are a woman.
Pshaw! What’s a woman doing in space? Get rid of her! Also, let’s get rid of those Sigourney Weaver DEI alien movies from the Library of Congress as well!
Another scapegoat in an otherwise ill conceived plan.
Replacing base commanders is very indicative of a potential military coup
That’s the jööööke.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times
