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Retired While on Active Duty

Nadin Brzezinski
5 min readDec 19, 2020

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There is a military saying about people who stop doing their job as they wait the final months until retirement. Since it is not much that anybody can do, these people just do the bare minimum they can to avoid getting in trouble. The President of the United States, while seething because we the people gave him a pink slip, has retired while on active duty. He abandoned the bridge while the ship takes on water, the crew is dying and we have a raging fire taking over the ship of state.

Usually, people who do that while in nondangerous rear duty are despised within their units, But abandoning the bridge while we have multiple crises is downright criminal. We know the president has never been interested in the job. He never grew into it. Now he is angry since we the people fired him and he continues to claim that he won the election. He even said, at some point, that he was not going to leave the White House when Joe Biden takes the oath of office on January 20th. Whether this is a base move, to keep them active and in fantasy land, or he believes it, does not matter. The fact is that his base believes the next president is not legitimate. This is one of Donald Trump’s legacies. This is a direct attack on democracy. For you here is a link to facts.

However, this attack on democracy is not limited to Trump. Elections are fair and clean as long as they win. This is a…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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