The other side calls for leaders to be removed so we cant. The other side uses violence so we can't. The other side does X without cause or provocation, so we cant with cause and provocation.
We aren’t going to regain democracy playing by the rules of a functional democracy, because we aren’t one now. But if we don’t want to trade a Tsar for a Lenin, a Shah for Ayatollahs or a Batista for Castro, we can’t play by dictatorship rules either.
He's more than a threat. But there is no scenario that can be envisioned without the aid of VOC's and a huff-rag where a military coup does anything but make it worse.
I miss his leadership. His calm demeanor. And Michelle too.
That day they left the WH for insanity round 1 to begin with Chump in office , I sobbed watching them leave.
I’m not saying a coup is a good idea, but don’t compare the insane baseless shit they said about Obama to what is going on now. When you do it undermines a completely valid criticism of the trump regime.
I absolutely doubt that your intent was to undermine the criticism, but IT DOES when you conflate the bad faith rage-baiting bullshit conservative propaganda said about Obama and the criticism and warnings about the VERY REAL authoritarian threat that is Trump/maga.
Just imagine that you are speaking to someone that is undecided on things or is just paying attention for the first time. Your post could read like this is some petty both sides shit to them and it’s not. YOU KNOW that, I KNOW that, but THEY may not. Perception matters, is all I’m saying.
I'm afraid Saturday will be a military coup. Why else does he want DC filled with armaments and troops? I hope all Democratic lawmakers and all the judiciary leave town for safe places. Like Toronto.
Yeah, there a military coup against a dictatorship that led to democracy in Costa Rica also. That's two. If you scour the history books, you can probably find one or two other times that happened amid the hundreds and hundreds of times a tyranny that was as bad or worse as the one toppled followed.
What they need to do and what they will do are very different. No doubt, a not-insignificant number of military personnel would help Trump do a self-coup.
I guarantee you that a) that isn't going to happen until the order to use lethal force moment arrives and b) officers and noncoms are sternly squelching a lot of barracks and bar talk among the enlisted ranks about what they'll do if if that order comes even as they talk about it among themselves.
You should have seen the armed forces at Fort Bragg where Trump recently spoke. They're all behind him. Not one of them is coming to stand by the Constitutional Oath they took.
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Christ, if only I had a dollar I read something like this about Obama.
Trump IS an actual threat. The only people who don’t see this are the same racists scared of Obama in a tan suit.
Ooga Booga
That day they left the WH for insanity round 1 to begin with Chump in office , I sobbed watching them leave.
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TAN SUIT!!!
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Figure if we are all posting Classy Obama photos, I'm using the Tan Suit to twist the knife for people it "bothers"
Then this country is already lost...
Peaceful and brought down a dictator.
You need the same in USA.
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