The shlt is about to hit the fan. The defense secretary has been fired, and they've just started building a defensive barricade around the White House. People need to start taking this seriously - these are not normal times.
I think there’s a very specific progression to this. Start with vote suppression and intimidation. Then lawsuits. Then rogue electoral slates. And if none of that works, martial law and termination of democracy.
I’ve been saying all along it’s going to come down to what the generals decide to do when the chips are down. Nothing I’m seeing now makes me think I was wrong.
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« Reply #5362 on: November 10, 2020, 06:43:38 pm »
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Current R's can no longer be trusted to have an appropriate "line" they will not allow Trump to cost. We are loooooooooong past that. Further, many of them seem happy to use Trump as their unwitting "muscle" in an attempt to maintain power as long as possible (McConnell, etc.) In this environment, my concern is that the longer Trump's abuses and lies are validated by R silence, the more likely it is for his cultish base to engage in coordinated violent activity. Just last month, there was a credible threat to a governor's life, and that was simply about state shutdowns. What are "militias" going to do if/when they are fully convinced the election is being stolen from Trump? If that's not cause for an armed uprising to that demographic, I don't know what is.
Further, while I don't believe we'll see full-blown military support of any Trump coup attempt, the truth is there are members of our armed forces who believe his nonsense, too. As Trump has found enablers to serve in so many senior administration roles, who is to say there aren't senior level military officials who believe Trump's lies and see it as their ultimate patriotic duty to "save the republic" by standing up to the D attempt to "steal the election"?
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What do you guys think now??
The military coup stuff seems pretty silly now, right? As does notion that Rs in election process have no line not willing to cross.
What has happened is that folks, even Rs, took their jobs seriously in the election process. And the courts worked. The free press worked. The opposition party forcefully opposed the Trump shenanigans. Even Trump's lawyers with reputations dropped out. Giuliani and his ilk have been exposed as clowns. Military is waiting patiently for a new commander in chief.
Biden will be inaugurated on January 20.
Then there will be the usual and expected partisan fights.
Instead of posting alarmist nonsense, consider doing something constructive if you so choose.