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Not sure what you're talking about. I'm not a nihilist. I believe in democracy and the rule of law, among many other beliefs and principles.
On the topic of Trump, I happen to think most Americans are not ready to do what must be done. I don't believe there is nothing that CAN be done. Do you understand the difference?
I have hope that there are individual Americans, or institutions, that will push back. But if it's successful I doubt it will be because Trump followed the law. There's no indication he cares about the law.
He doesn't.
The big problem, even if millions of civilians are suddenly ready to fight and pull out their handguns and rifles..... The military have tanks, and rockets, and drones that assassinate from thousands of feet up. There's no way people could fight that.
He is already packing upper leadership with people loyal to him. You can't take control of a gov by force without a military backing you.
the US military hasn’t won against an insurgency since that one was squashed in 1950 and before that was 1902. that is considering the us has untouchable industrial military complex, unbroken supply lines, and a monopoly on advanced tech.
an uprising IN THE CONTINENTAL US would be absolutely DEVASTATING. where all our infestructure is protected by a civil agreement not to destroy them… and with a nation as large as ours and armed as ours… arguments that the military just can’t be beat because of weaponry is laughable
Exactly what every sane and reasonable person was saying for decades, but 2A cultists wouldn't hear it, and preferred to have dead kids so they could look like cool badasses carrying an AR.
Maybe people should start flying drones and join an improv group, IYKWIM
That's his weak point. He has support in the military, but not enough to actually test it, and especially not enough to give the larger mass of servicepeople a taste for gunning down their own countrymen.
He had intended to be past this point by last spring, but he's not there yet, and meanwhile what's left of the courts is slowing his roll.
Without the military willing to take direct domestic action, in the end this coup WILL fail. I'm not saying it's impossible he could actually do it, but I am saying it seems less and less likely every day.
In the meantime I am just hoping against hope his sorry demented ass doesn't start WWIII, because that actually is a possibility.