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Thinking the unthinkable: could there be a military coup in the US?
The Conversation ^ | September 7, 2017 | Luke Foster Middup

Posted on 09/10/2017 12:30:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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I love how the author blows off the armed citizenry angle, which would be a HUGE impediment to a coup. And the fact that President Trump is very popular with the rank-and-file of the armed forces.
1 posted on 09/10/2017 12:30:57 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No.


2 posted on 09/10/2017 12:39:37 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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But it’s important to remember that the US military’s oath is taken to defend the Constitution. If there were ever clear evidence that the president had acted to subvert the Constitution...

No chance of that. Obama subverted the Constitution every day of his presidency and the military sat firmly on its hands throughout.

3 posted on 09/10/2017 12:42:03 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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No, because I’ve had enough of this liberals horse$hit and the counter-coup would not forget their part in that.


4 posted on 09/10/2017 12:45:40 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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Obama was political about everything. Any General officer he nominated were lefties.


5 posted on 09/10/2017 12:51:19 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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bump


6 posted on 09/10/2017 12:54:07 AM PDT by foreverfree
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These people are desperate. They have been anti-military most of the time. Now they want military to help them? I guess Antifa thing is not working out.

Having some senior officers in their pocket won't work.

7 posted on 09/10/2017 12:57:54 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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This article is just a sketch...

Actually, I'd describe it as "sketchy."

8 posted on 09/10/2017 1:02:54 AM PDT by gogeo (Trump appears to be working 18 hours per day while congress canÂ’t seem to get in 18 hours per week.)
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I might tolerate a coup of Congress, and of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.


9 posted on 09/10/2017 1:13:11 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017,,,The end of an error.)
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No level of treachery and treason is “unthinkable” to the left. These scum go to bed at night dreaming of a socialist totalitarian regime to replace the Republic.


10 posted on 09/10/2017 1:14:21 AM PDT by littleharbour
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The scenario I could see would be that the deep state attempts a coup against Trump and install Obama or even Hilary as POTUS. The US military would in that case remain loyal to their oath to defend the Constitution and likely stage a counter coup to restore Constitutional government.


11 posted on 09/10/2017 1:19:40 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcherhttp://www.stone)
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Libprog porn. If the US Armed Forces did not intervene to oust Obama, who was loathed with a visceral passion, they are not going to move against Trump, who has a huge amount of support.

Any general or admiral that tried to talk them into doing otherwise would find himself looking at the wrong end of rifles and pissed off soldiers.


12 posted on 09/10/2017 1:21:01 AM PDT by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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Luke is mentally abusing himself.


13 posted on 09/10/2017 1:23:31 AM PDT by arthurus
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Oh, I agree.

What the writer fails to understand is that any coup was much more likely under Trump's predecessor.

14 posted on 09/10/2017 1:26:48 AM PDT by gogeo (Trump appears to be working 18 hours per day while congress canÂ’t seem to get in 18 hours per week.)
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He typed all that with one hand.

Amazing.


15 posted on 09/10/2017 1:28:10 AM PDT by Salamander (I'm on the wrong side of Heaven and the righteous side of Hell...)
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If liberal judges and screaming lawyers somehow managed to “impeach” President Trump, the military would be the first to “stage a coup” to put him back in office.


16 posted on 09/10/2017 1:31:26 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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Whoohoo, let the liberal and Rino ranks try start a coup, pretty pleaaaase...

Then we would do away with the swamp for good.

That said, the only reason libs would
do it is if they knew of a coordinated co-attack from Russian and China.

So is the author implicating asking Russian and China to invade?


17 posted on 09/10/2017 1:39:11 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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Agreed, the military is fully behind Trump.


18 posted on 09/10/2017 1:39:51 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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I’d bet that 3/4 of the 0-9 & O-10s would be willing, and half of the 0-7s and O-8s would. WAY too many of them are Political Animals who have already shown a willingness to sell out the Constitution and the Nation for that next star, and perhaps a Board of Directors gig with a major military contractor after retirement.

A third of the 0-3 through O-6s probably would, if they thought it would succeed and they got a promotion out of it, and half the O-1 and O-2s would because they have more time in some lefty college than they do in uniform /the real world.

Of the NCOs, I’d bet that 15% of the E-7s through E-9s would, and 20% of the E5s and E-6s would. And about 1/3 of the E-1 through E-4s would.

Maybe a decent percentage of the above would come to their senses if they had to fire on or order firing upon any significant number of Civilian Trumpster Loyalists. I hope so. And I hope we never have to find out.

The numbers just aren’t there for a massive coup, no matter how many of the ones who got an extra star or two from 0bama might like to see it.


19 posted on 09/10/2017 1:45:39 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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His own daughter (and her eunuch shondah husband) are sabotaging him. His AG is a hick coward who refuses to crush Lerner or hillary. His NSA advisor is sniping off everyone who still likes to MAGA, and his SoS and economic advisors are backstabbing him.

There is no need. The swamp is perfectly in charge.

20 posted on 09/10/2017 1:49:36 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (It appears that we no longer wish to keep our Republic, Mr. Franklin...)
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