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If Trump wins, a coup isn't impossible here in the U.S.
LA Times ^ | July 19, 2016 | James Kirchick

Posted on 07/20/2016 6:09:17 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: relictele

“An utter non-threat”

Agreed. Right now all they do is call names, mock, shame etc...Who cares about that stuff. If/when they become the new brownshirts, that’s when they become dangerous.


61 posted on 07/20/2016 6:41:47 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: WKUHilltopper

If there are no statutes of limitations on this, we’ll see if Attorney General Christie can prosecute for sedition.


62 posted on 07/20/2016 6:41:53 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: LeonardFMason; BlackAdderess
"Looks like a bone smuggler."

That seems to fit his background:

'Kirchick has worked as a reporter for The New York Sun, the New York Daily News, and The Hill, and has been a columnist for the New York Daily News and the Washington Examiner. He is a regular book critic and reviews frequently for Azure, Commentary, the Claremont Review of Books, Policy Review, and World Affairs, among others. Kirchick is a contributing writer to the Advocate, and has received the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Student Journalism Award and the Journalist of the Year Award'

'Awards:

2006 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Student Journalism[10] 2007 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Journalist of the Year'

63 posted on 07/20/2016 6:42:31 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama, representing Islam since 2008)
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To: laconic

Seven Days in May.


64 posted on 07/20/2016 6:43:00 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors)
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To: CaptainK

[I’m betting,on election day,the military goes in for Trump at 85%. ]

IF their voting ballots are received and actually COUNTED, then yes!


65 posted on 07/20/2016 6:43:07 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: C19fan
Prolly more, and better, armed pubbies, conservative and patriots out to try it.

Friggin' media just can't help itself! If a coup is tried, every media outlet should be the first hit to protect the country and the protectors!!

66 posted on 07/20/2016 6:43:16 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: C19fan

Actually, this reveals that a lot of liberal leftists are thinking of this very thing. I have told people that there is no way they will allow Trump to take the Presidency. The leftist mentality will not be able to tolerate governance by Trump. The conservative side simply can not stomach Hillary. All hell is about to break loose.


67 posted on 07/20/2016 6:44:28 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: C19fan

Democrats only like democracy when it goes their way.


68 posted on 07/20/2016 6:44:30 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Bushbacker1; C19fan
Prolly more, and better, armed pubbies, conservative and patriots out there to try it.

Fingers slower than brain...

69 posted on 07/20/2016 6:45:04 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: gr8eman

When the right takes power we need to give them a lot to fear. The time has come that we can no longer allow them to be in America. Citizens or not.


70 posted on 07/20/2016 6:45:15 AM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%9)
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To: relictele

If they are armed, that is a different ball game.


71 posted on 07/20/2016 6:45:16 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: C19fan

James Kirchick.....whoever that fag is....should go to a proctologist. Maybe the doctor could find Kichick’s pea size brain.

A coup would be far more likely if Hitlery Rotten Criminal were elected and continued Obummer’s plan to destroy America.

The military loves Trump, and so do the police.


72 posted on 07/20/2016 6:45:49 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (#BlackLiesDon'tMatter)
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To: N. Theknow

“Yes. He could have.”

...it sounded like a good idea to me, too.....


73 posted on 07/20/2016 6:46:09 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama, representing Islam since 2008)
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To: C19fan
Would like to read the article but hit some kind of pay wall.

Does this 'bat really think the US military would tolerate any kind of extra constitutional shenanigans by the Democrats?

Any appeal to civil war by someone on the left should take into account the fact that Americans have learned a lot about how to and how not to conduct civil wars since 1865. We've learned hard lessons from Zapata, Villa, Lenin, Franco, Mao, Castro, Ho, Bin Ladin, al Baghdadi and others. The next civil war will not be about a bunch of guys marching around in the corn fields waving flags at one another. It will be, at least in the initial stages, a leaderless insurrection featuring cruelties on a scale ISIS can barely imagine.

Let us pray the constitution stands.

74 posted on 07/20/2016 6:46:10 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (ABM - Anyone But McCain)
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To: NTHockey
This is NOT free speech. It is treason to advocate the overthrow of the government.

I always thought that would be considered treason. What if another writer had written the same thing about Hillary? I wonder what would happen?

75 posted on 07/20/2016 6:46:14 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: C19fan

I am less afraid of a coup under Trump than Hillary. As long as we have 300 million guns in private hands a coup would fail. Hillary has made it her life’s mission though to take our guns.


76 posted on 07/20/2016 6:46:44 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: C19fan

The Times must have been tipped-off by insiders in the Obama Administration. He’s had 7 1/2 years to purge the officer corps, replace them with lesbians and introduce Leftist indoctrination programs. Apparently a coup is part of the gameplan.


77 posted on 07/20/2016 6:48:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
It will be, at least in the initial stages, a leaderless insurrection featuring cruelties on a scale ISIS can barely imagine.

Yes, perpetrated by the Chinese or Mexicans (or both) as they attack us when we're weak (That too, is a historical precedent.).

78 posted on 07/20/2016 6:49:38 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Pelham

That head would look good on a stick.


79 posted on 07/20/2016 6:50:02 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (#BlackLiesDon'tMatter)
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To: Flick Lives

I think that if the press incites someone to take out Trump, that people should go full vigilante mode on the elements in the press that incited it, and take THEM out as payback.

If they start stuff, someone should finish THEM.


80 posted on 07/20/2016 6:50:52 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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