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Obama Is Too Incompetent To Pull Off A Coup
Townhall.com ^ | July 11, 2016 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 07/20/2016 9:11:44 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
Completely disagree. I betcha there are already plans in place to do so. Recall the dim mantra: never let a crisis go to waste.

A repeat of 1968 could be the trigger or several Nice style attacks across the country.

41 posted on 07/20/2016 9:44:57 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SteveH

That’s “human trafficker John Roberts” (for google)


42 posted on 07/20/2016 9:45:00 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: Kaslin

Obama is not the one who would pull off a coup.His go ahead might be deemed necessary, but he is not the one who would do it.Valerie Jarrett would be more likely the center of a coup. It would be up to her and her close associates.


43 posted on 07/20/2016 9:45:55 AM PDT by arthurus (http://www.newenglishreview.org/Emmet_Scott/Mohammed_%26_Charlemagne_Revisited%3A_The_Epilogue)
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To: Mac n Jac

Coups have happened in other countries before, with mixed results; those staging them had best make sure their loved ones are secure. The Spanish Civil War dragged on a few years because people simply stormed the police stations and barracks (in areas where socialist/communist sympathies were strongest) and armed themselves; if the police/military resisted they were killed outright (including some intercepted before they could reach the stations/barracks).


44 posted on 07/20/2016 9:46:57 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t know. He has purged the military in higher ranks.


45 posted on 07/20/2016 9:50:09 AM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~GOPe=Vichy Republican swine/Lock Her Up!!!)
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To: Kaslin

46 posted on 07/20/2016 9:52:05 AM PDT by yoe
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Maybe I’ve gone over the cynical edge, but if the military were so duty bound to defend the US and constitution, Obama would already be removed.

That he isn’t gives me pause about any future hypothetical epiphanies of duty by our military/alphabets or government.


47 posted on 07/20/2016 9:52:17 AM PDT by CygnusXI
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To: Cecily
Obama, Valjar, and what army?

His *Organization for America.* According to Field Marshal Waters....

48 posted on 07/20/2016 9:52:44 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: Texas resident

The Clintons stole 1,500 FBI files.

Obama’s going to leave office with a 5 ton truck full of harddrives with the NSA data on maybe half the population. Running a consulting business selling opposition research will net Obama $500 million over the next decade and on luntil the data goes stale.


49 posted on 07/20/2016 9:56:51 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Kaslin; All

Ppfffttt!

0bama is too LAZY to do any of this stuff. The guy is the laziest Socialist I’ve ever seen!

His goal now is to wreck a few more things on the way out the door, set up his ‘Charity’ and his ‘Liebary’ and play golf, smoke, play with his boyfriends and soak his True Believers for the REST of their cash...while expending the least amount of energy for any of it.


50 posted on 07/20/2016 9:57:41 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: CygnusXI

We are sworn to honor and defend the Constitution so we can’t just organize a military coup against the President just because he happens to be incompetent.


51 posted on 07/20/2016 9:58:26 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: kearnyirish2
The active duty strength of the US military is about 1.3 million with another 800 thousand reserves. How many of these would be willing to die for Obama in violation of their oaths, I don't know but I doubt it would be anywhere near half. 3% of the US population, the percentage that actually fought in the American Revolution and a reasonable estimate of those willing to put down any coup, is around 10 million. Obama's forces would be outnumbered about 10 to 1 but would be much better trained and equipped.

Failed coups degenerate into civil wars. My advice: Study the history of the Spanish Civil War and get to know your neighborhood's friendly retired Eighteen Bravo.

52 posted on 07/20/2016 10:01:13 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (ABM - Anyone But McCain)
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To: katana
Gen. Gen. Stonewall Jackson had the answer. "Kill 'em,” he said. “Kill 'em all.” <

An archaic piker, if a historical classic.

But for something better attuned for a counterinsurgency war, consider General Jake Smith:

General Jacob Hurd Smith (January 29, 1840 – March 1, 1918) was a United States Army officer notorious for ordering an indiscriminate retaliatory attack on a group of Filipinos during the Philippine–American War, in which American soldiers killed between 2,500 and 50,000 civilians. His orders included, "kill everyone over the age of ten" and make the island "a howling wilderness."

Smith instructed Major Littleton Waller, commanding officer of a battalion of 315 U.S. Marines assigned to bolster his forces in Samar, regarding the conduct of pacification: "I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn, the more you kill and burn the better it will please me. I want all persons killed who are capable of bearing arms in actual hostilities against the United States," General Jacob H. Smith said. Since it was a popular belief among the Americans serving in the Philippines that native males were born with bolos in their hands, Major Littleton "Tony" Waller asked, "I would like to know the limit of age to respect, sir." "Ten years", Smith said. "Persons of ten years and older are those designated as being capable of bearing arms?" "Yes." Smith confirmed his instructions a second time.


53 posted on 07/20/2016 10:03:53 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
We are sworn to honor and defend the Constitution so we can’t just organize a military coup against the President just because he happens to be incompetent.

Concur. However, if any constitutional article is abrogated or suspended, then the entire contract is invalid, null and void and without further authority. This is a basic tenet of contract law, and a constitution is itself a contract.

Neither does any restoration or renewal of the provisions of the broken promise restore the document; to be lawful, the entire process of constitutional ratification and affirmation must be repeated. Until then, all bets- and all laws made under that previous constitution- are off.

54 posted on 07/20/2016 10:09:41 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: SteveH

How about looking into human trafficking of the so-called obola “kids” from Indonesia?


55 posted on 07/20/2016 10:10:36 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Kaslin

His election WAS a coup


56 posted on 07/20/2016 10:11:04 AM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: Paulie
He’s done a pretty good job of destroying the best thing this planet’s ever seen in less than eight years.

Over longer than 8 years but still:
Courts
Academia
Media
large urban voting blocks
Many churches
Military leadership....

57 posted on 07/20/2016 10:11:44 AM PDT by llevrok (Lies are born the moment someone thinks the truth is dangerous.)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

I’m very familiar with the Spanish Civil War; it started 80 years ago almost to the day.


58 posted on 07/20/2016 10:12:19 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Kaslin
My Obama conspiracy theory, last posted on June 24, 2016:


I posted this scenario back in June 2014:


Obama has militarized every federal agency, appointed his lapdog generals/officer corp, has the press clearly in his back pocket, and no opposition from congress to hold him and the administration accountable. I don’t know in what form it will come, but my gut tells me it will start with drone strikes and escalate from there.

I posted this scenario a few weeks ago.


Obama will be term-limited out of the White House in 2016, but he has already hinted that he will "stay in Washington DC" after his presidency is over.

What he will do is "organize" his civilian force that will have been weaponized by the time he leaves office.

Obama will arise as a leader in exile with his own loyal military, and he will challenge the incoming President with the threat of real force at some point early in the next administration.

Thinking about it further, it explains all the weapons, ammo, body vests, and armor requests from the BLM, USDA, IRS, Social Security, NOAA, and other bureaucratic outfits not expected to be heavily armored.

When Obama is ready, he will make a loyalty call to anyone from these government jobs who supports him, and will mobilize a militarized insurgency within all 50 states. He doesn't need a centralized army, he will have enough force in each state that matters, enough to scare.

Most recently militarized...

NOAA and Social Security

USDA




-PJ

59 posted on 07/20/2016 10:14:10 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think he is treasonous and a domestic enemy, not incompetent.
Like I said, maybe I’m over the cynical edge lol.


60 posted on 07/20/2016 10:17:07 AM PDT by CygnusXI
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