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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

Americans viewing the recent failed coup attempt in Turkey as some exotic foreign news story -- the latest, violent yet hardly unusual political development to occur in a region constantly beset by turmoil -- should pause to consider that the prospect of similar instability would not be unfathomable in this country if Donald Trump were to win the presidency.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billkristol; cw2; jameskirchick; laslimes; latimes; looneyleft; militarycoup; nevertrump; potus; shtf; treason; trump; trump2016; turkeycoup
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#NeverTrump Moonbattery.
1 posted on 07/20/2016 6:09:17 AM PDT by C19fan
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Too bad Mr. Kilpatrick was not around in 1860/61. He could of advocated a military coup against Lincoln to prevent the Civil War.


2 posted on 07/20/2016 6:10:29 AM PDT by C19fan
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No job, no car, no family, no house, six figures of student debt and lives with aging parents on limited income.

This is the typical profile of the ‘coup army’ conscript.

An utter non-threat.


3 posted on 07/20/2016 6:10:42 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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Daily Beast loony tune


4 posted on 07/20/2016 6:11:36 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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Kinda fun to watch them implode until you realize that they are dangerous.


5 posted on 07/20/2016 6:11:45 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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Except for the military and the vast majority of the armed public will be solidly in Trumps corner. Pipe dream.


6 posted on 07/20/2016 6:11:50 AM PDT by refermech
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The left is going insane.

This is right out of “snipers wanted”.


7 posted on 07/20/2016 6:11:58 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: relictele

Add to that “probably does not own a gun” and also “probably has never fired a gun”. Probably has only read in a book Mao’s “power flows from the barrel of a gun”.


8 posted on 07/20/2016 6:12:19 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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So the MSM isn’t satisfied with the race war they’re trying to incite, now they’re trying to “prime to pump” for a coup.

And yet no one goes to jail for sedition.


9 posted on 07/20/2016 6:12:25 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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The loons are scared.

This is a good thing.


10 posted on 07/20/2016 6:12:32 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: WKUHilltopper

prime the pump.


11 posted on 07/20/2016 6:12:59 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: relictele

I disagree sir, they like the in-breds in the Middle East have nothing to lose.


12 posted on 07/20/2016 6:13:02 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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Funniest thing that I’ve read in a long time! Considering that the armed forces are mostly made up of conservatives and the same goes for gun owners, who would carry out a coup?

The Lefties live in their own special little world.


13 posted on 07/20/2016 6:13:09 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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lmao... They try to outdo each other om their insanity..


14 posted on 07/20/2016 6:13:47 AM PDT by freespirit2012
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Coup? OK, sounds like fun, I dare them. I triple dog dare them.


15 posted on 07/20/2016 6:14:15 AM PDT by sailor76 (GO TRUMP!!! Make America Great Again!)
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If Trump wins, I can easily see the GOP-E, the Dems, and the Media, all working together to impeach Trump over the first little controversy that pops up. No “coup” necessary.


16 posted on 07/20/2016 6:14:20 AM PDT by greene66
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The part of the military that has been fundamentally transformed, from all the social experimenting, culling of patriotic Americans from the ranks, from the lowest to the generals... perhaps there is a portion that would be loyal to the current regime.


17 posted on 07/20/2016 6:14:23 AM PDT by C210N
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Trump IS the coup! He is a political insurgent in a 3-against-1 battle. Both parties’ elites are against him, and the media is against him. Let the people speak.


18 posted on 07/20/2016 6:15:19 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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The idiot, nutty liberals are the ones that would do it for sure. Notice there wasn’t one with this big eared dork Obama damaging our country for 8 years,


19 posted on 07/20/2016 6:15:32 AM PDT by bcr100
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LA Slimes and maggot infested James Kirchick
are dog whistling for a coup with their La Raza/BLM thugs.

There are enough good armed Americans to put down any coup attempt besides the good people still in our military.


20 posted on 07/20/2016 6:16:58 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Nothing special re words "radical Islam"!, Nation of IsIam is just "Islam." NOI/ISIS equals murder!)
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