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Op-Ed: If Trump wins, a coup isn't impossible here in the U.S.
L.A. Times ^ | Jul 19, 2016 | James Kirchick

Posted on 08/10/2016 10:19:06 AM PDT by Ray76

Americans viewing the recent failed coup attempt in Turkey as some exotic foreign news story [] 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.

Trump is not only patently unfit to be president, but a danger to America and the world. Voters must stop him before the military has to.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mediabias; mediaoutragenot; msm; selectiveoutrage; tds; trump
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To: Ray76

Since Trump is the only candidate supporting the military and law enforcement, I think they’ll do all that’s possible to protect him. Why would they rise up against him when he’s their last best hope for survival?


41 posted on 08/10/2016 10:31:09 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: usurper

I have a brother in law on the Fort Worth police department.
In 2013 he said outright that if ordered to go door to door rounding up citizens for no other reason than that they were military veterans, he would do so.

Law enforcement is an extremely mixed bag.


42 posted on 08/10/2016 10:31:56 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Ray76

The author must know something about the number of Leftards/Lesbians/Democrat Apparatchiks Obama has managed to install in the officer corps.


43 posted on 08/10/2016 10:32:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Cecily

That’s why we have 2nd amendment


44 posted on 08/10/2016 10:32:46 AM PDT by Seajay (Ordem e Progresso)
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To: Tenacious 1

It is stupid talk because there is already a system in place for removing a president. If someone is elected president who really is deemed to be unstable and derelict in the presidential duties, if he or she won’t step down, they can be impeached, convicted and removed from office. The vice president would then become president. No need for a military coup.


45 posted on 08/10/2016 10:33:06 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: MayflowerMadam
Why would they rise up against him when he’s their last best hope for survival?

Because Hillary is their last, best hope for a cushy Government pension.


46 posted on 08/10/2016 10:33:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Looks about right for an article like this.


Ok, great!

He looks like the guy in the old Far Side cartoons! Anyone have a pic they can post from those...? Gary Larson cartoons.


47 posted on 08/10/2016 10:34:09 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Have Faith...If you have none, pray and ask Him for more.)
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To: Ray76

Leave it to the Los Angeles Times to print something like this.

We have a legal and above board way to change leaders in this nation. Those of us who know what Obama was, would not seek a coup to remove him.

Yet here the purveyors of the Left do.

In a word, “SICK!”


48 posted on 08/10/2016 10:35:27 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Odds of a coup against Trump: 1 in 16,000

Odds of this guy getting a date: 1 in 9,000,000,000,000.


49 posted on 08/10/2016 10:35:57 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

My Gaydar is pegged seeing this twit.


50 posted on 08/10/2016 10:36:20 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Cecily
It is stupid talk because there is already a system in place for removing a president. If someone is elected president who really is deemed to be unstable and derelict in the presidential duties, if he or she won’t step down, they can be impeached, convicted and removed from office. The vice president would then become president. No need for a military coup.

Liberals don't care if Trump is "unstable and derelict" in his duties. They, including those in the GOPe, loathe him and would want him eliminated post haste regardless of his job performance.

51 posted on 08/10/2016 10:36:50 AM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Ray76

These people are more unhinged than they were back in 2004.


52 posted on 08/10/2016 10:37:19 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: Ray76

What the HELL is going on D.C.? I mean they are DEATHLY afraid of Trump winning this !!


53 posted on 08/10/2016 10:37:33 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: carriage_hill

Rush pointed out that they became seriously unhinged after Florida, 2000, and the train has only continued to accelerate since then.


54 posted on 08/10/2016 10:38:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: madison10

Why? To highlight hypocrisy.


55 posted on 08/10/2016 10:38:13 AM PDT by Ray76 (The evil effect of Obergefell is to deprive the people of rule of law & subject us to tyranny!)
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To: Ray76

Who has ever seen anything like this? Not me. Could get ugly.


56 posted on 08/10/2016 10:38:48 AM PDT by stillfree? (My My My)
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To: Ray76

The people we’re up against aren’t going to just give up.

If felonies are required to win, they would not blink. And that’s between now and November.

After November, I don’t think that reality changes. I just don’t think they will wait that long. Trump had better know who is near him.

As for the more obvious vote fraud, don’t expect any help from GOP. If they don’t oppose it when they favor the candidate, why would they intervene against someone like Trump that they loathe?


57 posted on 08/10/2016 10:40:08 AM PDT by marron
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To: JimSEA
"...Obama is actively planning to nullify any Trump win..."

Now just how do you suppose that this "plan" would play out?

I've never seen any framework that would provide for a president to "nullify" an election.

58 posted on 08/10/2016 10:42:41 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Tenacious 1

I don’t think the 1st protects sedition.


59 posted on 08/10/2016 10:44:14 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: All

I REAAAAAALY don’t think these Leftist p###s want this Cold War to go hot....


60 posted on 08/10/2016 10:45:22 AM PDT by Maverick68 (p)
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