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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: Paulie

Which now will be needing a lot of rebuilding.


81 posted on 07/20/2016 11:22:41 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: hadaclueonce

I doubt it. They will stand down.


82 posted on 07/20/2016 11:23:46 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Kaslin

We have a movement right now called the Trump Train.


83 posted on 07/20/2016 11:26:48 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: All

He’s going to leave. Walk out or be carried. He’s leaving one way or the other.


84 posted on 07/20/2016 11:49:45 AM PDT by ssfromla
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To: ssfromla

BTTT


85 posted on 07/20/2016 11:50:47 AM PDT by ssfromla
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To: jsanders2001

“Can you imagine what he would do if he were elected to lead the U.N.?”

He would have to renounce his US citizenship and be granted citizenship from a nation that was not a member of the UN security council for that to happen.


86 posted on 07/20/2016 11:53:28 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Pokemon is a dark evil bent on consuming our souls.)
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To: kearnyirish2
I’m very familiar with the Spanish Civil War; it started 80 years ago almost to the day

80 years, 3 days. I have a Mauser model 1916 short rifle that is unmarked, suggesting it was built during The Republic. I took it out to the range on Sunday. Still shoots straight but at $1.15 a pop it doesn't make it out much.

87 posted on 07/20/2016 12:00:50 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (ABM - Anyone But McCain)
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To: Kaslin

“So what if next January Obama and his barely post-puberty band of juice box screw-ups in the West Wing decide they don’t want to leave?”

Then the Secret Service will have to escort them from the premises, lol.


88 posted on 07/20/2016 12:21:08 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Rebelbase
< “Can you imagine what he would do if he were elected to lead the U.N.?” He would have to renounce his US citizenship and be granted citizenship from a nation that was not a member of the UN security council for that to happen.

How can he renounce something he never had?

89 posted on 07/20/2016 1:03:59 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Bryanw92

“then he’d claim that “the American people deserve better than a choice between two runners-up” and claim that we need a do-over on the primary season.”

It really doesn’t matter what he claims, he has almost zero power over the electoral process, which is run by the states. Only the Justice department can exert some influence, and only on states covered by provisions of the Voting Rights Act, and that needs to be done well prior to an election, not in the midst of one or afterwards. Obama simply has no legal recourse to suspend or set aside an election, so he can only do so illegally, as in a violent coup like the author discusses.


90 posted on 07/20/2016 1:04:42 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: archy

Well, Smith was court-martialed. It appears that 2,500 is likely the best number, and how many of those were combatants is unknown.

At least one major subordinate refused to carry out the order.

“The jury is out to the extent that order was carried out, because Littleton Waller actually countermanded it to his own men and said “Captain David Porter, I’ve had instructions to kill everyone over ten years old. But we are not making war on women and children, only on men capable of bearing arms. Keep that in mind no matter what other orders you receive.” Undoubtedly, some men did commit atrocities regardless of Waller’s commands.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_H._Smith


91 posted on 07/20/2016 1:11:56 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

“I took it out to the range on Sunday. Still shoots straight but at $1.15 a pop it doesn’t make it out much.”

Reloading is a fun hobby. If you do not have the equipment yourself, save the brass. It could be reloaded for about 25 cents a round.


92 posted on 07/20/2016 1:17:03 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Boogieman

>>Obama simply has no legal recourse to suspend or set aside an election, so he can only do so illegally, as in a violent coup like the author discusses.

Who would stop him? Congress? The courts? Media? The people?

Who has stopped him so far?

“Legal” only matters when someone fights an action.


93 posted on 07/20/2016 1:27:41 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Boogieman
***“So what if next January Obama and his barely post-puberty band of juice box screw-ups in the West Wing decide they don’t want to leave?”

Then the Secret Service will have to escort them from the premises, lol.***

Nope. The USSS is an Executive Branch department [of the Treasury] and in the event of conflict of orders regarding Executive Branch protectees or the arrest of same, their orders are to allow those orders to be carried out by U.S. Marshals...who are NOT sworn to support/defend the Constitution, nor to obey Executive Branch orders...but to obey the orders of the Federal Judiciary.

94 posted on 07/20/2016 1:28:24 PM 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: archy

“Nope. The USSS is an Executive Branch department...”

Sure, and on January 20th, they will be duty bound to obey the incoming executive, not the outgoing one.


95 posted on 07/20/2016 1:31:29 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Bryanw92
Who would stop him? Congress? The courts? Media? The people?

The Hog of Steel!

WONDER WART-HOG would save the nation!


96 posted on 07/20/2016 1:31:32 PM 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: Boogieman
Sure, and on January 20th, they will be duty bound to obey the incoming executive, not the outgoing one.

Yep. But Service policies and directives will still apply. And the last thing ANYBODY would want is one USSS detail getting in a shootout with another.

97 posted on 07/20/2016 1:33:05 PM 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: jsanders2001

True!


98 posted on 07/20/2016 1:35:03 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( Pokemon is a dark evil bent on consuming our souls.)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

Sure; that’s an issue with older guns. A friend had an old Spanish pistol for which it was difficult to find ammo.


99 posted on 07/20/2016 1:40:49 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: marktwain
Well, Smith was court-martialed. It appears that 2,500 is likely the best number, and how many of those were combatants is unknown.

Up until WWI or so it used to be the custom pof the Army that when an officer who had served in the hot spots of the Insurrecto would enter an officer's Mess, the senior man present would order: Rise, gentlemen. He served on Samar. One of those noting the custom was a young Lieutenant George Smith Patton, later Captain. Another was his commanding officer, General John J. Black Jack Pershing, who had himself served as a Captain and Major on Mindanao and Sulu against the Moros.

100 posted on 07/20/2016 1:42:30 PM 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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