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We're Watching an Anti-Democratic Coup Unfold
The Atlantic ^ | September 5, 2018 | David A. Graham

Posted on 09/05/2018 4:40:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Acts of sabotage against the president are perilous to the American system of government. They're also self-serving.

The title of Bob Woodward’s new book, Fear, contains a multitude of meanings. For one thing, it describes the attitude of many of President Trump’s own aides toward his judgment.

It’s not just that many sources were willing to tell Woodward damaging stories about Trump: The most stunning examples are those where top aides reportedly thwarted his will. Even more stunning is an anonymous op-ed published in The New York Times Wednesday afternoon written by a purported “senior official in the Trump administration.”

The writer says that senior Trump officials “are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. I would know. I am one of them.” The official adds: “We believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.”

The op-ed is so bizarre that it is tempting to dismiss it as fantasy—akin to the obviously bogus Twitter accounts that flourished early in the administration claiming to be by saboteurs inside the White House. (While the Times has likely done its homework, expect the president to question the veracity of the source.) Yet what the anonymous official says lines up closely with the accounts in Woodward’s book, in which officials steal documents, act on their own, and simply disregard orders from the president....

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To: Candor7
Well, then begins Civil War II. And it won’t last that long once the sanctuary cities are conquered.

I cannot describe to you how far away we are from a hot Civil War II. You're not going to see it in your lifetime, or most likely your children's.

The only factors that could prompt it, and I'm not 100% sure either would, could be:

1) Door to door firearm confiscation, and the chances of this happening is less than 5% in my estimation, and then if it did, I only give it a 50% chance of going hot.

2) Cessation of entitlement payments other than Social Security. This would cause an armed uprising of a different demographic. This would be the largest chance of an armed Civil War II, and, if the payments were to stop, I'd give this a 50% of going hot.

Organization of an armed uprising, in a world where 3% or less engage, and are spread out in communities where there are no local leaders, and that organization communicates and organizes using centralized media is much more difficult than during the revolutionary or Civil wars of the past.
121 posted on 09/06/2018 5:28:55 AM PDT by TexasGunLover
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; hoosiermama; Whenifhow; Helicondelta; ObamahatesPACoal
Does anyone know if we can trust the Phoenix-based   trump.news   to stay POTUS friendly?
122 posted on 09/06/2018 5:43:35 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Congress: Add clarification that CO2 is a PLANT FOOD, not a pollutant covered by the Clean Air Act)
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To: Future Useless Eater

Often watch it on Wifi TV. It’s been reliable thus far. Watch rallies on TrumpTV. Yesterday watched hearing on Golden State news. No problems with reception


123 posted on 09/06/2018 5:51:22 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: pgyanke

stop funding the LEFT is all I can say. We know they run the show, we know they lie to us, we know they want to destroy us and millions of us keep sending them a check.

The complaints are getting old and not doing anything about it.

Complaining about the leaky roof aint gonna keep it from eventually caving in.


124 posted on 09/06/2018 6:03:37 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Vaquero

We learned that after Mark Felt was comatose and could neither confirm or deny.

We never learned it from Mark Felt himself.

We always, all we have is the word of Bob Woodwrd,


125 posted on 09/06/2018 6:38:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif"> zXSEP5Z, Audt7QO. xnKL3lW, RZ9yuyQ. XywCCJd, zQ9Ghyq.)
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To: Dave W

Show me where Mark Felt admitted it. I dare you.


126 posted on 09/06/2018 6:40:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif"> zXSEP5Z, Audt7QO. xnKL3lW, RZ9yuyQ. XywCCJd, zQ9Ghyq.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If you believe that Trump does not have the judgment and temperament for office—not a difficult conclusion to draw—this is a win of a sort.

He's a douche nozzle. You want more feedback?

127 posted on 09/06/2018 6:48:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: laconic

Why is this not an “in-kind” donation to every Democrat campaign in the country?

It’s a blatant and direct fictional attack on the President, who happens to be the Republican party leader, and that is a blatant attempt by the NYT to influence every election in the country.


128 posted on 09/06/2018 8:03:01 AM PDT by spacewarp (FreeRepublic, Rush's show prep since foundation.)
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To: spacewarp

We see this time and again with Republican presidents; try to accomplish in the media and the courts what they can’t get at the ballot box. Nixon and Watergate (Bernstein’s parents were red flag communists). They tried it twice on Reagan (a supposed purloined debate briefing book from the Carter campaign enabled Reagan to wipe the floor with him in the debate); then Iran-Contra but they got nowhere. Didn’t really try it on the Bushes, Bush I was liberal and ineffectual and Bush II ditto.


129 posted on 09/06/2018 8:13:30 AM PDT by laconic
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2005/07/deepthroat200507

Mystery surrounded the identity of Deep Throat - named after a popular pornographic movie of the time - for decades, until Mark Felt admitted being the source in 2005.
“I’m the guy they used to call Deep Throat,” he told the US magazine Vanity Fair in an article that revealed his secret.
Until then, the Washington Post had refused to confirm his identity.

Vanity Fair magazine revealed that Felt was Deep Throat on May 31, 2005

Felt died at home, in his sleep, on December 18, 2008.[96] He was 95 years old and his death was attributed to heart failure.[97]


130 posted on 09/06/2018 9:00:21 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You can look it up. It was front page news everywhere when he outed himself at least 10 years ago if not more. He said he did it because he was mad Nixon did not make him FBI director. He was all over TV. Woodward and Bernstein confirmed it was him. Where were you when all of this was happening?


131 posted on 09/06/2018 10:02:33 AM PDT by Dave W
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Journalistic ethics = OXYMORON!


132 posted on 09/06/2018 10:09:53 AM PDT by 2harddrive (Go to www.CodeIsFreeSpeech.com for 10 FREE 3D-printer gun blueprints!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A coup for sure, but not clear how coordinated, but probably more than we imagine. We have federal judges deciding the POTUS can’t act with Executive privilege. We have the NSA,CIA,FBI all seemingly working to topple the Presidency. And then the Deep State itself, including the State Department.


133 posted on 09/06/2018 1:44:32 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: rbg81

No doubt inside we have Hillary - Obama guiding this thing; and Soros working on the outside with ANFITA, and other insurgents.


134 posted on 09/06/2018 1:46:09 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: pgyanke

Yes, and the 3 main networks still dominate the news cycle right?


135 posted on 09/06/2018 1:46:57 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: TXSearcher

Yes, I agree, EVERYTHING is at stake. The Republic itself.


136 posted on 09/06/2018 1:47:47 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: FreedBird

I think Obama is too afraid of getting caught. He started it when he was protected as president. Now, he’s a private citizen like the rest of us.


137 posted on 09/06/2018 3:30:41 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: dowcaet

Whatever acts of treason they have committed are so heinous and damaging to the country they have to drive this president out of office before he exposes what they’ve done.

I totally agree and posted the same earlier this week. There was some bad stuff going on under BO and they are desparate that it will be found out. There is no other explanation for this irrational, unhinged behaviour.


138 posted on 09/06/2018 3:33:21 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: TexasGunLover

It would begin in sanctuaruy cities, citizens against gangs. The rest of the country would travel to help.

It would not involve armies as in CWII, but a continuing series of citizen action that would make it clear that they will not allow law enforcement to be overwhelmed. The Blue state governors would be reluctant to activate the national guard, but eventually they would. Thats when the test would come on whether it would expand, whether the national guard uints would side with The People.They might split.

But this era would not see the massive armies of CWI. CWII would be insurgency, guerilla warfare in sanctuary cities which refuse federal law enforcement.


139 posted on 09/06/2018 5:39:06 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: sergeantdave

Nope, just my opinion.


140 posted on 09/07/2018 8:07:31 AM PDT by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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