They are not allowed to perform as domestic law enforcement however. Unless the nation goes full-on Martial Law, in which case the entire system has pretty much failed on every level.
I share those concerns. I also have serious concerns about what would happen if the EC permitted Trump to take office.
I can’t imagine the EC will actually do anything other than rubber stamp Trump, but I have to say of all the motivators I respond to, threats of political violence is the one I refuse to consider. While the EC isn’t at all likely to select anyone but Trump, were they to go a different way, we should all “get over it,” just like we’re accepting Trump getting millions fewer votes but still winning the election. Threats of political violence can’t be used as the basis for a political decision or we may as well have feudal warlords. If some morons decide to take up arms against their country over it, that’s a foolish, unjust, immoral choice to make, but they’ve signed their own death warrant over it.
I understand that 70% of active military voters are Trumpkins, and that SAC and the Air Force Academy are heavily infested with apocalyptic theocrats.
Granted, although I was responding to @Daedalus comment about civil war, and how well equipped Trump supporters are to conduct one. I understand the US military got involved last time the US had a civil war?
I wouldn’t justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior. However, the point is it’s time to address the corruption. Regardless of who is the target.
… which is a factoid I find frankly astonishing, given his ignorance and arrogance regarding all things military and globo-diplomatic.
I think the use of “overwhelming” there is gilding the lily a bit, once you dive into the data.
I agree - except that said rubber-stamping is going to result in more protest voting by electors than any election since at least 1960 (the last time someone pledged to one major party voted for someone from the other) - and possibly since 1982 (the last time a vote was faithlessly cast for the other major candidate). So it’ll be at least notable.
In a sense the US Military (or what had been before hostilities broke out) fought on BOTH sides of that war.
Perhaps a number of more zealously theocratic Red State governors would declare secession, establish some kind of confederation with Trump as their leader, and break off. If so, I’d hope Pres. Clinton would accept most of their resignations from the United States, wish them well on their newly independent life, and heavily fortify the borders. In a few years they’d be begging to be let back in.
Part of the South’s failure was that they were opposed to anything like a Federal standing army and were obsessed with the idea of militias. The Confederate militias were fired up and very successful early in the war, while the Union’s standing army (they called it a regular army) was tiny, and Northern militia’s were less motivated. As time when on the militias, as temporary volunteers, diminished, while the Union kept growing the standing army. When things went to crap for the South, their militias collapsed with high numbers of desertion by volunteers while the Union’s standing army pounded the crap out of the remainders. So in a sense the South had a US Military, but in another sense that was the first thing they abandoned, and they ultimately suffered for it.
But only slightly. They also get more done with Pence when Trump is playing the fool.
Exceeept, what they were intending to target apparently wasn’t what they actually got into, the Florida election system vendor. Not to mention the breaches of voter databases in multiple other states. We don’t know what, if anything, that data was used for.
Of course we know the GOP’s voter suppression efforts actually happened, and at this point, we also know that it happened in numbers greater than Trump’s margin of victory for a number of key states, so…
In 2011, the population of Syria was pegged at [23 million]
(Demographics of Syria - Wikipedia)
In 2013, Secretary Kerry testified that the number of Syrian rebels was as many as 100k, including all foreigners who joined up.
If my math is correct, that means a group as small as a little over 4% of the population of Syria has perpetuated a civil war there since 2011.
not sure your math is relevant.
It’s about the size of the Syrian Army
I asked around a few military folk I know and, apparently, the thing was that the military was fairly convinced that HRC was going to provoke Russia into starting Armageddon (No-fly zone, trying to enforce it, eating a S-400 rocket, open warfare in the skies, one side goes nuclear, cockroaches inherit the Earth was how it was explained to me).
Actually, half the nation didn’t vote for Trump. Half of the voters did, which is a subset of eligible voters, which is a subset of the nation. Not all of those who pulled the lever for Trump are fanatic supporters willing to die for the man. I really did pick 5-10% out of my ass, but I’ll stand by it.
Wait, I thought the CIA were like Section 31 and the FBI were like Star Fleet Security.
The whole world is upside down!
I move we toss out the election results and start over. Trump is out. Clinton is out. Sanders runs against whatever clown the republican s put up.
