unsurprisingly, this is also how you survive cancelling the elections and giving yourself an “earned year” (turns out to be rest of life)
and yes, everyone else is going to fall in line and make it happen, if Barr can order the police and military to sweep the streets you bet damn well he can do it again on demand anytime
I love how people argue that the military would never fire on americans and disobey an order they deemed “illegal” after watching this past week. In a heartbeat they would. The streets would be red and they’d sleep just fine that night because they were “just following orders”.
Looking at that wall, and the craven desperation behind it, and remembering a video I saw on Twitter last night, I can’t help but think of the lines from that old hymn:
“When tyrants tremble sick with fear
And hear their death-knell ringing
When friends rejoice both far and near
How can I keep from singing?”
The winds have changed. All four major networks are broadcasting George Floyd’s memorial live. Trump is not going to bury this, Trump is not going to dominate us, Trump is going to lose.
Help scrape the GOP into the Diaper Genie of history.
I hope that at the stroke of noon on January 21st, the Secret Service stands at the doors of the White House to keep any private security from getting in, except for one guy who escorts in a bunch of DC police who arrest him for trespassing.
It must be pretty weird to know eventually you are going to be Mussolini-ed
No. Don’t do that.
That pig became a martyr for generations of fascists because of his murder with no due process and jail time. I’m writing this just a few km away from where he exercised his 20 years dictatorship, and we still pay the consequences of that act.
We’re different, and should act like that. A dead fascist seems fine; it surely is, until it becomes another fascist hero. Martyrs aren’t just a taliban thing; don’t help fascists by creating more of their own.
I guess the debate about the value of a martyred Mussolini has to be weighed against a flourishing Franco. If you fundamentally have faith that the system will appropriately try him and deal justice, you don’t need to create a martyr. If, on the other hand, you think the system will ignore or reward his behavior, the calculus is fundamentally different, because a long serving fascist still gets the veneration of a martyr after death, but you have to deal with all of the intervening fascism.
It makes me chuckle to think that in not too long, the greatest punishment a Secret Service agent will get is having to guard ex-President Trump. Imagine that. What kind of f-up will you have to do to get that job? Guarding cheetolini and doing his McDonald’s runs. Oh the embarrassment.
SS can’t protect DJT from himself or his past and present crimes. Soon as he’s no longer POTUS, he’s target for state prosecutors and unpleasant roommates. Thus the private army I noted upthread – brownshirts to protect the Boss – until they’re made redundant, like the SA. Hey guys, everything DJT touches, dies. You want to hang around for that?
Um, look, I’m not into fat shaming and nerd shaming and all but:
Most of those wanna-be guys posing with AR-15s, they look like a few minutes of strenuous effort would leave them winded and wondering if they were about to have their first heart attack, and also that first person shooter games really aren’t great training for dealing with actual firefights, and there’d be an awful lot of dead rednecks on the White House lawn.
