I can't with the coping humor. Americans have got to get ready AF.

[ancianita]

Social media people are vivacious in their humor, likening this to a "second civil war" and an "olympian battle into which Hercules/Mueller will save the day!" laughingly calling each other truth sayers and soothsayers. UGH.

It hurts me to read all this.
Maybe I need to take a break, go have a stiff drink.
Lord knows, I've taken to smoking again.

But before I stop reading all the coping humor around here, I want to say this:

1.
Don't get to joking about this situation.
Don't get your hopes up.
Don't entertain fantasies.

Sure, there's a Lawyer Civil War going on out there. (We can even define the legal teams, which I myself call the constitutional v the corporate teams.)

Don't underestimate the Koch machine and its corporate adherents to minority rule -- their goal since the 70's.

Now, two, and soon three branches will serve as the Fifth Column for a fossil fuel Russian mafia. Together, two nations' oligarchs and their pretties are about to take control of all three branches of a democratic republic. Many of their bagmen have become conscience stricken and resigned to save their asses and souls.

2.
The likely reality:

The Mueller final report and indictments will not at all end a congressional party that refuses to impeach.
The solicitor general's case for The People will lose in a SCOTUS that may not allow the indictment of a president, the consequence being that a criminal boss president pardons himself, his family and his syndicate.

Constitutional Law and order will not be enforced.
Constitutional Law will then be beside the point.
Moot.

3.
Just because the FBI has all the evidence of collusion and conspiracy to commit treason, and just because the FBI will make the case -- just because they and We The People are in the Right -- given the current structure of party power, it doesn't mean The Constitution will win.

4.
There's always the US military. Would it, could it step up and take over to preserve the Constitution? As privately outsourced and mercenary as it's become, that solution is in doubt. Then there are the gun humpers.

The International Criminal Court won't be able to do anything, since this country is not a signatory.

After Cuba and Venezuela, the US will become Russia's third western satellite. I'd rather welcome Chinese overlords.

5.
I knew when Obama said "The end of the Republic never looked better," that he wasn't joking. The correspondents at the WH dinner knew it, too.

That's why the coping humor hurts.

Because Americans have got to get ready.

6.
I don't want to be correct.

I just want Americans to get the fuck out and vote out this Congress in November.

I want to wake up bored with my government because it's doing what it's supposed to do for the greatest number, here and abroad.

Cigarette break time...

[EndGOPPropaganda]

1. Vote vote vote!

And you're not going to be bored with the government till 2028 at the absolute EARLIEST.

This is a national crisis. And we need to vote. And it's still not going to be fast.

[ancianita]

2. I've played a long game all my life, but 2028 is way past my bucket list.

[FirstLight]

3. Indeed...

Dark times ahead, I'm afraid. It's never looked so fucking crazy and bleak. It's like they are blatantly taking the Consitution and burning it live on TV every day.

I'm drinking more, for sure. And while just trying to survive my own day to day I am feeling evermore powerless. Protesting and voting are our last hopes...and yet I see it as to standing like the lone student in front of the tanks at Tienamen Square.

Smoke break, indeed....

[ancianita]

4. Glad I'm not alone in this. Bleak. A good word. But fucking "VOTE!" is the other one.

Coping humor is just wasted energy.

We really have to tighten up the Democratic Party game.

This shit's so serious I don't know if I'm up for it.

[YOHABLO]

5. "got to get ready AF" I'm still trying to find out what 'AF' is.

[ancianita]

6. Hipster for "as fuck."

[roamer65]

7. You assume that the US will stay unified.

If the November election is stolen, it will not.

Think former Yugoslavia, times 20.

[ancianita]

8. Military ain't gonna have it. We're not Yugoslavia, its people or military. But disunited? Oh yeah.

[roamer65]

9. I doubt there will be a military coup d'etat.

If we were going to have one, it should have happened by now. Nor will it be able to keep order if all hell breaks loose.

[ancianita]

10. I did make your point, but for different reasons, in the OP.

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On the other hand, we're not lawyers or Pentagon brass, and conditions might not have had sufficient proof to justify such a move. There's a reason military have been in the WH since Trump's arrival. Two generals. So there's that.

Jury's out on the military's ability to keep domestic order.

How it's keeping order for DHS, ICE and CBP border patrol might be one clue.

[roamer65]

13. Crazy days we live in, my friend...crazy days.

Be well and take time away when u can get it.

I do.

[ancianita]

15. Thank you. And thanks for your responses. We're seriously in this together.

[Lee-Lee]

14. A fractured country would be a huge mess

And, unfortunately, most blue areas would fare a lot worse I am afraid. Dense urban areas are far less resilient and able to self sustain than rural area.

[Raine]

11. Try taking up meditation

instead of bad habits.

[ancianita]

12. Been there, done meditation and yoga. They've all got flaws. One does the best one can.