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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey just said on MSNBC that Trump said
if he was going to do a coup, he wouldn't do it with General Milley.
So he's thought it over.
See if President Biden ever speaks about who he would or wouldn't do a coup with.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Milley must be so embarrassed that he's not a great coup plotter.
TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)viva la
(3,310 posts)"If I were you..."
I am NOT you.
But "I knew if I was going to move to Napa, I'd become a wine connoisseur, and I have!" = That is, if the statement is true, you don't use the subjunctive. I know this is falling away as a kind of weird grammar tick, but it's still used automatically by most of us when we're going to say something that isn't true.
To say, "If I was going to do a coup," means... he WAS going to do a coup.
An unconscious tell.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)But I'll stick with So, he's thought it over.
malaise
(269,063 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 15, 2021, 04:21 PM - Edit history (1)
Still I love it
viva la
(3,310 posts)But then he's often accidentally blurting out the truth.
Harker
(14,024 posts)He's even mediocre at that.
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KS Toronado
(17,267 posts)Always use more thinkers.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)malaise
(269,063 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Probatim
(2,530 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Gen. Milley wasn't involved in his attempted coup.
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GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)The "abuse" was understandable.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)He pretty much said so eventually.
Aviation Pro
(12,172 posts)In federal custody?
catbyte
(34,406 posts)friend of his called him and told him, "You are an island unto yourself. Your loyalty is to the Constitution, not to any one individual no matter what is asked or demanded of you." Milley agreed and said he still deeply regretted his role in "protecting the President" during that clusterfuck, Mussolini-Lite photo op in June where peaceful protesters in front of the White House were teargassed.
I'm so relieved that we had enough patriots like Milley that the center did indeed hold. We were terrifyingly close to it not. Donald J Trump and today's Republican party are the worst things to happen in this country since the Civil War and I am not exaggerating.