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Showing Original Post only (View all)At what point in a shutdown do people start talking coup? [View all]
I want a constitutional resolution of this shutdown in the worst way, but if the shutdown goes on long enough, thousands of government workers will face evictions, foreclosures, repossessions, prosecutions, and yes, hunger. If Trump and McConnell are seen to be agents of a foreign power intentionally damaging America, arent people are going to start asking, why not?
On edit: Thanks to everybody who responded. Too many to respond to individually. A few people imagined I was rooting for a coup. No way. I'd rather drive my car off a bridge into an ice-covered river. If enough people get scared shitless about the possibility, we might get that constitutional outcome that we (and the whole world) desperately need.
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Or maybe they want to be re-elected, and need the votes of their constituents to acheive that
emulatorloo
Jan 2019
#77
Patience, grasshopper. If the shutdown keeps going, so will the demonstrations...
brush
Jan 2019
#75
As your post shows, someone will talk about it. But no one will actually do it.
onenote
Jan 2019
#15
'the Business Plot', almost zero chance of actually happening . . ' is one of the
empedocles
Jan 2019
#37
"But a national strike...it would just be interesting to see how the media would cover it"
BumRushDaShow
Jan 2019
#34
Organizing people is very, very difficult. It's easy to imagine and wish for someone else to do the
WhiskeyGrinder
Jan 2019
#20
I don't know if he wants it over. Right now the news is all-Trump, all the time.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Jan 2019
#46
I wonder if either one of those investigations allow for a halt to whomever is being looked at?
Crutchez_CuiBono
Jan 2019
#26
The coup that needs to happen but probably won't is internal GOP party coup...
Thomas Hurt
Jan 2019
#31
Yeah, because a coup will such a smooth transition of power. What could possibly go wrong?
Calista241
Jan 2019
#32
"Trump is about to declare martial law", "Trump is about to start a nuclear war"
bearsfootball516
Jan 2019
#33
Reams of Americans stood in Souplines for 2 plus years and there was no revolution.
Blue_true
Jan 2019
#38
I do business with a company where one person openly said that a move from a red part of the country
Blue_true
Jan 2019
#45
1) There was already a coup in 2016. Trump was installed over the democratically elected President
Algernon Moncrieff
Jan 2019
#50