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In reply to the discussion: At what point in a shutdown do people start talking coup? [View all]Palisade
(54 posts)65. Never say never with this presidency.
If Trump declares a national emergency and gets away with it, what's stopping him from just declaring martial law?
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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