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muriel_volestrangler

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8. Can't have a coup without getting some armed representatives of the state on your side

Reply to TomCADem (Original post)

Thu May 13, 2021, 02:27 PM

May 2021

He knew his audience would be 99% white, so he assumed he could give them special privileges. As far as he's concerned, the constitution is there to protect the rights of his supporters, not the people who'd spent a year (or 4) protesting against him and had then voted him out - sorry, "stolen the election he was entitled to win".

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Trump asked for troops to do 'whatever was necessary' to protect demonstrators who went on to storm [View all] TomCADem May 2021 OP

When did storming the Capitol become a "constitutionally protected right?" (n/t) PJMcK May 2021 #1

It probably went down something like this TheRealNorth May 2021 #2

republiQon Deity Donny set up the Jan. 6 attack on America Champp May 2021 #3

"We Love You. You're Very Special" dalton99a May 2021 #4

Protect the demonstrators from whom? EarlG May 2021 #5

Great minds think alike! OAITW r.2.0 May 2021 #7

Exactly. LiberalBrooke May 2021 #11

My first thought also ...and to "protect" UpInArms May 2021 #14

What he really wanted was to have the Capitol Police, shoot & kill protestors ... aggiesal May 2021 #18

Protection against whom, exactly? OAITW r.2.0 May 2021 #6

Can't have a coup without getting some armed representatives of the state on your side muriel_volestrangler May 2021 #8

he must have thought llashram May 2021 #9

Exactly TheRealNorth May 2021 #10

But not BLM protesters. ananda May 2021 #12

An armed assault against the Congress? bucolic_frolic May 2021 #13

this is called azureblue May 2021 #15

God Damn! Mr. Evil May 2021 #16

Since when did giving aid and comfort to enemies both foreign and domestic become a 1st AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #17

KnR Hekate May 2021 #19

Another "oh gee whiz" act of treason agincourt May 2021 #20