I have a feeling you could be right (and they're really bad at armed insurrection, at least so far... I don't see a scenario for how they get more successful at it, either, though they could do a lot more harm)
— CHANNEL YOUR PARANOIA (@Yastreblyansky) July 31, 2021
It's the unarmed coup I'm more concerned about in 2024...
— John «CRT murdered me» O'Connor (@JohnO0Connor) July 31, 2021
I think it's so much easier for Republicans to simply win the election by winning Congress in 2022 and playing the McConnell game. Last year's coup (or really three different coups, one each for Trump, Giuliani, and Stone) was sheer stupidity.
— CHANNEL YOUR PARANOIA (@Yastreblyansky) July 31, 2021
Are you thinking of some kind of People Power uprising like Philippines 1986 or Ukraine 2014? That takes an actual mass movement, not Three Percenters. The people they can get are 60-year-olds who have to stay in hotels.
— CHANNEL YOUR PARANOIA (@Yastreblyansky) July 31, 2021
I think the smarter lawyers are Billy Barr, who would cheerfully commit any crime he could get away with, but refused to have anything to do with this one. Or Jeff Rosen, who told Trump "There is no mechanism."
— CHANNEL YOUR PARANOIA (@Yastreblyansky) August 1, 2021
This is what Julius and Augustus did with Rome, through control of the army through the long civil wars, accumulation of incredible amounts of money (basically from looting in military campaigns), and building an alternative religious establishment in which they became gods.
— CHANNEL YOUR PARANOIA (@Yastreblyansky) August 1, 2021
But Napoleon didn't last even any longer than Hitler. Hitler, btw, tried a stupid coup first, and learned something: coups are a shitty approach. Next time he tried to take power, it was in a totally by-the-book legal way (his constitution had what Rosen called a "mechanism").
— CHANNEL YOUR PARANOIA (@Yastreblyansky) August 1, 2021
THAT's when they decided to try the coup. Too late, guys! the "2020 pitfalls" were that NONE OF THE CONDITIONS FOR A SUCCESSFUL COUP WERE MET. That's not something smart lawyers can provide.
— CHANNEL YOUR PARANOIA (@Yastreblyansky) August 1, 2021
They thought they had a Sturmabteilung--but it was a bunch of civil war pre-enactors, weekend warriors who thought they were training when they were actually playing, with their ill-secured messaging services and belief that somebody had a plan. That COULD be fixed...
— CHANNEL YOUR PARANOIA (@Yastreblyansky) August 1, 2021
Which goes to show how bad they are--like most of the post-9/11 Muslim terrorists, they can't function without FBI informants showing them the way, and the Bureau will always bust them before they kidnap the governor or otherwise do any real harm.
— CHANNEL YOUR PARANOIA (@Yastreblyansky) August 1, 2021
able to coopt government to maximize their own profits even if it destroys the planet, which is what has ALWAYS happened, and there is what is unlikely, that Billy Barr will come back from vacation to install Trump as hereditary autocrat King Donald I, which NEVER happens.
— CHANNEL YOUR PARANOIA (@Yastreblyansky) August 1, 2021
The unarmed coup we need to focus on is the one the left is poised to enact, modeled on the one Democrats ran in 1933, by actually ruling in an emergency, and showing that government has its uses; enacting all the Biden agenda in whatever sequence Biden thinks will work.
— CHANNEL YOUR PARANOIA (@Yastreblyansky) August 1, 2021
The one time in US history a ruling party added seats in a midterm was in 1934 (9 House seats and 9 in the Senate), because people understood that year what government is for.
— CHANNEL YOUR PARANOIA (@Yastreblyansky) August 1, 2021
You must lie in the bed as you made it—
They won't tuck you in, this is true.
But if someone steps out, that is me, dear,
And if someone gets stepped on, that is you.
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