zip accident wrote:What are the army and the marines going to do? The pretense that Trump is President not King can't last much longer, and when that becomes blatant, the army will be duty bound to resist, which will not be a small thing.
Technically, the American people are also duty-bound to resist as well.
Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, July 4th 1776 wrote:That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
This is actually the first granted right - because "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" are inalienable rights of just being a human being, not granted rights - of every American citizen. And, as you can see, it is not just their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.
But historical principle aside - because what does it practically matter when Trump seemingly has been granted "the Divine Right of Kings" to ignore whatever the fuck laws he likes, and the Supreme Court is in his pocket that they are not correctly telling him to sit down and shut up? Nixon lost because he uttered "when the President does it, it's not illegal" to David Frost - but now that's just become the land of the law, not a scandalous resignation-worthy impediment to would-be dictators - for all the talk of the 2nd Amendment, the practical reality is that your pistol or shotgun is useless, if facing trained soldiers with cruise missiles and aircraft carriers.
It does very much matter how the army reacts.
But this is the other bit of bad news. Because whilst denying that "Project 2025" was the plan all along during the election, Trump's lackeys have been gloating, after electoral success, that this was the plan all along, suckers.
And it involves, as we're seeing, cutting government down to an ineffective size to resist and then swapping out all the key positions for Trump loyalists.
So would the US Army actually do anything, when - under the pretext of getting rid of "DEI" - you've removed the problematic "liberals", instituted a Trump loyalist lackey to run the department?
The first thing that "Project 2025" is doing, under Elon's cuts, is crippling / removing any opposition and parachuting Trump loyalists into key positions (as well as just the general "smaller state = less power to affect things").
The Heritage Foundation, in drafting "Project 2025", gave Trump a full plan to take over and control government first, before they move to the "restoring Christian values" part of their plans.
Although, that said, that scene in "the Handmaid's Tale" where the women show up to work to find they've been fired is already happening to women, blacks, trans people, gays, the disabled or other "DEI hire" under Elon's "purge".
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