Is it time to petition the military to intervene?
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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When I was little, long before I had a reason to want it to be true, I had this theory that the Secret Service, which is obviously not a secret, was called that because they had a secret mandate: If the President ever gets really out of pocket and goes for dictator powers, it's their job to execute him as a traitor.
Anyway, I doubt it's true, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately.
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i want to do than cross my fingers for this. i wonder what the proper channels really are.
There's no proper channels for this. Either the military leadership is motivated or they're not.
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The Trump administration is not refusing to share power with an opposing party. It is refusing to follow the constitutional limits of a government that its own party controls completely.
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Charles I said something similar. I'm sincerely hoping that it goes as well for Dump as it did for him.
Anyone know the full quote?
It just quotes the three words "should be allowed".
And unless someone enforces the rules and consequences for breaking them for the first time in his miserable fucking life, he will be correct.
Nobody should be surprised
Putin's Sock Puppet is following orders from Moscow to bust up the USA and turn it into another fucking Russia.
We have years of people saying he can't do X or he can't do Y and not enough time spent on what happens when he doesn't comply.
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I'm pretty sure The Judge gets to be the judge of that, not the Executive.
Ah but the executive gets to be the judge of who gets to be a judge and it is judged by those judges it judged to be judges that it will be judged positively.
it's all smoke and mirrors for "i have a gun. do what i say". the question inevitably is who has the gun?
I think I see where you are judging this.
"Might"
Yeah there is no might anymore...
So, those 2A people being real fuckin quiet now that an actual tyrant is in play.
they want a hierarchy and the freedom to enforce it. nothing else.
What are they supposed to say? If they say anything they're gonna have the SS knocking on their door.
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As a leftist who owns firearms, I'm waiting for everything to kick off (in Minecraft obviously)
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That’s because their team is the tyrant.
The objection was always that somebody dark-skinned might be President, or that assets might be expropriated from billionaires, not that tyranny might be an issue.
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This is the step where the cart goes over the top of the hill, you're not coming back if this starts.
Hard to hear, but if goes forward, this does signal that it's breaking windows time. We all have a Luigi line, start really considering where yours is...
Especially if you're young, and they are doing this before you have been able to establish your own career or a family of your own, the rest of the world needs your strength and energy in these moments. Make no mistake, they are threatening you directly, they want to sell your future for a small profit added to the pile they are hoarding. Decide how hard you want to fight against that
Especially if you're older and know that everything you've worked for is at risk. Especially if you're middle aged and your hope of a comfortable old age is being destroyed. Especially if you have family, and know your children's future depends on it.
I know you mean well but fuck ageism, the youth always fight. They don't need a pep talk, older people do.
And then there are the rest of us. Not quite young anymore, but we were robbed of the chance to even have anything to anchor us down. We've been squeezed out of the housing market nearly our entire adult lives. We never could justify having a child, perhaps because of money, perhaps because our consciences wouldn't let us, perhaps because of both. We job-hop every few years already, as it's the only way we've ever received a sizable pay raise.
There is no house, no child, and no job for us to worry about losing. I don't know about y'all, but I've been doing little more than fighting to get by for far too long.
I'm ready to fight for something else.
wanna live forever? do something memorable.
You are not alone, my brother.
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The gears grind slower each rotation, yet we're still surprised when the machine jams. Constitutional guardrails only work if the drivers pretend they exist—a quaint fiction evaporating under the heat of performative strongman politics. We've seen this before: executive overreach dressed as "emergency," norms crumbling like stale bread.
What's novel is the brazenness. Courts are now just another PR obstacle, their rulings reduced to content for the outrage algorithm. Linz warned of dueling mandates, not this farce where one branch swallows the rest whole. The Founders' checks? Dry rot under the floorboards, termites long since victorious.
Democracy cosplay can't hide the scaffolding. When the executive branch treats the judiciary as a nuisance, the only remaining question is how many will still clap as the curtain falls.