• felixthecat@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Hitler didn’t become dictator by playing by the rules. Why do you think Trump will?

    Hitler burned down the German Congress. Trump will do something similar if he can.

    Basically our only hope is if the CIA, FBI, secret service, and us armed forces refuse his orders. Step 1 will be putting his cronies in positions of power and firing anyone who stands up to him.

    Our only hope is that they refuse the firing and take over their respective office, that employees are loyal to them and not Trump. Specifically this is most important in the us armed forces among the generals. But then our best case scenario is a civil war.

    Civil war or dictatorship is on the horizon and there is no stopping it.

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      That’s kind of a separate thought. The topic here is the specific amendment, which will not happen. If he somehow establishes himself in that manner, it won’t have anything to do with this amendment that will fail.

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      He already replaced the leader of the Coast Guard. That’s how you start. It’s already happening people. Recognize.

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        Now that Hegseth is in, the Joint Chiefs will be key. You can assume that anybody with a high enough rank to be a Joint Chief will have tended to vote Republican, but the current bunch would be dead set against using the military to fire on American civilians on American soil. They’ll be kicked out, but the Senate needs to confirm the new batch. That’s the fight that needs to have the monkey wrench thrown in.