We welcome Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman to what has been obvious about 8 months now. Please take a stale donut and join the advocacy. But even late awareness is better than no awareness; they’re in a position to do something and that’s not useless.
I’m not familiar with this “Daily Boulder” site, does anyone know how reputable it is?
the article is setting off my AI clickbait detector - the author is “Staff Writer”, and there’s no original reporting in it, just a summary of a YouTube clip.
also, seven emdashes.
I didn’t click but I just read an NYT article that essentially states the same:
Mr. Trump’s move to formally deem his campaign against drug cartels as an active armed conflict means he is cementing his claim to extraordinary wartime powers, legal specialists said.
And forgive my lack of humility; I’ve already been saying this for - well years really. Not to mention two people very close to Trump who said this in 2017: “He will not go willingly”. He proved them right once already, don’t wait for the second time when he’s better prepared.
an NYT article that essentially states the same
that NYT article is about Trump ordering the military to murder people on boats in the Caribbean.
this article, on the other hand, is summarizing a YouTube video that was responding to what Trump said in his speech to a bunch of generals at Quantico.
so other than Trump doing authoritarian shit, there isn’t really any connection.
they’re both examples of bad journalism, just in different ways. the NYT article does some classic both-sides shit that boils down to “legal experts say it’s illegal to murder people, but a White House spokesperson disagreed”. and this article is just AI-written slop with a clickbait headline.
Sure but they do both point at the same thing essentially. I get it, you want to talk about bad journalism instead, but the larger issue is still valid.
“Staff Writer” is an AI journalist.
Overall, we rate The Daily Boulder Left Biased and Questionable based on a lack of transparency, poor sourcing, promotion of propaganda, and failed fact checks.
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After Hegseth and Trump ended their speeches to the top military leaders there was NO cheering NOR clapping. That was a crystal clear signal to those two asshats that our military will not act unlawfully nor will they break their oaths to the constitution. So, who is going to carry out this coup? USA is freaking enormous. There isn’t a willing force large enough to carry this out.
This is what they’re gearing ICE up for. They won’t want an open conflict, but they will keep using them as a domestic terrorist/milita to quell protestors.
The military will not intervene if it considered ‘domestic policing’.
They may intervene if, for some absurd reason, there is a democrat majority (or; gasp- president) winning an election again.
My money is there will never again be free and fair elections, and regardless the Democrats won’t be able to undo this mess, ever…no matter how many sternly written letters there are.
I was pretty sure that it’s standard procedure not to clap because it’s the military and they’ve been ordered to stand to attention. These were serious men with serious credentials.
The event where they had rookie soldiers cheering was an anomaly from untrained dipshits.
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People in the military are conditioned to obey orders without question.
No. They all take an oath to uphold the US constitution. The entire US military will not act unlawfully nor break their oaths. It’s not going to happen.
And no one in this thread has explained, precisely, how this coup would be carried out.
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Neither do they.
Yes they do care…very deeply. My wife was an officer in the US Army and I know many military people (active and inactive). I’ve never heard one peep about going against the US constitution.
Especially the highly educated top brass who are not used to being talked down to by bumbling idiots like Hegseth and Trump. That display definitely put the entire top brass in the camp of feeling insulted I am sure. An uneducated fatass draft dodger and a FOX News talking head with minimal experience lecturing them on doing their jobs.
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I have no idea what point you are trying to make here. Please slow down and think carefully <- this is called ‘critical thinking’.
Lol what a dumb take
That’s why he sent troops into cities. “See! We’re at war within our country! We must delay the polls!”
So there is an interesting concept in studies of authoritarian regimes, namely that a personalist authoritarian leader must maintain the illusion that they will be in power for the forceable future up until the last moment, if they don’t, then their whole power structure breaks down.
The dynamic of a personalist regime is one of competition between subordinates, with the leader acting as a key figure that arbitrates disputes between the subordinates and protects them from each other. In turn, the leader is able to extract loyalty and power from the subordinates through this role. This dynamic hinges on the idea that the leader will be there for the foreseeable future performing this role, the moment there is any sort of uncertainty, the system breaks down as the subordinates become more interested in shoring up their own power bases and positioning them selves to fight each other for their chance at the top spot, or a better position under the next leader, rather than maintaining the power of the current leader.
Regardless of the feasibility or practicality, the leader must maintain an internal fiction with in the regime that they will always be there, and that they have a plan to always be there. The subordinates don’t even have to believe it, they just need to think all the other subordinates believe it.
