(July 26, 2024 at 7:33 pm)h4ym4n Wrote:

(July 23, 2024 at 6:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Dear MAGAts, 

I’ve gotta wonder if it has dawned on you yet that Joe Biden is now (and for the next six months) a President shielded from prosecution for official acts AND without the concerns of getting re-elected.

This discomfiture brought to you by the Trump Supreme Court.
 
Boru

Maybe someone needs to tell Biden handlers

Were it not so offensive to democracy, I'd love to see Biden have Trump arrested right now and call it an official act taken in order to secure democracy.

Or have the FBI pop a cap in his ass, for that matter. They wouldn't fuck it up.

(July 26, 2024 at 6:19 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:

(July 26, 2024 at 4:10 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: Too bad the fund is for the "Biden-Harris" campaign.  They're conveniently forgetting the "Harris" part.

My guess is that the Supreme Court will hand a win to Trump with this one.

The current court is willing to use "original intent" or "texualism" when it suits them, and make up shit when it doesn't.  They will get their desired result regardless of any precedent or reason.

I think that would backfire on election day. If you think her base is energized now, let them think the Republicans stole her money.

(July 26, 2024 at 9:00 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(July 26, 2024 at 7:33 pm)h4ym4n Wrote: Maybe someone needs to tell Biden handlers

Were it not so offensive to democracy, I'd love to see Biden have Trump arrested right now and call it an official act taken in order to secure democracy.

Or have the FBI pop a cap in his ass, for that matter. They wouldn't fuck it up.

Didn't he said something about [christians] not needing to vote in the future? I would say that it does qualify as reason enough for arresting him.

(July 26, 2024 at 6:41 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(July 25, 2024 at 12:46 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: In large part because these loudmouths yell a scary game and collect a large number of guns, but lack the balls to follow through on their threats.

Blowhards. Even if their nightmares were to come true, they would still quiver in their bedrooms.

Not to mention the delusional beliefs that the military would be on their side and that the opposition are a bunch of unarmed sheep.

Per Ware and Hoffman God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America something is rotten in the state of Denmark US Army. To quote small snippet:

With the advent of the war on terror, the issue was largely forgotten.
In fact, as the Southern Poverty Law Center reported, two overseas wars
meant that, again, “due to recruiting shortages, the military [was] relax-
ing bans on extremists joining the armed forces.” 42 Aryan Nations graf-
fiti surfaced in Baghdad, and a Department of Defense gang investigator
told the SPLC that “there’s plenty of evidence we’re talking numbers well
into the thousands, just in the Army.” 43 The question resurfaced in 2008
with an FBI report titled “White Supremacist Recruitment of Military Per-
sonnel Since 9/11.” The FBI warned that “the prestige which the extremist
movement bestows upon members with military experience grants them
the potential for influence beyond their numbers. Many members of
domestic violent extremist groups have served in the U.S. military, and
those with this experience often hold positions of authority within the
groups to which they belong.” 44 Daryl Johnson’s unit then doubled down
early the following year. [source below]

I don't claim to know much about American army and going by gut feeling I wouldn't expect them to support putschists but there are far right scum there and many things previously thought unthinkable happened.

*https://imgur.com/a/ahCMByG

It's a combat arms problem - and not new. Roughly one in five soldiers are combat arms - it can be less, usually not more. That one soldier out of five is highly likely to be white, southern, and rural. White rural southerners are more likely to be domestic terrorists or sympathizers - as that's the cultural basis or identity of domestic terrorism in the us at present.

"The Army" - broadly speaking, otoh....is the most successfully diverse institution in the us. A pioneer of the genre.

Quote:“Rarely have we seen anything like this, and I think you should get a one-year jail sentence if you do anything to desecrate the American flag,” Trump said. “Now, people will say ‘oh, it’s unconstitutional,’” he said. “Those are stupid people. Those are stupid people that say that. We have to work in Congress to get a one-year jail sentence. When they’re allowed to stomp on the flag and put lighter fluid on the flag and set it afire —when you’re allowed to do that, you get a one-year jail sentence and you’ll never see it again.”

So, if you think the First Amendment guarantee of free speech is a good idea, you’re stupid.

Boru

(July 27, 2024 at 6:09 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's a combat arms problem - and not new.  Roughly one in five soldiers are combat arms - it can be less, usually not more.  That one soldier out of five is highly likely to be white, southern, and rural.  White rural southerners are more likely to be domestic terrorists or sympathizers - as that's the cultural basis or identity of domestic terrorism in the us at present.  

"The Army" - broadly speaking, otoh....is the most successfully diverse institution in the us.  A pioneer of the genre.

I only know what above mentioned book tells me and it's focus isn't on army so I won't dispute your take. If "The Army" really is successfully diverse then it's a good thing. Still as a Pole I wouldn't put much trust into armed forces and I certainly wouldn't trust Poland army to not fall in line with would be dictator. Obviously however this have little if anything to do with US.

Oh I wouldn't trust ours either - there's a long romance between militaries and dictatorships - it's just that a white christian dictatorship isn't in the interests (or demographics) of the military as an institution at present. Secular apolitical professionalism is a better way to organize forces, it protects the service at home and abroad - while diversity of background, thought, and competency is a strategic imperative. The us military learned this lesson early, and the hard way - by fucking up and trying everything else first in true american fashion. There are tens of thousands of immigrants serving in critical roles in our military as a path to citizenship - which has been a thing since our country's founding. PFC Bumgartener isn't going to suddenly turn on his battlebuddy PFC Ruiz on the say so of some clown in washington or because suburban moms and dads have racial resentments. That's a critical stopgap - as accidental and cynical as it is. Because suppressing civilians is one thing - being told that you have to turn your guns in on the unit is another entirely - and it makes you ineffective at both, either way.

(July 27, 2024 at 6:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

Quote:“Rarely have we seen anything like this, and I think you should get a one-year jail sentence if you do anything to desecrate the American flag,” Trump said. “Now, people will say ‘oh, it’s unconstitutional,’” he said. “Those are stupid people. Those are stupid people that say that. We have to work in Congress to get a one-year jail sentence. When they’re allowed to stomp on the flag and put lighter fluid on the flag and set it afire —when you’re allowed to do that, you get a one-year jail sentence and you’ll never see it again.”

So, if you think the First Amendment guarantee of free speech is a good idea, you’re stupid.

Boru

How long if one were to light it and shove it up his ass? Came up at a cocktail party.

(July 28, 2024 at 5:58 pm)Nanny Wrote:

(July 27, 2024 at 6:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: So, if you think the First Amendment guarantee of free speech is a good idea, you’re stupid.

Boru

How long if one were to light it and shove it up his ass? Came up at a cocktail party.

You get a lifetime annuity and a beach house.

Boru