Is the US ripe for a coup?

[henryp]

Nor is your confident speculation to the contrary.

Except that I'm a retired military man, and working historian. I consult with the Naval History and Heritage Command and provided material to the Center for Military History as well as seventeen foreign countries. Hyperwar has 200 terabytes of files on WWII, a twenty-five year project to date. I have my Masters in History from Purdue. 

Other than that and some more things, you're right, I got nothing.

In case you were wondering, at least one people enjoyed this.  Doubly so, that it in no way caused Anomal to question the worth of his own opinion.

[Anomalocaris]

I am glad you are entertained


I am most entertained by you as well.  

You might consider that I didn't form my opinion in any vacuum,  I am well aware the preponderance of popular opinion, informed by suitably pious histrogtaphy, offer a totally different take from my own.

If the preponderance of pious histrogtaphy by established and respected historians failed to dissuade me from forming a different opinion of my own, why would you think that, just because one person on the internet tries to overawe by flinging fairly modest credentials, I would be puasuaded to abandon my opinions?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I am glad you are entertained


I am most entertained by you as well.  

You might consider that I didn't form my opinion in any vacuum,  I am well aware the preponderance of popular opinion, informed by suitably pious histrogtaphy, offer a totally different take from my own.

If the preponderance of pious histrogtaphy by established and respected historians failed to dissuade me from forming a different opinion of my own, why would you think that, just because one person on the internet tries to overawe by flinging fairly modest credentials, I would be puasuaded to abandon my opinions?

History doesn't care what you think.

[Anomalocaris]

Nor what you think.

[Ravenshire]

(emphasis is mine)

This is the loophole that I think could be used in the very unlikely event of a coup. If enough of the military became convinced the Trumpster was a legitimate domestic threat, and Congress had taken no action, they would be bound by their oath to defend their nation against that threat. This would most likely not take the form of action against the presidency, but action against the sitting president. It would also be a last ditch action in a case where congress has failed in their duty to a degree I find, despite all the corrupt fuck-nuggets currently elected, unbelievable.

Let me know when that happens. 

Maybe you can show me where I stated it was at all likely. In fact, I emphasized just how unlikely I think it is.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Okay then.