Anon Op-Ed + Public Backlash = Coup?

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(09-09-2018, 09:45 AM)Marypoza Wrote:

(09-06-2018, 02:15 PM)tg63 Wrote: I find myself thinking about the Reichstag fire. Will be interesting to see what actions are proposed over the next few days/weeks as a result of this.

-- intetesting you should mention the Reichstag fire. Around that same time Grampa Bush was plotting a coup to overthrow Roosevelt. It was thwarted by General Smedley Butler

So it could happen here Nomad, it very nearly did

ps, be careful what you wish 4. As bad as the Donald is,  l don't think l want some junta running this country, & l know l don't want Pence. You may know nothing about him but l do bcuz he used to govern the state next door (& l do mean next door, as in, say 30mi) from here. Since you aren't interested in any linx let me just say he's bad, in fact the thinking around here is that the Donald picked Pence 4 veep so Congress would not impeach him

I live in Michigan, and I know lots of people in Indiana. They might be conservatives, but they got sick of Pence. Indiana is so conservative in its voting patterns that Republican nominees for President have not won the Presidency while failing to win the state by at least 10%, and they can win the state by a little more (1960, 2012) and still lose Presidential elections if they win it by just over 10%.

I think that you are right about Pence being insurance against any impeachment or resignation of Trump. He is awful. He went to make a speech at Notre Dame, thinking that because he is from Indiana he would connect. The problem is that he is a lapsed Catholic and proud of it, which does not go well with people from all over the world who attend Notre Dame. Little offends devout Catholics than a lapsed Catholic (Pence is now a fundamentalist Protestant, which is almost as much a cause for a clash with Catholicism as is Islam) pushing non-Catholic values. Heck, if I had to go to Brigham Young University and speak, I would have to say some good things about Mormons and their ways. Like many fundamentalist Protestants Pence is a social Calvinist who believes that people having difficulties in life get what they deserve because they have never gotten the Blessings of God.

I will say this about educated Catholics: they know their Bible well, and they well know that contrary to the impression that the Right has that Jesus said "Blessed are the wealthy, for they can lord it over us"... He said quite the opposite.

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I would not be surprised if the penultimate target of the Mueller investigation if the Vice-President. I am tempted to believe that impeachment comes if the Republicans can be obliged to find a new Vice-President. Mike Pence must be complicit in something despicable and even criminal that Trump has done, before or after the election. It's probably not bribery or tax evasion as was the case of Spiro T. Agnew.