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There will still be elections. Just like in China and Russia.

Another thing: remember when he told the evangelicals they would need to vote again?

Yeah, that's also because Armageddon.

Yes, this. I always laugh at the meal team 6 types that think they are going to be the Wolverines or whatever the fuck if Clinton, or Obama, or Biden were to get all tyrannical on them (yeah, right).

If some Democratic president were to ever actually go after these yokels like they imagine, they'd fold so goddamn fast.

And that goes for ANY group in the United States. But no one else but the extremist right jerks off about resisting Big Government with their little toys.

The guy operating the drone is still allergic to bullets. So is the politician giving the orders.

Submarines, stealth fighters, etc are good for fighting militaries, not anonymous armed civilians.

Insurrections armed with small arms drove the US military out of Iraq and Iran, and that's with none of the US military changing sides because they were being ordered to aguaranheir own people.

Shy of carpet-bombing cities and nuking the countryside, a tyrannical government can't fully shield itself from an armed population. And when they start committing that level of atrocity, the military starts breaking into factions.

Democrats can't do anything right. The party is beyond saving. The progressive element needs to splinter off and start actually working for the people

Thank you. There was no real professional army when the 2nd Amendment and the Bill of Rights was drafted. The Continental Army was disbanded and the militias were where most of our fighting forces came from in the War for Independence. "You will find a gun behind every blade of grass". That is why the 2nd Amendment was drafted. "Well regulated" ment trained and prepared to fight.

You do realize that the people who wrote the Second Amendment had literally just finished violently overthrowing their "rightful" government (the British monarchy), right?

Jim bob can’t, because they’ll kill him easily.

Now if there’s thousands of Jim bobs, all moving around, things get tricky. Now you need people on the ground looking for these people.

We spent 20 years in the Middle East fighting this exact kind of war, and guess who still exists? The fucking terrorists.

This is why the people who scream "resist" don't. They/you always operate under the assumption it's just a guy and a group of crazy people.

Definitely part of it for sure. Part of a larger machine to weaken and stupefy the population.

Very well stated. Thank you. There were 16 million people that voted in '20 that sat out and wouldn't vote for either candidate. He got his base to the polls, but that's it, and did not grow his support at all. Dems lost 10 million votes that came out for Biden (what the hell did the DNC do with the $1 Billion??!?!). That's not a real mandate.

Everyone knows exactly what Trump stands for.

There are 74+ million people who want a regressive fascist rapist in power.

While I think this is a good level headed take, you're seriously underestimating how comfortable with fascism the average american voter truly is. If they readily accept "immigrants and queers did it" as an answer to their admittedly worsening living standards, when corporations are no longer even hiding their plunder, they were looking for a reason to turn on them anyway.

This is by design, and the democrats are just as much at fault. The US flag has been synonymous with torture, genocide, death squads, weaponized rape whether a Democrat or a Republican is at the helm, and it's only been the so-called hard leftist minority struggling for change within the US. As long as they reaped a tiny sliver of benefit from global imperialism, they were happy to shut up and tug for a bigger slice of the pie.

Now that they hardly even get the crumbs, parts of the electorate want to continue as usual, another part wants to get the whole world again so the crumbs alone can fill them up. But the US, from the ground up, has been designed so that you can only get a progressive in power by accident. If a fascist can get elected and immediately start wielding near-absolute power, you were always a corporatocracy with a fascist contingency plan.

and really need the “marginalized people will suffer and die” constantly shoved in their face for them to recognize that.

Shit dude, this lecturing garbage just failed. You need to get the base out, and lecturing them just makes it clear that you regard them with contempt.