Trump Declared War On America...And Lost

[Celerity]

Trump tried to take up arms against the people of the United States and failed spectacularly on every conceivable level.

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/trump-declared-war-on-americaand



What if you threw an American military coup and no one showed up, including the military? That’s the question Donald Trump answered for posterity last week as he bravely hid in his bunker and tweeted his impotent rage to the world. Make no mistake about what happened; America was on the edge of the abyss. We were at the same inflection point we’ve seen in other countries right before they fell into despotism. Where the military ceased to be a force to prevent foreign incursion and instead became a weapon to coerce the civilian populace. Trump tried to take up arms against the people of the United States and failed spectacularly on every conceivable level.

What Happened?

The basics are clear: George Floyd was slowly asphyxiated to death over the course of almost ten minutes by a white cop who was clearly enjoying himself. Three other officers helped hold Floyd down while this murder was taking place, showing a depraved indifference to what was happening. The entire scene was recorded and it went viral, sparking large protests. The police in several locations around the country responded as the police are wont to do: poorly and with grossly unnecessary violence. There was tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper spray, and pepper balls; all of which was unloaded into crowds of unarmed protesters with reckless abandon. At the same time, a small number of protesters, overwhelmingly and curiously white, smashed windows, burned cop cars, and instigated looting. Unlike previous protests over police brutality that got violent, disproportionately little of the violence appears to have been carried out by the black community. For instance, here’s a totally not-at-all suspicious looking white protester smashing windows and then immediately leaving the scene. Nope. Nothing odd about this guy. Absolutely spontaneous. For sure.

Link to tweet

This lends credence to various reports from authorities that white nationalist agitators were targeting the protests in order to kick off their long-awaited race war. Or maybe just a war against the government. It depends on which faction of the domestic terrorist right you belong to. Do you wear Hawaiian shirts to the second Civil War or do you wear camo? These questions matter, darnnit! Regardless of which group of white people started smashing things or why, the right blamed Antifa, the right’s favorite boogeyman not named George Soros or Hillary Clinton. This allowed them to clutch their pearls in fear and demand an increasingly violent response to the civil unrest. Trump, following his authoritarian instincts, wanted to use the military to stomp out the protests. But, as in most of his life, his natural cowardice prevented him from actually giving the orders. Instead, he tweeted about how he was going to send the military into cities and be super duper tough. Then he demanded governors carry out his super duper tough guy plan for him because, again, he was too cowardly to give the order himself. It was only after Trump hid in his bunker that he (or more likely someone on his staff) ordered the military into DC to quell the growing protests. That’s when Trump’s grand plan to lead a military takeover of the United States went off the rails at high speed.

If You Lead, They Might Follow. But First, You Have To Lead

Trump “leads” the same way a mob boss “leads”; he never gives the orders himself so he can claim innocence in a court of law. “It’s not my fault that military raid went wrong, blame the generals!” “It’s not my fault this pandemic spread, blame the CDC!” “I don’t take any responsibility at all.” This is why he was trying to get the governors to order the military in. It’s true a president legally needs their consent to use the military in American cities but Trump has nothing but contempt for the law. If he thought the military would obey his illegal orders, he would have given them without a second’s hesitation. But he didn’t know if the military would be his personal weapon so he wanted the governors to try it out first. If they had done so, Trump could take credit and he would know that the military would, in fact, deploy against the civilian population if he ordered them to start shooting protesters. If they refused to take up arms against civilians, he could blame it all on the governors for trying to force the military to break their oath, etc. etc. These kinds of tests are a regular occurrence in the Trump regime. Cross a line here, violate a political or ethical norm there. Who needs the Constitution when you have the most powerful military in the world to subdue the masses?

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. Hope they ID the idiot breaking the Auto Zone windows. Idiots don't realize that smart ...

phones are going to be their downfall. Nail the a&&h**e to the wall, for basically trying to instigate a riot. Instead of the peaceful protesters.

[90-percent]

2. agreed

i think the incident and identity of this instigator is slipping into the memory hole.

-90% jimmah