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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is a rhetorical question but I have to wonder if any of these yahoos
has given even a brief thought to what would happen were they to succeed in overthrowing the government?
I imagine they all think their Social Securuty, VA, or whatever programs they rely on will continue to magically appear in their accounts.
For those with 401ks, don't expect the markets to react well to the collapse of the U S.
And don't think for a second Trump will help you.
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)Ohhhh! Thats illegal. I really didnt think about it at the time.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)These people may not have thought it through. That's a classic mistake.
hlthe2b
(114,701 posts)If you remember that scene from Gone With the Wind ("All We Got is Cotton, Slaves, and Arrogance!" ), it sort of clinches the testosterone-driven idiocy that is driving the same stupidity today:
This single scene is to me some of the redemption GWTW requires, given the "whitewash" of slavery. It put forth a lot of truth in this scene.
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)it sure wouldn't be the guy with the fur and horns. We could have had a coup d'idiot taken over by the real players in the world.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)with the names of every single one of his die hard followers ( them ) to make sure they do not lose anything that everybody else would lose.
Jim__
(15,278 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)shot by others within their own movement.
Cirque du So-What
(29,889 posts)Theres always a night of the long knives awaiting those who have outlived their usefulness.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)In fact, many of them don't think at all. They let the Right-wing media do their thinking for them.
czarjak
(13,678 posts)captain queeg
(11,780 posts)What do they think would happe? Trymp would embrace them and they'd go back hime and to return to their old life, only somehow better? That the majority of americans who voted against him would now accept him?
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,198 posts)Something trumpers just don't have. If they did, they wouldn't have voted for the grifter in the first place.
KayF
(1,345 posts)I saw something about a man who had cancer that believed Trump had a cure. I didn't hear the reason he didn't release it before now but I'm sure there was one.
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