What happened in Myanmar is exactly what trump thought he could do, and no one should assume

[still_one]

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that he isn’t thinking he could still do it

[RKP5637]

1. He's an extremely dangerous character!!! n/t

[honest.abe]

2. I assume you meant "Myanmar".

I agree that is what Trump wanted and still wants and it should be shocking to all Americans, including Republicans.

[still_one]

4. Yes, thank-you

[Buckeyeblue]

3. I agree that's what he wanted but...

To our country's credit, being able to pull off and maintain such a coup in the US would take lottery odds to pull off. And even then, the stock market would tank, banks would fail, the economy would quickly mirror the social chaos.

And then things would get really bad.

[still_one]

5. True, but what is concerning is that ex military were involved

[Buckeyeblue]

11. Agreed. In my opinion they should be dealt with harshly to send a message.

[brooklynite]

6. Why do you care what he THINKS he can do?

The point here is that Myanmar has 1) a corrupt Officer Class which has interfered in politics before and 2) a non-professional enlisted Class that won't refuse to follow orders no matter how illegal. Neither of those conditions apply to the US. A military coup was NEVER going to happen here.

[still_one]

8. Because we came very close to our leaders in Congress being killed by the attack on the Capital

[brooklynite]

9. Which has nothing to do with the military.

[still_one]

10. We will see what the final report says. There was a two hour delay sending National Guard to help

when the Pentagon was called. Trump appointed some people in the Pentagon that were aligned with him. There were ex-military and some military involved in the attack which was coordinated, and warnings from the FBI regarding this were ignored. The fact that the FBI says the threat still exits should be concerning

If the congressional leaders were killed in mass, what do you think would happen?

Let’s see what the investigation and final report says

[PufPuf23]

15. Putting myself in tRumps mind ...

tRump toadies put in place at Pentagon and SecDef prior to attempted coup.

Capitol riot where chain of POTUS succession (Pence, Pelosi) are killed.

tRump declares martial law in the aftermath, Pompeo being 2nd in succession to tRump.

Military enforces martial law.

Fortunately the chain stopped as the riot failed. Even if the riot had been successful and martial law declared and enforced under direction of the toadies, I doubt if the coup would have held but would have been way ugly.

[CrispyQ]

7. The next strongman won't be so crude and despicable.

Trump might have pulled it off it he weren't so crude, if it weren't so obvious there is no decency to him, no bottom to him. That turned a lot of people off, got a lot of people to the polls to vote against him. Someone else is out there, salivating at the thought that the emoluments clause has no teeth & that someone before him came this close to toppling our government. Nicole Wallace took pride that the guardrails of democracy held & Jason Johnson said that we shouldn't think they will again. I'm with Jason.

[malaise]

12. Except that Myanmar has a history of military rule

and Trump is the first President to refuse to transfer power peacefully.

[still_one]

13. All true, but the had their first free election about a year ago, and the military said it was

fraudulent, and used that as justification for the coup

It just sounded so familiar

[TheRealNorth]

14. He (Trump) won't be the last.....

Because one party (The Republican Party) is slowly embracing the coup.

[moondust]

16. Wouldn't surprise me

if the generals in Myanmar saw the failed coup attempt in the USA and snickered among themselves: Hold my beer.

See, all ya gotta do is baselessly claim massive election fraud and proceed to take over by force! It's that easy! The U.S. President says it's okay so let's do it!

Unforseen side effects of the "leader of the free world" making a tin-pot wannabe dictator its "President."

[Midnight Writer]

17. Looking forward to see GOP explain how this is wrong in Myanmar while defending Trump.

The coup in Myanmar was because a powerful, charismatic figure didn't like the election results.

Sound familiar?