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ProudMNDemocrat

(18,854 posts)
3. Some of them are former Military...Let us NOT forget that.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:24 AM
Apr 2024

To break the oath they swore to the US Constitution and the USA when enlisting in the US Military will brand them as TRAITORS.

marble falls

(61,755 posts)
5. A lot of us are vets, too. Only we got honorable discharges. Those in the photo may have left the services, ...
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:30 AM
Apr 2024

... but it looks like they've never separated from the chow line. If they get knocked down, how will they ever get up? I guess they become and anti tank block.

Hotler

(11,971 posts)
2. Yesterday was the anniversary of the confederate surrender at Appomattox in 1865
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:22 AM
Apr 2024

How many times do they want to lose?
Battle of Appomattox Court House, (April 9, 1865), one of the final battles of the American Civil War. After a weeklong flight westward from Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee briefly engaged Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant before surrendering to the Union at Appomattox Court House. This signaled the beginning of the end of the protracted Civil War.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Appomattox-Court-House

Johnny2X2X

(21,417 posts)
4. Trump has been arrested 4 times now
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:25 AM
Apr 2024

Where were the Gravy Seals?

He's been arrested in 4 different districts now.

Prairie_Seagull

(3,691 posts)
7. The President would I think, suspend the Posse Comitatus act.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:36 AM
Apr 2024

These bone heads would be fighting the complete fighting forces of the USA. This would be idiotic.

A skirmish here or there put down by the national guard. I can see this.

Someone attacking the capital. Not a chance in hell. Fool us once, shame on you, If you try it a second time I am pretty sure you would be opening a can of serious whup ass.

Oops link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
IMO

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