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socialist_n_TN

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38. A couple of points......

Thu May 15, 2014, 09:02 AM

May 2014

Like everybody else, I don't think they'll get the numbers they think they will get. The USA is in no way close to a revolutionary or pre-revolutionary situation at this point. And what they're expecting as a turnout WOULD be a revolutionary situation.

Now, a coup attempt is possible. Probably not this weekend, but at some time in the future. A coup doesn't take the kind of numbers that a revolution would. It just needs the right type of people and some involvement or non-involvement by the active military. Kind of like Ukraine.

As a matter of fact the Ukrainian model would be the best that these plotters could hope for and I don't think they've got the numbers for even that situation. But I guess we'll see this weekend.

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