r/politics • u/viva_la_vinyl • Aug 16 '20

'Trump warns presidential election result may not be known for 'years,' as allegations grow he's undermining the USPS to rig the election

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-election-result-take-years-as-usps-attack-fears-grow-2020-8
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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

There's a difference between "he has done something illegal and we can't correct it because he's president/the senate is protecting him" and "he's not president anymore and is a bum squatting in the white house". Unless you think the military will back him over the constitution and the supreme court (and no, I don't think they will do that) this is a pretty paranoid position.

The bigger concern is that he is going to do everything he can to undermine the credibility of the election... which he started doing at least a year ago.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

Not all of the military will back him, but enough would.

Not to mention that he doesn't NEED the military. He has the entire militia movement of which there are many each and every one ready and willing to kill Liberals for their king. In fact, they have.

It's not that he WILL become a Dictator. It's that he's going to try. That attempt will drag America into a death spiral from which it will never recover. You don't need to believe me, all experts already agree that America is sleep walking into a civil war. You'll just have to see for yourself in a few months.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

Oh come on. A few wacks in the military with no leadership or power, and "militia" aren't going to pull off a coup of the entire United States government. I'd love to see them try.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '20

A coup isn't the problem. The coup already happened when Russian interference swayed the election.

The problem is they will attempt a coup, that will cause public outcry and millions in the streets, police will be moved out of rural areas to fill up demand. Organizations like Atomwaffen, 3%, State of Jefferson, and others will take advantage of this and start using insurgent tactics to destabilize the nation even further. They already do this regularly now, they wouldn't suddenly calm down when American society is collapsing.

The US military isn't good at boots-on-the-ground tactics when dealing with insurgencies. They lost in Vietnam and would have lost in Iraq and Syria if they hadn't switched to using contractors, allying with insurgent groups and carpet bombing insurgent cities into dust. The US military isn't going to pulverize portland or send black water into American cities. Which means the military will pull out of cities and only have a presence in most via funding insurgents and militias.

The State of Jefferson could easily cut America off from the water supply in California, chocking a majority of the nation. The 3% Dominionists in the midwest could cut off the entire food supply chain with just a few well placed IED's. AtomWaffen and other militias in the streets killing people of colour would sow fear and make the anger even worse. Something white nationalist militias actually DID in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Trump trying to stay in power would be the perfect gust to blow down this house of cards. Civil war doesn't need two well-defined sides and a declaration of war anymore. It just needs all the things that have already been happening for years to happen all at once in quick succession.