Is Bill Maher right about the end of democracy?

[Dutch Uncle]

I don't think that he actually signed any such orders though. At some level he must have realized that he would have been defied. If he gets into office again, what do you want to bet that those few patriotic military people will no longer be employed?

Trump tried to give orders to the military by Twitter. It didn't work.

Trump is a spineless coward who plays the middle while asking others to do the dirty work. It's one reason why there's a lot of Proud Boys and other White Supremacists in prison while Trump is free to spread lies on the campaign trail.

https://twitter.com/x/status/890619488793640961

 

[Taichiliberal]

I have no idea. On Jan. 6, #TRE45ON did not declare martial law, as the insurrectionists were hoping/were told would happen. So the military never had a chance to defy the order. Would they have?

A Repuke state would have to have a serious reason to declare martial law just there. What sort of manufactured crisis would it take to provoke that? Even the BLM protests, violent as some of them were, were limited to small areas in cities. Would such an order (which we can assume would include curfews, blockaded highways where you must present your papers, please, etc.) cover the entire state, or just the area where whatever is happening? What good would it go anyways, politically?

Just a reminder, the violence at the BLM protests were NOT instigated by the leadership or members. The FBI, local cops and the DHS all pointed to outside agitators and agent provocateurs as the cause.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Just a reminder, the violence at the BLM protests were NOT instigated by the leadership or members. The FBI, local cops and the DHS all pointed to outside agitators and agent provocateurs as the cause.

I know. We still lived in the St. Louis area when the Michael Brown shooting protests started. (I used to live in Ferguson in the mid-1970s.) The local news showed buses and vans of people being brought in from out of state to cause violence. The local polices saw and arrested those outside agitators too.