Context: Trump's lawyers are in front of the Supreme Court arguing that presidents cannot be prosecuted for any crimes they commit while in office.
Who knows how the Calvinball refs will decide this one, but if they go Trump's way, Biden has literally no excuse not to assassinate his political rivals.
Killing him might lead to a backlash worse than him getting elected again.
I think I'm only exaggerating a little bit in saying it might cause a civil war.
If they believe he will become a dictator (the trick here is I don't think they do) then there would need to be some kind of resistance and civil war in response, right? So kill the future dictator and deal with the possible civil war while you're officially in charge of the nation.
this is all just sophistry, the ones in power don't think he'll be a dictator they just think that's what the rubes need to hear
Imagine how funny it'd be tho
Oh now Jan 6th on a slightly bigger scale? How will we survive the hordes of guys dressed as Vikings and car dealership owners tasing themselves in the balls??? How can a modern military with automatic weapons and drones handle such a elite fighting force!?!?
Don’t forget all the meth induced heart attacks.
All the car dealships might form a break away auto based autonomous network?
What would that even look like, rural areas attacking urban? The military would remain loyal to the Dems
A huge spike in stochastic terrorism including reprisal assassinations of local dems, random mass shootings, and lynchings.
They already tried something like this once and it was such a pathetic joke that a neurotic podcaster and a ballerina made a mediocre board game out of it.
So acaresly doffrent from now and still not as bad as things were in like the 70s
lmao half the military are Trump loving chuds.
Biden is actually slightly more popular than Trump with the military
Even 37% of active duty soldiers isn’t nothing. They’d be at a disadvantage, but it’s still possible they’d try. Also the guns per capita among civilian Trump supporters would be a factor. And police especially. They’re basically small militaries at this point anyway.
But I guess the biggest factor to whether a civil war would happen is the reaction of the state governments. Good chance Abbott would be pretty pissed and kind of feel threatened. And probably other Southern state governments.
We’re talking about assassination of a major political rival who is the lead figure of the Republican Party and has a rabid support base, they wouldn’t take that lying down.
Edit: those numbers are also from 2020. In general Biden is down and Trump is up from then, I wouldn’t be surprised if the same was true in the military. Plus a good chunk of neutral troops would probably have loyalty to their state.
Jan 6 made me way less concerned about that.
Red State govs going rogue and the police with them is more of a legit concern.
It's the leadership that matters, not the rank and file soldiers. The leadership will side with whomever signs their paychecks.