Shit, I don’t know if using the military to kill a bunch of fascists is good, but Biden did get that power (allegedly) from the USSC early this year.
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using the military to kill a bunch of fascists
Sounds like WW2
This should result in an automatic disqualification from the election, but so should leading an attempted coup. If that's not enough, then nothing is. He's outright stated multiple times that anything other than a win will result in violence, yet he's still being treated like a viable candidate. It's insane.
The plain text of the constitution prohibits insurrectionists from being president. Some judges agreed that Trump shouldn’t be on the ballot for this reason. But our god kings, in their infinite wisdom, said that he could be on the ballot.
Guy seems to be a walking disaster.
No matter whether he intends what he says or not, that's definitely not how a presidential candidate should behave. If one wants to govern a country (as opposed to running it into ground), at the minimum one should not be ridiculous.
Last time, I recall, it took him a fairly long weaseling to use the border guard a bit, here and there. I don't think the US military is eager to do his bidding, or cheerful about being drawn into his campaign.
Over here, in a different country on a whole different continent, the previous (now retired) commander of the defense forces had a habit of providing fact corrections when politicians lied, spinned or bluffed about defense. For a reason which didn't need a detective to figure out, only conservative populists ended up on his shit list. :)
One of the conservative populists took being corrected so personally that he got into a social media confrontation with the general right before elections. Politologists later estimated that it was not beneficial at all to the politician involved. :)
When I read stuff like this I wonder how folks actually try to prepare for this and similar scenarios. Like what will all those that voted against Trump if he wins? General strike? Mass protests? Wait 4 years and hope there will be another election?