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In reply to the discussion: At what point in a shutdown do people start talking coup? [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)42. Pretty much what happened in my red county.
People lost jobs bigtime under Bush Co, businesses closed, the county was dead relative to nearby Alachua County. Lots of empty store fronts. Then President Obama got elected, within a few months, job losses were declining, within three years, new hotels were opening and new businesses were opening. What did the people (mostly republican and some indies) here do? They feel over themselves to vote RMoney/Lyin-Ryan.
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Or maybe they want to be re-elected, and need the votes of their constituents to acheive that
emulatorloo
Jan 2019
#77
Patience, grasshopper. If the shutdown keeps going, so will the demonstrations...
brush
Jan 2019
#75
As your post shows, someone will talk about it. But no one will actually do it.
onenote
Jan 2019
#15
'the Business Plot', almost zero chance of actually happening . . ' is one of the
empedocles
Jan 2019
#37
"But a national strike...it would just be interesting to see how the media would cover it"
BumRushDaShow
Jan 2019
#34
Organizing people is very, very difficult. It's easy to imagine and wish for someone else to do the
WhiskeyGrinder
Jan 2019
#20
I don't know if he wants it over. Right now the news is all-Trump, all the time.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Jan 2019
#46
I wonder if either one of those investigations allow for a halt to whomever is being looked at?
Crutchez_CuiBono
Jan 2019
#26
The coup that needs to happen but probably won't is internal GOP party coup...
Thomas Hurt
Jan 2019
#31
Yeah, because a coup will such a smooth transition of power. What could possibly go wrong?
Calista241
Jan 2019
#32
"Trump is about to declare martial law", "Trump is about to start a nuclear war"
bearsfootball516
Jan 2019
#33
Reams of Americans stood in Souplines for 2 plus years and there was no revolution.
Blue_true
Jan 2019
#38
I do business with a company where one person openly said that a move from a red part of the country
Blue_true
Jan 2019
#45
1) There was already a coup in 2016. Trump was installed over the democratically elected President
Algernon Moncrieff
Jan 2019
#50