kilgore trout: even bolivia gets it. bolivia. cia is like damn dude guess they learned

even bolivia gets it. bolivia. cia is like damn dude guess they learned

BREAKING: Bolivian general who appeared to lead a failed coup is arrested after an attorney general opened an investigation against him.

Military flees Bolivia government palace after coup attempt failsapnews.com Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia's government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup.

run a coup attempt in america and the supreme court is like whoa hang on that might be fine give us several months

"Well all of us nine agree here that coups are bad, but what if this case wasn't about coups, but about chocolate chip cookies, huh? You gonna arrest a president for eating cookies? What then! My god, man, it's right there in the constitution he can eat cookies. I mean, probably. I haven't read it"

Don't get me started on presidents eating cookies.

"We will absolutely look into that once Clarence gets home from vacation."

See we can’t just arrest the coup guy because of the legal protections that protect everyday Americans from abuse by the law And do those legal protections protect everyday Americans? Lol no

several months after several years

“can I get some baseball tickets and an RV”

"Coup? What coup? I was watching Draft Night on ESPN..."

Especially now that we know a third of swing state voters are fine with authoritarianism bsky.app/profile/pbum...

In our new swing state poll, a third of voters said they thought an authoritarian form of government was good. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Where support for American democracy is the most wobblywww.washingtonpost.com New Washington Post-Schar School polling in six swing states included an at-times-worrisome assessment of views of authoritarianism.

I mean they were the herrenvolk, Kilgore, the law exists to protect them, not to bind them!

"Okay, listen up Team! We're going to do this just like that Prigozhin guy over in Russia!"

Don't tell *Mueller she wrote* or *Empty Wheel*. They will scream you are "whinging" and undermining our legal institutions when you ask why the fuck it took over two years to bring ANY charges at all

Garland is getting his ducks in a row, crossing his t’s. You know he got Timothy McVeigh convicted?

It's a classic bottom up mob style investigation!

Hang on the insurrectionist general is claiming this was a false flag instigated by the president? WhT?

Well, a few days ago he was siding with the president against the former president from the same party. None of it makes any sense.

don't we have to wait 2 years to search the general's phone, right?

Now I've been reminded of the existence of the Bolivian Navy, damnit!

But seriously how bad a general do you have to be to fail a military coup? Fail to form/keep a functioning government afterwards, sure. But to actually fail to invade a set of civilian buildings?

just noting, fastest way to get rid of a military general you dislike if you're also a military general is to suggest off the record you'd support them if a coup broke out. and then arrest them for doing a coup

Excellent point

My inlaws who are from Bolivia say they happen a lot so I guess they just know how to deal with them expeditiously.

If Bolivia has a national sport, it is coups bsky.app/profile/spoo...

Bolivia has had 190 coups since 1825. 190 coups in 199 years. At some point you have to wonder if coups are a national pastime.

Even that first part isn't easy to do. A military coup is a risky business that at the very minimum can jeopardize an officer's career if it goes bad (other outcomes can be jail, exile or death), so it's hard to raise support.

A quick scan of the Wikipedia history of coups in Bolivia leads me to think this fast & effective response is a not at all the norm…and as odious as the last kinda coup govt was (2019-2020) the treatment of that former pres is actually the stuff that Trump claims falsely is being done to him

She’s going on a year and a half in jail awaiting trial, her health has deteriorated significantly, there’s allegations of torture…

So not as third world as some might have you believe