Ed Burmila: Things are going very well when we've reached the "Don't worry, the military won't obey orders to kill civilians" stage of democratic backsliding. It's the sweet spot, where good things happen. Right where we want to be.

Things are going very well when we've reached the "Don't worry, the military won't obey orders to kill civilians" stage of democratic backsliding. It's the sweet spot, where good things happen. Right where we want to be.

“No, THIS is the guardrail that will save us!” I shout as I hang over thin air by an unravelling strip of galvanized steel, bolts popping off like zippers…

"Justice Alito was very adamant that our founding fathers accounted for Coyote Time."

Oh, this country’s left the cliff edge long ago. The question is whether we get to the other edge before we look down. Signs are not encouraging.

If you pay Trump to become a double platinum Mar a Lago member, he promises not to turn off the flashlight unless he really doesn't like you.

I believe some have called this the “cool zone.”

It was “liberal hippies shot at Kent State.

it’s a real bad fucking spot, agreed

the american military? who even believes that?

Liberals primarily

no they dont. they believe "the military would refuse orders to shoot *me* personally"

I usually read it with that part implied

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Anwar Al Alaki says what, Waco says what, Kent State says what...

But surely *this* time dignity and humanism will prevail!

100% The Good Guys will arrive with white hats and save us all and we can catch well earned some Z's until the next tyrannical power grab...

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Of course not, that's what cops are for!

I believe the precedent is to use the Federal Bureau of Prisons Special Operations Response Team against civilians. We can even euphemize the practice--SORTing them out.

There were there at the march in question

I know I’m not worried

Kent State ring any bells?

That's like the only thing the military does

And "the military" is not a monolith. If people don't think there are members of that military who are not horny to kill civilians, they're dead wrong.

It’s the other ones we’re all concerned about.

The “that would never happen” bar keeps moving, pretty cool stuff

That's pretty much what RWNJ's use to convince themselves they could actually be successful in a civil war/insurrection thing. Kind of ironic TBH.

As always, what was once acceptable only on the periphery of the empire comes back to the homeland.

What if the military is robots?

Sadly the military can only ignore illegal orders. Now with this ruling from the bought and paid for Supremes, maybe whatever Trump orders would be legal.

It's the local militia types that seem to be chummy with the cops that particularly frighten me

Just THAT type of talks gives me the creeps. The military has no business in inner affairs.

The faith ppl have in this is astounding. Truly.

But my guess is he can find a lot of members local police forces to do it.

Somehow that is no way reassuring for me Research Kent State May 4, 1970

Okay, most of the military. Okay, probably more than half of the military. Okay, but at least some of the military...?

The president can’t give an illegal order because laws don’t apply to him. They would be compelled to follow the order.

Welcome to the cool zone

To be fair that's also the zone where the Roman Praetorian Guard would off a Caesar for the good of the empire. So it's not hopeless.

They don't call it the cool zone because it's lame now do they!

You must be Irish ☘️ right?

Why do you think he wants to end all deployments? Bring back 1,000,000 trained killers?

But the military's age undocumented men might. 7 Billion surplus people in just 100 years never happened before. Good times over, hard to control that many resources, low birth rate, too much poverty still. TPTB work all sides to get the result they want, and we are not apart of their club. 💀$💀$🤡

You’re being facetious, of course.

‘In the zone,’ so to speak.

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