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They were girls at the time, but they are all women today.

04.03.2026 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This country would still be at war with Iran, even if Kamala won the election. She was 100% in favor of continuing to support Israel commit genocide against Palestinians and said she would not stop until Israel made peace with the Palestinians.

You were fooled just like Repubs.

04.03.2026 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope to see him court martialed, but he will leave scot-free.

04.03.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

J6 was not as loudly dealt with as it should have been because of Biden. Biden didn't want to investigate, arrest, charge, or prosecute Trump or his high level cronies over it because he felt it would create a tit for tat between parties.

There's no way AG Garland needed more than four years.

04.03.2026 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hear you but I think everyone underestimates how much more value gun nuts place in the Constitution. I've never seen a private militia train for an invasion rather than a war with the US govt. It doesn't help that Trump is trying to take guns away from people who smoke weed.

04.03.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
04.03.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This administration and religion in this country is so out of control, this didn't even raise an eyebrow. A decade ago I would have been a bit shocked.

This should show that talk of religion should be very limited in our govt and entirely banned from the military other than private worship.

04.03.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Only about 21% of Americans support the war in Iran. Few want the UK to do anything but tell Trump to fuck off. Maybe even cut off trade.

04.03.2026 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you old enough to remember 9/11? It's not the same thing but when the American people felt like our way of life was being threatened, citizens were ready for violence.

That was over 3k lives. I think you would be surprised how ppl feel if you took the Constitution away.

04.03.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's not happening.

Trump is having to battle right now, internally, among many pissed-off Republican politicians, that they think Israel forced Trump's hand and essentially, they bought themselves a war. Trump is already likely to make billions reconstructing Gaza if he lives that long.

04.03.2026 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That might have been a stretch, they have more gun nuts. they're not all more likely to use violence.

04.03.2026 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, part of my issue are those gun nuts. People keep saying we will not defend ourselves with our 500m pew pews but with so many gun nuts, I don't see how it wouldn't come to that if Trump tried to stop the election in less than a year. Republicans are more likely to use violence to oppose this.

04.03.2026 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ukraine didn't and then all of a sudden they are producing some of the world's most advanced drones that cost as little as $1,500 but as usual, I'm sure Americans are smart enough and have enough money to figure that out.

The US military was held off for 20 yrs by 30k goat farmers in Afghanistan.

04.03.2026 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Even if Kamala won the election, we would still be at war with Iran. She was very pro-Israel. Bought and paid for.

Change my mind.

03.03.2026 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

who owns what guns and how people feel. Armed gun nuts, of which we have many, consider it their solemn duty to protect the Constitution, especially against the govt. Now, many militia are training to repel a foreign invasion.

I'm okay saying I could always be completely wrong. Sometimes I am! πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

03.03.2026 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

underestimating how many soldiers would be willing to ignore their oath and shoot at American civilians. Many would go AWOL. North Korea and Russia execute people who go AWOL, but people still go AWOL.

This isn't blind conjecture, I've done the math. I've made a concerted effort to understand 2/

03.03.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Even if only 10% of gun owners considered themselves armed to protect our freedoms (I do, and if being shot at, I like most people would shoot back), American soldiers would still be outnumbered by like 8-1.

Drones don't help because they're so cheap both sides would have them.

You're also 1/

03.03.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Call me a moron then. I'm tried of saying "X, formerly Twitter" so I just call it Twitter and let people think I'm out of touch. Mostly I'm speaking to people closer to my age and a lot of us just don't care.

But yeah, being on X right now tends to indicate that you're a Nazi and support Trump.

03.03.2026 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm guessing you are an American. When I was growing up, we were taught about our responsibility to defend America from invasion or a corrupt government. Most of the people who own guns feel the same way.

If they start shooting at people to attempt to cancel elections, they're outnumbered 100-1.

03.03.2026 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

To quote, I don't know, stats and polling I guess, there are 1.4m soldiers and around 100k fed agents but 100m armed citizens who own 500m pew pews.

Cancelling elections would be deeply unpopular even with Repubs (only 40% of them support Iran) and 83% of Repubs want the files released NOW. ✌️

03.03.2026 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm aware, it's illegal. He can't declare everywhere all at once. No one is going to peacefully accept cancelling elections. There would be a revolt.

When we pull out just Repubs from polling about this war, only 40% of Republicans said they support it. Add in the Epstein files and they're PO'd.

03.03.2026 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know a lot of Republicans, only a few MAGA. Every one of them says they would pick up arms, against Trump if necessary, to save the Constitution. They're still aholes but cancelling elections would be the line they all would draw in the sand because they all fancy themselves to be patriots. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

03.03.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Most of the rest of the world hates Trump and our former could use that as a chance to depose and illegal administration.

Then there are the blue states that would succeed from the nation, the entre Northeast region has been, behind closed doors, preparing for it. Sorry for the length

03.03.2026 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Each state will run it's own election, or be in violent opposition to an attacking federal army force. That's banannas so we would hold our elections and tell the world who won. Trump and Congress would attempt to discredit and ignore the results of elections they don't like so we will have to sue.

03.03.2026 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sure, take half away, now it's 50m ppl with 500m pew pews. That still dramatically outnumbers the entire 1.4m soldiers military. A quarter still outnumbers the entire military AND all federal agents.

They can't delay elections, they don't run them and they do not have enough soldiers to stop them.

03.03.2026 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Analysis: Has the US ever assassinated a world leader before? | CNN Politics The US government for decades shied away from targeting foreign leaders after embarrassing failures and unintended consequences from covert activities by the CIA.

β€œWe can’t get into that kind of thing, or we would all be targets”

Yes, YOU would be targets instead of generations of young Americans. Deciding to send 100ks of soldiers rather than assassinating one individual is not the moral position some think it is.

03.03.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's another reason to NEVER buy a home in an HOA.

02.03.2026 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here's the thing with the military, you can expect at the very least tens of thousands of soldiers to bail. Not everyone is going to approve of breaking their oaths to the Constitution and firing on citizens. There is also the 100m armed citizens with 500m pew pews.

Not even MAGA would support it.

02.03.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We will just have to see how it goes. Nearly every machine in the nation keeps a paper ballot backup that we can count manually if necessary. Yeah it's possible to cheat in small elections but Repub groups spent 4 years and millions of dollars to prove it was even possible to cheat and failed.

02.03.2026 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0