I’m not the other poster. But we already have examples of the military standing up to Trump during his previous term. We know he’s going to have to wade into the leadership pool to find sympathetic leaders.

Not representative enough.

You don’t have to use the imperative tone to set up an imperative. You clearly lay out two choices, forgetting there’s always a third.

Lasers maaann

Half the country is white people who aren’t going to have a meaningfully different life experience under Trump. Saying “they have to” do anything is vastly over estimating how much they care. They believe both sides are just as bad and if they’re political at all they only trust the lowest politicians they can personally interact with.

You are expecting a level of political education and activation that just isn’t there.

And we’re done here. It’s obvious you’re just trolling and haven’t actually gotten into the data.

The Joint Chiefs literally yelled at him last time, in the oval office, like he was a private.

Have you seen the RCH155?

Or the best thing to come out of the Ukrainian war, the Bohdana?

The French.

Oh that never includes the donor class.

So pay to play is back.

Which is kind of a problem. The platform needs to reflect the current reality, not the reality 4 years ago.

You keep blaming the voters for deciding the Democrats aren’t representative of them.

Have you thought about blaming the Democrats for not being representative of the voters they want?

I don’t care to speculate her chances in a primary. If she had won it then she’d have a campaign far more likely to energize the Democratic base. If someone else had won it then they would have a similar advantage. Not having it, and finding out in the worst way that we should have used the fucking 25th amendment is the original sin of this campaign.

You’re looking at the median. Look at the mode which still sits somewhere around 35-40 and say that again with a straight face.

Sure, great, but the military isn’t about to hand waive anything. They will send the MPs to arrest soldiers for desertion. They will process people out of the military for following illegal orders.

They aren’t robots and they have decades of experience in slow walking stuff, malicious compliance, and straight up refusing illegal orders. There isn’t just one officer to fire either. It would take them years to build a military willing to be used against the American people.

They can have a DOJ task force up and running in a month. They can be recruiting veterans in 2 months. They can use the surplus system to transfer armored vehicles to the DOJ in about 6 months if someone is dragging their heels. And the military is actually in the middle of getting shiny new armored vehicles so seeing M113 APCs showing up on the surplus list isn’t even going to raise eyebrows.

I sincerely hope they smash their heads against the military for another 4 years. But by the end of his last term they figured out they could use a DOJ task force to beat up and abduct protestors. Just adding surplus military equipment and Trump cultists to that isn’t going to be hard to figure out. Stop trying to put the military in a hole it’s not going to easily fit into and start looking at what’s actually likely.

Okay either you’re not getting it or you’re ignoring it on purpose. If wages in 2023 met inflation, there’s still 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2008, 2009, etc where they didn’t.

Unless wages beat inflation that’s not getting better. And wages beating inflation years later is literally too little too late. Because we finance so much stuff this means years of delayed cars, houses, remodels, tax income (for cities), etc.

That’s not fun on its own, but then to find out companies leveraged the supply crises to keep raising prices long after it was over and caused more inflation by their greed is infuriating. Especially to then hear Democrats try to take a fucking victory lap on it.

Democrats were told all of this back in early spring and ignored it. And now Democrats have lost the election in large part because they never stopped trying to take a victory lap. The country told you it’s still hurting and you’re still here trying to patch up family finances with top line statistics that don’t mean shit.

He’s not even right about what he’s citing.