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Seemed like one of the poorest attempts I have ever seen, is it really being treated as a serious one?
by fareesh 6y ago
Seemed like one of the poorest attempts I have ever seen, is it really being treated as a serious one?
- lallysingh 6y agoThe defenses were so poor it was a coin flip whether it would succeed.
- konjin 6y agoWhat would success have looked like? Stealing the original copy of the constitution and using whiteout to change the bits they didn't like?
- kibwen 6y agoSuccess for them would have looked like apprehending the legislature and coercing them into throwing out the votes of states that didn't go to Trump. And this is charitably assuming that their chants of "hang Mike Pence", along with the gallows they erected out front, might have only been for show.
- konjin 6y agoMy version of editing the constitution is vastly more likely to happen than whatever fever dream this is.
- kibwen 6y agoPerhaps you're so naive that you think that a murderous mob successfully overthrowing an elected government is unprecedented in US history? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_189...
- konjin 6y agoAh yes, Wilmington NC 1890, the place I go to when I need to imagine what could possibly happen in DC not 130 years later.
- kibwen 6y agoIf oblivious sarcasm is your only recourse for when you have nothing left to contribute to an argument, then I accept your concession.
- konjin 6y agoYelling at the top of your lungs that cosplayers are a real danger to the biggest superpower on the planet makes you either dishonest or insane. Either of those precludes a good faith argument.
- splistud 6y agoI suppose when you want to smear half of the population you use what you got