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AnimalMuppet on April 29, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to...

One nit: The military is not bound to follow the executive. They are bound to follow the Constitution.

I still retain enough naive optimism to hope that, had it come to that, that distinction would have mattered.

thinkcontext on April 30, 2025 [–]

J6 made me wonder how many Michael Flynns would it take to get some part of the military to take part in a coup.

AnimalMuppet on April 30, 2025 | [–]

Some part? One.

Enough parts? A lot more than that.

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