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2018-07-19 Home Front: Politix

Rep. Steve Cohen Melts Down, Defends Tweet Calling for Military Coup

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Posted by Fred 2018-07-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Idiot! You are supposed to say that on the floor of Congress -- out in the "Real World" there are all sorts of legal penalties for saying the wrong thing.

Posted by magpie 2018-07-19 00:21|| 2018-07-19 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry to say this joker is from Tennessee. He is an embarassment to the state.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-19 01:04|| 2018-07-19 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Our enemy? Russia is our enemy? WTF these people are engaging in literal McCarthyism.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-07-19 03:58|| 2018-07-19 03:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah? And I can just see the USMarine Corp backing this guy. And the Army? The folks the Pentagon ?

They hate the dorks and their "respect"and efforts of the Donk base to defund them and spit on them. It will be a cold day in hell before the ranks and the NCOs back a democratic Party Coup.

You want to get shot real fast ? Be an officer or some stupid unit that tries to co-ordinate a Coup. WHERE would you get the backing for a military coup? The men in the military are not stupid. They know the donks are not their friends.

You want to drive up from Belvoir and surround the White House?
You want to takeover a TV station and have some General go before the cameras ? You want to announce " new elections ".

And you will see Quantico a half hour later not even negotiate with you. They will just start killing democrats and any officer who backs them..... that fast.

This clown isn't thinking. And he certainly doesn't know the Military. The Military hate him and what he stands for. I will give you a clue about the base for Trump.....they puke on Obama and the donks .....and so does the Military.

Posted by Enver Unoth1702 2018-07-19 04:26|| 2018-07-19 04:26|| Front Page Top

#5 The Congress replaced by General James N. Mattis? Where's the downside ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-19 07:14|| 2018-07-19 07:14|| Front Page Top

#6 WHERE would you get the backing for a military coup?

Ah'm thinking the private cadre's of JCS.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-19 10:32|| 2018-07-19 10:32|| Front Page Top

#7 All bets are off when the shooting starts. I don't believe that anybody can predict what might happen. That's why we don't want it to happen.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-07-19 11:06|| 2018-07-19 11:06|| Front Page Top

#8 This stupid dream has legs with the young democrats. Listening to millennials discuss this at bars is frightening, and they do believe they know better...

Posted by 49 Pan 2018-07-19 11:14|| 2018-07-19 11:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Every crisis is an opportunity, 49 Pan.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-19 11:20|| 2018-07-19 11:20|| Front Page Top

#10 I frankly like the idea that people wishing for such a thing are completely ignorant about the realities of the matter.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-19 11:33|| 2018-07-19 11:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Don't be so smug about solid support from the military. Things are changing. West Point graduated a Communist recently.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-07-19 12:28|| 2018-07-19 12:28|| Front Page Top

#12 West Point graduated a Communist recently.

And he's already been cashiered and the no longer in office dem who got him into the academy is even backpedaling. As the officers who had problems with Rapone are (AFAIK) still at the academy it was a good training exercise.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-19 12:42|| 2018-07-19 12:42|| Front Page Top

#13

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-07-19 13:42|| 2018-07-19 13:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Listening to millennials discuss this at bars is frightening

Kinda fun to poke them tho.
Just to rile'em.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-19 14:54|| 2018-07-19 14:54|| Front Page Top

#15 Honestly, *Shudder*, Coups are a door we desperately don't want to go through-- it has a sign over it: "One Way: NO RETURN!"

Posted by magpie 2018-07-19 17:36|| 2018-07-19 17:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Honestly, *Shudder*, Coups are a door we desperately don't want to go through-- it has a sign over it: "One Way: NO RETURN!"

I disagree. The trajectory is set, and bloodshed is inevitable. We need to go through this door and the sooner the better. Yes, it will be terrible, however think of it as an opportunity to do some much needed clean up. We need to do it while we have the best likelihood of prevailing.

Posted by Omosh Spawn of the Esquimeaux9645 2018-07-19 19:42|| 2018-07-19 19:42|| Front Page Top

#17 Federal official incyyent to sedition and mutiny. There has to be a criminal act somewhere in there. Enough of these yapping cretins and there hyperbolic noise.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-07-19 20:12|| 2018-07-19 20:12|| Front Page Top

#18 These dolts are fighting for control of the Democrat party right now. their virtue signaling is loud and vile but that's all it is. Hopefully they'll continue the hot rhetoric until after the 2020 election trouncing.

Posted by ruprecht 2018-07-19 20:13|| 2018-07-19 20:13|| Front Page Top

#19 For the last several presidents, the military vote has split approximately 75% Republican, 25% Democrat, if I recall correctly. But that will not translate into following orders to attack fellow citizens.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-07-19 22:38|| 2018-07-19 22:38|| Front Page Top

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