trump has the Pentagon planning something big right now.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m aware, but the line of succession continues.

It’s not like killing all those people would’ve reinstalled trump.

I think it would have gotten down to McConnel and/or Pompeo but I get fuzzy who it goes to after three levels down.

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Anonymous wrote:If we had a military coup, I suspect it would look an awful lot like the occasional military coups in Turkey. Which is to say, the military removes leaders who try to become autocrats. I know that in popular imagination, the military is full of mindless drones looking for a strongman, but the opposite is true- they are totally committed to ensuring democratic processes.

Then how do you explain so many vets being in the mob?

I don't think all military are bad, but I don't think they are all Captain America either.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m aware, but the line of succession continues.

It’s not like killing all those people would’ve reinstalled trump.

It would have caused complete chaos and created opportunities for Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m aware, but the line of succession continues.

It’s not like killing all those people would’ve reinstalled trump.

I think it would have gotten down to McConnel and/or Pompeo but I get fuzzy who it goes to after three levels down.

McConnell is not in line. After president pro tempore, it's Secretary of State, AG, SecDef, Treasury. I doubt unconfirmed/acting officials would be eligible, so it's go to Pompeo, then Mnuchin.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m aware, but the line of succession continues.

It’s not like killing all those people would’ve reinstalled trump.

I think it would have gotten down to McConnel and/or Pompeo but I get fuzzy who it goes to after three levels down.

McConnell is not in line. After president pro tempore, it's Secretary of State, AG, SecDef, Treasury. I doubt unconfirmed/acting officials would be eligible, so it's go to Pompeo, then Mnuchin.

Sorry, Treasury in next after State, then Defense and AG.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m aware, but the line of succession continues.

It’s not like killing all those people would’ve reinstalled trump.

It would have caused complete chaos and created opportunities for Trump.

+1
And we cannot rely on the patriotism of the GOP leaders to do anything right. Unless their feet are almost literally held to a fire.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m aware, but the line of succession continues.

It’s not like killing all those people would’ve reinstalled trump.

It would have caused complete chaos and created opportunities for Trump.

Yes there would've been chaos.

What opportunities? You mean political and financial? He still has those anyway. He might not have the former if the Senate actually takes away his right to hold office.

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Thank god tomorrow is Miller's and the other loyalists' last day!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m aware, but the line of succession continues.

It’s not like killing all those people would’ve reinstalled trump.

are you always this smug? I bet you thought that institutions will protect us in 2016. you are part of the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:I was up near Great Falls park over the weekend, and when we were driving by the Navy buildings on the Clara Barton Parkway, my friend pointed out these green and tan steel boxes propped up on trailers. She said they were missile launchers. I thought she was just joking, but then she showed me pictures off the web, and OMG, she was right - they really ARE missile launchers!!!! I’ve never seen them there before. How can the military just put missiles someplace without even telling the public? And there’s no one even guarding them! What if terrorists steal one and try to set it off??? What is happening?!?!?!

I’m calling Senator Chris Van Hollen’s office right now.

The constant helicopter flights are bad enough, but now we’ve got nuclear weapons getting installed in Potomac now? Oh HELL no!

Jeff just said those have been there for a long time.

And you’re ok with that?

I don’t know/care how long they’ve been there. It’s not alright to have a missile base near where so many people live! I thought they put these things out in the middle of the country where no one lives - in the Dakotas or places like that. I’m assuming they did that back then because missiles were probably bigger and used underground control centers. So I guess it’s reasonable to assume that they’ve gotten smaller since the cold war but, seriously, why base them in essentially the middle of a city? That’s insane!

They come and go all the time. They are anti-aircraft missile batteries and it is part of the standard operating procedure to deploy them and remove them from military and critical government installations all over. This was a result of 9/11

Are you a missile expert? You said these are anti-aircraft missiles? Like for shooting down airplanes?

They aren’t missiles that carry nuclear bombs?

You know this for sure? How?

I am a rocket expert. Those are not nuclear .

Your lack of specifics suggests otherwise.

What exactly ARE they then, rocket expert? Can you tell us the exact model so we can go to Wikipedia and read about it?

Crickets from the “rocket expert”

Rocket expert needs not respond to demands from you or any other anonymous “poster”. Rocket science is a thing. And while thrown out as a common trope to contrast simple science, this ain’t it.

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Anonymous wrote:Without having read the entire thread, Pentagon parking lot is full because everyone is driving to avoid covid. All normal parking rules are suspended. Thus, the parking lot is full. All the time.

That is definitely not the consensus. Please keep up!

May not be consensus, but is truth.

Interesting, if a question. To which I would say, depends.

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People are idiots. The parking lot is full because the Pentagon needs to keep working and no one wants to take public transportation. I mean come on now. Common sense y'all

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Anonymous wrote:I was up near Great Falls park over the weekend, and when we were driving by the Navy buildings on the Clara Barton Parkway, my friend pointed out these green and tan steel boxes propped up on trailers. She said they were missile launchers. I thought she was just joking, but then she showed me pictures off the web, and OMG, she was right - they really ARE missile launchers!!!! I’ve never seen them there before. How can the military just put missiles someplace without even telling the public? And there’s no one even guarding them! What if terrorists steal one and try to set it off??? What is happening?!?!?!

I’m calling Senator Chris Van Hollen’s office right now.

The constant helicopter flights are bad enough, but now we’ve got nuclear weapons getting installed in Potomac now? Oh HELL no!

Jeff just said those have been there for a long time.

And you’re ok with that?

I don’t know/care how long they’ve been there. It’s not alright to have a missile base near where so many people live! I thought they put these things out in the middle of the country where no one lives - in the Dakotas or places like that. I’m assuming they did that back then because missiles were probably bigger and used underground control centers. So I guess it’s reasonable to assume that they’ve gotten smaller since the cold war but, seriously, why base them in essentially the middle of a city? That’s insane!

They come and go all the time. They are anti-aircraft missile batteries and it is part of the standard operating procedure to deploy them and remove them from military and critical government installations all over. This was a result of 9/11

Are you a missile expert? You said these are anti-aircraft missiles? Like for shooting down airplanes?

They aren’t missiles that carry nuclear bombs?

You know this for sure? How?

I am a rocket expert. Those are not nuclear .

Your lack of specifics suggests otherwise.

What exactly ARE they then, rocket expert? Can you tell us the exact model so we can go to Wikipedia and read about it?

Crickets from the “rocket expert”

Rocket expert needs not respond to demands from you or any other anonymous “poster”. Rocket science is a thing. And while thrown out as a common trope to contrast simple science, this ain’t it.

NP. The US doesn’t maintain a mobile ballistic missile force like the Russians. The last time we did was the Pershing II and those were only based in West Germany in the 80s and were intra-theater weapons not intercontinental. The missiles seen here were most likely Patriot or THAAD and those systems are both employed in the AA and ABM role. Like others have pointed out, there are sites throughout the country that protect major population centers and other high value targets. Neither Patriot nor THAAD is nuclear armed. In fact neither system now carries any warhead but specifically relies on kinetic energy to destroy its target. Sheesh.