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Lawmaker Sounds Alarm: Trump Plotting Fake Crisis to Scrap 2028 Election and Stay in Power

dailyboulder.com

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I'm not familiar with this "Daily Boulder" site, does anyone know how reputable it is?
the article is setting off my AI clickbait detector - the author is "Staff Writer", and there's no original reporting in it, just a summary of a YouTube clip.
also, seven emdashes.
- "Staff Writer" is an AI journalist.
- I didn't click but I just read an NYT article that essentially states the same:
  Mr. Trump’s move to formally deem his campaign against drug cartels as an active armed conflict means he is cementing his claim to extraordinary wartime powers, legal specialists said.
  And forgive my lack of humility; I've already been saying this for - well years really. Not to mention two people very close to Trump who said this in 2017: "He will not go willingly". He proved them right once already, don't wait for the second time when he's better prepared.
  
  an NYT article that essentially states the same
  that NYT article is about Trump ordering the military to murder people on boats in the Caribbean.
  this article, on the other hand, is summarizing a YouTube video that was responding to what Trump said in his speech to a bunch of generals at Quantico.
  so other than Trump doing authoritarian shit, there isn't really any connection.
  they're both examples of bad journalism, just in different ways. the NYT article does some classic both-sides shit that boils down to "legal experts say it's illegal to murder people, but a White House spokesperson disagreed". and this article is just AI-written slop with a clickbait headline.
We welcome Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman to what has been obvious about 8 months now. Please take a stale donut and join the advocacy. But even late awareness is better than no awareness; they're in a position to do something and that's not useless.
- After Hegseth and Trump ended their speeches to the top military leaders there was NO cheering NOR clapping. That was a crystal clear signal to those two asshats that our military will not act unlawfully nor will they break their oaths to the constitution. So, who is going to carry out this coup? USA is freaking enormous. There isn't a willing force large enough to carry this out.
  
  This is what they're gearing ICE up for. They won't want an open conflict, but they will keep using them as a domestic terrorist/milita to quell protestors.
  The military will not intervene if it considered 'domestic policing'.
  They may intervene if, for some absurd reason, there is a democrat majority (or; gasp- president) winning an election again.
  My money is there will never again be free and fair elections, and regardless the Democrats won't be able to undo this mess, ever.....no matter how many sternly written letters there are.
  
  I was pretty sure that it's standard procedure not to clap because it's the military and they've been ordered to stand to attention. These were serious men with serious credentials.
  The event where they had rookie soldiers cheering was an anomaly from untrained dipshits.
That’s why he sent troops into cities. “See! We’re at war within our country! We must delay the polls!”

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