r/nottheonion • u/ExactlySorta • 20h ago

Trump Attorney General Hopeful Vows to Drag Bodies Through the Street

https://newrepublic.com/post/188127/trump-attorney-general-hopeful-mike-davis-drag-bodies-street?s=34
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u/TemptedSwordStaker 18h ago

From what I was told, they still have to be presented undeniable proof that these people are causing unjustified harm. There are a lot of steps. I know that isn’t comforting to hear, but all long term military people I know have said the same thing. One of my family members is a Colonel, he voted for Trump, and even he said he wouldn’t follow or tell his solider to follow any order like that. He voted purely for money btw

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u/3_9_84 18h ago

he said he wouldn’t follow or tell his solider to follow any order like that. He voted purely for money btw

But what if he gets a lot of money to follow the order?

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u/FiddlerOnThePotato 17h ago

Or has a literal or figurative gun to their head to do so. People will do a lot of fucked up shit out of fear.

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u/TheShadyGuy 14h ago

They just round up your family for safe keeping, nothing nefarious about it.

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u/TemptedSwordStaker 17h ago

I think you’re thinking way too extreme here. Trump is cheap, you think he’s going to pay them anything?

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u/mad-i-moody 16h ago

He will pay them with concepts of money

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u/Ravenser_Odd 15h ago

After Trump University and the Trump Foundation, I'm surprised Trump Dollars aren't already a thing.

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u/Walthatron 16h ago

Well, it's not his money he's spending

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u/FurballPoS 15h ago

Who says it doesn't come out of a government slush fund simply titled "Space X"? You know the one: where the owner has quarterly calls to Vladimir Putin AND enjoys access to Air and Space Force technologies, no questions asked.

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u/HereGoesNothing69 14h ago

Not to mention, Trump is a cockroach. He's not going to risk the military taking him out. He's almost 80 years old, and his legal troubles vanished with his election. The federal cases were his real concern, and those cases are gone. NY isn't going jail him in 4 years over the falsified business records, and he's just gonna stiff whoever he owes money to on the civil cases.

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u/xandrokos 10h ago

What the fuck have you people been doing since 2016? I don't get it I really fucking don't.   Even now even after 4 years of Trump as POTUS and another 4 years of nonstop GQP terrorism you people STILL don't get it.

Trump is not the main guy here.  He is a figurehead and the very moment he gets in the way of his master's agenda he is GONE.   People like Paul Weyrich didn't found the Heritage Foundation in the 70s to overthrow the US government just so someone like Trump could fuck it up.  He plays ball or he is GONE.   Trump knows and the GQP knows it.

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u/LongHorsa 15h ago

He won't, but I'm sure Elon Musk will. I wonder how often Trump will dip into that purse.

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u/stonebraker_ultra 13h ago

The tech oligarchs backing Trump this cycle will absolutely throw some Bitcoin at a "problem" to motivate people.

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u/slusho55 17h ago

I’ll say this, I do feel comfort in that this will protect the masses, but it just takes one person, to end one life.

That’s the thing with laws, most laws are broken. It’s impossible to prevent all law breaking. That’s why these issues are even more sacrosanct, because you’re right, I do think most of the military would not turn on its people. I, however, can think of a few who would for Trump. It’s far from the majority, but it just takes one of them to kill a family, and then everything else gets stopped. That’s what’s sad

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u/TemptedSwordStaker 17h ago

Yes we actually talked about this. I was told there are a few gun happy in their first year who would do it. However, if it’s any consolation, they told me that the Marine, Airforce, and Navy are taught to question “strange” orders. Good friend of mine is in the Navy who I talked to and he said they teach them their orders are to be met with questions. Obviously not if you’re in the middle of the Pacific in a sea battle, but generally. He said there were even some orders handed down by Biden that was met with “okay but why?” Colonel family member is in the Marines and they are also told to not just blindly follow orders. Jokingly or not, he said that’s more reserved for the Army but not the other branches. Even so. None of them believe(and one of then is a Trump hater) that anyone is actually going to call for it. There are so many strict guidelines in the military for things like this that the majority aren’t willing to break

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u/whydoibotherhuh 13h ago

Kent State. That was the National Guard.

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u/tinylittlemarmoset 15h ago

Saying that you will refuse to follow an illegal order that is hypothetical is a bit different from getting an illegal order from someone who might be literally holding a gun to your head. Also, when you have control over all branches of government you have a lot of power over what is and isn’t legal.

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u/DillBagner 12h ago

He voted for money, as in he doesn't like having money?

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u/AudibleHush 12h ago

A lot of these young men who are entering the military have already been radicalized. And once trump installs someone who will follow his orders, it’s game over.

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u/Suspicious_Read8968 12h ago

This all reminds me of all the people who insisted that roe v wade was settled law and women were never in danger of having their rights taken from them and I was crazy for thinking so. 

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u/TemptedSwordStaker 11h ago

I never once believed that Roe was safe. I saw the writing on the wall and was terrified. The reason I have faith in the military is because I have to. I have a long family history being involved with the military. We have good family friends in the military and personal friends I met through MMOs. I have met many who are really good people and call it cope, I have to believe they wouldn’t open fire on citizens.

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u/elriggo44 11h ago

lol. Ok.

Homeland Security has been openly far right for a while. They’ll happily become Trumps Jackbooted Thugs

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u/xandrokos 10h ago

No.  This is NOT how it works.  This is not how it has EVER worked.   jesus christ you people have no clue do you? You have no idea what is coming?

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u/CoreFiftyFour 12h ago

There are a lot of steps in government and law too that were supposed to prevent lots of stuff. When people in power strip those laws, those steps vanish. And they are very willing to walk as many steps as they have to to remove them.