No one is talking about Michael Flynn’s proposed coup???
Michael Flynn, recently pardoned, has called for Trump to suspend the Constitution, hold a new election under different rules, institute “partial” martial law, and basically become the king that the theocrats want.
The Daily Beast:
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Flynn, who was Trump’s first national security adviser and before that his most important military validator, circulated a petition for martial law in a Tuesday tweet. “Freedom never kneels except for God,” Flynn commented.
The petition, from a Tea Party affiliate named Tom Zawistowski, implored Trump to proclaim “limited martial law” and order the military to conduct a do-over of the presidential election so as to reflect what it claims is “the true will of the people.” It explicitly envisioned “temporarily suspend[ing] the Constitution and civilian control of these federal elections.” And it also reflects a recent rise in desperation from MAGA now that Trump’s efforts at overturning the election have fallen apart in multiple courtrooms.
The petition even compared America’s bloodiest conflict to the current Trumpist inability to cope with an election loss. “Today, the current threat to our United States by the international and domestic socialist/communist left is much more serious than anything Lincoln or our nation has faced in its history—including the civil war,” it reads.
But the petition suggested that unless Trump is installed for another term, his supporters would engage in violence. “Without a fair vote, we fear, with good reason, the threat of a shooting civil war is imminent,” it asserted.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-the-bombs-go-off-the-blood-is-on-mike-flynns-hands-retired-officers-blast-his-calls-for-martial-law
The Military Times (Regarding another retired general, of the USAF)
In his unfounded version of events, U.S. special operations forces died in an attack on a CIA computer facility in Germany that was hiding information about a massive, covert effort to flip votes from President Donald Trump to his opponent, Joe Biden.
But even though big Army and U.S. Army Special Operations Command have told Military Times that there was no such attack, or loss of life, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney is sticking by his claims. They became so widely distributed on social media that numerous accounts on Twitter falsely claimed that five soldiers killed in a Sinai helicopter crash were really killed in the firefight with the CIA.
McInerney, in an email to Military Times, did not offer more information regarding the sources of what he told a conspiracy-laden website over the Thanksgiving holiday. Nor did he respond to the Army statements about their falsehood.
He did, however, double down on his claims.
“President Trump won in a landslide and the Dems left so many footprints that this TREASON must be stopped!!!,” he told Military Times. “This will be the last free election we have and I predicted it on 2 Nov on the Steve Bannon Show!”
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/12/01/this-retired-three-star-falsely-claims-us-soldiers-died-attacking-a-cia-facility-in-germany-tied-to-election-fraud/
From DKos:
Michael Flynn is drinking his authoritarian dictatorship straight, and absolutely testing whether or not his freshly minted pardon covers an act of outright sedition. And he made his demand not just on Twitter and other social media, but in a full page ad in The Washington Times.
There’s nothing vague about Flynn’s call for simply overthrowing the civilian government and replacing it with Generalissimo Trump. Flynn calls on Trump to declare a “limited form of martial law.” Though in what sense it would be limited is not clear, as Flynn then tells Trump he should “suspend the Constitution and civilian control of federal elections” while putting the military in charge of a do-over.
Since Flynn is demanding an election process that the Constitution neither authorizes nor contemplates, it makes perfect sense that he then goes on to set the rules for who is allowed to “vote” in this military-approved coronation. This election can only be carried out under the watchful eye of people with guns, says Flynn, because all politicians and judges can’t be trusted. And people have to meet his requirement for who is a legitimate voter, produce the kind of ID that Flynn says they must have, and use the ballots he specifies—which presumably have just one line.
While he’s at it, Flynn also tells Trump to just go ahead and trash the First Amendment. Which seems almost unnecessary, seeing that he’s also indicated the entire Constitution is to be set alight. And then Flynn finishes up by threatening violence if Trump fails to come through with a military coup.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/2/1999522/-Flynn-tires-of-staging-a-coup-through-the-courts-or-legislature-demands-the-kind-with-bullets?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended#comment_79507309
O.M.G.
These people want a theocracy with an infidel as it’s leader. I want 2020 to be over.
T and R, phatkhat!!☮️🎄😊👍 I guess these FRight yahoo idiots are going to do everything they can to defeat the 2 GOPukes in GA next month.
I never thought i would see the day where i would see people IN the USA supporting a Coup in the US. How far we have fallen. Trumpcorp did say he wanted to be president for life and his cult following are buying it.
What the hell do I know, but it seems that Flynn’s move is falling flat:
That’s the scary part. No one except a few retired generals are speaking out.
No, I don’t think the military would do it, but… It’s a different military than it was when I was active duty. ESPECIALLY the Air Force, which is full of fundamentalist, theocratic whackjob officers like the one I cited. Then there was Chaplain Klingenschmitt (Navy, IIRC) who made a splash in Colorado politics for a while.
When I was stationed at Erlangen, there was an Armored Division commander who fancied he should censor the library on base for ungodly books. An outlier then, he has many successors today. If enough of them put religion above the Constitution, it could get dicey.
And there are the militias, too. Not that they are going to be able to bring down the US Government, but they could kill a lot of people in a Trumpian rampage.
You want to see how the rabble are being roused? https://youtu.be/wowiBAC8C3w
ty phatcat. good to know.