Subject: Re: Trump orders DOJ to go after oil companies
A military coup or declaration of marshal law is not off the table.

Do you honestly think that's in DJT's capabilities? That he is the sort of person brave enough to risk being shot in the head if a coup is unsuccessful? That a man with so little connection to the military, in a society where the military does not depend on the Presidency to maintain their commissions, would be able to get other people do risk their lives to overthrow U.S. democracy for him?

I had no idea people esteemed Donald Trump so much. This seems so ludicrously beyond his actual capabilities as to be ridiculous to me. The man is a lazy, dumb, unpopular coward - who's in his 80's to boot, and thus any dictatorship with him at the helm won't last long.

To remain in power, Trump doesn’t need to cancel elections or run for office again. He simply needs to use the military to put both candidates for President and VP in jail, or kill them in the process of arresting them, shortly after election. We have no real process for dealing with such a decapitation.

Yes, we do. The Speaker of the House would become President. It wouldn't be Trump.