That’s what a backbone is?
Hey kids, let’s have martial law!
Virginia state senator Amanda Chase [has thrown] her support behind President Donald Trump‘s refusal to concede to former Vice President Joe Biden, going so far as to say that the commander in chief should declare martial law and let the military oversee another election.
Is that fascist enough yet?
While some of Trump’s closest allies have acknowledged Biden’s victory, the president himself has not indicated he has plans to give up the fight to stay in power.
Chase, who is looking to garner the Republican nomination for governor, also refuses to accept the results, writing in a Tuesday Facebook post that Biden “is not my president and never will be.” She praised Trump for having a “backbone” and advocated for him to declare martial law, a recommendation made by General Michael Flynn, who[m] Trump pardoned on November 25.
We live in strange times.
H/t What a Maroon
“Biden “is not my president and never will be.”
Well that’s fair. Trump is not a president and never will be. He’s just a dangerous white house resident.
Yes, but, somebody in the comments section of a liberal blog wrote something back in 2004 about Diebold machines in Ohio, so, you know, BOTH SIDES do it…
No surprise that Lieutenant-General (ret) Flynn recommended martial law. Trump has almost certainly promised to give him command of the military in the new republic of Trumpistan once his coup is complete. They’ve likely already planned their own Night of the Long Knives, with Flynn supplying the list of non-loyal officers to be disposed of.
What I can’t believe is that his Republican supporters (not the ordinary voters, the ones that are actually in office) don’t realize they are actually better off with Biden. With Trump, they will be nothing but groveling yes-men, and Congress will be further marginalized. They will be nobody. They will do Trump’s bidding. With Biden, they will be the opposition party, they will have a chance to stomp on anything he tries to do, throw their weight around, and be assholes without having to bend and kiss his shoe.
The country under Trump would not be a Republican utopia; it would be a nightmare for anyone not prepared to crawl to Trump and tell him how wonderful he is, how special he is, and hand over all their assets to him. Now that I say that, I realize it would be a nightmare for those people, too.
Eh, I think in the end it worked out pretty well for a lot of Republicans. They actually stood up to Trump on things that really matter to them — there’s a reason why they were willing to override his veto on the defense authorization bill, a reason why infrastructure programs never got off the ground, etc. They got their tax cuts, their judges, the repeal of a bunch of Obama-era executive orders and regulations.
Sure, there was a lot of frustration about having to defend (or pretend not to have heard about) ridiculous behavior by Trump, and having to constantly kiss his ass. But these are people who kiss ass professionally — the asses of the voters, conservative media figures (“oh Tucker, you’re so brave and correct! Ben Shapiro is an intellectual treasure!”), and most of all donors.
Even Fox News, which I think traditionally has done better when there’s a Democrat in the White House to rage against, did pretty well thanks to Trump’s constant media circus.
I’m sure on a personal level a lot of them hated it, but it was good for business, so to speak.
Sure, Screechy, I agree it has been good for them. But if they give in to Trump on this, they might find themselves with King Trump or Emperor Trump, which would not be good for anyone, including the Republicans.