Let’s pretend
Federal authorities on Wednesday warned that people associated with identified militia groups have been discussing plans for another to attack on the US Capitol with the aim of removing Democratic politicians on or about 4 March.
This is fine, this is totally normal.
The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the US Capitol police department has obtained intelligence pointing to a possible plot to “breach the Capitol by an identified militia group” on Thursday, the agency said on Wednesday.
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Thursday marks the date when some rightwing conspiracy theorists have claimed that the former president, Donald Trump, will be sworn in for a second term in office despite the fact that he lost the November presidential election and left the White House on January 20 just before Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th US president.
I suppose someone could “swear him in” in the sense of going through the correct motions in Trump’s golf hotel, but it would just be a pageant. It wouldn’t make him the actual president.
It is starting to sound more and more like the tactics of people who are trying to turn the USA into a ‘banana republic’.
“I suppose someone could “swear him in” in the sense of going through the correct motions in Trump’s golf hotel, but it would just be a pageant.”
Wouldn’t it also be treason? Or at least something that would disqualify him from running for office?
They’re following the fine example set by the Catholic church from the time when it had three popes.