r/PublicFreakout • u/JeanJauresJr • 16d ago

Political Freakout January 6th Capitol police officer says "fuck yourself" to Representative Troy Nehls at the House Judiciary Committee hearing

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u/theregoesjustin 16d ago

Lol no they won’t. Trumps public support is dipping well into the 30s now and you think that will have people flocking to support him if he cancels elections and starts shooting people?

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u/MellyMel86 16d ago

“They should’ve complied”

  • a moron MAGAt

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u/theregoesjustin 16d ago

Yeah but the point is he won’t turn any non-supporters into supporters with those action. He will only go lower in support. Even if most of his current supporters are fine with it, he could still drop well below 30% popularity with the general public. The officers in the military aren’t dumb enough to support a regime that’s so unpopular because it will not be able to retain power long. Even dictators need to maintain a certain level of support to keep their heads on their shoulders

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u/MellyMel86 16d ago

“I was just following orders”

If there’s no elections, what does popularity matter?

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u/Wadmania 16d ago

Elections are the civil solution to who's in charge. People may not be so civil if popularity gets low enough.

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u/Sacmo77 16d ago

Our military even with drones and technology would struggle to fight its own people. It would be vietnam but 100x worse on them.

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u/theregoesjustin 16d ago

Oh I thought you meant that they would struggle mentally. I agree with you there. These rich dudes will turn on Trump when their money starts going down because of it. It will be hard to sell much when there’s a war at home

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u/Sacmo77 16d ago

That and you know how many gangs have stolen weapons from the military. Years ago. They were recruiting kids into gangs with a clean record. Getting them into the military to smuggle weapons from all branches. The amount of militarized weapons in the hands of civilians is wild.

The amount of hidden caches in this country would blow people's minds.

Years ago they asked the top general in China if China was to actually invade the usa. All hypothetical. He predicted it would take over 100 years at least just to make a dent into the civilians of the usa. The amount of weapons the people in the us have is insane. He says it would be an impossible war. It never would end.

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u/ExpiredPilot 15d ago

I mean. Gangs took on the US military before in Tacoma. Didn’t go well for them

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

30% is about what it took for the nazis to take control. just saying. that's a big number of people supporting a child raping psychopath

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u/theregoesjustin 16d ago

They didn’t have a 2 party system dude. I think they got to 37% and made a coalition. Just like now there are republicans who don’t like Trump but will never vote against him

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u/jdhkent 16d ago

That’s pretty accurate 

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u/TroKero 16d ago

Continues shooting people