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Wow, take about taking an idea and totally ignore everything about it. We were talking about the historical application of that saying in the context of the armed rebellion that started this country, not the conflated notions that your political diet has grown fat on. While yes, lobbyists and special interest groups should be outlawed, it is up to the people who wrote the laws to put the laws in against them. No one from either party will cut off the hand that feeds them, ethics or not.
Well, we do. You see, it's called elections. When they don't do the job you elected them for, you vote them out. That is how you hold the government accountable. You certainly don't ask the persons who refuse to believe the truth in that he was unlikable and more people wanted him out of office, thus refused to believe that he lost, set up multiple ways for him to go against the votes and will of the people. That idea sounds almost fascist.
I am from the area in which gambling is legal. So odds are just the way to give a fool a better chance of loosing their money. So if it makes you happy to throw around some arbitrary numbers, be my guest.
But you history is wrong again. Under a joint agreement, Stalin and Germany made a pact to basically carve Poland in 2, stopping at agreed upon points on the map. This was the start of WW2, in 1939.
There are many groups that are in charge of nuclear weapons. The navy, with there SSBNs, the air force with their nuclear capable cruise missiles, the actual troops that are in charge of the ICBMs. While it could be what you are describing, any and all intelligence that has be released by to the public is really speculation. The 12th, could have been moved to handled material taken from the occupied nuclear plants. But one thing that you also missed is, most troops of that nature cover 2 other categories in addition to nuclear. They are chemical and biological, hence the naming of NBC. So again, speculation from you and whatever your sources say.
Ok, where in the hell did thus come from? The fall of the Roman empire has been hotly debated for 1600 years(least the western part, as the Byzantine empire had a much longer life, and is debated as to even if it is related to Rome or itself a new and distinct entity). Corruption and incompetence have nothing to do with gender dysphoria, as an empire is a governing or ruling body.
Ok, now back to this. Guess you are a bit touchy. Get over it. But you can not try to hide behind "maths", as it can not describe what is beautiful or what is ugly. So the emotional is ever as important as the rational aspect. But as to what else would you care to describe a group of people that assaulted their government? And armed is not just with a firearm, but sticks, and spears, and the actual bombs that were found at both the RNC and DNC HQs. C'mon man right back at you!!!
Now this aspect is interesting, until you listen to the corroborated testimony of how the ex-president was yelling to take down the metal detectors. Then, when you add in the political hacks that were the head of the various justice branches, i.e. those that were making the final decisions to what was being done with information at hand. Yea, when you have a loose cannon, stuff breaks down all around. And please remember, all the known weapons found, were only by those that were arrested. Who really knows how many weapons were actually there.
You don't have to have a gun to be considered armed and dangerous. A person with a car can kill. A person with a knife can kill. A person who gets trampled under 1000 people can be killed. That is a pretty niave attitude.
So 1 person out of the some 400 odd arrests and convictions? Pretty low odds there. Only .025% of thr arrested were not there supporting the coup attempt.
And I guess when you were young and strong, you could take on crowds of people what 10 to 1, or maybe 20 to 1? Yeah, when you are outnumbered and have little to no support cause your boss decided to not call in any backup, you know, that head of state guy, that preserverance is the better part of valor.
You mean the trump soppirter that is seemingly been caught up Ina foxnews conspiracy to find someone to blame. You kno2, since this person didn't do anything than show support for his choice, he got wrapped up because it was never the people how organized, who set everything in motion, but a poor schmuck who had his life ruined. Fun fact, his wife held a position in Dominion Enterprises, not Dominion Voting systems. Sorry to let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory to shift all the blame from those that set it all up.
Speaking of which, yes, trump can be solely blamed for many things. By not believing nor implementing safeguards at the start of covid, he could have saved the economy which is ,like an ocean wave, starts small but rises bigger and bigger the farther from the initial point. And by not understanding the cascading of limited health concerns, which had caused the shortages, chain blocks and lack of any health checks at the very beginning, it was the cause of the current inflation we are now in. Remember, even the biggest fire starts but from a single spark.
So, he is to blame. He is certainly to blame for the stripping away of personal freedoms to many citizens. He anointed 3 justices to end Rowe with the Dobbs decision. All this from the party that keeps on pounding their chest over "personal freedoms", when all they want is to take away all but their own freedoms. And when the twice empeached pres. says things like brown people, or how white supremacists aren't all bad; yes that is a direct correlation to the racial tension in the country. Ao while he isn't directly orchestrating everything that is bad, he has more than enough people that are clinging to power doing his bidding for him.