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by potato 1984 days ago
Turns out all you need for a coup is about 70 lightly armed boomers and a few zip ties.
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80 Cubans would be a better choice, but if circumstances are right, 70 people is plenty to make good on threats such as lynching the vice president.

Just because they chose a bumbling buffoon as savior figure doesn't mean they can be dismissed as harmless.

Still “80” only works when there’s a strongman/woman who rules by iron fist and it’s a powderkeg ready to blow. He or she is surrounded by enemies biding their time. That’s the only scenario where this “may” work.
Hard core seditionists who, when they entered the Speaker of the House’s office, decided the priority was taking selfies.
I thought the savior figure was the guy with horns and a fur cape prancing about on the dais?

Glad they got him. We were THIS close to the end of the US, I tell ya'.

An ISIS technical has more firepower than this. Oooooh 11 molotovs.... more than that were used in a number of demos this past summer...

It’s a willful exaggeration and narrative driving.

Comparing the rioters' equipment to ISIS and other criminals doesn't make them any less troublesome, or their cause more sympathetic.
Equipment is equipment. It can only do so much regardless who has it. As I said more molotovs were thrown during the past summer’s sometimes peaceful sometimes violent demos.
They were assault zip ties, though.