Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by JumpCrisscross 275 days ago
> Uncle Sam has the biggest military on Earth. State troopers wouldn’t last longer than the time to deploy

This is civil war. In a civil war there is no Uncle Sam. Just human beings from different states and of different political persuasions who need to decide what they do with their firepower, and whose orders they obey.

1 comments

And how did that work out last time for the “misbehaving” states?
Currently only the widely unpopular executive branch of federal government is misbehaving.
Congress and the judiciary are misbehaving as well, otherwise either one could easily put a stop to the destructionists. In fact one might say the manic demented guy barking orders at the rest of the executive is just a deliberate attention-drawing point of a much wider conspiracy.
That's not true at all. Congress could remove Trump in a week if they weren't complicit. SCOTUS could put a stop to much of the stuff he's doing if they weren't complicit.