John Kelly and the Language of the Military Coup

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don’t have to strain your imagination—all you have to do is watch Thursday’s White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump’s phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson. The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments:

Argument 1. Those who criticize the President don’t know what they’re talking about because they haven’t served in the military. To demonstrate how little lay people know, Kelly provided a long, detailed explanation of what happens when a soldier is killed in battle: the body is wrapped in whatever is handy, flown by helicopter, then packed in ice, then flown again, then repacked, then flown, then embalmed and dressed in uniform with medals, and then flown home. Kelly provided a similar amount of detail about how family members are notified of the death, when, and by whom. He even recommended a film that dramatized the process of transporting the body of a real-life marine, Private First Class Chance Phelps. This was a Trumpian moment, from the phrasing—“a very, very good movie”—to the message. Kelly stressed that Phelps “was killed under my command, right next to me”; in other words, Kelly’s real-life experience was recreated for television, and that, he seemed to think, bolstered his authority.

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https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/john-kelly-and-the-language-of-the-military-coup

Wow. Trump is such an aberrant president and his supporters are similarly bent that there is a non zero probability he tries to engineer a coup.

This is the point to which we have come. When folks said Bush would impose martial law or cancel the elections I thought they were cray cray. Let me repeat that, when folks said Bush would impose martial law or cancel the elections I thought they were cray cray. Replace Bush with Trump and I no longer feel like that.

Three factors come to mind that will save us. This administration is too reckless and feckless to engineer a coup. A coup would destroy the economy. And I doubt the military would shoot Americans though they did during the Bonus March.

[global1]

1. Are You Sure The Coup Didn't Already Happen....

back in November 2016? I kinda get the feel our government has been taken over already.

Just sayin!!!!