Impeachment is pointless if you can't get enough votes to convict. To do that without republican votes would require the democrats to win literally every senate race. Not going to happen, no matter how much the republicans deserve to lose.

Slightly less unlikely would be for a huge wave election to give a large majority to democrats and for a handful of republicans to be willing to vote with the dems because they start seeing the trump administration as a political liability. Still insanely unlikely, just not as unlikely as a clean sweep in the midterms.

Don't worry, they're gonna fuck the whole thing up

Even if they do win how are they going to enforce their win ? Because I’m skeptical that we’re going to see a peaceful transition of power away from the gold plated pedo king

The Supreme Court as well. So much for checks and balances....

I think if the average first-world liberal really understood how flimsy everything actually is, and how little is separating us from dark-ages pillaging and raping, people would be far more terrified of voting in the wrong people.

Not to mention all the tech billionaires falling in line and offering up their services.

If there is an election and we don’t go to war just to enact wartime policies to “postpone” it

The album Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails has been getting a lot of play for me, recently. It's amazing how long the alarm bells have been going off for people paying attention.

Or going maskless in a pandemic of respiratory-carried disease

Tell everyone they now have public health care ... then let them run into a bamboo trap in front of the signup sheet

Eeeh. First, "mad tyrant" is a bit of a stretch. The crown was, by the standards of the time, much more lax with the colonies than other territories. More of a "late onset bipolar disorder constitutional monarch acting under advisement of qualified ministers". Breaking away to try "not monarchy" and implement much of what we now consider modern government was by no means wrong, but it's not quite the clear cut battle against evil the founding narrative describes.

Second, that was 250 years ago. Just about the only lingering effect is the slogan which has some inspirational qualities.

The bigger thing is that the military hasn't fought against a technological equal in decades, and has never fought an asymmetrical war against a technological equal. If the opponent is close to technological parity, they use overwhelming force to remove that parity, and then fight from there. They can't do that against the US, because they need those resources as well. Additionally, most of our defensive strategy relies on it being impossible to attack us in a reasonable way. The only force that can get here has to be small and sneaky. In a civil war situation, a significant number of military facilities are basically inside cities. They have defenses, but not the way they do in an overseas base. And being in cities, a significant number of pretty important sites are inside the areas that are currently being designated as hostile.
All the people doing the boring logistics and paperwork that drives most of the US military have to commute through the dangerous areas. Most of their families live nearby.

He also just declared any of those generals his enemies, if they choose to honor their vow to the Constitution, over him. That makes him the enemy of the very institutions they swore an oath to protect.

It doesn't matter to them because they want to be the ones doing the child raping, it's now up to them to prove they don't want to rape children.

But if there are people in that room who want to resist, it probably wasn't a great idea to drag them back from all over the world and put them in one place where they can potentially meet up and discuss things offline. Given the situation, I wouldn't be shocked if some of them wanted to make sure that others were on the same page and maybe discuss some hypotheticals.

Discuss offline, and exchange details for secure long-distance communication. I don't know how many military types will be into PGP, but hey, Signal is whiskeyleaks-approved and actually works great when you don't drunkenly add random journalists

That was no jest.

I think it's more likely that they don't follow orders simply because they recognize how fucking stupid their leadership is. They have been drilled to follow orders but they are also some of the most competent strategic minds there are. The buffoonery of Trump and Hegseth probably makes them feel like they are far above these fools, just simply because it's clear that their bosses are absolute morons. Further, they have to also be keenly aware that Hegseth has minimal actual military experience and Trump has none at all. Why would they follow orders from people they have no intellectual respect for and think are making grave tactical mistakes? They won't go on suicide missions just because an uneducated fuckwit told them to.

My understanding was that officers are generally far more educated (and have even heard before that they tend to lean left?) compared to enlisted soldiers.

And generals are the tippy top of that. I have a small amount of hope that the people there know better than to allow this to continue.