This Is What A Pro-Trump Myanmar Coup Might Look Like Here
Trump supporters and Q adherents have publicly endorsed the idea of a Myanmar-style coup to oust Joe Biden.
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by Bob Cesca
WASHINGTON, DC --- This will sound eerily familiar to you.
The democratically-elected leader of Myanmar, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was re-elected last November with 83 percent of the popular vote. Almost immediately, military leaders there protested the election, claiming it was fraudulent but lacked any evidence to back up its allegations. Without evidence in hand, they jumped immediately to the most extreme solution.
In March, the military exploited a law allowing it to declare a state of emergency and, using the bogus pretext of a stolen election, deposed and arrested San Suu Kyi along with her entire cabinet in an obvious military coup.
In the aftermath of the coup, the people of Myanmar took to the streets in opposition to the military, and in support of San Suu Kyi. They were quickly assaulted by soldiers who proceeded to murder 600 protesters, while injuring hundreds more in a bloodbath that made world news that week. Meanwhile, American journalists have been arrested and detained as well -- imprisoned in Myanmar’s notoriously harsh gulags.
All of this should sound familiar because it’s exactly what Mike Flynn wants to do here. He and twice-impeached one-term loser Donald Trump’s Red Hat disciples are now looking to Myanmar’s military dictatorship as a template for what ought to occur in the United States. We know this because Flynn, along with Trump supporters and Q adherents, have publicly endorsed the idea of a Myanmar-style coup to oust Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and to reinstate Donald Trump….
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