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Oeditpus Rex

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20. What recourse do we have?

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2025, 08:37 PM

Friday

Voting? It's 13 months away and can no longer be trusted, besides

Arming ourselves? The enemy would just deply more forces and heavier armament.

A coup d' état? We'd have to remove all of les états. For that, we'd need the arms, the organization and the people willing to carry it out -- that is, willing to be taken prisoner or to die.

Seems like we can only continue what we've been doing. Sooner or later, The Felon will be gone, and maybe his Gestapo and SS will run out of gas. Maybe.

I'm not giving in. I just don't see a way for this to be stopped as quickly as it needs to be. (Look at what it took to stop the Thhird Reich.)

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