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A convoy of military vehicles flying a Trump flag last weekend in Kentucky belonged to a Naval Special Warfare unit, according to multiple reports.

On Sunday, the group IndivisibleKY posted video online of a string of heavily armored military vehicles -- one sporting a �Trump� flag -- on the I-65 highway near Louisville.

"The convoy were service members assigned to an East Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit driving vehicles while transiting between two training locations," Lt. Jacqui Maxwell, a spokesperson for Naval Special Warfare Group 2, told ABC News Wednesday night.

ABC News noted that Naval Special Warfare unit is the official term used for Navy SEAL units.

Maxwell told the USA Today Thursday that such a showing was �unauthorized."

�Yes, it was inappropriate,� Maxwell told the publication. �It was unauthorized.�

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IS WHAT we�re witnessing in the US a slow-motion downhill slide into a coup?

A fascinating and scary article has been doing the rounds in recent days, which suggests that Donald Trump�s ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries was an attempt to see how far he can push his power, as the first step to mounting an all-out coup.

A Google engineer named Yonatan Zunger has suggested that the way the White House has repeatedly gone around long standing conventions shows it is testing to see whether a coup is possible.

One man�s coup is another man�s �strong leadership�. But what Zunger is talking about is Mr Trump�s inner circle grabbing power in a similar way that Vladimir Putin has done in Russia, where he exercises power unchallenged by any other body.

Sure, he still has a court system and a legislative body, but they are largely irrelevant, and Mr Putin would ignore them if they ever opposed him.

Zunger�s point is that last weekend the White House and Department of Homeland Security happily ignored court orders related to the Muslim ban, and there was no real consequence to it.
If Mr Trump�s inner circle gets good at going around the conventional processes, the result is essentially coup-like: Congress and the Supreme Court can try to oppose him all it likes, but if he�s willing to just keep going around the normal processes, there is not a lot they can do.

This is normally accompanied by a Kleptocratic approach to the nation�s finances. Kleptocracy is �rule by thieves�. The argument that Zunger presents is that Mr Trump�s refusal to divest himself of assets shows a proclivity to use the office to enrich himself and his family.

But coup or not, Zunger has identified some tendencies in Mr Trump�s leadership style are worth exploring.

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Making it easier for banks to screw the public and financial advisors to screw their clients aren�t the promises that filled Trump rallies with truck-driving, g-droppin� white folk from the middle of the country. But, then again, Trump�s words and actions have always been divergent, and his voters have always been willing to buy Trump�s man-of-the-people snake oil over facing his con-man reality.

Every time regulators have given them a chance, bankers and financial institutions have proven they�re not to be trusted to operate in the interest of the economy as a whole without sensible oversight. Why would this time be different?

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Originally posted by Paddlefoot
Gotta save the impeachment attempt for something so huge, important, and dangerous that even the fucking GOP can't turn their backs on it. Everything so far in the White House has been entertaining as fuck but it's still too piddly to take a shot for impeachment at.

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