Nuke at Obama Inauguration

General Zod

Banned
Because unless I misread the U.S. Constitution, "suspending" it is not an option, and we ought to be honest and ask "Would Gates stage a Coup?"

Besides, why would he even want/need to do something so idiotic as to stage a coup, speaking from purely pragmatic PoV ? :eek::rolleyes:

Bloody Washington has just been wiped out of existence, with millions of citizens and most of political elite. Provided Gates manages to be any remotely competent in the chaos that is to follow (not to mention this happens in the worst economic crisis in decades), the American public and the Congress survivors are eagerly going to vote anything the Acting President says that remotely makes sense, out of reflex patriotism. Not to mention the very large panoply of emergency powers laws that got written in the Cold War, just for a contingency like this, and would obviously activate. 9/11 made GWB look like a leader for years to many. This is infinitely worse. Provided the new Acting President can deliver a decent guide in the very trying months and years to follow, and deliver the bucketfuls of E-N-E-M-Y B-L-O-O-D that the revengeful public clamors for, he shall have no problems whatsoever with leadership.
 
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