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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

So immediately after the coup, there was this whole wave of military guys going like, we didn't know we were taking part in a coup. We're totally innocents like they just let us out of the trucks. And suddenly we were at the National Assembly. We were like, oh, what are we doing? And

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

there's also been this whole thing of all these special forces guys going like oh yeah no no yeah we totally could have taken the national assembly in 20 minutes if we wanted to we just uh we just like didn't want to take a national assembly like we didn't really want to do it man like our heart wasn't in this coup and like Really, I have seen the videos of that shit, man.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

there's also been this whole thing of all these special forces guys going like oh yeah no no yeah we totally could have taken the national assembly in 20 minutes if we wanted to we just uh we just like didn't want to take a national assembly like we didn't really want to do it man like our heart wasn't in this coup and like Really, I have seen the videos of that shit, man.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

there's also been this whole thing of all these special forces guys going like oh yeah no no yeah we totally could have taken the national assembly in 20 minutes if we wanted to we just uh we just like didn't want to take a national assembly like we didn't really want to do it man like our heart wasn't in this coup and like Really, I have seen the videos of that shit, man.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

Like, I didn't see you, like, going in there and kicking ass and taking names. I saw you getting your ass kicked by a guy just, like, blowing your ass up with a fire extinguisher and, like, not being able to break a bunch of very well-constructed barricades set up by, like, fucking Senate aides. So that's been extremely funny.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

Like, I didn't see you, like, going in there and kicking ass and taking names. I saw you getting your ass kicked by a guy just, like, blowing your ass up with a fire extinguisher and, like, not being able to break a bunch of very well-constructed barricades set up by, like, fucking Senate aides. So that's been extremely funny.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

Like, I didn't see you, like, going in there and kicking ass and taking names. I saw you getting your ass kicked by a guy just, like, blowing your ass up with a fire extinguisher and, like, not being able to break a bunch of very well-constructed barricades set up by, like, fucking Senate aides. So that's been extremely funny.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

So you like vanished the entire time this coup was going on and like nobody knew where he was and no one had seen him and things were kind of fiasco. He was just gone. So he finally like reappeared. Right. And as he sort of reappears, he tries to, like, do this explanation of why he did the coup.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

So you like vanished the entire time this coup was going on and like nobody knew where he was and no one had seen him and things were kind of fiasco. He was just gone. So he finally like reappeared. Right. And as he sort of reappears, he tries to, like, do this explanation of why he did the coup.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

So you like vanished the entire time this coup was going on and like nobody knew where he was and no one had seen him and things were kind of fiasco. He was just gone. So he finally like reappeared. Right. And as he sort of reappears, he tries to, like, do this explanation of why he did the coup.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

It goes about as badly as you would expect from someone who just failed the worst coup that we've ever seen. Here's from NPR. Quote, In his speech on Thursday, Yoon, a former chief prosecutor, attempted to justify his actions and downplay its significance. He argued that the opposition's, quote, legislative dictatorship, unquote, paralyzed state affairs and disturbed social order.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

It goes about as badly as you would expect from someone who just failed the worst coup that we've ever seen. Here's from NPR. Quote, In his speech on Thursday, Yoon, a former chief prosecutor, attempted to justify his actions and downplay its significance. He argued that the opposition's, quote, legislative dictatorship, unquote, paralyzed state affairs and disturbed social order.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

It goes about as badly as you would expect from someone who just failed the worst coup that we've ever seen. Here's from NPR. Quote, In his speech on Thursday, Yoon, a former chief prosecutor, attempted to justify his actions and downplay its significance. He argued that the opposition's, quote, legislative dictatorship, unquote, paralyzed state affairs and disturbed social order.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

Now, this is going back to the thing he did at the time, right? He has this thing where he keeps calling the parliament, which is controlled by the Democratic Party, which is like the liberal opposition party. He kept calling the parliaments like opposition anti-state forces. And like, my brother in Christ, what the fuck is a legislative dictatorship?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

Now, this is going back to the thing he did at the time, right? He has this thing where he keeps calling the parliament, which is controlled by the Democratic Party, which is like the liberal opposition party. He kept calling the parliaments like opposition anti-state forces. And like, my brother in Christ, what the fuck is a legislative dictatorship?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

Now, this is going back to the thing he did at the time, right? He has this thing where he keeps calling the parliament, which is controlled by the Democratic Party, which is like the liberal opposition party. He kept calling the parliaments like opposition anti-state forces. And like, my brother in Christ, what the fuck is a legislative dictatorship?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

I mean, like, you know, you could be really strictly anarchist about it and be like, well, yeah, all legislators are dictatorships. But my dude, you are not living under a dictatorship because the parliament that your country elected hates you and refuses to pass your dog shit budget because no one likes you. That is simply not what the word dictatorship means.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

I mean, like, you know, you could be really strictly anarchist about it and be like, well, yeah, all legislators are dictatorships. But my dude, you are not living under a dictatorship because the parliament that your country elected hates you and refuses to pass your dog shit budget because no one likes you. That is simply not what the word dictatorship means.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

I mean, like, you know, you could be really strictly anarchist about it and be like, well, yeah, all legislators are dictatorships. But my dude, you are not living under a dictatorship because the parliament that your country elected hates you and refuses to pass your dog shit budget because no one likes you. That is simply not what the word dictatorship means.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 161

It reminds me of this thing where, like, you know, if you go back and you read, like,