Trump's Coup d'état.

[Stacyhs]

Can somebody explain to me what's going on here?

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/kr8qcx/freakout_in_the_pennsylvania_senate_as/

This explains it:

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/p...ous-swearing-in-ceremony/stories/202101050125

 

[3point14]

Thanks

 

[Fizil]

The entire Trump Presidency constantly makes me think of the collapse of the Roman Republic. The Roman Constitution was based on tradition, how things have been done in the past. Thus certain things were technically allowed, but by tradition were never done. The Republic began to unravel when certain politicians started to exploit the potential power of various offices, rather than their traditional powers.

 

[Horatius]

With the shades and his beard you can hardly see his face. Which helps. A lot.

But we still hear his voice, and his words.

Autotune, maybe?

 

[Mader Levap]

The entire Trump Presidency constantly makes me think of the collapse of the Roman Republic. The Roman Constitution was based on tradition, how things have been done in the past. Thus certain things were technically allowed, but by tradition were never done. The Republic began to unravel when certain politicians started to exploit the potential power of various offices, rather than their traditional powers.

This is indeed what is happening right now, only with modern twist.

 

[Cain]

The entire Trump Presidency constantly makes me think of the collapse of the Roman Republic. The Roman Constitution was based on tradition, how things have been done in the past. Thus certain things were technically allowed, but by tradition were never done. The Republic began to unravel when certain politicians started to exploit the potential power of various offices, rather than their traditional powers.

Yet Democrats want to abolish the filibuster, pack the court, give DC residents legislative representation, provide health-care for all, and equalize the races.

 

[johnny karate]

Hey, quick hypothetical question: When a president who just lost an election and keeps claiming it was rigged incites his supporters into storming the Capitol where the election results are currently being certified, can we call it a coup then? Or do we just continue with semantic circle jerk?

 

[cosmicaug]

So yeah, these ******** have successfully paused the Electoral College review (and yet, Biden will still be president on the 20th).

 

[catsmate]

Well it seems the Trumpettes are trying a coup; time to start shooting them.

 

[dann]

A Danish journalist just said that the situation in Washington looks like a banana republic.

 

[Mader Levap]

So, Skeptic Ginger, how is totally-not-a-coup going?

 

[dann]

Another Danish reporter: "... something that we usually see in a failed state ... an actual coup attempt from the president and his supporters ..."

 

[TragicMonkey]

Hey, quick hypothetical question: When a president who just lost an election and keeps claiming it was rigged incites his supporters into storming the Capitol where the election results are currently being certified, can we call it a coup then? Or do we just continue with semantic circle jerk?

I think we have to wait until next week when he declares himself president-for-life.

 

[timhau]

I think we have to wait until next week when he declares himself president-for-life.

I would certainly want him to serve a life term.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Come Trumpers you goddamn cowards. Come tell us how over dramatic we're being.

 

[Olmstead]

So, Skeptic Ginger, how is totally-not-a-coup going?

But Trump didn't tell them to storm the Capitol. He said: "Don't storm the Capitol guys." (exaggerated wink)

That's why it's not a coup.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I would certainly want him to serve a life term.

I think that before this is over Trump will either be dictator or dead.

 

[Bob001]

Hey, quick hypothetical question: When a president who just lost an election and keeps claiming it was rigged incites his supporters into storming the Capitol where the election results are currently being certified, can we call it a coup then? Or do we just continue with semantic circle jerk?

There seems to be a consensus that a traditional coup is usually supported by elements of the military. In the U.S., military leaders have said plainly that they will not support the president unlawfully.

Historians described Trump’s actions as dangerous, irresponsible, harmful and unprecedented, but most said his behavior does not yet meet the formal academic definition of an attempted coup, which typically describes a military-backed effort to seize power from a legitimate government. Senior Pentagon officials have made clear that the military has no role in the fallout over Trump’s election defeat.
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Trump’s strategy represents a brazen attempt to overturn or “steal” the election, historians and political scientists agreed. Some said he is tiptoeing toward an “autogolpe,” a Spanish term popularized in Latin America to describe a “self-coup” attempted by leaders who came to power legally and acted outside the law to try to maintain it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...afcfc0-4f6c-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html

 

[Lrrr]

There seems to be a consensus that a traditional coup is usually supported by elements of the military. In the U.S., military leaders have said plainly that they will not support the president unlawfully.

Semantic circle jerk it is.

 

[Horatius]

I think that before this is over Trump will either be dictator or dead.

Can we reach a compromise where he's both? Stuff and mount him in the square, like Lenin, and we promise we'll genuflect every time we pass new legislation?