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Trump's Coup d'état.

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Maybe some individuals are too addicted to being above it all hipsters that they forgot it’s ok to care about stuff
 
acbytesla said:
I don't think there was that much effort. This has been suggested many times. But it's a fools errand as electors are long time party faithful. I do think the reasoning that anyone reccomended that electors flip in 2016 was because Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million votes.
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The reasons provided by the faithless electors were all "Trump is bad and we don't want him". Some non-elector people made a statement about the disparity between the popular vote and the electoral count... but most of the people writing articles and trying to rile people up were trying to overrule Trump's win, because they didn't like Trump.
 
angrysoba said:
What if it is a real gun and he is just out of ammunition?

It should still be taken seriously enough even if he is putting a fake bomb under the White House.

You don’t **** around with this kind of thing.
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That's how little kids get shot by cops though. That whole mistaking a toy for a real gun thing.

It's not a real gun. It really, really isn't.
 
Dial down the personalisation and incivility, please.
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Skeptic Ginger said:
Trump has begun to relent as I type.

Per NPR, not seeing it yet online.
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Good. Finally.

His Tweet:

I want to thank Emily Murphy at GSA for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our Country. She has been harassed, threatened, and abused – and I do not want to see this happen to her, her family, or employees of GSA. Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good...

...fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.
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It's like he is just copying that comedian who impersonates him. The one who does it well, anyway.

Trump tweeted Monday that he's recommending the General Services Administration and others in his administration begin "initial protocols."
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NPR

Emily Murphy says she wasn't pressured by anyone including the White House. Trump says he instructed her because she was being pressured by Democrats or something.

It's still a rolling **** show and I think it remains to be seen how long he is being even minimally cooperative before he has his next dose of roids.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Trump has begun to relent as I type.

Per NPR, not seeing it yet online.
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More information on this?

All I've seen is the tweet from whatever staffer runs the POTUS Twitter account when they need something that seems just a tiny bit like it has been written by a normal human. This was possibly written as a response to the GSA relenting.
 
LOL. Trump wants to take credit for the GSA finally doing her job after she decides to do her job.
 
thaiboxerken said:
LOL. Trump wants to take credit for the GSA finally doing her job after she decides to do her job.
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Her statement amounts to the clown show being so lacking in credibility that she finally figured out Trump wasn't getting anywhere (even as she acknowledges it was not her job in the first place to do figure out if Trump was getting anywhere —so why didn't she do it earlier).
 
Would Hitler give up easily or would he try a coup?

Is Trump Hitler?

Ergo, Trump is trying a coup. Flawless logic.
 
Thermal said:
You still have it dead backwards. Our Democracy can easily withstand this impotent clown show. If you are paying attention, we are handling it quite nicely. Even the SCOTUS, with three conservative justices freshly appointed by Trump, is refusing to side with him. Does this mean nothing to you? Nothing at all about our system is weakened by watching him try and dismally fail. That would actually be discouraging to an actual wannabe coup. We don't even give it the time of day.

Do tell: what is the disaster? A blowhard tries and abjectly fails. His own party and SCOTUS watch him fail and do nothing. Congress does not even dignify this with a charge of treason. Seems to me we are showing our resiliency.

Eta: avatar bet. You're right, no one actually thinks it will be successful. You guys know damn right well it's a steaming pile and nothing at all will come of it. So back to swooning for...whatever reasons you swoon
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Suppose it came down to only one contested state? Like Florida in 2000?

Still think the US form of 'democracy' would have held?

We're where we are now only because a not particilarly large number of Patriots held sway against a nihilistic horde of asshats who want the country to burn.
 
Brainster said:
Would Hitler give up easily or would he try a coup?

Is Trump Hitler?

Ergo, Trump is trying a coup. Flawless logic.
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I'm asking you, Brainster, the singular actual human being behind this account, what do you intend to communicate with that post?

A lot of virtual ink has been spilled in this thread (A LOT) with people defining, defending and reasoning over why they do or do not believe that what Trump is doing is a coup.

None of it was or reduces to anything like what you have chosen to type here.

So, seriously and honestly, what reason do you have for typing it?
 
Brainster said:
Would Hitler give up easily or would he try a coup?

Is Trump Hitler?

Ergo, Trump is trying a coup. Flawless logic.
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Hitler attempted a coup, Was convicted of it and served a prison sentence for it. He was also more than 40 years younger than Trump when he attempted it.

Trump has absolutely been attempting a coup. It's just been a pathetic attempt.
 
cosmicaug said:
Her statement amounts to the clown show being so lacking in credibility that she finally figured out Trump wasn't getting anywhere (even as she acknowledges it was not her job in the first place to do figure out if Trump was getting anywhere —so why didn't she do it earlier).
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As I noted, she was supposed to start the process when it was "apparent," and not to wait until it was "completely obvious to everyone but the braindead morons"
 
Emily's Cat said:
I'm beginning to think there's some sort of "swooning addiction" at play. So many people have spent the past four years being in a state of borderline fight-or-flight, I'm not sure their amygdala knows how to interface with their frontal lobes without that wash of adrenaline.
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To me, and I suspect many others, the immediate concern here is not whether Drumpf gets his way this time. Rather, it's the eroding of norms that could well make it more possible for the next scumbag to succeed.

History shows us numerous cases where it was discovered too late what horror derives from not seeing and suppressing the looming danger in time. Drumpf is frighteningly dangerous because of what he's accelerating. To blithely and smugly sit back and foolishly perceive the battle as won now is to be a right fool. It CAN happen in the US and A. It nearly did, but for the annoying inconvenience of an almost pitiful few states putting the kibosh on Drumpf's plans.
 
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