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Trump and his enablers are literally leading an attempted coup right now and you think it's fear mongering?

by jfrunyon 6y ago

bigbubba 6y ago
There is no coup, just some sore losers who aren't going to do shit except get laughed at by a few judges.
- jfrunyon 6y ago
  Indeed, an attempted coup.
  - bigbubba 6y ago
    If that's a coup, then obviously not all coups are worth worrying about. They really are not going to do shit.
    - jfrunyon 6y ago
      Except their attempted coup has successfully convinced a significant portion of the public that they are the appropriate winners.
      - bigbubba 6y ago
        Stupid people believe stupid things. Their wishful thinking doesn't alter the reality of their loss.
        fr11 6y ago
        an individual stupid person does not matter. A large enough mass of stupid people can overturn nearly anything. It seems likely that this time, the mass of people who've decided that Trump won won't be large enough to effect the coup that Trump is _attempting_, but it's larger than we've seen, and that's somewhat scary.
- Gibbon1 6y ago
  > some sore losers Just 126 congressmen and what is it now, 17 Republican Attorney Generals demanding the Supreme court vacate the election and hand it to the lame duck president?
  - bigbubba 6y ago
    They're free to make fools of themselves, it's not going to accomplish anything.
    - Gibbon1 6y ago
      It's kinda something when 2/3rd of the minority party thinks making fools of themselves is okay.
- manicdee 6y ago
  Replacing heads of military administration with stool pigeons sounds like the soft start of a coup to me.
bsenftner 6y ago
This issue is not this set of clearly poor players - it's the groups on both sides watching and learning that are going to be much more professional about their efforts to gain power with any means necessary. This is the trial run set up, so the limits and weaknesses of our systems can be evaluated. The fact that this set of not even remotely qualified actors are occupying the White House shows how weak the controls have been. And these players have spent their time in power layering the judicial bureaucracy with their sycophants. No, there is reason to be concerned, very good reasons.
- loopz 6y ago
  Saying Trump is more like Mussolini, this timeline is more interesting: https://www.thoughtco.com/hitlers-rise-to-power-timeline-1221353 https://www.thoughtco.com/hitlers-rise-to-power-timeline-122... And the more boring path: https://www.softschools.com/viewTimeline.action?id=207 https://www.softschools.com/viewTimeline.action?id=207

Trump and his enablers are literally leading an attempted coup right now and you think it's fear mongering?

bigbubba 6y ago

There is no coup, just some sore losers who aren't going to do shit except get laughed at by a few judges.

jfrunyon 6y ago
Indeed, an attempted coup.
- bigbubba 6y ago
  If that's a coup, then obviously not all coups are worth worrying about. They really are not going to do shit.
  - jfrunyon 6y ago
    Except their attempted coup has successfully convinced a significant portion of the public that they are the appropriate winners.
    - bigbubba 6y ago
      Stupid people believe stupid things. Their wishful thinking doesn't alter the reality of their loss.
      - fr11 6y ago
        an individual stupid person does not matter. A large enough mass of stupid people can overturn nearly anything. It seems likely that this time, the mass of people who've decided that Trump won won't be large enough to effect the coup that Trump is _attempting_, but it's larger than we've seen, and that's somewhat scary.
Gibbon1 6y ago
> some sore losers Just 126 congressmen and what is it now, 17 Republican Attorney Generals demanding the Supreme court vacate the election and hand it to the lame duck president?
- bigbubba 6y ago
  They're free to make fools of themselves, it's not going to accomplish anything.
  - Gibbon1 6y ago
    It's kinda something when 2/3rd of the minority party thinks making fools of themselves is okay.
manicdee 6y ago
Replacing heads of military administration with stool pigeons sounds like the soft start of a coup to me.

bsenftner 6y ago

This issue is not this set of clearly poor players - it's the groups on both sides watching and learning that are going to be much more professional about their efforts to gain power with any means necessary. This is the trial run set up, so the limits and weaknesses of our systems can be evaluated. The fact that this set of not even remotely qualified actors are occupying the White House shows how weak the controls have been. And these players have spent their time in power layering the judicial bureaucracy with their sycophants. No, there is reason to be concerned, very good reasons.

loopz 6y ago
Saying Trump is more like Mussolini, this timeline is more interesting: https://www.thoughtco.com/hitlers-rise-to-power-timeline-1221353 https://www.thoughtco.com/hitlers-rise-to-power-timeline-122... And the more boring path: https://www.softschools.com/viewTimeline.action?id=207 https://www.softschools.com/viewTimeline.action?id=207