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free at last?

artappraiser — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 04:28:17 +0000

In reply to Considering The Unthinkable: A Trump Coup

free at last?

Quick & clear rebuke of Trump by a GOP member of Congress. https://t.co/yJ5z4RZJD4
— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) November 24, 2020

but not gonna "stop this" because?

I wonder how much his campaign rakes in every day he keeps ‘fighting.’ pic.twitter.com/aT0oK75UgD
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) November 24, 2020

#TrumptheFool now trending

artappraiser — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:24:58 +0000

In reply to I don't see anyone with

#TrumptheFool now trending based on this CNBC business reporting:

Trump fears Giuliani and other campaign lawyers are 'fools' making him look bad https://t.co/blKUlU09Qb
— CNBC (@CNBC) November 23, 2020

I.E. Investors probably betting on dumb masses fears about a coup right now. Hmmm, should I invest in that fearmongering publication, seems like it's getting a lot of traffic

Taking it seriously just

Orion — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:20:54 +0000

In reply to "Taking it seriously" doesn't

Taking it seriously just means keeping the heat on until he's finally out and not assuming it will work out on it's own. It's Donald Trump we are talking about, after all.

"Taking it seriously" doesn't

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 21:33:23 +0000

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"Taking it seriously" doesn't have to be "pissing your pants".
It can simply be having the right lawyers in place to make the right arguments,
handling the messaging, deciding how much bandwidth to give it vs.
pursuing the incoming Dem agenda, being prepared if he goes military,
et-cetera, et-cetera, et-cetera. It doesn't *preclude* using ridicule,
though on the other hand, if you're trying to convert more fence sitters,
make sure not to ridicule them too much.

Frankly, from my perch it looks like it's going well -
giving America a lesson in democracy, showing the courts aren't rigged,
showing the votes aren't rigged, bringing on board the election officials
*of the other party*.

More and more national Republicans have had enough of the charade,
and a number of those who didn't fold before are folding now.
Rudy looks ridiculous, Sydney Powell looks ridiculous *and* has been kicked out.
The GSA woman looks more and more ridiculous as the court cases crumble
and the consensus builds.

And for those who are looking, there's none of this brazen renillegal egade stuff
that Karl Rove, Roger Stone, et al pulled in 2000.

I don't see anyone with

artappraiser — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 19:05:13 +0000

In reply to We need to take Trump's coup

I don't see anyone with serious power taking it seriously, though. That's the thing. More often I am seeing ridicule from those in the know. True that writers without much power are producing click bait of a kind on topic. Some of it is quality "what if" stuff, that's all; some of it is stoking fear for clicks, just like the Trump troll does.

All the evidence I've seen is

ocean-kat — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:52:16 +0000

In reply to We need to take Trump's coup

All the evidence I've seen is that the left is just as much or more willing to fight on the streets as the right. As far as just getting out there on the streets the left is many times more willing to occupy the streets than the right. The million women march protesting Trump's election had more than a million people on the streets of Washington. The million maga march for Trump had a few thousand. Even if that few thousand were more inclined to fight they would have been rolled over by the million.

Take it as seriously as you want but it seems to me this coup talk from Trump is just an example of the cliched Shakespeare quote, “a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”

We need to take Trump's coup

Orion — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:10:53 +0000

In reply to "stop worrying about a coup,

We need to take Trump's coup gambit seriously until he is actually literally no longer the president of the United States.

Professionally, it's possible that Trump doesn't really have people that loyal to them. However, on the streets it is not. I live in Northern California and I never met people so aggressively open about supporting a Republican president until Trump came around. Bush may have earned more electoral votes but he never had a group of people who liked him this much.

I can only imagine the rest of the country, where he actually won states. If you look back at all sorts of fascist movements from Mussolini to Golden Dawn, it's always street support, people willing to fight, hurt and get hurt, that was really vital to their movement and disloyal people in power only fuel the perception of someone combating a corrupt establishment.

#DisbarRudy (and Powell)

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 06:39:27 +0000

In reply to 10 Days That Shook the World

#DisbarRudy (and Powell)

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5fbaf260c5b6e4b1ea4399a5

10 Days That Shook the World

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 05:58:48 +0000

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10 Days That Shook the World

Waiting for "how it started how it's going" meme.
— Andrew Blakey (@robogeographer) November 22, 2020

"stop worrying about a coup,

ocean-kat — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:58:31 +0000

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"stop worrying about a coup, that's not going to happen, that no one (and he meant no one in power) is going to stand behind him."

I think Biden is handling it fine. But really you didn't need inside information to see how this would play out. It was obvious that Trump didn't have a team loyal to him. Just sycophants and grifters. Most of those in power weren't going to help him with a coup. And even most of the judges he appointed aren't going to help him. Not even his supreme court justices.