the coup has already happened. He controls every branch of government and most of the courts. Its fucking done.
He did it in November of 2024. It’s fucking obvious.
Cut it out with this bullshit about things that are “going to happen” “soon” and “imminently” or whatever. It has already happened, quit it with the denial.
The guy firing generals and murdering fisherman?
Why exactly does he need a coup?
The government already does whatever he wants with no pushback.
So he can cancel the midterms
You don’t need evidence, he’s said as much several times in public.
Preparing? Where the fuck have you been
Wait the guy using his own military on his own cities as “training”… The guy who launched one insurrection already…
He’s planning a coup?!?! 😲
Keeping an opposing party out of the system is actual destruction of the US.
It’s now or never for Americans. Either step up, cripple the country with strikes, or live in whatever Trumps backers vison for America is.
ha, I’m already unemployed, they screwed themselves on that one
Unfortunately, so many Americans are being held hostage by the fact they live paycheck to paycheck, and health insurance for the most part is dependent on your employers. This republican policies have been a long time in the making and seems to have worked for them. God (s) help you all.
This is what it boils down to. The first person/org that can win their trust and assure them that basic needs will be met and they won’t be forgotten after the dust settles will have a massive following overnight.
Looking from outside in I just can not fathom how any country. And that’s any country at all, ever. Could fall so low that Donvict fucking Drumpf not only has the option but also the ability, to throw away centuries of law and history away and take control.
It just doesn’t make sense.The guys a fucking imbecile, there’s no evil genius inside of him. Evil, yes. Genius, fuck no.
His professor at uni called him the dumbest student he ever had.Yet this failed reality TV star, and even worse businessman (plus convicted criminal and rapist, paedo, con man, racist etc etc), just bumbled in to politics and is now about to rip up their constitution and wipe his shitty arse on it without much pushback.
Fucking hell, make it make sense. Fucks sake.
Because he’s just the personality in front of this shit, this has been brewing for decades. He has no clue what he’s doing, but they let him because it works as a distraction while the millers and voughts dismantle things.
Fourth Reich Archaeolgy
This has been in the works for a century and it’s just finally happened.
They tried it once already in the 30s when Bush Jr’s grandfather Prescott Bush and his pals tried to get Smedley Butler to overthrow Roosevelt.
Fortunately back then they had a general in mind with some ethics and he didn’t play along. This time they found Trump.
You are not wrong. This situation is a reflection of America’s greed, ignorance and utter moral failure. A “Christian” country - don’t make me laugh.
Sitting on the inside here. I’m perpetually astounded as well. Very little of this suprises me anymore but plenty of things shock me.
He’s a stereotypical conman; so shallow, so obvious. And yet, my family and former friends continue to slurp up his bullshit. It’s so fucking stupid. He’s so stupid. On paper, many of these people are smarter than the orange used car salesman.
It’s difficult to describe how astounded I really am. Black magic or aliens would make more sense. I would find a novel or show with this unrealistic.
I wonder if I’ll ever understand?
And yet, my family and former friends continue to slurp up his bullshit.
Same here BUT food prices shooting up, farmers are going boots up and the stock market implosion is at the door. Ya would think hitting them on the head with this economic baseball bat would get their attention. Oh, the live fire “demonstration” hit a Highway Patrol vehicle .
Easy, fox, et al have crafted an alternate reality in service of the long game the business Round Table of 1972 made to overturn the New Deal and other advances and basically end the Republic in all but name, thinking a plutocracy will result led by their toolish autocrat.
That alt reality was utilized by prez to seize control of the party machine from their political tools. Then brought to his heel.
Stealing elections, crushing the working class, ending regulations, et al is the party’s 50 year long goals and will not end with mr glorious leader. They will scapegoat and pursue reigns of terror, and enough people will support their bs out of ignorance and perveived self interest if we do not get some popular muscular opposition.
I get how the mechanics of it work. That’s not hard to see and understand.
The part I don’t understand is the cult of personality. The personality is repulsive. He violates all kinds of norms the fundies literally hold as sacred. Trump is openly a cartoon of what fundies rail against, teach their children not to be, and consider evil.
I was born and raised southern fundie. A new york city, orange makeup wearing, reality tv, biblically ignorant, multiply divorced, fucktard conman is about the last thing I could see them falling for. That’s the part I don’t understand. Mike Johnson, Bush, Cheney - I understand. Hell, they didn’t like Romney because he was Mormon.
If you’ve ever seen the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales, there is a yankee carpet bagger selling snake oil. He’s comic relief and is an archetype of slimy dandy Yankee sales weasel. There are cultural tropes against exactly the sort of person Trump is including his appearance.
And yet, they fell for it. I don’t get it.
Because deep down, a lot of these fundies WISH they could transgress those norms. A lot of them WISH they could do half the shit he does. He’s their fantasy where they get a shitload of money and can now violate every single thing they’ve been told is sacred.
A lot of it is also just gonna boil down to racism. A LOT of Evangelicalism, especially in America, is deeply racist. White supremacists also realized they could hijack religious messaging and spread their hate a lot farther than just going “white power” - couching your hate in religious context makes it a lot more palatable for a lot more people. The religious right, and a scary portion of the center, hate nonwhites. They’ll be nice enough in public, they’ll make the noises about how they’re welcome at their churches and there’s a place for them in heaven, but at the end of the day? They really REALLY would prefer if they were “with their own kind”.
The racism doesn’t explain it for me.
It’s certainly a contributing factor, and I think it’s closer to whatever venality trump has tapped into in these people.
However, just the way the man presents himself should have been an immediate turnoff for most of these people.
He’s a fop, a dandy, he’s got a swish in his mannerisms that borders queer stereotypes for many southerners. He’s city soft. Which these people hate just as much as they hate black folks.
Personal experience, I don’t understand deacons, colonels, PhDs, and skilled blue collar worshipping the freak. It’s not about policy, it’s that they’re just as bigoted against how he presents himself as they are about race.
He is a pos. But we are in reality, they are in alt reality. The dems are puppet mastering for shadowy billionaires, scapegoats are responsible for problems, the perpetrators are the victims in alt reality.
Prez calls out the problem and promises to fix it. He looks like he is fighting in the alt sphere. Dems give empty platitudes and run as status quo. They know they are getting increasingly screwed if not by whom, r’s are the only one’s promising to do anything about it.
There is no credible opposition, in reality the dems are at best useless sold out tools playing good cop to r bad despite r now playing hitler. Voting them in delays, it does not change. There is no stopping r’s through them.
But that is beside the point of why alt reality likes him, that is why he and their r party can win.
Ey yo. The “No Kings” Protest, people like Newsom, Prizker, AOC, Bernie and Mamdani still give me some hope that your country isn’t lost - and with it, the NATO and all free countries.
- Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West! *
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Much like Regan and Bush Junior, Trump is the front man to smarter (but not really smart) people who orchestrate everything. He just happens to be broadly aligned with what they want, and every now and again they throw him a bone with his personal vendettas while allowing his family to make obscene amounts of money via various scams and bribes.
What is truly astounding is how many people voted for the orange buffoon a second time, and still support him now. He has always been very clear as to what he is, what he will do, yet they still vote for him? Racism and hate has to be a powerful perfume that covers up the rancid stench of Trump and his goons.
People still calling him smart is the thing that makes me shit my pants. I don’t know how anyone can think that who has just heard him talk for more than 10 seconds. This isn’t even hyperbolic. It’s like north korea, but they don’t want to kiss their leaders ass they have to. Americans bend over to get fucked harder, because they like it.
you mean a second coup
That was an attempted coup kinda
Just because he was bad at it doesn’t make it less a coup
Kind of not “attempted” because he scared congresspeople into silence.
Also, kind reminder that without a constitutional amendment, NOTHING can legally dissolve Congress, nor require it to assemble in DC or really anywhere specific. Maybe a court will say it must assemble only in U.S. territory.
Er, it makes it not a coup. Its an attempt.
An attempted coup is as much a coup as a successful one if you give them more chances to actually complete the fuckin’ thing. 🤷🏼♂️
One of many, many, many parallels:
Don’t think he knows about second coup, Dew.
Hate to break it to you but we are well past the coup stage. The journalist badge stuff the other day was an important milestone.
Regardless of the pervasive reach of interpersonal social media and of the Internet … control over the mass media emanating from the political center will still be our most important weapon in establishing our authority after the coup.
Coup D’État: A Practical Handbook, Luttwak
No shit. His words and actions are where to look.
He’s been telegraphing it since 2016. In 2020 he literally tried to stop the peaceful passing of power between Presidencies and made it a very not peaceful passage for the first time in US history.
Like, if you haven’t noticed, you haven’t been paying the fuck attention (not you OP, you’re obviously paying attention). I’m so sick of our media downplaying it like they’re just figuring this the fuck out, like he isn’t the most transparently bad liar in fucking history.
He’s not even a bad liar. That would mean he’s lying. He literally said in 2019 “If I win the 2020 election, I will accept those results. If the results say I lost, then you’ll know just how rigged it was, and I will refuse to accept it. We’ll change the rigged elections and show them how you can’t rig elections anymore.”
He straight up said, long before a single vote could be cast, that he wasn’t doing any part of the election process in good faith.
Then in the 2024 election right around the time of the debates, he said “Last time they rigged the elections. We’re going to show them how to rig it so the good guys win. It’ll be the biggest election you’ve ever seen. It’ll be such a big election with such a turnout, that you won’t need a recount. You won’t need anymore elections after this. This will be the last one we do, believe me.”
He’s straight up saying that he’s rigging elections and will refuse to hand over power when his term limit expires.
He’s not lying. He’s straight up telling you he’s going to be a piece of shit, and then he follows it up by being a piece of shit.
This …
He will not just step off the stage, he can not.
Regardless of his mental state, he is so ingrained in Project 2025 that they do not let him until a working solution is found, perhaps after an official declaration of kingship and he appoints a successor will he get to step down.
Next to that if he would now just lay down his title and maga crumbles down he’s absolutely certain he’ll be drowned in lawsuits again and perhaps actually given jailtime.Oh, and the coup … yeah that is already ongoing just in a sneaky way…
I think as his dementia takes hold more and more, he’s going to become more erratic and it will be cunts like Steven Miller who step up to push for things. My suspicion is that the GOP is staying silent because there are many senior legislators and connected friends that ran with Epstein and why Trump isn’t releasing those files is because it’s “compromat” that he can leverage tons of people with. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing Roy Cohn would have taught him to do.
our media downplaying it like they’re just figuring this the fuck out
Like they are a little bit in/for on it too?
Autocrats & dick taters usually tell us what they want. We should listen.
I already knew it in 2017, when both Mary Trump and Tony Schwartz said “He won’t go willingly”, but whoever didn’t get the memo after Jan 6, 2021 should get their brains examined.
That said, I do believe this can still be turned around. How complete is their control over military & law enforcement, justice & legislation, voting machines etc? It is very clear that they are aiming at 100% but they aren’t quite there yet.
With strong popular opposition we could umseat them. Not with newsom or pritzker though and the party leaders will force them as we have not purged the party.
A coup? He already has complete control? The fuck you mean?
No there are still some more or less independent judges and media (even mainstream look at south park) and the hope is very much still there that there will be new elections in 2028. Only after there are no new elections by 2030 or when they are a clear smokescreen with Stalinist scores or if trump himself personally appoints a successor will the coup process be complete, imo. Military on the streets are not yet doing Prague spring or Tianmen square style complete sweeps of entire protesting populations, ICE is still “only” individual cases mostly. They’re getting there, but I don’t think the control is complete yet.
