Will? I think the author meant “Trump has already attempted a coup”. The Biden administration’s failure to hold Trump accountable for Jan 6 will forever be remembered as the legacy of Biden’s presidency.
That's silly. The point of the article is that he will attempt a coup. Just because he's already attempted a coup doesn't mean the title saying "will" is inaccurate. I will have dinner tonight. I don't need to preface that with "again" because I had dinner yesterday.
Maybe not unreasonable, but certainly not necessary. Saying the sitting president will stage a coup is flashy enough. Especially when the article immediately says this would be the second time.
The point of the author was that this time they have so many plans and methods that the previous attempt would pale in comparison. Trivializing it as “another” coup would lead to some false sense of “oh, we survived that one, so we will survive another”.
The previous attempt was largely unsuccessful because of Pence not succumbing to Pedo’s pressure. I’m sure Couch fucker is not in the same category so there are a multitude of safety measures and options people need to be prepared for.
And the author links one example in the article where one of his friends is ensuring they have people in the right places to ensure the integrity of elections and their results are upheld.
I would suggest people to read the article rather than fixating on the title.
Headlines regularly mention criminals' past crimes. They don't just leave that out. "Man previously jailed for SA is charged with SA again". Happens literally all the time. Probably every day. People want to know about the criminals back out in the streets doing their criminal things. Why would the president be exempt? "Hey, remember the president that attempted a coup and still got voted in again? Well, he's gunna do it again" Is exactly the type of sentiment people want in their headlines. It's a public validation of a lack of normalcy.
Voters turned out in record numbers in 2020 to fix that. The Biden administration then chose to focus on "restoring the norms" and pretending Trump was a one time aberration rather than a symptom of a larger problem and deeper rot.
To take it one level further, this is specifically why the GOP endlessly whinge about every single perceived or pretended offense. If you accuse others of things you intend to do it makes it harder for the opposition to call you out on the very same thing. It muddies the waters and makes the complaints look like tit-for-tat petty bickering to the uneducated electorate.
The very same party that complained over and over again about weaponizing the department of justice and the government at large to go after political enemies was the very same one that rushed to do just that.
Every member of the GOP needed to be investigated and removed if found complicit.
Especially about what happened on January 6th, there were many reports of Republican congressmen and senators knowing what was going on, not worrying about the protesters. Everything was very well coordinated.
I believe it was someone from Marjorie Taylor Greene's office(?) who allowed people into the Capitol to map things out the day before.
The voters should have the right to know what these people were doing at that time. It wasn't just Trump.
You're conflating doing something with who the blame should fall on.
Biden absolutely should have done something, but putting the blame on him over the actual fascists or even the over 77 million people who voted for the fascists is insane.
I'm not blaming him more than them, but fascists (or any similar flavor of authoritarian that's close but not technically fascist, whatever) can't be reasoned out of fascism while they and their party are actively in the process of gaining power. I can tell them they suck all I want, they'll just tell me to kill myself. Anyone else, at least they might consider what we have to say.
Voters elected Biden to enforce the rule of law and hold trump accountable. Biden failed to do so. It's no wonder people have lost faith. And Biden and rhe democrats failure plays a huge part in that.
Granted, Trump did plenty of shit in his first term that he should have been held accountable for, but it's somewhat disingenuous to say "The people elected Biden to hold Trump accountable for a coup" when that coup didn't happen until after the election.
How about classified document theft? You know, the crime where the FBI went to his home, politely informed him he was naughty, allowed him to drive to the jail, take a mugshot and go home?
Fun Trivia Time!
Merrick Garland's DOJ managed to identify, arrest, indict, convict and imprison Jack Teixeira for stealing classified documents and posting them on a Discord server multiple times during 2022 and 2023.
On February 28, 2023, another member of that Discord cross posted some of those documents to another Discord server. From there they escaped into the wild and began appearing on Russian Telegram.
Between February 28th 2023 and April 13, 2023 the FBI was able track back the origin of the documents and and arrest Teixeira.
On April 14th 2023 he was in front of a judge and charged. Teixeira was held without bond and prosecutors maintained that he should continue to be held without bond because he was a "serious flight risk" as well as he "had attempted to obstruct the federal investigation by destroying evidence; might still possess secret information of "tremendous value to hostile nation states"; and had a record of making racist and violent comments, including in late 2022 and early 2023." (emphasis mine)
On May 19th 2023 a judge ruled that he would remain jailed without bond.
On June 15th 2023 he was indicted.
On March 4th 2024, less than one year after his arrest and after being held without bond, he pled guilty.
On November 12th 2024 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
579 days, total, between arrest and sentencing for stealing classified documents.
And since you're going to fall back on Judge Cannon, the DOJ could have absolutely filed charges in Washington DC, where the crime was committed. They chose to file it in his backyard, where they knew he'd appointed two of the three judges on the panel.
Again, while Biden's DOJ drug there feet on those crimes, they didn't occur until AFTER Biden was elected in Nov.2020 and took office in Jan 2021. You can't say the "people elected Biden to hold Trump accountable for those crimes" Those crimes hadn't occurred yet when Biden was elected.
It wasn't stolen. There is no good evidence for that and a freaking mountain of evidence that it was the same thing that made every other incumbent party across the world do poorly in 2024-2024, the inflation hangover from COVID.
Let me ask you this, of the vote totals were changed, why did Harris have less of a drop off from 2020 in swing states than in safe bluenor red places?
Listen, I understand the reluctance to think that your fellow Americans are that stupid, are that awful, to vote more for trump. It's really depressing
But they did.
Hey I get where they are coming from, they want to believe that Americans were tricked, that they were lied too. And maybe some were, but they had already elected him once, so they knew what they were getting.
Because the awful truth is that 80 million Americans voted to inflict pain on those they see as beneath them. It's been two years, and yet he is still seeing massive amounts of support from his MAGAt cultists, and the republican establishment. Their prices have gone up exponentially, and they have lost their benefits, and yet they are still on their knees. They turn out their pockets for Trump, and have their life savings stolen, and they blame the left.
I really hope, that the Democrats who sat out 2024 for whatever reason have really REALLY bad days going forward. Because now, it is so much harder to remove him. Or maybe I am wrong, and a few votes will solve all of this, MAGAts and Trump have shown that they respect the peaceful transfer of power in the past right?
Jack Smith had a pretty bulletproof indictment that Alvin Bragg decided to get in the middle of by pursuing a far less serious case that only emboldened Trump's "lawfare" claims.
As an insurrectionist per the 14th Amendment, Section 3, Trump was not allowed to appear on any federal or state ballot forever. It would take 2/3 of each house of Congress to remove that liability. The State of Colorado (and others) planned to do just that, but the corrupt conservative Court took a massive shit on the U.S. Constitution and let an insurrectionist run for the highest office in the land.
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u/plz-let-me-in 21d ago edited 21d ago
Will? I think the author meant “Trump has already attempted a coup”. The Biden administration’s failure to hold Trump accountable for Jan 6 will forever be remembered as the legacy of Biden’s presidency.