• ProfessionalSlacker
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    I dont see how it's even remotely a coup when literally the only reason they are doing this is because he is getting removed from office. He's the outgoing president, so all the privileges that kept him protected the last four years are getting stripped away.

      • ProfessionalSlacker
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        No it isn't. That is literally how our government has worked for a while now. The President isn't some god king whose word is law, they are a puppet whose strings are pulled by the deep state and capitalist interests and it is in no way a subversion of power for them to yank him in their direction. Ffs Henry Kissinger had to practically rip the phone out of Nixon's hand to cancel a nuclear strike on North Korea. The jet ski dealership crew were at least trying to get an election thrown out, the President being a figurehead with no actual power is just how America is.

      • gobble_ghoul [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        square me up here: how is it not an (attempted) coup to try to retain power for a person already in charge, setting competence aside? also, i can see the argument for preemptive removal from power being a coup, but i find it hard to call the slowass us transition of power a coup if it just gets sped up by literally only a week or two

              • volkvulture [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                they didn't intend to subvert it because they literally believed that the election was rigged/stolen lol. they want their bourgeois dictatorship, & believe it was already coup'd from them by the Deep State lol

                so in their minds, they are preventing Biden's stolen election/ coup

                you see where resorting to using this strong terminology in the MAGA chuds' case gets us into trouble