Trump’s Plans for a Coup Are Now Public

Trump’s Plans for a Coup Are Now Public 

"Last year, John Eastman, whom CNN describes as an attorney working with Donald Trump’s legal team, wrote a preposterous memo outlining how then–Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the 2020 election by fiat or, failing that, throw the election to the House of Representatives, where Republicans could install Trump in office despite his loss to Joe Biden. The document, which was first reported by the Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in their new book, is a step-by-step plan to overthrow the government of the United States through a preposterous interpretation of legal procedure."

Treason, Sedition, and Insurrection were heavily restricted by SCOTUS after WW2 because during WW1 and post WW2 those were used with extreme crookedness for political ends.

What we know now does meet the criteria for Sedition and/or Insurrection. They're STILL doing it, and they need to rot in jail for Twenty years, which is the maximum legal punishment. Not many of them got twenty years left in them anyway... so it's basically "forever".

The DOJ shouldn't just go after the insurrectionists on the ground, it needs to go after the plotters and schemers. And Manchin, Synema, et al. need to realize that American democracy and the right to vote are vastly more important then a stupidly devolved filibuster rule in the Senate.

What's sad and the worst part. All these so called constitutional loving patriots don't care, it's a hypocritical shit show. They are so deep in MAGA loving dick they don't realize how dangerous this is, even for them in the long run. To think that they support this shit and when the GOP comes for their social security and the little bit of medicare they have is completely insane to think they also won't be victims. The GOP hates their base and cares nothing for them.

But then it's to late, their fascist regime is in place.

It's no longer a question of IF TRUMP DID IT.

This is how cults operate. January 7 to March was denial that it happened. Trump's terrorist attack was "fake news".

Now 21 million people last week admitted that they want Trump to violently overthrow the government.

They are not denying that they want violence. They're saying that it's the only way forward. Trump will forever be their martyr.

Memo proves real Trump coup was underway Jan. 6

"Thanks to the work of the congressional committee investigating Jan. 6 and journalists connected with the Washington Post and other outlets, we now know that an actual coup was underway before and on Jan. 6 when the Capitol came under siege from right-wing mobs. The conspiracy went far deeper than just the thugs and gangs that laid siege to Washington, D.C., that day, however."

"The Eastman memo makes it clear that the biggest security threat the nation faces now is not foreign terrorists, it’s not a fanatic wearing bull horns as he prances around the Capitol, or even the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a significant section of the so-called mainstream of America, including and especially the Republican Party itself."

Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and others are conditioning people for fascism.

Well, it's obvious the executive branch was all about taking a dump on the constitution. We were fortunate in this case, the other branches of government held. Congress ultimately did their job, and the courts tossed out frivolous election challenges faster than yesterday's burrito exited my colon. It's hard to say what the future will bring, but I'm voting blue until the GOP scrapes this shit off their shoes. Quit pandering to extremists, quit pandering to right wing Christianity, quit pandering to QAnon and other ridiculous conspiracies, quit attacking women, quit attacking the LBGTQ community. How about start with some basic policy positions that we can comprehend and use this to convince Americans you can govern effectively.

Grifter keeps on Grifting

Trump releases statement falsely claiming GOP audit in Arizona uncovered 'undeniable evidence' of fraud after the audit confirmed Biden won.

"Former President Donald Trump backpedaled from praising a group of "highly respected" GOP auditors in Arizona after their audit of the state's election results confirmed that Joe Biden won the general election. Trump also released a misleading statement on Friday morning that said the audit found "significant and undeniable evidence of FRAUD!""

This multi-bankrupt orange bloated trust fund weirdo who had zero taste and no class was judging people groveling for a job. He clearly didnt know anything about actual business, just spoke in vagaries and had a total lack of shame or self awareness.

He was a joke, but his confidence was as absolute as it was unearned. Since you can't understand it, you stare at it hoping you do.

I'm grew up in the media market he so desperately wanted to be the center of. It was SO obvious and SUCH a joke. He was a clown.

Who could have thought his transparent and silly attempts to hijack page 6 to stroke his own ego would ALSO work for national news outlets? And that people saw the disaster unfold and thought THATS MY GUY.

Fucking wild.

Trump has been saying for months that the AZ audit would prove he won. then the media gets a draft of the final AZ report hours before it's to be released saying that AZ lost even more bigly

so now trump is complaining that the media is calling the results prematurely.... although that's what he's been doing for months.

TRUMP PRETENDS ARIZONA ELECTION AUDIT FINDINGS DIDN’T COMPLETELY EMBARRASS HIM

"Donald Trump made clear over the weekend that he still wants to force Republicans to pay a political cost for failing to help him overturn the 2020 election results. “The people of Georgia must replace the RINOs [Republicans In Name Only] and weak Republicans who made it all possible,” Trump said at a rally in Georgia on Saturday, referring to his election loss. Trump called Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the Republican who refused to help him “find” enough votes, “incompetent and strange.” He also turned Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who he declared  “a complete and total disaster on election integrity,” into a rally joke. The former president suggested he would have preferred Democrat Stacey Abrams, who ran in 2018, over the incumbent Republican. “Stacey, would you like to take his place?” said Trump, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It’s OK with me.”"

 It’s not about shame or self reflection or empathy or anything a normal human being would factor in.

He is just continuing to push the narrative that repubs need to hear to overthrow democracy. It’s a long game and ppl keep missing it.

He is upset that he didn't get his way. He was raised in an environment that encouraged his antics and behavior. And being told "no" or "you are wrong" for the basically first time in his life (I count all the election shenanigans as one thing, so it might not be the "first time" if you consider different instance separately) and the fact that he isn't able to have enough money thrown at the problem to get his way is just so new to him. He simply doesn't know what to do because these tactics that have succeeded for him all his life are failing, and he has no sense of trying something new or thinking "ok, I didn't get what I want and I am not going to, so what do I do next?"

He’s not pretending. To the faithful, the “audit” findings didn’t embarrass him.

If you read the report, the Cyber Ninjas basically said “gosh, there are a lot of things we don’t really understand. Could be fraud, but maybe not! Someone should really look into that.”

Trump’s faithful supporters heard “could be fraud” and ran with it. They’re on Twitter blathering about deleted files (which weren’t deleted; they were archived and CN never subpoenaed the archives), bizarre scan images (which look bizarre because of how the files are stored, not because of something nefarious), duplicate ballots (not duplicate) and a dozen other things. Cyber Ninjas displayed a criminal lack of understanding of our elections system and the Trump faithful do not care because they also do not understand the elections system, and anything they don’t immediately understand MUST be fraud.

Don’t believe me? Go look at the Twitter accounts for Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ), Kari Lake (@KariLake), Karen Fann (@FannKFann) or Mark Finchem (@RealMarkFinchem).

These people are elected officials or are running for elected office. They are all amplifying lies about the findings of the audit. They might be stupid enough to believe that there was fraud, but I think it’s more insidious: they know that what they’re saying is based on a lie, but they don’t care because the lie personally benefits them and they won’t experience ANY repercussions whatsoever.

Exactly zero people were convinced that the election was safe and secure. We’re just more divided about the security of the election than before.

And Arizona was just the first. These audits are going to become more commonplace after every election until the ones running them and/or advocating for them are held accountable for their lies.

How to tank world economy?

 Mitch McConnell says the GOP will vote for the US to default on its debt

"As the White House stressed the urgency of raising the debt ceiling to avoid a government default, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Monday that the House would pass legislation to fund the government that includes a debt-limit suspension through the end of next year.

It was a dare to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who would need to lend ten Republican votes for it to avert the filibuster and clear the Senate. The Kentucky Republican was unfazed.

"We will not support legislation that raises the debt limit," McConnell said after Pelosi and Schumer's announcement. "Democrats do not need our help.""

Collapsing the U.S. economy and making the dollar no longer the currency most valued in the world... all to own the libs and play politics. What more needs to be done to show Republicans do not deserve office?

No. This is about collapsing the democratic government so it can be replaced with a plutocracy.

McConnell will never follow through on this threat. We've seen this every September with a democrat in the White House for over two decades. Next up is the government shutdown theater.

Edit for clarification: while McConnell and his bosses the rich want to replace the current government, they do not want to destroy the dollar as a currency... wealth is the foundation of their power. These late summer posturing shenanigans are a scheduled opportunity for republicans to pressure democrats for smaller things they want, because they know democrats will cave.

To quote a show that was super popular then suddenly not, "They're willing to burn the country down just so they can rule over the ashes."

Remember this Americans… the party supposedly of fiscal responsibility doesn’t want to pay its bills.

The party that goes out of its way to destroy the economy to prove government is bad.

"There's no such thing as a good boss"

takes a boss position and purposely bankrupts

"See?"

They’re doing it to wreck the economy and blame it on Biden. It’s worked in the past when Democrats are in power. I don’t know why the public doesn’t see it but this was common during Obama.

They want to make Biden look bad so much that they are willing to let the U.S. default, killing jobs in the process.

Fourteenth Amendment, Section 4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

The constitution is pretty explicit. These people are traitors to their oaths of office to allow American finances to become a joke.

The party of fiscal responsibility all.

2 trillion for war? Sure! (300 million a day for 20 years) 2 trillion for tax breaks? Sure! 3 trillion to fix infrastructure that would lead to jobs? No! Socialism!

The stock market didn't crash under Biden like they all said it would, so now they have to force it to crash.

It is going to crash, but because we never fixed shit back in 08, and the “solution” to COVID was to artificially prop up the stock market with trillions. The Fed prints 120B monthly, with pretty much all of it going straight to banks/HF to pump straight into the market.

Fed can’t taper because stock market will crash, Fed can’t raise rates to curb inflation due to printing and asset purchases. So either the market will crash and our shit will be worthless or we plunge into hyperinflation and money will be worthless. Don’t worry though, the Fed board managed to liquidate their personal holdings due to potential “conflicts of interest.”

Full-Scale Republican Meltdown

 Biden’s COVID Vaccination Strategy Triggers Full-Scale Republican Meltdown

"Let’s begin with the obvious: Joe Biden is not a “dictator” for expanding vaccination and testing requirements, nor is he “trampling on civil liberties.” None of the steps outlined Thursday to combat COVID-19, which is still rampaging 18 months into the pandemic despite the widespread availability of safe and free vaccines, amount to “tyranny.” Those seeking to give you a Pfizer shot are nothing at all like the “gestapo,” and Americans should absolutely comply with public health guidelines—regardless of what some hysterical guy standing in a cornfield at night might tell you."

Well, the Supreme Court already ruled that a vax mandate is legal.

Mandatory vaccination laws were first enacted in the early 19th century, beginning with Massachusetts’ smallpox vaccination law in 1809.7

Jacobson v. Massachusetts is the seminal case regarding a state or municipality’s authority to institute a mandatory vaccination program as an exercise of its police powers. In Jacobson, the Supreme Court upheld a Massachusetts law that gave municipal boards of health the authority to require the vaccination of persons over the age of 21 against smallpox, and determined that the vaccination program instituted in the city of Cambridge had “a real and substantial relation to the protection of the public health and safety.”

This kind of reminds me of something extremely ironic:

• Conservatives suggest that Biden's vaccine strategy is communist/socialist/authoritarian/anti-democratic.
• Conservatives understand that we have selective service and they could -- if the need arose -- be required to report for military duty.
• They do this while knowing they probably will never have to actually report for duty because other people have volunteered to go instead. Kind of like how they feel like the pandemic is no big deal and they don't need the vaccine -- but it's really only true that the pandemic has gotten better because other people have voluntarily gotten the vaccine.

Biden’s Vaccine Push Aligns Him With a Fed-Up, Vaccinated Majority

"Polling from across the country shows that broad numbers of Americans support tightening vaccine requirements for schools, hospitals and workplaces. Majorities favor showing proof of vaccination to travel by airplane, attend a concert, eat at a restaurant or stay in a hotel. And most vaccinated voters blame the unvaccinated — not the administration — for the skyrocketing resurgence of the virus."

"After President Biden resisted comprehensive vaccine mandates for months, his forceful steps on Thursday to pressure the 80 million unvaccinated Americans to get their shots put him squarely on the side of what had been a fairly quiet but increasingly frustrated majority: vaccinated Americans who see the unvaccinated as selfishly endangering others and holding the country back."

All the politicans and pundits melting down publicly "own" the fall and witer spikes we'll inevitably be dealing with. joe Biden has done all he can. He's not a perfect president but he's put his entire legacy on the line in a last-dicth attempt to help the American people get out of this mess whether they want to or not. Those fighting back are 100% responsible for what comes next.

Critics Remind Dan Crenshaw That Mandatory Vaccines Have Existed In U.S. For Decades

"Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) ominously warned of a “revolt” after President Joe Biden unveiled new COVID-19 vaccination requirements — and critics on Twitter piled on to remind the lawmaker that mandatory vaccinations have existed in the U.S. for decades. 

He also called vaccine requirements “cheap governance” and ordered the Democrats to “leave people the hell alone” in a tweet on Thursday."

Does he not remember getting mandatory vaccines while in the military? Perhaps time for one of Trump's cognitive tests...

What a disgrace to the code.

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Republicans Want the Freedom to Live in a Pandemic Forever

"The Department of Labor will enact an emergency rule to require major employers to ensure their workers are either vaccinated or tested on a weekly basis, President Joe Biden announced on Thursday. The move is a significant step toward ensuring that enough Americans are vaccinated to put the pandemic behind us, and it naturally prompted immediate outrage from Republican politicians and conservative pundits, who drew from a familiar arsenal of strange notions of “liberty” and fantastical understandings of American history."

Honestly, it’s the stacking of unsafe behavior that bothers me more than anything. Like, if you’re worried about the vaccines but take full precautions like masks and wash your hands consistently, that’s fine. You get vaccinated and wear masks, but don’t like social distancing, that’s okay. But when EVERY step to reducing the spread of COVID is rejected, I can’t help but come to the conclusion that you’re dangerous to society, regardless of your motivations.

They have the problem that if they do ANYTHING about it, that is tacitly admitting its a problem. And if its a problem, you have a responsibility to do something about it. And if you do something about it, that's just following the direction of "liberals" and "experts" who are pushing them.

By doing absolutely nothing about it, you are 1) making a statement that you aren't afraid, 2) reaffirming your "freedom" to make your own choices even if they are stupid, 3) not accepting "mainstream" conclusions and instead sticking to your "trusted" conclusions. Thats why they are so eager to take unvetted and unapproved medications because "Their Side" is pushing them, not the mainstream.

‘It’s about time’: Biden puts the screws on the unvaccinated

"Joe Biden finally figured out he’d been talking to the wrong people.

For months, it was the vaccine-resistant that the president treated with kid gloves, sprinkling words like “unity” into his remarks about fighting the pandemic and sidestepping others, like “mandate,” for fear he’d scare off vaccine holdouts."

If you want to put the screws to them have the insurance companies cover nothing if their are hospital or health related costs for covid patients who are unvaccinated without a reason.

I had a boss explain to me once that everyone has a choice in life. Have a good job but dont like it? You can quit. Tired of working then get unemployed. You always have a choice, but those choices come with consequences.

Unemployed too long? Hard to find a good job. Bounce around to alot of jobs? A lot of jobs won't hire you.

Consequences for your choices. The choice to not participate in public safety should have it's consequences also.