Just because it's a dumb coup attempt doesn't mean it's not a coup attempt.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Don’tEverTalkToTheHatThatWay Retweeted

Just because it's a dumb coup attempt doesn't mean it's not a coup attempt. #FourSeasonsTotalCoup

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[CatMor]

1. He's stupid enough to think It would work...

he sure is ugly inside and outside.

[Cha]

2. Rt.. don't we Know IT! #DesperatDirtyDiaperDon

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. IMO, the coup attempt started with Russian intervention.

They don't spend their time and money to compliment a charismatic narcissist without getting something in return. Russia had its agents crawling all over the White House from inauguration day onward. Putin just had to engineer an election, and he'd be home free. In a second term, Trump would invite Putin to the White House and then set up deals that enrich Russians and impoverish the US. Trump is sociopathic first, an Oligarch second. He wants to be in the community of oligarchs, just like Putin. It was to be a convergence of forces that would make every unscrupulous billionaire smile. But Trump couldn't deliver. So the scheme fell apart. (More discipline and less narcissism would more likely have meant a dismantling of the Constitution.)

[moondust]

4. Sedition/treason.

Take your pick and charge them.

[regnaD kciN]

5. Well, not strictly a "coup" attempt...

...because everything they might try to do would either be fully legal (if completely against the spirit of democracy), or something that would be made legal by Supreme Court diktat.

But this is really the final and most egregious corrosive act against America of this whole cursed administration. Because, from now on, every election is going to come with an unspoken caveat: it won't be just "how the people have spoken" (even given the idiocy of the Electoral College) -- it will be "how the people have spoken" and "whether the 'powers that be' allow the people to make that choice." Every time, we'll have to worry, once the votes are cast and tallied, what chicanery can be used to throw out those votes and have the side in power simply appoint themselves the winners (once again, completely legally). And there's little doubt that, one day, that will happen -- once that Pandora's Box has been cracked open even a little, it's only a matter of time before it gets flung wide.

[kentuck]

6. Not so dumb.

It would probably have worked with every other democracy in the world, using the same techniques.