Trump's cognitive decline would make a coup more difficult to pull off

[Politruk]

As Amanda Marcotte points out.

Stealing an election is hard work and requires focused leadership. As anyone who watched the Jan. 6 committee hearings or has read some of the indictment materials from special prosecutor Jack Smith can attest, Trump spent the last months of 2020 working the phones, conspiring with lackeys and pushing propaganda with a level of energy and sharpness he can no longer summon up for a 15-minute interview.

Despite his admission there is no evidence of election fraud, the certainty that Trump will attempt a coup if he loses in November is approximately 100%. But he failed in 2020, when he had the power of the presidency. As Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times wrote last week, "He has no legal authority. If he loses, he’ll be just another private citizen, urging other private citizens to commit state and federal crimes on his behalf." Melissa Ryan, a researcher who was instrumental in sounding the alarm in 2020, is far more chill about the possibility this time around. "We know what they’re planning," she wrote Monday, noting that the press now takes those plans far more seriously than they did in 2020. So does the Democratic Party is. The Harris campaign has built a small army of lawyers and election experts to fight Trump's potential coup, mostly composed of people who cut their teeth demolishing his efforts in 2020.

 

[Politruk]

So, there's some reason for optimism.

 

[JoePepsiCo]

Next time, say xyzname @ Salon

We then know to just walk on by...

 

[ll74]

So, there's some reason for optimism.

The changes made by Congress make rejection of certification much more difficult. The likelihood of a similar thing happening are slim to none.

 

[TastySuckToy]

I didn't see the democrats struggling with endless claims of election fraud and an illegitimate president when Trump won the first time. If and when he wins again, they'll have no problems claiming he stole it easier this time because of his influence and connections he made while in office.

I think the one guarantee we can all agree on, is that regardless who wins, the election results and winner will be contested.

 

[JoePepsiCo]

*chuckle*


Everyone assumes that the fix is in to let it be close this time.

~~~ tee hee ~~~ When you clean house, you just don't want fingers pointed at you...,

 

[JoePepsiCo]

Blame Kamala, blame Doug, blame EVERYONE in the party who didn't listen up to us the first time...,


YOUR CANDIDATE NEXT TIME WILL BE ...

 

[JoePepsiCo]

That's just how the DNC rolls.

I was raised in it...

 

[Politruk]

Everyone assumes that the fix is in to let it be close this time.

It's in for something else?

 

[JoePepsiCo]

Just going by the echoes of the culture...

"It's going to be close..."

I don't think so.

History.

So what if the last one was close?
People die. People move. People turn 18.
Culture, especially pop culture, turns on dimes unpredictable...

Corvette? Corvette? YOU BOUGHT A FUCKING CORVETTE?
How could you? I bought a Leaf!
CLIMATE SABOTEUR!

 

[Politruk]

Culture, especially pop culture, turns on dimes unpredictable...

But it moves in a definite, forward direction. E.g., it is impossible that the ongoing decline of Christianity will ever reverse.

 

[JoePepsiCo]

One man's forward is Lot's wife's glance back to others...

 

[JoePepsiCo]

The Return of the Primitive

 

[Politruk]

Just going by the echoes of the culture...

"It's going to be close..."

I don't think so.

History.

Why wouldn't it be close?

 

[JoePepsiCo]

Why would it be?

Because it could be?

I find it hard to hold "culture" especially the fast-paced American culture constant over six months, let alone four years.

Who knew Game of Thrones would come to briefly dominate the cultural Geist?

 

[Politruk]

Why would it be?

Because it could be?

Well, it shouldn't be close -- by now, it should be impossible even for Trump's original base to take him seriously -- but all the polls say it's a dead heat.

 

[JoePepsiCo]

Yes.

Yes they do.

Have you paid attention to polling past?

 

[Politruk]

Yes.

Yes they do.

Have you paid attention to polling past?

Yeah. It's never very far off.

 

[JoePepsiCo]

Missed it by that much...

 

[JoePepsiCo]

Maybe if they stopped polling us and just polled our phone histories.


Shit. Forgot. Elon's on the line...

 

[Politruk]

Next time, say xyzname @ Salon

We then know to just walk on by...

Salon has immeasurably more and better credibility than Breitbart, Newsmax, Gateway Pundit, Fox, RedState, American Thinker, Townhall, Drudge . . .

 

[JoePepsiCo]

Okay...,


That makes them what? LA Times? NYT??? The Enquirer? (It could be true! She could be an alien! I mean, I can't really see her breathe, or sweat, or worry, or anything....)

 

[JoePepsiCo]

OH.

How could I miss it.

You mean credible like this place! Gotcha!

 

[Politruk]

Okay...,


That makes them what? LA Times? NYT???

Those are credible. The New York Post and the Washington Times are not.

The right-wing press is never credible. And there is no left-wing press in America in daily-newspaper form. The left-wing press is only zines like The Nation, Jacobin, Mother Jones, etc. Which are credible, usually.

 

[JoePepsiCo]

Okay.

Good to know that we have such an informed moderator here to TRUTH SOCIAL us for "misinformation."

Stalin knew how to handle misinformation. Try getting all the right-wingers banned to protect your free speech before it gets melted into the Republican gutter slush...


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