The Trump Coup Attempt is Still Raging

[DBA]

If you were that smart, you wouldn't be a trumptard, now, would you?

Um, you support Biden. Enough said.

 

[BlindBoo]

They didn't rule or interpret the law in these states, they changed it. No new voting laws were passed by the legislative branches. Not sure what you were taught in Jr. High Civics, but I was taught that the judicial branch interprets the laws and the legislative branch makes and amends them.

Harrisburg, PA – Governor Wolf made voting more convenient and secure by signing Act 77 of 2019, the most significant improvement to Pennsylvania’s elections in more than 80 years. The bipartisan compromise legislation takes effect for the April 2020 primary election and makes Pennsylvania a national leader with voter-friendly election reforms.

The law creates a new option to vote by mail up to 50 days before an election and be placed on a list to permanently receive a ballot application by mail. It also provides more time to register to vote and authorizes a $90 million bond to help counties fund the purchase of new voting systems with a paper trail that strengthens the security of our elections.

“This bill makes voting more convenient and more secure for millions of Pennsylvanians and continues my commitment to modernizing our elections,” said Governor Wolf. “

Governor Wolf Signs Election Reform Bill Including New Mail-in Voting

Governor Wolf made voting more convenient and secure by signing Act 77 of 2019, the most significant improvement to Pennsylvania’s elections in more than 80 years. The bipartisan compromise legislation takes effect for the April 2020 primary election and makes Pennsylvania a national leader with...

www.governor.pa.gov

The sweeping new election laws for the 2020 election were challenged several times in court on several different aspects by both parties.

 

[Claudette]

BlindBoo
Sure. He wanted a recount to see if he could get those votes. Hell You would have done the same thing. LOL

 

[schmidlap]

But they're brave 'n brilliant patriots who are saving Amurrica from The Evil Hitler Socialist Chinese Dominion Venezuelan Deep State Swamp Commies!

They speak Da Troof 'n stuff! USA! USA! MAGA!

When the first tenet of the weird worship of one dude is that empirically-confirmed reality is a nefarious conspiracy, you know devotees must strike out in their pervasive alienation. Evidence evokes their ire.

 

[Mac1958]

When the first tenet of the weird worship of one dude is that empirically-confirmed reality is a nefarious conspiracy, you know devotees must strike out in their pervasive alienation. Evidence evokes their ire.

And that makes me wonder if they either consciously or subconsciously know what they have done. What they have allowed themselves to fall into.

 

[schmidlap]

And that makes me wonder if they either consciously or subconsciously know what they have done. What they have allowed themselves to fall into.

Again, I'm afraid that any attempt to descry a thought process is misplaced because theirs is an emotional affliction, not a rational one.

The self-pleasuring "Big Lie" that they eagerly swallowed was not only ludicrous at the time - as attested to by dozens of judges and auditors - ten months later, the conspiracy kooks have yet to posit an explanation as to how if functioned, or even name a suspect among the scores of masterminds, coordinators, facilitators, operatives, and other collaborators , etc., etc., etc. who would have been essential if their delusion had a gossamer filament of credibility.

Yet, they BELIEVE!

 

[Mac1958]

Again, I'm afraid that any attempt to descry a thought process is misplaced because theirs is an emotional affliction, not a rational one.

The self-pleasuring "Big Lie" that they eagerly swallowed was not only ludicrous at the time - as attested to by dozens of judges and auditors - ten months later, the conspiracy kooks have yet to posit an explanation as to how if functioned, or even name a suspect among the scores of masterminds, coordinators, facilitators, operatives, and other collaborators , etc., etc., etc. who would have been essential if their delusion had a gossamer filament of credibility.

Yet, they BELIEVE!

This affliction has been 30+ years in the making, beginning with the advent of national talk radio.

They're conditioned to believe without asking questions, without challenging, without digging.

When a person has been robbed of their fundamental human curiosity, they become tools.

 

[schmidlap]

This affliction has been 30+ years in the making, beginning with the advent of national talk radio.

They're conditioned to believe without asking questions, without challenging, without digging.

When a person has been robbed of their fundamental human curiosity, they become tools.

The FCC eliminated its fairness doctrine policy in 1987. While total impartiality is impossible, equity easily misconstrued as equivalence, and a critical approach to a variety of media sources essential, abandoning balance allowed those so ideologically disposed to limit themselves to a radically restricted and constricting diet.

It appears that many are extremely limited by that notorious right-wing echo-chamber, so much so that their entertainers lead them, and their politicians follow (if they know what's good for them.)

Among the consequences of the maelstrom in a septic tank: The 81,009,468 patriotic Americans who voted for the President are viewed by them as the enemy.

 

[Clipper]

Two cars now have been found in LA with hundreds of blank recall ballots in the trunk of cars owned by meth addicts....something fishy going on there don't ya think mother fucker?....

Ooooh look, they're going to rig the recall election to favor Newsom using meth addicts who wouldn't know the diference between Newsom or Elder from a fuckin giraffe.

Right, genius?

 

[Esdraelon]

The attempted coup’s foot soldiers have dug themselves in at state legislatures.

If Trump wins in 2024, what do you think your party would be justified in doing to "save democracy"?

 

[Esdraelon]

It appears that many are extremely limited by that notorious right-wing echo-chamber,

Right... and THIS from a party whose talking points appear on multiple outlets VERBATIM. Independent media is going to take the place of the corrupted legacy media in the coming months and years. There are already independent blog sites and social media platforms that draw more viewers than CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC... it's just a matter of time before the Left's lock on the dissemination of the narrative collapses.

 

[schmidlap]

Right... and THIS from a party whose talking points appear on multiple outlets VERBATIM. Independent media is going to take the place of the corrupted legacy media in the coming months and years. There are already independent blog sites and social media platforms that draw more viewers than CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC... it's just a matter of time before the Left's lock on the dissemination of the narrative collapses.

That is precisely the type of self-serving paranoid delusion that addles minds and unleashes crackpot, evidence-free fantasies of inexplicable "stolen elections!"

A cult's devotion to an authoritarian fanatic is not amenable to reason, embracing baseless lies, however manifestly absurd, whenever they do not align with the venerated's personal desires.

Such a delusion is not subject to rational thought, and is destructive of democratic self-governance itself.

Despite Arrests And Setbacks, Far-Right Proud Boys Press New Ambitions​

Trump was asked to denounce far-right groups, including the Proud Boys, a violent, all-male organization ... Trump responded by telling the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by."...​

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The SPLC, which designates the Proud Boys a hate group, estimates that there are more than 40 chapters across the country, which operate semi-autonomously...​

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[M]any analysts say that the 12 months that followed Trump's notorious statement have, overall, been a period of growth for the Proud Boys...​

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"The election period was a massive spike of Proud Boys activity in the street that honestly started right after that debate," ... Often they were tied to "stop the steal" efforts. ...The momentum culminated in the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.​

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Proud Boys have moved beyond their singular focus on street fights against antifa activists, and are now pursuing a deliberate strategy to forge alliances with disparate elements on the right.​

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[dudmuck]

The only Jihad is the one that you TDS folks waged and continue to wage against Trump.

its Bannon

Steve Bannon pledges 20k ‘shock troops’ as he rants that ‘we control this country’

Donald Trump’s former strategist has called on GOP to ‘deconstruct’ the state

www.independent.co.uk

 

[justoffal]

It has shifted it's focus from the federal level to the state level, where the next election can be overturned in states that have key Republican legislators ready to negate a free and fair election. The enemies of democracy are busy plotting their next moves.


What happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was not a coup attempt. It was half of a coup attempt — the less important half.

The more important part of the coup attempt — like legal wrangling in states and the attempts to sabotage the House commission’s investigation of Jan. 6 — is still going strong. These are not separate and discrete episodes but parts of a unitary phenomenon that, in just about any other country, would be characterized as a failed coup d’état.

As the Republican Party tries to make up its mind between wishing away the events of Jan. 6 or celebrating them, one thing should be clear to conservatives estranged from the party: We can’t go home again.

The attempted coup’s foot soldiers have dug themselves in at state legislatures. For example, last week in Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini introduced a draft of legislation that would require an audit of the 2020 general election in the state’s largest (typically Democratic-heavy) counties, suggesting without basis that it may show that these areas cheated to inflate Joe Biden’s vote count.

Florida’s secretary of state, a Republican, knows that an audit is nonsense and has said so. But the point of an audit would not be to change the outcome (Mr. Trump won the state). The point is not even really to conduct an audit.

The obviously political object is to legitimize the 2020 coup attempt in order to soften the ground for the next one — and there will be a next one.

In the broad strategy, the frenzied mobs were meant to inspire terror — and obedience among Republicans — while Rudy Giuliani and his co-conspirators tried to get the election nullified on some risible legal pretext or another. Republicans needed both pieces — neither the mob violence nor an inconclusive legal ruling would have been sufficient on its own to keep Mr. Trump in power.

True to form, Mr. Trump was able to supply the mob but not the procedural victory. His coup attempt was frustrated in no small part by a thin gray line of bureaucratic fortitude — Republican officials at the state and local levels who had the grit to resist intense pressure from the president and do their jobs.

Opinion | The Trump Coup Is Still Raging (Published 2021)

One thing should be clear to conservatives estranged from the Republican Party: We can’t go home again.

www.nytimes.com

Yep....republicans finally get it....new game...new rules....OK....everybody plays by the new rules. No problem....call it the Harry Reid effect.

 

[Nostra]

FBI confirms there was no insurrection on Jan. 6 - Washington Examiner

The Cambridge Dictionary defines “insurrection” as: “an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence” By that definition, there was no “insurrection” at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, according to the FBI. Reuters...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

 

[talksalot]

Yes there is something wrong when a party thinks it's okay for their candidate and POTUS to put pressure on and directly threaten state election officials to find X number of votes, after the state election had been certified.

“Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone call with the state’s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source,” the correction published Thursday began.

“Trump did not tell the investigator to ‘find the fraud’ or say she would be ‘a national hero’ if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find ‘dishonesty’ there. He also told her that she had ‘the most important job in the country right now.'”

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It has shifted it's focus from the federal level to the state level, where the next election can be overturned in states that have key Republican legislators ready to negate a free and fair election. The enemies of democracy are busy plotting their next moves.


What happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was not a coup attempt. It was half of a coup attempt — the less important half.

The more important part of the coup attempt — like legal wrangling in states and the attempts to sabotage the House commission’s investigation of Jan. 6 — is still going strong. These are not separate and discrete episodes but parts of a unitary phenomenon that, in just about any other country, would be characterized as a failed coup d’état.

As the Republican Party tries to make up its mind between wishing away the events of Jan. 6 or celebrating them, one thing should be clear to conservatives estranged from the party: We can’t go home again.

The attempted coup’s foot soldiers have dug themselves in at state legislatures. For example, last week in Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini introduced a draft of legislation that would require an audit of the 2020 general election in the state’s largest (typically Democratic-heavy) counties, suggesting without basis that it may show that these areas cheated to inflate Joe Biden’s vote count.

Florida’s secretary of state, a Republican, knows that an audit is nonsense and has said so. But the point of an audit would not be to change the outcome (Mr. Trump won the state). The point is not even really to conduct an audit.

The obviously political object is to legitimize the 2020 coup attempt in order to soften the ground for the next one — and there will be a next one.

In the broad strategy, the frenzied mobs were meant to inspire terror — and obedience among Republicans — while Rudy Giuliani and his co-conspirators tried to get the election nullified on some risible legal pretext or another. Republicans needed both pieces — neither the mob violence nor an inconclusive legal ruling would have been sufficient on its own to keep Mr. Trump in power.

True to form, Mr. Trump was able to supply the mob but not the procedural victory. His coup attempt was frustrated in no small part by a thin gray line of bureaucratic fortitude — Republican officials at the state and local levels who had the grit to resist intense pressure from the president and do their jobs.

Opinion | The Trump Coup Is Still Raging (Published 2021)

One thing should be clear to conservatives estranged from the Republican Party: We can’t go home again.

www.nytimes.com

Indeed it is.