Current Events > Rate Trump's ability to stage a coup, out of 10

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his tantrum might be prolonged for a few hours, but at the same time, there's no way to sustain that Presidency with our allies, internet comments, news coverage, the military, government. Even if he fires half the Pentagon, it would turn America into a lame duck continent

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He hasn't even begun to get desperate yet. Right now his people are telling him he can win in the Courts. When that doesn't happen, and we get closer to inauguration day, expect him to tweet some orders to the military to take action.

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3 at best
he's pretty inept at most other things i've seen him do

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He is in the process of firing anyone who isnt 100% loyal and replacing them with loyalists. It definitely looks like he is gonna try

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He might flee to Russia and leak a bunch of presidential secrets. If he can't have America, nobody can.

PokemonYoutube posted...

He might flee to Russia and leak a bunch of presidential secrets. If he can't have America, nobody can.

Lmao the fucking dude who doesn't even read briefings isn't gonna leak shit

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My dude couldn't even stage a coup in Latin America. But his incompetence doesn't damper the need to push back on this shit as aggressively as possible.
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on his own... very poor, though still too high.

with the terrifying amount of support he's been getting... way too likely. we're completely fucked, even when it fails.

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solosnake posted...

He is in the process of firing anyone who isnt 100% loyal and replacing them with loyalists. It definitely looks like he is gonna try

That's why I rated it a 3.

He's not going to succeed, but he's going to wreck anything he can in his tantrum.

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2-3

Which is scary in a self-proclaimed first world democracy.

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basically donald trump's entire foray into politics has been predicated on "wait he isn't really going to sink that low, right?" and then he fucking does. he hasn't been able to utterly unravel all our institutions but that doesn't mean he shouldn't be taken seriously as a threat, especially since he's already tacitly approved of militias going out and terrorizing dissenters

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Like a 3 for effort alone.

Has he accomplished anything he said he would do?
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I'm less worried than I was a week ago considering none of his court challenges are going anywhere and places like Fox News are starting to distance themselves from him.

But given how popular he still is I can't say its not going to happen, and I feel like everything is going to get worse once they finish recounting ballots and nothing changes, and Trump runs out of avenues to try suing over.

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He doesn't want to and has literally no power to do so. I don't know where this coup thing stops being a meme and starts being actual people completely divorced from reality

specialkid8 posted...

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He doesn't want to and has literally no power to do so. I don't know where this coup thing stops being a meme and starts being actual people completely divorced from reality

There is actually a non-zero chance that he could actually pull something off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w

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specialkid8 posted...

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He doesn't want to and has literally no power to do so. I don't know where this coup thing stops being a meme and starts being actual people completely divorced from reality

https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1326319545427107840

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bump bump

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solid 3

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dude cant even stage his own pants

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Military doesn't support him so I don't see how he could. That's kind of a requirement. Either need the military or some kind of serious paramilitary force. It's just not going to work if he tries it and won't end well for him.

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