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Of Course It's a Coup
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit is not the real world. In the real world, everyone in power is supporting him or staying quiet. Even Democratic Governors are laying low. https://apnews.com/article/trump-democrats-governors-electio... The “Fifth estate” isn’t helping either: - ABC News is owned by Disney and Disney doesn’t want to have a fight with Trump after they already lost a fight with mini-Trump (Desantis). I happen to live 10 miles awa…
I was responding to this part > You seem to be under the impression that this isn’t what the majority wants? I hope this isn't your response to me responding to a commentary about the majority > everyone in power is supporting him or staying quiet. because that is moving the goalposts. And the Trail of Tears in Gaza is explicitly about the intent to shove over a million people out of their homeland because we want so…
What I am saying is that too many people don’t understand how many people in the US think Trump can do no wrong and how many don’t care about what happens to people who don’t look like them at best and have active animosity at worse. It’s even worse, many people don’t care about what happens to people who do look like them and make $1/hour less than they do.
Do you think most Trump supporters care about what happens to Palestinians? Everyone who voted for Trump knew exactly what they were getting.
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#23Not to mention this same president allowed people who did attempt a violent coup (of the "usual" kind) to get out of jail despite being convicted. (And despite previous assurances, i.e., from Vance that "of course" violent offenders would not be freed.) And the GOP-controlled Senate just stood by.
> previous assurances, i.e., from Vance
JD Vance isn’t the president and everybody who was paying attention in 2016-2020 should realize that Trump listens only to Trump.
Not sure what you think the senate could have done about it…the president has the authority to pardon and he literally did it hours after he was inaugurated.
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#24If it is a coup, it can be easily stopped if Congress and the Courts get off their butts and do something. How about force Musk to testify under oath in Congress. Oh, it was tried but the GOP blocked it.
That’s the whole point of a coup. That’s how it works. That’s the scariest piece about all of it. The people that can stop it aren’t doing anything. They are afraid. They don’t want to be on the losing side. Maybe they tell themselves if they do nothing then they can stay where they are and work to fix things from within. If they speak up then they get thrown out. It’s better to say nothing. However, they most likely never had a spine to begin with or they simply agree with what’s happening. Or worse, they don’t want to give up their cushy life and don’t care who gets hurt.
Any president can lose their minds and do crazy things. That’s nothing to worry about. We have systems in place to solve that. What you’re seeing is the system failing and our elected people doing nothing for the purpose of saving their own skin.
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#26Trump delegated to Musk to do this. I'm not sure if it's gone beyond his legal powers but the fact that the recently elected president delegated things to his assistant is a weak argument that we have a coup.
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As an European, I don't quite get what people are complaining about, Trump is doing what he said he will do and has a mandate for it. Of course the Democrat university professor will try to rally up people.
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#28It's a coup that is being allowed and empowered by the party that already controls all 3 branches of government. It's very clear what's happening: what's less clear to me is how to stop it. EDIT: this post keeps getting flagged. The techbros who are currently destroying our democracy are upset that they're being called out.
The current US president was voted for by just 23.1% of the US population. I am not adjusting for eligible voters, but there is no sweeping mandate regardless of what anyone would have you believe. They are certainly trying to make it seem that way. Bluster tricks fools. What to do about is to call your representatives, boycott companies if necessary, and cast an informed vote in local, state, and federal elections e…
Are you able to consider that others have an opposing opinion to yours?
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#29@dang Why is this repeatedly getting flagged?
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As an European, I don't quite get what people are complaining about, Trump is doing what he said he will do and has a mandate for it. Of course the Democrat university professor will try to rally up people.
We have a separation of powers for a reason. This is throwing out the main power entrusted to our Congress. Why would any future administration care about what Congress has to say after this precedent is set?
He also doesn't have a mandate, he won by relatively thin margins just like all of our recent elections.
If they want to do this and not destroy our democracy, they just need to pass a bill to make the changes they want.