So... Maga's "bloodless coup" is complete?

[FoggyLake]

Brazil just arrested coup plotters. Why is our government apparently impotent to do something about coup plotters here? Just asking.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Third world countries now have more courage and moral values than the US.

[Elessar Zappa]

2. It's not a coup.

Trump was democratically elected by a dumb populace. Now we’ll reap the fruits of their idiocy.

[FoggyLake]

3. They have placed their operatives in many positions of power...

...both at the federal level and local levels. At least one of the electors in Pennsylvania was one of the fake electors from 2020. Maga judges are making decisions that favor maga. They have been open about their plan to dismantle our government and possibly even suspend the constitution. They have burrowed into the system like cockroaches and it boggles my mind that our government has offered ZERO pushback. WTF?????

[Sanity Claws]

6. Also have kicked people off the voter roles abetted by the corrupt Supreme Court

Put a tool in as US Postmaster who has affected voters' ability to vote by mail
Purchase media outlets to catapult propaganda and suppress opposition voices.

This was by no means a free and fair election.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. You don't get it do you.

Those operatives are political appointments, because elections have consequences.
MAGA judges were placed by election and appointment, because elections have consequences.
They make decisions that favor MAGA because elections have consequences.
They will proceed with mindless destruction, they will attempt repeatedly to engage in extra-constitutional actions because elections have consequences.
Some of those actions are likely to be erroneously granted a stamp of approval from MAGA courts because elections have consequences.

Left wing election denialism is NOT any more attractive, legal or even SANE on the left than it is on the right. Joe and Kamala will not be taking up swords against our fate because in a democracy that task falls to the populace, at the ballot box, and elections have consequences.

[FoggyLake]

12. No, I do get it. And you're wrong.

The fucking Federalist Society and other right wing orgs have control over all of that. No one voted for them to make decisions for us. NO election appointed the right wing supremes. The Federalist Society installed Trump there to do exactly that. That's just one example of how wrong you are.

Furthermore, the Republicans weren't exactly sneaky about cheating. They openly tried to use fake electors the last time. THEY FUCKING CHEATED THIS TIME, too. Once a cheater, always a cheater.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. OhemGee. Yes, People absolutely DID for The Federalist Society. They did,

as much as they have voted for organizations like MoveOn and Indivisible when Democrats have won. When we win, our candidates draw from the wells of progressive orgs. Duh, SO YES. It’s not like the Federalist Society and Project 2025 is some big damn secret. Neither is the fact that Trump picks FS judges.

Americans heard that shit AND THEY DID NOT CARE. THEY VOTED FOR IT.

More people IN EVERY SWING STATE voted for Trump and THAT is why we are here. That’s reality. Reality doesn’t move and several people are going to have to reaquiant themselves with it or end up eventually looking like our very own progressive version of those Q freaks gathered on Dealey Plaza waiting for JFK.

[yaesu]

4. I see it as a russian bloodless coup nt

[DeepWinter]

5. No coup

You don't get to be a single party authoritarian rule and call yourself a Democracy. You really want Democracy? You have to accept sometimes quite a bit of the country doesn't want what you want. Your people don't get to always win. Like it or not, that's healthy. It self corrects ego and hubris.

[FoggyLake]

7. Nothing "healthy" will come of this...

...especially with apologists insisting that it's fine while our country burns around us.

[BlueTsunami2018]

8. Ok, boot on the neck it is.

There doesn’t seem to be any self-correcting going on here. There isn’t going to be any either. Not anytime soon.

[La Coliniere]

9. Our democracy is not healthy considering

that the guardrails are gone and the fascists can literally get away with most, if not all, of their fascist wish list. Going to have to be pushback on a grand scale to beat this.

[Initech]

10. Fuckface is going to set them free.

Because those stupid fucking talk shows convinced him that they're "political prisoners". They're not. And they voted for the prison system they're currently rotting in. My sympathy for these assholes is: