Here's Trump ordering federal agencies to begin implementation of his budget plan for 2021https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/11/10/trump-federal-budget-post-election/ …
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Gonna start a new thing that I may or may not abandon immediately: the Daily Coup thread I'm going to rate us at about 4/10: a number I made up that's based on nothing Here's Mike Pompeo saying "there will be a smooth transmission to a second Trump administration"https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1326228853610647554 …
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Yesterday's news but also a thing: "Emily Murphy, a Trump political appointee...is refusing to sign paperwork that releases Biden’s $6.3 million share of...transition resources and gives his team access to agency officials and information."https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-transition-agencies-biden/2020/11/09/ad9f2ba2-22b7-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html …
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We have mounting disinformation campaigns started and endorsed by Trump's peoplehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/technology/false-claims-that-biden-lost-pennsylvania-surge-and-tech-companies-struggle-to-keep-up.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage …
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NPR has a list of all the absurd lawsuits Trump has going on right now tl;dr: all of them are ridiculous and none of them seem likely to go through or have the slightest effecthttps://www.npr.org/2020/11/10/933112418/the-trump-campaign-has-had-almost-no-legal-success-this-month-heres-what-they-ve …
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Even conservative media agrees these suits are mostly hot air HOWEVER: they're clearly prepared to pivot if something sticks, and supporting the lawsuits in the name of restoring confidence in the electoral process (a nice bit of semantic legerdemain)https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-election-fraud-may-not-alter-outcome-1546252?fbclid=IwAR2OziUqmUnIfzskU8Ll--Anw4ujIsrFX7VzwRB_J_Ek1soKNKIiZmsGSoc …
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You probably know that Trump fired SecDef Mark Esper yesterday. Christopher C Miller, his replacement, doesn't seem particularly menacing from a coup perspective Esper publicly criticized Trump's desire to deploy the military against protesters in Junehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/acting-defense-secretary-chris-miller/2020/11/09/43a4296e-22d0-11eb-8599-406466ad1b8e_story.html …
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Esper isn't the only person shitcanned.
@RadhikaAN points out that Trump fired three agency heads right after the election: the NNSA, US Agency for International Development, and FERC (I don't see how the firings help Trump, but it's an interesting move)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-administration-agency-heads-us-election-b1680496.html …Show this thread -
After Esper's "termination" via Twitter, James Anderson resigned as the Undersecretary of Defense. His replacement: Anthony Tata, who was nominated for the position a few months ago but rejected by both Democrats and Republicans because...well...https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/10/pentagon-top-policy-official-resigns-435693 …
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"Tata...speculated the Iran deal was born out of Obama's "Islamic roots...to help Iranians and the greater Islamic state crush Israel."" He's called Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi "violent extremists" and Waters a "vicious race baiting racist"https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/12/politics/pentagon-nominee-tata-trump-kfile/index.html …
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Tata "also spread conspiracy theories that a "deep state cabal" of officials would rather see Trump fail than succeed in office, a sentiment echoed by the President and his allies, using extreme rhetoric." Super neathttps://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/politics/pentagon-policy-official-resigns/index.html …
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The Electoral College is like a horrible rusty car that just keeps running. And now it's making weird clunking noises and we have to lift the hood to figure out what the hell is in there Here's a guide to the actual arcane process. Thanks
@EmiHeb! https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11641?fbclid=IwAR1HgIRR7mzH7VBExoFSqOQi2pDDE0DDiEhRshqQbjZJa2DZPh-emRFG9wo#:~:text=December%2014%2C%202020%3A%20Electors%20Vote,meeting%20is%20on%20December%2014 …Show this thread -
(I would like to go on record and state that Tony Tata is a really funny name)
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As DOD and State Dept replacements keep happening, I am raising my arbitrary and made-up Coup Threat Level to 5/10
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@1StephenSwann just sent me a Tata tweet that feels more relevant than I'd likepic.twitter.com/wSlLIhlCU3
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We've got a doubling down from Pompeo, who chose not to take the "just kidding" lifeline thrown by Fox Newshttps://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1326309985031249926?s=19 …
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This thread is out of control (H/t
@sororally)https://twitter.com/anniekarni/status/1326269336143716352?s=19 …Show this thread -
This isn't a Trump machination but it's a conspiracy theory taking shape before our very eyes A postal worker swore his supervisor ordered employees to backdate ballots, than recanted, than said he never recanted Od course Project Veritas is involvedhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/postal-worker-fabricated-ballot-pennsylvania/2020/11/10/99269a7c-2364-11eb-8599-406466ad1b8e_story.html …
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The New York Times contacts election officials from both parties in several states. All of them said that Trump is full of shithttps://nyti.ms/32vcd6M
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Laura Ingraham channels Alex Jones and the result is both hilarious and chilling A completely anonymized person, face and voice obscured, describes outrageous witnessed voter fraud. There is, of course, no way to verify these claimshttps://twitter.com/danielchaitin7/status/1326373556050137089?s=20 …
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That's it for the 11/10 Daily Coup 11/11 Daily Coup thread here:https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1326647825237598208?s=19 …
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