Good morning, it's the Daily Coup Thread 11/12/20 Based on this article I am sending my coup rating, which is an arbitrary number based on no stats whatsoever, plummeting down from 4/10 to 2/10https://www.axios.com/trump-fox-news-digital-media-competitor-25afddee-144d-4820-8ed4-9eb0ffa42420.html …
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A very interesting article. The Oklahoma senator doesn't entirely backpedal on the idea that Biden should receive state briefings, but makes it clear he holds the election results in doubthttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/12/james-lankford-republican-senator-biden-intelligence-briefings …
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Lankford's (and other Republicans') combination demands for a Biden transition with refusal to accept election results suggests 2 things, not mutually exclusive: *Knowledge that Biden will eventually be sworn in *Commitment to a stab-in-the-back narrative for 2022/2024 voters
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Intetesting analysis of Trump's options If he delays counts past legal deadlines, legislators could appoint electors who could vote for Trump in the electoral college With Democratic governors in most of the "contested" states, this is unlikely to workhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/11/can-donald-trump-stay-in-office-second-term-president-coup …
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Shit like this is why I'm not worried about a military coup--the military has loads of unsavory shit but the norm of not interfering in civilian matters is both strong and bone-deep If Trump were to use force, it would come from DHS/BORTAC/policehttps://apnews.com/article/military-wary-shakeup-upend-apolitical-89eccf0aef7cf7b99208b3bfd0453a43 …
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Two officials forced to step down over at DHS: both from the cyber security arm. At least one directly involved with election securityhttps://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/dhs-officials-forced-resign-white-house/index.html …
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Did you see this? I agree with your take more. Anyway, gross times.https://isthisacoup.com/
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Love that someone made this!!
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