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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(here's yesterday's coup thread if you want to catch up)https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1326647825237598208?s=19 …
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Laura Jedeed (Misanthrophile) @1misanthrophileAnother day, another coup thread (11/11/20) Not much action so far today, but here's something to kick things off: a NYT page dedicated to debunking election fraud rumors Sticking with 5/10 as my current arbitrary coup rating today https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/11/technology/election-results-trump-biden …Show this thread2 replies 2 retweets 17 likesShow this thread -
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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How is it even possible that the outgoing administration has *any* say here? Are there no independent institutions any more?
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All we've ever had protecting us from something like this are norms, institutions, and some old pieces of paper Let's see if they hold
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