It wasn’t a coup

Donald J. Trump was winning by a significant margin across all key states Nov 3 evening.

Which happens when Republicans claim to their supporters that it’s not safe to mail your ballots in and demand that they go in-person to vote, their ballots get counted earlier. Plus Republicans are less likely to worry about spreading disease by attending packed polls, because Covid is a hoax.

Vote counting stopped in key states where Smartmatic software and either ES&S or Dominion machines were used.

Vote counting stopped everywhere when it was really late because even poll volunteers need to sleep.

When reporting resumed a massive spike occurred that favored Joe Biden and exceeded the counting capabilities that were on hand in many cases.

See before where Republicans badmouthed mail-in ballots. When it came time to count those, was it a shocker that Democrats gained an advantage? Also, “exceeded the counting capabilities that were on hand” is just word salad.

That’s the only part of the PDF which didn’t seem to be pulled straight from the pages of Weekly World News, and yet it was still very weak and easily explained with common sense.

Kind of old joke now, but it’s only a coup when it’s from the coup d’etat region of France. Otherwise, it’s sparkling sedition?

Slide 14:
“ China has leveraged
financial, non-governmental and foreign allies including Venezuela
to acquire INFLUENCE and CONTROL
US Voting Infrastructure in at least 28 States.”

What I find most interesting is the part of the plan that has the National Guard re-counting the (approved) ballots, with photos or video of the ballot being put online so we can count along with them.

And this is pretty chilling:
“ When you first disqualify all the counterfeit ballots and then count all the remaining legal paper ballots nationwide, you restore confidence in the Election Outcome
:black_small_square: Regardless of the cheating and stuffing of the ballot box, by eliminating the counterfeit mail-in and absentee ballots → Trump Almost Certainly Wins
:black_small_square: Additionally, US Senators, US House Races, State, and Local races now turn to Republican
:black_small_square: This remedies the problem quickly and easily by:
:black_small_square: Eliminating counterfeit ballots and subtracting them from current totals to see if races change, or
:black_small_square: Recounting remaining, legal ballots by hand to see who wins races.
:black_small_square: Either way, we quickly and easily find out who the elected leaders REALLY ARE and restore confidence in the outcome!”

Nah, it’s quite literal.
“exceeded the counting capabilities that were on hand”
translates to,
‘the Republicans ran out of fingers to count on’

Nice. :+1:

Yes this all fits in a nice bit of circular reasoning.

Trump tells all of his followers that Covid is a myth and mail in ballots are ripe with Fraud so only commie Pinko Chinese pansies would vote from home.

Democrats meanwhile prudently fearing Covid stay away from crowds and vote by mail.

Pollsters and pundits across the country see this coming and tell people that they should expect Trump to take an early lead which then diminishes and disappears as the mail in ballots are counted.

Evening goes down pretty much exactly as pundits and pollsters said it would with the possible exception that Trump and Republicans slightly exceed expectations.

Strong partisan differences between in person and mail in voting is used as proof that Trump was right that mail in voting was full of fraud. The fact that the media knew before hand is proof that rather than being an fluke, the whole thing was planned and that they were in on the conspiracy from the start and so can’t be trusted to report on the outcomes. :roll_eyes:

He got off easy to the world’s detriment. Maybe putting him up against the wall would have given future traitors something to think about.

But what’s happened since.

Given that Trump was referred to the DOJ for Insurrection, have you changed your mind?

LOL yes that did not age well. :laughing:

Then again, it wasn’t so great to begin with.

This was on my list of “threads that need revisiting when events happen” for a while now, lol.

"partisan witch hunt! Lamestream media! Lock her up! (gotta get in in the classics)
Buy my trading cards! "

Well, to be fair, that wasn’t the OP’s position at all.

Oh I’m pretty sure Sitnam’s going after the Astronaut one and the Fat Cop one.

Let’s be real, MAGA fans are stupid, but this NFT bullshit is just a a way for some shady fucker to pay Trump for some shady shit he did.

That it strips away whatever dignity Trump had managed to scrape up out of a gutter lately is just hilarious.

Apparently not.

Coup: there it is.

To quote my favourite historian - Heather Cox Richardson:

Fittingly, on December 15, the Coup d’État Project of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois, which maintains the world’s largest registry of coups, attempted coups, and coup conspiracies since World War II, reclassified the events of January 6 as an attempted “auto-coup.”

According to its director, Scott Althaus, an auto-coup occurs when“the incumbent chief executive uses illegal or extra-legal means to assume extraordinary powers, seize the power of other branches of government, or render powerless other components of the government such as the legislature or judiciary.”

You are correct about the NFT’s. But what about the referral to the DOJ about the Jan 6 insurrection?

Given that Trump was referred to the DOJ for Insurrection, have you changed your mind?

Lol, I love it when the experts take 2 years to state what was obvious to us Dopers on November 9th, 2020: