# The American Coup: 11.9.2020 - **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 9, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182 "2020-11-09T23:29:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/261 "2020-11-12T17:03:50Z")
You think that the workers of Amazon would strike? They just need to arrest the heads of the company, and install their own. And I’m sure that they would be more than happy to build some more jails. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/262 "2020-11-12T17:06:49Z")
I’ll bet you could buy one on Amazon. Or Hammacher Schlemmer. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/263 "2020-11-12T17:38:28Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > You think that the workers of Amazon would strike? > > They just need to arrest the heads of the company, and install their own. Having some fun with this (hopefully) far-fetched scenario … Bezos could easily pay everyone at Amazon to stay home for a week or two on full pay, and I imagine he could have his people install virtual kill switches that would render their entire system inoperable if he and other leaders were arrested. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/264 "2020-11-12T17:41:38Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > The good news is that Republicans are starting to bail out on Trump. The bad news is that they’re bailing out because it looks like this won’t work, not because it’s wrong. Who’s bailing out? ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/265 "2020-11-12T18:08:36Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > So what stops them from utterly disregarding legality between now and January 20? The same system that has stopped them before. They are not going to become more powerful or less stoppable in the next 69 days. I know it seems like the foxes are guarding the henhouse. But sometimes there is a farmer with a shotgun. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/266 "2020-11-12T18:18:04Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > If Trump Isn’t planning a coup d’état, he’s just trying to make it look like he’s planning a coup d’état It’s not a real _coup d’état_ unless it originates in the _Coup D’état_ region of France. Otherwise, it’s just an authoritarian takeover. Excuse me, a _SPARKLING_ authoritarian takeover. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/267 "2020-11-12T18:49:39Z")
Thanks for that – this thread needed a good joke. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/268 "2020-11-12T18:50:07Z")
With what money? And where? Nobody wants any jails near THEIR homes. NIMBY. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/269 "2020-11-12T18:51:08Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Excuse me, a _SPARKLING_ authoritarian takeover. It looks like it’s going pretty flat to me. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/270 "2020-11-12T18:58:27Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > I know it seems like the foxes are guarding the henhouse. But sometimes there is a farmer with a shotgun. But who’s that? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/271 "2020-11-12T19:08:19Z")
Wait just a damned minute. Are you implying that what I’m feeling is sham pain ?? ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/272 "2020-11-12T19:12:55Z")
Just had to uncork that one, didn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/273 "2020-11-12T19:14:09Z")
‘Oh no, they’re doing it again’, he wines… ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/274 "2020-11-12T19:27:25Z")
Judges, who time and time again have ruled against Trump, even those he’s appointed. Remember, they’re not really his judges. They’re the Federalist Society’s judges. Sometimes their judicial philosophy coincides with his demands. But many times it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/275 "2020-11-12T19:34:11Z")
And if they refuse to obey the judges? Hypothetical: A judge orders the GSA to start accommodating the Biden transition team. They say go pound sand. Who’s going to step in and actually release the funds? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/276 "2020-11-12T19:36:35Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Hypothetical: A judge orders the GSA to start accommodating the Biden transition team. They say go pound sand. Who’s going to step in and actually release the funds? The person in charge could be held in contempt of court. Perhaps they would be protected by Barr’s DoJ but not by Biden’s so they would do well to remember that. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/277 "2020-11-12T19:37:01Z")
Eh. Nobody has been willing to jail or even prosecute Joe Biden, Barack Obama, or Hilary Clinton. The Army didn’t send tanks into downtown Portland to quell riots. Two iterations of Trump’s Muslim ban were (rightly) rejected by the courts. I don’t know how Trump has developed this reputation as some sort of Professor Moriarty master criminal whose control over everything and everyone is absolute, but it seems to me to be undeserved. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/278 "2020-11-12T19:39:06Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Excuse me, a _SPARKLING_ authoritarian takeover. Ah, yes. And the popular resistance shall be called, _The Baby ‘Donald’ Duck Rebellion_. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/279 "2020-11-12T19:41:42Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > [@Akaj](#): > > > > Hypothetical: A judge orders the GSA to start accommodating the Biden transition team. They say go pound sand. Who’s going to step in and actually release the funds? > > The person in charge could be held in contempt of court. > > Perhaps they would be protected by Barr’s DoJ but not by Biden’s so they would do well to remember that. Contempt of court? Oh, no, what’s next, the comfy chair? Meanwhile, who releases the funds, allocates the office space and generally allows the Biden transition team to do their work? Or does the nation have to wait until Jan. 20 for the transition that should have started in November? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/280 "2020-11-12T20:02:51Z")
> [@storyteller0910](#): > > Eh. Nobody has been willing to jail or even prosecute Joe Biden, Barack Obama, or Hilary Clinton. - And the crimes they committed were…? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182.md?page=15)