# 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:** 141
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2804 "2021-01-11T20:27:29Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > The only text on the biography is: > > > [@](#): > > > > **Donald J. Trump’s term ended on 2021-01-11 19:39:22.** Is there any numerological significance to that date and time? Does it spell out QANONKRAKEN in code or something? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2805 "2021-01-11T20:28:50Z")
I can’t wait to see if that really happens in another 7 hours. ---
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2806 "2021-01-11T20:30:30Z")
It’s changing but not synced with real time? I just tried it and got **2021-01-11 19:44:12** ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2807 "2021-01-11T20:31:05Z")
Yeah, I see now its changing, but it’s not just ticking forward, I can’t figure out what the algorithm is yet. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2808 "2021-01-11T20:31:08Z")
Aye; I see that too now. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2809 "2021-01-11T20:31:52Z")
Its gone. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2810 "2021-01-11T20:34:32Z")
Joe Biden has proved to me that he has a very strong mind, reinforced by a life in the political mainstream. This goes to show the little ways in which all of us have been affected by Trumpism. Lindsey Graham goes on TV to beg Joe Biden to _tell_ Nancy Pelosi to back off. We are all wondering which cases Joe Biden is going to _tell_ the DOJ to prosecute. It’s subtle, but it feels so normal, right? Someone without the mental fortitude of Joe Biden would grab on to this and reinforce it and use it to his advantage. I don’t think Joe will, though. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2811 "2021-01-11T20:39:20Z")
An active duty Army officer, who had already received an article of reprimand for her actions at an earlier demonstration, has resigned after the Army began looking into her actions at the treasonous storming of the Capitol. > **[Officer resigns as Army investigates her involvement in Washington rally that...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emily-rainey-fort-bragg-captain-resigngs-washington-rally-army-investigating/)** > > Commanders at Fort Bragg said they were reviewing Captain Emily Rainey's involvement in last week's events in the nation's capital. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2812 "2021-01-11T21:06:10Z")
Here’s the page in question: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50826239687_3a32ec814d_b.jpg "2021-01-11\_03-05-34") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/50826239687/) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2813 "2021-01-11T21:18:44Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fox compares the shut downs of social media to Kristallnacht. [Night of the Short Fingers.](https://boingboing.net/2021/01/09/night-of-the-short-fingers.html) ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2814 "2021-01-11T21:22:53Z")
I read earlier today any off duty military or reservists who participated could actually be court marshalled. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2815 "2021-01-11T21:37:10Z")
Looking deeper, there seems to have been two coups on 1-6-2021, one of them successful: 1. Trump’s coup against the Congress 2. Pences coup against Trump Wait, what? Some evidence… > > > > Weijia Jiang @weijia ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2816 "2021-01-11T21:41:23Z")
Does the President have the authority to eject/ban the VP’s staff from the White House? He can’t fire the VP, so it would be a bit odd if he had any authority over the VP’s staff. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2817 "2021-01-11T21:43:31Z")
When it happened, there was no outcry about Trump not having the authority, but about the optics. Legally, though, I don’t know. It’s possibly just another norm which hasn’t been tested. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2818 "2021-01-11T21:48:18Z")
When I read the original story about Marc Short being banned from the White House, I thought they were referring to a particular day (Monday maybe?) when they wouldn’t let him in to join Pence in his meeting with Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2819 "2021-01-11T21:49:02Z")
State capitols have started to wise up: > **[State capitols step up security amid new safety concerns](https://apnews.com/article/legislature-washington-coronavirus-pandemic-gun-politics-jay-inslee-e9fd42d72e7c0a150fd2dca9347be87d)** > > State capitols across the nation stepped up security Monday, deploying National Guard units, SWAT teams and extra police officers while several legislatures convened amid heightened safety concerns following last week's violence at the U.S. Capitol.... ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2820 "2021-01-11T21:52:12Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > …one is required to give your SSN and copies of your driver’s license… Holy Hell! With requirements like that they still signed up?? Dipshits. Every one of those who signed up. That’s the made for TV version of “Stupid Honey Pot” ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2821 "2021-01-11T22:02:05Z")
The ID requirement was for a verified account, the equivalent of Twitter’s blue check mark. You could get a regular account without one, there were probably 100 accounts with Donald Trump’s name and photo. I signed up to post my election theory, to tell MAGA if enough people wrote in Trump for both Senate seats, they would _create joinder_ and Trump could win both seats. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2822 "2021-01-11T22:06:25Z")
Apologies Ann Hedonia who is widely known to be no dipshit of any kind. But those who fulfilled the SSN/DL requirements, dipshits. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/2823 "2021-01-11T22:13:49Z")
I knew you weren’t talking about me. If I had signed up for an account and was serious about it, I would be a complete and total dipshit. While it was up, I really wished there was a way to make a link to my MAGA profile that a non-Parler use could see, but there wasn’t. My profile was a trip and the photo I grabbed - one of a very MAGAish woman wearing a home decorated tee shirt that said TRUMP CAN GRAB MY — followed by a downward pointing arrow, was epic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182.md?page=140) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182.md?page=142)