# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 581
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> [@Acsenray](#): > > To the extent that there was any irony in the title of this thread, that irony is gone. We are in treason territory now. In any reasonable circumstance, Trump and Giuliani would be facing the gallows. Yeah, when I first saw this thread, I thought it was a bit hyperbolic. I still don’t think an actual coup will take place, but the fact that things have gone as far as they have is just insane. American Democracy has been severely damaged already, no matter what happens now. trump is really scorching the earth on the way out. I’m deeply embarrassed for my state of Michigan: first the 2 Repub Wayne county canvassers refuse to certify the Wayne County vote (I mean, the Detroit portion-- they were fine with lily-white Repub Livonia, which had more voting irregularities than Detroit). Then they reverse themselves and vote to certify. Then, after a call from trump, they try to reverse their reversal and rescind their vote. Now today, the GOP heads of the Michigan House and Senate are flying to Washington to meet with trump. Whatever could that meeting be about? What’s more head-scratching is that it’s the clown show of trump, Guiliani, et al, who are actually persuading weak-minded people to believe in this voter fraud fantasy and go along with it. It’s like the Three Stooges fomenting a fascist takeover of the U.S. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182)._