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[-] shittydwarf@piefed.social 164 points 1 week ago
[-] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Actually it was 64, and he won one of them but it didn’t change any results.

…of 64 cases across six swing states brought forward by Trump and his supporters, all were lost except for one in Pennsylvania.

The successful case in Pennsylvania was procedural, not based on fraud, and had too few votes to overturn the state results, according to the report's authors.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/07/16/donald-trump-2020-election-challenges/90940438007/

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 151 points 1 week ago

The man who has already attempted a coup

The man who has proven again and again that he will do just about anything to ensure he doesn't lose the majority he needs to not get impeached

The man who is a known compulsive cheater

The man who tried to call people to "find more votes" for him

The man who blatantly used jerrymandering to secure enough seats to maintain his majority

The man who knows damn well is in the gutters in the polls and who knows will never win the next election if it is fair.

You are asking if he is preparing a coup?

The outcome of the movie Titanic was less predictable than that.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

If the voters sit it out again, whadyagonnadoaboutit? Those idiots own every single day of this term.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 24 points 1 week ago

If the voters sit it out again

Supposedly.

I'm not entirely convinced they did last time. The elections are highly compromised.

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[-] leadore@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago
[-] TheKracken@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Yes. Yes he is.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 56 points 1 week ago

Trump's logic falls flat on its face, and even the most dimwitted magat can understand this:

If the US elections are fraudulent, then he won the presidency twice fraudulently.

Also, you'll notice he's not investigating the 2016 or the 2024 elections.

[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 week ago

Not quite. They think all elections are rigged against them. When they win, they were popular and strong enough to win despite the rigging. When they lose, the enemy was evil enough to pull it off.

Can't lose logic.

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[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At this point, to anyone surprised at this idea, I can only roll my eyes.

He was quoted, recorded on video, saying "You'll never have to vote again."

He told you exactly this. Morons didn't really think about what that meant. Many of us saw it for exactly what it was.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

And those of us who pointed it out were treated like conspiracy theorists even when the fascists released a public document announcing it

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 50 points 1 week ago

Did you forget he got into office by doing a coup?

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

..? His coup attempt in 2021 failed. What are you talking about exactly?

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Honestly, while the poster probably didn’t intend it, I could argue that his appointment of judges and various other things helped to solidify his party’s hold and their influence to get him into office.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 week ago

The coup, along with other nefarious plans, was prepared a looooonng time ago.

I'm not an expert but if I had to guess I'd say that the usa is about 60% through being completely overthrown. You've still got time to stop this insanity though.

The most hilarious, yet tragic, thing is you aren't being overthrown by a hostile foreign country. Or evil genius mastermind.
You are being taken over by an old dementia riddled pathological liar and narcissist, that paints itself orange who also raped/rapes children and women.

If I went back to the 90s and wrote a book about a 'rich' hitler loving nepo baby who raped kids becoming president of the us using Russian money, and then taking it over from the inside I would be laughed at. Not one publisher would touch me.
Hell, even if I got rid of the fat cunts 'greatest' hits of child rape, etc, and just focused on the failed reality TV 'star' and all the casino bankruptcies with the blatant corruption becoming president then no publisher would have touched me. Yet here we are.

[-] FrankFrankson@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Trump has the backing of multiple countries that want him to fuck the US up. He also has the backing of the overwhelming majority of billionaires.

This isn't a coup of a reality tv moron....the reality tv moron is being used as a tool by the actual engineers of the coup. Trump isn't smart enough or functional enough to pull off a coup or even conceive of how to do one with outside help. Trump is a functionally illiterate moron of a puppet being propped up by a multi-billion dollar propaganda machine.

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[-] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

The end boss won't be Trump. I dont mean to minimize the damage he's done, but in the end he's a useful idiot. The work horse that is plowing through systems of protections to plant the seeds of whatever comes after. The bull in the china shop, or even just a developer as he's always been. He's the middle man in the story that is America's shift and collapse/reformation.

He says and does things to enrich himself and his family but he wont be the power behind the throne.

I cant say that I dont hate him, but he's just one piece of the machine at work here. He doesn't have the skills or the strength to be a true dictator. He's the tip of the spear that his supporters are using to kill America.

I would be more worried about who will take over when he's gone, or who's working behind the scenes. It's not one person yet, or at least, history hasn't revealed who that one person is.

What he is, is a demonstration. Proof that these things can be done with minimal pushback. And a lightening rod for our ire.

But it will get worse, and it wont be a Trump dynasty.

[-] MrNesser@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

The USA is a republic and historically republics do fail from internal factors more than external.

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[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago

He's absolutely going to try to ruin the midterm elections, but almost everyone I know would crawl over broken glass to vote him out.

[-] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

That's exactly that happened the election after covid, it's gonna be harder but I bet the election still breaks records because of how many people are gonna turn out to vote against Trump.

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[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

Yes. He’s preparing a coup.

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[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

At some point, local communities need to start addressing the overreach of this federal government. These are not national elections, they are state elections and the feds have no authority or role in them. trump’s thugs should be ridiculed, doxed, physically confronted, and driven out by local and state authorities.That means cops. That means governors deploying the national guard.

Of course none of that will ever happen because cops generally don’t actually give a fuck about their community or laws, and governors and the national guard are mostly showboating pussies.

[-] Arancello@aussie.zone 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sad to say, the coup has already happened. There are remnants of the judiciary holding out but the executive and legislative branches have both caved.

[-] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago
[-] BeardededSquidward 25 points 1 week ago

He already wants his Proud Piddle Boys to also be at polling stations. People who are like "don't give him a reason to try to cancel the election" need to realize he doesn't NEED one to try and do it, that he'll try regardless.

You mean his proud pedo boys

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[-] Folstar@lemmus.org 25 points 1 week ago

Can you even imagine how stern the letter from congress will be regarding this very obvious thing the liar-rapist is obviously planning to do? So stern. Shivers down the spine stern. Prepare yourself. So stern.

[-] Kurtismayfield@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

The letter will contain words! And perhaps a threatening if you do..... And then the opposition party will go back home to attack the Democratic socialists. Their real job.

[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 24 points 1 week ago

"Is he preparing a coup?"

Stop asking questions when you already know the answer.

[-] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 21 points 1 week ago

Trump would NEVER try Something like that AGAIN After the HARSH Consequences LAST time! THANK you Merrick Garland!

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 19 points 1 week ago

We've had one coup, yes, but what of another?

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago

Hrs been blatantly preparing a coup the entire time and its just being allowed to happen. Reminds me of when someone is being stalked and blatantly threatened and the cops say that they can't do anything until after the stalker actually physically hurts someone. Trump and his associates have been outright announcing they're going to hostile take over their country and end democracy but apparently nothing can be done until they do it, at which point it may be too late

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago

Trump preparing a coup? Nah, he'd never do that. Where did you get that idea?

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[-] Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Send troops then we'll shoot. Make a new law, we'll ignore it. I don't want to live in a fascist nation. I will do as much as I can to prevent it.

[-] CatGPT@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago

Need to form militias for when he does

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[-] lemmylump@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago
[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

He tried it once already and was allowed to get away with it. So yes, he will try again.

[-] sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

This dude tried to overthrow the country once and everyone was like buhbhhhhhbbbhhh whatever. Fuck Trump fuck this illegitimate admin. Take back America!

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[-] ndupont 12 points 1 week ago

Yes, as Iran is clearly not enough, he will need some kind of civil war to prevent the midterms (just as a test) before his family can remain in power for the next 60 years

[-] not_IO 12 points 1 week ago

yea he openly is

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Yes, he is preparing another coup.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Isn't he a bit old for a coup? Seems like the moment he tries he'll get pneumonia or something and die.

[-] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

That would be so awesome

[-] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 week ago

Is he planning another coup?

FTFY

[-] tigermountain@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And are the democrats doing anything at all to counter or push back on this narrative?

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[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago

...preparing? We've been living in a post-coup US since January 6 2021.

Remember that time when Trump marched his goons on Capitol Hill to attack the US government, then took over the US government?

Yeah, that's a fucking coup.

It was a stupid and poorly executed coup, but it ultimately led to the results he was after.

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[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

He’s already the dictator. Any coup would need to be to remove him.

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[-] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

We’ve had one coup attempt, yes, but what about second coup? Elevensies?

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