Senator J.D. Vance is openly embracing the idea of a coup in a pathetic bid to become Donald Trump’s vice president.
    • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      591·
      2 years ago

      “He said he WOULD HAVE done a coup, not that he WOULD DO it, totally different!!!1!”

    • morphballganon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      2 years ago

      Whatever that means

      It means forget the votes, and forget democracy. In other words, do a coup. The thing you are adamantly arguing against.

      I hope someone’s paying you to spread disinformation, and you’re not simply a blithering imbecile.

        • TengoDosVacas@lemmy.worldEnglish
          191·
          2 years ago

          NO THE FUCK IT ISNT YOU FUCKING MORON. NOW ALL YOU’RE DOING IS PARROTING FUCKING ALEX JONES’ BULLSHIT. I HEARD THE SAME EPISODE AND YOU AND HE ARE DEAD FUCKING WRONG.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          A coup doesn’t have to be violent. It can utilize existing rules if it breaks their spirit or the ability to change them.

          A coup is a forceful seizure of governmental power that subverts the existing system of power. That includes shit like this.

        • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 years ago

          A coup can be military but also from other bodies.

          In this case it would be a self-coup since a lawfully elected power would be attempting to maintain power by illegal means.

    • muse@kbin.social
      351·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, he’d do a coup. Thanks for repeating it. Cry some more about it.

      Random note, whose sockpuppet are you? Get too butthurt because your last one got downvoted to hell?

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      2 years ago

      He said IF he was Vice President in 2020 he would have told contested states to do slates of electors.

      how do you not realize this is a coup? dear god man, how does discarding voted electors for a new slate based on party lines not equal a coup?