'What the hell?' Far right 'outraged' as Mitch McConnell 'engineers a coup' against Trump
Summary
Donald Trump allies, including Tucker Carlson and Laura Loomer, are accusing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of orchestrating a “coup” against Trump’s agenda by scheduling early Senate GOP leadership elections.
Carlson, on social media, urged his followers to support Florida Senator Rick Scott as the only candidate aligned with Trump, warning that other candidates oppose Trump’s policies.
Loomer criticized Republicans for not addressing McConnell’s move sooner, suggesting that calls for party "unity" have enabled this alleged attempt to undermine Trump’s incoming administration.
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Everything's a goddamn coup with these people.
Scheduling legislative leadership elections at an allowed time is a coup against a guy who is currently not in office?
K.
Except January 6th, apparently
The goal is to use the word coup often so that the word loses its punch, that way when an actual coup happens people will just shrug when it's reported and think it's just a minor occurrence.
To be fair if January 6th was actually a coup or revolution it was a very shit one
It was indeed a shit one. Doesn't make it not a coup attempt.
The beer belly putsch
Yes it was a bad attempt but it was still an attempt
It's only a coup if it's against them. If they're orchestrating ir, it's "being patriotic."
I assume holding the vote early is so incoming MAGA senators don't get a say.
Ya, I think I have to do some researching into how to block those fake click-bait news :-/
You know the times are dire when you find yourself rooting for Moscow Mitch.
He’s less bad than I’d expected him to be. He’s still horrendous but not quite as bad
Please don't. Mitch is just as awful but with a tiny bit of intelligence making him dangerous.
I'm not. The turtle is ruthless and smart and would limit the insanity. Nah, let the people have what they want.
We thought that the insanity would eventually make Trump and MAGA candidates unelectable. That hasn't happened yet, so I'm not sure if limiting it really matters.
Yup. Americans are to stupid or racist or misogynist or whatever to actually learn. I think Americans need to finally feel the dildo of consequences that rarely comes lubed fully to maybe finally learn.
Putin's little bitch.
Please be advised, this is an article about a Tucker Carlson segment which doesn't provide any additional info or context of its own
Tucker is telling MAGA that any non-MAGA republican is a fake RINO and can't be trusted.
Only those that Trump says are loyal, are actually loyal. Everyone else is sus.
I saw some professor online, saying that the first victims of fascists are the true believers of the party they grew out of, and to watch for that happening with the Republicans.
I have a suspicion that he's not going to pardon anyone who participated in Jan 6.
They failed, and he hates that.
You mean like when the neocons got purged for not being loyal enough?
Oh man, it sounds like the fascist out group just keeps growing.
Ideally, the in-group is eventually reduced to only the leader himself, with even his closest advisors constantly backstabbing each other over his favor.
Cause they are the greatest threat to his throne.
Yeah, I thought their Nacht der langen Messer was supposed to happen after the inauguration.
They're taking the "speed" part of "20th century speedrun" pretty seriously.
The second half of this statement is just redundant
I know they do it intentionally to water down the meaning of the words, but if I didn't know better, I would think these people were so fucking stupid that they just repeat whatever word they've recently heard used in a negative context.
Also, the lies and projection in that article are too egregious for me to get through the whole thing.
Edit: bad voice to text
Mitch realizes that conservative Republicans have lost their party to MAGA.
I’ll believe it when I see it. McConnell is a cold warrior and a Reagan Republican at heart, but he’s also soulless and evil like the rest of them.
Does some part of him still give a shit about his country? I find it hard to believe.
I doubt it. This is probably for selfish reasons.
Wasn't he on the record criticizing Trump over j6 at some point? Might not have actually done anything about it, but that's probably incentive to at least want to avoid letting Trump go full dictator, lest he eventually find himself targeted for past disloyalty
He was against impeachment and banning Trump from future office, because he was out of office and it was up to the justice department.
Well Mitch, the hen has come back to roost.
Probably worried about his wife getting sent to prison
A big part of Project 2025 is eliminating checks and balances, and consolidating power into the Whitehouse. That means taking power away from the house and senate, and from McConnell.
Ah there it is. It's not about saving the USA, it's about him losing power.
Huh.
I've been sort of idly wondering who was going to be the first "enemy" politician the Trump regime was going to kill.
I'd say McConnell just became the odds-on favorite.
Extremists in politics are like people with an automatic machine gun and they're always uncontrollably firing at perceived enemies .... once they bring someone down ... they keep firing, turn around and start shooting at someone else .. and on and on and on ... they always see enemies ... once they eliminate someone, they move on to the next until eventually they start shooting at you.
I don’t know exactly why, but the way you stated that reminds me of how Saddam Hussein gained power.
Because authoritarians and fascists always need an enemy ... once they subdue that enemy, the need another ... they can only exist and have power over people as long as there is enemy of some kind. If they can't it elsewhere, they start looking at the people next to them.
as he “accidentally” walks out of a 10th floor window …
And falls onto two very inconveniently placed bullets, resting tips up on the sidewalk, with the back of his head
Nah, Pence is apparently too dumb to leave the country, that gibbet is getting used.
no honor among grifters
He does more then shit his diaper on stage?
American politics looks like a fucking hospice.
Vote is Nov 13, arranged a month ago which Laura Loomer thinks this was the plan all along.
Describing Cornyn as a liberal is absolutely absurd
You missed the Cheney part.
They are intentionally labelling anything not maga/nazi as liberal.
It’s all a matter of perspective; when you’re that far right, ultra-conservatives are way more liberal.
Conservatives are also literally a branch of ideological liberalism.
Don't assume fascists don't know what the words they use actually mean.
They wish they could hate leftists as much as leftists do
They do. It’s just a much bigger group to them, so the hate spreads further.
What vote are they holding? How does this stop trump?
The Senate majority leader sets the legislative agenda, and often what gets passed.
They'll kiss Trump's ass in time, this is just a false alarm.
This made me think about a possible third term for Trump, this is without changing the rules.
Trump completes his next term, then campaigns again, this time for vice president, with a puppet as a running mate.
The puppet will, shortly after taking office, declare to step down for health reasons and Trump will be president again.
There is as far as I know, no rule preventing this.
The Vice President must be eligible to be president. Obama is not eligible for the VP position.
Representative Trump could make it work though.
The reality, however, is that they'll just ignore the Constitution.
Huh, I did not know that, thanks!
This is not quite accurate. The vice president must be eligible to be the President, not to be elected President. The 22nd amendment has some very specific language.
"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."
It prevents someone from being elected President, but does not make the person ineligible to be the President since it only restricts that one method of gaining the office. A person can definitely become President through succession even if they have served their full two terms already...at least by the constitution as written.
The reason I made my comment was due to this paper:
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1012/
I hope I am wrong or that we won't have to find out....
Interesting, thank you!
Also known as the Medwedew move. But I doubt Trump will manage one full term, let alone two.
If they have control of the house, Supreme Court, senate, and presidency then they can just change laws or ratify whatever they want including term limits for president. That’s the way I would see if going.
He's 78 and displaying moderate dementia symptoms. I wouldn't worry about a third term.
There's nothing to be gained from platforming fascists like cucker.
Well, well, well, time for the leopards to eat Mitch McConnels face.
we can only hope their are repugs that oppose him. in the final push many will cave
Nah. They're in cahoots. He's just trying to find out who the loyalists are.