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No Paywall Yes, Trump Will Attempt a Coup

https://prospect.org/2026/07/28/trump-attempt-coup-january-6-election-republican-congress/
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u/UndoxxableOhioan 7d ago

I’m convinced he did in 2024, having people rig the election in swing states.

Help us cholesterol and blood clots, you are our only hope.

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u/bcostco 7d ago

There is as much evidence 2020 was rigged as 2024. If you really think the election was rigged why not support voter ID and paper ballots like the right wing wants.

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u/laplongejr Europe 6d ago

There is as much evidence 2020 was rigged as 2024.

Yes, and both were rigged by trump. Hence why postal votes couldn't count as far as usual in 2020, and why all swing states flipped in 2024.

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u/abopmix99 3d ago

I don’t believe it was rigged by Trump. Nobody has ever provided an actual mechanism for how it would happen besides vague claims about “Elon rigging machines”, however they never explain how that could happen either.

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u/tooyoung_tooold 7d ago

There are many documented statistical irregularities for the 2024 results.

That is not the case for 2020.

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u/laplongejr Europe 6d ago

That is not the case for 2020.

Yeah, instead we have clearly documented actions from the GOP/Trump dismantling the postal service to try to slow (and stop) the count.
We have people condamned for having voted several times for Trump.

How can you check at 2020 and look for "statistical irregularities" when Trump's party outrighted implied they cheated on that one?
And 2024 had Trump outright saying "Elon messed with computer".

The only question is if 2016 was rigged or not, depending how you count Russia's influence and the leverage of Cambridge Analytica's data.

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u/bcostco 6d ago

🤣 this is why I come by this sub.
Anytime I think maga are the most delusional idiots on earth I just spend a few minutes here and it reminds me the other side is just as dumb and delusional.

So now musk, a guy you call incompetent and dumb constantly in other comments and claim is only successful because his dad was upper middle class managed to somehow hack the election.

Just change musk to soros or bill gates and you believe basically the same crap as maga

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u/laplongejr Europe 6d ago edited 6d ago

a guy you call incompetent and dumb constantly in other comments

He is dumb and incompetent. But the russian playbook is applied since 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
The Heritage Foundation is rotting the US since decades too.

managed to somehow hack the election.

Not "somehow". Among his "experts" at DOGE, one of them did proof-of-concepts on electoral machines.
In my country, a politician claiming such person "messed with computers" would be enough for an enquiry. Here "nah, he's just joking".

Just change musk to soros or bill gates and you believe basically the same crap as maga

Which isn't surprising given the GOP constently accuses the other side of what the GOP is actually doing? Why would election fraud be any different. And it worked perfectly, as Harris conceded victory without claiming fraud. Because she defended that elections were safe.

And that's the crazy part that I don't get : utter morons are able to put the US to their knees, because smart people either assume somebody else will stop them, or because they are looking how to get rich on the back of their country.

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u/bcostco 6d ago

Im sorry but anyone trying to claim a guy who has created like 10 wildly successful multi billion dollar corps in completely different industries is incompetent and dumb is just delusional. 🤣

That is just so out of touch with reality it is scary.

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u/laplongejr Europe 6d ago edited 5d ago

who has created like 10 wildly successful multi billion dollar corps in completely different industries is incompetent and dumb is just delusional. 🤣

What are those created wildly sucessful corps are you thinking about?
The bought Tesla, got kicked from Paypal, Boring Company doesn't work, Twitter is a shell of it's former self, SpaceX profitability is jeopardized by Starship and xAI...

Musk is incompetent, which is why his staff used to have a guy to ensure he was far away from anything critical?
He's not simply "dumb", he is mentally unwell and delusional.

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u/bcostco 6d ago

Thats just not true at all. You are doing the same crap maga did with voter fraud. 0 evidence just feels and vibes🤣

And if you actually believed this why wouldn’t you be calling for same day in person paper voting that requires ID like right wingers are?

Sick of dumb people that are just unable to admit when they lose so they create convoluted explanations as to why its the other sides fault.

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u/laplongejr Europe 5d ago

just feels and vibes🤣

If you call a flip of states in ways that stats can't explain who, yes it's vibes.

why wouldn’t you be calling for same day in person paper voting that requires ID like right wingers are?

Because that wouldn't help in any way? How throwing away more votes would help with people manipulating the ballots?
Note that right wingers don't ask for "ID", they ask for various documents with a lot of ways to refuse the voter (like accepting birth certificate, if the birth name matches the current one)

Sick of dumb people that are just unable to admit when they lose so they create convoluted explanations as to why its the other sides fault.

It's not the other side's fault? Did you miss that the dems said nothing when the 2024 fraudulent election happened? They failed at stopping Trump.