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That's a coup right? That sounds a LOT like a coup.
It's only a coup if it happens in the coup region of the world. Otherwise it's just sparkling facism
It's technically not a coup since the US Citizens voted them into power in order to do this.
You can coup democratic rule. The rulers of America, in the theory of republican liberalism, being the voters (though you could also laugh at that assertion it has theoretical principles on its side if not reality)
These people have been gleefully plotting to form hunting parties to track and murder minorities and anyone who’s against their agenda. Prison would be too lenient.
Alternate headline: Bannon tells GOP they've been doing just an absolute fuckton of crimes.
Can some of these fuckers start going to prison in 2026?
You need to show your political power is greater than his political power for the institutions to listen.
Every political figure has their own unique mana bar, their own special following of varying degrees of power, but Trump’s mana bar is different.
Trump’s base is not remotely the American majority, but they are the most mana-dense group out there. They are pure, raw, power to exert political will. Not as individuals, they’re stupider than soggy drywall as individuals. As a group, they have all the cards because they are:
United no matter who is part of the group. No entry requirements other than loyalty.
Guaranteed loyal. Trump can tell them to jump, they jump. Trump eats a baby on TV, they will wear “Eat the baby” T-shirts the next day. Trump says “storm the capitol” to prove to Congress and Senate that he has them on a leash and they even do that.
Patriotic, they carry the flag. The left is largely anti-jingoism, but in the world-stage, flags have power. Patriotism is team-power. When we abandoned the flag we gave up a large swath of power.
Armed and are violent. Again, you see this as anti-social and harmful, and on a community level it often is, but in the political landscape where there is no actual such thing as “law” having an armed group of loyalists is how nations have been built and preserved for literally thousands of years.
The longer Trump’s cabinet and administration can hold onto this group, the more they can do to pilfer the reserves and get their backers and sponsors filled with sweet, sweet sacks of cash in the form of deregulation and tax breaks.
The thing is, like with so many cases like this in history, it’s entirely constructed on the shaky foundation of one person’s “charm” and ability to hold onto their attention spans or lack thereof.
As soon as Trump keels over, which could literally be at any moment, this political mana will start to disperse. This is why you’re starting to see a lot more Vance on programs, a lot more Bannon and Miller, a lot more of the generals and enablers each trying to secure some fleeting drop of that mana. I do not think people like Vance are going to be able to control even a fraction of the power that Trump commanded, but it could be a long, long time before any of them face any consequence if they do at all.
Congratulations, you now understand "political capital" in the nerdiest way I can explain it.
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Don't worry Bannon, Democrat leadership doesn't exactly have the best track record of holding criminals and actual enemies of the people accountable for their crimes.
We're going to have to demand they do. When the time comes, we cannot let it go. We must insist these people face justice. Be as annoying about it as we are about the Epstein files.
Exactly. I’ll eat my hat if any of the key people gave any consequences at all when all this is over. It will be all, “we have to look forward, not backward.” I wouldn’t be shocked if an elected Democratic president pardoned Trump and his goons so that we can “heal as a nation.”
Dancing to the jailhouse rock!
Prison? I was hoping for public executions
Best I can offer is healing wounds, looking forward and moving on together. We need a strong show of bipartisan support, not a witch hunt.
/s
Me too. The catharis from seeing the moment of shock and fear just as the guillotine's blade touches the skin on their neck will make all of this worth it.
I was hoping more for a Mussolini style upside down hanging in public where anyone who wishes to can desecrate their corpses.
If you have to change the way the country works so you don’t go to prison, you should already be there.
The guy is admitting to planning a coup; he's a terrorist.
Technically that's treason, so he's a traitor (unless you're saying he's that and a terrorist, in which case nevermind)
And still nobody is gonna stop him
Bannon is a piece of shit ghoul but of MAGAs most influential assholes he’s ones of the few that has enough guile to understand what will happen if they somehow lose the gambit they’ve embarked upon. Things are only going to escalate from here after the big loses they suffered Tuesday and as the economy continues to ride a unicycle on a 2x4 across the Grand Canyon
It's a good thing for them that I don't get to make the decisions, because prison would not be what I decide.
If a 2028 Democratic presidential candidate has any platform other than arresting Republican figureheads, I will not support them. Lawbreakers and criminals belong in prison.
I'll be honest, I would not have had the left campaigning on "lock him up" but I'm not sure there can be any other option.
If they cop out with some unity bullshit it will just happen again in 4 years when people forget or decide they need a change or whatever.
Yay 2 party systems.
Both lock them up and make america better should be campaign. With all the specifics of course
It's not "those who will be targeted," it's those who broke the law. How is it that a group can claim they should arrest and detain/deport people for filling out a piece of paper wrong 14 years ago that had nothing to do with fraud, embezzlement, or hurting anyone. Just trying to work a 9-5 and provide for their families, yet this group can turn around and support people who are openly admitting they have committed crimes and should commit more while asking others to commit crimes to stay out of prison in the future.
They are never going to prison. Democrats would never imprison their only chance to win against.
Oh man, could you imagine if THAT was how Trump ran for another term?
Democrats: Surely our fellow americans wouldn't repeat-repeat-repeat vote for him! We can compromise to pass the "We Can Keep The Best Presidents As Long As We Want And It Is Temporarily Legal To Drink Water Without Asking Nestle" bill!
Oh he thinks he's only getting prison?
Sadly yes but he will die there so 🤷♂️
They know
A perfectly normal thing to say
Evil really ages people like milk
You mean the people who betrayed America and let hundred of thousand of Americans needlessly die in the pandemic?
Then cut aid to foreign governments so they could bail out their authoritarian friends causing hundreds of thousands more people around the world to die needlessly?
I demand Trump and his cronies be arrested
We will need de trump-ification like denazification in 1945 Germany
I don't trust the democrats to hold these genocidal maniacs accountable at all
He doesn't need to worry, there won't be a democratic win in a big election ever again.
And even IF for some miracle it would happen, they are so milquetoast that they would probably give out blanket immunity "for the sake of not dividing the nation further"
So what he's saying is that the people are kicking ass. Don't threaten me with a good time!
Everybody keep being active and getting others active too!!
The more of us doing the easier it makes it for us all to get more done, to succeed more, & to win more.
Let's show them what the people can do together. Making the USA what it should have been after all these years.
Hope is Powerful!! Strength in Unity!! Power to the People!!!
Wow, saying the quiet part out loud, eh?
They need to be tried for treason, and punished accordingly.
Oh, Steve. If there's any justice in the world, you'll never see the inside of a prison. Just the inside of a blindfold.
He right that "the other side" is getting more extreme, and also that his side is responding in an extreme manner as such.
The other side of the Confederates are getting more extreme? I see him claiming the opposition to Pedonald are "radical" (lol), I don't even know what that means? Maybe that some Democrats came back to a more central position from being basically moderate Republicans?
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