Coup, Coup Summer

Sown in the fires of Armageddon, or some such nonsense. Can’t even with these guys…

So.

So… sigh…

About the coup that General (retired) Flynn, Sydney Powell, Mike Lindell, Donald Trump, and pretty much all of Qanon is calling/praying/screaming for.

Ain’t gonna happen. At least not the way the way the Qer’s think it’s going to happen.

The military is not going to arrest Joe Biden, round all the mean ‘ol Democrats, and re-install Donny as president. In fact, I’m betting the leaders of the military were relived when Trump lost so decidedly. While Trump pretended to ‘respect’ for the military, he really has respect only for those named ‘Donald J. Trump’, or those at the heads of other countries who wield ‘ultimate’ power (murderous dictators). This is why he sucked up to Putin, to Kim, to MBS and Saudi Arabia, to China, (until his advisors told him to knock it off during covid), he likes those who strut and those who kill. Who kill reporters and protesters, that is. He’s just mad he can only strut. No, he has no respect those he can’t understand, those who seem to be sacrificing for others with nothing in it for themselves. If the answer to the question ‘what’s in it for me?’ is ‘honor and duty to country’, that’s a hard pass.

So, no, I really don’t fear the military rising up to help a man who insulted them as “losers” and “suckers”, no I fear the followers. The army of the deluded dead-enders, the ones still holding boat parades, still plotting on Parler and Telegram, the people who have been going on a four-year gun buying spree to arm themselves for the day when their particular ‘skills’ would be needed. Call it ‘boogaloo’, ‘race war’, ‘Armageddon’, or just ‘Civil War’, they’re down will alllll that. They desperately miss their guidance from Donald and especially from ‘Q’, and have been wandering around, seething and straining, fighting any battle they can (masks, vaccines) waiting for the bat-signal that will allow them to descend on America and ‘take back their country’. They’ve been waiting for a long time.

Trump, Flynn, Powell, Lindell (the Three Stooges and a spare), are giving it too them. They’ve giving them a date, a month at least; August. Don’t worry, Trump will be back in August, now please give us money. The Qanoners believe this stuff, like they believe Tom Hanks kills babies to drink their adrenaline. They think the military and Trump are actually running the country and that Joe Biden is either a clone, a doddering old man who has no idea where he is while Kamala Harris runs things, or was illegally installed and will be forced out. Or all of it, or bits of it. They’re nuts, what can I say?

Many Trump supporters are waiting, wanting, eager, and trembling to be part of a violent act in his name. Encouraged by Trump they have already committed violence in his name and are ready to do it again. It wouldn’t take much to do it again. Powell and Lindell, two people loved and respected in the cult, say Trump can be re-instated in August, Trump (the God of the Cult) repeats the August date, Flynn endorses a military style coup. If the military won’t step up to do its duty, the ‘anoners are very excited to do it for them.

 They are already plotting now. They haven’t really stopped in four years.

Trump gave them a month, they can figure out a day, a place and a time. He thinks with his announced rallies, his constant firing at them with fundraising emails, the constant repeating of the Big Lie and telling them he’ll be re-instated only if they ‘fight’ (you know that is coming) that his followers will bring about ‘the Storm’ (TM) (see video below), he’ll be back in power (and safe from prosecution) and they can round up all the ‘pedos’ together. They’ll all be the shining heroes they always knew they were. Jesus might even come back.

All they have to do is fight.

“Fight For Trump!”

Oh good, another summer made interesting for all the wrong reasons.

Crazy Qanon video below, shown at their conference last week where Flynn made his coup endorsement.

The Last Days of the Slow-Coup

Donny rallying his Redcoats.

Donald Trump has reached the Nixon ‘walking the hallways night at night swearing at the paintings’ stage. That hasn’t stopped him stepping up his desperate coup attempt by proposing in a White House meeting making election ‘lawyer’ Sydney Powell as a ‘special counsel in charge of the election, with a high security clearance and access to classified materials. This would put her in charge of ‘investigating’ the election, i.e.: making baseless charges from a high government position with resources like investigators and subpoena power. She could make a lot of election officials miserable, ruining their careers and their lives, dragging democracy through the mud for months.

Fortunately, this was shot down, but not before a lot of arguing and heated words, many from Powell herself, fighting for more power. Advisors pointed out she had yet to prove any of her accusations, prompting Powell to whip out yet more affidavits from the same dubious source she has used in the past. That doesn’t mean she will go away, or that Trump won’t go over his advisors and force an appointment.

Then busy little Donny, (busying doing anything but his job, or protecting America from Russian hacking or covid) in a meeting with Ken Cuccinelli, No. 2 at the Department of Homeland Security, asked that the DHS seize voting machines for an ‘examination’. Cuccinelli gingerly told the president that the DHS had no power over voting machines.

Not caring for that answer, Rudy Giuliani then called personally to ask Cuccinelli about seizing voting machines so they could be ‘examined’ (screwed and tampered with) by Trump partisans. The President’s personal lawyer asking to illegally seize property.

Maggie Haberman of the NYT reported: 

“Rudy Giuliani called Ken Cuccinelli, second in command at the Department of Homeland Security, on Thursday night and asked him whether DHS could seize voting machines," Jonathan Swan reported, citing "a source familiar with the call."

Cuccinelli told Rudy the DHS didn’t have that power.

They really don’t like hearing ‘no’.

In the meeting with senior aides and Powell, was ex-general, and every bit as crazy as Sydney, fervent Trump (and pardon recipient) Michael Flynn. After getting turned down for his voting machine scam, and not being able to appoint Sydney Powell as Witchfinder General, Trump gestured to Flynn and asked about Flynn’s idea of martial law, using the military to overthrow the election and forcing either a national re-vote, or a re-vote of just the states Trump wants.

Yes, we have a President of the United States, asking to seize voting machines, demanding to appoint a persecutor-in-chief to go after his perceived ‘enemies’, proposing martial law, and calling for a violent overthrow of the government to reverse a lost election, with most of the GOP happy to do so.

This is treason.  

This is un-American. 

But he won’t succeed.

There are too many good people standing in his way who honor their oaths to the Constitution, and a few bad ones who know the gig is up, want to get their pardon, and get out. Trump can and will do damage on his way out, it’s the nature of the wounded animal to thrash, snarl and lash out at anything near… as they die.

Trump’s term dies the 20th.

And the marines know how to escort trespassers off the property.