He's been telegraphing it since 2016. In 2020 he literally tried to stop the peaceful passing of power between Presidencies and made it a very not peaceful passage for the first time in US history.

Like, if you haven't noticed, you haven't been paying the fuck attention (not you OP, you're obviously paying attention). I'm so sick of our media downplaying it like they're just figuring this the fuck out, like he isn't the most transparently bad liar in fucking history.

Don't think he knows about second coup, Dew.

That was an attempted coup kinda

Sitting on the inside here. I'm perpetually astounded as well. Very little of this suprises me anymore but plenty of things shock me.

He's a stereotypical conman; so shallow, so obvious. And yet, my family and former friends continue to slurp up his bullshit. It's so fucking stupid. He's so stupid. On paper, many of these people are smarter than the orange used car salesman.

It's difficult to describe how astounded I really am. Black magic or aliens would make more sense. I would find a novel or show with this unrealistic.

I wonder if I'll ever understand?

This has been in the works for a century and it's just finally happened.

They tried it once already in the 30s when Bush Jr's grandfather Prescott Bush and his pals tried to get Smedley Butler to overthrow Roosevelt.

Fortunately back then they had a general in mind with some ethics and he didn't play along. This time they found Trump.

Because he’s just the personality in front of this shit, this has been brewing for decades. He has no clue what he’s doing, but they let him because it works as a distraction while the millers and voughts dismantle things.

Much like Regan and Bush Junior, Trump is the front man to smarter (but not really smart) people who orchestrate everything. He just happens to be broadly aligned with what they want, and every now and again they throw him a bone with his personal vendettas while allowing his family to make obscene amounts of money via various scams and bribes.

What is truly astounding is how many people voted for the orange buffoon a second time, and still support him now. He has always been very clear as to what he is, what he will do, yet they still vote for him? Racism and hate has to be a powerful perfume that covers up the rancid stench of Trump and his goons.

People still calling him smart is the thing that makes me shit my pants. I don't know how anyone can think that who has just heard him talk for more than 10 seconds. This isn't even hyperbolic. It's like north korea, but they don't want to kiss their leaders ass they have to. Americans bend over to get fucked harder, because they like it.

Fourth Reich Archaeolgy

ha, I'm already unemployed, they screwed themselves on that one

He did it in November of 2024. It's fucking obvious.

So he can cancel the midterms

No there are still some more or less independent judges and media (even mainstream look at south park) and the hope is very much still there that there will be new elections in 2028. Only after there are no new elections by 2030 or when they are a clear smokescreen with Stalinist scores or if trump himself personally appoints a successor will the coup process be complete, imo. Military on the streets are not yet doing Prague spring or Tianmen square style complete sweeps of entire protesting populations, ICE is still "only" individual cases mostly. They're getting there, but I don't think the control is complete yet.

There might be an "open in browser" option that can workaround issues like this.