That's not the definition though.
That is literally the definition. "a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coup
There's a reason the term "bloodless coup" has that qualifying adjective in it: it's different from a straight up coup. Sorry, you don't get to redefine words.
As for "seizure of power from a government", that's LITERALLY what happened.
Gee, I must have missed the part where Trump stayed president for the past four years.
How does that not make him a conservative?
Because we don't know enough about his views. And because you are fixating on things that suggest he was, and flat out
ignoring things that suggest otherwise. This is called cherrypicking your evidence, and it's intellectually dishonest.
Obviously it was a bet or something.
No, it's not remotely obvious. It's a case of you
assuming a motive, which you don't have the faintest knowledge of, in order to support a
preferred belief. Again, this is not intellectually honest.
I'm not remotely invested in him being a liberal. I just don't think he is. If it turns out he was conservative... well, Trump broke some genuine conservatives too -- David French, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, Jennifer Rubin, Michael Steele, there's a long list. Some of them have turned into out and out political whores, who now go on outlets like CNN and MSNBC to renounce everything they once claimed to stand for because they don't like the guy who actually accomplished it. Hunter Biden’s prostitutes have more dignity.
I'm not dismissing at all that Crooks could be conservative who became a radicalized never Trumper, but I don't think the evidence is sufficient yet to say he was.
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Narwhale37 (1290)
7 months ago
That is literally the definition. "a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coup
There's a reason the term "bloodless coup" has that qualifying adjective in it: it's different from a straight up coup. Sorry, you don't get to redefine words.
A bloodless coup is still a coup. You're just trying to argue semantics, and thus trying to downplay what happened.
Gee, I must have missed the part where Trump stayed president for the past four years.
Because it failed thanks to patriots like Mike Pence and Bill Barr stopping it. The issue is that Trump tried it at all. Not whether or not it succeeded.
I don't why else you would need more proof. If the people that knew him said he was a conservative, then I believe them until there is serious proof otherwise.
No, it's not remotely obvious. It's a case of you assuming a motive, which you don't have the faintest knowledge of, in order to support a preferred belief. Again, this is not intellectually honest.
I'm not assuming anything. Im simply saying that the donation can be easily explained with him also being a conservative. Especially when it AFTER the election, a small amount and him not voting in 2024.
I'm not dismissing at all that Crooks could be conservative who became a radicalized never Trumper, but I don't think the evidence is sufficient yet to say he was.
Why do you assume everyone but your God Emperor Trump is lying? Or do you think his classmates were just too stupid to know what a conservative is?
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Darren (1455)
7 months ago
You are assuming. You said, "obviously it was a bet or something." That is an assumption. You don't have the first fucking idea whether not he made a bet "or something." You have nothing to tell you that it was anything other than a sincere donation to a cause the shooter supported. You just want him to have been conservative, and are dismissive of anything which suggests he was not. You are assuming.
And save the "God Emperor" nonsense. I'm not a MAGA Trump follower; I wanted DeSantis to be nominated as the candidate. But we have Trump, and I'll vote for him in preference to Biden, because Biden was incompetent even before he started going senile, and because he and his handlers (who are really running things) have driven this country into the ground like a rented mule.
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