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TIL: The outcome of the democratic process is a “coup”. 🙄
It seems like most conservatives in power have this cognitive dissonance where they see themselves as nobility, chosen by god to rule. So when they are voted out of office through the mere expression of democracy, they see it as some sort of peasant uprising that violates their warped understanding of what a government is supposed to be.
We're just slowly sliding back to feudalism.
We want people to have the freedom to choose what we believe in. Anything else is clearly a mistake.
That has become the Republican party line. Since Trump, they think that any democratic process outcome that is not in their favor is corrupt, and it must be undone. In short, fascism
Pretty typical. If they win then it is democracy in action. If they lose it’s a coup. Republicans don’t care about democracy, they want an autocracy.
They are fascists who want fascism
Republicans can go fuck themselves.
Imagine how much better everything would be if they just like, shut the fuck up and accepted losses.
Graceful losses and being humble when wrong is a lost concept on them, and a lot of people besides.
An entire party of ❄️s when called out, but all they do is weaponize the hypocrisy lol. It's easier to just point it out quickly then move on. Just to prime any readers who might have a margin of sanity.
With jaw-dropping force.
How can one stage a coup by voting?
I don't think she really believes it's an actual coup, Republicans have just been calling everything a coup since the Jan. 6th, 2021 Beer Gut Putsch, I assume to muddy the waters around that specific word and run interference for their wannabe dictator.
By voting for the wrong candidate, obviously.
The people the judge is speaking to don't know what a coup means. They think it's a place where chickens live.
The simple fact that she's hasn't filed a lawsuit and instead has been sending out emails leads me to believe she is full of hot air. Amongst other things she is probably full of.
As always the GOP accuses the democrats of things the GOP is guilty of.
Yeah. Didn't the republicans change rules to oust the former liberal chief supreme Court justice that the rules stated would be the longest tenured or oldest member of the court? Now the liberal members take it back.
It’s not a fucking coup IF IT WAS VOTED FOR BY A MAJORITY you fuckwit
Dude, she's a conservative. We're lucky she could write an email.
You're assuming she didn't have her underpaid assistant write it for her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror
Accusation in a mirror (AiM) (also called mirror politics, mirror propaganda, mirror image propaganda, or a mirror argument) is a hate-speech incitement technique where one falsely attributes to one's adversaries the intentions that one has for oneself and/or the actions that one is in the process of enacting.
I'm convinced the Republicans are trying to water down the definition of coup, so that way when they are convicted of it, as they rightly should be, it already has a much less severe definition in the common lexicon.
She was elected by the conservative majority to a second two-year term as chief justice in May.
This seems like a pretty stupid system, honestly - when the composition of the court changes there should be a new election, fixed terms for chief justices that overlap an election for another seat make no sense.
EDIT: apparently this was a recent change, in a referendum, replacing a previous system where they conservatives were stuck with a liberal chief they didn't like; from Wikipedia:
After passage of a referendum on April 7, 2015, the chief justice of the court is elected for a term of 2 years by the vote of a majority of the justices then serving on the court, although the justice so elected may decline the appointment. Previous to the change, the justice with the longest continuous service on the court served as the chief justice. Opponents of the referendum called it an attempt to remove longtime Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, a member of the court's liberal minority, while supporters called it an effort to promote democracy on the court.
So they literally passed a referendum to fix the problem of the chief justice not matching the politics of the majority, and now they're mad that the liberal justices are trying to fix the same problem again.
Hahaha cry me a fucking river. Tell that the North Carolina's governor when state Republicans tried to strip away powers after he beat the Republican nominee. She can eat a dick.
The problem is the GOP has the moral compass of a toddler.
The suspicion that their enemies cheated is more important than the reality of their own cheating.
They don't care about cheating, they only care about being on the winning side.
Pretty much
It is the main reason why the Obama strategy of, "When they go low we go high." Is a complete failure, you simply cannot shame a republican into following decorum, because they, just like the American people, do not give a shit about decorum, because they're too concerned with results.
The Republican Strategy is actually admirable simply because they said "You go high, we'll stay low, and our constituents will thank us for it."
It's just a shame that this results driven motivation, this understanding that means are entirely irrelevant as long as you get the ends you're after, could do much good for america. Instead it's being used to make sure that a law that says we will stone a woman in the town square for having a miscarriage it's simply more realistic to imagine passing in this day and age, rather than ensuring that Americans have access to housing and Medicine.
Toss on metropolitan areas in Texas that are having their entire municipal legislative power ham stringed.
Here’s a transcript of the email:
REEEEEEEEEEEEE
Wisconsin's conservative extremists justices have taken a leading role in destroying our state's democracy and intentionally destroying and ending people's lives for years. This sack of shit should be overjoyed that she not only still hold her position, but also that she and her lackeys haven't been dragged out of their homes by a mob and put down like the rabid dogs they are.
What goes around comes around:
Lame-duck Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signs bills weakening Democratic successor
Oh no, she's retarded
Ah yes, the strategy of saying "you used your legal right to vote, therefore you are a terrorist" to voters.
Just like in a video game: If you go in a direction and start meeting lots of opponents, you're probably making progress.
Is this just gonna be the norm from here on out? It is, isn’t it? Fuck, we are so fucked on…everything, basically.