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New York Times Column Says Trump Is About To Stage A Coup
2017-12-22
[DAILYCALLER] A New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

contributor cranked the President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
-hysteria-meter to 11 on Thursday when he wrote the president "and his allies seem on the verge of staging a coup against independent institutions and the rule of law."

In the column "The Real Coup Plot Is Trump’s," New York Times contributor and Harvard University lecturer Yascha Mounk warns readers about the upcoming assault on American democracy that the president is plotting.

Fox News host Jesse Watters recently claimed that in the midst of all the alleged bias within the FBI, that "we have a coup on our hands in America."

Mounk doesn’t cite any evidence that Trump is preparing to fire special counsel Robert Mueller ‐ the president, after all, has said repeatedly that he doesn’t intend to.

If you dare criticize Mueller, you are making yourself an "active accomplice in a deliberate assault on our democracy," according to the New York Times op-ed.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan
...Speaker of the House, U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies...
and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell were busy passing tax cuts for over 80 percent of Americans. Now, they are "equally to blame" for the public’s growing mistrust of the Russia probe, according to Mounk.

The real blame falls on "mainstream conservatives" for any damage America’s institutions have faced, according to Mounk.
Posted by:Fred

#16  Well someones got to remove that horrible Trump from power and it seems like Trump's the only one with the balls to do it.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-12-22 19:39  

#15  Give a dog a bad name so you can hang him. SSDD, from the NYT.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2017-12-22 13:36  

#14  Bloodstream
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-12-22 11:22  

#13  NYT bitten by the projection tick. It’s in the blood area folks.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-12-22 11:20  

#12  "When he's not being an idiot, that is"
Posted by: Frank G   2017-12-22 11:15  

#11  #10I was under the impression that by definition, the one staging a coup is the one not in power, hence the coup. Do the morons at the NYT not realize that Trump won the election and thus is the one in power? Are they seriously suggesting that he is about to stage a coup against himself?

NYT: "See? That's what THEY want you to think!!11!! That's how devious the Donald IS!""
Posted by: Frank G   2017-12-22 11:14  

#10  I was under the impression that by definition, the one staging a coup is the one not in power, hence the coup.

Do the morons at the NYT not realize that Trump won the election and thus is the one in power? Are they seriously suggesting that he is about to stage a coup against himself?

This takes LPL (Liberal Pretzel Logic) to a whole new level that I didn’t think was possible.

(If I could figure out how to insert the Yoda “hysteria” meme pic that I just uploaded, I would)
Posted by: Eltoroverde   2017-12-22 09:55  

#9  A coup against the shadow government/deep state? A clean-up and clean-out has been needed for a long time. A lack of transparency/sunshine in government is the enemy of freedom. As has been said: "Trading freedom for safety and security will result in neither."
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-12-22 08:54  

#8  Donald taking a dump on the NYT's poo. And the snowcranks there whimper.
Posted by: Woodrow   2017-12-22 08:49  

#7  I'm confused, I thought it was the left that was doing the coup...

So are we having one or not and who can I shoot?
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-12-22 07:56  

#6  Yascha Mounk Born: 1982, Munich, Germany

Knew he didn't sound like a Mayflower Democrat.
Posted by: 3dc   2017-12-22 07:36  

#5  2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.

So which authority is planning and executing this strategy? Who is directing the NYT and WaPo?

4. Propaganda must affect the enemy's policy and action.

This NYT propaganda article is an obvious attempt to protect Meuller. What can I say? Thank you for being so transparent.

13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.

Why now? What is AG Sessions doing that the NYT is trying to prevent? This is good news.

14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.

Staging a coup; that is rich. The President is the chief executive. Executive branch agencies fighting presidential authority are not deserving of protection and talk of a coup is just ridiculous. Checks and balances include Congress and the Courts.

Maybe somebody with PSYOP training can chime in.
Posted by: S. Sleater9697   2017-12-22 05:55  

#4  Since Everything they do is projection this is worrying.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-12-22 05:45  

#3  "If'n yore gonna lie, lie big"__ Heinrich Himmler
Posted by: Captain Grundy1029   2017-12-22 05:02  

#2  These people have zero empathy and can't really imagine anybody different from themselves - except for stereotypes like "African-American" (all other "brown" people are honorary "African-American")
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-12-22 04:59  

#1  (Reads article)

Hmmm.


I wonder what color the sky is on this dude's world.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2017-12-22 04:44  

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