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Summary

Donald Trump allies, including Tucker Carlson and Laura Loomer, are accusing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of orchestrating a “coup” against Trump’s agenda by scheduling early Senate GOP leadership elections.

Carlson, on social media, urged his followers to support Florida Senator Rick Scott as the only candidate aligned with Trump, warning that other candidates oppose Trump’s policies.

Loomer criticized Republicans for not addressing McConnell’s move sooner, suggesting that calls for party "unity" have enabled this alleged attempt to undermine Trump’s incoming administration.

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[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 193 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Everything's a goddamn coup with these people.

Scheduling legislative leadership elections at an allowed time is a coup against a guy who is currently not in office?

K.

[–] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Except January 6th, apparently

[–] Tidesphere@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago

The goal is to use the word coup often so that the word loses its punch, that way when an actual coup happens people will just shrug when it's reported and think it's just a minor occurrence.

[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

It's only a coup if it's against them. If they're orchestrating ir, it's "being patriotic."

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I assume holding the vote early is so incoming MAGA senators don't get a say.

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's so he can set some terms such as blind ballots, which really helps republicans align with democrats in choosing without fear of retaliation and that's why they're all losing their minds over this. Tucker Carlson is screaming at people to call their senators and demand that they back Rick Scott because now they have no control over how any republican chooses to vote.

So hopefully Mitch succeeds in turning the government into a total do-nothing circus despite Trump possibly controlling the supreme court and all three branches of the government. GOP might fucking implode like the Whigs finally

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Ya, I think I have to do some researching into how to block those fake click-bait news :-/