J.D. Vance has joined the chorus of conservatives who have begun claiming that President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race constitutes a so-called “coup” in the Democratic Party.

In an interview filmed on Saturday with Fox News’s Jesse Watters, a clip of which aired on Fox & Friends Monday morning, Watters asked former President Donald Trump and his newly minted running mate, Vance, the new question plaguing Republicans: “Is it a coup against Joe Biden?” Both of them fumbled their answers.

“Uh, sort of,” Trump said unsure, looking over to Vance for explanation.

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    Biden running against Trump and winning legitimately in 2020 they called a coup too, and they said Jan 6th wasn’t one. At some point they just show they don’t understand the meaning of the word.

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      No the point is to use the word so often that it loses its meaning and then anyone who uses it will be instantly written off.

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    8 months ago

    Deal with it, bitches. The fact that every right winger is repeating the coup talking point tells you everything you need to know. They are in absolute panic mode.

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    They’re trying to launder out the word ‘coup’ so it can’t be used to describe their insurrection.

    In a similar fashion, ‘literally’ now means its exact opposite, according to dictionaries like the one that broke English.

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    It’s a coup for the VP to take over for the President?

    Would it be a coup if Biden died today and she became president? That’s literally how it’s supposed to happen according to the constitution.

    Stupid fucking republicans.

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        That’s exactly it. They want it normalized and watered down. It’s the same projection they use constantly.

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        “I’m really hungry today. I think I’ll get a coup d’etat burger and fries, please”

        “would you like that with or without felony conviction sauce?”

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      You saw how big “Hawk Tuah” girl got. Dumb people elevate dumb shit. Thankfully she seems to be pretty level headed. But at that moment I knew us Americans like really, really dumb shit and will put those kinds on a pedestal.

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          Sounds like no, she wasn’t.

          https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/07/05/hawk-tuan-girl-hailey-welch-interview/74311380007/

          Haliey Welch used to wake up at 3:30 a.m. every morning to go to work at a spring factory in Belfast, Tennessee.

          Now, Welch is sleeping in.

          She may be small town, but she’s savvy. Welch is taking what started as embarrassment and is turning it into a career. She’s assembled a team consisting of an attorney, a management company and a PR firm. That team is entertaining appearances with price tags north of $25,000 each, according to her manager, Jonnie Forster, owner of Los Angeles-based management firm The Penthouse.

          “Right now, she can make more money holding up a can for five minutes than she made all last year,” Forster said.

          Once she saw the merchandise being made and sold online by other people, she thought, “If everyone else is making money off of it, I might as well, too.”

          She quit her job at the spring factory on June 27.

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      Well… people were dumb enough to believe that Biden was A.O.K. for the past 3+ years… guess we can agree we have a whole lot of dumb people.

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        dude give it up. no one ever simped for biden to the level that troompa loompas line up to polish trump’s colon with their tongues.

        it’s just that, given the choice, normal people will vote for a walking corpse over trump. who’s also a walking corpse. that shits itself

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          Well I can agree, not simped for Biden, but sure as hell made up a lot of excuses for his mental decline.

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            oh, should we compare “excuses” each side made for their candidates’ shortcomings? LOL

            edit: speaking of unbelievable paralyzing dumbness, read the title of the post again…fucking moron GOP doesn’t even know what “coup” actually means

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            Mental Decline according to people like this:

            Enacting popular laws and policies that have helped support millions of families and individuals. Brought us back from Covid after some other asshole screwed the pooch. Literally used loopholes to provide aid to countless students and continues to attempt to rock that particular boat constantly. Kept us out of a worse economical recession. Gave us some fantastic memes.

            Actual Mental Decline:

            Well I can agree, not simped for Biden, but sure as hell made up a lot of excuses for his mental decline.

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    I wonder if tRump chose Vance because it kinda sounds like Pence. Easier to remember.

    Or maybe he doesn’t want a VP candidate with a name that has more letters than he has.

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      I wonder if tRump chose Vance because it kinda sounds like Pence. Easier to remember.

      I was joking just a few days ago that all those folks still flying “Trump - Pence” signs from 2020 or the really faded ones from 2016 just need to change the “PE” to “VA” and they’re good for another 4 years of sun bleaching.

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        I don’t remember that one, but he did call him “J.P.”, then tried course correcting only to careen off road in the other direction with “J.D. Mandel” at a rally once