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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    I know they do it intentionally to water down the meaning of the words, but if I didn’t know better, I would think these people were so fucking stupid that they just repeat whatever word they’ve recently heard used in a negative context.

    Also, the lies and projection in that article are too egregious for me to get through the whole thing.

    Edit: bad voice to text

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    “Two of the three candidates hate Trump and what he ran on. One of them, John Cornyn, is an angry liberal whose politics are indistinguishable from Liz Cheney’s. The election is Wednesday, it’s by secret ballot, and it will determine whether or not the new administration succeeds.”

    Vote is Nov 13, arranged a month ago which Laura Loomer thinks this was the plan all along.

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    Please be advised, this is an article about a Tucker Carlson segment which doesn’t provide any additional info or context of its own

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      Tucker is telling MAGA that any non-MAGA republican is a fake RINO and can’t be trusted.

      Only those that Trump says are loyal, are actually loyal. Everyone else is sus.

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        Yeah, I thought their Nacht der langen Messer was supposed to happen after the inauguration.

        They’re taking the “speed” part of “20th century speedrun” pretty seriously.

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        I saw some professor online, saying that the first victims of fascists are the true believers of the party they grew out of, and to watch for that happening with the Republicans.

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          Ideally, the in-group is eventually reduced to only the leader himself, with even his closest advisors constantly backstabbing each other over his favor.
          Cause they are the greatest threat to his throne.

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    I’ll believe it when I see it. McConnell is a cold warrior and a Reagan Republican at heart, but he’s also soulless and evil like the rest of them.

    Does some part of him still give a shit about his country? I find it hard to believe.

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        Wasn’t he on the record criticizing Trump over j6 at some point? Might not have actually done anything about it, but that’s probably incentive to at least want to avoid letting Trump go full dictator, lest he eventually find himself targeted for past disloyalty

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          He was against impeachment and banning Trump from future office, because he was out of office and it was up to the justice department.

          Well Mitch, the hen has come back to roost.

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      A big part of Project 2025 is eliminating checks and balances, and consolidating power into the Whitehouse. That means taking power away from the house and senate, and from McConnell.

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        That means taking power away from the house and senate, and from McConnell.

        Ah there it is. It’s not about saving the USA, it’s about him losing power.

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    Huh.

    I’ve been sort of idly wondering who was going to be the first “enemy” politician the Trump regime was going to kill.

    I’d say McConnell just became the odds-on favorite.

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      Extremists in politics are like people with an automatic machine gun and they’re always uncontrollably firing at perceived enemies … once they bring someone down … they keep firing, turn around and start shooting at someone else … and on and on and on … they always see enemies … once they eliminate someone, they move on to the next until eventually they start shooting at you.

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          Because authoritarians and fascists always need an enemy … once they subdue that enemy, the need another … they can only exist and have power over people as long as there is enemy of some kind. If they can’t it elsewhere, they start looking at the people next to them.