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.

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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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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      No, no, it’s supposed to happen by violent insurrection during the certification of the election and by violently hanging the vice president in front of the Capitol building!

      /s, obviously

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      He’s not saying it to rally up his base, he’s saying it so when the DNC appoints her at the convention the democratic voters get all pissed off because they never cast a vote with her at the top of the ticket. Hopefully, the democrats aren’t as dumb as his party and don’t fall for it. His motivations are not because it’s a coup against them, he’s pretending it’s a coup for the democratic nomination so we get all mad at each other.

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    Projection

    This brought to you by the asshole who gave us Jan 6th.

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      They’re going to run with this the whole way through and if they lose they’ll keep saying this until trump fucks off. It will be the new stop the steal. Pathetic

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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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    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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    Everyone knows a coup is when a candidate steps down and endorses their VP. Biden is still POTUS, with the immense powers of a President, but he has of course been overthrown.

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      I mean, according to SCOTUS last month,* he could send the Marines into the EEOB to put down any “coup” without any legal ramifications, so I feel like he’s not really being mistreated.

      *THIS MONTH. It was THIS MONTH. The writers for this season really need to slow down.

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        We’re 4+ years into the 2020s and it’s been absolutely insane all the way through. I dread the second half of this decade.

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          I remember thinking in 2015, “This has been a bit of an odd year, can’t wait for Trump nonsense to die down so we can get back to normal.”

          That feels like it was simultaneously last week and also ancient history.

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    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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    We are going to see lots of this type of bullshit.

    It’s the GOP and related “news” outlets that are throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks.

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    “Uh, sort of,” Trump said unsure, looking over to Vance suddenly fearing for his life…

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    They know it’s not a coup, they are diluting the meaning of the word. Since they likely plan to use another coup attempt if they lose.

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      Well, at least THIS time we can call in some fucking muscle to put that shit right down. I hope to god they lose and try something dumb and this time we are ready for them - even arrest/disrupt them prior, ideally. Get more of them in the prison industrial complex and keep them out of politics.

      I also hope they lose so that the J6 insurrectionists don’t get pardoned by that asshat donnie.

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        Is it bad of me for kinda wanting to see the military drop napalm on them if they try that shit again. Like as someone who knows about Blai Mountain I know its a bad thing, but also fuckem the welps would support far worse that a bit of napalm and ad hoc skin liquefaction.

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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 think he chose both of them because their names have 5 letters and the simple symmetry of them matching his name in length is soothing for a moron like Trump.

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      Vance is not even 40 I think so he won’t be in line of succession of Trump is incapacitated. Such a strange pick

      Edit: it is 35 to be eligible for president not 45, so ignore the above

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    They’re talking about invoking the 25th amendment… Like they want Kamala to be president sooner?

    Never mind the faulty logic of “if you don’t want to run for president again, you can’t run the country now”

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      They don’t have anything they can use against her right now. They want to get her in office for a few months so they can attack every single choice she makes.

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      They think her odds against Trump are possibly even worse than Biden’s were. But they’re mistaken

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        If Biden died, and the Dems still ran him, I’d vote for his corpse because he’s not Trump. If Harris ends up the nominee, I’ll vote for her for the same reason. But I’m not excited about it.

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    Biden’s decision to step down isn’t in any way an acknowledgement that he is unfit to serve it is more so a decision right or wrong that he would lose whether it be for his poor performance at the debate, gaffes, or age. With the Democrats pushing in the same direction this could have become a self fulfilling prophesy.

    There is no reason to believe he can’t both stay in office AND step down in favor of Harris. It has always been acknowledged that parties have a broad latitude to select their candidate and ultimately the people will decide.

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    GOP: “Biden isn’t fit to serve, he should get out”

    Biden: Gets out, and tags the presidential backup everyone elected in the last general

    GOP: “CoUp!”

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    Uh…this sounds almost exactly the opposite of what the text says happened.

    Title says they lost their minds, so I expected them to be the ones bringing up the rhetoric.

    But the HOST of the show said it and they stumbled? That’s not what most people would consider ‘losing their minds’…

    Could we at least be more accurate than MAGA when posting stuff…pretty please?

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      I’m not sure how they got from “Trump didn’t have a strong opinion either way” to “Trump was losing his mind”.