Trump and J.D. Vance Lose Their Minds Over Kamala Harris “Coup” – Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans are panicking over Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 race.

https://newrepublic.com/post/184091/trump-jd-vance-kamala-harris-biden-coup

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  2. *Coup.* Republicans keep using this word, but it does not mean what they think it means.

  3. They’re shitting their pants because the “Biden is too old” argument will now be used against Trump, and Trump’s first instinct will be to go on racist and misogynistic tirade against Harris, which will hurt them even more with minorities and women.

  4. That’s a hell of a thing for a guy who failed a coup to say

  5. Because their entire campaign strategy was to attack Biden’s age.

    Now he’s the demented old grandpa with insanely unpopular policies and they don’t know what to do.

  8. When you say “minds”, plural, it implies that they have more than one between them.

  9. haha, Trump is the oldest candidate ever now.

    That’s gotta hurt.

    Now all the people who didn’t want Biden because he’s too old are going “wait a minute…”

    Love it.

  10. “They’ve gone and completed a coup.”

    “Against who?”

    “The president.”

    “The guy who is still president?”

    “A coup!”

    “I…”

  11. Put this in a jar cause I wanna lather my self up in this feeling

  13. Here’s the real issue: Trump’s strength has always been ad hominem attacks that make the masses giggle. Change the ‘hominem’ and he’s back at square one, because his policies (to the extent he has any of his own) are deeply unpopular.

  14. Trump’s nightmare in one opponent. Prosecutor, a woman, and an African -American good luck sir

  15. Don’t forget Stephen Miller going with “full-frontal” attack on American democracy.

  16. i did watch a little bit of a fox news yesterday just to see what they were saying and it was very entertaining to watch them scramble. you could tell they were feeling a little stressed

  17. I guess it’s hard to come down from the RNC high and come back into the real world where things change. Womp womp!

  18. Remember every accusation is a confession from this asshole.

  20. Kamala has to call him commander snowflake because he’s constantly upset about everything

  21. Suddenly they have concerns about democracy? Isn’t this the party that claims the VP can deny electors unilaterally?

  22. I genuinely don’t get the Republican play here. I think the coup narrative is their strongest currently, but like, they’re really flailing. The majority of the hits I see on her from the MAGA cult is either “she blew her way to the top” or “her laugh is annoying”. How did they not have more in the tank against her when the narrative has been for *years* now that Biden is two ice cream scoops away from death. Like, genuinely, what happened to the Federalist Society fingers in the pie that have created false-but-effective narratives against Biden, Hillary, Obama, Kerry, etc. ? I knew they have been getting supplanted with the cult freaks but did they really bleed that much talent?

  23. We cannot forget that Dems will be running a woman for the first presidential debate following Roe v Wade being overturned. With many states having abortion rights measures on the ballot, Harris being the nominee could really stoke turnout.

  24. I have gotten over 10 texts from the GOP since yesterday (3 from Jr. alone!) begging for my help/money. They are absolutely freaking the fuck out!

  25. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://newrepublic.com/post/184091/trump-jd-vance-kamala-harris-biden-coup) reduced by 67%. (I’m a bot)
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    > During his speech at the Republican National Convention Thursday night, Trump blamed Fain for U.S. automakers building factories in other countries and called for Fain to be fired.

    > "The United Auto Workers ought to be ashamed for allowing this to happen, and the leader of the United Auto Workers should be fired immediately, and every single autoworker, union and nonunion, should be voting for Donald Trump, because we're going to bring back car manufacturing and we're going to bring it back fast," Trump said.

    > The UAW endorsed Joe Biden in January, with Fain praising Biden and saying he "Has always bet on the American worker and stood with the American worker." In contrast, Fain said, Trump "Has a history of serving himself and standing for the billionaire class.”

    *****
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  26. People had resigned themselves to being forced to choose between the same two shitty 80 year olds, and *HATED* it. The GOP knew that the cult of personality would soften the blow to their side, so they played it up. They turned it into a vibe check, and made sure the vibes were just putrid.

    Now? Bear with me here: The vibes are pizza party. Not a workplace pizza party, an elementary school pizza party. That shit hit different. It didn’t matter if the pizza was actually all that good, because you were having it INSTEAD of crappy cafeteria food, and the contrast makes all the difference. If it ends up having any staying power at all, that vibe shift will carry her over the top.

  27. Trump is very very very old and was never too bright.

  28. I know it’s been said before, but I love how republicans have been pressuring Joe to leave and when he finally does, they’re suddenly so concerned for democrat’s rights to choose lol.

  29. Wait, I thought Harris was going to be even easier to beat than Biden? Isn’t that what Trump was saying just a few days ago?

  30. They cannot fathom that a person in power just gives it up. This kind of integrity is completely beyond them. They would only give up power when it is taken from them. So their only explanation for Biden stepping down on his own accord is that it was a “coup”.

    They are simply telling us, who they really are.

  31. If Kamala Harris is such a huge threat to the Republican party, maybe they should call on Trump to step aside and endorse a better candidate.

  32. I hear this in my 5-year-old’s voice whining “it’s not fair!!”

  33. So wait. They are demanding that the Democrats use the 25th Amendment to declare Biden unfit for office, removing him 3 months before the election? They do realize who becomes president if Biden were to be removed, right? Do they somehow think that Harris will be easier to defeat if she’s the sitting president?

    Of course not. They are just grasping at straws to try to figure out a way to keep Biden in the race. They pounded on his age for years, said he shouldn’t be running, and are surprise Pikachu-ing now that he stepped down. Like a drunk at the bar who keeps saying “come on, hit me! Hit me!” and then curl up in a ball and cry when they get slapped.

    How can they be caught flat-footed on this? After the debate, Trump was recorded saying something like “I defeated him, he’s going to drop out”. It’s been almost a full month since that moment and you had no contingency plan in case Trump was actually right about something? Talk about an incompetent campaign.

  34. Trump should really just drop out at this point. He’s nearly 80 years old.

  35. Donald is old as hell and looks like he has dementia, he should drop out.

  36. The irony of the guy who refused to step down peacefully when he lost, calling a guy stepping down peacefully a “coup”

  37. Vance is a tough position now. What’s he going to do when his sick racist party starts up with the “birther” bullshit, based on Kamala Harris having an Indian mother, considering that his children also have an Indian mother.

  38. Lmao I saw this happening in real time yesterday!

    So rn my trump loving in-laws are staying with us (💀) and last night after listening to us liberal gays talking all day long about Biden dropping out, and letting them know everything that was happening, all very straightforward: Biden drops out, Kamala is endorsed, me calling Biden a national hero and that’s pretty much it.

    Later on they say to me, completely unironically: “ok, we’re going to go watch “our shows”, (fox + newsmax) *and find out what happened today.”* Literally, he said those exact words. Basically, yeah, I know you’ve told us everything that happened today but we need to go get reprogrammed with the MAGA talking-points – and sure enough, a few hours later, here they come talking about “Biden got coup’ed”, “the American people were disenfranchised”, and feigning all this disgustingly insincere pity for the man who they previously said is a dementia-riddled criminal who is the worst thing that ever happened to America. It was hilarious as it was sad, because they’re actually not bad people, they absolutely care about us and accept me as their son, and they (dad) actually (seems to) listen to us, and are always cordial when we have political discussions. But they can never be swayed no matter what we say. 🙁

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  39. > “I think it is,” Vance said. “Look, there’s a constitutional process, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. If Joe Biden can’t run for president, he can’t serve as president. And if they want to take him down because he’s mentally incapable of serving, invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

    What a dumbass dipshit response. Biden wasn’t proven to be mentally incapable of running for a second term, he dropped out of his own will. They’re clutching at straws at this point.

  40. Every. 👏Accusation.👏 Is👏. A👏. Projection👏.

    They’re the party that’s actually attempted a coup.

  41. Vance was an absolute “fuck you stay in the kitchen” pick that he thought he could get away with since he was “only” facing Biden. The “fuck you stay in the kitchen” position probably got a lot more difficult.

  42. Storming the Capitol to try to change election outcome : attempted Coup.

    Change of candidate certified by vote before election : not coup.

    Hope that clarified it.

  43. I am so fucking pumped to vote for Harris and I don’t need to know a single damn policy position she has. I don’t care. I’m JACKED baby. Donated last night and I’m gonna volunteer to phone bank. I want Trump to be blown out of the water. I want them to have meltdowns and try to January 6 again. Nothing satiates me more than just thinking of their conniption fit after losing to a black woman. The schadenfraude alone could fuel me for a thousand years.

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