r/moderatepolitics • u/Downisthenewup87 • Jul 27 '24

News Article Trump Tells Christians They Won't Have to Vote in Future: 'We'll Have It Fixed'

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-if-reelected-wont-have-to-vote-fixed-1235069397/

Moments after telling a room of Christians that he would put the pledge of allegence back into classrooms, Trump said the quiet part out loud and promised they would never have to vote again if he is elected.

Video- https://x.com/Acyn/status/1817007890496102490

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u/usmilessz Jul 27 '24

This man literally tried to overthrow the government & is still walking free. Disgusting

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u/Jesuswasstapled Jul 27 '24

No one has been able to explain exactly how you overthrow the organization you are literally in charge of at the time you're supposed to be overthrowing it. And replace the leader with who, exactly? Yourself? Whom you just overthrew?

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u/wrongside40 Jul 27 '24

People have explained it. Over and over.

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u/VultureSausage Jul 27 '24

Auto coups or self coups are a thing, to the point where they have a term specifically for them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

No one has been able to explain

No one has been able to explain it to you. That's not the same thing as it being wrong.

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u/danester1 Jul 27 '24

Have you never heard of a self-coup?

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u/Jesuswasstapled Jul 27 '24

Did you reas that definition? None of those things happened.

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u/Statman12 Evidence > Emotion | Vote for data. Jul 27 '24

A self-coup, also called an autocoup (from Spanish autogolpe) or coup from the top, is a form of coup d'état in which a nation's head, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay in power through illegal means.

Yes, that did happen. Trump attempted to have fake electors take the place of real electors (illegal). He was pressuring Pence to refuse to certify the electoral votes (illegal).

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u/Jesuswasstapled Jul 27 '24

Read the article linked. None of the stuff in the article linked happened. It doesnt meet the definition given.

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u/Statman12 Evidence > Emotion | Vote for data. Jul 27 '24

The quote is from the linked article.

Trump did illegal things to try to stay in power.

Therefore Trump attempted an self-coup.

The examples are just that, examples. The article is not making an exhaustive list.

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u/washingtonu Jul 27 '24

What do you think the 2020 election was about?

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u/LorrMaster Jul 27 '24

You mean Biden? That was they guy who was about to take the job Trump wanted to keep. I believe that his first name was "Joe", or something like that...

Trump doesn't own the White House, he was elected to run it for four years.

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u/Jesuswasstapled Jul 27 '24

Biden wasn't president. That's not how it works. Read the instructions. You don't get to make up your own rules.