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We're in a permanent coup
Taibbi Substack ^ | 10/11/19 | Matt Taibbi

Posted on 10/11/2019 8:24:13 PM PDT by OddLane

I’ve lived through a few coups. They’re insane, random, and terrifying, like watching sports, except your political future depends on the score.

The kickoff begins when a key official decides to buck the executive. From that moment, government becomes a high-speed head-counting exercise. Who’s got the power plant, the airport, the police in the capital? How many department chiefs are answering their phones? Who’s writing tonight’s newscast?

When the KGB in 1991 tried to reassume control of the crumbling Soviet Union by placing Mikhail Gorbachev under arrest and attempting to seize Moscow, logistics ruled. Boris Yeltsin’s crew drove to the Russian White House in ordinary cars, beating KGB coup plotters who were trying to reach the seat of Russian government in armored vehicles. A key moment came when one of Yeltsin’s men, Alexander Rutskoi – who two years later would himself lead a coup against Yeltsin – prevailed upon a Major in a tank unit to defy KGB orders and turn on the “criminals.”

We have long been spared this madness in America. Our head-counting ceremony was Election Day. We did it once every four years...

(Excerpt) Read more at taibbi.substack.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: cia; coup; cwii; cwiiping; deepstate; democrats; dncstrategy; schiffyism; trump; trumpukraine; witchhunt
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To: OddLane

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21 posted on 10/11/2019 9:08:45 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: OddLane

I didn’t know lefties like this existed anymore. His view of Trump is completely distorted but the article was otherwise brilliant.


22 posted on 10/11/2019 9:10:01 PM PDT by McCarthysGhost
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To: LeoWindhorse

AG Barr needs to start rousting some of these plotters out of bed at 04:30, ala Mueller. They locked Manafort in solitary for how long? Turnabout is fair play.


23 posted on 10/11/2019 9:13:33 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: OddLane

Chillax Matt. Trump will never accept the idea of a permanent coup. Not gonna happen.


24 posted on 10/11/2019 9:13:48 PM PDT by stanne
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To: OddLane

Truly, there is only a military solution to the tyrannical evil of the Left and the Deep State.


25 posted on 10/11/2019 9:14:20 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (It's the corruption, stupid)
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To: OddLane

Bump


26 posted on 10/11/2019 9:17:50 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: OddLane

This is a fantastic article. The last paragraph really hits home.

This is pretty scary really. Unreal.

I guess this is what happens when you stop try to stop the corruption. I used to argue gov’t and the mafia play by the same rules. I guess this proves it.


27 posted on 10/11/2019 9:20:08 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: JohnnyP

100% agree

Send me


28 posted on 10/11/2019 9:21:47 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Yardstick

A real shocker here. My previous opinion of Matt Taibbi was that he was a low-life socialist posing as a reporter.

I now have to give him some grudging respect. And I anticipate DJT will ultimately have to resort to what might be termed extra-constitutional means to quell the rebellion.

Trump is our Caesar. Goodbye American republic, hello American empire. But only because the commieRATs forced the issue.


29 posted on 10/11/2019 9:22:48 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: JohnnyP

Shock-and-awe are wonderful sphincter-tighteners. Some mass firings would also help. But until some patriots menacingly invade the personal spaces of some congressional Democrats and, just as importantly, mainstream media moguls, nothing will really change.


30 posted on 10/11/2019 9:34:54 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: stanne

“Trump will never accept the idea of a permanent coup. Not gonna happen”.

That’s right... we’re going to see a showdown and it will be ugly.


31 posted on 10/11/2019 9:47:12 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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This is what i would call a crack in the hard core left. Trying to come to grips with accepting a "rogue" president or a rogue CIA.

He is still on the fence which side is worse. At least he realizes there is a crime is taking place by the CIA.

32 posted on 10/11/2019 9:49:20 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: OddLane; Liz; SunkenCiv; a little elbow grease; bitt
...new foray into domestic politics by intelligence agencies that in recent decades began asserting all sorts of frightening new authority.We found out in a court case just last week how extensive the illegal domestic surveillance has been, with the FBI engaging in tens of thousands of warrantless searches involving American emails and phone numbers under the guise of combating foreign subversion.

How bad is it? Worse than any of us thought... But it appears the tide is turning.

Nothing destroys this kind of crap like sunshine... and the sun is falling like honey over corrupt intelligence bureaucracies...

33 posted on 10/11/2019 9:58:54 PM PDT by GOPJ (Change the name from "Deep State" to 'Corrupt Mindless Bureaucracies'.... it's more accurate.)
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To: laplata

...showdown and it will be ugly.”

Yep

Ugly and beautiful


34 posted on 10/11/2019 10:00:00 PM PDT by stanne
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To: OddLane

There are countries all over the world involved in the CAI crap... wasn’t there a ‘secret CIA prison’ in Germany that was outed a few years back? I suspect intelligence thugs were working with foreigners AND against the United States for some time.

We can assume Obama was afraid of them - and that he let them get away with crap OR that he was in with them... If I had to guess I would say... they thought they were playing Obama but there’s a good chance he was playing them.


35 posted on 10/11/2019 10:07:33 PM PDT by GOPJ (Change the name from "Deep State" to 'Corrupt Mindless Bureaucracies'.... it's more accurate.)
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To: GOPJ

I’m thinking the red states and counties need a time out. Just go home for about 10 days, the truckers, railroad engineers, the people who keep the water flowing and the electricity going. Just go home and take a time out.

Then we can all come back and hopefully some of us will have a better perspective on our reality.


36 posted on 10/11/2019 10:09:20 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: stanne

“Ugly and beautiful”

Yes!! And welcomed. It will draw the lines and our side will be stronger than ever while many people wake up and join us.


37 posted on 10/11/2019 10:09:24 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

he half gets it.


38 posted on 10/11/2019 10:13:27 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Billthedrill
Trump, at least insofar as we know, has not used section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor political rivals. He hasn’t deployed human counterintelligence “informants” to follow the likes of Hunter Biden. He hasn’t maneuvered to secure Special Counsel probes of Democrats.

Do you get the feeling he's implying that Obama did DO all of the above?

39 posted on 10/11/2019 10:14:44 PM PDT by GOPJ (Change the name from "Deep State" to 'Corrupt Mindless Bureaucracies'.... it's more accurate.)
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To: Chickensoup

ping


40 posted on 10/11/2019 10:19:05 PM PDT by GOPJ (Change the name from "Deep State" to 'Corrupt Mindless Bureaucracies'.... it's more accurate.)
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