Amounts to "The guy they were trying to ambush, ambushed them. So totally unfair "
You can’t make this stuff up.
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“Even after the AP published its detailed, comprehensive view of the would-be coup attempt Friday, its participants went ahead with the effort anyway.”
Fascinating.
One rarely sees such pure-grade idiocy outside the ranks of House Republicans these days.
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A direct result of trump-fans getting up to stupid stuff. In this case there were a few more means, but the end was typical. Failure. Hopefully metaphorical for the trump-times.
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If only we had a president who we could trust when he says we knew nothing about it.
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Well, I bet they thought they looked really cool on Coup Day with those cool costumes, music blaring, and twitter feeds blasting. The real world doesn’t work like a Trump cartoon, though, does it?
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The reads like a fourth rate knock off of The Dogs of War. I suspect somewhere in this sewer of incompetence and cupidity one will find the trail of Trump and Jared Kushner trying to manufacture a “win” over Maduro before the election. Promising large payments and then not paying up is certainly Trump’s MO.
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We’ve already seen Trump actively encourage the armed loonies in MI.
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LIke “The Bay of Pigs”. But with even stupider meatheads.
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Bay of Piglets?
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Dunning-Kruger meets Sun Tzu meets ‘The Art of the Deal’?
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WTF? This sounds like a really bad movie starring some Chuck Norris type bozos. Or its straight out of the files of Kushner’s top secret confidential portfolio to take on another foreign power. Jared’s assignment for the tRump Special Project #39 intended to fix shit they don’t like.
These are strange days indeed. ‘Crazy’ doesn’t quite describe how nuts this is.
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Guaidó and Colombian officials knew about the plot; Trump says he didn’t
Trump only likes successful military coups. The unsuccessful ones he doesn’t know, except maybe they got him coffee, once, or something.
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Meddlesome morons comes to mind. It doesn’t take much to encourage these soldiers of fortune these days. Anybody know where Erik Prince is these days?
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I discovered there is actually a rich history of wealthy, private Americans attempting coups of South American countries. Listen to this podcast about William Walker, who in the 1800s attempted several coups to establish a slave-friendly republic in South America (he actually succeeded for a few months in the Baja California peninsula until being kicked out by Mexico): https://twitter.com/edburmila/status/1257836242248634368?s=20
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Piglets are cute, these guys are ugly.
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I don’t think there’s anything in the definition of a coup that says it has be bloodless. Brief, yes and targeted, but violent coups are certainly possible. I think the Russian Revolution counts as a coup and it was definitely not bloodless for the czar and his family.
ETA: I think the French Revolution wouldn’t count as a coup so much since it turned into a general bloodbath of the nobility (and each other), though I don’t know enough of the history of the Russian Revolution to know the extent of the killings committed during the coup as a point of comparison.
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Potemkin tank?
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“As supportive as you want to be as a friend, his head wasn’t in the world of reality,”
Said every non-Trumper friend of a Trumper.
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FFS. The days of the Ugly American are back in force. It was huge in the 1950’s…I guess we really ARE doomed to repeat history.
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