What is a Coup?

7-24-2024

What is a coup?

According to what we see from Hollywood in movies and on television when American CIA operatives work behind the scenes to topple the leader of a foreign country it’s called a coup. In the movies the citizens of a fictitious country are rescued by the miraculous and valiant efforts of the brave men and women like modern day 007’s. How great is that? Isn’t that how legions are made? Believe me America has a lot of those legions in her clandestine closet.

In the 1960s the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was almost a bloodless coup, except for his blood and that of his alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

The ouster of President Richard Nixon was a coup of a different sort, one of intimidation by congressional democrats who threatened Nixon with impeachment.

In our immediate lifetime the attack on President Donald Trump was an attempted political coup that all manner of intimidating tactics were launched in order to get Trump to resign. It didn’t work. Even after leaving office those political attacks continue, to this day only now it’s to prevent him from running for office and to spoil his chances of winning a second term and even after an orchestrated assassination attempt where the secret service detail, wasn’t really secret service after all, because of attrition or mismanagement by extreme upper level managers to the level of the director that caused her rightful resignation more than a week after the July 13^th event.

As fate would have it, the same democrats who attack Trump have attacked President Joe Biden and were successful in preventing him from continuing to run for re-election. They went so far as to force him to resign, not for the good of the nation, but for the good of the Democratic Party. As they have done in congress, DNC policy makers are changing the rules of engagement for selecting the democratic presidential nominee with the sole purpose of beating Trump as they cast aside 50,000 delegate votes which have already been cast for President Biden.

America is on a slippery slope politically speaking. Brow beating a senior citizen into submission used to be called “Elder Abuse”. I have long said that even putting Joe Biden in the position to run for President in 2020 was a form of elder abuse as well.

When he could have left the public spotlight gracefully having achieved the office of the vice presidency, he chose or was pushed from his bid to continue his run for the presidency only to face ridicule and disgrace while dealing with his own twilight light years, he may be broke, in debt and facing financial ruin after leaving office. That would be the ultimate elder abuse – a single use president – used and abused. – RTM