J.D. Vance has joined the chorus of conservatives who have begun claiming that President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race constitutes a so-called “coup” in the Democratic Party.

In an interview filmed on Saturday with Fox News’s Jesse Watters, a clip of which aired on Fox & Friends Monday morning, Watters asked former President Donald Trump and his newly minted running mate, Vance, the new question plaguing Republicans: “Is it a coup against Joe Biden?” Both of them fumbled their answers.

“Uh, sort of,” Trump said unsure, looking over to Vance for explanation.

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    It’s so disheartening that people this dumb have made it this far.

    • Diplomjodler
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      The dumb people like them. And there’s lots of dumb people. And they’re being kept dumb on purpose.

    • @[email protected]
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      He wrote a book about why it’s ok to hate rural poor people. White suburbanites eat that shit up every time.

    • @juice702
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      You saw how big “Hawk Tuah” girl got. Dumb people elevate dumb shit. Thankfully she seems to be pretty level headed. But at that moment I knew us Americans like really, really dumb shit and will put those kinds on a pedestal.

      • @stoly
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        Yeah but didn’t she get fired over that video?

        • @atx_aquarian
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          Sounds like no, she wasn’t.

          https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/07/05/hawk-tuan-girl-hailey-welch-interview/74311380007/

          Haliey Welch used to wake up at 3:30 a.m. every morning to go to work at a spring factory in Belfast, Tennessee.

          Now, Welch is sleeping in.

          She may be small town, but she’s savvy. Welch is taking what started as embarrassment and is turning it into a career. She’s assembled a team consisting of an attorney, a management company and a PR firm. That team is entertaining appearances with price tags north of $25,000 each, according to her manager, Jonnie Forster, owner of Los Angeles-based management firm The Penthouse.

          “Right now, she can make more money holding up a can for five minutes than she made all last year,” Forster said.

          Once she saw the merchandise being made and sold online by other people, she thought, “If everyone else is making money off of it, I might as well, too.”

          She quit her job at the spring factory on June 27.

    • @StaySquared
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      Well… people were dumb enough to believe that Biden was A.O.K. for the past 3+ years… guess we can agree we have a whole lot of dumb people.

      • @[email protected]
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        dude give it up. no one ever simped for biden to the level that troompa loompas line up to polish trump’s colon with their tongues.

        it’s just that, given the choice, normal people will vote for a walking corpse over trump. who’s also a walking corpse. that shits itself

        • @StaySquared
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          Well I can agree, not simped for Biden, but sure as hell made up a lot of excuses for his mental decline.

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            oh, should we compare “excuses” each side made for their candidates’ shortcomings? LOL

            edit: speaking of unbelievable paralyzing dumbness, read the title of the post again…fucking moron GOP doesn’t even know what “coup” actually means

            • @CharlesDarwin
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              This, from the same bunch that gaslit about the J6 insurrection (and continues to gaslight about it), and the actual related coup attempt.

          • LeadersAtWork
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            Mental Decline according to people like this:

            Enacting popular laws and policies that have helped support millions of families and individuals. Brought us back from Covid after some other asshole screwed the pooch. Literally used loopholes to provide aid to countless students and continues to attempt to rock that particular boat constantly. Kept us out of a worse economical recession. Gave us some fantastic memes.

            Actual Mental Decline:

            Well I can agree, not simped for Biden, but sure as hell made up a lot of excuses for his mental decline.

      • @CharlesDarwin
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        Possibly the best admin we’ve had in a while. Biden seems to have done well enough, all considered.

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s a coup for the VP to take over for the President?

    Would it be a coup if Biden died today and she became president? That’s literally how it’s supposed to happen according to the constitution.

    Stupid fucking republicans.

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      If I say the word coup enough, it starts to lose any meaning.

      — Republicans

      • partial_accumen
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        “I’m really hungry today. I think I’ll get a coup d’etat burger and fries, please”

        “would you like that with or without felony conviction sauce?”

        • @Chocrates
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          We should ai a real looking burger restaurant menu like that and see how long the chuds rage about it

      • @Serinus
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        That’s exactly it. They want it normalized and watered down. It’s the same projection they use constantly.

    • EleventhHour
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      No, no, it’s supposed to happen by violent insurrection during the certification of the election and by violently hanging the vice president in front of the Capitol building!

      /s, obviously

    • @Guy_Fieris_Hair
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      He’s not saying it to rally up his base, he’s saying it so when the DNC appoints her at the convention the democratic voters get all pissed off because they never cast a vote with her at the top of the ticket. Hopefully, the democrats aren’t as dumb as his party and don’t fall for it. His motivations are not because it’s a coup against them, he’s pretending it’s a coup for the democratic nomination so we get all mad at each other.

    • @SuckMyWang
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      They’re going to run with this the whole way through and if they lose they’ll keep saying this until trump fucks off. It will be the new stop the steal. Pathetic

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    They’re trying to launder out the word ‘coup’ so it can’t be used to describe their insurrection.

    In a similar fashion, ‘literally’ now means its exact opposite, according to dictionaries like the one that broke English.

  • @thrawn
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    Everyone knows a coup is when a candidate steps down and endorses their VP. Biden is still POTUS, with the immense powers of a President, but he has of course been overthrown.

    • @ilinamorato
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      I mean, according to SCOTUS last month,* he could send the Marines into the EEOB to put down any “coup” without any legal ramifications, so I feel like he’s not really being mistreated.

      *THIS MONTH. It was THIS MONTH. The writers for this season really need to slow down.

      • Ech
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        We’re 4+ years into the 2020s and it’s been absolutely insane all the way through. I dread the second half of this decade.

        • @ilinamorato
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          I remember thinking in 2015, “This has been a bit of an odd year, can’t wait for Trump nonsense to die down so we can get back to normal.”

          That feels like it was simultaneously last week and also ancient history.

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    Biden running against Trump and winning legitimately in 2020 they called a coup too, and they said Jan 6th wasn’t one. At some point they just show they don’t understand the meaning of the word.

    • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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      No the point is to use the word so often that it loses its meaning and then anyone who uses it will be instantly written off.

  • @[email protected]
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    Deal with it, bitches. The fact that every right winger is repeating the coup talking point tells you everything you need to know. They are in absolute panic mode.

  • @GoofSchmoofer
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    We are going to see lots of this type of bullshit.

    It’s the GOP and related “news” outlets that are throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks.

  • @ccunning
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    “Uh, sort of,” Trump said unsure, looking over to Vance suddenly fearing for his life…

  • @[email protected]
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    They know it’s not a coup, they are diluting the meaning of the word. Since they likely plan to use another coup attempt if they lose.

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      Well, at least THIS time we can call in some fucking muscle to put that shit right down. I hope to god they lose and try something dumb and this time we are ready for them - even arrest/disrupt them prior, ideally. Get more of them in the prison industrial complex and keep them out of politics.

      I also hope they lose so that the J6 insurrectionists don’t get pardoned by that asshat donnie.

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        Is it bad of me for kinda wanting to see the military drop napalm on them if they try that shit again. Like as someone who knows about Blai Mountain I know its a bad thing, but also fuckem the welps would support far worse that a bit of napalm and ad hoc skin liquefaction.

  • @MeekerThanBeaker
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    I wonder if tRump chose Vance because it kinda sounds like Pence. Easier to remember.

    Or maybe he doesn’t want a VP candidate with a name that has more letters than he has.

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      Didn’t he refer to him as JD Wentworth?

      Edit: fake news. Sad that it was believable.

    • partial_accumen
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      I wonder if tRump chose Vance because it kinda sounds like Pence. Easier to remember.

      I was joking just a few days ago that all those folks still flying “Trump - Pence” signs from 2020 or the really faded ones from 2016 just need to change the “PE” to “VA” and they’re good for another 4 years of sun bleaching.

    • @[email protected]
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      I think he chose both of them because their names have 5 letters and the simple symmetry of them matching his name in length is soothing for a moron like Trump.

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      Vance is not even 40 I think so he won’t be in line of succession of Trump is incapacitated. Such a strange pick

      Edit: it is 35 to be eligible for president not 45, so ignore the above

  • @[email protected]
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    They’re talking about invoking the 25th amendment… Like they want Kamala to be president sooner?

    Never mind the faulty logic of “if you don’t want to run for president again, you can’t run the country now”

    • @SparrowRanjitScaur
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      They don’t have anything they can use against her right now. They want to get her in office for a few months so they can attack every single choice she makes.

    • quicklime
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      They think her odds against Trump are possibly even worse than Biden’s were. But they’re mistaken

      • @BoxOfFeet
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        If Biden died, and the Dems still ran him, I’d vote for his corpse because he’s not Trump. If Harris ends up the nominee, I’ll vote for her for the same reason. But I’m not excited about it.

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  • @michaelmrose
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    Biden’s decision to step down isn’t in any way an acknowledgement that he is unfit to serve it is more so a decision right or wrong that he would lose whether it be for his poor performance at the debate, gaffes, or age. With the Democrats pushing in the same direction this could have become a self fulfilling prophesy.

    There is no reason to believe he can’t both stay in office AND step down in favor of Harris. It has always been acknowledged that parties have a broad latitude to select their candidate and ultimately the people will decide.

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    GOP: “Biden isn’t fit to serve, he should get out”

    Biden: Gets out, and tags the presidential backup everyone elected in the last general

    GOP: “CoUp!”

  • @Nuke_the_whales
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    I thought that Trump would be happy and gloating. But he’s mad about it, which is a great sign

    • @SPRUNT
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      He’s mad because he knows how to run against Biden. With Kamala, all his attention is going to be focused on not calling her a “n****r whore” out loud.

      Personally, I don’t think he can hold it in until the election.