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Chinese Coup?

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by G8trGr8t, Sep 25, 2022.

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  1. Sep 25, 2022 #21
    Trickster

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    Right on, bubba.
     
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  2. Sep 25, 2022 #22
    oragator1

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    This never had a chance of being true for about a dozen reasons.
     
  3. Sep 25, 2022 #23
    uftaipan

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    A chance? Surely. Likelihood? No.
     
  4. Sep 25, 2022 #24
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    So somebody started a rumor and it turned out to be not true.

    Good to know.
     
  5. Sep 25, 2022 #25
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    The hilarious thing is scrolling further down on that Twitter page it says that an Indian newspaper picked up that story as real news and published it. :p
     
  6. Sep 25, 2022 #26
    oragator1

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    A coup is certainly not impossible, But an actual coup would have almost certainly involved some massive show of force to make clear the change in power and to dissuade defenders coming to his aid, which wasn’t there. Hence why I posted that satirical Twitter link. You don’t simply get a few dudes to go to his house and say “it’s over”. That’s just about never how coups work, especially in a country that size.
     
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  7. Sep 26, 2022 #27
    citygator

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    I was hiking. Did the good guys win? Are there good guys?
     
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  8. Sep 26, 2022 #28
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    No, only less bad guys.
     
  9. Sep 26, 2022 #29
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    Indeed, are their any good guys? I'm beginning to wonder.

    Myself I'm about ready to get on a vessel and head to new horizons.

    Maybe the Webb will find a habitable world.

    No politicians allowed.
     
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  10. Sep 26, 2022 #30
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    “No politicians allowed” not a bad idea. Problem: what about the people who empower them ?
     
  11. Sep 26, 2022 #31
    Trickster

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    You mean the MAGA cult who continue to empower Trump? The “people” last election stripped Trump of his official power.

    There are a number of politicians in both parties for whom I have little respect, but none of them are anywhere near as degenerate as Trump.
     
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  12. Sep 26, 2022 #32
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    Ukraine is going to do it for them.
     
  13. Sep 26, 2022 #33
    G8trGr8t

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    No, you assume command of the regime that protects the executive branch with the backing of the leaders on congress. Then you tell him its over...

    My money..he caught covid while abroad or is taking advantage of isolation requirements for some me time before he crowns himself for a third time while arresting and imprisoning the political opposition and committing documented genocide in the remote provinces
     
  14. Sep 28, 2022 #34
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    Maybe something happening Canada as well. Eyewitnesses said "30 black vehicles" along with Ottawa police and US Marshalls (hmmmm...) at Privy Council building (similar to our west wing). Castro arrested? Only thing I could find online was in a private forum.
     
  15. Sep 28, 2022 #35
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    The odds of the US military ousting Biden are not even close to 1%
     
  16. Sep 28, 2022 #36
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    While the coup is not likely true there are still plenty of interesting things in going on around China.

    A "tower" near Shanghai that is supposedly used for telecommunications on the lower and top floors, while the 35 or so floors in between is used to hold "suspected political agitators" exploded last week and burned almost to the ground. Yet, the government official news reported no deaths or injuries despite video recording leaked to Taiwan that showed people jumping/blown out the windows by explosions and plummeting 30+ floors to their deaths.
     
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  17. Sep 28, 2022 #37
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    Going to need to see that video to believe that.
     
  18. Sep 28, 2022 #38
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    The Onion has had similar experiences
     
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