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NewHendoLib

(61,697 posts)
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 06:34 PM Jan 19

To you, what is the rate of speed of this maga coup?


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Speed of light (relatively speaking)
0 (0%)
Pretty fucking fast
28 (64%)
Slow, like we're all frogs in a pot coming up to a boil
9 (20%)
What coup?
3 (7%)
What Orrex asks every day
3 (7%)
Other
1 (2%)
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To you, what is the rate of speed of this maga coup? (Original Post) NewHendoLib Jan 19 OP
Roughly Putin's speed. carpetbagger Jan 19 #1
Slow AF. We may be saved yet but their utter incompetence. unblock Jan 19 #2

carpetbagger

(5,436 posts)
1. Roughly Putin's speed.
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 07:14 PM
Jan 19

Trump has been president for 5 years now, I'll call that the timeline, since little substantive action was taken during the Biden administration to bolt down small-r republican institutions due to inaction in Congress and DOJ. He's about where Putin was in 2004, farther along in some areas, less in others.



unblock

(56,077 posts)
2. Slow AF. We may be saved yet but their utter incompetence.
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 07:22 PM
Jan 19

We'd be utterly screwed if they actually knew what they were doing.

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