Meanwhile down in Fakenewsville...

 

Donald's mad plans to overturn the election result rumble on.  Not since Mrs Thatcher used to say "we shall go on and on" have I felt so uncomfortable that a leader will not give up power. 

But, of course, when the Queen told her to vacate Number 10 she did to spend her dotage smelling flowers and losing her memory ...

Trump's anti-media posturing however has now gone full on "lets start a coup" with key Pentagon officials being removed to be replaced with puppets and relentless attacks on the electoral process via the courts, via twitter, via any means neccessary.  A lot of people think this is a strategy.  A strategy to raise money to pay off the campaign debts.  A strategy to frustrate his successor.  A strategy to cement his position within the Republican Party.  A strategy for upcoming votes.  A strategy to build his base for 2024.  It's not a strategy.  It's an attempted coup.  Possibly the worst organised since the plot against Harold Wilson but a coup none-the-less.  The attacks on the media are getting worse and more ludicrous than ever...

...Well, yes, but we laughed at Hitler.  That didn't stop him.  Let's not forget Trump has the military to play with.  With his claims that "elections were not observed properly" and votes have not been counted properly and his exploitation of the good old Big Lie technique ...it's clear he's been reading Putin's handbook on how to fix an election.

People who think Donald having a coup is the stuff of dystopian fiction and not something to be really scared of haven't really learnt from history.  They might think it can't happen because Trump wont carry people with him but ...if he has all the guns he might.  Maybe the Americans aren't so silly with their right to bare arms after all...

Of course you might dismiss this all as conspiracy theory ... but it's no more outlandish than what you can read on the President's own twitter feed.  And when it comes down to it which of us has a nuclear football?  Erm...

The people who could end it all now are the Senate?  So what are they waiting for?  Well, they're the ones who wouldn't impeach him so...