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[quote=Anonymous][/quote]

lol. you haven't read 1984.

so on a scale of one to coup, how screwed are we as a country right now? and how screwed is trump?[/quote]

A 6, in my opinion, once things settle down slightly and this week's news cycles wear off some. I don't think a coup will actually ever occur. Kind of a sidebar but here is a really fascinating and ringing-true article from awhile back. Very long read but so worth it:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/what-america-can-learn-from-hungarys-backsliding-democracy/251701/

Basic premise -- we're not going to start seeing uniformed men marching down Main Street, but we will see a continually increasing amount of corruption - and increasingly accepted amount of corruption - which will divide people into those loyal to and funded by the Administration, and those who aren't loyal but can't do jack because they are not in the corrupt financial graces of the Admin. We are already absolutely seeing what this writer describes.[/quote]

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