{"id":1976809,"date":"2025-08-24T02:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1976809"},"modified":"2025-08-24T02:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:09:14","slug":"bill-maher-revives-prediction-of-slow-moving-coup-amid-trumps-dc-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bill-maher-revives-prediction-of-slow-moving-coup-amid-trumps-dc-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Revives Prediction Of \u2018Slow-Moving Coup\u2019 Amid Trump\u2019s DC Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cAnd people were laughing at it, whenever I said he was never going to concede power,\u201d the comedian and political pundit said Friday<\/a>. \u201cThey would say, \u2018Oh, you smoke too much pot.\u2019 Well, turned out I was smoking just the right amount of pot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Maher went on to argue that these people are actually the ones in a trance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIf there was a slow-moving coup, let me just describe some of the steps and you tell me if I\u2019m being paranoid,\u201d said Maher. \u201cFirst, create a masked police force \u2014 get people used to looking at that. Normalize snatching people off the street \u2014 get them used to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He continued, \u201cNormalize seeing the National Guard and the military on the street. Then, start talking about crime in the capital, which is basically, you know, has always been a fairly crime-ridden city, [but] this is our nation\u2019s capital \u2014 where elections are decided.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Maher noted that six states have already sent their own National Guard troops to D.C.<\/a>, which \u201cTrump can then federalize,\u201d and warned this \u201cpermanent police presence\u201d controlled by a power-hungry administration forebodes potentially historic turmoil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cSo when an election dispute might come up, just hypothetically \u2026\u201d he said half-jokingly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m going to pretend for the rest of the duration that the Democrats<\/a> do have a chance of winning, and they might win the next election,\u201d Maher said Friday. \u201cI just don\u2019t think they\u2019re ever going to take power, because this is what\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI think this<\/em> coup is going to go off a lot smoother than the last one,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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