What's going on is the site functioning the way it always does. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662218 and then please stop? You've posted five times calling this a "coup"—that's way overdoing things, and at a minimum we rate limit such accounts. The principle of discussion here should be reflection, not reflexive overreaction.

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It's not a coup attempt yet. It's a coup attempt if Trump tries to exploit it, as by declaring martial law.