[drawkward]

If every single news site went down, I would expect Trump to declare himself winner and put into motion a coup.

[pizzafeelsright]

Follow that train of thought out of the station. With either candidate or entity.

And then...

Directs the military to strike on [target] and the military says "Not my Commander" and no strike is carried out.

There is no Coup unless the powers are transferred.

It cannot happen.

[ceejayoz]

> the military says "Not my Commander"

The President remains Commander in Chief for several months, from November until late January.

(And now enjoys absolute immunity for official acts performed under that hat.)

In such a case, it'd be a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

[drawkward]

Trump tried it already. I couldn't envision Harris even attempting it.

Not all coups are military.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_coup

[readthenotes1]

Harris doesn't need to "attempt it", she somehow became the Democratic choice without a single vote for her, replacing the man who said it'd be ridiculous after all the millions of votes he got

[freeone3000]

A candidacy is not an elected position.

[drawkward]

Did the delegates not vote at the Democratic convention?

[readthenotes1]

That's like saying the Chinese had a vote

[drawkward]

Like it or not (I don't!), primaries are internal functions of membership organizations. The law has found this again and again. In these contests, it is the party delegates who are given the right to choose the party nominee.

[ceejayoz]

I mean, that happened without sites going down.

[drawkward]

Correct.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_coup