“And people were laughing at it, whenever I said he was never going to concede power,” the comedian and political pundit said Friday. “They would say, ‘Oh, you smoke too much pot.’ Well, turned out I was smoking just the right amount of pot.”
Maher went on to argue that these people are actually the ones in a trance.
“If there was a slow-moving coup, let me just describe some of the steps and you tell me if I’m being paranoid,” said Maher. “First, create a masked police force — get people used to looking at that. Normalize snatching people off the street — get them used to that.”
He continued, “Normalize 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’s capital — where elections are decided.”
Maher noted that six states have already sent their own National Guard troops to D.C., which “Trump can then federalize,” and warned this “permanent police presence” controlled by a power-hungry administration forebodes potentially historic turmoil.
“So when an election dispute might come up, just hypothetically …” he said half-jokingly.
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“I’m going to pretend for the rest of the duration that the Democrats do have a chance of winning, and they might win the next election,” Maher said Friday. “I just don’t think they’re ever going to take power, because this is what’s going to happen.
“I think this coup is going to go off a lot smoother than the last one,” he warned.
