It has to suck to be them. Particularly one of the 52 D senators that voted to change the rule. We should send them all nice 'thank you' notes, perhaps with a pacifier.
Durwut? It was pitifully, painfully obvious that the nanosecond that Dems complained "but but but you need 60 votes!" under a GOP White House and Senate, that the filibuster would be repealed.
Just as the Soviet and East German clandestine work was not an undisputed fact until the wall came down. For god's sake Putin worked as KGB agent in East Germany (Dresden to be precise), and we have a pretty clear idea how much he spends on disinformation.
Again with the hand waiving. It's the United States that has been busted for trying to spy on everyone in the world, not Russia. You're still in chem trail territory here, sorry.
To put this in the same league as chem trail brain-fuckery is beyond naive.
That's exactly where you are until proven otherwise. You have evidence that Russia has been busy tapping under sea cables, wiring taps directly into the communication centers of telecom giants like AT&T, and spying on the personal cell phones of it's closest allies the way the U.S. has with AT&T and Merkel - put up or STFU.
And to the extend that Russia ain't that bad, it is mostly that their reach is far shorter, and they can't afford the intelligence and blah blah blah blah
Who's had a world wide kidnapping & torture program - Russia or the United States.
Who's beaten 100 people to death under said program (that we know of) - Russia or the United States.
Who's allowing boy fucking on their military bases - Russia or the United States. Your tax dollars make you complicit in fucking teen and preteen boys in the ass. Over and over again, right now. Can you say the same of Russian taxpayers?
Who's overthrown two democracies since he took office - Obama or Putin?
I could go on all day, American Exceptionalist. You're firing stones from a glass house surrounding a mountain, at a molehill.
but go and talk to some Chechens
You first. But do explain why Russia is horrible for bombing opposing Muslims on Russia's doorstep in one country, while the U.S. is a saint for bombing Muslims on the other side of the planet from them in almost a dozen countries. Muslims who had zero chance of being a threat to your American Exceptionalist ass.
There is nothing exceptional about the US. It's neither exceptionally good nor bad.
Exceptional bullshit. The U.S. is the greatest terrorist state, and the greatest instigator of instability and violence than the rest of the world combined. You might want to clean the entrails of an entire extended family wiped out by a single Obama drone strike of a wedding before you dare shake it in someone else's direction, boy-fucker.
Tell me something, of all this safety that you think needs to go into the energy sector who is it that is supposed to enforce it? Government you say?
Uh, yeah. Who were you thinking - the Easter Bunny?
Every nuclear power accident happened at a power plant that was government inspected and licensed. Every oil spill was from a drill, ship, pipe, train, or refinery that was inspected and licensed by a government.
Hmm, sounds like Randian Dumbfuckery. Blame the results of monied interests buying off government officials - on the institution of government, rather than on the institution of capitalism.
Baseline bullshit. Nuclear and coal power are already transported many hundreds of miles across the grid from the point of generation - guess what you do with wind and solar? Build out your generating capacity across the grid. The chances of a region remaining sunless and windless over more than 24 hours is zero. And it will still be cheaper than nuclear power, which costs billions of dollars and a decade or more to deploy.
No vaporware, no buzzwords. The energy density of reactors versus renewables are orders of magnitude higher.
Which is irrelevant when they are far more risky, far more expensive, and take far longer to build. Why you guys bother arguing that we should spend 15 years building a nuclear power plant at the cost of $15 (plus) billion dollars is beyond me, when wind and solar are far faster and far cheaper to roll out.
The modern designs are not more risk than coal, gas or oil plants
Nonsense. Any form of nuclear based power is going to have more security and containment issues than any other power source, including coal. You can waive your hands and insist that your favorite buzzword means there will never be another Fukishima or Chernobyl - fine, but they will still be more expensive to refine, secure and contain.
Decommissioning anything is expensive when all the costs are taken into account. How many millions of tonnes of coal tailings
Back to the tired, trite false dichotomy of coal. Again. And yes, coal tailings are a risk to anyone downstream - but it's not a risk to an entire region the way a nuclear meltdown is, in any direction.
Depleted fuel rods are less radioactive than yellowcake. And yet people work in yellowcake mines, and build houses atop rutile deposits where their background radiation is higher than the spent fuel rods
Yes, and they get cancer at higher rates and die at higher rates. WYP?
Seriously? Learn about what you're afraid of
Fear as nothing do with it. It's about cost - and nuclear is completely and utterly indefensible on the cost issue alone.
Doesn't matter if solar and wind are cheaper than nuclear if solar and wind can't do the job of powering our civilization without coal/natural gas/oil or nuclear.
Except they can. They are already cost-competitive with coal (if not already cheaper). Nuclear is a complete farce, as it is the most expensive and worthless form of corporate welfare invented by man, save warmonger contractors.
So choose. Either we choose to proceed with Global Climate change and on our death beds feel good about having "tried" to prevent it with solar and wind power... or we actually engineer a way to avoid the worst of climate change by expanding nuclear power capacity and investing as a society in new more efficient and better nuclear power designs.
Nuclear is far more expensive, more risky, and takes far longer to deploy. End of argument.
The only fantasy is that nuclear power is a cost effective option. Even if all your vaporware ideas become reality, it's still going to be more expensive than wind, solar or geothermal. Which are cost-competitive with (if not already cheaper than) coal. And that's giving coal the free pass of externalizing all its costs.
As the curator of their own store, Apple is liable for misuse of Microsoft's trademarks within that store.
Only if Microsoft complains (via court order) and Apple does nothing. So how many times has Microsoft complained, and how many times has Apple ignored them?
But it's simply not. Tout all the vaporware you can buzzword - breeder reactors, thorium reactors, etc etc - it's still going to be more expensive than wind and solar. Build nukes as safe as you want, they're still going to be more of a risk, and still be more expensive to decomission.
State's servers were also unsecured and unencrypted, plus they were continually hacked.
Excuse #23,563:
1) Can you name a time the email server for an Original Classification Authority has been hacked? SoS is right up there with the director of the CIA and the director of the FBI in terms of security and classified information.
2) It's a joke after all the whining that Russia is behind the hacks of the DNC and Podesta's emails. The FSK managed to hack both within a matter of weeks, yet they left Hillary's unsecured server alone, for years, because her server was secure, because reasons.
Once Republicans found out about her private email they would have turned that into a scandal regardless.
Back to square one - why hand them a scandal. And why hand them a scandal they could legitimately send you to prison for. Why do yourself what you lambasted Bush for doing, just two years previously...unless you're a trainwreck of political incompetence and corruption.
"Our Constitution is being shredded. We know about the secret wiretaps, the secret military tribunals, the secret White House email accounts,â Clinton said. "It's a stunning record of secrecy and corruption, of cronyism run amok. It is everything our founders were afraid of, everything our Constitution was designed to prevent."
A brazen fool.
That's not how the federal government sees it.
Tell that to the sailor who recently reported to prison, for taking pics on his unsecured, unauthorized cell phone. Hillary didn't get off because she didn't do anything wrong, she got off because she is Hillary Clinton.
and some phone call talking points which were temporarily classified, but were not well marked.
Bogus excuse #30,895. And in this case, the sophistry behind the falsehood is much worse than the lie that she didn't send anything that was marked classified. Because this information was born classified. Think about it for two seconds: if the U.S. ambassador to India sends an email to the SoS about India's nuclear weapons program and the state of hostilities with Pakistan, is that information not classified until it is so marked? Of course not, because it's inherently classified, as Hillary knew full as one of the top security officials in the government, who had special training on how to handle this information. Exposing it on an unsecured server was not part of said training.
There's no evidence of any intentional wrongdoing, or substantive breech.
More sophistry. Intent is irrelevant. An actual breech is irrelevant. What matters is mishandling classified information, which Hillary indisputably did with her unauthorized, unsecured email server. Why anyone bothers to claim otherwise at this point is beyond me, after Mr. Saucier has served his first month in prison. When the very same DOJ that said Hillary 'did nothing wrong' gave him hard time, for far less exposure of classified evidence, where the same DOJ admits he had no intent to distribute.
The Russian having been pushed hard in the Ukraine retaliated by meddling in the US election by exploiting existing social fractures and feelings of disenfranchisement.
One slight difference - that's not an undisputed fact, like the U.S. spending years and billions of your taxpayer dollars to undermine another democracy. That's a conspiracy theory on the level of chem trails, Obama's birth certificates, and the CIA planting timed explosives on the WTC as there is not one shred of evidence only assertions from the same sort of people that lied to you about Saddam's WMD's and ties to Al Queda. But if there's one thing about American Exceptionalists, there's nothing more they love than to get fooled and fooled again by the MIC.
And even if you were right, that was more than made up for by the entire U.S. media establishment shitting on Trump 25/8 (yes, it was that often, with even Fox getting in on it). It does nothing to change the fact that you and your tax dollars are in the business of outright overthrowing democracies, when manipulating elections isn't enough.
you, who are blind on one eye and refuse to see the whole picture
What picture. The one where the U.S. has overthrown two democracies just in Obama's term in office? Who had a worldwide torture and kidnapping program - Putin or Bush? Is Bush blowing up kids in Costa Rica with robot planes for bullshit reasons the way Obama is in Afghanistan? Has Putin been trying to spy on the electronic communications of every single person on the planet?
Howard Zinn has a nice quote, to the effect that any dictatorship in the world would be envious of the syncophantic media. We can extend that quote to the willfully blind.
Then try the Alienware 15 or 13 if you aren't strong enough to carry a few pounds.
Far be it from me to begrudge someone the occasional sarcastic remark, but that doesn't explain why you tried to bring a wildly different product when the subject is comparable products.
Also the weak performance and not being able to upgrade a single component in the Macbook are pretty big turn offs.
Then don't fucking buy one. Buy whatever it is you want that does what you want. Do you hang around car lots and sneer at anyone who's shopping for a 15 passenger van because it doesn't do what you want - have the gas milage and parkability of a Prius?
For 99% of consumers, the processor in a Macbook Pro will become obsolete far earlier than the 16 gigs of memory. You want more than that? Then buy what you want that does what you want - Zombie Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head.
Correct the Record? Hillary's paid trolls, lead by sleazeball David "a little nutty, a little slutty" Brock? That's like citing Sean Hannity on anything, while he's high off of sniffing Rush Limbaugh's taint and snorting Reagan's ashes through a straw.
Then she shouldn't have taken the damn job if she couldn't stand oversight or the Freedom of Information Act, not set up an unsecured, unauthorized server that would have had Hillary Smith or Hillary Johnson in jail for the rest of their lives and beyond. First for mishandling classified evidence - just ask the sailor doing time for taking selfies on an unsecured, unauthorized cell phone - and then for federal obstruction of justice charges for destroying 30,000 pieces of evidence without authorization.
But she is a brazen, careless fool. There is no other way to describe her email server, her lies about being shot at by snipers in Bosnia, and taking the better part of a million dollars from the same banks that crashed the economy, when she was already part of a.01% family worth over a hundred million dollars, and planned on running for president.
one of the checks and balances the Founding Fathers put into the system to prevent a simple majority from having too much power
More like providing another layer to prevent the unwashed masses from having a say in their government. Same reason voting was originally restricted to property owners and why U.S. Senators were chosen by state legislatures. The Founders were a bunch of elitist jackasses who should have spent ten years doing honest labor, in a camp, before writing anything.
And there it is. It's the uneducated angry white guy who voted the con-artist into office because they were too stupid to think for themselves, not to mention the white supremacists.
It's the same ratfucking of those poor, deluded people who work for a living for not voting for the establishment's desired candidate.
These people swallowed every lie fed to them, hook, line and sinker, because, as is repeatedly mentioned on here, they didn't adapt to the changing work environment.
Trump didn't put people into poorhouses with NAFTA. That was Clinton. The only way to vote their interests was to vote third party.
All of it going into the pockets of a dictator and his cronies hence an economy in far poorer shape than South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya.
Highest GDP, fewer people in poverty than the Netherlands, and the highest life expectation on the continent. Sorry, the facts just keep getting in the way of your storyline.
The "Hillary should have left Libya alone" meme is being propagated in this case - give it a rest
No, seriously, are you drunk? Libya was turned from a prosperous country that had renounced terrorism and nuclear weapons into a third world ISIS hell hole.
Don't forget murdering Vince Foster. That was a huge mistake.
Hand waiving. When you've been the focus of so many bogus investigations from the opposition, why hand them a real one on a silver platter? Hillary was a brazen fool to start a private email server two years after she castigated the Bush Administration for the same, and a bigger fool for continuing to use it after Republicans took the House.
So just like I said originally, to get Mac OS, you have to buy a heavily overpriced computer.
No, it means they don't compete in the $400 POS special or 8 lbs desktop replacements the way Dell does, Hateboi. Do you think that the Prius is an overpriced car and Toyota is a shit company because they don't compete in the dually diesel pickup truck market?
To paraphrase NDT, the great thing about facts is they remain true, whether or not American Exceptionalists believe in them.
It's a fact that the assistant SoS, Victoria Nuland, is on video bragging about spending billions to "bring Ukraine the future it deserves." In front of a big Chevron banner - and then you AE's whine and project about Russia trying to influence the presidential election.
It's a fact that the impeachment vote didn't have the number of votes required to remove Yanukovych from office under their constitution. A vote that was pushed through despite Yanukovych agreeing to early elections. Which also means that it was a coup of cowards, if they didn't believe they could beat him at the ballot box.
Neat thing is that you can throw this inconvenient fact in the face of Western Exceptionalists, no matter if your hack lapel pin has an elephant or a donkey on it. The two parties have traded control of Congress and the White House, so each of the last five presidents have ended their terms in office with the opposite party in charge of the House and the Senate. Now imagine that it's May 2016 (or May 2008, 2000, 1992, 1988) and the party in Congress doesn't think it can win that year's presidential election. So they impeach the president with a majority vote, but fall short of the 67 required by the Constitution to remove Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama from office. The opposition DGAF, and have armed mobs of supporters attack government buildings and force R/B/C/B/O to flee or risk getting the Gaddafitreatment. Now, also imagine that Russia immediately recognizes that the junta as the legitimate government - after they've spent billions supporting the opposition party, in front of banners for Russian energy companies.
Would you call that a coup? Of course you would. So maybe you need to check your narratives, American Exceptionalist.
The funny thing is that to anyone who has seen the Russian pro-government online news
Could be worse...could be the sycophantic U.S. media. Which, as Howard Zinn noted, would be envied by any dictatorship for its reverence to bullshit storylines put forth by the state.
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Durwut? It was pitifully, painfully obvious that the nanosecond that Dems complained "but but but you need 60 votes!" under a GOP White House and Senate, that the filibuster would be repealed.
Again with the hand waiving. It's the United States that has been busted for trying to spy on everyone in the world, not Russia. You're still in chem trail territory here, sorry.
That's exactly where you are until proven otherwise. You have evidence that Russia has been busy tapping under sea cables, wiring taps directly into the communication centers of telecom giants like AT&T, and spying on the personal cell phones of it's closest allies the way the U.S. has with AT&T and Merkel - put up or STFU.
Who's beaten 100 people to death under said program (that we know of) - Russia or the United States.
Who's allowing boy fucking on their military bases - Russia or the United States. Your tax dollars make you complicit in fucking teen and preteen boys in the ass. Over and over again, right now. Can you say the same of Russian taxpayers?
Who's overthrown two democracies since he took office - Obama or Putin?
I could go on all day, American Exceptionalist. You're firing stones from a glass house surrounding a mountain, at a molehill.
You first. But do explain why Russia is horrible for bombing opposing Muslims on Russia's doorstep in one country, while the U.S. is a saint for bombing Muslims on the other side of the planet from them in almost a dozen countries. Muslims who had zero chance of being a threat to your American Exceptionalist ass.
Exceptional bullshit. The U.S. is the greatest terrorist state, and the greatest instigator of instability and violence than the rest of the world combined. You might want to clean the entrails of an entire extended family wiped out by a single Obama drone strike of a wedding before you dare shake it in someone else's direction, boy-fucker.
Uh, yeah. Who were you thinking - the Easter Bunny?
Hmm, sounds like Randian Dumbfuckery. Blame the results of monied interests buying off government officials - on the institution of government, rather than on the institution of capitalism.
Baseline bullshit. Nuclear and coal power are already transported many hundreds of miles across the grid from the point of generation - guess what you do with wind and solar? Build out your generating capacity across the grid. The chances of a region remaining sunless and windless over more than 24 hours is zero. And it will still be cheaper than nuclear power, which costs billions of dollars and a decade or more to deploy.
Which is irrelevant when they are far more risky, far more expensive, and take far longer to build. Why you guys bother arguing that we should spend 15 years building a nuclear power plant at the cost of $15 (plus) billion dollars is beyond me, when wind and solar are far faster and far cheaper to roll out.
Nonsense. Any form of nuclear based power is going to have more security and containment issues than any other power source, including coal. You can waive your hands and insist that your favorite buzzword means there will never be another Fukishima or Chernobyl - fine, but they will still be more expensive to refine, secure and contain.
Back to the tired, trite false dichotomy of coal. Again. And yes, coal tailings are a risk to anyone downstream - but it's not a risk to an entire region the way a nuclear meltdown is, in any direction.
Yes, and they get cancer at higher rates and die at higher rates. WYP?
Fear as nothing do with it. It's about cost - and nuclear is completely and utterly indefensible on the cost issue alone.
Except they can. They are already cost-competitive with coal (if not already cheaper). Nuclear is a complete farce, as it is the most expensive and worthless form of corporate welfare invented by man, save warmonger contractors.
Nuclear is far more expensive, more risky, and takes far longer to deploy. End of argument.
The only fantasy is that nuclear power is a cost effective option. Even if all your vaporware ideas become reality, it's still going to be more expensive than wind, solar or geothermal. Which are cost-competitive with (if not already cheaper than) coal. And that's giving coal the free pass of externalizing all its costs.
Only if Microsoft complains (via court order) and Apple does nothing. So how many times has Microsoft complained, and how many times has Apple ignored them?
But it's simply not. Tout all the vaporware you can buzzword - breeder reactors, thorium reactors, etc etc - it's still going to be more expensive than wind and solar. Build nukes as safe as you want, they're still going to be more of a risk, and still be more expensive to decomission.
What about this tired, trite false dichotomy? The choice is not 1) nuclear 2) coal.
Excuse #23,563:
1) Can you name a time the email server for an Original Classification Authority has been hacked? SoS is right up there with the director of the CIA and the director of the FBI in terms of security and classified information.
2) It's a joke after all the whining that Russia is behind the hacks of the DNC and Podesta's emails. The FSK managed to hack both within a matter of weeks, yet they left Hillary's unsecured server alone, for years, because her server was secure, because reasons.
Back to square one - why hand them a scandal. And why hand them a scandal they could legitimately send you to prison for. Why do yourself what you lambasted Bush for doing, just two years previously...unless you're a trainwreck of political incompetence and corruption.
A brazen fool.
Tell that to the sailor who recently reported to prison, for taking pics on his unsecured, unauthorized cell phone. Hillary didn't get off because she didn't do anything wrong, she got off because she is Hillary Clinton.
Bogus excuse #30,895. And in this case, the sophistry behind the falsehood is much worse than the lie that she didn't send anything that was marked classified. Because this information was born classified. Think about it for two seconds: if the U.S. ambassador to India sends an email to the SoS about India's nuclear weapons program and the state of hostilities with Pakistan, is that information not classified until it is so marked? Of course not, because it's inherently classified, as Hillary knew full as one of the top security officials in the government, who had special training on how to handle this information. Exposing it on an unsecured server was not part of said training.
More sophistry. Intent is irrelevant. An actual breech is irrelevant. What matters is mishandling classified information, which Hillary indisputably did with her unauthorized, unsecured email server. Why anyone bothers to claim otherwise at this point is beyond me, after Mr. Saucier has served his first month in prison. When the very same DOJ that said Hillary 'did nothing wrong' gave him hard time, for far less exposure of classified evidence, where the same DOJ admits he had no intent to distribute.
One slight difference - that's not an undisputed fact, like the U.S. spending years and billions of your taxpayer dollars to undermine another democracy. That's a conspiracy theory on the level of chem trails, Obama's birth certificates, and the CIA planting timed explosives on the WTC as there is not one shred of evidence only assertions from the same sort of people that lied to you about Saddam's WMD's and ties to Al Queda. But if there's one thing about American Exceptionalists, there's nothing more they love than to get fooled and fooled again by the MIC.
And even if you were right, that was more than made up for by the entire U.S. media establishment shitting on Trump 25/8 (yes, it was that often, with even Fox getting in on it). It does nothing to change the fact that you and your tax dollars are in the business of outright overthrowing democracies, when manipulating elections isn't enough.
What picture. The one where the U.S. has overthrown two democracies just in Obama's term in office? Who had a worldwide torture and kidnapping program - Putin or Bush? Is Bush blowing up kids in Costa Rica with robot planes for bullshit reasons the way Obama is in Afghanistan? Has Putin been trying to spy on the electronic communications of every single person on the planet?
Howard Zinn has a nice quote, to the effect that any dictatorship in the world would be envious of the syncophantic media. We can extend that quote to the willfully blind.
Far be it from me to begrudge someone the occasional sarcastic remark, but that doesn't explain why you tried to bring a wildly different product when the subject is comparable products.
Then don't fucking buy one. Buy whatever it is you want that does what you want. Do you hang around car lots and sneer at anyone who's shopping for a 15 passenger van because it doesn't do what you want - have the gas milage and parkability of a Prius?
For 99% of consumers, the processor in a Macbook Pro will become obsolete far earlier than the 16 gigs of memory. You want more than that? Then buy what you want that does what you want - Zombie Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head.
Correct the Record? Hillary's paid trolls, lead by sleazeball David "a little nutty, a little slutty" Brock? That's like citing Sean Hannity on anything, while he's high off of sniffing Rush Limbaugh's taint and snorting Reagan's ashes through a straw.
Then she shouldn't have taken the damn job if she couldn't stand oversight or the Freedom of Information Act, not set up an unsecured, unauthorized server that would have had Hillary Smith or Hillary Johnson in jail for the rest of their lives and beyond. First for mishandling classified evidence - just ask the sailor doing time for taking selfies on an unsecured, unauthorized cell phone - and then for federal obstruction of justice charges for destroying 30,000 pieces of evidence without authorization.
But she is a brazen, careless fool. There is no other way to describe her email server, her lies about being shot at by snipers in Bosnia, and taking the better part of a million dollars from the same banks that crashed the economy, when she was already part of a .01% family worth over a hundred million dollars, and planned on running for president.
More like providing another layer to prevent the unwashed masses from having a say in their government. Same reason voting was originally restricted to property owners and why U.S. Senators were chosen by state legislatures. The Founders were a bunch of elitist jackasses who should have spent ten years doing honest labor, in a camp, before writing anything.
Except Trump's empire isn't built on influence peddling, i.e. whoring yourself out to monied interests to fuck over the working class.
It's the same ratfucking of those poor, deluded people who work for a living for not voting for the establishment's desired candidate.
Trump didn't put people into poorhouses with NAFTA. That was Clinton. The only way to vote their interests was to vote third party.
Highest GDP, fewer people in poverty than the Netherlands, and the highest life expectation on the continent. Sorry, the facts just keep getting in the way of your storyline.
No, seriously, are you drunk? Libya was turned from a prosperous country that had renounced terrorism and nuclear weapons into a third world ISIS hell hole.
Hand waiving. When you've been the focus of so many bogus investigations from the opposition, why hand them a real one on a silver platter? Hillary was a brazen fool to start a private email server two years after she castigated the Bush Administration for the same, and a bigger fool for continuing to use it after Republicans took the House.
No, it means they don't compete in the $400 POS special or 8 lbs desktop replacements the way Dell does, Hateboi. Do you think that the Prius is an overpriced car and Toyota is a shit company because they don't compete in the dually diesel pickup truck market?
A desktop replacement that weights as much as two Macbook Pro's put together? So much for comparing comparable products.
In return for uranium? Oh wait, that was Obama and Hillary.
To paraphrase NDT, the great thing about facts is they remain true, whether or not American Exceptionalists believe in them.
It's a fact that the assistant SoS, Victoria Nuland, is on video bragging about spending billions to "bring Ukraine the future it deserves." In front of a big Chevron banner - and then you AE's whine and project about Russia trying to influence the presidential election.
It's a fact that the impeachment vote didn't have the number of votes required to remove Yanukovych from office under their constitution. A vote that was pushed through despite Yanukovych agreeing to early elections. Which also means that it was a coup of cowards, if they didn't believe they could beat him at the ballot box.
Neat thing is that you can throw this inconvenient fact in the face of Western Exceptionalists, no matter if your hack lapel pin has an elephant or a donkey on it. The two parties have traded control of Congress and the White House, so each of the last five presidents have ended their terms in office with the opposite party in charge of the House and the Senate. Now imagine that it's May 2016 (or May 2008, 2000, 1992, 1988) and the party in Congress doesn't think it can win that year's presidential election. So they impeach the president with a majority vote, but fall short of the 67 required by the Constitution to remove Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama from office. The opposition DGAF, and have armed mobs of supporters attack government buildings and force R/B/C/B/O to flee or risk getting the Gaddafi treatment. Now, also imagine that Russia immediately recognizes that the junta as the legitimate government - after they've spent billions supporting the opposition party, in front of banners for Russian energy companies.
Would you call that a coup? Of course you would. So maybe you need to check your narratives, American Exceptionalist.
Could be worse...could be the sycophantic U.S. media. Which, as Howard Zinn noted, would be envied by any dictatorship for its reverence to bullshit storylines put forth by the state.