On: Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act

[Nursie]

> Coups involve people with guns

So you've never heard the term "Bloodless Coup" ?

[rayiner → Nursie]

That’s when the people with the guns don’t have to actually shoot anyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Bangladesh_coup_d%27%C3%A...

Petitioning the existing organs of government, even with a shoddy legal theory, isn’t a coup, bloodless or otherwise.

[Nursie → rayiner]

Petitioning them loudly, by disruptive behaviour, to use extraordinary or theoretical powers to attempt to overturn democracy, kinda starts to look that way though. Much like the (pathetic, but still present) coup attempt in the US last year.