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Charles Joseph Scarborough (1 December 2020). "Morning Joe". MSNBC. Retrieved 1 December 2020. Just so people who think this, to call this a coup is hyperbolic, or an attempted coup, you just look at the definition in Wikipedia: it says, "Typically, it's an illegal, unconstitutional attempt to seize power by a political faction". Definition of a coup. Of course, if he's already in power, it'd be an "autocoup".

2021 Bouvet Island coup

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I have not heard about it before and google knows nothing about it... Is it just a joke, a political in-joke perhaps? 80.208.64.101 (talk) 19:44, 23 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Just vandalism. CMD (talk) 01:21, 24 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

I think it happened in this edit UnsungHistory (Questions?) (Did I mess up?) 17:07, 19 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Weird attribution on "self-coup"

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In the "self-coup" section it claims that "autocoup" is "from the Spanish (autogolpe)." Auto- is a typical prefix in English which literally means self-, and comes from Greek (i.e autodidact). I'm not sure if this supposed etymology is correct. Cheef117 (talk) 03:01, 4 March 2026 (UTC)Reply