A Coup Is Under way


"And none of Trump's actions since January 20th have surprised me. He is the most "honest" President we've had in our lifetime. He has announced over and over what he was going to do should the American people let him back into the White House. He is transparency on steroids."

Michael Moore
Filmmaker

There were two kinds of people that put Trump back in power:

1. Those who said, "I can't wait for him to shut down the FBI, CIA, exit NATO, exit WHO, defund the UN, the Deep State, the Dept. of Education, ban transgender people from power, make Christianity the national religion, get rid of all black & brown immigrate people at all costs, prohibit all Muslims from entering the country, dump DEI, go after the liberal elite, abolish liberal medias, abolish public schools, etc., etc., etc., etc."

2. Those apologists who proclaimed loudly, "Everybody just calm down, he's just blowing smoke out of his ass. It's all rhetoric. There's nothing to worry about."

In a recent article, historian Timothy Snyder said, "of course it's a coup and here's why." Here are some quotes from that article:

"The ongoing actions by Musk and his followers are a coup because the individuals seizing power have no right to it. Elon Musk was elected to no office and there is no office that would give him the authority to do what he is doing. It is all illegal. It is also a coup in its intended effects: to undo democratic practice and violate human rights."

"In gaining the ability to stop payments by the Department of the Treasury, Musk would also make democracy meaningless. We vote for representatives in Congress, who pass laws that determine how our tax money is spent. If Musk has the power to halt this process at the level of payment, he can make laws meaningless. Which means, in turn, that Congress is meaningless, and our votes are meaningless, as is our citizenship."

"Resistance to the coup is the defense of the human against the digital and the democratic against the oligarchic. If Musk controls these digital systems, Republican elected officials will be just as helpless as Democratic ones. The institutions that they voted to create can also be 'deleted,' as Musk puts it."

"President Trump, for that matter, will also perform at Musk's pleasure. There is not much he can do without the use of the federal government's computers. No one will explain this to Trump or to his supporters, of course. A coup is underway, against Americans as possessors of human rights and dignities, and against Americans as citizens of a democratic republic. Each hour this goes unrecognized makes the success of the coup more likely."




 

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