A Coup Is In Progress In America
A Coup Is In Progress In America
A coup is underway in the United States, and we must stop pretending otherwise. The signs are unmistakable and accelerating: in just the past 48 hours, Elon Musk’s DOGE commission has seized …
I hate that I'm typing this...
People need to start buying weapons right now. It's not that I think we're at the "take up arms" phase. It's that I think we should be ready before they keep us from being able to.
With all the shit they're pulling with federal databases, I expect people are going to start being added to NICS (background check database) for political reasons.
When you get a NICS denial, there's no explanation of why it's was denied, but you can't buy a gun.
And it will alert the FBI that you tried.
Lmao no conservative in this country would be for a gun ban. Ever. They might suck the orange balls but they suck their gun muzzles even harder while saying the 2nd amendment out loud. This scenerio would never happen.
That won't happen as long as they make sure you can buy all the guns you'd ever want as long as you stay on the RIGHT side of anything political.
If that happens. Theres going to be a huge influx of gun shows.
Yeah they will absolutely try to deny gun ownership based on political affiliation
From Trump’s POV it’s actually a heist. He’s going to take everything that’s not bolted down.
Its going to take more than a protest march or office meeting with representatives to undo it. May as well face that fact and prepare
Well who gave them the foot in the door? Some decisions are not so easy to walk off huh
The coup happened decades ago. They're now comfortable enough in their power that the mask can come off.
Part of the issue is that elites have already bought into the coup. You don't eviscerate the US government without making sure the rich are on side first.
That's why so many CEOs publicly made gestures of support for trump just before and after the election.
The only way to stop the fascists who already have control of the courts, the government and the rich would be mass mobilization of a significant % of the population, or a military counter-coup.
People voted for the coup. People were warned, they were told it would happen, it was all documented in writing, they had a fucking website with the "we are going to do a coup" plan. People had a beta version 4 years ago. People still voted for the coup. And if you look at the world outside of lemmy, people don't care about the coup.
Business Plot, take 2.
it has been a fairly dry winter around all those golf course communities.
This is an emergency, and it demands emergency response from every American with power or influence. The window for effective resistance narrows with each passing day. History will judge harshly those who had the capacity to resist but chose instead to wait and see how things develop. The time to act is now, before the mechanisms that would allow effective resistance are completely dismantled.
The alarms are being sounded, and not just from this publication. If nobody that has even a shred of power does anything... well fuck.
If nobody that has a shred of power does anything
why would they start now?
What can I do? Shit posting hasn't helped.
What can I do?
Depends on how much you you value you freedom/life, cuz the things that need to be done could put both in jeopardy. Leave your cell phone at home.
Top comment from Mike Brock’s blog (where this diatribe came from):
Right now it feels we have a growing chorus of people raising alarm, but very few people proposing any specific actions that are commensurate with the scale of the crisis? I appreciate your work and I don’t mean this flippantly, but do you have any proposals more specific than “resist” or “do something”?
This comment is my thought exactly. Brock isn’t wrong, but he’s just blowing real hard and hoping the house falls down.
All this blog did was piss me of, but it didn’t point me in a direction.
(But thanks for posting, OP.)
The founding fathers would have you join a mass of people outside the homes of the legislators demanding they take action or suffer consequences.
Because there is still time for people in power to stop being cowed. That is what this is calling for: do something before it is too late to avoid it becoming an illegitimate government, with all that brings.
Is your interpretation that this post is intended for politicians to read and take action? If so what do you think they should do?
Like the commenter above us I'm at a loss. Short of resorting to force, there doesn't seem like an action the average person can take that would accomplish anything. Our politicians don't seem to be acting in proportion to the threat. And even if they were, Republicans have a (slim) majority. Even if you were to say we've reached the point where force is called for, against who?
Supposedly we have mechanisms to counter what's going on. The people in DC need to be pulling those lenders yesterday. Every person in politics should be fighting back.
If you're looking for advice on what citizens should do, that's not who the people sounding the are talking to.
Yeah. The instant this bullshit started happening, last week or ideally earlier, go to a federal judge. Ask for an injunction to allow you to physically put a stop to it, using some specifically named authorized law enforcement or military assets. Have something prepared for why it justifies that level of response, lord knows it wouldn't be hard to come up with.
It might not work. They might not grant the order. All kinds of things could happen if they did. But fucking try. That's the level that is required at this point. You can show up, with a physical piece of paper signed by an authorized judge and with deadly force at the ready, and if one of these tech-bro goons in a suit and a slick haircut bars the door with his 2 security people and tries to say "No that's not how the constitution works anymore, Trump said so," you'll have however-many trained military personnel whose ear will perk back up to some things they heard in their training.
I don't know, man. All kinds of things could go wrong. But if it doesn't work, at least you can say you fucking tried before moving on to something more drastic, or else getting out of the country while the getting is good. Going on TV, or threatening to use your debating even debating-er, is clearly a waste of everyone's time right now.