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 …
ETA: The guy who was elected was stupid and vain for most of his life. Now, he’s stupid, and vain, with a mind that’s failing to dementia. That’s to say that if he wasn’t easily manipulated by playing to his vanity before, he’s not the one in charge now.
An unelected billionaire without Congressional authority is physically going to government agencies and shutting them down, stealing their data, and threatening the staff. If that’s not a coup, it’s something new that we haven’t invented a word for yet. Coup will have to do for now.
I am not sure you know what a coup is. This guy was elected.
President Leon was not elected.
ETA: The guy who was elected was stupid and vain for most of his life. Now, he’s stupid, and vain, with a mind that’s failing to dementia. That’s to say that if he wasn’t easily manipulated by playing to his vanity before, he’s not the one in charge now.
An unelected billionaire without Congressional authority is physically going to government agencies and shutting them down, stealing their data, and threatening the staff. If that’s not a coup, it’s something new that we haven’t invented a word for yet. Coup will have to do for now.
So was Hitler, Chavez, Erdogan among others. This take is so blind to history it’s absurd. Facists are often elected democratically.
And they do stage coups. Hitler did, Marcos did in the Philippines, Fujimori in Peru, as well as Chavez and Erdoğan.
Okay, he’s a fascist shitbag, no argument there, but its not a coup by definition. This isnt sudden and its not by a small group of people.