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The Iconoclasts's avatar

Perhaps, with a blitzkrieg of doublespeak, and severe damage to the bureaucracy and jurisprudence, compromising every arm of government including the military he has taken over at least for now.

But the Rebellion has started and will inevitably grow. “May the force be with you”

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Stay Slick's avatar

With *us*!

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The Iconoclasts's avatar

Where are you Stay Slick?

I lived in Manhattan for about 2.5 years, and also in London. I'm guessing you're American??

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Stay Slick's avatar

So, what's next?

Let me tell you how this ends, Slick.

Next piece is out: https://open.substack.com/pub/heyslick/p/the-technate-of-north-america

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g.a.jennings's avatar

It is not a coup but a heist.

“If you understand the thievery that underpins this entire administration, you’ll understand that Trump’s recent executive order aimed at destroying independent regulatory agencies is an essential part of the overall plot. Independent regulatory agencies are things like the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Federal Elections Commission. These institutions were set up by Congress and are made up of commissioners appointed by the president. They are authorized to promote regulations over the industries and business sectors they oversee. They are the parts of the federal government most businesses interact with. They are the only real day-to-day check on unrestrained capitalism in our system of government.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/executive-order-independent-agencies-trump/

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Mark Whitson's avatar

Who writes dumpsTerfire’s Executive Orders?

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g.a.jennings's avatar

Very good question. He does not. Recall the video of OrangeMAN being handed one and he asks, “What’s this one for?” The reply was like, “Exiting the W.H.O.” And the OrangeASS goes “ooooooo!” like a four year old.

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Kenneth Rasmussen's avatar

Again, just wow. A brilliant & incandescent tour de force of trenchant and spot on analysis. But your writings need to be out there & read by many many more people and I think that’s something that you and your followers need to really be figuring out how to make that happen.

I have a major caveat, though, about but how you frame your argument in this piece. You exaggerate to in my view, to too much of an extreme and say there’s no way to avoid the coup, it’s already taken pace. It can be necessary and helpful to exaggerate for effect. But to say you say that we no longer have a democracy? True in one sense, but not in another . If nothing can be done than what’s left besides grabbing a passport and a gun. I say we need to do what we can to slow and stop the continuing the onslaught against democracy, support those who are were waging the struggle, wage our own and honor the remnants of democracy that still exist and plant the seeds of a new democracy to come. Jermiads have their place, but the prophetic tradition (part of TRADITION that truly deserves to be conserved not worshiped as a false god) points beyond rage and despair toward embodied hope and effective action.

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BJ Zamora's avatar

While I agree with your criticism of this brilliant article, I think history has taught us that a “balanced” response to such political power grabs is insufficient. It may already be too late for this very slick coup. What is going on here is more than political shits of power. It is about illegal and dangerous empire building by people with little empathy or appreciation of anyone other than themselves.

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Michael Englander's avatar

First shots have been fired in a Cold Civil War

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Stay Slick's avatar

Louder please

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James Houston's avatar

So get off X already. Is that difficult? I wouldn't know as I've never been on it

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Kenneth Rasmussen's avatar

Yes. It’s only just begun.

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OopsICrappedMyDiaper's avatar

simple solution. cap his stupid ass and all of his followers. then just seize and nationalize starlink and space x and whatever else

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Stay Slick's avatar

OK but... what do we do with all those cars?

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OopsICrappedMyDiaper's avatar

send em into the sun

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Stay Slick's avatar

That will take a lot of thrust, not sure we can pull it off. Would you be OK if we just turned each of the cars into its own mini Sun?

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OopsICrappedMyDiaper's avatar

yes and waymos too

Turn Silicon valley into Carthage

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Stay Slick's avatar

Mark Zuckerberg even got the t-shirt! He once wore one saying CARTHAGO DELENDA EST

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OopsICrappedMyDiaper's avatar

wtf!!!

ew gross zuck is so gross.

did you know he built building 8 and hired regina dugan to run it?!

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Dennis's avatar

They're not bulletproof. America has 4 hundred million firearms. And nothing ever works the way it was planned.

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Jake Gless's avatar

We are in Post-Fall America

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Mya's avatar

you hit everything on the head except for techno-feudalism, which I think is relevant here.

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Stay Slick's avatar

Wait until tomorrow!

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Mark Glomski's avatar

There are mostly assholes on twitter these days. Most liberals moved on.

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Charles Lambdin's avatar

It was over a long time ago

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Stay Slick's avatar

Is it too late though?

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Cute Boots RocketCat's avatar

What a truth bomb. I needed therapy after “state capture.”

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Stay Slick's avatar

"... and by therapy I mean deeply questioning the foundations of legitimacy, power, and what consent of the governed actually means"

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Cute Boots RocketCat's avatar

Recapturing my own narrative from my oppressors therapy

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Hillbilly Horsefeathers's avatar

Time for the counter-revolution

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First Things First's avatar

When has it not been an oligarchy? They have just flipped the script from "left" to "right".

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Stay Slick's avatar

You're not wrong, yet it IS worse, if only for the systematic removal of checks and balances, the purges, the unprecedented aggregation of data on every citizen...

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First Things First's avatar

Yes I agree, it is progressing to the endgame

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