Billionaires have seized control. The media pretends it’s business as usual, politicians aren’t fighting back. Nobody’s coming. If you were waiting for permission to fight, you’ve had it all along.
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”
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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...
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”
With *us*!
Where are you Stay Slick?
I lived in Manhattan for about 2.5 years, and also in London. I'm guessing you're American??
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
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/
Who writes dumpsTerfire’s Executive Orders?
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.
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.
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.
First shots have been fired in a Cold Civil War
Louder please
So get off X already. Is that difficult? I wouldn't know as I've never been on it
Yes. It’s only just begun.
simple solution. cap his stupid ass and all of his followers. then just seize and nationalize starlink and space x and whatever else
OK but... what do we do with all those cars?
send em into the sun
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?
yes and waymos too
Turn Silicon valley into Carthage
Mark Zuckerberg even got the t-shirt! He once wore one saying CARTHAGO DELENDA EST
wtf!!!
ew gross zuck is so gross.
did you know he built building 8 and hired regina dugan to run it?!
They're not bulletproof. America has 4 hundred million firearms. And nothing ever works the way it was planned.
We are in Post-Fall America
you hit everything on the head except for techno-feudalism, which I think is relevant here.
Wait until tomorrow!
There are mostly assholes on twitter these days. Most liberals moved on.
It was over a long time ago
Is it too late though?
What a truth bomb. I needed therapy after “state capture.”
"... and by therapy I mean deeply questioning the foundations of legitimacy, power, and what consent of the governed actually means"
Recapturing my own narrative from my oppressors therapy
Time for the counter-revolution
When has it not been an oligarchy? They have just flipped the script from "left" to "right".
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...
Yes I agree, it is progressing to the endgame