Presumably President Musk will decide it’s much more efficient for him to have the nuclear codes/briefcase than Chump, er, tRump. Wait! What? Musk already has them? Well, we’ll be safer then, won’t we? Won’t we?
The beacon on the hill that was the light of all nations has gone out.
We shall never see its like again. Hate has won the day. Cruelty dominates. Greed is now our god.
We said it for years — January 6, 2021 was a trial run. Then, Republicans enabled Felon47 in operating a shadow government from Florida. No extra guardrails were established to prevent a coup.
It took only 53 DAYS for Hitler to dismantle a democracy.
Musk is an immigrant who needs to be deported based on the grounds that Trump specifically thanked Elon for whatever he did to the voting machines that resulted in Trump and the GOP winning the election. Also investigation Texas AG Ken Paxton for whatever he did to help.
The people that voted for Trump DID vote for ELON—and voted for every batshit crazy nominee that Congress confirms, and all the LIES Trump spews and all the CHAOS he creates and all the PAIN he causes ALL of us. YES, THEY DID VOTE FOR ALL OF IT!!
And a lazy, good for nothing POTUS unwilling to do the GOOD work of leading...instead of hitting real human beings like golf balls against a brick wall. Yes, the pain he promised, gleefully.
It feels EXACTLY like a coup. The Republican Party is attempting to seize complete control of our government OUTSIDE the Constitutional boundaries. A 1 party system is not a democracy anymore. Even republican voters have to realize if that happens, THEY will no longer have any choice either.
Not unexpected with elected traitors running the country now....the assholes who voted (more importantly those that didn't) the traitorous clowns in will be suffering as well....just too damn stupid to figure that out when they voted and didn't vote......we have a ton of ignorance in this country...
Every single federal employee should file a IOD (injured on duty) claim for “falling in the office” “lifting files back injury” “stress from retaliation” at the very least, along with workers compensation cases, as many as possible. Burn down the house federal employees, …you are next.
We've been watching a slow motion coup since Jan 6th 2020. The current felonious occupant of the oval spent 4 years forming a shadow gov't at Mar A Lardo. He's put the So. AfriKKKan unelected nazi and his teenage goons in charge of gutting our institutions. All I can do is rage!
If it doesn’t feel like one to you by now then you are ignorant as to what a coup is. They’ve already taken over. They won’t be voted out. We will have to drag them out.
IF you are retired, or close to retirement, it's time to call your congresscritter and ask why an admitted polydrug user and ketamine addict has been given control overall Social Security and Medicare payments.
This is insane.
Call now, call often. Flood their phones.
Yes, the wealthiest worked on it over many decades. They initiated it and planned, organized and funded much of it but said nothing. Proof? 13 billionaires in Trump's administration, SCOTUS facilitated it all with a full immunity for Trump and corporate news didn't mention the word 'billionaire'.
I'm less interested in what we call it than in why there've been no court filings along the lines of what I mention here. Do you know why? If it's fear that the Supreme Ct will greenlight it, I don't think it would, but WE'RE greenlighting it by not trying to stop it. WTAF?? https://bsky.app/profile/beverlymann19.bsky.social/post/3lhhao7z7yc2n
Undeniably a coup. Amazing that maga doesn't see their own families are at risk. Truly, there is no honor among thieves. Trump has respect for no one, demands absolute loyalty from everyone but has loyalty to nothing, certainly not the US Constitution.
It is, of course, a coup. Successful non-violent coups have historically relied on the majority of a populace having been conditioned (as Trump/MAGA have done) to expect changes, usually in response to the accentuating of perceived threats. 1/2
Those changes then come in waves, usually quite quickly, so the people who call 'foul' are seen as overreacting and the majority are affected, and see the reality, when it's too late to roll it back.
Since the federal government is being negligent and allowing my data to be breached can’t my state attorney general sue on my and every CT resident’s behalf? Can’t state attorney generals work together to protect us?
Look how quickly they have disappeared our protections. They planned it years ago, just waiting for Trump to be back. And with Project 25 as their roadmap, more groups will be dismantled until the Constitution is shredded completely. We brace for our democracy's destruction.
Elon is forming something, a coup or hostile takeover of the government infrastructure. But we know the #GOP won't do anything. They just want to eat omelettes like #johnkennedy, ewwwww.
Since the Constitution and the rule of law don’t seem to be functioning anymore, could Trump simply decree that Congress no longer exists – cutting off all Congressionally mandated funding, ending all legislative powers, and sending in a bunch of 22 year olds to shutter the building?
True-- even as the disgruntled and hate-filled portion of his base seem to cheer Elon on-- they do love that Nazi X stuff-- the misled portion of his voting base should be thinking, if thinking is possible-- 'wait a minute... Elon?'
Of course it’s a coup! Exactly what can a 77 year old Dem do. Tell me. I’ll do it! But so sad to find out Dover DE is the only state capital not to have a protest today! Why???? I know we’re small but cmon our country is having a COUP!!!
The Republicans and Mitch McConnell could have ended this after Jan 6. They chose to acquit. If Trump would have been convicted that day he wouldn’t have been able to run again. Then garland could have slow walked the prosecution all he wanted.
Wishful thinking…this is a homegrown, 100% white nationalist Christofascist coup. There is nothing Putin about this. They don’t need Putin in any way, shape or form to do what they’re doing right now.
I think Putin is involved. Musk was meeting with him before the swearing in and the felon was always into Putin. He met with him multiple times. Neither the felon traitor or S.A. traitor have government experience. They had help determining how to dismantle American government quickly.
"The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical.” 😤🤬
"We’re never going to get another chance like this. It’s now or never. Your support is crucial to the success of the revolution of the people.” Elon Musk casting himself as a revolutionary and embodiment of popular will, demanding extraordinary powers to fight some imagined enemy.
Impeach Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for granting South African Oligarch Elon Musk access to the Highly Sensitive
$6 Trillion Treasury Department Payment System ⚖️
Sorry for my question. Can you or any of your knowledgeable followers please explain how Musk is able to proceed undoing the government and Constitution, when the firing and payouts need to be Congress approved? Like why hasn’t Musk been forced to cease and desist 2 days ago?
Thanks!
It's not the politicians who suck, it's the voters who keep electing the morons. Blame is squarely on the shoulders of the American voters and lazy non-voters. I never want to hear any whining from those who voted for the Orange Goblin or stayed home thinking their vote didn't matter.
Obviously, a coup need not be violent as this one is. But it is still an overthrow of a Constitutional Democracy for a yet to be determined Autocrat whether that be Trump or Musk.
It doesn't.
We don't know when it is yet. It happens once they get 11 million of us (3.5% of the population) signed up. Otherwise, it would make no impact.
There is no point. He was impeached twice already and the Republicans in the Senate refused to remove him. They dropped the ball and the checks and balances of our government crumbled.
Coup by Kevin Roberts and his elk at Heritage Foundation with Project 2025 and their undisclosed 180-day Transition Playbook are delivering a "revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it." And if elon musk wants to be king, ok. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FznbfmZ0JZE&t=13s
none of the elected officials have any balls. Maybe import the south koreans as they have reps who fight for them @schumer.senate.gov should take notes and learn how to scale a fence
What is your understanding of this law and whether GOP Senators are abetting Musk&Co by refusing to allow FBI to act…..https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-48000-computer-fraud
It’s been obvious to me since 2012! The Russian funded NRA’s FASCIST agenda was obvious. I’ve been screaming my concerns ever since. Of course I was the crazy person for noticing! And guess who’s really coming for our guns and everything else we own.
I have said it from the beginning. Sadly to see that what Americans worked so hard for and shed blood , is been meticulously destroyed from within. Is not time for all concerned to decide to put a stop to all this?
It feels like one to me. Why doesn't it feel like one to everyone? Are there too many voices telling us to calm down, we're overreacting? The propaganda is pervasive and exhausting and insidious. The fascists are breaking our shit and we act like we can put it back together later.
I feel the same. Everyone is calmly walking into the fire. I don't get it. For all we know Musk and his bois have handed all of our data to Putin and anyone else he felt like selling it to.
It's a coup. It's led by an illegal immigrant from South Africa and supported by every Republican in Congress. Meanwhile, Musk's bought-and-paid-for figurehead is being distracted by the development possibilities of Gaza.
My Consumer Confidence is at an all-time low. Trump = Way to much uncertainty. I'm cutting back to bare necessities and pinching pennies for the next 4 years. Hit them where it hurts, maybe that will wake them up.
Christian nationalist movement believes the purpose of the government should enforce far-right Christianity on the whole world; "secularism is a hollow construct" should be replaced by a government-run according to "evangelicals" With Trump control of federal powers.
They’re hoping to grab new power, with help from the Supreme Court, for the president to simply ignore Congress and not spend money, something called impoundment. They also wanted to cut $500 billion in spending by targeting things like public broadcasting and USAID. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/p...
We shouldn't wait to be given access. We should take access of the treasury building. Get a couple of fired FBI agents to accompany you. The Congress has the right to know what they are doing.
MUSK NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED. What he is doing is VERY ILLEGAL and putting American’s lives at risk. We are begging you to arrest him and his gang of lost boys.
We have two leaders because they need each other--- Elon needs the access and provides the tech brothers' expertise & DJT needs Elon's cash & algorithm manipulation to pull this off.
It is an evolving coup.
The full effects will be felt in several months from now.
Ways to decrease the level of devastation:
*remove Cheeto from office,
*throw Leon in jail,
*remove the nominated idiots and
*call for new elections.
It is not going to happen.
Now more USA.
I will forever be gobsmacked by how slowly, creakingly, achingly long it is taking for folks to even START figuring this mobocracy out. They're mob, short and simple. Do we have a Justice System that will EVER be able to deal with dragon-pile rich criminal masterminds? I feel we need James Bond?!?
Because Trump controls all the levers of government ~ the DOJ, FBI, MAGA controlled Congress and the military. And the Supremes told him he has immunity from criminal prosecution. We have options but none of them good.
Anyone knows that "coups" can happen with attacks from the outside or from someone who orchestrates the attacks from the inside. We saw phase 1 on Jan. 6. We now are watching phase 2 take shape. Any guesses what phase 3 will be? Here's a hint. If you're smart, you'll already know the answer.
The sober and legal minds of this nation are calling it a coup. Historians and scholars of fascism and strongmen are calling it a coup. Are our intel agencies who swore oaths to serve and protect going to walk away? Or are they going to protect us?
#trumpcrimesyndicate
Worse, we have blown our best shot at re-taking the government. It will be long, hard road ahead, even if we end up with an unlikely happy ending years from now.
Consider Russia. Happy endings are not guaranteed. They're not even common.
well folks it aint no coup if thats what we elected. and by god thats just what we did. we elected a felon pos for potus. and we are gettin just what we asked for, voted for and some prayed to the heavens for. hang on for the next 1000 years
The first attempt continued onward since Jan. 20 2021, while Biden was still in office. Shadow governing & calling the shots from MAL. Why are so many surprised by where we are now?
Thank you! The gaslighting has gone on long enough!! How can we begin to battle this when we can’t even bring ourselves to call it by its name? The time for denial is over.
There are not enough Republicans left on this earth willing to do the right thing and end this catastrophe peacefully - with an impeachment vote and a removal for office. What does that leave us then?!?!
How would you expect the coup to "feel"? This is the coup, it looks like a coup, works like a coup - and the disbelief you feel, the hope that it all disappears by some miracle is exactly what you are supposed to feel.
But people are saying coup is the wrong word now. 🤷♂️ It's much worse.
Tbh, I think this is the opening shots of a war. Or maybe the midgame. Tell me that this isn't everything Putin and China and all the other enemies of America want desperately?
What about this doesn't feel like a coup? The man has legislated up and down via executive order against the constitution and acts of Congress and Congressional Republicans and moderate pickmes are supporting every one, including genocide.
Yes it is a coup. Under all other leaders with the exception of 45, our State Department would absolutely name the theft of a treasury a coup.
How do we react? Pitchforks have gone out of style.
The Germans and the Russians asked the same question,,,, but to no avail,,, and after the FACT.
So important to do your due diligence before you Vote.
MAGATrumpers don’t understand that, and it’s their fault for the DEVASTATION that is to come to the Constitution and Democracy.
The word “lie” and the word “coup” smacks the truth about this administration. The reality has always taken too long while we all suffer and treated like we have no standing .
Okay Joyce. We know is a coup. Thanks for saying what everyone else is thinking. Now what? What are you and your cadre of famous lawyers and pundits prepared to do? Tell us. How do we fight back in a MEANINGFUL way? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ALcqt6GMhM
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Really?
You sure we shouldn’t wait a little longer before calling it, Joyce?
Fuck the past decade HERR TRUMP HAS REPEATED THERE WOULD BE A COUP.🤷🏻♀️
But look.
All good.
Pounding away on our keyboards, WHIIIINING about what “they” should be doing?
That’ll help 🙄
jfc
The beacon on the hill that was the light of all nations has gone out.
We shall never see its like again. Hate has won the day. Cruelty dominates. Greed is now our god.
It took only 53 DAYS for Hitler to dismantle a democracy.
It is DAY 17 in the USA 🇺🇸
We should assume he has permanent access to them, until they are rebuilt and rewritten (server apps that are decades old and countless lines of code).
Coup.
This is insane.
Call now, call often. Flood their phones.
Voters must fund their opponents with a national organization #target18 to stop the illegal behavior
https://bsky.app/profile/beverlymann19.bsky.social/post/3lhhao7z7yc2n
Any Dem with power: It's fine. We'll just let him coup himself out.
The blame lies squarely on Republicans.
https://bsky.app/profile/5narktwain.bsky.social/post/3lhfzfhrbj22o
$6 Trillion Treasury Department Payment System ⚖️
Dems must treat them as the enemy within and stop trying to be their friends.
For decades, the GOP has methodically worked against the American people.
It's time we fought back. Hard.
Thanks!
We need boycotts, walk outs, sit ins, obstructions, etc etc etc.
Everyone needs to use their power to fight back everyday and everywhere!
https://Generalstrikeus.com
I signed up a few days ago.
We don't know when it is yet. It happens once they get 11 million of us (3.5% of the population) signed up. Otherwise, it would make no impact.
I assure you it'll keep you awake at night.
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
I would call it 'the butterfly revolution' or the death of American democracy.
Enjoy your new techno-autocracy, folks.
Join us on Presidents Day, February 17, at 1pm, in Union Square, NYC.
We #RESIST with a peaceful demonstration. Bring signs and your friends!
RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/resist-the-dictator/
Can’t join is in NYC? Organize your own action where you are.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-regulations-default-gone_n_67a12742e4b09a02376043c7
Acting like it could never happen here is exactly what's allowing it to happen.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/p...
Call it like it is.
It's a coup.
ELECTIONS, coupled with a very weak Republic and Hitler, turned it into a dictatorship. And the Rest is History, as they say...
The full effects will be felt in several months from now.
Ways to decrease the level of devastation:
*remove Cheeto from office,
*throw Leon in jail,
*remove the nominated idiots and
*call for new elections.
It is not going to happen.
Now more USA.
** No rule of law**
** No Constitution**
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
#trumpcrimesyndicate
Consider Russia. Happy endings are not guaranteed. They're not even common.
https://generalstrikeus.com/strikecard
Tbh, I think this is the opening shots of a war. Or maybe the midgame. Tell me that this isn't everything Putin and China and all the other enemies of America want desperately?
What a surprise
How do we react? Pitchforks have gone out of style.
So important to do your due diligence before you Vote.
MAGATrumpers don’t understand that, and it’s their fault for the DEVASTATION that is to come to the Constitution and Democracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ALcqt6GMhM