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Initech

(103,268 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 09:24 PM 11 hrs ago

Stop calling this a coup. This isn't a mere coup.

The United States is under a full blown, large scale terrorist attack by those who are seeking to do great harm to this country from within.

Calling this a coup just minimizes the situation that we're currently in. The people carrying out this atrocity are the worst people in the country - Infowars, Fox, the Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, X, Christian megachurches, so on. The election was an attack on democracy. What's happening now is even worse than you can imagine. The people who are carrying out this atrocity are in the coffers of a hostile mad man in the Kremlin and a criminally insane billionaire seeking world domination and are under the spell of his terrible propaganda outlets.

This is an attack on the United States from within. We need to treat Elon Musk the way we treated Osama Bin Laden after 9/11. Elon Musk is literally doing to the United States what Osama only said he was going to do. The people in the House, the Senate, the state and local governments need to be brought to justice. None of this is normal.

Keep repeating it: The United States is under attack.

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Stop calling this a coup. This isn't a mere coup. (Original Post) Initech 11 hrs ago OP
Several days ago I hesitated and wondered if it was okay that I used the word coup. yellow dahlia 11 hrs ago #1
I've been saying for years that they're all in on it. Initech 11 hrs ago #2
That's been my thinking for awhile. ananda 10 hrs ago #12
annihilism is a pretty good term for it. Hugin 10 hrs ago #18
I think you nailed it. ananda 10 hrs ago #20
People say we're living in Idiocracy. We're past Idiocracy. Initech 8 hrs ago #35
Simply put, it's an attempt to install a fascist dictatorship that trump thinks he's in charge of... brush 7 hrs ago #36
It's...something Tommy Carcetti 11 hrs ago #3
Yes. LiberalLoner 11 hrs ago #4
I'm on that sub! Initech 10 hrs ago #5
💙💙💙 LiberalLoner 10 hrs ago #19
Hostile takeover is a better phrase. Also has more emotional impact than coup.I think some people dont Amaryllis 10 hrs ago #6
I'm calling this a terrorist attack. Initech 10 hrs ago #8
I've come to the conclusion that Mr. Evil 10 hrs ago #7
Muskolini BattleRow 10 hrs ago #13
Nah, he needs the Osama treatment. Initech 10 hrs ago #14
Works for me. Mr. Evil 9 hrs ago #25
It' J6 to the limit. Can we call him HITLER now? sHITLER. UTUSN 10 hrs ago #9
Elon is Shitler. Trump is Elon's henchman. Initech 9 hrs ago #21
Trump will be envious TommyT139 9 hrs ago #31
Agreed Baron2024 10 hrs ago #10
What's it called when a selfish mad dog who thinks they are going to live forever catches the car? Hugin 10 hrs ago #11
Same! We're in the suffering phase right now. Initech 10 hrs ago #16
Thank you Pris 10 hrs ago #15
It's an attack against the security and stability of the United States struggle4progress 10 hrs ago #17
That's why I am straight up calling this a terrorist attack. Initech 9 hrs ago #22
The way this "coup" is choreographed... rubbersole 9 hrs ago #23
How the fuck he managed to win Michigan, Ohio, and PA is insane. Initech 9 hrs ago #24
How did Trump win in 2024? Botany 9 hrs ago #29
In the end there is ONLY ONE WAY to deal with these terrorists. NoMoreRepugs 9 hrs ago #26
The same forces that also rigged the election to install Trump too. Botany 9 hrs ago #27
Definition of terrorism ShazzieB 9 hrs ago #28
Tora! Tora! Tora! MrWowWow 9 hrs ago #30
Works for me. Not long ago we were calling our home grown militia groups terrorists. Prairie_Seagull 9 hrs ago #32
Anyone want to bet they're are not using DoD AI against us to chart the takeover? Ponietz 9 hrs ago #33
Well said ... "Keep repeating it: The United States is under attack." nt cliffside 9 hrs ago #34
The United States is under attack. Think. Again. 5 hrs ago #37

yellow dahlia

(1,015 posts)
1. Several days ago I hesitated and wondered if it was okay that I used the word coup.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 09:43 PM
11 hrs ago

You are correct. We don't even have the language for all of this.

Initech

(103,268 posts)
2. I've been saying for years that they're all in on it.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 09:53 PM
11 hrs ago

Now we know who the head demon is. What their end game is, that I'm not sure about. But what it is, I'm definitely sure is not good.

ananda

(31,176 posts)
12. That's been my thinking for awhile.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:36 PM
10 hrs ago

You can call it fullscale domestic terrorism whose
goal is complete annihilation of every structure,
safety net, and regulation.

Maybe I should call it annihilism.

Hugin

(35,315 posts)
18. annihilism is a pretty good term for it.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:45 PM
10 hrs ago

I really think what we're being confronted with is something new. What they are selling is that what existed before can't continue at all. It needs to be completely annihilated and replaced by something absolutely different. Something they control and conforms to how they perceive the world.

Which is impossible, because what they want goes completely against nature and even physics.

ananda

(31,176 posts)
20. I think you nailed it.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:06 PM
10 hrs ago

That is exactly where my mind's been going lately.

It can't succeed in any way at all because humans
cannot control nature and physics.

Climate change alone will knock them back on their
butts in a way they cannot imagine.

Initech

(103,268 posts)
35. People say we're living in Idiocracy. We're past Idiocracy.
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 12:25 AM
8 hrs ago

We're currently living in the Terminator universe and we're at the point where Skynet becomes self aware.

brush

(58,662 posts)
36. Simply put, it's an attempt to install a fascist dictatorship that trump thinks he's in charge of...
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 01:15 AM
7 hrs ago

but Munk has taken over...and trump doesn't know it yet.

It's a combination plutocracy/kakistocracy, and because of those two extreme opposites, and the awakening democracy advocates forming against it, It'll never succeed.

Rough times ahead though as all these forces collide.




Amaryllis

(9,920 posts)
6. Hostile takeover is a better phrase. Also has more emotional impact than coup.I think some people dont
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:14 PM
10 hrs ago

even know what a coup is but they can figure out what a hostile takeover is

Initech

(103,268 posts)
8. I'm calling this a terrorist attack.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:22 PM
10 hrs ago

Elon Musk is the world's biggest terrorist. He's just straight fucking with democracies around the world, while he's got Vladimir Putin on speed dial.

Mr. Evil

(3,018 posts)
25. Works for me.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:38 PM
9 hrs ago

I just figured since he is and Mussolini was a Fascist... well, you know.

Initech

(103,268 posts)
21. Elon is Shitler. Trump is Elon's henchman.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:23 PM
9 hrs ago

If Elon is Goldfinger, Trump is his Oddjob.

TommyT139

(939 posts)
31. Trump will be envious
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 12:05 AM
9 hrs ago

...that he doesn't get the golden moniker!

Also ... shouldn't we spell it "Xitler"?

Hugin

(35,315 posts)
11. What's it called when a selfish mad dog who thinks they are going to live forever catches the car?
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:30 PM
10 hrs ago

Seriously. The nihilism and hatred I'm feeling is profound. There's no plan beyond the pain and cruelty.

Initech

(103,268 posts)
16. Same! We're in the suffering phase right now.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:42 PM
10 hrs ago

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." - Master Yoda

What comes after suffering?

struggle4progress

(121,072 posts)
17. It's an attack against the security and stability of the United States
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:43 PM
10 hrs ago

Trump's friends in Russia and North Korea benefit. We and our allies in NATO lose

Initech

(103,268 posts)
22. That's why I am straight up calling this a terrorist attack.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:27 PM
9 hrs ago

Elon and Trump are doing to the United States what Osama Bin Laden threatened to do 20 years ago. And they're accomplishing their dirty deeds in 3 weeks. This is just disgusting and disturbing on multiple levels.

rubbersole

(9,016 posts)
23. The way this "coup" is choreographed...
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:30 PM
9 hrs ago

...makes me positive tsf didn't "win" the election. I don't know how it was accomplished, but tsf was "installed". He's not the snake, he's the rattle.

Initech

(103,268 posts)
24. How the fuck he managed to win Michigan, Ohio, and PA is insane.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:33 PM
9 hrs ago

I still don't buy he won all 7 swing states.

Botany

(73,022 posts)
29. How did Trump win in 2024?
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:50 PM
9 hrs ago

On the front end millions of voters were removed from voter rolls and Musk & the GRU
were into the data on the back end aka the central tabulators*.

* Trump, “Musk was very good with those vote counting computers. Aka the Central
Tabulators.

Botany

(73,022 posts)
27. The same forces that also rigged the election to install Trump too.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:44 PM
9 hrs ago

When people like Barr the who saw their job as protecting the largest criminal attack on
our democracy in history starting with Trump and Russia* the dye was cast. And the rank
and file Republicans who are OK with all these unAmerican actions justify all this shit
because “we can’t let the colored people take over.” And the super rich use their racism
to keep power too.

Republicans haven’t won a legitimate Presidential election without cheating or been
the legacy of that cheating since Eisenhower in 1956. Cheating is as natural as breathing
to them.

* or impeaching Clinton for B. J. or invading Iraq to look for WMDs so Dick Cheney could
become a billionaire.

ShazzieB

(19,243 posts)
28. Definition of terrorism
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:48 PM
9 hrs ago

I looked this up, because I wasn't sure whether terrorism is the most accurate term to describe what's going on. It turns out there are a seemingly endless number of definitions, and none that seem to be universally agreed upon. However, virtually all of the definitions I found (in an admittedly non-exhaustive Google search) mention violence as a key element. For example:

terrorism, the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. Terrorism has been practiced by political organizations with both rightist and leftist objectives, by nationalistic and religious groups, by revolutionaries, and even by state institutions such as armies, intelligence services, and police.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/terrorism


I don't think "terrorism" is an accurate label for what TSF and Musk are doing. What is happening is an attack, an assault on our government and everything this country has ever claimed to stand for. It's a calamity, a disaster of potentially catastrophic proportions. I don't know if there currently is a label that fully captures what's going on, because this is such a bizarrely unusual situation. Someone may need to invent a whole new label fot this. But terrorism isn't it, imo. That word has many meanings, but it does not mean a bloodless takeover and attempted dismantling of the federal government.

MrWowWow

(445 posts)
30. Tora! Tora! Tora!
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 12:04 AM
9 hrs ago

Last edited Wed Feb 5, 2025, 12:50 AM - Edit history (1)

And then some...


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Both Dump and eLOONazi are doing pewtonne's dirty work. The data eLOONazi stole from the U.S. Treasury's computers is likely never going to be known. This, even after he and his code monkeys are booted out and off federal property. The horses have already left the barn on that. Tora! Tora! Tora.... .indeed!

Prairie_Seagull

(3,938 posts)
32. Works for me. Not long ago we were calling our home grown militia groups terrorists.
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 12:06 AM
9 hrs ago

They didn't have the quality (so called) leadership that I believe this regime has. Further I believe some of their leaders still has TSF's digits. (I threw in some humor, at least to me. So shoot me) Who knows where that will lead. I think terrorist is another perfect description. It seems to me it's overuse makes it a bit....blunted these days.

IMO

That's how cynical I have become.
No offense intended Initech. We are all walking a tightrope these days. If there we ever a time when someone would get pissed, well this is it. I picked some nits there.

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