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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStop 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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yellow dahlia
(1,015 posts)You are correct. We don't even have the language for all of this.
Initech
(103,268 posts)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)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)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)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)We're currently living in the Terminator universe and we're at the point where Skynet becomes self aware.
brush
(58,662 posts)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.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,684 posts)Whatever you want to call it, its not good.
LiberalLoner
(10,372 posts)Initech
(103,268 posts)If you see the user known as "g-unit11111", that's me!
LiberalLoner
(10,372 posts)Amaryllis
(9,920 posts)even know what a coup is but they can figure out what a hostile takeover is
Initech
(103,268 posts)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)Elon Musk deserves the Mussolini treatment.
BattleRow
(1,329 posts)Initech
(103,268 posts)![](/emoticons/grr.gif)
Mr. Evil
(3,018 posts)I just figured since he is and Mussolini was a Fascist... well, you know.
UTUSN
(73,158 posts)Initech
(103,268 posts)If Elon is Goldfinger, Trump is his Oddjob.
TommyT139
(939 posts)...that he doesn't get the golden moniker!
Also ... shouldn't we spell it "Xitler"?
Baron2024
(924 posts)One possible idea for Resistance- Blue State Resistance-
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219975103
Also- A Plan For Lawful Resistance-
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219988610
Hugin
(35,315 posts)Seriously. The nihilism and hatred I'm feeling is profound. There's no plan beyond the pain and cruelty.
Initech
(103,268 posts)"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." - Master Yoda
What comes after suffering?
Point taken. Good insight.
struggle4progress
(121,072 posts)Trump's friends in Russia and North Korea benefit. We and our allies in NATO lose
Initech
(103,268 posts)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)...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)I still don't buy he won all 7 swing states.
Botany
(73,022 posts)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.
NoMoreRepugs
(10,897 posts)Botany
(73,022 posts)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 cant let the colored people take over. And the super rich use their racism
to keep power too.
Republicans havent 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)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:
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)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)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.