A Coup Is In Progress In America

Part of the issue is that elites have already bought into the coup. You don't eviscerate the US government without making sure the rich are on side first.

That's why so many CEOs publicly made gestures of support for trump just before and after the election.

The only way to stop the fascists who already have control of the courts, the government and the rich would be mass mobilization of a significant % of the population, or a military counter-coup.

People voted for the coup. People were warned, they were told it would happen, it was all documented in writing, they had a fucking website with the "we are going to do a coup" plan. People had a beta version 4 years ago. People still voted for the coup. And if you look at the world outside of lemmy, people don't care about the coup.
- Less than 35% of the country voted for republicans in an election where PACs alone spent 5.6 billion dollars to lie and buy votes, and that doesn't include the amount spent on election interference by us and foreign oligarchs.
Business Plot, take 2.
it has been a fairly dry winter around all those golf course communities.

Top comment from Mike Brock’s blog (where this diatribe came from):

Right now it feels we have a growing chorus of people raising alarm, but very few people proposing any specific actions that are commensurate with the scale of the crisis? I appreciate your work and I don’t mean this flippantly, but do you have any proposals more specific than “resist” or “do something”?

This comment is my thought exactly. Brock isn’t wrong, but he’s just blowing real hard and hoping the house falls down.

All this blog did was piss me of, but it didn’t point me in a direction.

(But thanks for posting, OP.)

Because there is still time for people in power to stop being cowed. That is what this is calling for: do something before it is too late to avoid it becoming an illegitimate government, with all that brings.
- Is your interpretation that this post is intended for politicians to read and take action? If so what do you think they should do?
  Like the commenter above us I'm at a loss. Short of resorting to force, there doesn't seem like an action the average person can take that would accomplish anything. Our politicians don't seem to be acting in proportion to the threat. And even if they were, Republicans have a (slim) majority. Even if you were to say we've reached the point where force is called for, against who?
The founding fathers would have you join a mass of people outside the homes of the legislators demanding they take action or suffer consequences.
Its because its against TOS everywhere to say what must be done, and people are too afraid/divided/poor to do it.

I hate that I'm typing this...

People need to start buying weapons right now. It's not that I think we're at the "take up arms" phase. It's that I think we should be ready before they keep us from being able to.

With all the shit they're pulling with federal databases, I expect people are going to start being added to NICS (background check database) for political reasons.

When you get a NICS denial, there's no explanation of why it's was denied, but you can't buy a gun.

And it will alert the FBI that you tried.

Yeah they will absolutely try to deny gun ownership based on political affiliation
If that happens. Theres going to be a huge influx of gun shows.
- FYI, the "Gun Show Loophole" isn't a real thing. Dealers still have to fill out a 4473 and run a background check at gun shows. There's even a checkbox for it on the 4473.
  What there is is a private sales loophole, where individuals can sell a gun on the secondary market.
  That doesn't require a gun show.
Lmao no conservative in this country would be for a gun ban. Ever. They might suck the orange balls but they suck their gun muzzles even harder while saying the 2nd amendment out loud. This scenerio would never happen.
- Conservatives aren't the ones that will be banned. They'll target liberals and the conservatives will joke that the dems should be happy for finally getting gun control for themselves.
- That won't happen as long as they make sure you can buy all the guns you'd ever want as long as you stay on the RIGHT side of anything political.

The coup happened decades ago. They're now comfortable enough in their power that the mask can come off.

From Trump’s POV it’s actually a heist. He’s going to take everything that’s not bolted down.