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Is Elon Musk Staging a Coup? Billionaire Seizes Control at Treasury Dept.
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this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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Staging? It already happened
they won the election. now they are dismantling the levers of government. the goal is to weaken all other national institutions until eventually they can just ignore Congress or Supreme Court
I mean, they are doing that anyway.
They are doing loads of blatantly illegal things out in the open with everyone watching them. The meticulously stacked kangaroo courts don't do anything, Congress doesn't do anything, the fucking military watching an unelected rich guy literally take over the country and steal government secrets and data does nothing, the FBI, CIA, and NSA who know what is happening do nothing, government employees are either enabling the fascist takeover or too scared to just ignore it and keep doing their jobs when it is clear they will not be paid and will be fired either way (nothing to lose there) and there doesn't seem to actually be forced removal of employees either.
We now know what 99.9% of people would do during an open fascist uprising: absolutely nothing. Not lift one finger or question one order. Even all of the people who swore oaths to forcibly keep this from happening if it ever occurred won't even attempt to stop anything at all. It somehow has to lie with the general overworked, underpaid exhausted population to put up any sort of menial resistance.
The funny thing is that here in Belgium, it would probably be the exact same. Even strikes and protests, which are common, have been completely reduced to the point of not being useful at all. Set start times, set end times, strict permits, only in areas convenient for those in power and easy to ignore, and police set up barbed wire and police at every exit so the demonstrations can't grow or inconvenience the rich.
At least Germany is having mass protests against fascism...
Exactly. He has every American's personal details and total control of the nation's finances. He really doesn't need anything else.