What we have is a wildly dysfunctional federal government, that is coming apart at the seams because it turns out whatever stability we used to have was actually just held together with the scotch tape of good intentions and gentlemanly agreements rather than actual rules. All three branches are entirely captured by oligarchs that have no reverence for democracy, the constitution, or the people of this nation. The media has no incentive to educate the populace and the mob is slobbering with manufactured fear, driving them to shoot themselves in the dick over and over and over again. All of this is sitting on top of the stumbling momentum of unfathomable military capacity that renders the rest of the world impotent to stand in opposition. There’s no consistent rule of law, and the emerging feudal class is building bunkers.
i totally agree, but not sure you can call it a coup if you voted for it
And what will you do about it? Nothing but whine as usual?
WE’RE TALKING THOUGH! TALKING! EVEN!
The other day when the new DNC guy got elected and gave his stupid speech where he made it clear that their plan is to keep talking angrily and hope that it works this time, I’ve just started calling them The Puppet Party.
How do we go about making a new one?
You have to take down the entire dictatorship first.
The only time America loses its mind is when there’s a national security threat. I don’t know what’s going on here, but all of these allowances seem totally out of the norm, so I am going to guess it’s something like that.
This is a national security threat. The database accessed contains private information for a huge amount of people. SSNs, DOBs, addresses, names, and pay. That’s for federal employees, retirees, anyone on Social Security income.
It pays government contracts (hey it’s not like Elon has any of those!), it can be turned off, it can be manipulated, the data is being stolen via unverified, unapproved external drives, and God knows what is being installed into this system. Also, the people who are in charge of it are locked out.
Let’s not forget Elon is a foreign born immigrant who overstayed his visa (an illegal immigrant you say?), was denied the appropriate security levels after his background check, recently had been in contact with foreign governments and tried to manipulate elections, has been courting far-right parties like AfD, and on a national stage threw up a Heil.
This is a goddamn joke.
So you had a chat about a bad thing. Now what? Keep talking? Yeah, keep talking. That’ll change things.
Sure, but we can’t ever stop talking about it either. We need more, too. But we need to keep making people aware. Keep it in the news, keep it in public discourse.
Being a trained software engineer, no matter how good doesn’t make you an expert in finance, law, economics or anything else related to what they have their hands in.
Attack? Oxford dictionary definition of Attack:
Take aggressive action against (a place or enemy forces) with weapons or armed force, typically in a battle or war.
Miriam Webster:
To set upon or work against forcefully.
Democrats:
Complain within their own halls.
Is it a coup if the president is allowing it and encouraging it to happen?
See autocoup.
Although… I wonder if Trump’s followers could be convinced that Musk is controlling him with one of his NeuraLink chips?
What would you connect it to?
Sure. President Musk is 100% behind this coup.
Are you implying that a president cannot be part of a coup?
Yes
Look, a self-professed Nazi that goes around pushing his views, now is in charge of The United States Treasury which is involved in EVERY expenditure and Penny the US spends.
A Nazi, is now in a ridiculously powerful position to affect every thing the USA does domestically, and internationally, and is supported by the President.
THIS is “America”?
Your country is FUCKING OVER, because ‘Americans’ let this happen.
But, …as long as you all have Tik Tok and FB, right?
The Demmings are grumpy.
You’re here participating on Lemmy. Doesn’t that make you a “Demming” too?
Democrats are right-wing, so… no?
So you’re the lone exception?
