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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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Fully understand what is happening here in America. The far right has destroyed the rule of law and are just acting to destroy our government. Don’t let this happen to your country. Don’t let Elon Musk any where near your elections or near your country.
Russians and fossil fuel corporations are cheering
Further, look and see what courting the rich and meritocracy has bought. This is the natural and probable consequences of decades and decades of austerity, privatization, and supply side economics. They're telling you the same lies they told us, and telling you it will be different for you. It won't be.
Don’t let Elon Musk any where near your elections or near your country.
A little late.
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Is it a coup if Trump and Republicans have given him permission and letting him do what he wants?
Yes. Since he wasn't elected and the actions he is taking require actual laws to pass to occur legally
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It's a fascist coup.
They took control of the judiciary some time ago, they recently seized the executive and now they're destroying any remaining institutional power that can oppose them.
The current regime is not legitimate.
The current technically still is, but the regime they are transforming into won't be anymore legitimate.
Except the current "president" isn't constitutionally eligible to hold the office after inciting insurrection, so no, it really isn't legitimate even now
With all the voters suppression tactics, gerrymandering in the house, and all the ballots they had discarded, it's not legitimate.
No one has convincingly explained away the abnormally high number of bullet ballots and odd ballot switching at 500 votes in swing states like AZ, IMO.
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Elon's cash for votes scheme, the amount of russian money and planning on one side, plus there's a decent chance that the fascists just committed direct electoral fraud as well.
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Although no one was prosecuted
Why the FUCK do we keep letting people get away with this shit??
I believe the theory is that Roosevelt sat down with the Business Plot crew in secret and gave them the option of a) they convince their business pals not to oppose the New Deal too much or b) they hang. Obviously they picked option a.
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Step 1: Remove all the inspector generals
Step 2: Gain access to the U.S. treasury payment system
Step 3: Lock out all the rest of the treasury staff
Step 4: Impose a 25% Tarriff on your largest trading partners
Step 5: Profit!
Step 6: Realize Trump backed down on the Mexican Tarriffs because the president of Mexico called and stroked Trump's ego.
inspector generals
I don't want to be that guy, but the plural is "inspectors general".
I say always be that guy. You have the heart to speak up and help others to learn and grow - for example I was questioning which it was, but you confirmed for me that it is indeed inspectors general.
I'm never gonna forget inspectors general now because of this conversation. It's with me for life.
You can file it under memories general
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Now I'll say it like that guy in Futurama. Inspectorses generals
I don't think she stroked his ego, I think she played hardball and showed him how he was gonna get hurt a lot more than they were, then he backed off (saving face by saying she would send troops to the border). That and the fact that women intimidate the hell out of Trump. He knows how to bully men but women get him all discombobulated.
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One is fascist narcissistic billionaire and other is criminal
This reboot of The Odd Couple is really weird.
It's not a coup if it's not against the Leadership of a sovereign nation
What it is, is a Constitutional Crisis led by the Executive Branch (Trump, and his minion Musk with Trumps permission and direction) disregarding Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution is known as the "taxing and spending clause." Clause 2 is known as the "borrowing clause.", against the Legislative Branch (Congress), which will ultimately be decided by the Judicial Branch (The Supreme Court)
The very bad news is all 3 Branches of US Government are squarely in control of Republicans, since the last election in November, who are blindly supporting Trump
It still could be a coup inside the coup, where Musk takes control of so much of the administration that he can set the stage for a final coup to take down Trump and impose himself.
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