Edward Luce of the Financial Times…
telling it like it is about Musk and Trump. Things couldn’t be any clearer.
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CountScrofula · 41-45, M
So Burnley has been posting about this but it's really important to understand WHY they are doing this.
Trump and Musk are following a gameplan set out by the technocrats. Trump is behaving like a "Chairman of the Board" while Elon Musk is the "CEO" and it is Elon Musk, not Trump who is running the executive branch.
So Trump's job is to be ceremonial, and of course, create a lot of chaos and noise so people pay attention to what he's doing with Zelensky and immigrants, and ignore what DOGE is doing.
The #1 check on the power of the President is not congress or the judiciary. It's the federal bureaucracy who are politically neutral but loyal to the system. If you fire all of them, you can replace them with MAGA supporters who follow orders no matter how illegal they are.
This is absolutely a takeover to install an autocrat. But the catch is the dictator is Elon Musk, not Trump. Trump is a ceremonial figure. Elon has the real power.
Trump and Musk are following a gameplan set out by the technocrats. Trump is behaving like a "Chairman of the Board" while Elon Musk is the "CEO" and it is Elon Musk, not Trump who is running the executive branch.
So Trump's job is to be ceremonial, and of course, create a lot of chaos and noise so people pay attention to what he's doing with Zelensky and immigrants, and ignore what DOGE is doing.
The #1 check on the power of the President is not congress or the judiciary. It's the federal bureaucracy who are politically neutral but loyal to the system. If you fire all of them, you can replace them with MAGA supporters who follow orders no matter how illegal they are.
This is absolutely a takeover to install an autocrat. But the catch is the dictator is Elon Musk, not Trump. Trump is a ceremonial figure. Elon has the real power.
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bijouxbroussard · F
@Burnley123 Enough to take action (although nowadays I’m not sure how that would look).
bijouxbroussard · F
@nonsensiclesnail I also resent when people try to claim that it’s an equal struggle, because it isn’t. You have one side trying to follow the rule of law and support our constitution. And they are losing, because the other side has thrown out the rules, refuse to uphold existing law and is trampling the Constitution daily.
Right-wing pundits here have always claimed to be afraid of leftists.
They don’t know any; real leftists would’ve kicked their behinds.
I had a friend here (and I hope she’s well), who would speak about Martin Luther King, Jr’s approach with regard to what’s happening now. Sorry, that’s what you do when you’re 12% of the population. When you’re considerably more (48% of Americans voted for Harris, hardly a Trump "landslide") you have to actively fight back against unjust laws.
Right-wing pundits here have always claimed to be afraid of leftists.
They don’t know any; real leftists would’ve kicked their behinds.
I had a friend here (and I hope she’s well), who would speak about Martin Luther King, Jr’s approach with regard to what’s happening now. Sorry, that’s what you do when you’re 12% of the population. When you’re considerably more (48% of Americans voted for Harris, hardly a Trump "landslide") you have to actively fight back against unjust laws.
nonsensiclesnail · F
@bijouxbroussard Struggles are rarely equal, if they were it wouldn’t be much of a struggle.
There needs to be a true fight, or nothing will change right now. This isnt even a leftist thing.. this is unhinged. We can call it the extreme left but I dont think does this movement justice. Its the ignorant left combined with the ones who have the tools for movement, to make things happen.
Like so many others, i have very republican parents who don’t pay attention to the news or even know what’s actually happening anymore. If they did, they would be beside themselves. They are the racists who taught me to not be one. I wasn’t even aware of this until I was grown. It’s ignorance, not hate. My mother isnt capable of hating anyone, but she says some things now and then that…oh my… but if she were in her right mind, she would not stand for this.
How are so may standing for this?
And what do we do?
I’ve watched so many protests in my life that. No one gives a care about… just as another protest… and riots always end with looting which totally upends the whole point of the riot.
We obviously can’t depend on our politicians because they are failing us. The system has been corrupted.
Now what?
There needs to be a true fight, or nothing will change right now. This isnt even a leftist thing.. this is unhinged. We can call it the extreme left but I dont think does this movement justice. Its the ignorant left combined with the ones who have the tools for movement, to make things happen.
Like so many others, i have very republican parents who don’t pay attention to the news or even know what’s actually happening anymore. If they did, they would be beside themselves. They are the racists who taught me to not be one. I wasn’t even aware of this until I was grown. It’s ignorance, not hate. My mother isnt capable of hating anyone, but she says some things now and then that…oh my… but if she were in her right mind, she would not stand for this.
How are so may standing for this?
And what do we do?
I’ve watched so many protests in my life that. No one gives a care about… just as another protest… and riots always end with looting which totally upends the whole point of the riot.
We obviously can’t depend on our politicians because they are failing us. The system has been corrupted.
Now what?
bijouxbroussard · F
@nonsensiclesnail
I’ve been a part of a few protests in my life and have family members who were part of those during the civil rights era. One thing that happened in the past, believe it or not, was that in the early days they were careful who were involved, and knew each other. Later the FBI recruited plants and sent them in to disrupt both civil rights groups and anti-Vietnam War protesters.
One thing I saw with Occupy and later with BLM was right-wing plants coming in and causing problems. I’m not going to say they were the only source, but in one notable incident, BLM was accused of killing a black police officer. When the shooter was identified (after shooting a white policeman, when his weapon was tied to both murders), he was found to be a member of the Proud Boys. Why was he at the BLM rally ? To cause trouble.
I’ve watched so many protests in my life that. No one gives a care about… just as another protest… and riots always end with looting which totally upends the whole point of the riot.
I’ve been a part of a few protests in my life and have family members who were part of those during the civil rights era. One thing that happened in the past, believe it or not, was that in the early days they were careful who were involved, and knew each other. Later the FBI recruited plants and sent them in to disrupt both civil rights groups and anti-Vietnam War protesters.
One thing I saw with Occupy and later with BLM was right-wing plants coming in and causing problems. I’m not going to say they were the only source, but in one notable incident, BLM was accused of killing a black police officer. When the shooter was identified (after shooting a white policeman, when his weapon was tied to both murders), he was found to be a member of the Proud Boys. Why was he at the BLM rally ? To cause trouble.