What To Do About The Coup

It's clear that Trump 2.0 is a coup: an illegal and overt attempt to seize control of the United States government. Rather than operating as President (other than in name), Trump's plans involve him running the US government like a private corporation, with himself as chairman and Musk as CEO. Yet while we are in this 'move fast and break things' phase of American politics, Trump and his co-conspirators have opened the way for Congress to turn the tables on them in relation to each of their three key tactics, and it must do so swiftly. 

First, as Vance himself recommended, Congress, the courts and all 'paper protections' are being ignored. This means that Congress should be free to act against Trump, Vance, Musk and the other co-conspirators as it sees fit. Trump (then Vance) could be impeached under the 25th Amendment. Solitary confinement in Guantanamo Bay awaits, pending their trial under Chapter 115 of the US Code.

Second, in their efforts to purge the democracy and dismantle institutions every civil servant in the administrative state is either being fired or replaced by Trump's people. Congress can therefore treat every person who agrees to replace a civil servant as a conspirator in the coup.

Third, in the course of seizing control of government media and information to maintain power, all Government IT and payment systems are being expropriated and modified or replaced using private software and systems without recompense. This may be very difficult to undo, so Congress could simply nationalise all the replacement software and systems and service providers, also without recompense.

The consequences for a coup must be swift and severe. These people knew the risks...

Hey, WTF's Going On?

Well may you ask! I'm assuming you're referring to Trump 2.0: Revenge of the Musk? 

Well I've learned that this is a coup planned among Musk, Thiel and Sacks (Trump's new "Crypto Czar"), the South African members of  the PayPal mafia, with input from Thiel lieutenant, Vice President J.D. Vance. You can read a summary of The Plan by Gil Duran of the Nerd Reich, who has understandably experienced a surge in subscribers since January 20.

“Trump himself will not be the brain …He will not be the CEO. He will be the chairman of the board—he will select the CEO (an experienced executive). This process, which obviously has to be televised, will be complete by his inauguration—at which the transition to the next regime will start immediately.”

With Musk as the “CEO”, they are systematically rebuilding the US government as if it were post-war Japan. They are replacing federal employees with their own “ninjas” - and extending this to academia and the media. They’re ignoring the courts and “paper protections”, as Vance told them to: 

I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. 

This is an illegal and overt attempt to seize control of the US government. A coup.

You can spot the growth of the techno aspect of their "New Reality" in Google's 2014 declaration of war on the human race and the creed of the techno-optimists. And much I've observed on these pages in between.

Much was made of their $1m 'donation' to attend the Orange Leader's inauguration, but you have to wonder whether Zuckerberg and the other tech oligarchs who were then featured in the front row were also in on the plan - or just presented as if they were.

Can America's institutions hold out? Or will the Republican Party remain complicit in the plan - wittingly or unwittingly?

Or is it too late?

Also bear in mind the leaders of this coup also have the world in their sights, riding the rails of their own borderless technology - AI, crypto meme coins and bubbling bitcoin and the social media - and they're attacking copyright and AI regulation worldwide in an attempt to free-ride on our privacy and creative content and make it their own. 

Now that Musk and the nerds from DOGE control the federal government IT and payment systems, you could replace Mad Marjorie Taylor Greene's "jewish space laser" geoengineering conspiracy theory with a Tesla-Starlink cyborg network fueled by $TRUMP meme coins bought with US government money.  

It's in our power to simply stop using their tech, and there are plenty of independent providers of social media, search, email and so on. 

Or is it too late?