Pretty Sure The Coup Was Successful

[ItsjustMe]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1540583487169765376.html

[ultralite001]

1. Wow...

That is all...

[Delphinus]

6. I know

I'm unnerved to say the least.

[dweller]

2. I think I've seen the movie

Like Jacob’s Ladder …. When you’re already dead, but just haven’t realized it yet
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[empedocles]

3. putin's 'success' getting shakier.

[CaptainTruth]

16. I loved that movie, what an ending. Now I want to see it again.

[Bayard]

4. Some scary stuff

Especially the last one.

[dalton99a]

5. We are now ruled by fascist traitors masquerading as jurists

who rule for life with an iron fist

[Cosmocat]

7. We are in a death spiral

Their assessment is not wrong.

[gab13by13]

8. The movement is funded secretly by domestic oligarchs.

[Dustlawyer]

11. Bingo!

I am a WM attorney who has seen first hand how huge multi-national corporations control our media and politicians through advertising dollars and campaign donations. While we fight the latest battles, which are mere symptoms of the root problem, they laugh all the way to the bank.

If we really want things better we must all recognize and fight, to the exclusion of all other issues, campaign finance and media propaganda. We must break their hold on the media by requiring truth, and their ownership of our politicians by ending donations, Super PACs, Dark Money, and the revolving door.

Unless and until we all join together to achieve this we will fail.

[burrowowl]

20. Right on!

But also fight M$M non-news, brain washing the public laissez-faire capitalism is good, etc

[rubbersole]

15. And they have been getting their way for years.

The tide will slowly start to turn when money is taken out of politics. Unfortunately, not in my lifetime. It will take a youth movement similar to the Vietnam anti-war movement. Although it might be climate change based. I'll support it 100%.

[onecaliberal]

9. It's why they stopped pretending.

[Dave says]

23. The brick wall at the back of the theater

I know we’ve all seen this a zillion times, but it fits so well:

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
—- Frank Zappa

[Traildogbob]

10. And after

Their votes are rendered useless, after next court session, they THEN end SS, Medicare, Medicaid, VA benefits, federal retirement (for all except politicians) the GQP states end retirement benefits, and Counties end the same for cops health workers, city workers, pretty much every fucking body, and the republicans “WAKE”, too God damned bad. They can’t vote them out. We SLL get fucked with no recourse.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

12. "A Nation of Laws"

I learned that in the 60's. Is it still taught? Or are only loopholes getting attention....

[The Jungle 1]

13. Fascist love democracy...

When their people win.

[Hortensis]

14. Oh, brother. Dystopian reactionaries and complainers never created a single right.

Or, as we're seeing, fought determinedly to protect and would never accept their being taken away.

Nothing new here. Those with genuine COMMITMENT to their principles combined with the guts to keep fighting have always been the ones who've secured everything for all the rest.

You guys do realize that those who have become so demoralized that they mostly agree with messages like this then have a certain emotional interest in them turning out to be right? The more demoralized, presumably the satisfying the slide. And there's no shortage of these messages.

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things."

Still true 2500 years later.

[Elessar Zappa]

19. Yup.

I’m not big on doom and gloom. Some people peddling it have a vested interest in chaos.

[YoshidaYui]

17. shit...

nothing like good news :{

[Ingersollman]

18. They

will come for all of us.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Frederick Douglass

[Ilsa]

21. My spouse tends to agree. We're screwed.

The fascists have been playing a long game, and it's attractive to these people. Obtaining similar power is difficult in a democracy.

[Hugin]

22. To paraphrase something from Sherlock Holmes...

Sometimes the Law and Justice are at odds.

[Auggie]

24. "Pretty sure the coup was successful?" It's a coup with several parts. Round One went to Putin ...

with winning SCOTUS with the help of TFG. Round Two is coming up in November 2022. Round Three in November 2024.

[kacekwl]

25. This one idea that has to be advanced is

That if you think being a white male will save you you're wrong. Only if you are an exceeding rich white male with connections by way of that wealth to other fascist white males who will use your wealth to overthrow the democracy. Hopefully you have enough to continue to be useful. Listen up MAGA`s. Where do you fit?

[Progressive dog]

26. The J6 coup was not successful.

The GOP's seizure of SCOTUS was neither sudden nor violent nor illegal. Enough of our fellow citizens repeatedly chose the legislators who accomplished this. We have at least a couple more chances to change the direction of our government but it's going to require more votes for the one party that actually tried to stop it. No thanks to those who choose their perfect over their country's good.

1.
a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=coup

[Alice Kramden]

27. Agree

Thanks for pointing that out

[packman]

29. I agree - 1/6 was just the jump-kick

The coup is still on-going , albeit in slow motion. Every day new chipping away, more erosion, more lies, more, more, more. Soon, there will be that tipping point when, like a painting - the last stroke of the brush - and it all comes together: their masterplan will be complete .

[Cherokee100]

28. Fourth Reich

"The Rise of the Fourth Reich", by Jim Marrs. Look around, it could be closer than we think.

[Paladin]

30. So, the coup was successful, the fascists won, and all is lost. Gotcha.

Thanks for everybody's warm words of encouragement.