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If things escalate all the way to widespread violence, we've all collectively failed.

for now... it won't stop there

No not true. only a few people believe that. Most do not. Stop grouping religious people into the few who interview on tv.

> Religion requires you to ignore logic and science (born and raised in the Bible Belt).

Also wildly not true and you’re extending an experience you had to a whole population, which is a biased opinion.

Many of us use science and logic daily, in conversations, and there are well received physicists who argue for an existence of a God using logic. The Bible says to use both wisdom and knowledge (logic and science).

from wikipedia:

>a form of coup d'état in which a political leader, having come to power through legal means, stays in power through illegal means through the actions of themselves and/or their supporters.

So Trump trying to stay on in 2020 was an attempt at one. Trump delegating firing people to Musk isn't really. The current stuff doesn't seem illegal either - I think the US president is allowed to say find out who's unnecessary and fire them even if the people being fired shout 'coup', 'unfair' and the like. I'm not sure it's a good idea but that doesn't mean it's illegal.

Historians will be baffled by how some people missed even these signs. I guess critical thinking is in terribly scarce supply these days.

And not all coups are violent. Eg. EU is putting up with Orban in Hungary at the moment. Poland was a narrow miss.

Public protest is non-violent, but a solid step up from writing letters.

These do not imply violence.

my moms lifelong friend recently told us her grandkids are all trumpers

they're all on SSI. one had four abortions. and they LOVE trump.

every group in america was promised whatever they want, despite the endless hypocrisies/lies with that, and none of them seem to care whatsoever??

for this reason i see no way out of this hell. it's simply beyond reason at this point.

(this take is from pennsylvania)

It's not getting rid of all these bureaucrats in DC and giving power back to the people. It's getting rid any sort of independence and removing the barriers to centralizing power under Trump so that he can grab even more power and control.

And just to be pedantic, Trump received 49% of the vote and Kamala receive 48%. And that's of people who voted. He received 77 million out 244 million of the voting-eligible population, or around 31%.

There may be a plurality of people who want the Executive branch under Trump to consolidate power, but it's not the majority.

https://election.lab.ufl.edu/2024-general-election-turnout/

The point poster above is making is that the president should be able to fire them, and should be able to audit whether or not they have been doing their jobs correctly, which is essentially what is occurring.

> The Trump administration took a variety of steps Monday.. The most dramatic was naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting administrator of USAID.. The State Department said in its statement announcing Rubio’s acting role that he has also informed Congress that “a review of USAID’s foreign assistance activities is underway with an eye towards potential reorganization.” .. Rubio explained he was entrusting the duties of deputy administrator to Peter Marocco, the head of the State Department’s office of foreign assistance.. Marocco is also leading the review into USAID activities.

State Department tweet: https://nitter.net/statedept/status/1886512412863684802 or https://xcancel.com/statedept/status/1886512412863684802

That's not quite accurate. I would say: "some feel the process in which they do this is unconstitutional as the executive branch does not have the authority to dissolve programs." And furthermore: "some feel entrusting these vital government functions to an un-vetted non-employee with no oversight will lead to abuse and conflicts of interest."

Almost everyone in the government is unelected.

Yes, a military coup could override a civilian autocoup, and while there are a few (globally) historical cases where that has happened and the military coup leaders quickly worked with civilian leadership outside of either coup to restore something like normal government processes, there are also plenty of cases where that was out of the frying pan, into the fire.

DOGE is advising the president and the president is choosing what to do.

There are a lot of people on this site claiming this is not legal for some reason but not really citing any law.

Trump's executive order only stopped funding that wasn't required by legislation.

If those programs are going to have long-term benefit, then they really should be directed by Congress and not by an autocratic president.

> A federal judge said on Monday that she intended to temporarily block the Trump administration from imposing a sweeping freeze on trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, adding to the pushback against an effort by the White House’s Office and Management and Budget.

Does this not also apply to your comment?

Not trying to be mean, just trying to offer a different perspective. It seems many others agree with the author and it’s similarly unreasonable to dismiss them along with the author as “needlessly, wildly inflammatory” for holding an opinion you don’t agree with.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

National defense 15%, veterans benefits and services 6%, interest 13%.

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/02/03/trumps-executive-order...

I'm in New Zealand and our MMP system has elected politicians with zero constituency (list vote).

All the republicans have to do for the 2026 midterms and Vance for 2028 is play clips from the DNC Officer election process that took place over the weekend as campaign ads.

Many of my friends can only perceive the election outcome and the actions currently taking place from a place of identity based policies. Virtually everyone I know outside of that circle and many inside that circle who keep their mouths shut are tired of that being THE focus.

Twitter has realtime status updates and feedback from said base—and others.

I said before and I'll keep repeating: if even what was supposedly the well-educated cohort of the American population, the ones accessing this forum, are falling for this then I've lost the vast majority of hope I had for the USA.

Even the ones with full access to education, and knowledge are choosing to be this stupid... I can't imagine how it is for the uneducated.

Carl Sagan was absolutely right, it came a time for his children and grandchildren to experience the darkness of anti-intellectualism.

No one thinks about the new system, new precedents and new norms being created right now, and what the next leader can do with it.

Can no supporter of this approach imagine what happens the next time their political enemy is in power?

That means, everything you do as a long term solution, needs to be approved by executive, legislative and judiciary systems. This is how every healthy Democratic Republic works.

If you have policies made by executive order, it means only executive power have approved them, which is partially an autocratic policy. This is not new, and constantly abused by Democrats and Republicans over the year.

Because USAID was created by Autocratic rule and did not passed by legislative and/or judiciary approval, I think it's fair to be dismissed by any other president, congress or judiciary any time.

If the people think the government should keep growing up and spending lot more tax payer money, sure, but make it approved by the people, not by the president (or prime minister at other countries).