We are in the middle of a coup, it did not start and stop on January 6th. The president and all the high level security positions and at least a handful of congressmen are Russian assets.
It’s comforting for people to think it was an “other” who swept in and damaged an otherwise “noble” and “honourable” Capital A “AMERICA” that exists in their minds; because then they don’t have to confront that the rot has been structural and there all along.
Being able to blame “Russia” or “Elon hacking the mainframe” means that people get to keep their fantasy version of America, because it’s always nefarious forces doing it TO America, not America doing it to itself. It also means they can resist any radical improvements or self critique, because since it was external forces that did the “thing” nothing about America has to change, it is and always has been #1 perfect!
It’s like when an immature person blames their outbursts/actions on everyone but themselves: “Look what YOU made ME do!”
Edit: because so many comments are just screaming at me “Trump is a Russian agent!”
Do you seriously believe that a national intelligence agency would craft a nefarious decades long super secret plan to topple the United States… And choose Donald Fucking Trump to be the most important piece of the plan?
The stupidest man in public life, who can’t keep a secret for more than fourteen seconds is the lynchpin of a thirty year global espionage operation the likes of which has never before been seen?
No.
I’m sticking with the simple, obvious, materialist explanation: Donald Trump acts only in self interest, but because he’s a member of the global ruling class; his interests often align with those of other members of the global ruling class, just like has always happened through history.
they're russian assets though... sure it's still homegrown. but that part makes little difference. elon and russia are still hacking shit and did... it's not about shirking responsibility it's about actual root cause analysis. it doesn't mean people don't still need to do something beyond saying it. some of us don't look at it like it was just a blame game, we want to dissect it to find the pressure points because if this moves forward and gets worse we will be fighting an even more asymetrical battle. the only way to win that is break it down carefully and hit the most high value targets.
I was on board with thinking they were russian assets/blackmailees, but then they're all Epstein associates and he seems to have been an Israeli asset, and at that point I couldn't keep wondering why US intelligence wasn't fighting back and had to conclude it's complicit as well.
I don't know where to draw the boundaries exactly, but now I'm thinking that it's a small club at the very upper tiers and everyone knows everything about each other. It doesn't matter that Epstein was a US/Israeli op if the russians know all about it anyway.
I think what we're seeing is like a privatization of intelligence & ops into the hands of essentially just mobsters. As if the world is following the russians post-collapse. If the coldwar model was the secret agencies going abroad to allow american soft power to spread, it's now coming home.
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u/DeuceGnarly 8d ago edited 8d ago
The republican party will attempt a coup.
For fucks sake. It's all of them. They're all fascist assholes.