Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Focus on the coup

Anand Giridharadas: But what Musk and Co. are up to is the unraveling of the constitutional order itself"the system that makes all these other choices possible. It is of supreme importance, and you need to keep your eye on that ball. More importantly, the media that serves you do

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Much of our traditional media is failing us, more worried about sobriety and balance than identifying vast threats that require a little bit of dot connecting to name and frame. It is fulfilling Bannon's prophecy, overwhelmed by too many things to tell us what matters most.

It is not presenting what Musk is doing for what it is: a coup. Rather, it is describing it in procedural terms and then leaving it to critics to denounce. This is the old model of reporting: stating what one party says or does and then giving the other party a chance to respond. But a coup is an actual thing with an actual meaning. Our news outlets have no problem naming this thing when it happens in a country far away. We need to grow comfortable describing it here. It is happening here. It is now.

#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-05 09:06 AM

It's a shock and awe coup strategy to put the Oligarchs in charge... starting with Herr Musk.

Thanks for posting this, Gal.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-05 11:16 AM

Yes, it's really a coup:

Is It Really a Coup?

"The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical."

joycevance.substack.com

#3 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-05 11:19 AM

BREAKING: Trump gets BAD NEWS over FBI firings

www.youtube.com

The two Judges overseeing the lawsuits filed by FBI Agents over their Firings without cause (for doing the jobs they were assigned to do) are seen as very fair by the Agents.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-05 12:49 PM

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