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He doesn't need the authority if he just forces his way in.

Oops that was a paperwork fuck up. I'm sorry IRS, I'll hand over the amount owed from my savings.

And life continues.

The IRS doesn't want to prosecute people, it wants to get paid. A massive tax strike would be very effective because the IRS is getting short staffed under a trump administration. So they might actually take a few years to get to you. This is, of course, contingent on you having that money in savings and being willing to pay them when they show up for it.

This isn't legal advice, I'm not a lawyer, just an old guy who pays attention, if you're going to do this I highly recommend not responding or voting this comment. (It's evidence)

I wonder at what point people are going to use force to stop this coup

Historically, it should start in about 30 days, or so, internally with rapid succession authoritarianism settling in.

Then, it takes a year or so after the first territorial grab. The first one is called "appeasement" strategy.

After that, then the rest of the world bombs us into desolation.

Sorry the number you are trying to reach has been disconnected.

Looking at exit polls and post election polls it was the economy. Trump was very direct in his promise to lower prices. Harris ran over a hundred different messaging lines which clouded her economic message. Then she got caught on national TV defending Biden's economy and saying nothing would change.

Because we're all just people and at the end of the day some person is agreeing to not dispense the funds or not provide aid or to round up individuals ... Until there is meaningful pushback by people who actually are carrying this bullshit out it won't change.

Idk same as how the Nazis managed the Holocaust, at the end of the day thousands of individuals agreed and did their part to exterminate the Jews. Same as how Israel now is committing an ongoing genocide in Gaza with their military and all those individuals are carrying out their orders.

Authority, like many other things in our society, is an emphemeral concept we all agree to. Authority is given when we agree to abide by what that authority says. Same like our laws, sure we have laws against things but it's not like those actually mean anything if they're not obeyed by the majority. Nothing stopping you from doming Elon with the a large brick if you got one and can get close enough, you know what I mean?

Trump's government is basically pay-to-play and Elon paid the most so he gets to do whatever he wants.

Or Boeing. Boeing certainly seems to not have an issue with taking care of people who are causing them problems.

It’s stressing me out to no end. I think the average person doesn’t even know this is currently happening.

Now, arm up

Because Putin wants rid of it.

U.S.A.I.D. funds democracy-promotion programs around the world, including in European countries where right-wing populist movements are thriving. Mr. Musk has become an ally of those movements, some of whose leaders have specifically targeted the agency’s pro-democracy programs in recent years.

Supporters of Viktor Orban, the right-wing leader of Hungary and a darling of pro-Trump conservatives in the United States, have personally criticized Samantha Power, who led U.S.A.I.D. during the Biden administration, for trying to import American values into their country.

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