They were blocked from entering, by who. NAME AND SHAME journalists, do your fucking duty. Who exactly is carrying out these orders. Who exactly has been escorting officials out of their offices. Names, badge numbers, pictures. This is history in the fucking making and the news media is just sitting and watching it play out like it's a fucking movie
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The MSM is complicit. They're all owned by the same oligarchs who've ushered in the fascist dictatorship, and already bent the knee to it.
This is going to happen to more agencies in the US government, and at least one of them is going to turn out to be load-bearing and cause the entire federal government to actually literally, and not in an exaggerated superlative way, cease to function.
And I don't mean in the way you could say "but it already has". I mean: one morning we're going to wake up and the Internet will be offline, the electrical grid will be browning out, and financial systems will be unable to process payments across the entire country, because the control systems have nobody at the helm and no one will have the credential access to perform maintenance upkeep.
Then after having burned down the house, Turnip and the magas will step in with authoritarian control and tell everyone that they have to save the country.
It's the same format that happened in Nazi Germany ... they literally destroyed and disrupted the nation in order to take control of it when it was on its knees .... after they had been the ones that took a baseball bat to the nation's shins.
Sounds like thats the day I will become the proclaimers, and walk 500 miles, and then 500 more just to be the man who walked 1000 miles to show up at canada/Mexico's door and begging for asylum.
there are going to be places within the united states that are somewhat less at risk from fascist incursion, such as the pacific northwest/cascadian area, a good bit of california, and especially new england. if you can get to those spots for a while, you might be able to collect yourself and contact the neighboring country either to the north or south and actually coordinate your passage instead of just trying to walk across the border unannounced. I don't think they're going to take too kindly to unauthorized refugees flooding in
The Pacific Northwest is only liberal in the cities. Eastern Oregon and Washington are scary conservative.
Yep. This is just a trial run on one agency. Expect more.
The most dangerous thing would be to destroy the FEC, CFTC, FDIC, GSA, NSF, SEC, SSA, SBA and NARA.
I can't even tell if these are real.
There are very rich people who will not stomach that much disruption of the economy.
For themselves. They only care about what will impact themselves. If the power grid got cut in the poorer parts of town, but their own power stayed on, most rich people wouldn't give a damn. Just like with lead water pipes, or budget-starved public schools, or the myriad of other issues that impact millions of non-rich people, they will let this shit happen for as long as they're not affected by it. No benevolent rich people are going to come out of the woodwork to save us.
I wasn’t implying that, just that they won’t let things get too bad because it’s gonna affect their bottom line. People can’t keep scrolling Facebook if they don’t have electricity.
No, I see a far grimmer future of things barely working and them maintaining control.
Learn about Venezuela.
They literally fucked up their own electricity and caused a widespread self inflicted famine. None of their rich stopped this process.
Under Venezuela it was a bunch of authoritarian socialists. Actually, it's closer to socialism under Trump now that he's talking sovereign wealth funds and buyouts of his closest billionaire buddies.
If Elon wants to destroy the National Park Service, then seize his assets until he retracts his decision.
Wouldn't they need the Treasury systems to do that? The Treasury systems he is now in control of? (Granted, I'm not sure how asset freezes/seizures work at that level).