Trump's calculation is that Americans won't stand up and put their bodies on the line. That comfort, division, and fear will hold. That nobody will actually take to the streets in numbers large enough to matter. That the military won't fracture.
He might be right. He might not be.
In this game the next move isn't yours or mine it's whether enough Americans en masse decide that losing democracy and freedom permanently is worse than the cost of stopping it. That calculation hasn't been made yet.
But the window for making it is not infinite. In this game it never is.
#DutyToWarn #TrumpCoup #USpol #CivilDisobedience #Democracy

Duty to warn. Are you American? Read this.

Read a draft of the emergency executive order for Trump to take control of elections - Democracy Docket

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/exclusive-read-the-draft-executive-emergency-order-for-trump-to-take-control-of-elections/

#DutyToWarn #TrumpCoup #USpol #VotingRights #DemocracyDocket

Read a draft of the emergency executive order for Trump to take control of elections

Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional. 

Democracy Docket

“Donald Trump has decided the Constitution does not matter.”

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on the #TrumpCoup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrE0DOEcbRE

Ongoing Coup | Attorney General Kris Mayes

YouTube

@derAchteSchwabe

#TrumpCoup #Faschismus in den #USA

Das ist richtig. Ich schreibe seit Jahren darüber--und es sieht düster aus für die #Amerikaner:

Wir sollten uns *alle* beeilen, zu tun, was wir können, denn 👉der #faschistische Übernahmeplan, #Project2025, ist bereits zu 47 % abgeschlossen:👈

„Umfragen zeigen, dass Project 2025 keine Resonanz gefunden hat. Die Wähler hielten es für unrealistisch ... nach nur neun Monaten ist es bereits zu 47 % abgeschlossen...

https://cwebbstudio.substack.com/p/the-purge

THE PURGE

...the shutdown is the assist

Christopher Webb's Dispatch

@Npars01

#Resist

Good work, Nicole, that saves me work to compile that list.

As with Europe and #Russia's war in #Ukraine, we should stop funding the #Fascists:
No oil or (liquid) gas from Russia--no purchases from companies where these funders of the #MAGA/ #TrumpCoup hold a share of 20% or more*.

The list will be hard to compile, but even harder to boycott by all of us.
We need to at least try to

#DefundTheBillionaires and eventually #AbolishBillionaires.

*
https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/controlling-stake

CONTROLLING STAKE Definition | Law Insider

Define CONTROLLING STAKE. has the meaning set forth in Section 6.3(c).

Law Insider

Is now a good time for action? Now seems like a good time.

#trumpcoup #ice #gestopo

Great PI article below..

https://popular.info/p/ice-boosts-weapons-spending-700

**"Put these moves together and a frightening pattern emerges: purge independent legal advisers who might say “no,” and gag the press before the damage can be exposed. Combine that with increasingly aggressive, unilateral action by the military abroad, and you have the outlines of a strategy for bypassing democratic oversight.**
**A Trump-forced coup, in other words."**

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-2674210174/

#trumpcoup #petehegseth

Trump is preparing a coup — the evidence is clear if you know where to look

Is the U.S. military already in the early stages of a Trump-led coup against our Constitution?Inside the Pentagon, loyalty is being elevated above law as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth quietly removes senior military lawyers, the very officials meant to uphold legality and restraint, and replaces th...

Raw Story

@Nonilex

#USpol #TrumpCoup

Others, including me, had seen a high probability for #Trump invoking the #InsurrectionAct already on #April 20th of this year:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114352550081966098

Luckily, I'd did not come to pass.

#MAGA and the think tanks, pressure groups, oligarchs, and technofeudalists behind it, still persue their long-range plan*, so the logic for inacting looks still compelling for the extreme, but powerful fringes of them.

*
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114670353869544765

More recently: #Project2025

#USpol #TrumpCoup #Resist

#US "Senator #CoryBooker (D-NJ) is not afraid to speak the truth to #Trump's #FBI director, #KashPatel," reprimanding him, "...to step up...and do a *much* better job!"

"#news​ #politics#politicalnews#shorts#liberal#democrat#progressive#us#usnews#senate#newjersey#fbi​"

https://youtube.com/shorts/JU3v30klSQw8

Before you continue to YouTube

A critique of pure #stupidity - understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald #Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech.

But might there be a way out?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oct/02/critique-pure-stupidity-understanding-donald-trump-2

#dictatorship #ComradeKrasnov #DictatorTrump #TrumpCoup #authoritarian #fascism #FreeSpeechGone

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might there be a way out?

The Guardian