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Your "this is all just business as usual" tone really isn't serving. Your President is trying to economically soften my country for later seizure and has openly made commentary about taking other countries in acts of international war. He has pardoned armed Insurrectionists who in the past tried to disrupt through violence the democratic transfer of power in his favour. He has invited to his cabinet heads whose entire manifesto they signed was gutting the past 100 years of regulatory law and administrative arms of government that was created by democratic processes and invited one of the most powerful people in the world to head the project who threw two Nazi salutes at an Inauguration whose decorating recalled the Confederate flag moreso than the stars and stripes. He's refurbished Gitmo and has been utilizing ICE agents to speed the forced deportation of people, some of them on military planes in purposefully inhumane conditions. Every Executive order creates a new flood on the courts which will take years to fully sort out and in it's wake databases are being seized or deleted, food deigned for relief efforts are rotting on shelves, proposals are in progress to strip voting rights for anyone who has ever changed their name which will hit women particularly hard. Trans people have already been denied travel, and denied new travel documents, any documents regardless of gender marker and had their existing documents seized at passport offices. He's signed into order an order that was intended to force judges to apply the death penalty to any crimes where it could be an outcome. (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-the-death-penalty-and-protecting-public-safety/) What future purpose can you imagine this holding?

Congress, The Senate, the judiciary... Those bodies require process and deliberatiom, in other words time, and the President and his cronies have decided to just speed break things and push failure states and force compliance knowing that picking up the peices will be an infinitely slower process.

And blaming the voters? During the election Republican grassroot efforts disenfranchised a ridiculous number of voters because people sought out visible minorities or people who showed obvious Democratic party leanings and reported them to elections Office en mass which automatically struck them off the rolls until they could be investigated but since there was limited manpower to investigate so a lot of them were frozen without challenge. Those that did vote for Trump did so on promises that any idiot should have known was not in his legal power to fix and ignored his blatant desire to strip reproductive rights, remove trans people's healthcare and banish them from public life, ignored a manifesto outlining the plans of his sponsors and a lot of racist, homophobic, sexist and authoritarian commentary on the campaign trail. If you have someone who decided enough was enough and left your life because of your vote for "better grocery prices" then yes, it's deserved.

At what point have you crossed the Rubicon? When are you going to draw the line between "not a coup" and "this is a coup"? Will it be after this bunch of appointed ministers to the king commits an act of outright international war? Tell me, where is the line because I am pretty sure you should already be in the street protesting. Outside of the US the rest of the world is already discussing the US in terms of a failed Democracy. People who have experience in the feild of International Law are ringing the alarm. Why aren't you?

in public, legal cognitive decline.

You mean Trump? The guy who is far worse in every "dementia" metric than Biden ever was? No, that would be going against your cult leader and king, we can't do that.

DOGE has done some unconstitutional shit, yes, but you’re ignoring that the courts are putting a stop to it.

On that topic...

Also, I think it's already a big red flag that a newly created government department run by the president's billionaire buddy is doing 'unconstitutional shit'.