I guess we might have to look at the devil’s butthole for an honest-to-god coup attempt? I don’t know, friends. On Monday, I read this email from Ryan Broderick and thought, “Oh, this is bad.” And it didn’t get better!
As Rusty Foster wrote the next day, “Every coup has a period where the people perpetrating it are breaking the law, and either they will succeed in taking over the apparatus of the state and change the law, or not. Right now we’re in the period of uncertainty, as we have been for at least five days, and the longer that uncertainty stretches out, the more exposed these criminals are. ”
Yet…here we are on Thursday and Elon’s Shitler Youth* still have access to pretty much everything? In the words of Jezebel, “What the fuck are Democrats doing?” It’s almost like both parties are funded by the same billionaires or something and are OK with whatever is happening as long as their portfolios make more money. Coups probably don’t affect the ruling class as much!
Kottke.org, my usual site for cool humanities stuff, is exclusively posting about the Incel Coup* attempt until it’s overcome or every blogger gets sent to reeducation camps on Mars. Wired has excellent coverage, too.
I know reading about this all is choosing to look at the grossest, puckeriest devil’s butthole imaginable, but this could decide the rest of our lives. Get informed, and then get organized.
And keep posting through it, I guess.
*not my term, but I don’t remember where I saw it now.