Progressive Democrats accuse Trump and Musk of ‘a plutocratic coup’

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1. Unfortunately no one’s listening

2. Seems correct.

   Big protests planned on Wednesday.

   Find out more @ indivisible.org

3. Do more than produce sound bites

4. the business plot 2.0 succeeded

5. We march.

6. 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. **(YES)**

   2. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. **(YES and will do it again)**

   3. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.**(YES and will do it again)**

   4. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. **(PARTIAL and will do it again)**

   5. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. **(TRIED and will try again)**

   6. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. **(TRIED and will do it again)**

   7. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. **(YES and will do worse again)**

   8. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. **(YES and it will get worse)**

   9. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. **(TRIED and then the republicans will continue to do this)**

   10. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. **(PARTIAL and it is already getting worse)**

   11. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. **(TRIED and is threatening to do it if elected)**

   12. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. **(TRIED and will absolutely do it if he gets the chance)**

   13. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: **(YES and he is threatening to do worse)**

   14. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: (NOT QUARTERED, but given his words recently I wouldn’t be surprised if he tries)

   15. For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: **(NO, but now we are seeing people like Cannon and other appointed judges. We also saw his pardons and now his threats to his “enemies”)**

   16. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: **(YES)**

   17. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: **(Tax Cuts)**

   18. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: **(NO, but he has threatened it)**

   19. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences **(Rubio and El Salvador agreement)**

   20. For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: **(NO, but he has threatened Martial law)**

   21. For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: **(Yes)**

   22. For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. **(Tried and will try again if given a chance)**

   23. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. **(YES and has threatened way worse now)**

   24. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. **(YES and given his refusal to help “blue states” like California fight fires I see him doing worse)**

   25. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. **(NO, but remains to be seen)**

   26. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. **(NO, but hey he like this kind of stuff)**

   27. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. **(YES and still does daily)**

7. *Everyone* should be noticing that this is a coup. Part of the problem is that the right wing media isn’t covering it.

8. People correctly identify a plutocratic coup. FTFY

9. The interesting thing with Trump and Musk is that they show how flimsy are the foundations of this country. I don’t live there but I am amazed at how easy it is for them to corrupt a whole country and to escape any form of justice. I just read that Musk just removed the tax filling site. Man, in France we would have burned the streets if someone like him changed the police of an official site. I hope that the americans take on the streets, this is just crazy to let those things happen.

10. If the 53 Republican members of the Senate aren’t going to do anything, can this actually be stopped?

11. Democrats need to absolutely refuse to support any funding bills or to raise the debt ceiling or pass any bill until Musks all access security pass is revoked. Republicans barely have a majority, dems need to utilize every single ounce of power they have

12. Well done MAGA, you just handed over the country and all of YOUR tax dollars to a trillionaire oligarch who will use it like his own money. Expect more falcon 9’s and no more social security, medicare, medicaid and food stamps for you.

    Ironically everything you accuse George Soros of being IS Elon Musk except he’s actually doing it.

13. No one is coming, they won’t obey the courts. Now what?

14. do something about it.

15. Crazy that it’s only Progressive Democrats and not just like… everyone with fucking eyes in their head.

16. Elon has grabbed us by the pussy, and that pussy is Donald Trump.

17. The terse [Executive Order establishing DOGE](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/) sets forth as its mandate to modernize federal information technology. But the largest donor to Trump’s 2024 campaign, [Elon Musk is unilaterally expanding that mandate to include control over financial flows throughout the federal government](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-02/musk-says-doge-is-rapidly-shutting-down-treasury-payments?utm_campaign=instagram-bio-link&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram&leadSource=reddit_wall). Top security officials at USAID that understood the lawlessness of Musk’s actions were placed on leave Saturday after refusing to allow DOGE staffers access to systems at the foreign assistance agency, saying the DOGE staffers lacked the required security clearances.

    Musk is targeting systems that process tens of billions of dollars a day in payments for US government agencies and the officials that oversee them. Musk’s statements on Sunday, February 2, 2025, follow last week’s departure of David Lebryk, the Treasury Department’s most senior career official, after Lebryk clashed with Musk.

    [Senator Ron Wyden](https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-demands-answers-following-report-of-musk-personnel-seeking-access-to-highly-sensitive-us-treasury-payments-system), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said Friday that he’s been told that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has granted DOGE full access to Treasury’s payment systems.

    >“Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk’s own companies,” Wyden said on BlueSky, a social media rival to Musk’s X. “All of it.”

    Treasury officials have long maintained that its role is to serve as the federal government’s clerk maintaining the government checkbook, but per the Constitution (Article I, Section 8), the spending power is vested in Congress, which upon appropriation directs individual agencies to disburse the subject funds.

    Elon Musk’s unlawful actions are interfering with funds already appropriated by Congress and which are being administered in accordance with law by authorized agencies. Unelected Elon Musk’s actions constitute a direct interference with the official acts of Congress which earlier authorized specific spending and directed government agencies to carry out that legislative directive.

    Musk’s actions warrant criminal prosecution.

18. Pseudo-Department DOGE was supposed to be an ultra-transparent cost cutting marvel. Turns out, it’s just Musk and his Silicon Valley bros like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen raiding the U.S. Treasury, and exploiting America’s private data.

    One of Marc Andreessen’s ignominious companies was [LendUp](https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-consumer-bureau-orders-fintech-firm-lendup-halt-new-loans-pay-fine-2021-12-21/). Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk are straight-up criminals. For example, [Elon Musk ripped off Twitter investors for $150 million](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/technology/sec-elon-musk-securities-violations.html).

    The new head of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is Scott Kubar who worked with Andreessen at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Trump rubber-stamped Kubar as OPM chief at Musk’s request. Kubar is also a longtime associate of Musk.

    If one wants to know why Musk’s pseudo-department “DOGE” has the Consumer Fraud Protection Bureau (CFPB) in the crosshairs, you need only look to the LendUp grift. LendUp, before being shuttered, was rife with fraud and the exploitation of everyday Americans through predatory lending practices, and other lawbreaking.

    To be sure, the new American Oligarchy is an incestuous loathsome lot. Trump and his new cabal are not looking out for everyday Americans.

19. The fingerprints of [Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no) are all over this *coup d’état.* See also, [Venture Capital Extremism](https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism).

20. Musk is a national security threat of the highest order and must not be permitted to have access to America’s data, or analysis thereof.

    Musk’s DOGE was conceived to skirt disclosure requirements and vetting of China businessman Elon Musk, who has disqualifying ties to the CCP. Musk’s Tesla operating in China is subject to Chinese law requiring it to “assist or cooperate” with the Chinese Government’s “intelligence work”. Tesla Shanghai produces 50% of Tesla’s global auto output.

    On January 17, 2025, the unanimous SCOTUS identified that a national security threat existed with ByteDance Ltd. See: *TikTok Inc. v. Garland*, 604 U.S. 3 (2025):

    >ByteDance Ltd. is subject to Chinese laws that require it to “assist or cooperate” with the Chinese Government’s “intelligence work” and to ensure that the Chinese Government has “the power to access and control private data” the company holds. H. R. Rep. No. 118–417, p. 4 (2024) (H. R. Rep.); see 2 App. 673–676.

    Musk’s connection to the CCP, (like ByteDance’s connection) makes Musk a national security threat to the United States. As a condition of Musk doing business in China, Musk must “assist or cooperate” with the Chinese Government’s “intelligence work”.

    Musk is doing the bidding of Beijing on issues such as TikTok, Taiwan, H-1B visas, and tariffs. Now Musk’s attempting to rob the U.S. Treasury. Respected officials like [Senator Ron Wyden](https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-demands-answers-following-report-of-musk-personnel-seeking-access-to-highly-sensitive-us-treasury-payments-system) (D-Ore, Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee), [Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro](https://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-letter-congressional-leadership-musk-chaos-government-funding) (Democrat-CT-03, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee), and [retired military](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/opinion/elon-musk-china-classified-secrets-national-security-russia-doge.html) service members are sounding the alarm.

21. Not only is this a coup, but it’s also an extension of what Trump did when he stole those classified documents.

    Musk has now stolen more information on American citizens and our financial systems than anyone in American history.

    From what I can tell, no one even knows the full extent of the data he has obtained. [Edit: based on estimations from various sources, this is quite possibly the largest data breach in *world* history.] It’s likely that no one will ever know what he’s done with it (or will do with it) either.

    And this time, given that he’s acting as a proxy on behalf of Trump, even if he’s duly prosecuted and brought to justice, he’ll simply be pardoned.

    Much like with Trump, a functioning government would have already arrested him and he should be facing a military tribunal in the near future.

    Fuck these fucking fucks.

22. My Chinese friend made an interesting remark:
    > its funny to see what trump doing rn is basically what Xi did when he was in power at the beginning. challenge all the departments for efficiency and anti corruption, then he fired those ppl not loyal to him and replaced by his own followers

23. Funny how in America, they’re called progressives.

    In Canada, they would be our level of “moderate Conservatives”

    Regardless, the Overton window shift of the “Right” across the globe, is all happening for the same reasons.

    The enemy from within is making its move, I implore all freedom and liberty loving people to reject this ideology.

    We will only get one chance before we start to get a boot to the neck.

    We’ve been here before.

24. The media is so useless. “Progressive Democrats accuse.” JUST SAY WHAT HE IS DOING.

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