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relogic

(388 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 01:25 PM 20 hrs ago

The Coup

to remake the office of POTUS and the two other branches into ruling institutions that are immune from laws, Constitutional restrictions, subpoenas, court orders and all the rest was accomplished in November 2016. As we observe, this permitted the ongoing defilement and defiance that is run amuck.

The POTUS believes (along with his complicit party) and has effectively become the tyrannical, corrupt, grifting, felonious, CEO of our Treasury, Land, Sea, etc. With that farcical “election” they neutralized normal behaviour, laws, civility, previous traditions, presidential honor, American stature, etc. inherent in our democratic society.

The pace at which a certifiably insane President managed to appropriate within ten years so much of our country is filled with dread and trepidation. What remains a gnawing question- how very much more will our country relinquish to this tyrant and will we recognize what’s left of us when they’ve finished.

There were kings and emperors that wielded their insane whims and cruelty with increasingly, maddening, regularity from Caligula toThe Zhengde Emperor of China. Have we not learned then that handing so much of the people’s sovereignty to a lying, selfish child who thinks the world revolves around him is convinced it’s true because the most pressing thing for the world-

The pool isn’t blue.
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