Michael Moore: The Coup d’État Has Begun

The Coup is indeed and unequivocally underway here in America. Every single act that we can engage in individually and collectively in solidarity with the Resistance matters! ― Molly

By Michael Moore

Friends,

The actual Coup in DC is underway. I don’t want to waste much time writing this when most of you already know that, and because every hour right now is precious.

It is Day 18 of the Coup. If you had been waiting for confirmation of that, there’s no need to wait for the ref to look at the instant replay or make a call to the front office. None of what’s happened in these past 18 days is surprising, as I — like many of you — have been watching all of this unfold since the day he and his spouse rode down the “golden” escalator on June 16, 2015 to the cheers of the hundred or so SAG extras he had hired for the event. This was almost ten years ago.

And none of Trump’s actions since January 20th have surprised me. He is the most “honest” President we’ve had in our lifetime. He has announced over and over what he was going to do should the American people let him back into the White House. He is transparency on steroids. He hasn’t just given us the facts and the blueprint of his long-promised coup, he has done the most audacious thing any autocrat in history has attempted — he has openly BRAGGED about exactly how he was going to pull it off. The more he performed his schtick, the more people thought either “I can’t wait for him to shut down the FBI, the CIA, the Deep State and AOC” or “Everybody should calm down, it’s just Trump! Haha!”

Haha?

You mean, “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

It’s just a big joke.

Well the joke is on all of us.

His latest announcement of the newest country that he intends to take over — “Gaza, we will own it” — has already shocked the Palestinian people, the entire Arab world, most of Europe, and numerous Jewish peace groups. He has much more up his sleeve.

Trump believes that this is actually his country and can do whatever the fuck he wants to it. Like Gaza, he owns it. What he doesn’t know is that there are literally thousands of us working right now to stop him. We have numerous ways to do that — through the courts, in Congress, mass actions of civil disobedience, police and district attorneys refusing to break the law and joining with us to block the only person the Supreme Court has declared can break the law.

Our work, though, is enormous. But not insurmountable.

Yes, the daily roundup of Brown people from mostly Catholic countries has begun. He hopes to arrest upwards of 3,000 people per day to be sent to Guantanamo or to be deported to other nations. By the end of the year he will have removed 1-2 million people from the US. He will claim that another 3-4 million people will have “self-deported.”

He has also announced his desire to defund and shut down the United Nations. He hopes to exit NATO. He has already removed the United States from the World Health Organization. Let me be very clear about this one. A worldwide bird flu epidemic seems to have begun. To remove ourselves from the World Health Organization, and for him to refuse to let the CDC tell us how many Americans are contracting this deadly virus, these are the actions of a lunatic and the results will be the potential deaths of millions of people. Every one of those people will have family and friends who are grieving. At some point, Mr. Trump, the people will rise up against you.

Now, his U.S. attorney, Edward R. Martin Jr., and the DOJ have announced they will begin arresting anyone who “threatens” actions against this Administration, especially anyone who bears ill will toward Elon Musk. Do not misunderstand the above paragraph as in any way denigrating to Mr. Musk. As is the duty of any society, we must protect our best and brightest.

I, as you can imagine, am already busy on what you would expect me to be doing. There’s no need to send me to Guantanamo yet. Also, what I’m cooking up is not only legal and safe, it is being kept at room temperature per the terms and conditions that I have agreed to sign. (Note to NSA person who reads my mail: According to my lawyer, there’s nothing to worry about as long as the Constitution is being strictly adhered to. Meanwhile, I’ll just be catching up on past seasons of “Below Deck” on Bravo.)

Finally, I want to encourage all of you to read yesterday’s column from Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University and one of the stars of my film Fahrenheit 11/9.

― Michael

Please go here for the original: https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/the-coup-detat-has-begun