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"Eight months ago, those of us actually paying attention—not just scrolling
outrage bait about Biden’s age or the latest campus controversy, but genuinely
tracking the systematic preparation for authoritarian rule—warned that Trump
represented an existential threat to democratic governance. We were diagnosed
with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” The reasonable people explained, with
infinite patience, that we were being hysterical. That institutions would hold.
That checks and balances would constrain him. That we were catastrophizing over
mean tweets and rough rhetoric.
We weren’t sharing viral clips of Biden stumbling over words or getting worked
up about some college kid’s pronoun demands. We were reading the actual
plans—the Schedule F preparations, the Jeffrey Clark memos, the systematic
identification of loyalists willing to ignore legal constraints. We were
watching what the people planning Trump’s return to power were actually doing
and saying, tracking the ideological pipelines from Yarvin to Vance, the tech
oligarchs pre-positioning themselves for the collapse of democratic oversight.
While everyone else was debating whether Biden was too old or whether DEI had
gone too far, we were documenting the actual infrastructure being built to
dismantle democracy itself.
Now grand juries are being empaneled to criminally investigate Barack Obama.
The Justice Department has become a revenge machine. American soldiers kneel on
tarmac to prepare ceremonial welcomes for war criminals. Our financial system
is being handed over to crypto fraudsters who’ve paid their protection money to
the regime. Civil servants who object on constitutional grounds are being
purged. Corporate power lines up to pay tribute in a now-gold adorned Oval
Office, each CEO performing their submission in increasingly vulgar displays.
And those same reasonable people who were so concerned about Biden’s cognitive
decline are explaining why this is all perfectly normal, actually, and
besides—at least we don’t have to deal with diversity training anymore."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
