Things are getting crazy bad really fast and we have to RESIST

Elon Musk has taken action that directly threatens the continuity of democratic government in our country. Again. Please remember that he has no official capacity whatsoever and cannot legally act effectively as a principal officer of the United States as outlined in a large body of case law. So what he is doing with supposed authority of the executive is outright illegal. Yesterday, he sent, under color of the Office of Personnel Management, an email to virtually all federal employees asking them to describe what they did in the last week, and telling them that failure to respond would be construed as resignation. This flies in the face of innumerable laws and regulations, and, at its core, is the illegal action of an unelected person, arrogating unto himself authority that under a large and clear body of law he does not have. Anyone whose actions require the authority of a constitutional principal officer of the United States must be approved by the Senate (no matter what their job is called), and even then, their actions, just like the actions even of the president himself, are constrained by laws and the Constitution. What Musk is presuming to do amounts to a coup. 

This action is so obviously illegal it makes my head spin, but even more so, this is total lunacy. These people have gone beyond anything even remotely acceptable to anyone who thinks about it for more than five seconds. 

Something is going to have to give, and soon. Musk's popularity is already in the less than 30% range, and if what he's doing were as widely known as it needs to be, I think there would (will) be a groundswell of opposition to what he's doing. Trump will likely throw him under the bus at some point, when it becomes clear that his own hold on public support is slipping in tandem with Musk's. Sure, Trump doesn't give half a shit what anyone thinks, and will act as a dictator insofar as he can get away with it. He has explicitly said that he thinks his bare plurality in the election means he gets to be king, with absolute authority. Of course this is not what the law says, and it's quite possible that even his bought and paid for Supreme Court will balk at this, but there are more than hints that they intend to at least try to simply ignore the law and exercise raw power, like dictators in other countries where democracy has failed. But even in autocratic countries (like Russia), public opinion does matter. We have seen the first signs of spontaneous civil disobedience and mass opposition to this regime. This kind of thing is happening so fast and so completely that the public awareness has not been able to keep up. The big lie politics that got Trump (barely) elected are still in place, and many, many people believe heaps of outright falsehoods about these people and what they're doing. But as more and more people's' lives are directly affected by this insanity, we will start to see public outrage. It's already happening, and appears to be accelerating, in tandem with the accelerating insanity of what the regime is trying to do. 

We must be part of this resistance. All of us. We must not give them passive obedience. We must resist, even at risk and sacrifice to ourselves. Our country is at stake. 

Please don't be complacent. Please take what's happening to our country seriously. You don't have to wallow in news coverage 24-7, but pay attention. Don't let the "normalization" that the media tends to push affect your thinking. Keep asking yourself is this right? Is this what America stands for? Is this tolerable in a free society? What can I do to make my refusal to go along clear? 

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RESIST. BOYCOTT.
ORGANIZE. CONTRIBUTE.

NEVER GIVE UP. 
DEMAND IMPEACHMENT.