Posted on 02/08/2025 11:02:19 AM PST by John Semmens
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md) went on MSNBC's The ReidOut to warn that "Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are conducting a rapidly expanding and accelerating coup. The President is supposed to protect the government from foreign invaders. Yet, Trump has unleashed a foreigner--Elon Musk--to demolish long-standing agencies for being inefficient."
"In a way, this was predictable," Raskin observed. "Neither Trump nor Musk understands that government isn't supposed to be efficient. Trump and Musk aren't experienced members of the government like most of the members of Congress like myself. They see that the government has a 'merit' system for dealing with employees. They think this means that retention and advancement are based on merit. This is only true during each employee's probationary period, which generally is six-months to a year. If a new hire isn't let go during the probation period he or she can only be fired for 'cause.'"
"Firing someone for cause entails a long and laborious process," the Congressman said. "An allegation that an employee is insufficiently productive is hard to prove because most of those who are no longer on probation tend to be unproductive. Since unproductive is the norm how can anyone be fired as long as he or she meets that standard? The way that government copes with this dilemma is for a manager to simply hire more people in a desperate attempt to appear to be trying to meet the expectations of new presidents and their appointees."
"This norm has been at work for multiple generations," Raskin noted. "Voters routinely vote to reelect the same folks to represent them in Congress and the executive branch. Yes, there are term limits in some cases, but new office holders are typically drawn from the ruling class. Of course, Trump has never been a bona fide member of the ruling class. He's an outsider trying to usurp the role that belongs to a member of the ruling class. He is, essentially an insurrectionist. He must be stopped by those of us who know how to play our roles."
There IS a coup underway, not perpetrated on 1/20/25 though.
The actual coup has many dates, because it was done right in front of us, in steps, on dates like: 11/5/2024, 9/11/2001, Act of 1871, 1913 FED/IRS, ...
What’s going on now is the revolution against the coup to restore the Republic that was stollen (sic) from us.
Yes folks, it’s 1776. Again!
11/5/2024?
JFK, Osama and Biden made the rules.
The Bolsheviks started it all is fair.
This round is for keeps.
Raskin just outed himself and his DEMONrat cohorts!
His rant needs to go viral, because it provides solid evidence that his party is as “democrat”-ICK as the KKK?
Thank you for the correction!
11/3/2020.
Define coup:
a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government.
What? They couping themselves? They be the gumming. Who else they couping?
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