Government Coup

[Tradd]

I have older friends who lived in the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries under Communism.

This has also been going around lately.

https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/th...mple-sabotage/

[Tradd]

These might be interesting or helpful to some on protecting yourself from government surveillance.

https://www.eff.org/pages/surveillance-self-defense

https://www.wired.com/story/the-wire...-surveillance/

[gimmethesimplelife]

This may surprise all of you - protests have come to Phoenix and SO and I have sat them out. We are both a bit concerned though have escape plans in place. He is naturalized and married to a known dissident. I may be deported for all I know. Nothing would surprise me at this point. I honestly don't know what I would do without SO in these trying times. Rob

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[Tradd]

This may surprise all of you - protests have come to Phoenix and SO and I have sat them out. We are both a bit concerned though have escape plans in place. He is naturalized and married to a known dissident. I may be deported for all I know. Nothing would surprise me at this point. I honestly don't know what I would do without SO in these trying times. Rob

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Suggest you look at the EFF Surveillance Self Defense material and put it in action. It’s very doable.

[Tradd]

More duties coming soon, just a matter of when.

[Rogar]

Suggest you look at the EFF Surveillance Self Defense material and put it in action. It’s very doable.

I took a short look, but concluded I really don't have anything to hide other than being a Democrat. I suspect Elon has already harvested all my medical and financial information.

A bigger concern for me is what is being withheld, censored, or cancel cultured. I noticed today Trump has ending funding for the National Nature Assessment. Admittedly it was started only recently, but it does seem important. What we don't know about the drill baby drill and roll back of regulations effects won't hurt us.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...ent-trump.html

I see a latest is Trump ordered the treasury to stop making pennies. Probably an idea that started with Elon.

All the protests in the world will probably have less impact that a flagging economy and a declining stock market and 401Ks. Tariffs can do that. It's rather ironic, a medium sized steel plant in my state that was once the towns bread basket is still up and running at a lower production rate. Steel tariffs may help keep people employed, but it's well known that the company, through a bunch of complicated corporate organizations, is owned by a Russian conglomerate. At a time when sanctions were imposed by Biden it was up for sale, but I don't think anything went through. The same town also has once of the largest Vesta wind turbine plants, which no doubt will suffer.

[Tybee]

This is really bad:
CFPB Shutdown — Bluesky (bsky.app)

[Tybee]

the bigger picture:
Are you feeling demoralized, traumatized, or demonized? Because you should know that that is actually the goal.



[COLOR=var(--color-neutral-content)]This is based on an older ProPublica article (October 2024), but I hadn’t seen it before and it shocked me to learn that harming you emotionally is actually part of the plan:
“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
Article highlights:

• premeditated plan to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest
  
• defund the EPA and other federal agencies
  
• put career civil servants “in trauma”
  
• demoralizing federal workers to the point that they don’t want to do their jobs
  
• embracing a wartime footing on the southern border
  
• rolling back transgender rights
  
• building a “shadow” Office of Legal Counsel to help Trump steamroll the internal opposition he faced in his first term
  
• “defund” certain independent federal agencies and demonize career civil servants, which include scientists and subject matter experts

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[Tradd]

I took a short look, but concluded I really don't have anything to hide other than being a Democrat. I suspect Elon has already harvested all my medical and financial information.

A bigger concern for me is what is being withheld, censored, or cancel cultured. I noticed today Trump has ending funding for the National Nature Assessment. Admittedly it was started only recently, but it does seem important. What we don't know about the drill baby drill and roll back of regulations effects won't hurt us.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...ent-trump.html

I see a latest is Trump ordered the treasury to stop making pennies. Probably an idea that started with Elon.

All the protests in the world will probably have less impact that a flagging economy and a declining stock market and 401Ks. Tariffs can do that. It's rather ironic, a medium sized steel plant in my state that was once the towns bread basket is still up and running at a lower production rate. Steel tariffs may help keep people employed, but it's well known that the company, through a bunch of complicated corporate organizations, is owned by a Russian conglomerate. At a time when sanctions were imposed by Biden it was up for sale, but I don't think anything went through. The same town also has once of the largest Vesta wind turbine plants, which no doubt will suffer.

The EFF thing was for Rob.

[gimmethesimplelife]

I have been in touch with an immigration attorney in Ecuador to get a grasp if our appliacations for permanent residency would have a chance. I seriously question the wisdom of remaining in the US if not necessary, esp with this concentration camp revving up at Guantanamo. I'm not of Austrian descent for nothing - that there is a flee the country human rights offense. We'll see how this goes, and I will update soon as I know anything.

Pro tip - supposedly sexual orientation will not work against me with Ecuadorian bureaucracy....we'll see. Rob