- Reminder of this. Have been saying this since November 9th! #USA https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/822242103895986176 …
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825774679071846401
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:36:40 - Start with this https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/822242103895986176 …
- Important to see the events since Jan 20 as elements of a coup inc dismissal/resignation, reforming of various key agencies (esp State Dept)
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825775554104266752
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:40:08 - One of their first steps was gag order issued on various government agencies, starting of course with NPS. Muffling dissent is key! #coup
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825775876721803264
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:41:25 - Intimidation of media (and specific journos) has been an ongoing feature of the Orange Dodo's campaign but that has stepped up since 20/1
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825776119379005441
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:42:23 - In the initial stages of a soft coup, journalists and press are often left discombobulated and unable to cover the events with clarity.
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825776464452866048
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:43:45 - There is disbelief and unwillingness to accept that the intimidation, incremental gagging, etc. And of course relentless regime propaganda
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825776648641511424
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:44:29 - As such - and as has happened in US since last year - the press unwittingly/willingly colludes with the coup leaders by pushign propaganda
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825776835858399233
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:45:14 - But that is merely the groundwork. But main steps have been taken since Nov. 9. Transition demanded return of US ambassadors by 20/1.
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825777139723227136
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:46:26 - The Joint Chief of Staffs was removed yesterday from the National Security Committee. Again, important in the steps to a coup
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825778669432008704
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:52:31 - A full list of steps taken since Jan 20th here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10PMC2_XtiHhMe84fcqII-zrI4nopBYt1-YRuQp7yk4M/mobilebasic … scroll down the list. USA journos would call this a coup elsewhere
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825779035829628930
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:53:59 - Key elements remain the same: purging of inconvenient members of the bureaucracy while using more amenable parts of the state apparatus
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825779274879733760
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:54:56 - The role of CBP in vigorously implementing #MuslimBan must be seen in this light. Regardless of legality, it has acted w unusual alacrity!
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825779569852563456
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:56:06 - Next key step for completing a coup has taken place today: CBP+ DHS have decided to follow presidential EO rather than stay by federal court
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825779821116522498
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:57:06 - The dismantling of the rule of law - and its subsequent replacement by a more amenable judiciary - is necessary for a coup to be successful
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825780124306046976
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:58:18 - This has already begun. This is also why @GOP and the WH are so keen on rushing through a SCOTUS appointment (and blocked Obama's nominee)
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825780296800927746
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:58:59 - Also necessary to not assume that @GOP is separate from WH. Most Republicans are at least willing to be silent if not actively collude
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825780499209674753
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 18:59:47 - Again, a coup requires a tight coterie within the government but active albeit silent participation of others. In case of USA, it is @GOP
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825780666331754496
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 19:00:27 - Also worth noting that a coup often impacts the opposition parties the same way as the press: baffles + confuses them. Freezes by disbelief
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825780994837970948
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 19:01:46 - This means political parties in opposition attempt to behave as if they are in a 'normal' situation (see the Dems in USA right now) #coup
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825781125595422721
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 19:02:17 - But a coup is NOT NORMAL. So first political opposition is frozen into inaction, then tries to negotiate, while being systemically smashed
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825781501891588096
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 19:03:46 - Again, the point of a coup is to destroy all institutional structures of a democracy. That has already happened in just 10 days!
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825781720859414528
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 19:04:39 - The key difference I see in case of #USA: this soft coup has been faster, brasher, more in-your-face than I have ever seen anywhere else
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825781943174324224
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 19:05:32 - All this makes it a Thoroughly American Coup d' Etat. There you go, pundits, you can now steal that phrase from me to run w/out attribution
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825782337396957192
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 19:07:06 - Can only hope that speed/brashness of this coup will work against it. Quiet incremental steps go unnoticed: proverbial frog in boiling water
https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/825782806345310209
— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6)Sun, Jan 29 2017 19:08:57
