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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

THANK YOU @maddow.msnbc.com for talking about KLEPTOCRACY tonight in your show!! I e been spreading the word for months that this is happening in our government! I saw Bernie Sanders using it too! This is exactly what is happening here! Look it up! KLEPTOCRACY! 😡🤯😳

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I honestly can’t believe that I’m living in a time where I have to worry that not only the fate of our public education system but our democratic society and country are in the hands of the Supreme Court!! 🤯😳🤬😰🫣

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Such leadership! 🙃 He wants all the power and none of the responsibility. As any Spider-Man fan knows, that is not how it works. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

At this rate the Supreme Court DOESN’T deserve their job!

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

@maddow.msnbc.com This- Kleptocracy, also referred to as thievocracy, is a government whose corrupt leaders use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population. Help us

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

@allinwithchris.bsky.social This- Kleptocracy, also referred to as thievocracy, is a government whose corrupt leaders use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

@aoc.bsky.social Kleptocracy, also referred to as thievocracy, is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

@chrislhayes.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social I’m starting to think that we should consider splitting our country into two. North USA and South USA. Trump can be the king of the south and the maga folks can follow suit. The north can continue with the constitution and democracy! Our country is too big!

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Susan Collins-R from Maine is letting her constituents down! She’s showing them that her reelection is more important than the people she serves! She’s allowing Trump to continue to let Musk tear apart and destroy our government & by pushing through loyalists who are unqualified! What about the DOE?

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Public schools are standing here, begging for resources, while the government holds the funding behind its back, saying: “I’ll give it to you… but only if you let me change the rules first.”

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The fact that Texas is withholding over $4 billion (yes, *billion* with a capital) in public school funding until the voucher program passes is like a child refusing to share their toys until their friends agree to play the game they want.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

They are offering no future beyond acting out their midlife crises on the rest of us. It is demeaning to pretend that they represent something besides a logic of destruction.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The plotting oligarchs have legacy money from an earlier era of software, which they are now seeking to leverage, using destructive political techniques, to destroy human institutions. That’s it.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Commentators should please stop using words such as “digital” and “progress” and “efficiency” and “vision” when describing this coup attempt.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Can American companies responsibly pay taxes to a US Treasury controlled by their private competitors? Tesla paid no federal tax at all in 2024. Should other companies pay taxes that, for all they know, will just enrich Tesla’s owner?

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

And companies? As every CEO knows, the workings of markets depend upon the government creating a fair playing field. The ongoing takeover will make life impossible for all but a few companies.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Democrats who serve in state office as governors have a chance to profile themselves, or more importantly to profile an America that still works. Attorneys general in states have a chance to enforce state laws, which will no doubt have been broken.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Trump should obviously be impeached. Either he has lost control, or he is using his power to do obviously illegal things. If Republicans have a sense of where this is going, there could be the votes for an impeachment and prosecution.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It might take a moment, but even Republican leaders might recognize that the Senate and House will no longer matter in a post-American oligarchy without citizens.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Individual Democrats in the Senate and House have legal and institutional tools to slow down the attempted oligarchical takeover. There should also be legislation.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

will reach the Supreme Court quickly. I am under no illusion that the majority of justices care about the rule of law. They know, however, that our belief in it makes their office something other than the undignified handmaiden of oligarchy. If they legalize the coup, they are irrelevant forever.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Their idea is that they will be immunized by their boldness. This must be proven wrong.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Much of what is happening, though, involves private individuals whose names are not even known, and who have no legal authority, wandering through government offices and issuing orders beyond even the questionable authority of executive orders.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

make it known to your elected officials that you wanted something else. And get ready to protest with people with whom you otherwise disagree.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If you voted Republican, and you care about your country, please act rather than rationalize. Unless you cast your ballot so that South African oligarchs could steal your data, your money, your country, and your future,

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I describe it not because it must succeed but because it must be described so that we can make it fail. This will require clarity, and speed, and coalitions. I try to capture the mood in my little book On Tyranny. Here are a few ideas:

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The attempt by the oligarchs to destroy our government is illegal, unconstitutional, and more than a little mad. The people in charge, though, are very intelligent politically, and have a plan.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

None of that will happen; they will die here on Earth, with the rest of us, their only legacy, if we let it happen, one of ruins. They are god-level brainrotted.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

They see themselves as the servants of the freedom of the chosen few, but in fact they are possessed, like millennia of tyrants before them, of fantastic dreams: they will live forever, they will go to Mars.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

For the men currently pillaging the federal government, the data from those video selfies is more important than the people who will make them. The new world they imagine is not just anti-American but anti-human. The people are just data, means to the end of accumulating wealth.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

After we are all poor and isolated, the logic goes, we will be consoled by the thought that there is at least a human being to whom we can appeal. We will settle for a kind of anthropological minimum, wishful contact with the strong man.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In the logic of destruction, there is no need to rebuild afterwards. In this chaos, the oligarchs will tell us that there is no choice but to have a strong man in charge.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Of course, if you fire everyone who was concerned in some way with the investigations of January 6th or of Russia, that will be much or even most of the FBI. Those are bad reasons, but the reality is worse: the aim is lawlessness: to get the police and the patriots out of the way.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The best people in American federal law enforcement, national security, and national intelligence are being fired. The reasons given for this are DEI and trumpwashing the past.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Deportations, spectacle to turn Americans against another, to make us afraid, and to get us to see pain and camps as normal. They also create busy-work for law enforcement, locating the “criminals” in workplaces across the country, as the crime of the century takes place at the very center of power.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

As their country is destroyed, Americans must be denied the idea that anything else is possible.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Trump’s tariffs (which are also likely illegal) are there to make us poor. Trump’s attacks on America’s closest friends, countries such as Canada and Denmark, are there to make enemies of countries where constitutionalism works and people are prosperous.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In general the economic collapse they plan is more like a reverse flood from the Book of Genesis, in which the righteous will be submerged while the very worst ride Satan’s ark. The self-chosen few will ride out the forty days and forty night. When the waters subside, they will be alone to dominate.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The gap between the oligarchs’ wealth and everyone else’s will grow. Knowing what they themselves will do and when, they will have bet against the stock market in advance of Trump’s deliberately destructive tariffs, and will be ready to tell everyone to buy the crypto they already own.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Theirs is a logic of destruction. It is very hard to create a large, legitimate, functioning government. The oligarchs have no plan to govern. They will take what they can, and disable the rest. The destruction is the point. They don’t want to control the existing order.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

For them, there is no such thing as an America, or Americans, or democracy, or citizens, and they act accordingly. Now that the oligarchs and their clients are inside the federal government, they are moving, illegally and unconstitutionally, to take over its institutions.

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03holly.bsky.social @03holly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

@aoc.bsky.social This! DR. TIMOTHY D. SNYDER, “THE LOGIC OF DESTRUCTION - And how to resist it. Almost everything that has happened during this attempted takeover is illegal. Lawsuits can be filed and courts can order that executive orders be halted. This is crucial work.

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