We’re Distracted by Plane Crashes and Deciphering Kendrick’s Halftime Show — Meanwhile, President Musk and VP Trump Are Quietly Dismantling Democracy

While we’re busy arguing in the comments section, America is being rewritten.

Not by foreign enemies.

Not by hackers in some basement.

But from the inside.

And the man holding the pen?

Donald. Freaking. Trump.

But how did we get here?

Remember back in 2015 when Trump started yelling fake news anytime a headline hurt his feelings?

At first, we laughed and rolled our eyes.

Now?

That little phrase has turned into a cheat code for reality denial.

People don’t like a fact? They just slap fake news on it like a sticker.

Then they, quote, “do their own research” (read: go down a YouTube rabbit hole hosted by a guy named PatriotGod1776).

Fast forward to 2025.

Trump isn’t just discrediting the media anymore.

He’s rewriting the entire government — and not with some messy, dramatic, January 6th-style tantrum.

This time, he’s doing it legislatively.

DOGE: The Scam of the Century

Enter the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Sounds harmless, right?

Nah.

It’s a full-scale gutting of democracy, wrapped in a tech bro hoodie.

Inside its walls:

• Government agencies? Gutted.
• Career civil servants who actually know how to run things? Fired like contestants on The Apprentice.
• Public data? Snatched and scraped by Elon’s private xAi servers.
• Laws? Rewritten by algorithms instead of elected officials.

A handful of tech billionaires are now calling the shots.

The call it “disrupting” things — except this time, they’re “disrupting” democracy itself.

Let’s rewind back to 2008.

The global financial system went belly up… and enter Curtis Yarvin (a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug — because why have one weird name when you can have two?).

He had a theory:

Democracy wasn’t broken by corruption or incompetence. It was broken by design.

His solution?

Treat government like a tech startup. Scrap elections. Let “smart people” (read: rich tech bros) run everything like a company.

And suddenly, this idea took life in powerful, persuasive circles.

Then came Hans-Hermann Hoppe, another guy who thought democracy was trash.

In his book Democracy: The God That Failed, he straight-up argued that monarchies — yes, as in kings and queens — are better than democracies because at least kings “plan for the long term.”

And now?

These dudes’ ideas aren’t just internet fodder.

They’re being written into government policy.

The Trump Factor: From President to King?

It took less than a month after Trump’s 2025 inauguration for him to start whispering about becoming king.

Not even 30 days in, and he’s already daydreaming about making this thing permanent.

It makes sense for him to cozy up to Putin.

Which, let’s be real, is just another way of saying: “Let billionaires do whatever they want.”

Elon Musk: The Biggest Winner in All This

Speaking of billionaires, let’s talk about Elon Musk.

Because while democracy is burning, he’s making bank.

Under this new regime, every single barrier that kept SpaceX from securing any government contract it wants?

Gone.

No oversight. No competition. No restrictions.

This is the biggest conflict of interest in modern American history.

And it’s just the beginning.

A Coup Without Guns — Just Code

This isn’t a military coup.

There are no tanks rolling through the streets.

No soldiers forcing us to bow down.

Instead, it’s happening through backend migrations and silent policy changes.

They’re firing elected officials like obsolete apps.

They’re deleting democracy like a bad tweet.

And by the time most people realize?

It’ll already be gone.

So… What’s the Play?

You got two choices:

• Stay distracted. Keep arguing over the Super Bowl. Keep watching plane crash videos. Keep thinking, “Nah, this could never happen here.”
• * Get loud & contact your elected officials. Because authoritarianism doesn’t march in with sirens. It slides in the back door while you’re distracted.

Trump is stacking the deck.

Musk is cashing in.

Democracy is on the clearance rack.

Call your senators. Flood their inboxes. Raise hell.

Because once democracy is gone?

It’s not coming back.

There’s no refund. No store credit. No “oops, my bad, let’s fix this.”

And if we don’t fight now…

We’ll be telling our kids about democracy like it’s some old-school trend that got left in the 2020s.