Laura E.

On 8/2/20, I saw a terrifying movement, a neo-Nazi online cult, referred to as QAnon by the press, metastasizing through bizarre conspiracies and game mechanics that I helped invent 20 years ago. Six months later, it attacked the Capitol. as I predicted. I have spent every day since trying to warn about it—through the entire Biden administration—1627 days, 20k hours, 107k tweets, 10k videos, 1,600 articles, 100s of podcasts, two frivolous lawsuits. When Musk started to show his true colors three years ago, I warned what he is. As he weaponized Twitter to brainwash people into his techno-Nazi worldview, and Mike Flynn traveled the country on a QAnon tour, I yelled into the void that we were missing the point. Over and over and over. It all came to nought of course. The DOJ & FBI were fatally compromised, and @POTUS made a decision that protecting “norms and institutions” was more important than protecting American citizens from being brainwashed—or holding people accountable for J6. Tonight, @JoeBiden will give a speech touting his successes, and it’s true that he set the economy back on track, and passed meaningful legislation, just like all Democratic presidents do. But, like all Democrats, he didn’t fix, or even acknowledge, the real problem.  Joe Biden says “we braved through it. We emerged stronger, more prosperous, and more secure.” I beg to differ. Joe Biden never left the alternate reality of the establishment. He surrounded himself with milquetoast aides who fed him the positive outcomes he was looking for, but never gave him the truth. The “America” Joe Biden fixed the economy for is dead. The establishment alternate reality he will talk about tonight is dead. None of what he did matters because the other alternate reality, the fascist conspiracy movement created by Flynn, now replicated at monstrous scale by Musk, is more powerful & more organized, with infinite financial resources. This is not Trump 2.0, it’s a takeover by the PayPal Mafia, a group of Nazi immigrants who saw us as a soft target. At the inauguration on Monday will be the American oligarchy, a group of psychopaths competing to be the world’s first trillionaire, conspiring about how to create “hardship” and “austerity” to suck the last remaining money out of the Treasury. Trump will issue 100+ executive orders decimating everything Biden did & plunging the nation into terror, on Day One. Musk now has office space in the White House; billionaires infest the Cabinet. Jeff Bezos & Mark Zuckerberg, who pretended to be in favor of democracy & control a massive swath of the digital and physical economy, have completely capitulated. I respect the President, and his 50 years of service. In many ways, he did an admirable job, but in the most important job he had, the oath to protect and defend the Constitution and the American people, he turned out to be another old man living in an alternate reality created for him by others. That said, I have not, and will never give up on my country. Perhaps, in the end, the kleptocratic kakistocracy being installed is the only thing that will snap us out of it. Perhaps what will emerge from the wreckage will be better. But that will not happen on its own. We must protest, resist, and sabotage every attempt at seizing more power. We must stop being afraid to get in their face as they try to defraud us out of our rights, labor and resources. We must stop being afraid to call Russia the enemy, a terrorist state that must be defeated, not a legitimate nation. Unfortunately neither “history” or “power” will be “in our hands” after Monday. The power of our military, our economic might and the labor of the people will be handed over to a transnational crime syndicate who wants to remake the planet. The way forward is opaque but I am convinced it exists. I do not think America, per se, is finished. But unfortunately “we braved through it” is a line absurdly premature. Nevertheless, brave through it we will. 🇺🇸