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"Midway through their conversation, Anton says to Yarvin, “You’re essentially advocating for someone to – age-old move – gain power lawfully through an election, and then exercise it unlawfully”, adding: “What do you think the actual chances of that happening are?”

Yarvin responded: “It wouldn’t be unlawful,” adding: “You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address.”

"Yarvin continued: “You’d actually have a mandate to do this. Where would that mandate come from? It would come from basically running on it, saying, ‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do.’”

"Elsewhere in the podcast with Anton, Yarvin talked of the need to mobilise the base of the party – its ordinary supporters – in the service of the cause. Yarvin postulated this could be done with an app that supporters would download and take instructions from when opponents were identified." That would be X from which Elon can launch the mobs against any target.

@socprof Remembering how bizarrely insane Trump's first inaugural speech was, I don't know whether I can stand to listen to the upcoming one or not but I do expect him to try a shock and awe campaign in the first days of the regime to convince Americans they are powerless and he is unfettered by laws. Of course this will spawn scores of lawsuits which will stay many orders initially, but he doesn't care about that as he takes over the apparatus of Federal law enforcement and removes its independence.

@Nonya_Bidniss I plan on never watching nor listening to him. What he does is what matters. That's what Maddow did during his first term. That's exactly the right approach.