Thread by @jonst0kes

I've re-assessed this thread from Mike. Here is what I think is likely in the coming weeks, and why.

https://x.com/grayzoneintel/status/1884649583545888849

First, there are a lot of people with platinum resumes & important titles who have worked their way up to the very top of the NGO/gov/blob career track, who are in their nice brownstone apartments or two-story homes dealing w/ total shell shock at some letter or email.

There is no plan B for their careers. They can't pivot into some other industry, they have no marketable skills beyond working in the parts of the blob apparatus that are on fire right now. This is the Palisades fire, but in DC -- total loss but no insurance or safety net.

This is a real, legit human tragedy just like the fire, & tho it's unpopular among many I know I do feel bad for them & their families. They've dedicated their lives to doing what they thought was right -- they just have a different idea of that right than me in some key ways.

So what do they do? Well, they have nothing left to lose. Absolutely nothing. It's YOLO time. So they will what they are good at: we are about to see a wave of letters to the editor, open letters, petitions, etc. from the most impressive names calling for military intervention.

I really do think in the coming week this is going to be a big deal. There will be open calls from people who very serious people, respected, long careers, saying the military must step in and arrest Musk & depose Trump.

Where it goes from there, I don't know. But the TL is about to get NUTS. This stuff from reddit & bsky is just the vanguard of what's next. We're going to see calls from the very top echelons for the security state to step in & do the thing on the grounds that we're in a crisis.

Me? I'm going back to keeping my head down. I got stuff to build. But it's going to be quite a show. And I'm not going to bother to try and game out what's downstream of that -- hopefully a nothingburger, but we'll see.

When you read one of these letters, imagine a man of ~50yrs in a nice apartment, wife is crying, kids in another room, stack of bills on the table (including inescapable permanent student loan debt), & it’s not just that he has lost his job — his entire career track is suddenly gone with zero warning.

He is an elite who is facing what’s essentially refuge status. His whole network is in the same boat. Everyone he rubs shoulders with. In a past era, this was a “the city is being sacked & you must flee the rich quarters” type of situation.

This man will use every means at his disposal to stop this chaos & return the cosmos to the order be knew just a week ago. Every means. And his network has his back. They’re all in this together.

His means are the following: meetings, resolutions, open letters, public & private memoranda, leaks to friendly press, rumor, secrets, carefully guarded truths.

He and his peers will deploy all of these in the days to come, and will do so maximally & without fear because no courage is required of them in this moment.

The worst thing that could possibly happen has already happened in the form of a cheeky email from some twemtysomething DOGE kid. Screw this kid, right? Who the hell do these guys think they are?

There’s no limiting principle at work on either side. The stakes are literally food & shelter.

So that’s what we’re going to see reflected in the public discourse from people whose whole lives are the public discourse.

As I said, the TL will be wild. Guard your sanity.