A short squeeze on the broligarchy

Gear up to HODL. Reasons for strategic optimism. Learning from the GameStop apes.

Paul Dana in the brilliant film Dumb Money.

A cunning strategy for defying Musk-Trump is crystallizing before our very eyes. It’s a question of keeping faith with America while the oligarchy aims to sell us out.

This started as a sustained act of civil disobedience by the civil service. But it’s caught on in other precincts. You can see it in corporations like Costco. At protests like the ones on No Kings on Presidents Day by 50501.

It’s there at universities like Wesleyan, where President Michael Roth (who appeared on “What Rough Beast”) has kept faith with America and sounded an alarm against the pose of institutional demureness amid the “diktat of executive orders.”

It’s at town meetings like Rep. Rothman’s in Oshkosh, WI, at which the complicit congressman was shouted down for his betrayal of America.

And it’s there in individual acts of disciplined, King-era passive resistance, including by punter Chris Kluwe’s elegant protest against encroaching Nazism in Huntington Beach.

Amid the malignant lies of the current regime, these figures are steadily telling the truth.

This strategy, as pioneered by our civil servants, is more methodical than it at first seems. Yes, the distress and anger among federal workers is palpable. But the more anarchy MAGA and DOGE loose upon the world, the firmer these folks are standing.

Their protest can be seen as a political short squeeze.

Here’s how the strategy coalesced.