The US constitution is in peril. Civil and human rights are being trampled upon. The economy is in disarray.
At this rate, we will not make it through the second 100 days.
Federal judges in more than 120 cases so far have sought to stop Trump – judges appointed by Republicans as well as Democrats, some appointed by Trump himself – but the regime is either ignoring or appealing their orders. It has even arrested a municipal judge in Milwaukee amid a case involving an undocumented defendant.
Recently, Judge J Harvie Wilkinson III of the court of appeals for the fourth circuit – an eminent conservative Reagan appointee who is revered by the Federalist Society – issued a scathing rebuke to the Trump regime. In response to its assertion that it can abduct residents of the US and put them into foreign prisons without due process, Wilkinson wrote:
If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home? And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive’s obligation to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed’ would lose its meaning.
I think it’s hilarious how the public seems to be waiting for their representatives to do something while at the same time, the representatives are stoking the fire, waiting for the public to do something.
All the while the orange dude is using immigrants for ICE, FBI and other LEOs to practice on … so they’ll be ready to shut the revolution down immediately.
I do really feel for all the Americans who didn’t vote or ask for this, 'cause it’s gonna be ugly.
It won’t be ugly for most of them. It’ll be fucking peachy. There will be no revolution.
“The revolution will be painless if the left allows it to be” well the left has made its choice and every minority will be left to rot in the concentration camps because demonstrably americans have utterly buckled to the mere implication of potential violence.
Hopefully America will be like Russia, violent and authoritarian with severely declining quality of life and a broadly politically apathetic population.
Alternatively - and increasingly likely - it will be like Nazi Germany and the fascists will make up for declining quality of life by engaging in increasingly doomed military campaigns.
Either way the ones who could have done something to stop this will be the least affected while everyone else gets crushed under the boot of fascism. But at least they will have the moral high ground of never resorting to political violence.
The reps are playing it safe. The best strategy for their own survival is to pacify the public. Agree with their complaints and do nothing about it.
It’s almost like the strategy of not doing anything, actually doesn’t do anything.
That will work until the Executive decides they aren’t needed any longer. A big “Go home, Capitol closed by executive order until the emergency has passed” sign on the Capitol doors. Those that ignore the sign wake up in some third world prison or as the next contestant on 47’s newest prime time game show, Who Wants to be Treated as an Insurrectionist Traitor. Their best bet is to organize a fast track impeachment before 47 can stop them, but the longer this all goes on, the faster that whole impeachment thing would need to occur.
The one and only thing I will ever recommend to people is to stop having kids. Just … fucking … stop. Whatever happens, this will at least mean fewer casualties.
And before someone says “yabbut the right are going to have more kids.” So what? Unless you are planning on upping the ante with a breeding arms race (which is a ridiculous self-own), it seems like even more of a reason to opt out.
it’s ridiculous how naive american citizens are. “impeach him”. lol. wake the fuck up. guns.
Upcoming crisis-es:
-May 2nd : End of De minimis exemption: Orders under $80 will no longer be exempt from tariffs from China
-May 7th: All flights will require a driver’s license with real ID (new licenses after ~2015)
-The X date: Day U.S. spending cap is reached. Earliest is June, expected around August. Would cut off all federal spending including SS and Medicare.
-The X date bill: Bill that would raise the spending cap through reconciliation – but also cut either Medicaid or the Obamacare Medicare expansion. This would lead to, among many things, most rural hospitals being shut down.
-August-September: With the Department of Education no longer working student loans and accommodation requests will be thrown into chaos
-August – November: Harvest season w/o immigrants and w/o USAID contracts. Mass farmer bankruptcy , but limited time cheap food.
-Nov-Dec: Big Box stores see empty shelves due to tariffs. Smaller stores see it earlier, but Target and Walmart will have warehouse inventory until Black Friday.
-Dec-Jan: New COVID variant and flu variants will cause more strain on hospitals due to the previous closures and anti-vac NIH.
Variable dates: Terrorist attacks, something with Russia and Ukraine, Trump “assassination attempt” that turns out to be a false alarm, Trump health scares, and at least one Cabinet member will be forced out due to crimes and/or incompetence.
-May 7th: All flights will require a driver’s license with real ID (new licenses after ~2015)
I will just clarify that this is nothing new and is not a Trump thing. This legislation was passed 20 years ago and has been extended multiple times. However, the timing of it sure is an unfortunate coincidence.
I pretty much agree with the article, but I don’t see it explained what he means by “US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days”?
I think what he really means is that democracy in USA won’t survive.
I can’t even begin to imagine how frustrating it must be to be a blue state like for instance California, and be forced through this political insanity? Also the personal frustration must be enormous for people who knew Trump would be a massive disaster.
We are cursed to live in interesting times. Could the frustrations for blue states like California become big enough for them to secede? I better go get some more popcorn!
Absolutely and Denmark has also made an offer to buy California, which would have many advantages for Trump. For one he would get rid of one of the most pesky blue states.
Many Californians have actually offered to help financing the purchase!
I don’t think that’s a serious campaign, but it is pretty funny.
Trump says he wants to buy Greenland (from Denmark), bewildering, insulting, and angering Denmark, so these people have put together an equally absurd offer for Trump.
Nice.
More realistically the blue states should consider the fact that the red states will always be slowing them down and they might need to secede and form their own country and let the red states become a third world country because that’s what they clearly want.
If California leaves the USA and gets reasonable gun control and housing costs under control, I would want to be a citizen of the New California Republic.
We would still be just the California Republic, there has been no break between the Bear Flag revolt and the current government. Reminder the NCR in Fallout 2 and New Vegas is not a pre-war remnant but instead a new world government taking heavy inspiration from the old world
I don’t see it explained what he means by “US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days”?
The Trump administration has made a series of Executive Orders. State judges have deemed several of them unconstitutional and issued an injunction, legally pausing them until SCOTUS can rule them. In response, Trump has complained to SCOTUS that no single “activist judge” should be able to impede him like this. They will hear that case soon, and one of two things will happen:
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SCOTUS rules in favor of the Executive branch, and judges can no longer block federal behavior, meaning the only way for unconstitutional actions taken by the federal govt to be heard by a court is for the affected individual to file a lawsuit in federal court.
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SCOTUS rules in favor of the states, BUT trump legitimately believes he is allowed to commit crimes as president, so he’ll just continue ignoring everyone.
I think what he really means is that democracy in USA won’t survive.
That’s the same thing. No democratic republic, no constitution, no USA. Trump might continue using the name, he might even come up with a new constitution and say that it’s the same one with a few improvements, but the US as we knew it would be dead and gone.
That’s the same thing.
No.
Did for instance Hungary cease to exist when it became Communist?
Did it cease to exist again when it became democratic?
The answer to both is obviously no.
Same with USA, just because it becomes a totalitarian dictatorship is not the same as not surviving as a country.
When that happened to Germany it didn’t mean Germany ceased to exist as a country either.
For that you have to speculate that something more happens afterwards. Which isn’t mentioned in the article at all.
The entire concept of the US is heavily tied to its founding ideals of federalism, separation of powers, and rejection of a totalitarian monarchy. It’s why we have the name United States, and not a singular State of America. Versus something like Hungary which, from what I can find, is named for the native peoples of the area, didn’t have a written constitution for most of that time, and has gone through a handful of constitutions in recent history. It’s not an apt comparison.
Will the land of mass still exist there? Will there still be people there with some form of government? Yeah, obviously, we don’t disagree.
But would every single US citizen agree that, if we are no longer a democratic republic as determined by the founding constitution, then we are no longer the same country? Yes. There’s just not a world where US citizens say “yeah this is the opposite of what the founders were going for, but it’s still the same country”. The name United States wouldn’t even make sense anymore, because the states would no longer have autonomy.
If Trump established a dictatorship that wields the US military to oppress the will of the states, then for that duration it is no longer the United States, it’s whatever Trump calls it (he would probably call it the US, but it would be as accurate as North Korea calling itself a Democratic People’s Republic). If the states later overthrow that dictatorship and reinstate a form of rule that is based in the founding ideals, then the US would be refounded, and I could be convinced THAT is the same country re-established. But if the democracy is never re-established, and we stay under a form of totalitarian rule, then the US ceases to exist.
This isn’t going to be like Hungary or Germany, this is going to be like the USSR.
but I don’t see it explained what he means by “US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days”?
Could the frustrations for blue states like California become big enough for them to secede?
Well if the states aren’t united anymore, the USA is dead, no?
That was exclusively my speculation, there is no hint of that in the article.
“Judge J Harvie Wilkinson III of the court of appeals for the fourth circuit – an eminent conservative Reagan appointee who is revered by the Federalist Society” The fucking Federalist Society is on of the fucking reasons we are where we are. When they are crying foul then we are truely fucked.
They fought the leopard would eat faces, but they never guessed it would eat THEIR faces as well
Tell this to every ass that talks about Mid-Term elections and raising money for mid-terms. By then it’s going to be two late.
Midterms are like 2 years away, by then it will be too late
