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kleinbl00  ·  21 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Martial Law in South Korea

I will humor you because you spin up unless someone applies the brakes.

Trump absolutely wants big dumb deportations. So does Stephen Miller. So does the border patrol. So do a majority of Americans - but only in a couple cases. They're absolutely going to go for it. But then what.

There's a sock gnome gap in most of Team Trump's plans. Not all, but more than some. That space between "we intend to" and "we have" has been glossed over by the whole of the transition team which the media has duly reported. Nonetheless, liberal pundits have duly taken everything at face value because, after all, they did implement a Muslim ban! Absolutely zero air is given, however, to the reality that not only was the Muslim ban a total clusterfuck, not only was it vehemently opposed by the overwhelming majority of society, but that absolutely no planning or forethought was given to it.

It took six months - during wartime - to get Japanese Americans into camps (even though FDR was racist as they came). Mexico would need to bomb San Diego to get Trump the mandate FDR had and even then, there aren't any poor white dust-bowl-driven Okies eager to steal Mexican farmland. Team Trump lacks a Henry Stimpson or John DeWitt - they've got a Stephen Miller.

Your flight of fancy presumes this will go well for Trump and Miller. As a studied armchair historian of the Trump presidency I can think of two things that went well for Team Trump: The Abraham Accords (which were very much MBS' idea and implementation) and the Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare, which you've never heard of. Both of them were 'everybody wants this' situations. I agree - Team Trump is gonna go hard into deportations. But they went hard into rousting ANTIFA too and that ended up being a dozen border patrol dipshits without insignia in a rented minivan.

You sit there going bu-bu-bu the local COPZ as if the MAGA movement wanted something other than sanctuary-city skull-cracking. We've seen how that plays out; I refer your attention to a dozen racists in a Hertz. We're about to see four years of every liberal mayor and governor running for president on free press courtesy the Trump administration; the only reason Bob Ferguson ran in WA is he spent 4 years limelighting his Trump opposition as WA's attorney general. Are we looking at a 190-0 impeachment? Sadly, no. But a "national emergency of ever-worsening conditions" requires worsening conditions and "there's nobody to pick the lettuce" doesn't quite get us there.

Here's two questions to ask yourself. "Will he get to brag about it at a rally?" 'cuz if he can, he will. "Will this interfere with his golf schedule?" 'cuz if it will, he won't. Project 2025 is a laundry list of toxic notions promoted by the worst people in America, dependent on a pliable and willing autocrat eager to further their agenda.

This guy just wants to stay outta jail and he doesn't give the first fuck about anyone else, let alone their agenda.