Surprisingly, a lot of the white nationalist organs here in the US have VERY intimate contact with white national South African groups. I’m wondering how many of them are coming here to avoid getting caught in government dragnets in SA. Lots of the bombmaking know-how and quite a lot of weapons flowed into South Africa during the fight to keep apartheid from the 60s-90s (and now the fight to either topple the post-apartheid government or create a separatist state where they can institute apartheid), and much of THAT was supplied by contacts in the American KKK. Weird Little Guys did an incredible deep dive on the interlinking of the white nationalist movement internationally with white South African resistance to the ANC and the DeClerc and post-DeClerc governments.

It’s actually a worse idea. There will still be, nominally, federal control, centralized in him. Other than that, every local and state FBI branch will act as, effectively, a terror cell - they work their own leads, make their own arrests on their own recognizance, and generally conduct business as they see fit. This makes for an incredibly dangerous form of secret police - they have no leaders above the local level, no real command and control, and they’re all tasked with only one thing: make less crime.

Imagine the Cheka, but they’re organized like al-Qaeda.

If you ever say the words, “we should separate kids from their families as a deterrent”, you should be immediately shunned from society. Your job should fire you. Your colleagues, your family, your friends should all pretend like you do not exist. The entire community where you live should write you out of their lives.

It worked WONDERS for early modern societies.

Not even that. I don’t think there’s a larger political force at work than “we need to make more money and we can pay kids the same wages we paid those immigrants, they won’t know their rights anyway.”

Which I’m surprised no cities have challenged this as a sovereignty issue.

Well, not that surprised, but if you’re a city government and figure out that a state government can just completely nullify your labor protections…well, it raises questions of just how much actual legal power you have.

I know that legal power and legal challenges mean absolutely nothing now, considering everything, but still, I’m surprised that the Florida SC hasn’t been hit with questions of “hey I thought we had a right to self-organize”.

That’s the result of them passing the hat around their local militia.

Then jail everyone involved in the deportation for kidnapping. Sure, you can’t get Trump - get everyone else. The chilling effect should be immediate.

Literally President Trump has said that, I believe in his first term. Something about how there shouldn’t be rules in war, and whatever happens/whoever happens to be in the crossfire, happens.

I was about to say, they tried. They have been trying for three years. They’ve committed a TON more forces than Ukraine, and still haven’t made significant progress. The invasion is a military failure on pretty much every level, and it’s only the most delusional that think Russia still has any chance of actually pulling off a successful annexation or occupation for any significant length of time.

You forgot the Spam.

I welcome Dr Doom as SecDef.

Yeah, they chose El Salvador because they’ve literally abolished due process. It’s like Cambodia again - someone accuses you and you’re just instantly taken away. You MIGHT get to see a judge after you’re imprisoned for a month or two, likely after you’ve been beaten half to death so you’ll confess to anything just to make the pain stop. It’s a dressed up version of Duterte’s Philippines - we’ll kidnap you and let you die, rather than just some death squad rolling up to your door (because that doesn’t play well to the media and the other can be dressed up as “law and order”).

Actually no, he doesn’t. Don’t give the fascists leverage by playing their game - they only believe in the words they say when it’s convenient. Trump already tried to counteract sovereign statehood in 2020 by forcing lockdowns to end early.

Not even that, that idea is driven, deep down, by seeing autistic people as less than human, or at least a less “valuable” human. Don’t mistake it - Moms of Autism types absolutely, deep down, hate their children.

TBH, our Constitution has lasted an awfully long time for a nation. Most other nations, in the same time, have gone through at least one, and sometimes a dozen governments in the same timeframe.

Precisely this. You route a shipment to an un-tarriffed/un-embargoed country, usually to a shell company or something, and then ship it to wherever using THAT country as the country of origin. It’s a pretty common way of avoiding arms embargoes.

For the next couple weeks, I’m sure. The financials are watching all the axes being taken to regulation in the industrial sector and I’m sure they’re gonna want in on that scene at some point.

And the death camp is only a formality. If they thought they could get away with it, they’d have the police gun you down in the street and start issuing death warrants.

A department of random college kids with unfettered and unmonitored access, who have Marshals to force access to ANYWHERE THEY PLEASE, seems ripe for recruiting by an intelligence agency.

Which is what they were doing with the old Maxims in Ukraine. Slap it down in a defensive position, where you don’t have to move it (or, in a few cases, weld that shit to a pintle mount in the back of a truck), and you can keep firing until the barrel melts or you don’t have anything left to shoot.