They’re not. This would primarily be a blow to PUBLIC education, which is what this kleptocracy hates. Private schools will work to snap up teachers, and several dozen people who own the private school networks will get a little bit richer. The knock on effect of “uneducated people are easier to lie to and manipulate” is just that - an unintended knock on.
The issue is what this takes. You need:
1 document proving you are who you say (this cannot be a state or federal ID. I used my birth certificate, which can be difficult and time consuming to acquire if you don’t have access to it.)
2 different documents from different sources proving you live where you say (this would need to be a bank statement or utility bill)
You must also provide a document proving your Social Security Number (this can be hard if you don’t have the card - getting a new one is similarly painful), AND if your legal name has changed from what’s on your birth certificate, you need to provide attestation of that (marriage or divorce paperwork, etc).
So you could potentially need up to 6 documents from 6 different sources, it’s still up to the DMV to accept them, and you don’t actually get the card for at least another 2-3 weeks at minimum. There’s also a fee - in my state it would cost me about $80 after taxes.
Somehow one of them still invents Tombstone.
Pretty much this. Ever wonder how so many people got killed and mangled during the Industrial Revolution? You’re about to find out.
There’s also the fact that Canada is not nuclear-armed, but they sure as hell are nuclear-capable. They know how to build nukes, they have the infrastructure and manufacturing to do so, the country has simply chosen not to do so over the years.
I’m pretty sure this is also why they want to annex Canada, Greenland, and Panama (maybe Mexico if they think they can get away with it). It’s the exact same strategy the Nazis used, and I’m not invoking that lightly: when their economy was absolute dogshit, the Nazis made it look WAY better by A) going to a war footing and B) invading other countries and stealing everything that wasn’t nailed down (then stealing everything else, including the nails.)
He’s already ordered the military to plan an invasion of Panama to seize the canal (likely because Panama is the weaker target between them and Canada).
A TOASTER IS JUST A DEATH RAY WITH A SMALLER POWER SUPPLY!
Ahh, but you’re missing the bigger part of the equation: one of Trump’s first EOs this time was the requirement, by April 20, for the Pentagon to put together a recommendation on whether or not to utilize the Insurrection Act to declare martial law. I, and most others, are thinking this is purely a formality with the departmental purges - and once he’s done that, it hardly matters whether you like them invading Canada or not.
Now, THAT BEING SAID, the military already has a manpower issue, has for a decent while. I do not think we could effectively lock down a country the size of the US, or even the major metros on both coasts, AND fight a war of invasion. Even unofficially deputizing all the various militia types, AND bringing local/state PDs and Nat Guard under federal control, I don’t think they have enough.
The whole situation is absurd. She’s officially the admin, but Trump keeps saying Musk is in charge, Musk keeps saying he’s NOT in charge, and her appointment is likely a smokescreen so they have someone to throw under the bus when the lawsuits come rolling in.
That’s why “may or may not”. She’s the admin until legally tested, because the administration can’t actually even bother to lie well.
It’s not sad, but there’s a lot of anxiety inducing moments.
Mostly because all of that is a highly-confusing tangle. Food stamps are hilariously limited in most states, same with Medicaid. Section 8/HUD will almost always make sure you wind up living in the most run-down tenement your town has, run by the shittiest landlord, who will almost always be looking for a reason to evict you - and that even assumes you don’t have to wait literal years. The current wait time for Section 8 housing in my city is something like a year and a half.
He also stopped wearing most of his gold after being down in New Orleans helping clean up from Katrina. Said he felt it was wrong to be displaying such wealth when he was staring at people who had just lost literally everything.
Trump’s admin has already shown that you can’t really sue the federal government into compliance if there isn’t anyone to enforce it. Sure, those countries and companies and people can sue the US for breach of contract. The government will laugh in their face and not pay, simple as that. Trump literally made his millions doing exactly this.
And then their server center burns down from the enormous influx of traffic, Musk pockets the money, and the entire world sweeps into something worse than the Depression because a good chunk of the entire world economy simply doesn’t exist now.
Pretty much every federal agency, at some level, hits some form of classified information.
C’mon, they’re just gonna feed these into Elon’s stupid Grok and tell it to summarize a list of people who should be fired.
Nah, what he promised him is exactly what we see: $500B in rare earths, every year. Trump’s always been a terrible dealer, and this is no exception: he doesn’t do back-and-forth, he just tosses his entire hand on the table and says “here’s what I want”, then bullies you into accepting. If you don’t, he’ll either harass you, or back out saying YOU sabotaged the deal because you didn’t give him what he wanted immediately.
They’ll just bribe the jurors. The DOJ won’t care, because where are you gonna appeal? The SC that only gives a shit about lining their own pockets?
Also, most voting rights advocates will point to the 24th Amendment, (arguably rightly) claiming that requiring ID that you must pay the state to acquire constitutes a poll tax.
To explain: when black men got the right to vote after the 15th Amendment was passed, lots of states tried lots of ways to make sure they couldn’t. One thing that was legal was requiring a fee to be paid in order to vote - this had the knock-on effect of making sure poor white people, who often sympathized with and voted with black people, couldn’t vote either. These fees were known as poll taxes, ostensibly to pay the people running the poll and defray the state’s cost of administering the election. Normally this was a nominal amount, but if you were a sharecropper or subsistence farmer who was literally counting half-pennies to get by month to month, the quarter that the poll tax required was enormous. Many states kept these poll taxes in one form or another for decades, and they were declared unconstitutional in 1966 by the SCOTUS in Harper v Virginia Board.
If I wanted a Real ID like this executive order required, I would be paying about $80 on the low end, assuming I do not need to pay to acquire any of the several documents I need to prove I am who I am.