Bravo. I know in my brain and gut that you are 100% right. You explain it all very well. I love your history lesson and the education we all just received. My spouse wants to “take it one day at a time,” which makes me want to tear my hair out. I know you are right and you are standing at the burning building and saying “here, come this way, now!” And people are standing in the place like lemmings. Personally, I don’t think we have even a year before the bottom drops out. I am planning to sign up when my social security comes. I hate to be dependent on the whims of a madman.
Well done, as usual. I’d love you to dive into the topic of capital controls with the same depth you approached this subject. I think this will be another “tool” the “Tool in Chief” will exploit to make us captive in his idiot circus.
Ummmm wow. Feeling like a real dummy bc until reading this dispatch, I hadn’t worried once about the fact that two of my American kids were born overseas. Their U.S. passports say “Bangkok, Thailand” as their birthplace. We received a Consular Report of Birth Abroad after each birth and I stashed them away for safekeeping. I wonder if this regime might someday screw with the statehood status of people born overseas to American parents… 😬
Good thing we’re learning from you how to construct alternate versions of sovereignty!!😅
We've sailed past so many norms that it no longer seems impossible that Trump could strip Rosie of her citizenship; it seems like a distinct possibility. What's to stop him? The Supreme Court? As if. The media? Not unless Hillary's emails are somehow involved. The American public? I'm not sure enough functioning brain stems remain.
"The law was never in doubt. Only the character of those interpreting it."
This is a fantastic line. I feel like too many people came out of Trump 1.0 desperately clinging to the fantasy that the institutions held. No, they didn't. They were exposed. Those who became Project 2025's architects poked and prodded and identified the weak points, and THEY came away with the firm conviction that "Now let them enforce it" was the most powerful weapon they'd wield when the time came.
And nothing that happened during the Biden administration disabused them of that notion. So many Democrats and legal scholars are indeed such institutionalists, so devoted to preserving The Right Way of doing things that the MAGA Intelligentsia (such as it is LOL) understood that they could kidnap the country and take it to hell while the Democrats were busy writing sternly worded letters.
Welp. Here we are.
I am literally hearing people reassure themselves by saying that "the courts have held," but then appending a giant asterisk that somehow absolves The Supreme Court from accountability as part of "the courts." And even now, I still haven't heard the Democratic Party start to rise up and say "Give us back power and we'll fix this by adding six seats to the goddamned Court on day one" or anything similarly bold.
As Carole Cadwalladr has been saying since Trump was elected, "It's later than you think."
That danger is certainly something to be concerned with as a future authoritarian state. At the same time, he’s desperately trying to distract from the attention the Epstein files are getting, which he seems desperate to avoid.
Bravo. I know in my brain and gut that you are 100% right. You explain it all very well. I love your history lesson and the education we all just received. My spouse wants to “take it one day at a time,” which makes me want to tear my hair out. I know you are right and you are standing at the burning building and saying “here, come this way, now!” And people are standing in the place like lemmings. Personally, I don’t think we have even a year before the bottom drops out. I am planning to sign up when my social security comes. I hate to be dependent on the whims of a madman.
Well done, as usual. I’d love you to dive into the topic of capital controls with the same depth you approached this subject. I think this will be another “tool” the “Tool in Chief” will exploit to make us captive in his idiot circus.
Ummmm wow. Feeling like a real dummy bc until reading this dispatch, I hadn’t worried once about the fact that two of my American kids were born overseas. Their U.S. passports say “Bangkok, Thailand” as their birthplace. We received a Consular Report of Birth Abroad after each birth and I stashed them away for safekeeping. I wonder if this regime might someday screw with the statehood status of people born overseas to American parents… 😬
Good thing we’re learning from you how to construct alternate versions of sovereignty!!😅
We've sailed past so many norms that it no longer seems impossible that Trump could strip Rosie of her citizenship; it seems like a distinct possibility. What's to stop him? The Supreme Court? As if. The media? Not unless Hillary's emails are somehow involved. The American public? I'm not sure enough functioning brain stems remain.
So here we are.
"The law was never in doubt. Only the character of those interpreting it."
This is a fantastic line. I feel like too many people came out of Trump 1.0 desperately clinging to the fantasy that the institutions held. No, they didn't. They were exposed. Those who became Project 2025's architects poked and prodded and identified the weak points, and THEY came away with the firm conviction that "Now let them enforce it" was the most powerful weapon they'd wield when the time came.
And nothing that happened during the Biden administration disabused them of that notion. So many Democrats and legal scholars are indeed such institutionalists, so devoted to preserving The Right Way of doing things that the MAGA Intelligentsia (such as it is LOL) understood that they could kidnap the country and take it to hell while the Democrats were busy writing sternly worded letters.
Welp. Here we are.
I am literally hearing people reassure themselves by saying that "the courts have held," but then appending a giant asterisk that somehow absolves The Supreme Court from accountability as part of "the courts." And even now, I still haven't heard the Democratic Party start to rise up and say "Give us back power and we'll fix this by adding six seats to the goddamned Court on day one" or anything similarly bold.
As Carole Cadwalladr has been saying since Trump was elected, "It's later than you think."
"Democracy dies beneath a pile of shrugs." That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it?
It's sad to read. I hope you find citizenship in Italy despite the disgusting Meloni government.
That danger is certainly something to be concerned with as a future authoritarian state. At the same time, he’s desperately trying to distract from the attention the Epstein files are getting, which he seems desperate to avoid.