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.
Then this shameful chapter of American history will end.
If he does get impeached, we get JD Vance, or is there some way to actually pivot to somebody else?
feels like you would oust the whole White House, but idk how it actually works.
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.
I think you missed May 3rdish when the last ships sent from China before the tarrifs reach US shores and there’s nothing coming after them?
-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.
They’ll extend it again. Less than 50% of people have a real ID
The rest of the world will feel the impact from all this but I don’t think it’ll be as crazy for us compared to ground zero. I sincerely wish you guys luck.
Sell all your stocks. Hurry.
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“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
They spent decades training the leopard, so they thought they had tamed it.
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.
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.
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.
it’s ridiculous how naive american citizens are. “impeach him”. lol. wake the fuck up. guns.
Kinda crazy that the country that has been waiting for a tyranny since it began and has stockpiled guns the entire time is now like “hey let’s talk about it”.
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.
All while those in power seek more power. Fighting back as a rep becomes harder, not easier when the rule of law is ignored.
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.
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
Love to hear it! The sooner the U.S. empire collapses and destroys itself, the better off the rest of the world will be. Good riddance to the genocidal, slave owning, planet incinerating, resource hoarding, worker crushing cancer that the USA is and always has been. Fuck them and the Nazi boot-lickers that support them.
Which, like, I get, but some of us slave descendants ARE STILL HERE and are actively suffering. Its not like any country has given us refugee status.
Unfortunately if we burn you burn too. The united states will take everyone down with them
i feel you, but i do not see any reason to think that any of these bad things are inextricably linked to the United States, i.e., the Constitution. To me, the core of the Constitution seems to be very compatible with Love, although the authors tried to cripple that message to suit incompatible interests, e.g., slavery.
After reading some parts of the Constitution again, i was disappointed by the mention of “Aid and Comfort” until i realized that the Constitution indicates that treason implies “Aid and Comfort” or declaring war against the United States, not that said “Aid and Comfort” is necessarily treasonous, which would necessarily imply persecution of religions of unconditional Love; in being unconditional, after all, Love does not discriminate by affiliation or past actions.
i do approve characterizing implementations of the United States as being afflicted with truly horrible things, though. This implementation has always had fascist-adjacent elements and, hell, has gone from being on the path to being the Mother of Exiles to just being the mama of all strays. But such hatred, such dehumanization is not aligned with the liberal spirit of the Constitution.
i welcome any disagreement here, and you are free to ask for any clarification.
The US constitution explicity enshrines the right to enslave people. I know of no other constitution with such a stipulation. All of the other rights you mention go out the window when people can just straight up be enslaved.
Thank you.
i should have clarified that i was referring to the current incarnation of the Constitution, what with the amendments and all. The inclusion of slavery at all is horrible. i like non-cruel prison labor; anyone who is sincerely remorseful would love the chance to atone, but the labor must be voluntary. Compulsory anything is counter to Love. Punishment of any kind is counter to Love.
If you were thinking of the Thirteenth Amendment, then my only defense is that the Thirteenth Amendment does not specifically condone prison slavery, either, that prison slavery is undefined behavior, that the undefined behavior can serve as a means of easing people away from slavery, that, even with the exception, the Thirteenth Amendment did serve as a step in the right direction. The exception may be a compromise for people who wanted slavery for unconvicted and convicted people, thereby starting the process of easing into an incarnation which is free of anything resembling an endorsement of slavery of any kind.
In any case, an amendment to forbid all slavery is definitely in order and is thoroughly consistent with my understanding of the spirit of the Constitution.
The great thing about the constitution is that it also has rules for how to fucking change it. That was one of earliest things that got changed.
So, despite its ability to “easily” be amended, it still enshrines the right to enslave people? How is that supposed to make me feel better?
Stop apologizing for your wack ass constitution that was made solely by 20 something, white, male landowners. We are seeing now how easy it is to throw it out. Weak ass document.
It would be great if we had at any point actually made slavery illegal, instead of just adjusting the logistics.
The Constitution was written to enshrine Oligarchy, and sold as “Democracy” to those unwilling or unable to read and/or comprehend it. In the original, the only people with any rights and power were Rich, White, Males. The window dressing has changed over the decades, but the core remains. Rich White Males still own and operate the United States. There was no love in that document for anyone other than the Oligarchs.
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Seven out of ten Nazis killed in WWII were at the hands of the Soviets.
“You know what I’m starting to think? I’m starting to think that the only kind of people in this country is guys like me,”
“You know guys that work for scraps, do six jobs-who basically bend over and take it. Give it fifteen years tops; this country is finished with democracy. I’m telling you as a caring society, where we do things for each other, we got one thing after another- we are finished here!”
- Tony Lewis
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!
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.
This isn’t going to be like Hungary or Germany, this is going to be like the USSR.
They were only meant as examples of a country can survive changing regime.
I agree it will probably be more like Soviet Union, and we may even see a repeat of that with the current Russian Federation collapsing too.
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.
and not a singular State of America. Versus something like Hungary
True, but way more similar to Germany which also became authoritarian and abandoned German democratic values under Hitler.
Will the land of mass still exist there?
That’s not at all relevant, what’s relevant is if the federation will survive, if it does USA is technically intact, even if it breaks every traditional value of USA.
If Trump established a dictatorship that wields the US military to oppress the will of the states,
That’s a strange argument IMO, since this is the foundation of USA, and was the cause for the civil war. The power of the federal government precede the states.
Contrary to EU, where any nation can leave peacefully if they wish, which was demonstrated by UK leaving.It seems like you don’t really accept what it means for a nation to “survive”. It definitely doesn’t means everything has to be well, and as it used to be.
way more similar to Germany which also became authoritarian and abandoned German democratic values under Hitler.
…what’s relevant is if the federation will survive if it does USA is technically intact, even if it breaks every traditional value of USA.
This feels like we’re having a semantic argument. I would say, if Hitler still held power to this day, the country that Germany is would be different from the one it was. And if someone had stated in the 1930s that we were watching the death of our country, even in retrospect, i would agree with that statement. After all, he took total control and threw out the existing form of government. If you’re saying that it’s still the same country just became the new regime continued to use the same name for the same plot of land, I would not be convinced. Completely new form of government -> completely new country.
this is the foundation of USA, and was the cause for the civil war. The power of the federal government precede the states.
This is known as the “war of northern aggression” argument in the US south. The argument that the civil war had “nothing to do with slavery” and was “about states rights”. But I hope we all agree that that’s a BS argument. They wanted to continue enslaving humans in what was objectively a crime against humanity, and the other states who chose to wield the federal government’s resources to demand a stop to it were justified in doing so, both ethically and in service of the founding delcaration of the US: a nation where “all men are created equal”. But the federal government would not have been able to do that without support from the northern states. Conversely, today we find ourselves fast approaching a situation where the federal government will have total control over the states, regardless of what they or their “activist judges” want.
Now I agree that a peaceful, democratic secession of a state should not necessarily be precluded by the US federal government, but 1) I understand why that’s not how it currently works, and 2) that’s not the situation we find ourselves in.
that Germany is would be different
I hope we can agree that “different” and “not surviving” is not the same thing!
But I hope we all agree that that’s a BS argument.
No it’s not, according to the rules of the federation, no state is allowed to secede according to the constitution!!
You seem to be arguing from a personal opinion of what USA should be rather than reality of what it really is.
today we find ourselves fast approaching a situation where the federal government will have total control over the states,
Yes that’s true, and it’s not supposed to be like that, but in reality it always was a risk by the way the federation clearly always can trump the states. This is VERY different from EU, which is built with way way higher without comparison better protection of the member states.
I hope we can agree that “different” and “not surviving” is not the same thing!
Hah, it’s now a discussion of literal existentialism. No, I would say one could reasonably believe that “different” and “not surviving” are symonomous. The form that something existed in did not survive, and now only the new, different form exists. Ship of Theseus. If you replace every part of the old country one-by-one, once every part is replaced is it the same country or a different one? In this case, I think it’s not useful to try to claim it’s the same country.
No it’s not, according to the rules of the federation, no state is allowed to secede according to the constitution!!
Again, that’s not what justified the civil war. Again, I agree that a peaceful democratic secession should be allowed, but again that’s neither here nor there. Because here is a federal government ignoring the states’ checks/balances, and there is a crime against humanity that was justified in being stopped by the other states, not a federal government acting outside of the states’ checks/balances.
You seem to be arguing from a personal opinion of what USA should be
I am arguing based on the founding doctrine of the US and the concept of Federalism.
it always was a risk by the way the federation clearly always can trump the states
The assumption you’re making is that the federal govt was designed to have autonomy of its own separate from the states. But the federal govt was intended to only be a democratic-republically determined representation of the states’ intentions. Trump has the same misunderstanding, which is why he’s using the “activist judges” rhetoric. But by design of the US constitution, the states are intended to have checks on the power of the federal govt. Regardless of how any 2A nut interprets the 2nd Amendment, that is the actual intended purpose: to prevent a federally organized military from staging a coup. The federation was always intended to be a way for the states to hold the power to regulate themselves.
The EU is fine for now, but I could easily see them going down a road to toward the same mistakes the US made. Especially if, in response to the failure of the US, they end up organizing a centralized EU-controlled military, and then all it takes is a bit of FUD to put a demagogue into power and wield that military to oppress.
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California should consider becoming independent and joining the EU😂
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
You summoned the bear.
Reminder the flag used to look like this circa Fallout 2
This is vexillologically offensive.
The best part is that it survived into Fallout NV concept art, that means that there was a good chance this gloriously awful flag could’ve survived if the devs weren’t cowards.
Almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter…
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.
It’s absolutely not serious, and you are right, it’s to make fun of Trump because he wants to buy Greenland.
california could buy itself
Yes, but that wouldn’t provide the obvious benefits of being part of Denmark. 😋
Which are almost none since it’s on the other side of the world and has a GDP 10x higher (~4t) than Denmark (~4b).
I do like the cheek in that website though.
Finally, a way to keep the Zonies out!
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.
Begun, the Balkanization of the US has.
The Fragmented States of America
Please I beg any and all powers make this happen, as a Californian.
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.
Ah then I misunderstood your message because I came to the same conclusion but it sounded like two separate parts.
At this point, Im surprised we survived the first 100 days.
Any further days are just a bonus at this point
Leaders can speak all they want means nothing. Action is what counts, and they won’t do anything to jeopardize their comfort
Forget the next 100 days. We’ve got like…3 more years of this. 3 more years.
And all I’ve been seeing so far is just people pointing fingers and saying bold things, but doing fuck all about it. Especially the public, who think they’re going to be saved by some one-man army or some deity or some karma system when quite frankly, they’re all fictitious. Getting off your ass and doing something about it is to much of a chore for them.
Forget the next 3 years, we’ve got less than 100 days!
The whole point of the 100 days argument is that we’re dangerously close to not having 3 more years of this, but rather the rest of our lives of this.
Reich literally points out in the article that at this rate, midterms won’t be any relief.
More like 3 years and 8 months! So it’s actually closer to 4 years.
It’s only just begun!!!
Inshallah
I really don’t understand why people are upset about due proces now. The US established over 10 years ago that it’s OK to kill US citizens if they’re “terrorists”. But deportation is crossing the line?
Am I missing something on this subject? Or is it just typical political hypocrisy?
There was endless handwringing about Obama hitting that dude with a drone strike.
But regardless… are you seriously going to pretend that is at all comparable to what is happening right now? A US citizen, in a foreign war zone, fighting for the enemy vs. kidnapping and trafficking US citizens from their homes in the US to a prison in El Salvador. A country they’ve never been to.
C’mon bro.
There was endless handwringing about Obama hitting that dude with a drone strike. But regardless… are you seriously going to pretend that is at all comparable to what is happening right now? A US citizen, in a foreign war zone, fighting for the enemy vs. kidnapping and trafficking US citizens from their homes in the US to a prison in El Salvador. A country they’ve never been to. C’mon bro.
You should proofread, bro. But I think I get your meaning.
It’s not for you or me to claim or “pretend” that any of these alleged crimes are comparable (unless we’re on the jury). It’s not the president’s job either, really. That’s why we have judges, juries, trials, and all that other boring “due process” shit.
Thank you for at least trying to answer the question. Even though I do secretly believe that assassination is more severe than deportation, I was genuinely asking about the difference in public response instead. I don’t recall nearly as much “handwringing” about Obama killing a kid, but that could just be because I was paying less attention to news during that time in my life.
