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.

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.

No, because everyone below him is bucking for his seat.

There’s also the fact that the prisons are NOTABLY deadly. So if the administration winds up actually being forced to release a person, they can just have an “unfortunate accident” and now that’s ANOTHER court case to determine whether they have to ship the body back (which again, is easily handled by “well it’s in one of these mass graves.”)

Depends. Trump is still trying to bring DC police under DHS control.

The plan is “get the other countries to capitulate and offer me everything”. This is a classic Mafia power play - strangle out trade for everyone, show how much power you can exert with one stroke of a pen, and then walk it back as a flex. The message is “give me everything I demand or I can strangle trade with your country from the US” - this unfortunately only works when your diplomatic position is good enough to get OTHER countries to agree to the same thing, like with Cuba or Russia (sorta).

Oh no, they’ve already said that he’s effectively in foreign custody and any transfers would have to go through diplomatic channels IIRC.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.