Sunday, June 08, 2025

Well Well Well du Jour

Moi Say Moi back in April:

I'm giving Heir Trump until July 14, my birfday, (and the day of WE'RE TAKING THE FUCKING MONEY!!) to pull his inevitable declaration of some bullshit national emergency in order to move the gears of dictatorship fully in his direction a lá Germany's Enabling Act in 1933.

Aaaaaand since the Universe is finally starting to catch up to me, here's David Frun on Trump deploying the National Guard in California:

Since Trump’s reelection, close observers of his presidency have feared a specific sequence of events that could play out ahead of midterm voting in 2026:

Step 1: Use federal powers in ways to provoke some kind of made-for-TV disturbance—flames, smoke, loud noises, waving of foreign flags.

Step 2: Invoke the disturbance to declare a state of emergency and deploy federal troops.

Step 3: Seize control of local operations of government—policing in June 2025; voting in November 2026.

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