Okay, I laughed. Good one!
I have no information on this, but what do would-be authoritarians always do? Make sure the guys with the guns are personally loyal to them.
So I’m guessing some combination of ceremonial oaths given To Our Glorious Trump, secret handshakes, and high-dollar under-the-table payments, perhaps funded by Sheldon Adelson.
Having Erik Prince handle recruiting might be part of the new plan, too.
Oh boy. When even asahi is making doomsday predictions, you KNOW it’s Thursday.
Why do you think I would mention the US Marshal Service? Why is it relevant to Trump?
Think, my son.
Why would the US Marshal Service matter to Trump in particular?
If the nominee ends up being Joe Biden I would say you can raise that to 100%. In fact, it appears the President and his team are already pushing Barr to start an investigation into Biden.
Ooh, darn… nobody told me there’d be mandatory thinking! Um… OH!
He watched The Fugitive on Crackle and really liked the Tommy Lee Jones character, so what he wants out of each and every one of them is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse until they find Hillary’s missing emails?
Not really a fan of this approach, but if Trump wanted a federal agency to serve as a goon squad, it would probably the the Marshals. They could arrest or harass political opponents, or protect his political allies (for example, any congressional witness subject to arrest for refusing a subpoena). They could confiscate or destroy anything that might be evidence in a criminal proceeding. They could intimidate voters at polling places.
Yes, I know none of this is legal, but when the Attorney General states that the president can end investigations into his own conduct, then the President is no longer bound by rule of law.
I mean… think about that. Republicans must be capable of imagining how awful they’d find it if a future Democratic president uses their current behavior as precedent. It would be a nightmare for them, some of them voiced these qualms during the fake Presidential Emergency debacle. They must be aware of Trump’s historic low polling numbers, and that relying on the Electoral College is a risky gamble for anyone. For them to now rubberstamp Trump’s law-defying actions seems like a confession that they’ve decided there can’t be any Democratic presidents elected in the future.
Which is why “We ShOuLd JuSt WaIt FoR tHe ElEcTiOn” is such a losing strategy.
If we were to accept that “the President is no longer bound by rule of law”, then why do you think his preferred “goon squad” “would probably the the Marshals”? They don’t, on the surface, seem to make any more sense to me than any of the other federal agencies or institutions with burly men and guns. Why not some CIA black ops guys, or the ATF, or the 10th Mountain Division? What would make the Marshals especially good at arresting / harassing political opponents or confiscating or destroying evidence?
Why discuss the forest when we can argue the leaves?
A central…nay, crucial!..question that must be resolved before we can consider any trivial concerns like the Constitution or the rule of law! Good catch, that!
No question needs answering more than “Who will be the new Praetorian Guard for Glorious Leader Trump?”!!!
I think it would fall to the US Marshalls to clear out The White House should the present occupant be constitutionally required to leave and refuse to do so.
That’s as good of a theory about what asahi was hinting at as anything I’ve heard up to this point, but I don’t really think the concern is … well … concerning. Is the thought that things might go like this:
Is that what the concern is?
Dude, if you’ve got a point to make please just fucking make it, in simple declarative sentences.
You’re sounding like you’re auditioning to play a witch in a fantasy series. And not a good fantasy series either.
The Warlock Asahi.
Yeah… not the most promising title, is it? 
j/k! I think The Council of Asahi might make an interesting book. But TWA? No way, not with a title like that.
There’s the matter of Trump’s legal problems in the state of New York.
Just because the president is lawless doesn’t mean every single department under him is automatically compromised. The “no longer bound by rule of law” is Barr’s theory, and the DOJ reports to Barr, so that seems troubling. Under him are US Marshals, ATF, DEA, and a few other orgs.
As mentioned above I was speaking mainly to the point that Barr’s DOJ would be most at risk, not necessarily best suited. But if we think about that, the US Marshals historical mission and experience has been in fugitive apprehension, asset seizure, executing writs/orders &tc, handling prisoners. Witness Protection could be abused to harass or protect the wrong people. The marshals have a number of useful specialties. Throw in the FBI and a few corrupt judges… the mind boggles at the damage that Trump/Barr’s DOJ could do without the overt appearance of a coup.
Speculating on the future of the other agencies, I expect Republicans would be happy to see the ATF dissolved and folded into the DEA, which would continue on in its mission of harassing brown people. So that seems like a pretty ideal vehicle for surreptitious abuse of power, much more easily sold than infantrymen on every corner or LAV’s rolling down the street.
Though again that’s not my primary point, my primary point is that Trump is most able to corrupt agencies that report to Barr.
Does the name William Barr ring any bells for you?